The Sony VAIO Z Series is made to move. Encased in strong, multi-layered carbon fiber, it’s designed to help endure the bumps and knocks of daily use and travel. With its scratch-resistant LCD panel, durable solid state drive and a seamless aluminum keyboard panel, the Sony VAIO Z Series serves up premium luxury while delivering serious protection.

Exclusive to the Sony VAIO Z Series, the revolutionary Dynamic Hybrid Graphics System lets you easily set your graphics performance to deliver power when you need it and battery life savings when you don’t. You can even select your performance level on the fly without rebooting using the unique 3-position switch. Changing from internal graphics to NVIDIA GeForce Graphics with 1GB VRAM is unbelievably easy—or just leave it in Auto mode and the Z will choose the best option for you.

Sony VAIO Z Series is comes with the Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processors, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M dedicated and Intel HD integrated GPU, 13.1-inch LED backlight display with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, up to up to 512GB of solid state drive storage capacity, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, a DVD burner or Blu-Ray combo drive, and a battery life of up to 6.5 hours with the standard battery, and Windows 7 operating system.

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Designed for Professional and Business users, the LifeBook S710 Laptop blends the performance and reliability of the latest Intel Core i5-520M, or Intel Core i7-620M Processor in a thin and light laptop for fast multi-tasking and digital media creation while reducing cost of ownership. The new LifeBook S710 Laptop offers reliability features and extended battery life.

The LifeBook S710 comes with the Intel Core i5 or i7 processor, a 14-inch HD display with 1366×768 resolution, Intel HD integrated graphics, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, up to 500GB hard drive, a DVD burner, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 6-cell battery, Windows 7 or Windows Vista OS.

The ThinkPad X201 12-inch ultraportable laptop is powered by Intel Core i7-620M at 2.66GHz or Core i7-640LM at 2.13GHz processor, a 4GB DDR3 memory, a 320GB hard drive, a 2MP webcam, a DVD burner, a fingerprint reader, stereo speakers, WiFi, Bluetooth and Windows 7 OS.

No word on pricing and release date.

The Dell Alienware M17x gaming laptop offers a 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7-620M processor, 17-inch widescreen TFT LCD display with 1440 x 900 resolution, 4GB DDR3 of memory, 250GB of HDD storage, an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870 1GB graphics, a DVD Burner, Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit OS. Starting Price $1,949.