14 DAY TRIAL // The past couple of days seemed like they were finally heralding the resurrection of the periodically-updating IT market that people know and love, but it seems like things have slowed down again, although Sony, somehow, still managed to do something on the Taiwan market.
Sony is one of those companies that deal in a variety of products for more than one market segment, much in the same way that Samsung and HP, along with many other high-tier IT players, have multiple outlets.
What it did just a short while ago, according to a certain report, was unleash several new devices on the PC market in Taiwan.
This is in tune with the company's expectation that the disaster which recently hit Japan won't affect its supply of PC products in the short term.
Granted, it is not easy to make a clear idea of just how much the Sony Group will suffer from that earthquake in the long run, but the outfit figured it may as well do what it can in the meantime.
That said, it released, in Taiwan at least, several S-series, C-series and F-series mobile computers, its primary goal being to secure a 10% share in the local notebook market by the end of the year.
At the end of 2010, Sony found that it had accounted for 7.8% of all notebooks sold in Taiwan, so it is no surprise that it would want to rise in profile.
The Vaio S units are intended for the business sector and focus on speed, so they come equipped with SSDs (solid state drives).
The C series are the ones that will end up in consumer homes and will have more common HDD storage (probably) and overall specs.
Finally, the company even delivered some 3D notebooks, although they aren't yet available for shipment. Still, it shouldn't take long for sales to outright start either.
Meanwhile, Sony also went out of its way to supply its prospective customers with L-series all-in-one (AiO) PCs.