World's smallest Blu-ray notebook (11.1") announced by Sony

[JadedRaverLA]

Sony has officially announced the smallest and lightest Blu-ray enabled notebook yet. The 11.1" Vaio TT series is set to replace the existing TZ series as Sony's smallest ultraportable notebook computer. The line measures only 10.99"x7.87"x0.93" thick and weighs in at only 2.87lbs.

The top of the line model features an internal Blu-ray burner (the first in such a small notebook), marking the first machine to be released with an ultra-thin 9.5mm BD drive. The highest end model (VGN-TT190UBX) features a carbon fiber casing, 11.1" 16:9 LED-backlit (1366x768) screen, HDMI and VGA outputs, 2x 128 GB SSDs in a RAID configuration, Intel Core 2 Duo SU 9400 1.4GHz processor, Wirelessi-N and Gigabit ethernet, bluetooth, and 4GB DDR3 RAM in addition to the 2x BD-R/RE burner. Given the $4,345 price tag, it also essentially comes with a steal me sign and a second mortgage, but customizeable models should be available within a month or so that allow you to get the BD burner but not the dual SSDs for substantially less.

Equally interesting, is that 9.5mm BD burners for notebooks have gone into mass production, giving substantial weight to rumors that "a certain other notebook manufacturer" will be announcing BD burner options in their new notebook line to be announced on October 14.

[arush5268d]

Sony is putting out some great laptops/notebooks now.

But whew! This new one has a heck of a price tag. Carbon fiber, solid state drives....very nice.

[X400]

im all for tiny laptops.... but why one with such great hardware? what am i gonna use 4gigs of ddr3 ram for on that tiny laptop and dual cores ???

i can understand the SSD for compactness

but geez

[JadedRaverLA]

Originally Posted by X400

im all for tiny laptops.... but why one with such great hardware? what am i gonna use 4gigs of ddr3 ram for on that tiny laptop and dual cores ???

i can understand the SSD for compactness

but geez

Rather excessive... but pretty damn cool that they are able to cram that much tech into such a small notebook. In fact, given that its 11.1", they should offer their OLED display panel as an option. Drive the price up to a cool $7k for the person who has everything and feels the need to run a multi-national corporation (or a large country) from an 11.1" ultraportable notebook -- and wants to make sure they look good doing it.

I bet they'd wipe out all (nonexistant) competition in the $7,000+ ultraportable market.

Either way it takes some serious cojones to release a product like this given the current economy.

[SellmeyourDVD]

Originally Posted by JadedRaverLA

Rather excessive... but pretty damn cool that they are able to cram that much tech into such a small notebook. In fact, given that its 11.1", they should offer their OLED display panel as an option. Drive the price up to a cool $7k for the person who has everything and feels the need to run a multi-national corporation (or a large country) from an 11.1" ultraportable notebook -- and wants to make sure they look good doing it.

I bet they'd wipe out all (nonexistant) competition in the $7,000+ ultraportable market.

Either way it takes some serious cojones to release a product like this given the current economy.

There will always be that small percentage of the population that has so much money they don't know what to do with it. I bet every filthly rich person that gets this will end up saying they'd be lost without it and everyone needs one. I on the other hand, would like 7k to purchase a new car

[owa]

Sounds impressive. It would be an interesting possibility for work if it had a larger screen but I guess that would defeat the purpose of an ultra-portable.

[supersix4]

lol ill be getting one of those I knew holding out on that tiny mac was a good idea !

[JadedRaverLA]

Originally Posted by owa

Sounds impressive. It would be an interesting possibility for work if it had a larger screen but I guess that would defeat the purpose of an ultra-portable.

Well, the new VAIO Z-series is supposed to get a Blu-ray model soon also. 13.1" 16:9 screen instead of 11.1". Still nice and compact... just not quite as glaringly so.

Originally Posted by supersix4

lol ill be getting one of those I knew holding out on that tiny mac was a good idea !

I have a lot of respect for Apple, but I really don't get the target market for the Air. 13.3" screen, and a footprint that's actually slightly larger than a standard MacBook. They made it thin, but took out the optical drive, multiple ports, etc. They should have at LEAST gone down to a 12" screen or something, otherwise it seems like all they achieved was making a regular-sized notebook that happens to be ridiculously thin.

Still, new MBs coming VERY soon... will be interesting.

[Sonny]

I dont care about having a BD burner in my MacBook. I want a SA burner, to bad there only in Japan....