subject: Sony Budget-friendly, Stylish Probook [print this page] Today, Sony unveiled a new line of notebooks for small laptop battery business users, starting at a recession-friendly $529. The ProBook has a stylish look (when"s the last time you saw a red business notebook?), comes in 15- and 17-inch screen sizes, and boasts many of the security features offered in the premium EliteBook series (oddly, a fingerprint reader isn"t one of them).
How good is the performance and design? Check out our sony laptop battery full review of the ProBook 4510s, which offers a 15.6-inch display, full size keyboard and numberpad, a 2.1-GHZ Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, 250GB hard drive, and DVD burner for $699.
Read on for more details.
15.6-inch
The 4510s (Intel) and the 4515s (AMD, pictured at right) have 15.6-inch, LED-backlit, 16:9 displays, and are available with a Blu-ray-ROM sony VGP-BPS8 battery drive. However, the 15.6-inch models do not have a Bluetooth option and instead are available with mobile broadband.
They are available with either integrated Intel graphics or discrete ATI graphics. The 15.6-inch models, like the 17-inch ones, have a full number pad on the keyboard. These will be available in Merlot and black.
17-inch
The 17-inch version, the 4710s, is only available with Intel processors and discrete ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 graphics with 512MB dedicated VGP-BPS8 battery memory. It has a full number pad, as noted above, HDMI output, and a Bluetooth option. It is only available in black.
Availability
Availability for these sony VGP-BPS8B battery notebooks will vary by region. Sony has said, however, that the Merlot color option will become available in June.
