The Sony VAIO AR series was a range of high-end multimedia notebook computers from Sony introduced in June 2006 as the first laptop with integrated Blu-ray drive (top model, costing $3,499 at launch - double the base model).
Launch specs were Intel Core Duo T2300, T2400 or T2500 CPUs running at 1.66, 1.86 or 2 GHz, Nvidia GeForce Go 7400 64MB, 7600 128MB, or 7600GT 256MB, with 160GB or RAID0 100Gb hard drives and 1GB of RAM.
Later models incorporated Intel’s newer Core 2 Duo series alongside Nvidia’s GeForce 8xxx graphics cards, with Windows Vista replacing Windows XP Media Center Edition, and the RAM size was increased to 2GB.
Included in some models is also a movie pack, which consists of four predesignated feature films saved on the harddrive.
[1] Processors: Operating Systems: Memory: Hard Drives: Optical Disk Drives: Displays Graphics Cards Networking In addition, a Sony VAIO AR has an optional ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner and an optional extended battery.