Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Sony VAIO Z: The 13-inch ultra slim laptop

               


Sony VAIO Z, the 13-inch ultra slim laptop is revealed by the company officially in Europe today. Turns out that the leaked pics of this gadget seems to be right. It comes with an External GPU for power on demand. interesting isn't it?

Coming to the specs, they reveal a 13-inch ultra-thin notebook that weighs about 1.2KG with a 2.7GHz Intel I-7 processor. 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM and a 1600*900 display and a sheet battery borrowed from the early VAIO S which supports upto 7 hours of computing.

Onboard it features only Intel's HD Graphics 3000 solution but the VAIO Z beats other ultralights with its Power Media Dock, which contributes the power of an AMD Radeon 6650M GPU with 1GB of dedicated memory connected via "the architecture codenamed Light Peak"

Buy it:
Head over to the Sony UK site to configure one yourself -- pricing starts at £1,434 ($2,294) with a Core i5 CPU, 4GB of RAM and no PMD. The dock is a £400 ($640) option with no optical drive included, while upgrading to a 1080p 13.1-inch LCD is a mere £40 extra.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Holy crap, this is really a huge step backwards. What in the hell is Sir Howard Stringer and the other morons at Sony smoking and can we have some too? They should fire these complete tools are responsible for ruining the Z's reputation, it was already better than anything out there and now it is all crap. What a bloody shame. THey just needed to change the processor, add USB 3.0 and give a no camera option to those that can not have integrated cameras/mic's on their laptops and then they would clean up. Sir Howard Stringer you have shit for brains sir!

Avinash said...

My Friend, we are talking light-peak/Thunderbolt here and it offers twice the speeds than USB 3.0

Anonymous said...

That's a really big improvement!! Great!

Anonymous said...

if you feel it is expensive and cannot afford say that. Instead do not say Holy Crap out of jealous. You go for your own budget laptops.

Anonymous said...

Only question I have which Sony seems to NEVER state is whether any of the ports have the capability to do dual-link DVI. I want to either run my Sony 2560x1600 monitor or my IBM T221-DG5 using a dual-link and one single-link dvi. hmmm

Anonymous said...

It is really holy crap!
I'm owner of z11. I'll not upgrade it z12.

Anonymous said...

I own one. Battery life is extraordinary. Boot up time miniscule. Plays games perfectly. Super light...

Only let down by terrible speakers and truly ATROCIOUS technical support.

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