Sony delivers new Blu-Ray notebooks

SONY HAS UNVEILED a pair of new Vaio notebooks sporting Blu-Ray drives.

The first is the Vaio NS which features a 15.4-inch widescreen, Intel Centrino Duo 2.0GHz processor, 4GB of DDR2 memory, Intel 4500MHD graphics card and 250GB hard drive.

It is available in three colours - nightfall blue, silk white and granite silver - the Vaio NS notebook will go for around $1,000 and there will be a non-Blu-Ray version starting at about $650.

The slightly smaller Vaio CS has a 14.1-inch screen and packs in a bit more power under the hood with an Intel Centrino 2 2.26GHz processor, 4GB of DDR2 memory, 320GB hard drive and Intel 4500MHD graphics chip.

The CS comes even comes in four arty gloss colours - sangria, cosmopolitan, dove and black – or just a standard black matte finish. It'll go for around $1,070 and again there is a non Blu-Ray model for about $920.

Mike Abary, Sony's senior vice president of Vaio product marketing believes that these new notebooks bring a range of multi-media PC options for customers to choose from.

"And with a starting price of around $1,000 for the NS model, we're expecting a new audience to experience HD entertainment on their computers," he said. µ