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New Sony VAIO Laptop w/ 16.1" Screen
calc writes "Sony Japan has announced a new VAIO laptop that comes with a DVD-R/RW CD-R/RW drive along with a Radeon 7500 Mobility and 16.1" UXGA LCD." The spacebar on my thinkpad has been
dying... maybe its time for a change. Sony? You listening? *grin*
The new VAIO is about equal in size to most desktop computers.
Reduced to posting advertisements now?
*Still* negative function...
I could sure use a new thinkpad. CdrTaco? Are you listening ;)?
But when thinking about the Radeon 7500 included (yeah sure, mobile version means quake3 at 40 FPS, but hey, it's still quake), I'm lent to believe that they're merely continuing their push to make laptops entertainment centers. To do this they must, of course, blur the line between laptop and desktop but let us remember that it's entertainment, not power, which the Vaio laptop series professes is their strong point. I can't be the only one that remembers the man going to the airport and dropping his television, stereo, etc onto the x-ray conveyor belt and picking up a Vaio on the other side. Of course, these days we wouldn't have any of that. The man would be detained and held for questioning until the point at which the FBI arrived to verify that the electronic devices weren't full of C-4, or perhaps a butter-knives.
Wow.
/. would know better by now. Sony is NOT your friend. Sony is a member of both the RIAA and the MPAA and would like nothing better than to control everything you put into your machine.
You'd think
There are so many other companies that make laptops. Vaios are cute and kawaii but then again so is the Fujitsu Lifebook. And Fujitsu belongs to neither the RIAA or MPAA. Plus you can get a spiffomundo Crusoe chip in the thing, so you can say that you've got Linus Inside! How cool is that?
"The RIAA and the MPAA are a bad, evil corporate conspiracy...OOOH! Shiny objects! I want!!!"
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Oh yeah, I wanna run 1600x1200 on my 14' LCD.....
Let me just bust out my telescope so I read slashdot....
I was really getting tired of lugging around this 17" CRT with me everywhere I went.
GeneralKael -- Slacker Extraordinaire
Use it on the kitchen table, use it on the coffee table, put it on my lap when i'm in bed, etc etc. One self contained little unit that folds in half to close and to move it all i need to do is plug it in.
Taken out of context, that quotation sounds almost pornographic.
These things are starting to stretch the definition of "laptop."
In another year or so we'll probably see models with four fold-down legs like a card table, because they'll be so big and heavy people will injure themselves if they try to just perch one on their lap.
Here's a sneak peak at the 2003 VAIO "portable" line: Item 1, Item 2
~Philly
Cold rock
Runs at 000mgz
No RAM,
No HD
Cannot run anything
IT does, however, fly through the air (when thrown) and crack open skulls
I'd like to seee you try THAT with a Sony laptop...
I use a 1930s hollerith punch card tabulator running red hat Linux 5.4. Not only do I use it for all y computing needs, it also doubles as a workout center. Being hand cranked it not only needs no electricity, but once you get through the boot sequence you can save the state of the machine by simply running the deck through a punch card duplicator. I'm having a few difficulties getting the TCP/IP stack to work, I keep hitting timeouts and dropping connections. So not only do I win the 'my computer hardware is more primitive than yours pissing contenst' I hereby demand that under rule 43 the other contestants prostrate themselves before me.
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We're not bycotting the _evil_ sony anymore? Ha.
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