It’s official. Sony has lifted the embargo on the Sony Vaio P subnotebook and it’s one of the most intriguing mini-laptops launched to date. It also has a very unusual combination of features - many of which just don’t make a whole lot of sense when you put them together. For instance, the machine has a very wide screen 8 inch display which allows the mini-laptop to be smaller and lighter than many of its peers. But it also has a blindlingly high pixel resolution of 1600 x 768.

I can’t for the life of me imagine why you would need that many pixels on such a small display. I used an HP 2133 Mini-Note for a few months, and found the 1280 x 768 pixel resolution, 8.9 inch display almost too sharp to use unless you do some serious font tweaking.