Sony spills more info and pics on upcoming laptops

We got some more info today from a friendly tipster about Sony's upcoming and not-so-secretive summer laptop lineup. The FZ info we had for the most part, but it's nice to get a bit of confirmation that Sony is actually going with 2GB of RAM and Santa Rosa across the board for the Vista laptops, along with Blu-ray in the FZ11Z. The other goodness we've got here are the first pics of the 11.1-inch TZ series (shown above), some downright sexy ultraportables that are replacing the comparatively frumpy TX laptops. Sony is touting up to 9 hours of battery life, with 1GB of RAM and a 80GB hard drive in the TZ11MN/M, and 2GB / 100GB in the TZ11XN/B. Both laptops feature integrated cameras and microphones, just like the FZ series, and are running Vista Business on Core 2 Duo U7500 processors. Still no word on price, but the info we have has these hitting at least the UK in July.

Gallery: Sony spills some more info and pics on its upcoming laptops

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[Flying? @ May 1st 2007 10:41AM]

The TX-11 looks gorgeous (odd, that it's so close from the Sony G1 types) ... ! Too bad there's no trackpoint ...

[David Kaspar @ May 1st 2007 10:52AM]

Sweet, I for one welcome back the built-in camera on the new TZ!

[outoffocuz @ May 1st 2007 10:54AM]

Hey...wait a minute here. Just wireless a/b/g? I thought the Santa Rosa chipset was all about integrating 802.11 n with the Merom processors. Why no n WiFi here?

[sLm4ever @ May 1st 2007 1:14PM]

that's what I was asking about for the last couple of days !! ... for me it's the most important thing about the new platform ..

[Paul @ May 1st 2007 11:06AM]

That is a standard product guide. I had one sent two weeks ago to my store (Sony Centre).

[Brian @ May 1st 2007 11:11AM]

Paul, any news on a sony tablet?

[Paul @ May 1st 2007 11:16AM]

Currently not at work and only have had a brief look, but I didn't see any tablets...as I would have remembered that! I can check properly tomorrow for you...and scan some of the pages in if there is anything interesting in there!

[Chuckles McGee @ May 1st 2007 11:25AM]

Sexy sexy!

[al @ May 1st 2007 11:28AM]

Does this mean that Apple will be able to include Santa Rosa into their MB/MBP too?

[Kev50027 @ May 1st 2007 1:51PM]

Are you freaking kidding me? The TX series are pretty!

The SZ series I must say are the best looking current model they sell though, in black the SZ is damn sexy.

[Sam @ May 1st 2007 2:16PM]

Any SZ pictures? SZ pictures please! SZ by far are the most beautiful and sexiest of all of Sony's notebooks...I was about to purchase one then heard exactly of Sony's update with the Santa Rosa chip....Thank you SONY!

[Tommy @ May 1st 2007 3:36PM]

Wow...i've always love Sony's laptop. Thinking of changing my current laptop to Sony's.

[Mr. B @ May 1st 2007 3:58PM]

Very nice... I like the styling. Unless Apple introcuces a 12 inch Macbook Pro, I think I know what my next laptop is gonna be.

[kyle @ May 1st 2007 4:18PM]

very nice - but where's the solid state drives?

[ralfha @ May 2nd 2007 12:20AM]

I agree the TX series is frumpy and this could be an improvement. I hope Sony's notebook design in general is veering back from some of the me-too square boxes they've released (TX, S, etc) to the more stylish machines with inspired rounded shapes they've designed at several points in the past (TR, A, FE, FS, etc.)

[Pete @ May 7th 2007 7:16AM]

Has anyone got information on the VGNAR41E which I am told will be in the shops in the next two weeks? I have seen sites that are already selling without detail at £999?

[scoot @ Jul 27th 2007 4:58PM]

SONY, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING???

The "Stupid Business Decision of the Week" goes to SONY! I just purchased a new super-duper laptop, the SONY SZ480 which came with a "ATT/CINGULAR 2 MONTH TRIAL".

While traveling, the wireless did not work. After spending about 2 hours on the phone with tech support, the wireless works, but was running slow and then dropping. I called back (another hour), to download drivers, and all sorts of fixes. It was working again, but still really slow. I asked the tech support guy, Dave, who finally admitted that the Cingular Network was just a little faster than dial-up.

So, here's the deal. You buy a terrific computer with a built in wireless card that hooks up to the slowest network out there! What were they thinking. Cingular should be ashamed to be offering such a bad product, and SONY made a terrible decision to offer this instead of Verizon or SPRINT. So for an extra few bucks you might get from Cingular, you cost yourself 4 hours of tech support, a dissatisfied customer, and earned the "Stupid Business Decision of the Week Award"!

QUESTION: What city was I in? ANSWER: LA, NY, Seattle, and Chicago.

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