Sony: Cutting edge? or cut-and-paste?
ZDnet is running a <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2858211,00.html" target="_blank">story</a> about stylish Sony notebooks:
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Which laptop name do you associate with the words slickÂ* and cutting-edgeÂ*? If you said "Sony VAIO," you're not alone. For years, the cutting-edge colors, designs, and features of these notebooks have consistently led the laptop industry into uncharted territory.
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Well, I think it's undeniable that Sony has some pretty cool designs.
But <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2858211,00.html" target="_blank">look closer</a> at that middle notebook in the story: isn't that rather similar to <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/overview/0,12069,541087,00.html" target="_blank">this notebook</a>, better known as the Apple Titanium Powerbook G4?
It seems that the "plain chassis" of the Sony didn't really fit in with the article headline, so they dropped in a picture of a Titanium instead...
[quote]
Which laptop name do you associate with the words slickÂ* and cutting-edgeÂ*? If you said "Sony VAIO," you're not alone. For years, the cutting-edge colors, designs, and features of these notebooks have consistently led the laptop industry into uncharted territory.
<hr></blockquote>
Well, I think it's undeniable that Sony has some pretty cool designs.
But <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2858211,00.html" target="_blank">look closer</a> at that middle notebook in the story: isn't that rather similar to <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/overview/0,12069,541087,00.html" target="_blank">this notebook</a>, better known as the Apple Titanium Powerbook G4?
It seems that the "plain chassis" of the Sony didn't really fit in with the article headline, so they dropped in a picture of a Titanium instead...
Comments
Cutting Edge- CCD's, Optical Media
Cut N Paste- Software, HW Designs
VAIO's haven't been as striking now as they were in the past. Apple has done well as always.
<strong>Read the review and go to the vaio website, the real laptop doesn't look anything like the Titanium, i think the picture on that site is of a TiBook and they screwed up.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ahh... makes sense now.
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/overview/0,12069,541087,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/supercenter/stories/overview/0,12069,541087,00.html</a>
compared too
<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2858211,00.html" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,2858211,00.html</a>
its the exact same picture
a bit ironic as that particular vaio model has a caption that says something like
"its specs are the best, but its simplistic chassis is the real prize"
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