Black and brown and white, oh my! Today Sony unveiled the Vaio N Series notebooks, which will ship in October, in your choice of Wenge brown (left), black, or white. Taking a page out of Apple’s how-to guide for selling notebooks, Sony is aiming for your design eye and personality instead of emphasizing raw power. Sony believes the color options will “reflect different lifestyles and home decors.” That’s right everyone, better throw away that ugly furniture you've had since college! Your laptop will put it to shame.

Although Sony wanted to make me think it was all about the colors (shiny, I like shiny), they did release a (very) few specs: These machines will have an Intel Core Duo processor on the higher end models, wireless a/b/g and a 15.4-inch screen, two USB ports, and a DVD-RW drive. Yep, that’s it. Makes you wonder if the N Series will be more about pretty colors than dazzling performance, doesn’t it?  And with the oh-so-July Core Duo processor, you might want to pass when these beauties ships early next month for $1,000.

Post by Don Reisinger.