sony vaio

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

Photos: Asus Eee PC S101 hands-on

Crave Asus is pitching the Eee PC S101 at those who want a less toy-like netbook, or anyone who doesn't want expensive alternatives such as the Sony Vaio TT, Toshiba Portege R500, Panasonic R7, or even Asus' own S and U series.

15 October 2008, 11:13

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

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

Sony Vaio AW: Introducing the 18.4-inch Blu-ray photo laptop

Crave Sony is seriously bringing it today: it's announced an 18-inch laptop, the Vaio AW. Sony says the Vaio AW weighs a fairly hefty 3.9kg in new money. For that amount, the Vaio AW packs a 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo T9400 processor, 4GB of RAM, a 640GB hard...

Tags: colour, ratio, adobe, inch

11 September 2008, 10:09

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Vaio BZ Series (VGN-BZ11VN)

Crave Just when you thought 30 pages of laptops in one day was enough, we present to you the last model in the new Sony Vaio range -- the Vaio BZ Series, more specifically known as the entry-level VGN-BZ11MN, the VGN-BZ11XN and the top-end VGN-BZ11VN.

16 July 2008, 16:21

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

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

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

Movie & TV sell-outs: When tech product placements go bad

Crave Casino Royale: Sony HD5, Blu-ray, Vaio laptops, Sony Ericsson phones and Ford cars  The HD5 is probably the greatest MP3 player ever made, if you ignore the glaring problems with the way it worked and Sony's ludicrous SonicStage software.

23 June 2008, 14:22

ECS G10IL: Another wannabEee hops on the bandwagon

Crave At first glance, it looks like some sort of mini-MacBook crossed with a Sony Vaio. In the glorious race to the bottom, another contender has emerged to take on the Asus hit that is the tiny Linux-powered Eee PC.

Tags: linux, card reader, sony vaio, eee pc

20 March 2008, 16:01

Lenovo X300: MacBook Air Murderer? Yes. Sort of

Crave Laptops such as the MacBook Air and Sony Vaio TZ series have proven that slim is indeed the new phat. Today, Lenovo unveiled its own skinny laptop in the form of the ThinkPad X300 -- which the blogosphere has already dubbed the 'MacBook Air killer'.

Tags: lenovo, usb, air, macbook

26 February 2008, 14:32

Photos: Is the Lenovo IdeaPad U110 the sexiest laptop ever?

Crave Sony Vaio TZ series. The words 'stylish' and 'Lenovo' don't often appear in the same sentence, but that's about to change with the advent of the IdeaPad U110. It is, without doubt, one of the prettiest laptops we've ever seen, and that includes...

8 January 2008, 5:59

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

General Electric cameras: The Americans are coming

Crave He was responsible for the Sony Walkman, Betamax, the Vaio range, and the Olympus Stylus series of cameras. The range seems to be in safe hands, as former Sony designer Takeyoshi Kawano is involved. Over the years, Britain has been the birthpace of...

Tags: general imaging, cameras, range, market

2 January 2008, 11:25