Yeggster from the forums undertook the daunting task of taking apart an entire UX280 with a broken case, and putting it into a brand new case he found on ebay. Like a hermit crab changing it’s shell the UX280 now resides inside a brand new outer casing. Yeggster was searching for a few UX accessories […]

New UX490 owner and MPCT forum user Sabesh has kindly taken some wonderful pictures of the UX490. These high res images (click to enlarge) really help show off the crisp design of the device as well as it’s built quality, and it definitely looks wicked in black! Don’t forget to stop by Sabesh’s informative mini […]

Sull86 of the MPCT forums has done it again. This time, instead of helping you install drivers for the UX, Sull has made a guide to make it easy for anyone to burn their very own Custom Windows XP CD for the UX. Sull has taken his UX driver pack and integrated it into an […]

Recently joined forum member bertopl has received what appears to be the first UX490N/C from Sony. He has just a few unboxing pictures, and we get a look at the unit itself (no real surprises). As mentioned previously, the UX490N/C comes packaged with an extended battery (in addition to the standard) and a VAIO bluetooth […]

More than a month after Amazon debunked rumors surrounding the release of a new UX, Sony has finally put the much awaited UX490 up on their site for sale. It actually looks like a great deal too. As previously mentioned, the UX490 has a black case like the UX390 and upgrades to the new Core […]

Folks who have been eagerly awaiting news of a new or improved UX should perk their ears up to the following. Intel has refreshed and reorganized many of their current CPUs, in addition to lowering prices, and announcing new processors. The ones of main interest to the UMPC category is the introduction of the first […]

Anyone who has been paying attention to the UX section of SonyStyle.com will have noticed that the UX380N has recently disappeared from the website. The UX380N isn’t even a year old, and yet its been pulled from the site with only the UX390N remaining, still priced at $2,349. Is the removal of the 380 a […]

Sony is holding their “VAIO Outlet Quarterly Sales Event” in which they sell various refurbished products at reduced prices. While browsing through the laptop section of the sale, one would notice the UX280p (1.2GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, 40GB HDD) for the very attractive price of $1,129. The brand new product used to sell for […]

Sony is enlarging the VAIO Type U family with the new UX91 (Core Solo) and UX71 (Celeron M) .
Bundled with Windows Vista and sporting the same specs has the old version.

CPU range from Core Solo U1500/U1400, Celeron M
1GB RAM
HDD 40GB/30GB or 32GB Flash

Silver robe for the HDD version and black or blue for the Flash […]

Earlier than expected, Sony’s USA Business site now shows the new “refreshed model” Sony Vaio Micro PC — the Sony Vaio UX280P (VGN-UX280P). Compared to the UX180P (first US model), the newer model bumps the internal memory up to 1GB (from 512MB) and the internal hard drive to 40GB (from 30GB). The price also goes […]