Sony Vaio XL3 media PC announced, boasts Blu-ray burner

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.

[L. M. Lloyd @ Jan 7th 2007 10:49PM]

Half a terabyte is so-so? I'm sorry, I just don't see why you would complain about half a terabyte of storage. If you need terabytes of storage, why wouldn't you be running a seperate storage server to begin with?

[ic @ Jan 8th 2007 11:23AM]

i agree with lloyd, 500gb i good enough and networked storage (maybe a Windows home server would compliment this perfectly)... not to mention the things has a blu-ray burner, wish it had a stronger video card, but i guess that'll come in an update or a new PS3 that's mediacentric-the one Ken Kutaragi mentioned recently.

[Andy @ Jan 8th 2007 5:17PM]

Has Sony abandonded 4-pin iLink connections for 6-pin Firewire? Could Firewire 800 be waiting in the wings?

[Old-School-Biatch @ Apr 18th 2007 5:47AM]

No Floppy Drive :(

[Ismael @ May 12th 2007 1:08PM]

Haha sorry mate floppy's days are over :P its all HD now.. god i bet in the few years to come even CD-R will die out slowly..