While Sony is about to release its first real netbook, the Sony Vaio W series, it is still trying to pull out some last straw for its Sony Vaio P mini notebook. Latest we heard is that Sony Japan is upgrading the Sony Vaio P to include a WiMAX option.

This may a good news for those who are still eyeing the Sony Vaio P even if the Sony Vaio W is already in the pipeline. But then the WiMAX option obviously comes with a price. To get this option, you need to add $108 to the current base price of the Sony Vaio P. So, how much do you think a WiMAX-enabled Sony Vaio P cost? Too expensive to mention perhaps.

In addition to the WiMAX option’s cost, users considering this new Sony Vaio P would also have to think of the subscription fee to the WiMAX service.

And what will get out of this additional features and cost? – internet speed of up to 12Mbps.

The Sony Vaio P with WiMAX option will be available for pre-order in Japan on the 27th of July and will be ship to brave souls on the 30th.

Any takers?

Via Electronista

UQ Communications and Sony Japan are currently working on bringing the WiMax technology to the Vaio P. UQ WiMax is only available in Japan, so a WiMax Sony Vaio P will be limited to Japan only. The companies are working on getting WiMax built into the Pocketable notebook. Currently there’s no estimated release date, or even a time frame yet, but we’ll keep you informed of any updates.

Likewise, also only in Japan, the Sony Vaio P has been fitted with the latest and fastest Atom processor, the 2GHz Z550. A forum member of Pocketables has already got hold of the latest upgraded Vaio P and bench marked it. The Vaio P has previously been benchmarked with the prior options. The results are almost twice as much compared to the entry level Vaio. It seems that it’s still the SSD which makes the most impact.

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A famous local Philippine retailer, PCCorner,  has announced on a local technology-related classified community forum, TipidPC, a new Acer Aspire one model which will be available on January 19, 2009. It’s not your ordinary Acer Aspire One model though, as it will come with an embedded WiMAX 3G feature.

PCCorner will be offering various configurations of these new WiMAX 3G-capable Acer Aspire including the following:

AO 110-L08b (Sapphire Blue) – $283 (w/32.0Gb SDHC)
AO 110-L08w (Seashell White) – $283 (w/32.0Gb SDHC

$304  (8Gb + 04Gb SDHC + WiMax
$326 (8Gb + 16Gb SDHC WiMax 3G
$348 (8Gb + 32Gb SDHC WiMax 3G

Plus you’ll also have the following basic specs:

• Intel Atom N270
• 1.6GHz
• 1.0Gb
• 8.0Gb SSD
• 8.9in.
• camera
• wireless LAN
• Operating System: Linux

Via Blogeee.net