Sony has a nice new line of upgraded AR series laptops on offer, with options for Blu-ray and Cable-Card in the mix. The main differences are pretty straightforward: The $1,700 usd AR630E sports the Blu-ray drive alone, the $2,400 usd AR660U does the Cable-Card thing, and the $3,300 usd AR690U does both. The laptops run Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 and T7500 processors and Vista Home or Ultimate ~ the AR630E gets the short end of the stick in both cases. Other standard features include a 1.3 megapixel webcamera, 1440 x 900 or 1920 x 1200 17″ display, 8400M GT and 8600M GT NVIDIA graphics, dual 160GB SATA Hard-drive and HDMI out. All three models should be out around the 2nd of October.