Sony Corporation, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate with US$86.64 billion (FY2011)[clarification needed]. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, products for the consumer and professional markets.
Sony offers a line up laptops branded as VAIO. Previously Sony has disabled hardware virtualization on their high end VAIO laptops, citing concern for users running malicious code. However, most new VAIO laptops can utilize virtualization.
