SlashGear JPSony have announced a new range of projectors intended to bring the company’s BrightEra 3 LCD technology down to a more affordable price point. The three models – the VPL-EW5, EX50 and EX5 – are primarily aimed at business applications, although the VPL-EW5 is also being positioned as suitable for home cinema since it is 1,280 x 800 WXGA resolution. BrightEra 3 has previously been available in Sony’s installation projectors, and boasts high picture quality and brightness together with AV-light resistance.
The Dell Vostro line of notebooks and desktops were targeted at small business users, as such they’ve collected the feedback from some of their Vostro customers and made some changes. First they thinned up all of the models, it was at the cost of a bit of ruggedness, but now the notebooks are a lot thinner.
The actual price would be somewhere between 1 and 1.3 billion dollars, but that’s still a lot of coin. Both companies are suffering, and both companies could probably use the boost that this would offer to each of them so it’s a wonder why Circuit City has been sitting on its hands with this offer since February 17th.
This may already be a non-issue as their site is already down, however the company was apparently cranking out computers with 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 250GB HDDs, 2GB of RAM, a DVD burner, and Mac OS X Leopard. For some extra money you could have reportedly gotten FireWire and an NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT added to that list.
