Sony Vaio GT3/K: You Spilled Your Laptop on my Camcorder

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @02:55PM from the you-spilled-camcorder-on-my-laptop dept.

Anonymous Howard writes "This article talks about Sony's new, limited production Vaio GT3/K. It's a mixture of laptop and full fledged camcorder that uses the Transmeta 600mhz Crusuoe chip. Weighing in at 2.4 lbs, this hybrid has an amazing battery life of up to 17 hours, 30 GB drive, ATI Rage Mobility-M1 and 128 MB of RAM, and a swiveling screen. This is definately a very unique device, one that completely blows away Sony's previous attempts of the laptop/video combination machines, mainly due the fact that the video camera is not a wimpy little video lense, but an actual full fledged digital camcorder."

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Um, why? by I+Am+The+Owl · 2003-04-30 15:03 · Score: 4, Insightful

So, instead of a decent laptop and a decent camera, I can get a combination that does both poorly and probably costs only slightly less. Wow, what a gain.
Thanks, but I'll stick with Firewire and my Canon GL2

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I'll pass by YrWrstNtmr · 2003-04-30 15:20 · Score: 4, Insightful

Little laptop with a swivel screen? OK! (think car PC)

Reasonable quality digital camcorder? kewl!

Trying to stabilise the camera with the added, needless weight of a laptop? No thanks.
A camera that has to be upgraded when the laptop is passe'? No thanks
Sending my laptop back when the camera dies? No thanks
Or sending the camera back when my laptop HD dies? No thanks.