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Sony Vaio C1: Colourful laptops

Crave The C1 series will only set you back £999 from the Sony Style Web site, which is pretty remarkable considering it's a Vaio. Derivative black and silver designs will now take a back seat to the Vaio C1 series, which comes in a range of colours...

Tags: sony, vaio, ram, processor

29 September 2006, 11:14

Sony Vaio TP1 Living Room PC: Krispy Kreme computer

Crave Sony knows a thing or two about designing great-looking products and it has outdone itself with its latest Media Center desktop, the Vaio TP1 Living Room PC. The Vaio TP1 Living Room PC will go on sale in March and will cost $1,600 (about £800).

Tags: ray, media center, living room, hard drive

9 January 2007, 1:47

Sony Vaio FZ series: Stylish multimedia laptop

Crave Yesterday we hit you with the super-slim Vaio TZ series, and today we're beating you about the face with the Vaio FZ. Another day at Crave brings another new Sony laptop. Oddly, Sony has stuck a '1080 Full HD' sticker just below the keyboard.

Tags: sony, keyboard, media center, vaio

31 May 2007, 11:03

Vote to win: Sony Vaio VGN-FZ11Z

Crave The new Sony Vaio VGN-FZ11Z scales down the big screen to laptop size. This addition to the Vaio FZ series certainly has a screen to brag about -- it boasts X-Black, Sony's technology for enhancing bright and vivid colours.

Tags: sony, laptop, reader, ray

5 October 2007, 9:37

Sony Vaio G11: Diddy but durable

Crave This isn't quite right though, and here to realign perceptions of ultraportable sturdiness is Sony, with its newly announced Vaio G11. Sony says it has performed extensive drop tests and the laptop can survive 90cm falls when switched off, or 72cm...

Tags: sony, windows vista, inch, laptop

2 February 2007, 11:06

Sony Vaio TT: Ultraportable laptop in 'not a car' shocker

Crave Wrap your eyeballs around the new ultraportable Sony Vaio TT series, which apparently has nothing to do with the iconic cars built by Audi. Unlike the rather ill-conceived Vaio CS series, TT series laptops come with HDMI ports so you can output hi...

Tags: core, model, ram, high end

13 October 2008, 10:23

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Vaio SR Series (VGN-SR19VN)

Crave If you just can't decide whether you want a laptop for business or personal use, point your viewing spheres towards Sony's new Vaio SR Series: the entry-level VGN-SR19XN and the top-end VGN-SR19VN.The SR Series is set to be a stonking all-rounder...

16 July 2008, 14:52

Hands-on with Sony Vaio CR20, TZ20 and AR50 laptops

Crave Yesterday, we got to check out some new Vaio models at a lovely hotel in Paddington, London. The first stop on our guided tour is the tiny Vaio TZ20 range. When it's not producing proprietary media formats and expensive games consoles, Sony is...

14 September 2007, 12:11

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Vaio Z Series (VGN-Z11VN/B)

Crave It unveiled to Europe its four latest lines of Vaio laptops -- two aimed at business users, one aimed at families and one aimed at business users with families (no, really). The most exciting was the Vaio Z Series, led by the top-end VGN-Z11VN/B.

16 July 2008, 12:53

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Vaio FW Series (VGN-FW11ZU)

Crave It's not just the business end of the market getting all of Vaio's attention. A slinky new consumer model showed its face this week in the form of the Vaio FW Series: the entry-level VGN-FW11E, the VGN-FW11M, the VGN-FW11S and the VGN-FW11ZU...

16 July 2008, 14:07

Sony Vaio CS series laptops: Beautifully ill-conceived

Crave Sony has announced a gaggle of new 14.1-inch laptops this month, including the shiny, consumer-focused CS series. Oddly, Sony hasn't even bothered fitting them with a digital video output port, so you can't pipe the video signal to a 'full HD' TV...

8 October 2008, 12:34

Crave TV: Sony TransferJet is like USB -- but wireless

Crave Sony demonstrated it using a modified Vaio TP Media Center PC equipped with a Sony has been showing off some funky work-in-progress technology called TransferJet. TransferJet contact pad, and a modified Sony camcorder, also equipped with...

7 January 2008, 19:37

Mary's Christmas shopping: pocket fillers

Crave Mary has already bought these items:Sigma 14mm and Canon 70-300mm lensesEpson P-4000 photo viewerCanon Selphy CP710 photo printerSony Vaio VGN-TX1 laptop and accessories Of all the phones that passed through the office this year, the two I miss the...

Tags: bluetooth, shopping, christmas, handheld

22 December 2005, 14:19

Sony battery recall affects HP, Toshiba, Dell laptops

Crave Sony has said that its Vaio notebooks are not included in the recall as they use a different type of battery. More than two years after the largest battery recall in the electronics industry, Sony batteries have been fingered again as the culprit...

Tags: battery, dell, problems, batteries

31 October 2008, 9:30

Sony goes multicoloured: CP-E MP3 player

Crave Previously we've seen novelty colour models like the VGF-AP1L VAIO, famously known as the 'back breaker' on account of its brick-like size. You would have thought a television manufacturer would have no problem making the transition from black and...

Tags: sony, colour, jpeg bmp, bmp

4 April 2006, 10:49