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While I’m sure the netbook felt no pain, you can see the inner working of the $900 netbook over at Gizmodo.  It’s truly spectacular.

Once you get your Sony netbook, you may find that you’ll need a longer life battery.
You can get one directly from Sony, and the part number is VGP-BPL15.  Sony says the battery should last 1.5x the time of the standard battery which should bring you to about 6 hours.

Sony definitely hopes so.  They are launching their P-series of netbook, which has a model with a $1,499 starting price.
What does $1,499 get you?
Model Features: 8″ display with XBRITE-ECO™ LCD technology, 2GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 1.4 lbs., GPS, integrated mobile broadband, glossy Onyx Black, Bluetooth® technology
After you add the 3 year warranty and pick up an extended life battery, the price soon approaches $2,000.  Somewhere Apple is laughing, especially now that the Macbook Air is now available for $999 through the Apple Store.  For $100 over the price of the …

While we didn’t get everything right about the Sony netbook, we were able to get the conversation started for what has turned into reality.
At 1.5 lbs it’s one of the lightest computers on the market available anywhere.  The $899 prices is steep but you get specs that are better than the usual netbook.  The P series comes with 2 GB of RAM standard as well as a Sony XBRITE screen, GPS, and bluetooth.
Preorder the Sony P series netbook from Sony today!

Over at Fudzilla, there’s a great report about the rules pertaining to using XP.
There are five basic rules which are as follows:
1. Thou shall not build in flash drives larger than 16GB or hard drives larger than 160GB
2. Neither shall you use graphics which support anything over DirectX 9.0
3. Thou shall not install more than 1GB of memory
4. You shall use a single-core CPU, clocked under 1GHz, unless it’s one of the following: Intel Atom (N270, N230, Z500, Z510, Z520, Z530, Z540); or Intel Celeron 220; or AMD Geode LX, …