Ultraportable Sony VAIO TT Revealed

Sony’s VAIO TT is a recently released line of 11-inch laptops, as successors to the TZ line. Not netbooks mind you, as this new model, starting at $2,000, really does feature full functionality in a portable package. According to Crave:

Sony says the new system has a lightweight carbon-fiber chassis that weighs about 2.87 pounds and measures less than one inch thick. Unlike netbooks, the Vaio TT (and other ultraportables such as the Toshiba R500) has room for an optical drive, and there’s even a Blu-ray option. Yes, that seems rather pointless, but at least there’s an HDMI output for sending the Blu-ray signal to a larger display. Solid state hard drives are also available, including dual 128GB drives (making for a sizable 256GB of SSD storage).

The basic Vaio TT runs about $2,000, while the Blu-ray version is $2,700. A version with a single 128GB SSD drive will cost $2,750. The system is available for order starting today, and should ship to retail stores sometime later this fall.

So in the ultraportable world, it’s obviously a matter of paying for what you want.