Sony VAIO S Reaches the US, Starts Selling this Month

Sony, like other companies, unveiled quite a few things over the past months, such as a specific mobile computer which, after weeks of preparations, is finally reaching the United States market.

The CeBIT 2011 trade show in Hannover, Germany, held between March 1 and 5, turned out to be less rich in new product announcements than one may have expected.

One reason for this was the fact that Intel, AMD and NVIDIA didn't have much to show in the way of new processors.

As such, PC makers didn't have much to work with so they couldn't really flood the market with new desktops and notebooks, though a few models did get previewed or unleashed.

Still, though CeBIT may have been slow, companies like Sony still maintained a good level of activity this quarter.

One thing that Sony did was introduce the VAIO S ultraportable laptop, last month to be more specific.

Now, a press release has been issued so as to let consumers know that US stores will finally get the machine.

With a pre-order price starting at $970, the machines gamble on their ability to keep running for up to 15 hours on a single battery charge, when using the optional $150 “slice” battery.

“We continue to raise the bar when it comes to the mobile computing experience,” said Mike Lucas, senior vice president of Networked and Technologies and Services Division at Sony Electronics.

“The VAIO S Series laptop makes no compromises by offering the ultimate, full-featured ultra-mobile PC.”

For those wanting an update on the hardware, VAIO S have Sandy bridge CPUs (central processing units), up to 8 GB of DDR3 RAM and an AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series DirectX 11 graphics card.

They also boast 13.3-inch HD screens (resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels) and all necessary connectivity and I/O options one might expect.