Sony Vaio P makes early CES debut

While we swan around trawl endlessly round press conferences in Las Vegas, waiting for Sony's Vaio P announcement, eagle-eyed bloggers have already spotted the finished article. Seems it made a brief appearance on the CES display screens - long enough to stay still and be photographed at any rate.

Snapped by Engadget, the pics confirm a thin body and wide, trackpad-less design complete with cursor-guiding, ThinkPad-esque trackpoint  / pointer / nub / nipple. Although the photos give none of the specs away, there's growing consensus that it'll be a 1.33GHz Atom Z250 inside, with a wide, 8in, 1600x768 screen, 2GB of RAM, a standard hard drive and options for an SSD, built-in GPS and a 3G data card.

The pics do at least reveal a built-in webcam nestled to the top right of the display as well as what appears to be a Memory Stick reader to the front. Other than that we're in Speculation Valley.

Naturally, we'll wait to see it in the flesh before we pass judgement but with a rumoured €700 price tag and lower-cost competition from the likes of the Samsung NC10 and Acer Aspire One, it may need to pass golden eggs before we buy one.

UPDATE: We've just come back from the launch. See our hands on for more. 

[ Engadget]