14 DAY TRIAL // Having covered the monitor market when we wrote about the MultiSync MD211C2 and MD211C3 medical-grade monitors, we can now take a look at the computer industry, where NEC also has some things to share. Not with the whole world though. As sad as it sounds, NEC does not ship its products everywhere. Only in Eastern countries, particularly Japan.
It is there that the Mate series of PCs is available, and it is the mate series that has just welcomed a bunch of new arrivals.
There are some all-in-one and tower desktops available (MG all-in-one, along with ML, ME and MB slim towers), but the real stars come from the notebook series (VB, VH, VD and VA).
Said noteworthy notebooks are the VX Laptop and the VG Ultrabook.
The VG Ultrabook measures 13.3 inches in diagonal and has an LCD (liquid crystal display) with a resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels.
It relies on a Core i5 or Core i7 CPU (central processing unit) and has 4 GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory) backing up whichever chip is used.
Then on the software side, either Windows 7 or Windows 8 Pro can be selected.
NEC expects prospective buyers to cough up 261,000 JPY for the VG, or about $2,650 / €2,033.
The VX laptop measures 15.6 inches in diagonal and also uses an Intel Core i3 CPU or i5 chip. Strangely, though, the LCD has only WXGA resolution, which means 1280 x 768 pixels. It explains the much lower price, if nothing else.
Speaking of which, the sum is of 138,500 JPY, or $1,400 / €1,074 according to exchange rates.
Then again, as far as the mobile market is concerned, both of those prices are astonishingly high, and, we dare say it, rather unjustifiably so when ultrabooks with comparative performance sell for well under $1,000 / €767-1,000.