HDTV Television

Sony has announced a new line of AR series laptops on offer, with options for Blu-ray and CableCard in the mix. The main differences: The $1,700 AR630E sports the Blu-ray drive alone, the $2,400 AR660U does the CablecCard thing, and the $3,300 AR690U does both. The VAIO AR600 laptops equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 and T7500 processors and Vista Home or Ultimate. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel webcam, 1440 x 900 or 1920 x 1200 17-inch display, 8400M GT and 8600M GT NVIDIA graphics, dual 160GB SATA HDDs and HDMI out. All three models will arrive to sellers in October.