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Sony have given a make-over to the Sony Vaio Z series laptop – the Z890. No. Not on the outside. Only on the inside. The re-modelled Sony Vaio Z890 notebook was displayed at CES 2010, Las Vegas. The exquisite carbon fibre and magnesium exterior has been retained. So is the 13.3″ widescreen which has a resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels. That’s higher than most other notebooks of the same size.
The Sony Vaio Z890 now features the 1.6GHz Intel Core i5 540M processor and a 4GB DDR3 RAM. The hard drive is completely ousted by a solid state drive. You get options of 128GB, 256GB and 384GB SSDs. Solid state drives are faster than hard drives and do not have mechanical moving parts too.
The Sony Vaio Z890 too, incorporates the hot-switching GPU feature, like the Alienware M11x netbook, which has also displayed at CES 2010. The Sony Vaio laptop integrates both the NVidia GeForce 310M and an Intel GMA GPU. A physical setting called Hybrid Dynamic Switch will allow switching between these graphics processors, while the laptop is powered on. The NVidia graphics can be used while gaming and the Intel graphics for general computation. This will increase power efficiency of the device as well.
WiFi and Bluetooth are also supported by this notebook. The connectors present on-board are 2 USB ports, a n ExpressCard slot, an HDMI output, a Firewire port, an SD card slot and a Memory Stick slot. An optical drive is also housed in this notebook.
The price of the classy, yet powerful Sony Vaio Z890 Laptop is $1,899 in the US. The UK availability and pricing details are yet to be revealed.
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