14 DAY TRIAL // According to a product listing that has recently surfaced on the page of an European online retailer, Sony could update its Vaio P line of ultraportable computer systems with the introduction of new configuration options that would include a yet unannounced Intel Atom processor. Dubbed Atom Z630, the said chip is claimed to be an upcoming dual-core version of Intel's current Atom Z530.
Rumors of an upcoming hardware refresh of Sony's Vaio P ultraportable laptop have been going on since earlier this year, with speculations that the system would be equipped with the 2.0GHz Atom Z550 processor, Intel has recently announced. However, up to this moment the rumors haven’t been confirmed and the fastest processor available for the Vaio P laptop is the Z540, running at 1.86GHz. On that note, it now seems that one of the upcoming changes to Sony's line of Vaio P ultraportables is coming in the form of a new Atom Z630 processor.
The fellows over at Notebook Italia have noticed the product listing of a Vaio P laptop that sports the Atom Z630 processor, 128GB SSD, 2GB of memory and the integrated Intel GMA 500 chip. Although the listing is yet to be confirmed and may eventually be just an error, it has enabled a number of speculations regarding the release of an upcoming Atom processor and the future refresh of Sony's Vaio P laptop line. In relation to the listing, there are rumors pointing to a dual-core version of Intel's Z530, coming in the form of the aforementioned Atom Z630.
Currently, Sony's Vaio P laptop is available in Europe with the 1.6GHz Z530 Atom processor, but that could soon change if the listing on the website turns out to be real. If that is the case, we are bound to see a performance increase for the Vaio P, which could also translate into an increase in price and power consumption.