Interesting one day sale by sony.

[Tyler Aviss]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Mike Kallies <mike.kallies-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> ...
> ...
>> 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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Screen resolution is one of the things that seems to be consistently
bad on most of the minis. The HP, Asus, and standard dell all seem to
have a vertical resolution of no more than 600. The only one that was
better was the Dell Mini-10 with the extra "HD" option that has a
resolution of 1366x768 (the non-HD model is still only 1024x576).
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