Vaio, a former Sony laptop brands, will return to overseas markets this autumn by selling devices running Windows 10 in the United States and Brazil."Tool Premium Canvas Vaio Z will be sold through Microsoft's stores in the US beginning in October," the statement Vaio, the company that now makes the PC, Wednesday, August 19, 2015.
Canvas Vaio Z is a Windows slate which will be priced at US $ 2,199. The company did not release details about its specifications, but the version sold in Japan has an Intel Core i7-4770HQ and 12.3-inch screens, and keyboards that can be removed.
Vaio said Z Canvas will be targeted to those who work on the creative content industries as well as other users. This slate will be against models like the Microsoft Surface Pro tablet 3, which has the lowest price is much cheaper, US $ 799, at the Microsoft store.
Vaio added, sales in Brazil will be conducted in partnership with the manufacturer Positivo Informatica, which will make their own PC. In detail, said Vaio, will be released in September.
Sony stated goodbye to its PC business last year, selling Vaio to investment funds based in Tokyo, Japan Industrial Partners. Since it was founded in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, in July 2014, the Vaio focusing on domestic sales and build the image associated with Japanese-made products are of high quality.
Sony introduces Vaio in 1996 and won praise for slim designs. The first is the PC Vaio PCV-90, which uses Windows 95 with a 200MHz Pentium processor. Vaio notebook first appeared in 1997.
Brand was overshadowed many rivals, and by the end of 2013, sales of Sony PCs fell to 1.9 percent of PC shipments worldwide. According to IDC, in the ninth, Sony sent 1.5 million units during the third quarter of 2013, down from 2 million a year earlier.
Vaio will return to overseas markets while PC sales decline. According to IDC, worldwide PC shipments declined by about 12 percent in the second quarter 2015 from the previous year. Shipments in the US fell 3.3 percent.
