Sony unveils new Vaio N series of fashion laptops

by Paul Miller, posted Sep 13th 2006 at 9:45AM

With a variety of coloring known as "Wenge brown -- a creamy, coffee-color made to resemble wood furniture," and claims that "these new notebooks are designed to accent your interior design, as well as your life," you know it's going to be good. Sony is aiming their new Vaio N Series line of mid-tier laptops at the fashionista set, and while they aren't incredibly forthcoming on specs, we're sure these laptops will look good doing whatever they've got the juice to do. Starting at $1,000, the N Series models feature 15.4-inch displays, Core Duo processors (in the top-end at least) and a dual-layer DVD burner, along with the usual Sony frills like a Memory Stick reader, i.LINK port and ExpressCard slot. There's also 802.11a/b/g WiFi, and while we're not so sure about graphics options, Sony does claim that select models are Vista Premium ready, so we've got that going for us. The N Series ships next month, and Sony should be taking pre-orders starting today.

Filed under: Laptops

Tags: fashion, laptop, n, n series, NSeries, sony, vaio

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Miles O'Toole @ Sep 13th 2006 9:58AM

Pretty sweet, but definitely not as nice as the one in the commercial contest. Speaking of which... when can we see all of the entrants & hear about a winner? It ended three days ago now...

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Jim @ Sep 13th 2006 10:08AM

From the back it looks like an interesting hybrid of the first Apple G4 Powerbook (Titanium) and the current Apple aluminum shelled models except without the space saver screen hinge (thus allowing a few ports on the back).

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pkny @ Sep 13th 2006 11:37AM

i agree with the previous comment - it looks like sony is picking up on apple's design : P - at first glance it looks like a macbook

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ramond @ Sep 13th 2006 11:37AM

Will they run OS X?

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aws910 @ Sep 13th 2006 11:42AM

Will it come rootkit-enabled?

sorry, I just couldn't help myself. haha

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Jaspion @ Sep 13th 2006 2:44PM

not core 2 duo?

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Totesen @ Jul 9th 2007 12:59AM

pretty nice design! just missing webcam but its very budgets friendly also 900 is a cheap vaio! exelent desktop replacement

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Totesen @ Jul 9th 2007 1:06AM

yes check it out at www.sonystyle.com

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