Interesting one day sale by sony.

[Mike Kallies]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> Certainly this is a good deal compared to the regular price, but how
> do Sony's these days compare to similar machines of other brands?

Sony and Toshiba used to be the only names in the game for the sub-10"
market in North America.

The Libretto and the Sony Viao

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libretto_(notebook)
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-PictureBook-Laptop-Crusoe-TM5800/dp/B00006J3JY

They were obscenely expensive though.

Now that there are netbooks, I don't know why these things exist.  To
me, a low price tag means that you have a shorter upgrade cycle and
consequently better long term reliablility and performance.

The term "netbook" has lost all meaning though.  It was a good term to
describe these things which are so small that they begin to compromise
screen resolution or keyboard size.  Anything 12" (4:3) and up has a
full sized keyboard and full sized display.

The Sony is a pretty remarkable subnotebook with a burner.  But I
don't think a burner is all that important anymore, and given the CPU,
I bet the battery life is nowhere near what's advertised.

I think it's on special for a reason :-)


-Mike
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