We're fans of Sony's little
Rolly -- despite its general uselessness and non-impulse-buy $400 price tag. It exists as more of a corporate statement than a real piece of useful consumer electronics, one that Sony is ready to exploit by applying its internals to something rather more tedious: yet another Vaio laptop. The 14.1-inch VGN-CS60B offers a multi-colored light bar on the front that uses the Rolly's trademarked "12 Tone Analysis" to turn your dorm room into a (dimly lit) discotheque, and a series of blinking LEDs above the keyboard that makes adjusting the volume level a little more interesting. The Type C includes a 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD, 802.11n WiFi and a
FeliCa port, all served up by Windows Vista Home Premium. Despite its ho-hum specs It should be enough to make Japanese schoolgirls giddy when it releases in Japan later this week for about $1,400. Video of said light show after the break.
posted September 9th 2008 8:40AM
This replaces the current CR series and is aimed towards student, though even I find it a bit bland and yet garish at the same time.
My opinion is that Sony does best with their smaller laptops, like their UX, Z and TZ series. Thats their specialty, for their larger notebooks, the competition usually does it better.
Basically a 1000$ laptop with a "free" Rolly for $1400 ... cool!
HP's and Dells do that touch thing :P
that color's making my eyes bleed.
Well that was boring, i was expecting something more than a crappy 5cm LED strip.
Its a very nice looking laptop, if they didnt have all those screw covers on the LCD. Cant anyone else but Apple use clips? I never understood that.
I think they serve a purpose of adding a "cushion" between the screen and keyboard area when its shut.
That colour is worth every penny.
Agreed
If anyone knows how to get these wallpapers, i'd love to host them in my VAIO wallpaper collection.
Damnnnn, I just bought the CR last week.
Damn... I'm annoyed that my Dell XPS M1730 can't even handle its own LightFX with the music players.