In a world of $250 netbooks and credit crunch, is there a place for a high-end ultraportable that, in its peak configuration, costs $4,345?  That’s the question Sony – and plenty of others – are asking about the new Vaio TT, its latest luxury notebook.  A carbon fiber chassis, WWAN, Blu-ray and RAID options all draw upon the latest technology available, but have they over estimated the market?  SlashGear pulled on a pair of museum-standard gloves, buffed the test bench to a dull sheen, and prepared to find out.

Let’s get one thing straight: not every VAIO TT costs almost $4.4k.  The model Sony sent us is the VGN-TT190UBX, complete with a 256GB SSD RAID-1 array, Blu-ray burner and the maximum 4GB of DDR3 RAM.  Other models in the range – which starts from $2,144.99 – have the same 11.1-inch widescreen XBRITE-DuraView 1366 x 768 display, the same twin USB 2.0 ports, gigabit ethernet, HDMI, iLink Firewire and VGA outputs, and the same 1.3-megapixel webcam.  Every TT has Bluetooth, WiFi a/b/g/n, a fingerprint scanner and ExpressCard slot, as well as Memory Stick PRO and SD readers.
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