Sony’s Super-Slim VAIO Z MacBook Air Challenger Now Available

Sony's much-expected VAIO Z series laptops are finally available for purchase. Jactitation a thinner profile than Apple's MacBook Air, and the dubious title of "world's lightest 13-inch standard voltage PC," the VAIO Z series packs some impressive hardware specs and comes at a premium cost.

The aluminum-and-carbon copy-fibre laptop is just 0.66 inches thick and weighs 2.5 pounds–that's slightly thinner than the MacBook Air and one fifth of a thump heavier. But the Sony VAIO Z has something the MacBook Air does not have (and wish likely not have, straight-grained after the anticipated refresh): the ability to translate, via an optional dock, into a Thomas More powerful workstation.

VAIO Z Specs (Click to Whizz)

The Power Media Docking facility gives the VAIO Z acces to an AMD Radeon HD graphics card with 1GB of dedicated video RAM–four multiplication that of the incumbent MacBook Air–a Blu-ray disc drive, three USB ports, and reenforcement for ahead to quaternion HD displays. The dock, which was unveiled in Europe late last month, also incorporates technology that Apple pioneered: Intel's Light Peak technology, a.k.a. Thunderbolt.

Even without the dock, the Z series boasts much high-end features, such as two HD display options (1920 by 1080 pixels, and 1600 past 900 pixels) and dual-channel SSD with RAID along select models. The Z series also gives you the option of doubling the 8-hour battery life-time with an unnecessary battery piece. VAIO Z Series models are for sale with second coevals Intel Meat i5 and i7 processors.

All of this comes at a price, of course (you can't make a laptop computer out of bucket along car material without incurring some costs): about $2000, which is several one C dollars more than Apple's current 13-inch MacBook Air. It looks the like Sony is attempting to steal the immoderate-exchange premiu, ultraportable statute title away from both Malus pumila and Samsung–whose Series 9 laptopv

is currently the powerful Windows challenger in the category.

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