In recent years, Sony has acquired a reputation for marring its usually cute products with at least one cripplingly stupid design flaw. Most notoriously this included an audio player which wouldn’t play MP3 files.
The most common fault with Sony’s products is the inclusion of a MemoryStick slot of some form (there seem to be numerous MemoryStick variants), when the rest of the world has standardised on SD for small-format flash memory cards.
The latest PC Pro, however, has a review of a superb small-format Sony laptop - the VAIO VGN-TX1XP (try this Google search for more info) which includes an SD slot! (Whatever next - maybe Microsoft will renounce DRM?)
There’s apparently much else to like about the VGN-TX1XP, including the availability of a battery offering up to 11 hours life!