Sony promises Revolutionary Vaio Laptop

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Oooo. Display goggles instead of a screen? I've never thought of that. It might be cool! And with no display it should have longer batter life, possibly run cooler, and be much smaller and lighter. I'd love to see something like that.

Display Goggles as an ebook reader would be interesting. Put the goggles on, the text appears at a "normal" distance away from the viewer...and start to read.

How about "Google Displays," if Google enters the fray? Optional colors available.


Don

[harryE123]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Sony making their own software is a very interesting idea, but totally impractical. Remember that the aPple OS has more than 2 million lines of code and that Wind Ows has more than 5 million (as I last heard). There would be a lot of catching up to do. Thinking further, there is still Linux.

true, true, very true, but they could go the apple way and incorporate tons of gnu apps and built an interface around and on top of these, and in between, with a nice linux core in it, just like apple did and evolved, of course they would have to set a minimum of 5 years to evolve their product. They are such a great innovative company (apple of course, but I am talking about sony here) that it's no excuse for me to make such beatiful machines and cripple them with moronware like vista, at the point I am in for example (and I am sure a lot of people in the bussiness) I 've so much had it with anything microsoft that if god himself ressurected leonardo and had him built a device with a hand for stylistics by michaelangelo, IF it run ms crap, instead of osx, I d much rather go for the base mac mini instead. Most of us have had it with these guys, the impossible prices they ve had us pay over the years, the stiffling of innovation, the bloatware, the awful community they got (epitomized by the zune guy), the top to bot backwardness, everything....

they are still, jesus christ, at the point where they haven't implemented internet explorer to save as in the background, and you have to sit and watch a dialog box of the page being saved while you wait to resume your browsing.... They have disabled ctrl -s functionality to save in ie as with pretty much every app because as they claim in their blogs that would by default mean saving on the server which wouldn't make any sense. We are talking about prime time idiots here, nothing less, they are screened at microsoft it seems to be like that....

In any case most of the it community is turning away from this sad joke that is a ms into be it the linux distros, os x, or even solaris.

[yvanleterrible]

Originally Posted by harryE123

true, true, very true, but they could go the apple way and incorporate tons of gnu apps and built an interface around and on top of these, and in between, with a nice linux core in it, just like apple did and evolved, of course they would have to set a minimum of 5 years to evolve their product. They are such a great innovative company (apple of course, but I am talking about sony here) that it's no excuse for me to make such beatiful machines and cripple them with moronware like vista, at the point I am in for example (and I am sure a lot of people in the bussiness) I 've so much had it with anything microsoft that if god himself ressurected leonardo and had him built a device with a hand for stylistics by michaelangelo, IF it run ms crap, instead of osx, I d much rather go for the base mac mini instead. Most of us have had it with these guys, the impossible prices they ve had us pay over the years, the stiffling of innovation, the bloatware, the awful community they got (epitomized by the zune guy), the top to bot backwardness, everything....



In any case most of the it community is turning away from this sad joke that is a ms into be it the linux distros, os x, or even solaris.

Yes yes, MS is a pain, it would be fantastic to see Sony use aPple software, that would mean the end of a long war between them.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by harryE123

true, true, very true, but they could go the apple way and incorporate tons of gnu apps and built an interface around and on top of these, and in between, with a nice linux core in it, just like apple did and evolved, of course they would have to set a minimum of 5 years to evolve their product. They are such a great innovative company (apple of course, but I am talking about sony here) that it's no excuse for me to make such beatiful machines and cripple them with moronware like vista, at the point I am in for example (and I am sure a lot of people in the bussiness) I 've so much had it with anything microsoft that if god himself ressurected leonardo and had him built a device with a hand for stylistics by michaelangelo, IF it run ms crap, instead of osx, I d much rather go for the base mac mini instead. Most of us have had it with these guys, the impossible prices they ve had us pay over the years, the stiffling of innovation, the bloatware, the awful community they got (epitomized by the zune guy), the top to bot backwardness, everything....

they are still, jesus christ, at the point where they haven't implemented internet explorer to save as in the background, and you have to sit and watch a dialog box of the page being saved while you wait to resume your browsing.... They have disabled ctrl -s functionality to save in ie as with pretty much every app because as they claim in their blogs that would by default mean saving on the server which wouldn't make any sense. We are talking about prime time idiots here, nothing less, they are screened at microsoft it seems to be like that....

In any case most of the it community is turning away from this sad joke that is a ms into be it the linux distros, os x, or even solaris.

If being the most successful and profitable software company in the world, with a 90%+ market share of the PC market, makes one such a dismal failure, then that's the kind of failure I'd certainly like to be.

I started my own software business in the same year that Bill Gates did. I sure wish that I'd been able to "fail" as well as he did .

[harryE123]

Originally Posted by HarryT

If being the most successful and profitable software company in the world, with a 90%+ market share of the PC market, makes one such a dismal failure, then that's the kind of failure I'd certainly like to be.

I started my own software business in the same year that Bill Gates did. I sure wish that I'd been able to "fail" as well as he did .

He failed others though... that's what happens when you take advantage of unavailable industry standards and market them as propriety as well as for the first time in mankind when you enter a bussiness that as soon as the final product is complete you can replicate it at almost no cost at all.

[HarryT]

But you can't hold Apple up as an example of "openness". They have a complete control of their hardware - nobody makes "Mac clones". Nobody is more agressive than Apple are when it comes to going after people who violate their intellectual property. Microsoft are a very model of openness by comparison.

[tracyeo]

Originally Posted by Bob Russell

I don't think it's another average netbook...
http://www.liliputing.com/2008/12/so...oks-stink.html

But how about a small netbook, but with a folding display for small form factor and larger display size? Mike Caine has referenced a folding OLED display for a smart phone in his blog.

From engadget:http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/25/s...ming/#comments

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by tracyeo

From engadget:http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/25/s...ming/#comments

Who got it from jkOnTheRun. This looks correct, with a very wide eight-inch 1600×768 screen. Note that the screen size prevents Sony from offering Windows XP (only for "netbooks", with a max 1024x600 screen). I'm not sure how well the wide screen will work for ebooks, but perhaps with a double page view it would be ok.

[CleverClothe]

I wonder if they will keep the price at $NaN.00. I could afford that!

[pilotbob]

Engadget has the scoop on this. It apperas that it is YANB (yet another netbook). So, not so revolutionary.

BOb

[stustaff]

And running Vista! yuck.

I think the real revolutionary hardware is the Pandora a fully open handheld games console/netbook with keyboard running Linux.

www.openpandora.org mines on Pre-order and hoping for it in Feb.

[harryE123]

Originally Posted by stustaff

And running Vista! yuck.

I think the real revolutionary hardware is the Pandora a fully open handheld games console/netbook with keyboard running Linux.

www.openpandora.org mines on Pre-order and hoping for it in Feb.

pandora is so way ahead of everything in so many respects...if apple had been making it it would have been a bigger hit than the ipod (all the marketing machine behind it and all).

archos touch devices are pretty revolutionary wrt anything that sony has come up with in the past months.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Engadget has the scoop on this. It apperas that it is YANB (yet another netbook). So, not so revolutionary.

BOb

Hey, I said that the first day the topic was posted. I love my new netbook by the way. To be fair it is really for my wife.

Dale

[yvanleterrible]

A luxury Sony EEE?

Pass...

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

A luxury Sony EEE?

Pass...

Seems to start at about $899 and go up from there. I built a page on the new P Series in the wiki. At 8" and a resolution of 1600x768 with an extended battery life of 8 hours it could make a good eBook Reader for those that need really high resolution.

Dale