SONY plans to launch the world's lightest notebook computer in December

According to foreign media reports, Japan's Sony Corp in the local time this Wednesday said in a statement, the company plans to begin in December this year for the Japanese market the world's lightest notebook computer products, and hopes to attract more business users.

SONY said the same day, the company's VAIO G series laptop weighs only 898 grams, equipped with a 12.1 inch LCD screen, so it will become the world's lightest notebook computer products.

At the same time, SONY senior vice president Yoshihisa Ishida predicts that the recent SONY problem battery recall will have very limited impact on the company's personal computer business. Prior to this, including DELL and Apple's top PC manufacturers announced the recall of 9 million 600 thousand SONY battery problems in the global scope, which led to the industry generally worried that the battery replacement is likely to affect the battery supply capacity of SONY.

In addition, SONY also revealed that the day, the simple version of the VAIO G series laptop does not contain CD-ROM, battery life up to 12.5 hours, the price of about $220 thousand ($1881). Nevertheless, SONY does not plan to launch G series products in overseas markets.

SONY did not disclose the new machine sales target, but said the company plans to 2010 March, from the enterprise user's personal computer business revenue will account for the overall PC revenues of 30%, this proportion is still less than 10%. At the same time, SONY did not disclose any personal computer business revenue and profit data, but the company plans to sell 4 million 200 thousand VAIO computers in March next year.