Sony Vaio FW-Series 16.4-inch Notebook

By Nick Mokey
July 22nd, 2008

Just when you thought manufacturers had finished carving out enough different laptop screen sizes, someone has to go and scribble another odd one onto the scale. Acer did it earlier this year with an 18.4-inch behemoth that created its own size class, and now Sony has done the same with its very own 16.4-inch laptop, which it claims is the first of its kind as well.

Spanning the gap between 15.4-inch notebooks and 17-inch desktop replacements, Sony’s new FW-series notebooks will take advantage of a new screen size, but not just to add another shade of grey between big and small. The FW will actually adopt an unusual wide-screen 16:9 aspect ratio, a number that will be familiar to multimedia hounds as Hollywood’s magic number for Blu-ray releases and HDTV.

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Although widescreen has pretty much become the de facto standard ...

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