Sony Releases VAIO TX Notebook Series

The TX series is designed to be an ultra portable notebook, with a carbon fibre body to reduce weight and new "white LED" technology. This technologu has advancements in fluorescent tubes that make the LCD 50% thinner and 30% lighter than comparable sized LCDs (11.1").

Including battery, this latop weighs only 1.25Kg.

Other specifications include:

Pentium M Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) 1.2GHz processor, 400MHz FSB, 2MB L2 cache

Intel 915GMS Express chipset

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 video chipset, using up to 128MB shared main memory

Up to 1.5GB DDR2 SDRAM, preinstalled with 1GB of RAM and one free slot

11.1" wide screen LCD (WXGA: 1366 x 768) using White LED technology

VGA DSUB 15 pin output

60GB ATA 100 hard disk, preinstalled as C: 20GB & D: 40GB

DVD+-RW optical drive

1x iLINK 1394a 4pin Firewire (400Mbps)

2x USB 2.0 (480Mbps)

10/100 Ethernet

Intel 802.11b/g wireless Ethernet using 2200BG chipset

V.92/V.90 Modem

Bluetooth 2.0+Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) transfer

Mini stereo headphone jack, Microphone jack

Intel integrated audio chipset

Built in stereo speakers

Memory Stick (MS) slot (Standard/Duo, MagicGate, MS PRO, SD and MMC)

1x Type I / II cardbus support

82Key keyboard and Intelligent touchpad

Single lithium ion battery with up to 8.5 hours of use.

Sony Port Replicator connector

Windows XP Professional

Dimensions (WxHxD mm) 272.4 x 21-28.5 x 195.1