Sony Vaio XL3 media PC announced, boasts Blu-ray burner
by Cyrus Farivar 
posted Jan 7th 2007 at 9:04PM
This evening, Sony launched an update the Vaio XL2, predictably named the XL3. As we told you earlier, this newcomer has a Blu-ray burner, NTSC and ATSC tuners (with CableCARD support), four flash card slots, four USB ports, two FireWire ports, and Ethernet, plus HDMI, component and S-Video jacks. But what about the true belly of the beast? How about an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GTL graphics card, 2GB of RAM and a so-so 500GB hard drive -- definitely a solid foundation. Oh, and did we mention that there's liquid cooling embedded inside this little bundle of joy? Intrigued? You've got until March to gather up $3,300. Check out the next page for a shot of the rear ports.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
isagani @ Jan 7th 2007 9:18PM
looks like steps toward that "media-centric" PS3 Kutaragi was talking about... at 3300 i would have expected a Cell, blu-ray, and the RSX - guess maybe next years CES
Ken @ Jan 8th 2007 1:18AM
Cool - the HDMI slot looks like its in a removable slot - so if there is a need to update, it will be there.
Is Sony finally learning!?
Dave @ Jan 8th 2007 3:23AM
Hehehe!!! Awesome!
Mansa Smith @ Jan 8th 2007 11:12PM
The HDMI slot is actually the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GTL PCI-E graphics card
Siddiqui247 @ Jan 12th 2007 1:24AM
Why on earth are they leaving out the little things?!?! i.e. WiFi!!
No Wifi? Bad XL3!
Also, d'you think its possible to add another hard drive? That would be cool cuz 500 GB is not enough for HD content.