Whenever someone asks what I dislike most about the UX, I always say, the keyboard. I found the keyboard quite unintuitive, having my right thumb stretch all the way to the left to do a cut (CTRL-X), paste (CTRL-V), select all (CTRL-A), bring up Windows Explorer (WINDOWS-E), even uppercase a letter using the SHIFT key. […]

SonyStyle Taiwan has now the Sony Vaio UX17TP (VGN-UX17TP) for pre-order. Similar to the the Japanese UX90PS model, it runs on the Intel Core Single processor at 1.2GHz, has 512MB of RAM, 30GB hard drive, Compact Flash slot, Bluetooth 2.0, wireless (a/b/g), two cameras, fingerprint scanner, and a 1024×600 4.5-inch screen. It comes with Windows […]

I have managed to put together my semi-perfect mobile micro desktop. It is comprised of the Sony Vaio UX50, a slim CD/DVD drive, an external hard drive, a bluetooth keyboard, and an optical mobile mouse.
The slim CD/DVD drive in the pic is an old USB Sony DVD-reader/CD-writer. I am upgrading it to the PCG-DDRW3, a […]

At last it arrived! FedEx delivered my Vaio UX50 this afternoon, overnight from Dynamism (thanks Jason, great service!). If you are all wondering why I’m only posting the uboxing pics just now, well, it took time for me to setup my camera gear, the shoot, and the manual edit of 185 frames of the clearest […]

We’ve all seen the previous video of the Sony Vaio UX50 from Akihabara News. This time they’ve released a new video of the Sony Vaio UX50 and UX90 side-by-side. 

Both the UX50 and the UX90 are currently Japan-only models, each having 30GB of hard drive and 512 MB of RAM. The UX90 however is powered by a 1.2 […]

To celebrate the fact that they have started shipping UX50s, Dynamism has teamed up with Micro PC Talk to offer $40 off any UX50 for Micro PC Talk readers.  Just buy online (or
by phone) and use the offer code MPCTD (expires June 16 2006).

UX50 Specs: (Intel Core Solo U1300 1.06GHz, 512MB RAM, 30GB HD, English […]

While the FCC shows that they have approved a Sony handheld device with model number PCG-1J1L, we believe that this is the Sony Vaio UX180P. PCG-1J1L is obviously a temporary model number since nowhere in all the
FCC documents mentioned ”Vaio” when the image found in one of the documents clearly has a Vaio brand at the back (”aio” […]

Here’s some good news. If you find a way of getting the Japanese Vaio UX models which come with the Japanese Windows XP and bundled apps, you can probably get your own license of an English Windows XP and download all the english
Vaio UX drivers which Sony has surprisingly made available this early at the Sony […]

Akihabara News released today an HD preview video of the Vaio UX50.

I’m sure a lot will be commenting on the seemingly slow boot-up of the UX50. I would have appreciated it if the reviewer did the initial setup of Windows XP before hand and started filming the video after the fact since we will get […]

Sony must have been impressed with the Apple PoweBooks and thus added the light sensitive keyboard backlighting feature on the Vaio UX. Type U indicates that Sony did a good
job on the blue keyboard backlighting as it gradually turns on when you slide up the screen, and gradually fades out when you slide the screen down. It does the […]