Sony to Debut More Affordable VAIO NR Notebooks
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Today Sony announced its newest addition to the VAIO line of notebooks, the NR, its cheapest model to date. They're still stylish: slim with rounded corners, in a textured chassis that looks and feels - though isn't - upholstered.
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La multimedialitÃ  Ã¨ una delle carte vincenti della nuova serie di notebook proposti da Asus su piattaforma Amd. Equipaggiati con processore Mobile Amd 64 3000+ (supportano fino a 3700+), i portatili di Asus
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Sensing an opportunity in the fast-growing consumer notebook market, Lenovo on Thursday is expected to launch a new line of consumer laptops with the IdeaPad moniker.Targeted at gamers and home users, IdeaPad adds a low-price line of laptops to complement the company&#39;s existing ThinkPad notebook line, targeted primarily at business users. The company will first introduce three IdeaPad notebooks in different sizes, including an ultraportable laptop that the company will ship in the end of March.The IdeaPad U110 ultraportable notebook comes with an 11-inch screen and weighs only 2.3 pounds (1.04 kilograms), according to Lenovo.Based on Intel processors, the ultraportable will ship with either hard disk drives or flash-based solid state drives, said Craig Merrigan, Lenovo&#39;s vice president of global consumer marketing. To add ruggedness, the laptop has a shock sensor that detects falls and protects the hard drive data from any potential damage. The feature, called the Active Protection system, is already available on the company&#39;s ThinkPad laptops.Lenovo didn&#39;t comment on pricing for the ultraportable laptop.The company also announced the IdeaPad Y710 laptop, targeted at gamers, and IdeaPad Y510 laptop, targeted as a desktop replacement for home users. With colorful front bases in textured finishes, the laptops are equipped with expressive designs oriented to personalities and lifestyles, Merrigan said.The IdeaPad Y710 comes with a set of controls, including macro buttons and a control to enhance PC performance to optimize gaming on laptops. A slider control allows gamers to overclock the CPU to maximize laptop performance, Merrigan said. Starting at $1,199, the laptop includes a 17-inch screen and is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, an ATI graphics card, wireless networking, and an optional Blu-ray Disc drive. It can support hard drives up to 500GB.The IdeaPad Y510 notebook, with a 15.4-inch screen, is targeted at home users. Starting at $799, it comes with Intel Core 2 Duo processors with integrated graphics, wireless networking an integrated camera and a DVD/DVR optical drive. Including a battery, the laptop weighs 6.4 pounds (2.9 kilograms). It can support hard drives up to 250GB.The Y710 and Y510 have four speakers and a subwoofer apiece, and an inductive touch surface between the keyboard and screen that lights up multimedia controls based on context, Merrigan said. If movies are playing, it will light up movie controls, and if audio is playing, users can control equalizers using the touch surface.Equipped with 1.3-megapixel cameras, the laptops have facial recognition technology that makes a face a user&#39;s password, Merrigan said. Once a user sits in front of a computer, the computer recognizes the face and logs in a user. While consumers are not concerned about that high level of security, it may be useful to keep track of what kids are doing, Merrigan said.Both laptops will ship by the end of January and include Microsoft&#39;s Vista operating system. The laptops will initially launch in the U.S., France, Russia, South Africa, India, Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Philippines, and Singapore, according to Lenovo. It will be available at online retailers and in stores.The announcements come ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show, to be held in Las Vegas between January 7 and 10, where the laptops will be on display.Lenovo is trying to establish its own identity after&#160;acquiring IBM&#39;s PC business&#160;in 2004. Late last year it&#160;established its first &quot;Think&quot; line of workstations, and with the IdeaPad line, it is trying to get a bigger share of the consumer notebook market. The company is&#160;in fierce competition with Acer&#160;in the global PC market, according to surveys from Gartner and IDC.The company is also planning an ultramobile device based on&#160;Intel&#39;s Menlow platform, though Merrigan wouldn&#39;t comment on it. The ultramobile device will be on display at Intel&#39;s booth in CES.
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InfoWorld - Ten years ago this week Sony launched its first Vaio laptop computers. The PCG-705 and 707 went on sale in Japan on July 1 and were followed quickly by a desktop PC, as Sony tried to show the world that a consumer electronics company could make computers.
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Blog: Lenovo goes live with teaser site for new laptop
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Sony laptop punted to scammers worldwide Here's an eBay auction with a difference: an apparently innocent-looking punt of a Sony VAIO VGN-NR21J/S laptop:â¦
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PC maker competes with Sony and Toshiba on hi-def video laptop options.
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Asustek and Intel are developing a line of notebook PCs priced as low as $199, for emerging and education markets.
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Sony Corp  on Sunday unveiled  a next-generation super-thin television and a robot-like music  player, and an executive said the economy had not hit U.S.  consumer sales -- yet.
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Dell Inc.'s recall of 4.1 million  notebook computer batteries could cost Sony Corp. anywhere from  10 billion yen to 50 billion yen ($85-$430 million), hurting  the Japanese electronics maker's short-term earnings and its  brand image, analysts said.
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Sony&#39;s Vaio Type X, which is available only in Japan, is a new home server that contains four 250GB hard drives: two for PC files and the other ones for audiovisual materials such as stored TV programs and music.
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Via Technologies unveils the NanoBook, an ultraportable notebook that can run Windows Vista.
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Blog: Panasonic upgrades its Toughbook line, and General Dynamics shows off a tiny drop and spill-proof notebook.
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Asustek and MSI have announced notebooks with Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD drives and HDMI connections that let them hook up to HDTVs.
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Notebook PC makers are stretching the  boundaries of light-weight and low-cost computing, rolling out  ever slimmer tablet PCs and mass market models costing as  little as $200 in their quest to find the next big thing.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sony Corp. says it will introduce its first HD Radio products in July, joining the growing group of companies seeking to make the next-generation digital radio technology a standard feature in audio products over the next several years.
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PC maker launches its first notebook with 17-inch display, more than two years after the first such laptop hit the market.