The latest family of multimedia notebooks 15.4-inch Sony VAIO FZ, equipped with the Intel Santa Rosa platform components, met attract viewers so that the first model expected, the VAIO FZ180 has been sold out. In the wake of this success, Sony has introduced a new model in the United States, identified by the initials VAIO FZ190 CTO, available in two variants, depending on whether or not this Blu-Ray optical drive, a base price of $ 1698.99, respectively, and $ 1268.99.

The Sony VAIO VGN-FZ190 CTO stands out as completely user-configurable to suit your needs by choosing from a wide range of optional components (processors RAM, graphics card to the HDD capacity). You can then build their own virtual machine, for example, a Sony VAIO FZ190 with Blu-ray Disc optical drive, Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 150GB hard drive and Nvidia GeForce graphics card dedicated 8400M GT will reach the price of $ 2568.99.

While we wait for Intel announces new mobile platform Santa Rosa (expected in just over a week), we try to gather some information about the first notebook which will use: Fujitsu was the first to showcase his upcoming laptops based on the new platform , followed by Lenovo with the ThinkPad T61 and R61.

multithumb () Now it's Sony. The news is entirely new: in the folds of Sony's U.S. site dedicated to retailers, we discovered a hidden page that references the first VAIO notebooks based on Santa Rosa. It's the product page of what will be the new line of VAIO FZ notebooks that judging by the letters, should represent an evolution of the family of mainstream notebook VAIO F, in its third generation after the series VAIO FS and FE.

Sony introduced a few days ago a new laptop in the segment of small notebooks, this is a notebook which has a 13.3 inch screen. This new model responds to the name of Sony VGN-SR150FN and next to your screen size out for having a dedicated graphics card from ATI.

And although initially we talked about this laptop that is small in size (the chassis is magnesium and has a height of just 3.4cm) out for being not exactly light, since it is at a weight of 1.88kg.