Sony VAIO TX3XP is a beautifully designed notebook. It really makes people stop and stare, while anyone in your locality, when using a notebook would feel self conscious about the size and weight of their mobile computer. The TX3XP measures 272.4×195.1×28.5 mm and weighs at 1.25 kg. This little laptop is so weightless because of its construction which is made out of carbon fibre chassis, yet gives the robust built quality. This Sony VAIO TX3XP comes with a finger print scanner down to the cursor keys, right side of the wrist rest. The TX3XP uses a spring loaded mechanism that help lid close, thus allowing to make the notebook opening one handed in a very simple way.

Like most Sony notebooks these days, there’s no catch secure lid, instead the TX3XP comes with a spring loaded mechanism thus allowing closing and opening with single handed. This particular model has a slate blue finish to the lid which looks gorgeous. VAIO TX series aren’t normal laptops; they give you a legitimate reason for never to venture outdoors without them. Are you looking for a genuinely designed and more attractive laptop with about £ 1,500? Then you could wave on TX3XP. Talking about the size of this tiny laptop is of course, just as drastically smaller than an A4 sheet of paper. This smaller lap is built with around an 11.1” display while weighing at only 1.25kg. Thus, with the smaller size, makes an ease to move as every-day office machine.

One of the amazing reasons for its popularity may include the thin screen- less than 5mm. The keys and the palm rest have an impressive and more attractive slate blue finish with the mouse touch pad a dotted grid pattern that is almost reminiscent of Braille. Yet the Sony VAIO TX3XP has one shortcoming of the mouse section slightly cramped and this doesn’t have much space to work in, as the selector buttons sit too away towards the front lip of the lap thus giving pressing difficulty.

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By Darius Chang

In the mobile computing world, quad-core processing and chipset refreshes are almost as certain as death and taxes. Fortunately, 2008 looks set to be a more exciting year than simply watching specifications grow.

The upcoming CES will be a fertile ground for the latest breakthroughs in technology. However, many of the prototypes showcased may take years before hitting the retail market, assuming they are not vaporware. So keep an eye out for our extensive coverage of the event for laptops of the future. For now, check out our educated guesses at which areas in mobile computing are likely to make the most impact in the coming year.

UMPCs equal ultraportables in performance
The ASUS Eee PC did more for the UMPC cause than others did due to its ground-breaking price point. This will pave the way for more vendors entering this niche market with cheaper or more powerful products.

Though the original intent was for UMPCs to become companions for your primary computing device, this group of machines may soon hit the same performance bracket as full-fledge ultraportables. Already, models like the Gigabyte U60 and Packard Bell EasyNote XS20 are running at 1GHz clockspeed. With the combination of faster flash-based storage and improved graphics engines, the time may come when choosing between a UMPC and an ultraportable becomes a matter of screen size preference.

Design becomes as important as specifications
With Intel dominating the mobile CPU and chipset scene, there is really very little performance difference between getting a laptop from a premium vendor versus one from a budget manufacturer. So getting laptops based on specifications have become as useful as buying a car based on the number of tires.

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