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From all the oohing and ahing people are doing over the Sony Vaio 505GX, you'd think it was a newborn child instead of a first-of-its- kind subnotebook. The 505GX's ultrathin and light design is indeed appealing, but its $2699 price should give you pause.
When you're done admiring the system's sleek profile (less than an inch thick) and chic silver-and-purple dcor, note the 10-inch-wide keyboard--the unit's most important breakthrough feature. The cramped 9-inch keyboards on most subnotebooks, including the Hitachi VisionBook Traveler 3000 and the Mitsubishi Amity CN, make typing on them a painstaking chore. The extra inch on the 505GX creates a world of...