Tuesday, July 26, 2016

VAIO's new 'fashionable' laptops have pretty colors, low specs, and high prices

The resurrected VAIO has gone for the premium and businessy ends of the market with most of its laptops so far, but the company's latest announcement targets different customers altogether — albeit customers that still have quite a lot of money to spend. The C15 series' main selling point is its striking range of colorways, including white/copper, navy/grey, yellow/black, and orange/khaki options; VAIO describes it as a "fashionable PC."

You'll have to really want an orange and khaki laptop for the C15 to be worth its asking price, though. The regular model has a 15.5-inch 1366 x 768 display — on a 2016 VAIO laptop, yes — along with 4GB of RAM and an Intel Celeron 3215U processor. At 66,800 yen (about $641) for specs like that, you're...

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