Following from the unboxing of the Sony Vaio P, Jenn from Pocketables has lined the Vaio P up against many other gadgets for size comparison photos. The gadgets range from Sony’s mini laptop, the Sony Vaio TZ, to other netbooks and MIDs.

Jenn has listed the comparison photos in catergories starting with the subnetbooks, comparing it against the Vaio TZ with netbooks following. Two netbooks, the HP 2133 Mini Note and Samsung NC10 were used for comparison against the Vaio P. UMPCs and MIDs were also placed against the Vaio P.

The comparison didn’t stop with similar devices and went on to include size comparisons against Sony Ericsson’s hot mobile device, the Xperia X1 as well as the iPhone, Nokia N810, DVD case and a keyboard comparison.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Ms Kitagawa, an anaylst from the research company Gartner, predicts that worldwide PC shipments will grow by 14% in Q4, but much of that is predicted to come from netbooks.

HP have already joined the netbook world and yesterday reduced the price of their Mini-Note 2133. Many hoped this would pave way for a newer netbook from HP. And it looks like this could be the case. WSJ also reports, that HP is planning to release a 10 inch netbook later this year to capitalize on the netbook growth. It won’t however feature a touch screen.

If you are the owner of an HP Mini-Note 2133 then you might want to read this news on your netbook.

Despite it’s popularity and good reviews, it seems there could be a problem with the HP. There have been reports of the Mini Note simply going black and not booting back up. The advice being given is that the issue is being caused by a motherboard failure of some kind. Time will tell if the problem is going to effect more than a handful of Mini Note’s, hopefully not.

Via: Engadget