Photos: Sony's Vaio RM1N quad-core video-editing monster

By Rory Reid on 20 July 2007, 12:36pm

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Most people think two heads are better than one. Not Sony -- it reckons you need at least four. That's why it's sent us the Vaio 'R Master' RM1N quad-core desktop.

It's one of the first consumer desktop PCs to use an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU clocked at 2.4GHz. In other words, it's fast -- very fast. It offers 2GB of RAM, an Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS graphics card and 1TB of hard disk space.

The most bizarre thing about the RM1N, however, is that it comes in so many different bits. There's the main base unit, a separate Access Unit housing the hard and optical drives (separate Blu-ray drive and DVD rewriters) as well as the mouse, keyboard and speakers, and a separate jog controller for cycling through video.

Obviously this thing's designed for high-definition video editing. We let our own video monkeys have a go on it and they virtually drooled over the thing. Not once did they mention the Apple Mac Pro, which is pretty remarkable.

The R Master ships with Adobe Premier Pro 2, WinDVD BD For Vaio, Windows Vista Business. It'll set you back a fair wodge of course -- from £2,500 when it's released in August. You can check out more pics by clicking the 'Next Photo' link below. -Rory Reid

Update: A full review of the Sony Vaio VGC-RM1N is now live.