It's been three weeks already... when are we going to get the 2008 Sony laptops?
Well, that's actually a very interesting question. It all starts with the new Sony Vaio SZ7 series laptops showing up on Sony's website, all ready to be customed out and bought by the laptop-hungry public. They look nice enough, like Vaios usually do, and they've gotten the de rigor updates under the hood.
Physically, there's not a lot of differences between the four new models - the SZ7680 at the high end, followed by the SZ7780, SZ7640 and SZ7740 in descending price order before upgrades. A 13.3 WXGA display, webcam, wireless LAN are all standard, but an integrated wireless wide area network (WAN) running off Sprint Mobile Broadband will cost you extra. Hard drive standards range, but options on all models range from 2GB to 4GB of DDR-SDRAM and hard drives that go from 120GB to 200GB standard to 200GB overclocked to a 250GB SATA hard drive. What's missing? Well, you'd think that out of all the possible candidates, Sony would put a Blu-Ray optical drive in as a standard, or at least as an option, in their laptops. Nope. Not here.
They're also offering their extended warranty, but you don't want that. On the SZ7680, the priciest of the bunch, a 3-Year SquareTrade laptop warranty is still $11 cheaper than Sony's 2-Year service plan. Check it out for yourself with the sidebar widget.
But this is the funny part. You can preorder these babies now, but you'll find "ship date unknown" on the SZ7780 and SZ7740. The Intel Core 2 Duo processors they're supposed to run on are all on backorder, oddly enough... they must all be going to the more expensive SZ7680 and not-more-expensive SZ7640, which will both start shipping on the 30th. Weird.
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