Showing up fashionably late to the Ultrabook party is Sony, which is just now unveiling its first Vaio model in Intel's high-performance, ultraportable category of laptops. The Vaio T, as it's called, is a 13.3-inch Ultrabook with a flat brushed aluminum design and magnesium chassis. Sony also unveiled a number of other Vaio notebook models, but let's take a closer look at the Vaio T before moving on.

Sony just added a new model to its Vaio S Series laptop line, a 15.5-inch notebook with a Full HD 1080p display. It's less than an inch thick and constructed with magnesium and aluminum materials to keep the laptop light and nimble at just 4.4 pounds. Sony claims it made performance a "top priority," hence an Intel Core i7 foundation, though it doesn't come at the expense of battery life, which Sony rates at up to 12 hours (albeit with an optional sheet battery).

We're fine with companies offering thinner, lighter designs, all we ask is that they figure out a way to nip and tuck without removing vital organs and replacing them with less powerful parts. After all, this is Maximum PC, not Compromise PC. Well, Sony claims that its new S Series Vaio laptop "combines for the first time portability, performance, and power" in said thinner and lighter design. Did they really do it?