Remember when the UMPCs were first coming out and they were just a whole bunch of disappintments? Well, we have come quite a ways since then, and were are coming up to the next generation of these devices. Today, Sony has announced the VAIO VGN-UX1XN. It’s intention is to let users have a fully loaded mini-pc in their hands to watch videos, listent to music, edit documents, and just do everything your home computer does. This UMPC has 1GB of memory and makes use of the newest Intel Ultra-Low Voltage processory coupled with Windows Vista Business edition. This nice combination makes for a very nice high tech portable computing solution, touch screen and all. — Nik Gomez

New Sony Ultraportable PC - The VAIO VGN-UX1XN [The Gadget Blog]

After almost a year of delays on their mammoth of a game console and a recall of over a million burning laptop batteries, Sony has decided to make themselves “cool” again by cloning Apple. Apple’s now infamous “Get a Mac” ad campaign is being duped by Sony Australia’s C-Series VAIO, which claims to be a “non-PC PC.” The VAIO ad features the typical ‘dressed up’ PC and the ‘laid back’ Mac, but has a young women in stylish clothes as the VIAO. The strangest part of this new campaign to us is that a VAIO runs Windows XP, making it a PC. Don’t tell Sony that though, they’ve got a lot of making up to do after their disastrous year. — Zach Wilt

A PC in Mac’s Clothing? [MacUser]