Fans of Sony’s VAIO range of Windows laptops can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the VAIO brand has survived the breakup with Sony which happened earlier this year.

The VAIO Corporation, which was rolled out of Sony’s old PC division and into a new company with Japan Industrial Partners, now owns the VAIO brand and, as of today, began to use it on a new range of laptops that turned out to be not-so-new.

The two lines of notebooks – the VAIO Pro and the VAIO Fit –  will look immediately familiar as models directly from Sony’s range of notebooks without the Japanese company’s branding. In fact, the notebooks are still being sold through Sony’s online store in Japan.

The VAIO Pros offer the same Sony-made Triluminous, full HD, touch screen displays, Intel Haswell processors and solid state drives as their predecessors did which should make them just as good as the Sony versions of the notebooks. The VAIO Fit on the other hand will offer a range of processors and display options to cater to a more budget friendly audience.

The new VAIO notebooks will more than likely never make it to South Africa as the company has said that it will first focus on being successful in Japan before considering making a move into supplying the notebooks anywhere else in the world.

If you want to take a look at the notebooks in more detail you can head across to the VAIO website, just be prepared to encounter vast quantities of Japanese text.

[Via – Engadget, Image – VAIO]