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Intel Sonoma UK Launch Party
Benny writes "Intel held it's UK Sonoma lauch party last night and TrustedReviews have some pictures up of the machines on display including new models from HP, Dell, Samsung, Sony and Asus to mention a few."
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Does it run Linux?
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This time it is actually appropriate.
"But seriously, is that what laptops look like these days?"
Actually... That's what the UK looks like these days... and the rest of the world 10 years ago
Seriously, you geeks just won't be satisfied until all computers look just like seven of nine, geez.
Man, ought to have the party in Sonoma!
http://www.sonoma.com/
Is this just like the computer industry's equivalent to the auto industry's international car shows? Because this doesn't seem all that much like news to me, just a bunch of random laptops. Still pictures really don't show off processor capability, so what's the point? And couldn't they have wiped the fingerprints off of the screens of the ones at the bottom of page 2? Maybe it's just because I live in SEC country, but I first read it as Intel having a University of Kentucky Sonoma launch party, which made absolutely no sense.
I'd prefer bulky and capable of running most apps (see: games) over metrosexually slick any day. However, for much less than the cost of a powerbook, I could still pick up a slick and functional AMD64 laptop from such vendors as ibuypower.com, and have the best of all worlds (form, function, and cash to spare).
if "most apps" to you means "games", then I can safely conclude you are 12 and could afford none of the above anyway.
You obviously know nothing about the laptop market. There's many different kinds of laptop categories, ranging from ultraportables to desktop replacements. There is no "standard" size as laptops are concerned. It all depends on your needs.
They're not ALL bad.
If you go to the third page of photos, they have two shots of Samsung's entries (X25 and X50). I have the Gateway-branded version of an older model of these (X20, I believe), and I can tell you, it's pretty nice. Slim and light, bright screen, and with enough oomph to get the job done.
Of the models shown, the Samsungs take the cake.
This is all well and good, but fundamentally, what is the difference between Sonoma and older versions of the Centrino chipset? It seems to me that Sonoma hasn't had much of a buzz up to now, and all this article says about it is that it's a"new Centrino platform". If this is just more of the same, I'm not interested . . . but if there's a real difference, could someone point to what that might be?
And when our computers do look like 7 of 9... Many of us will likely be electrocuted.
Sonoma = California Wine Country
I guess it's a step up from the "Mad Dog" release of 2002. (Or the "Weasel Dust" release of 1999.)
1. take the basic case form from 1993, be it laptop or desktop
2. add many small pieces of another shade of grey plastic
3. add many buttons and ports in places that scream "well, the motherboard guys told us that it was *impossible* to put them anywhere else!"
4. complicate simple design features with additional plastic bezels and bezel-bezels.
5. Add LEDs to describe various pieces of information that are either unnecessary or made redundant by the OS.
6. add obligatory windows, intel and graphics card stickers in a conspicous place
7. poke speaker and vent holes everywhere, and call it a day.
Sonoma, soon to cause insomnia.
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
This is amazing. All these are products of different companies, bigger and smaller, from different countries and yet none of them really stands out from the crowd. Doesn't HP or Acer or anything have a design department? Or maybe it's a mindset of these companies that doesn't value the aesthetic perception?
Anyone else notice that NONE of these laptops had visible scroll wheels or 3rd mouse buttons? I consider those to be absolutely essential, and it boggles my mind that so few laptops include them, even when you pretty much can't buy a new mouse without one.
"Intel held it's UK..."
How many times? It's means it is, its is possessive. Unless you meant "Intel held it is UK...", you've used the wrong one.
And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race
I want something the size of a mac mini, but I won't pay for a Mac, I like my operating systems Free and Light.
Then get Yellowdog and call it a day (admittedly not sure if it runs on the Mac mini yet but the hardware there is pretty standard so it should not be long if it's not there already).
Why suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous PC design when you can have a really well designed fanless Linux box for less than you can cobble most mini-ITx designs together for?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Not the kind of models I was hoping to see... Just some boring laptops....
Get your own free personal location tracker
Don't name your chipsets after a lousy light pickup truck, i.e. the GMC Sonoma. Same as the Chevy S-10 basically.
GMC recently replaced the Sonoma with the much better "Canyon" truck. It even sounds better.
Sonoma = rolling rust heaps.
Sig for hire.
No. It only lasts 3 hours before all the lights go out and it burns your testicles in the process...
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