VAIO® R Series High Performance, Cool Running. VGC-RA710G Liquid Cooled. Double Layer DVD cre- Television at your The Advantage in the Desktop Just Plain Cool ation - You’re a Pro now Fingertips Solutions The Sony VAIO® R Series exem- Higher specs and demanding Featuring advanced DVD+R Take control of your television The Sony VAIO® R Series plifies cutting edge design and applications mean hotter run- Double Layer 8.5GB record- with the personal video delivers the high quality superior performance. A sleek ning temperatures - but ing capacity. With the ability recorder functionality pow- video, music, and digital black chassis with a revolutionary ® Sony’s advanced liquid cool- to store up to 4 hours of high ered by Sony Giga Pocket™ imaging solutions you liquid heat pipe cooling system. ing system handles heat with quality MPEG-2 video com- Engine TV Tuner / MPEG2 demand. Create your own Spectacular acoustic presence ® professional quality . ease. A unique liquid flow bined with VAIO’s Click to encoder and ® and breakneck performance. heat pipe draws heat away Master your own audio DVD™ creation software, Windows® XP Media Center Topped off with loads of expan- from the processor with a side you become the pro. Edition 2004. Watch, record, recordings or remaster older sion headroom to take your benefit of eliminating a noisy Borrowing technology from burn to DVD - you have the tapes or records. Watch & VAIO® PC experience wherever CPU fan. Air intake from mid- Sony’s professional systems, power. record television on your dle section maximizes air flow the best tools of the trade are schedule. your passion leads you. while minimizing noise. in your hands.

Model Audio PRE-INSTALLED SOFTWARE SERVICE AND WARRANTY Computer Interface: The computer industry lacks stan- dards, and therefore, there are a multitude of varying VGC-RA710G Integrated AC’97 Sony Original Software INFORMATION software packages and add-on hardware options. This Ethernet Click to DVD™ - DVD Creation is not manufactured to any specific HARDWARE Service software, and Sony does not and cannot make any war- 10Base-T/100Base-TX Fast Ethernet SonicStage™ Mastering Studio - Audio ranty or representation with respect to the performance One Year Limited Express Repair of this product with any particular software packages Processor (RJ-45) Mastering & Remastering Service and/or non-Sony add-on hardware option except those ® Pentium® 4 Processor 3.20E PictureGear Studio™ - Digital Photo mentioned in this document. Sony hereby disclaims any Modem Limited Warranty representations or warranty that this product is compat- GHz1 with Intel® Hyper-Threading ™ ible with any combination of non-Sony products you V.90 compatible data/fax modem DVgate Plus - Digital Video One Year Parts and Labor7 Technology SonicStage™ - Digital Music may choose to connect. While Sony representatives or Expansion Slots Telephone Support Sony authorized dealers may be able to assist you and Cache Memory VAIO Media™ - Network File Sharing may make recommendations, they are NOT authorized to One 8x AGP (occupied by Graphics Hardware: One Year vary or waive this disclaimer. Purchasers must deter- 1MB Integrated On-Die Level 2 Card) mine for themselves the suitability and compatibility of SOFTWARE Software and : the hardware and software in each and every particular Front Side Bus Speed Three PCI (none available) 90 Days instance. Some pre-installed software titles may not 800MHz Multi-Media Card Reader (Memory include full documentation. Software titles pre-installed Operating System On-line and Email Support on the Sony are subject to change Standard RAM Stick™, Compact Flash™ Type I and ® ® without notice. Simulated graphic shown on display. Media Center Free support available from 512MB PC-3200 400MHz DDR Type II, IBM Micro Drive™) ©2004 Sony Electronics Inc. All rights reserved. Edition 2004 http://www.sony.com/pcsupport ® ® Reproduction in whole or in part without (expandable to 2.0GB) Expansion Bays VAIO recommends Microsoft written permission is prohibited. Sony, i.LINK, VAIO Hard Drive Two 5.25” Half-Height (occupied) ® Digital Studio, SonicStage, , DVgate Plus, Windows XP 1. GHz denotes microprocessor inter- PictureGear Studio, Giga Pocket, VAIO Media, Click to 250GB2 7200 rpm Ultra ATA/100 Hard One External 3.5” (occupied) Other Software Applications nal clock speed; other factors may DVD, Like No Other, and VAIO are trademarks of Sony. ® ® Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Drive Two Internal 3.5” (one occupied) Adobe Premiere LE affect application performance. CPU Corporation. Microsoft, Windows and Outlook are trade- DVD+RW Double Layer / DVD±RW Port Connections ® ® speed will be reduced under certain marks of Microsoft Corporation. Realone is a trademark Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 of RealNetworks, Inc. All other trademarks are trade- 5 ® ® operating conditions. Drive Seven USB 2.0 (three front/four rear) Microsoft Works 7.0 - marks of their respective owners. This product meets the ® 2. GB means one billion bytes when 5 Two PS/2 (Mouse/Keyboard) standards of the International Energy Star Program for Double Layer Word Processing, Spreadsheet, referring to hard drive capacity. energy efficiency. Features and specifications are sub- +R One VGA/DVI Monitor Port / TV-Out Calendar, Scheduling, Contact ject to change without notice. Weights and measure- Accessible capacity may vary. A por- ments are approximate. (2.4 max. +R write) Port Management, and Database tion of hard disk space is reserved as DVD±RW5 One S/PDIF Out / One Parallel Port / Microsoft® Office® 2003 60-Day a recovery partition. Printed in U.S.A. 7/04 -RW One Line In Student/Teacher Edition Trial 3. New users only. Terms and condi- (8X max. -R write / 4X max. -RW rewrite / One 6pin i.LINK Port (rear)/ One 4pin Intuit Quicken® 2004 New User Edition tions apply. ® 4. Limited duration trial edition. 8X max. -R/-RW read) (front) InterVideo WinDVD® ® 4 5. DVD Media/Formats are not uni- +RW One Headphone / One Microphone MoodLogic 2.7 Trial versally compatible. (8X max. +R write / 4X max. +RW rewrite / S-Video: Two Inputs (front and rear) Anti-Virus & Recovery Software 6. i.LINK is a trademark of Sony used 8X max. +R/+RW read) / Audio Inputs Norton® Internet Security™ 90 Day only to designate that a product con- CD-RW (front and rear) Subscription4 tains an IEEE 1394 connector. All (40X max. -R write / 24X max. rewrite / Coaxial Input (VHF/UHF) VAIO® Recovery Wizard products with an i.LINK connector ® may not communicate with each other. 40X max. -R read / 32X max. -RW read) Supplied Accessories VAIO Support Agent Speakers (Stereo) w/Subwoofer 7. Certain restrictions apply. For a copy DVD-ROM Drive Online Center of Sony’s warranty, please visit 16X max. DVD-ROM Read / 40X max. IR Remote Control and Receiver / IR America Online® 90 Day Trial3 www.sony.com/pcsupport, call toll- CD-ROM read Blaster free 888-476-6972 (888-4SONYPC), Floppy Disk Drive VAIO® Keyboard / PS/2® Optical or write to Sony Electronics, 12451 3.5” 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive Mouse Gateway Boulevard, Fort Myers, FL Video & Graphics Power Requirements 33913. ® 8. Type of repair service provided is i.LINK NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 w/TV-Out 364.7 watts max. / 100-120V ~4.7A solely at Sony’s discretion. Not all (IEEE 1394) 128MB Video Memory (128-bit DDR) (50/60Hz) types of repair service offered on all TV-Out / VGA-Out / DVI-Out (DVI Power Management models. output: 1280x1024x60Hz max.) ACPI 1.0 Compliant Sony recommends ® ® 8X AGP 3D Graphics Hardware Dimensions (CPU) Microsoft Windows Acceleration 7.4”(W) x 15.6”(H) x 15.3”(D) XP Professional Giga Pocket™ MPEG2 Realtime Weight (CPU) Encoder/Decoder board with TV 34.172 lbs. Sony Electronics Inc. Tuner For more information: 1.800.4SONYPC (476-6972) Web address: http://www.sony.com/vaio