I just wanted to do a quick post to inform everyone that I managed to install Windows XP Tablet Edition on to My Vaio UX50. Booting off my new DVD drive, I used my wife’s Windows the office’s XP Tablet Edition OEM install CDs that came with her HP TC1100 tablet from it’s MSDN subscription […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

SonyStyle Japan has posted eight freely downloadable Vaio UX “Find You Own Style” wallpapers, with Sony, marketing the different uses of the Vaio UX: Browsing, Blogging, Business, Mapping, Music and Movie,
Communication, and Entertainment (which I’m coining the term B3M3CE).

This reminds me of the Sony “CLIE” Palm OS PDA which stood for Communication, Link, Information, and […]

The Japanese blog Type U shows a pic of the Vaio UX with a Windows sticker saying that it is “Windows Vista Capable.” It’ll be interesting how the Vaio UX would perform under Vista, having only 512MB of RAM.

A bigger pic is available after the jump.

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