We haven't heard much about Sony's ultra slim VAIO Z in months, but when we have, we've always been left with more interrogate than answers. We've seen its specs (but not sightly face) splashed on various italian websites, while Sony, for its part, has only made the coy promise that its newly redesigned S series thin-and-lights are not meant to replace the more premium Z line. Lo and behold, we're now seeing photos of what purports to be the next-gen Z series and, as always, we're left wanting more. In these pics, you've supposedly got the Z -- consistently with a black lid, habitually gold -- sitting next to an ostensible dock housing what appears to be an optical drive. If you drop in on the gossip circles in NotebookReview's forum, you'll read some belief that there's an ostensible GPU baked in there, too -- a compelling idea, though even "Eddie," the guy who leaked these photos, doesn't seem in toto assured as to what that peripheral literally does. Given that the Z series has been MIA from Sony's site for months now, we hope the company gets a move on and outs this thing -- if this is, indeed, what it is. Until then, amuse yourselves with photos and crowd-sourced specs at the source links.

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