It wasn't that long ago that I reviewed the nVAIO S5VP which represented the end of the original VAIO S Series chassis. To be honest I was a little disappointed at the demise of the previous S Series since I quite liked it. Despite the fact that it's Sony's T Series notebooks that I truly lust after, the S Series offered slightly larger physical dimensions for users who find the T Series just too small to get to grips with. Of course I needn't have worried, because the new VAIO S Series makes the outgoing model look positively antiquated.