PIII thin VAIOs out in Japan (Score 1)

There are some great new VAIO models out in Japan: super-thin subnotebooks with PIII processors, and up to 128MB memory, 12GB disk.

See (in Japanese I'm afraid): here.

I bought the Z505JX a few months ago, which has "only" a PII400. I am very, very pleased with it --- nice screen (12.1 inch, 1024*768), pretty big keyboard considering the overall size, 8GB disk, plug-in CD-R drive, built in modem and ethernet, firewire, etc. And not that expensive really (about 350,000 yen for everything). Don't know when they're going to bring these out in other countries though.

And it runs Linux with no problems too. The disk was even prepartitioned so I didn't have to screw around with the Windows installation (which comes with some nice digital video software).