Sony updates Vaio range for Spring

SONY HAS UNVEILED its Spring line up of Vaio laptops, including two additions to the collection.

As well as several upcoming notebooks that were unveiled a few weeks ago at CES, the company has announced two other additions to the Vaio brand, namely an eco-friendly netbook as part of the W-series, and a fairly burly entry level addition to the E-series.

Done in a mint green palm rest, so that everyone around you will know that you're a pretentious twonk (sorry, eco-warrior), the W21M2E features all the usual netbook specs, an Atom 1.66GHz N450 processor, 1GB of memory, 250GB and runs Windows 7 Starter.

According to Sony, you can compute with a clear conscience, knowing that your netbook uses a mercury free LED backlit display and is made from recycled materials and took 10 per cent less CO2 to produce as a result. It even comes with a carry bag made partly from recycled PET bottles, which is also used to cut down on packaging.

The new E-series is a different beast altogether, focusing more on desktop replacement than portability.

With a 2.26GHz Core i5 430M processor, 4GB of DDR3 1066MHz memory, 500GB hard drive and an ATI Mobility HD 5470 graphics card the new E-series includes a 15.5-inch 1920x1080 display, a full sized keyboard complete with number pad, an optical drive and four USB ports, along with all the other usual bells and whistles you would expect from this type of notebook.

It also features Sony's new 'Assist' key, which provides instant access to a range of help features for when things go wrong. Apparently this happens so much, Sony has felt the need to create a dedicated button for it.

As always, Sony refused to provide any kind of pricing details for the two new models, but full specifications and configurations of these and all the other upcoming notebooks are available on the Sony site. µ