Sony debuts beefed-up 18.4-inch VAIO AW laptop

Sony's 18.4-inch Type A VAIO laptop was already impressive enough when it made its debut in Japan earlier this month, but it looks like the slightly revised VAIO AW just announced for the UK has now taken things one step further. Of course, there's not much room to upgrade that 1,920 x 1,080 18.4-inch display, but you can expect to get a slightly speedier T9600 Core 2 Duo processor and, most notably, a 128GB SSD drive that's joined by a 500GB SATA drive in a RAID arrary, something Sony describes as a "world's first." Also, it looks like prices for this monster actually start at a fairly reasonable £999 (or just over $1,700), but you can pretty safely bet that any "world's first" features will demand a hefty premium.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 7th 2009 9:21PM]

I ORDERED THE AW LAPTOP AND CAN HARDLY WAIT...THIS IS MY THIRD VAIO. THE HD PLAYER AND BURNER WITH TV TUNER ALLOW ME TO WATCH AND RECORD DIFFERENT CHANNELS. I SURF SHOP READ EMAIL ON MY 17 INCH VAIO. I GUESS I'M SPOILED, BUT I.M HOME IN A WHEELCHAIR AND MY VAIO IS MY CONNECTION TO THE WORLD. HATS OFF TO SONY FOR MAKING THE AW!