By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
It always happens, just when you think you have THE cutting edge notebook (and in this case it even comes with EDGE), a new version comes out. Today Sony Korea announced new VAIO TX series notebooks made of carbon fiber, making them 30% lighter and with up to a nine to fourteen hour battery life. I just got the Sony Vaio T350P which I love (except that the graphics card can’t handle my Samsung 243T, 23 inch LCD monitor – the max res is only 1600, BOO.) but the new Sonys won’t be sold in the US anytime soon, so I guess the current T series is still a pretty great product line to enjoy and feel good about for now.
The Vaio TX series has been adapted by white LED technique, this carbon fiber technology is usually being used when manufacturing airplanes or racing cars. Comparing with other existing T series notebooks, these VAIOs become twice as strong in endurance and the weight, only in 1.24-1.26kg, 30% lighter than before. The display panel thickness is only 4.5mm. Their design and color is are also very special by using sapphire black and platinum white.
The battery in the TX series last longer than ever. The VGN-TX17LP/B last 9hours and the VGN-TX16LP/W lasts 8.6hours. When they are being used with a bigger capacity battery, they could last about 14-15 hours. Source: Mobile Mag
We Say: Smaller used to mean sacrifice, but Sony is turning heads with fully featured Vaios in increasingly smaller and lighter packages. Nice to see some innovation back from this troubled company.
Haha, all of this talk of new carbon fiber laptop cases reminds me of shopping for a tennis raquet. They’ve been using carbon for years. It’s an interesting parallel I guess. I personally liked it when they started to throw titanium into the mix. Could that be next?
TItanium has already been done by Apple years ago. I happen to own one. Even though TItanium is strong, it’s also heavy due to its density (4.54) compared to other light metals being used in laptops now like Aluminum (2.702) and Magnesium (1.738).