Sony unveils Blu-ray notebook PC
Sony Corp. said on Tuesday it would offer the world's first notebook PC equipped with a next-generation Blu-ray optical disk drive in Japan in June, a month behind Toshiba Corp.'s launch last week of laptop PCs with a rival drive.
Sony also said it would unveil in June a handheld PC that uses NAND flash memory instead of a hard disk drive as its storage, in a potential boost to NAND flash makers such as Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Toshiba.
The Japanese electronics and entertainment conglomerate expects its Vaio notebook PC with a Blu-ray drive to retail for about 400,000 yen ($3,600), in line with the price tag for Toshiba's competing notebook PCs, which are equipped with an HD DVD drive.
