Just off the heels of CES, Sony throws in another little surprise announcement.. new CPU options and enhancements plus new color options on various laptops. The Sony Store team is also giving away a free gift with purchase of a C series laptop in celebration of some new designs. Details are below and here are some of the highlights of the new announcement.

Let’s first start with the Z series. Rounding into spring is a new Carbon Fiber Silver option has been added along with an optional LTE mobile broadband built-in, supporting 4G data service. The Z series also received the latest 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors ranging from the Intel Core™ i5 and up to the Core™ i7 with Turbo Boost speeds of up to 3.50GHz  and RAID 0 solid state drives. Now technically we’re calling this a “refresh” however with spec changes like this, one could consider this a healthy upgrade from the already massively spec’d out power house of the VAIO line. Starting prices are $1949.99 and that includes the Power Media Dock ™ drive.

Also getting a spiffy new refresh is the S series. It now boasting the newest generation of Intel® Core™ processors. Both the 13” and 15” models include this update with up to Core i7.  The S Series includes Hybrid Graphics with either an AMD Radeon™ HD 6470M (512MB VRAM) or AMD Radeon HD 6630M (1GB VRAM). The 15” will come standard with a 15.5” Full HD display (1920 x 1080) with IPS technology for improved image quality and viewing angles. The 13” S Serieswill start at $799.99. The 15” S Series will start at $979.99 and includes the Full HD display and Intel Core i5 processor. Both 13” and 15” models will be available starting early February. Now both the Z series and S series have the extended sheet battery worth checking out. The E series is also getting the CPU upgrade to the latest 2nd generation Intel Core processors.

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