New VAIOs are upon us (or, at least, upon Japan), starting with the 19" Type L, depicted here in all its beautiful, expensive, underperforming splendor. When $3,300 (¥400,000) only gets you 1GB of RAM and a sub-iMac NVIDIA GeForce Go7600 video card, you know you're buying Sony. It does, however, have a Core 2 Duo T7400 and Blu-Ray disk player, and the screen resolution is 1680x1050, so it will be great for those purposes once referred to as "multimedia."
There's a "cheap" model for $2k, named the "VGC-LA73DB" in Sony's laughably unmarketable naming scheme, offering truly abysmal specifications (Core 2 Duo T5500 with an Intel 8080 handling the graphics and a rotting sausage jammed in the RAM slot) and no Blu-Ray. For an almost-cheap $1,650, you can have the VGC-LA53B, which reduces the CPU to a Celeron M. A Celeron M.
The chassis also has a webcam, 4 USB holes, a dial-up modem, WiFi and a memory strick reader. Cheaper models do offer one cool thing, however: metallic pastel colors for their 15.4" bodies.
Sony VAIO Type L Now With Blu-ray, Probably Made With Unsold PS3 Parts [Sony via Gizmodo]
