Video: Sony's new Vaio Type C brings a little Rolly to your lap

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.

New Sony Vaio PromotionType A-R-L-C-J
by AkihabaraNews

[Ninjakamster (PS360 FTW!) @ Sep 9th 2008 8:52AM]

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.

[holycow @ Sep 9th 2008 9:00AM]

Basically a 1000$ laptop with a "free" Rolly for $1400 ... cool!

[Kei @ Sep 9th 2008 9:08AM]

HP's and Dells do that touch thing :P

[Boarderwoot @ Sep 9th 2008 9:13AM]

that color's making my eyes bleed.

[Adderz @ Sep 9th 2008 10:00AM]

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.

[holycow @ Sep 9th 2008 10:17AM]

I think they serve a purpose of adding a "cushion" between the screen and keyboard area when its shut.

[burriot_avatar @ Sep 9th 2008 12:09PM]

That colour is worth every penny.

[burriot_avatar @ Sep 9th 2008 12:22PM]

Agreed

[Mr. B @ Sep 9th 2008 12:26PM]

If anyone knows how to get these wallpapers, i'd love to host them in my VAIO wallpaper collection.

[Viaono @ Sep 9th 2008 12:26PM]

Damnnnn, I just bought the CR last week.

[Richard Lai @ Sep 9th 2008 1:01PM]

Damn... I'm annoyed that my Dell XPS M1730 can't even handle its own LightFX with the music players.