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Sony has prepared the VAIO AR7, FZ4, and SZ7 notebooks, featuring the Intel’s first 45-nanometer Core 2 Duo Mobile processors, codenamed “Penryn”, and the “Santa Rosa Refresh” mobile platform.

The leaked specifications of the 17-inch Sony VAIO VGN-AR730E/B, VGN-AR750E/B, and VGN-AR760U/B say these entertainment laptops will be available with the Intel Core 2 Duo “Penryn” T8100 CPU at 2.1GHz, while the top of the line VGN-AR790U/B features the T9300 at 2.5GHz. The systems come with 2GB or 4GB of RAM, and 320GB or 400GB hard drives, depending on model, as well as with Blu-Ray optical drives. Prices of the “Penryn”-based VAIO AR7 notebooks listed on Monstronix website range from $1,678 to $3,257.

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Sony Electronics today announced that its LocationFree (LF) Player software will be pre-installed on all of the summer line of VAIO laptops. The software will enable Sony VAIO notebook users to access content from their home entertainment devices virtually anywhere in the world, as long as they have either a LF-B10 or LF-B20 Base Station.

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The 17-inch widescreen Sony Vaio VGN-AR190G entertainment laptop, featuring Blu-ray drive with writing capabilities, Intel’s Core Duo T2500 processor and NVDIA GeForce Go 7600GT graphics card with 256MB VRAM, was recently reviewed by Laptop Magazine and PC Magazine.

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The 17-inch widescreen Sony Vaio VGN-AR230G, the first entertainment Sony’s AR notebook with Core 2 Duo Mobile (Merom) processor, is now available at SonyStyle.com. The Vaio VGN-AR230G comes with a T5600 (1.83GHz, 2MB L2 cache) CPU, an 1GB DDR2 SDRAM (expandable to maximal 2GB), an 200GB 4200rpm SATA hard drive and a dual layer DVD burner .

Regarding graphics, the Vaio AR230G is powered by NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 card which has 64MB of dedicated memory, expandable to 256MB of video RAM using dynamically allocated system memory by NVIDIA’s TurboCache Technology. The laptop has VGA out with Smart Display Sensor, HDMI out and S-Video.

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The Sony Vaio FE, SZ and AR series laptop PCs will feature new 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile (Merom) processors, according to the listings at Sony Business Solutions web site.

The Sony Vaio VGN-FE770G is the first laptop of the 15.4-inch screen FE series featuring the latest Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. With Core 2 Duo T5600 processor, 1GB of RAM and a 120GB hard drive, it is suggested by manufacturer to cost $1350.

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