An Entertainment Powerhouse? Sony's New Vaio FZ Range

A new X-black LCD screen, achieving 90% colour fidelity, is just one of the new features gracing Sony's Vaio FZ range of laptops.

The Vaio VGN-FZ11Z, pictured below, has a Blu-ray optical drive, allowing for full viewing capabilities of Blu-ray disks, together with HD hardware decoding and an HDMI output all factored into this entertainment powerhouse, which finds NVIDIA's GeForce 8400M GT mobile graphics processing unit (GPU) at the helm.

The 15.4" display features 'BRAVIA' backlight technologies that are responsible for the enablement of vivid colour reproduction, capturing vivid hues of life, with remarkable precision, state Sony.

Intel Core 2 Duo system processing technology, in the form of the T7300 processor, is teamed up with 2GB DDR2 RAM and storage coming courtesy of a 200GB hard drive. Sony have integrated a webcam into the bezel, tying this in with a suite of AV buttons, allowing for convenient play control, whether watching video content or listening to music.

The Blu-ray optical drive already mentioned, also has full recording functionality, allowing for up to 50GB of storage capacity per disk. Perhaps more exciting however, is the possibilities included for editing Full HD video and playing the results in 1080p Full HD, just more of the functionality touted by Sony, who claim, that the FZ-series has what it takes to become a personal HD video editing suite, especially considering that the Blu-ray format is ideal for storing HD video content.

Windows Vista Home Premium is the operating system of choice here, whilst the system itself weighs 2.7KG. The chassis is constructed of a magnesium alloy which, according to Sony, conceals real strength behind good looks.