Sony Vaio ultra-light - in black-and-white

[Bob Crabtree]

American, Asian and Australian sites are reporting on Sony's latest ultra-portable Vaio notebook, the VGN-TX17, built from carbon fibre, finished in two-tone black-and-white and weighing just 1.24kg.

The newcomer – black outside, white inside - has an 11.1in widescreen display (1,366x768 native resolution), a 1.2GHz Intel Pentium M 753 processor and carries readers for SD cards as well as Sony's own Memory Stick.

Intriguingly, the VGN-TX17 is said to be able to play movies or display images without booting into Windows - thanks to a 12-second instant-start AV mode.

Here's MobileMag's take. And here's what Cnet Asia has to say.

[Funkstar]

looks nice and sounds interesting.

Carbon fibre, mmmmm.....