Announced last week, the VAIO mini W series netbook sports a 10.3” display with a widescreen 1377×768 resolution, the obligatory integrated webcam and microphone and a power saving Intel Atom processor.

The more interesting announcement (to me anyway) comes in the form of it’s bigger brother, the VAIO NW series. These machines have 15.5” X-black displays, HDMI output, ATI Mobility 4570 graphics and Core2 processors. They also have a “quick web access” button that allows you to “get online in seconds without having to fully boot up the PC” – sounds interesting.

Price and availability aren’t available yet but keep an eye on the Sony website, they’ll appear soon enough.

Edit: I’ve just got some more detail from Sony about the “Quick web access” button. It’s based around the Splashtop software and can get you from powered off to web browsing in under 15 seconds. Nice!