Netbooks have been a hit among laptop buyers because they’re cheap and they’re easy to carry. Now there’s the option to pay a lot more and get a lot less — a lot less weight, that is. Sony’s Vaio X is the runway model of netbooks: stylish, super-thin and without an ounce of weight to spare. It’s expensive too: the base model is $1,300 at Sonystyle.com and Sony Style stores. The price is nearly four times as much as a standard netbook. Its carbon-fiber body, just over half an inch thick, houses an 11.1-inch screen and weighs just 1.6 pounds. How light is that? Well, it nearly blew out of my hands one day when I was walking down the street with it opened. I’m not kidding. It makes 2.5-pound netbooks feel heavy. It makes the 3-pound MacBook Air seem like a dumbbell. Sony says it’s the world’s thinnest, lightest laptop with a screen larger than 10 inches diagonally. Whatever the state of the competition may be, the light weight means that carrying the Vaio X around never really felt like a burden. It was a great companion on my commute, with a screen large enough to read comfortably on, and light enough to hold in one hand when standing, at least for short periods of time. For the ultimate in mobility, the computer has a built-in modem for Verizon Wireless’ cellular broadband network. Service costs an extra $60 or so per month. Of course, a mobile laptop isn’t much good if it has poor battery life and constantly needs to be tethered to an outlet. The Vaio X does pretty well in this regard, at least if you consider the weight. On battery power, it lasted 1 hour and 47 minutes when playing high-definition video nonstop and accessing the Web via Wi-Fi. In…

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Review: Netbooks Meet Luxury in Ultra-Light Sony

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