12 Inch Sony Vaio Clone For $215

Thursday, 24 March 2011 at 13:35

We really liking this sudden surge of Shanzhai laptops and netbooks! Yesterday we had a 14 inch laptop with a secondary battery, DVD burner and super low price tag grace our pages and today it’s the turn of this hot pink 12 inch model.

From the outside this little pink number looks a little like the Sony range of Vaio TT ultra-portables, but there are enough cosmetic (and hardware) differences to keep the Japanese electronics legal department off anyone's back.

More details after the jump.

Under the very flamboyant hood (there are other colours available; black, silver and gold) lie the tell signs that this is definitely a cheap made in China netbook, not that there is anything wrong with that.

A 1.66Ghz Intel Atom CPU is the center of attention under the 12.1 inch 1366x768 resolution screen. While that little CPU isn’t going to set the world a blaze, it will meet most people requirement. There is also a rather generous 2Gb RAM and a more than generous 320Gb hard drive option (160Gb as standard).

There’s also a web camera, 2 USB, VGA out SD card reader and Ethernet.

Overall we don't think you could go far wrong with this little pink number for you coffee shop and light work duties for the money, but we might want to stay clear of the gold one though!