Sony’s newest model range in the school of Vaio is the NS, a 15.4″ skinny thing with Blu-Ray, 4 gigs of RAM and a “textured exterior” for your salad fingers. It’s also accompanied by the CS, a similar machine with a 14.4″ widescreen display and a 5.7lb weigh-in.

These machines have Intel Core 2 Duo processors, “ample storage,” and — as has been Sony’s thing of late — a reasonable price tag: a basic, no-frills NS will cost only $650. Vaio NS comes in blue, white and silver, while the CS comes in colors so strangely-named I can’t even discern what they really are: “Sangria, cosmopolitan, and dove.” It sounds like the weirdest legal practice this side of the Rockies.

The CS will start at $920, with BD models starting at $1,070.

“Style and function to fashionable consumers,” is the pitch, but at just a grand for a Blu-Ray laptop, frequent flyers of a staider sort might be the real market here.

Sony Vaio NS notebook with Blu-ray: [via] - [source]