Sony has announced their Spring 2005 lineup of Vaio laptops. Things look to to be pretty standard, with simple updates to the current type S, type T, type A, and type E notebooks (spells EAST), but they’ve also got two new ones — the type Y and type F (spelling FEASTY, or F YEAST). The type Y is a single-spindle notebook (meaning it has no optical drive; the only “spindle” is the hard drive), oriented towards business users, and comes in around $1600 USD with a 1.6GHz Pentium M, 256MB of RAM, 60GB hard drive, and Intel 855GME chipset. Not exactly anything to sneeze about.
But the type F could be — it has a 15.5″ widescreen LCD, and due to some fancy construction terminology, this screen is a mere 7.7mm thick. While the type F is available in a range of processing powers and chipsets, the most powerful of these would be the Intel 915 chipset, including a 1.73GHz Pentium M, 512MB of DDR2 SDRAM, and even a GeForce Go 6200. In a bizarre move, Sony is also including a SD card adapter with each type F notebook.
