Archive for the 'Sony Vaio FE' Category

Sony today released fashionable “Graphic Splash Edition” VAIO notebooks. Limited to only 1350 these new designs will be available in both the VAIO C and FE Series laptop lines.

“Now PC users can embrace the season and their individual style with these fashion-forward dye-sub graphic patterns created exclusively by the Sony Design Center. To further personalize these colorful notebooks free engraving is also available,” Sony says.

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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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Sony today announced the recall of the additional 250,000 Vaio laptop batteries worldwide, after the company recalled 90,000 Vaio battery units in the Asia Pacific.

In the United States, the affected Sony Vaio batteries were sold from December 2004 through October 2006. In the Vaio FE series, the recalled batteries were sold with Vaio VGN-FE550G and VGN-FE570G notebooks. In T series, Sony recalled battery units sold with VGN-T240P, VGN-T250, VGN-T250P, VGN-T260P, VGN-T270P, VGN-T340P, VGN-T350, VGN-T350P, VGN-T360P, VGN-T370P laptops. It is possible that some of the affected batteries were sold separately.

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A voluntary recall of 340,000 laptop batteries made by Sony was officially announced in the United States today. The latest-recalled lithium ion batteries containing Sony cells were used in Fujitsu’s, Gateway’s, Sony’s, and Toshiba’s notebook computers. These lithium ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published.

According to the CPSC’s press release, consumers should stop using the recalled batteries immediately unless otherwise instructed.

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Sony VAIO VGN-FE790 CTO, the first customizable notebook in FE series which can be configured with new Intel Core 2 Duo processor, is now available at SonyStyle.com. The VGN-FE790 CTO (configure-to-order) comes with one of five Core 2 Duo Mobile (Merom) processors, by your choice.

The 15.4-inch widescreen Vaio VGN-FE790 features Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 or optional NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 128MB graphics card for additional $75. But, if you purchase the laptop with NVIDIA’s card you must also add $50 for the screen with XBRITE-HiColor Technology and MOTION EYE Camera, since the GeForce Go 7600 is selectable only with that upgraded screen. The laptop is based on Intel 945GM chipset (when you select Intel’s integrated graphics) and Intel 945PM Chipset (when you select NVIDIAs dedicated graphics). We suppose that there will be also VGN-FE790 featuring GeForce Go 7400 with TurboCache supporting 256MB available, since this option is listed in notebook’s specifications. But, the specs sheet says: “Gray model only available with Go 7400 Graphics option”.

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The Sony Vaio VGN-FE770G laptop powered by Core 2 Duo Mobile (Merom) processor is now available for purchase at SonyStyle.com and online retailers. The 15.4-inch widescreen VGN-FE770G with a Merom T5600 (1.83GHz) CPU, an 1GB DDR2 SDRAM (expandable to 2GB), an 120GB 5400RPM SATA hard drive, and an integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, costs $1350.

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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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