Sony just recently started to shipping the VAIO P don’t-call-it-a-netbook netbook. It comes stock with 2GB of RAM, which implies it’s not eligible for Microsoft’s XP ultra low expense PC licensing. Hackers wanting to exorcise Vista have run into a few issues. After doing her unboxing photoshoot, [tnkgrl] composed a guide for replacing Vista with XP on the Vaio P. She utilized the universal Extractor to pop open the chauffeur downloads as well as eliminate the Vista check. This got the WWAN radio as well as GPS working in XP. The only casualty was the volume as well as mute buttons are no longer working. You can see an annotated picture verifying all the elements here.