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    Sony website leaks new VAIO SA/SB/SC/CA/CB series

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by eddieaus, Feb 15, 2011.

  1. eddieaus

    eddieaus Notebook Consultant

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    VAIO new series SA/SB/SC/CA/CB are coming soon. Sony website accessories page accidentally leaked these new series. As we can see SA/SB/SC are using the same keyboard size, but CA and CB are different. CA has been confirmed it is a 14" laptop. CB has number pad, same size as EB and EC, which means it could be a 15.5" or even 17". There are also 5 different color keyboard skins for CA and CB, indicates 5 different colors of CA and CB.
     

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    Good find, rep added!
     
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    eddieaus Notebook Consultant

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    Docking station for SA/SB/SC. this is getting more and more interesting :)
     

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    What on earth is "pokerman"? A Pokemon model?
    :confused2:
     
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    those are for NW, FW and Y series.
     
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    SC, why on earth does sony need so many models, next thing there will be FA, FB, FC, FD, FE, FF, etc.

    I wonder if the netbooks will be updated as well
     
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    Dammit saw the keyboard skins like 3 days ago. Missed out on my first rep :(

    On the docking station's features tab it even mentions compatibility with the sheet battery that was being shown at CES 2011, thanks to the proprietary port itself rising out of the dock surface.

    Good to see the black and white CA/CB models don't look too bad (compared to their fluorescent green-coloured counterparts), though that pattern reminds me of HP's laptops of late.

    Also, batteries for CA/CB have popped up on the same site. CA/CB and SA (and presumably SB) will use the same AC stick adapter as the current Z and SR series models. No images for the batteries yet, though.

    @ascariss - god knows, they may even start making models with Japanese or Cyrillic characters when they run out of Latin letters (which will be quite soon by the looks of it).
     

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    CA/CB replaces EA/EB; SB is direct replacement of S, SA is the high-end S CTO replacement and temporary Z replacement, so it's really not that many models. I am not sure about SC since so far it just looks like another name for SC. :confused:

    And honestly, Sony has been doing this kind of naming for quite a while, with several names already repeated, for example: PCG-Z505/PCG-Z1/VGN-Z/VPC-Z...
     
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