Vizio Inc., which shook up the market with inexpensive high-definition televisions, now wants to become a computer manufacturer.
The Irvine, Calif., company, which ranks as one of the top sellers of televisions in the U.S., plans to show a line of thin laptop computers and all-in-one desktop PCs running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Vizio's jumping from the living room to the home office, expanding from its established base in flat-panel televisions into the world of desktop and portablecomputing. According to Vizio CTO Matt McRae, speaking to Bloomberg, the company plans to unleash two brand-new desktop PCs and three notebooks at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.