Sony Vaio TT Specs Leaked?

In an effort to dredge up some news while I’m spending quality time at home single-handedly putting children Kimberly-Clark executives through college by using Kleenex by the pound, something interesting did show up. While it’s been pretty slow lately, there’s been talk of the Sony getting into the netbook game (yay?) and the Sony Vaio TT. Well, I’m guessing this isn’t their entry into the netbook market, especially given what I can only imagine will be the price on the high-end model, but still, interesting nonetheless.

It may be more accurate to paint this as the successor to their TZ line, which is basically small and expensive. Going by those two points, this looks to be an 11″ (roughly) notebook that comes in at under 3 pounds while managing to pack a lot of power and options into its shell (and check it out — carbon fiber on the high end model).

Basically, since no one cares about the bottom of the line model, the high end features the afore-mentioned carbon fiber shell, a Blu-Ray reader/writer, 4 gigs of RAM, 1.4ghz Core 2 Duo (same as the MacBook Air chip?), a solid state RAID (eep!), and a variety of other little things here and there.

Well now, if it weren’t for two things, I’d say sign me up! One, of course, is the price. Can you imagine what this thing is going to run? Carbon fiber? Blu-Ray reader/write? Solid state RAID (2 x 125gb SSDs — ouch!)? All of this crammed into a tiny package? Holy $2000+, Batman. (Maybe even $3000+.)

Of course, my other big problem is that it’s also going to be running Vista. I have nothing against Vista — seriously, I defend it quite frequently. But, I admit it, I’m an Apple slut.

Being forced to use my old Gateway notebook this weekend while stuck in bed only served to reinforce how much more enjoyable I find OS X to use. And seeing as how I never reboot into Windows, even when I want to play some games that only run in Windows, well…sorry, Sony, but it’s still a really nice looking piece of kit. Besides, I know someone will have OS X running on it sooner rather than later.

In fairness, without prices, the low-end model may still “fit” in the netbook market and be completely viable, not to mention totally awesome because it’d have way more power than your run-of-the-mill netbook. We’ll see if Sony still intends to enter the netbook market and announce their (presumably Atom-based) clone.

For those of you looking for more info on the Sony Vaio TT, and presumably who have more money than I if you’re considering buying one, check out SonyInsider via Engadget.