Sony Vaio P.

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 Sony's new Vaio P netbook made its debut at the International CES in Las Vegas. It's a diminutive 1.4-lb. miniaturized laptop with an 8-in. 1,600-by-768 resolution screen.

The 8-inch screen packs in an extremely high resolution of 1600-by-768 pixels. Text and interface widgets are remarkably crisp on-screen, but quite small. Also, mousing onscreen with the built-in trackpoint (it has no trackpad) can be a little cumbersome; I find myself having to lean in a little in order to mouse around the the screen. I haven't had it long enough to get a good read on possible eye strain problems, but if you struggle to see small text on typical notebook PCs as it is, you'd probably be better off looking at more conventional netbooks.

The P-series sports two USB ports, one on each side and a combination HDMI/port extender. A small extender is provided adding video and wired Ethernet ports is included in the box. 

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