VAIO returns to the US next week with this high-end transforming tablet

VAIO has been absent from the US for the past year and a half, ever since Sony sold off the nearly two-decade old PC division. Now, it's ready to return. On Monday, it'll reenter the high-end PC market with a convertible tablet called the VAIO Z Canvas. It's a Windows 10 machine that VAIO hopes will be perfect for all kinds of artists, from illustrators and animators to photographers and video editors. VAIO isn't shy about saying that it's targeting Apple here — it wants people who are willing to spend a lot on a nice machine but just happen to want one running Windows.

But while it calls out Apple as a target, the Z Canvas may be most recognizable as a Surface Pro competitor: it is, after all, a high-end laptop with a kickstand,...

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