Blu-Ray for a grand with Sony Vaio NS notebook

Sony's newest model range in the school of Vaio is the NS, a 15.4" skinny thing with Blu-Ray, 4 gigs of RAM and a "textured exterior" for your salad fingers. It's also accompanied by the CS, a similar machine with a 14.4" widescreen display and a 5.7lb weigh-in.

These machines have Intel Core 2 Duo processors, "ample storage," and — as has been Sony's thing of late — a reasonable price tag: a basic, no-frills NS will cost only $650. Vaio NS comes in blue, white and silver, while the CS comes in colors so strangely-named I can't even discern what they really are: "Sangria, cosmopolitan, and dove." It sounds like the weirdest legal practice this side of the Rockies.

The CS will start at $920, with BD models starting at $1,070.

"Style and function to fashionable consumers," is the pitch, but at just a grand for a Blu-Ray laptop, frequent flyers of a staider sort might be the real market here.

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[#1 posted by Enochrewt , September 12, 2008 7:45 AM]

I want to know when Sony got hit on the head and decided to price their stuff reasonably? What's next, they decide that open storage formats are good for the market?

[#2 posted by mr.skeleton , September 14, 2008 12:14 PM]

I just bought a mildly outdated Vaio (VGN-FZ348E) for around $800, with a blu-ray drive. Loving it. Great screen, great chassis. Yay.

[#3 posted by timada , November 3, 2008 4:30 PM]

I was thinking to buy it, I found a cheap one on the internet. They have reasonable prices for all the Sony Laptops. I trust Sony. I’m sure I won’t have problems with this notebook.