Sony Vaio P

Sony has been making thin-and-light notebooks for more than a decade, since long before the parade of monikers landed on "netbook". (Their original Vaio 505 in 1997 was a huge leap in design that brought the entire industry forward.)

Their latest ultraportable notebook/netbook is the 1.4 pound P-series. It offers two essential elements for portable productivity: a 1600 pixel-wide screen (view entire pages and documents and forget the notion of horizontal scrolling) and a respectably large keyboard (16.5mm pitch).

The 8" LED-backlit 1600x768 display has extremely high pixel density and so is extremely crisp. The Sony P also features an Intel 2.0GHz processor, 256GB solid-state HDD (max), and 2GB RAM. The integrated battery has an optimal 4-hour runtime (2.5 hours under normal use).