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I read this article in today’s Technology Guardian .
Sony calls it a Vista powered sub-notebook rather than a netbook, but if it swims and quacks it’s still a duck 🙂 and at £849+ it’s a very expensive one.
I particularly liked the review summary:
“There’s a lot to like about the Vaio P, especially the ultra-light weight (638g) and 3G connectivity. But judging by the review sample, it’s much too slow, and too expensive at “from £849″. I’d rather have a £300 Samsung NC10 netbook.”
I’m just surprised the keyboard is a pro, rather than a con. As expected from Sony to pack a punch into something so small. I’m still struggling to figure out what I would use it for or in what situations it would be useful.
Sony’s main problem with the naming description of the VAIO P relates to the fact that they wish to have their own segment of the market, a proprietary segment if you will, and have it to themselves for as long as possible. Sony is a company who wants to have things their own way. For them to come out with a netbook, would mean they are not the ones trailblazing, but following the ones who are.
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Sony’s main problem with the naming description of the VAIO P relates to the fact that they wish to have their own segment of the market, a proprietary segment if you will, and have it to themselves for as long as possible. Sony is a company who wants to have things their own way. For them to come out with a netbook, would mean they are not the ones trailblazing, but following the ones who are.
[/quote1233837907]I agree, proprietary should be their middle name…. if they had a surname of course.
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I agree, proprietary should be their middle name…. if they had a surname of course.
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As far as I’m concerned it’s their middle name, with their last name being delusional. A lot of their products are sold as high-end, based on the “Sony†name I assume, and priced accordingly, yet the products would only be middle of the road. Just like the Apple tax all the Apple owners pay, Sony like to think of themselves as a high-end manufacturer across the board, when they are similar to companies such as Samsung, Toshiba, LG and Panasonic etc who cover the low-end -to high-end.Regarding their middle name, proprietary, I am surprised they haven’t attempted to launch a new storage or memory format along with the VAIO P. What, no new “Hyperdisc†format Sony? No new “ultra-small-low-capacity-just-the-same-as-the-last-memory†product eh?
I do own Sony products, but I stop from paying their absurd prices for mediocre products; case in point, VAIO P.
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As far as I’m concerned it’s their middle name, with their last name being delusional. A lot of their products are sold as high-end, based on the “Sony†name I assume, and priced accordingly, yet the products would only be middle of the road. Just like the Apple tax all the Apple owners pay, Sony like to think of themselves as a high-end manufacturer across the board, when they are similar to companies such as Samsung, Toshiba, LG and Panasonic etc who cover the low-end -to high-end.Regarding their middle name, proprietary, I am surprised they haven’t attempted to launch a new storage or memory format along with the VAIO P. What, no new “Hyperdisc†format Sony? No new “ultra-small-low-capacity-just-the-same-as-the-last-memory†product eh?
I do own Sony products, but I stop from paying their absurd prices for mediocre products; case in point, VAIO P.
[/quote1234269271]Nice rant! I completely agree. Have you seen this? Just about sums it up don’t you think?
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Nice rant! I completely agree. Have you seen this? Just about sums it up don’t you think?
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That “news item” was very funny; so typical of Sony too! lolYes, I do love a good rant. Stick around; you’ll be in for a treat 😉
When Sony get it wrong, they really get it wrong, but when they get it right, you can almost forgive them, I said almost, for their past indiscretions. Case in point, I have a Sony LCD TV, KDL-32W4000, and it is currently one of the best LCD TVs on the market. You can’t really fault it, or the price it is currently available for. The flip-side though would be the PS3. The much derided games console that really doesn’t do what it should, is currently languishing in 3rd place behind Wii and the Xbox 360. Being overpriced and under developed, it will remain Sony’s biggest mistake when we look back at their gaming history in years to come.
There will obviously be naysayers to what I have described above, regarding the PS3 specifically, who will proclaim “but it plays Blu-ray discs“, “it has Wi-Fiâ€, “it can act as a multi-media hubâ€, etc. To them I say this; if I wanted any of those features, I would either buy a standalone Blu-ray player, a multi-media device with Wi-Fi or an optional accessory from Sony to enable the required features I wanted. In addition, if people want to have a PS3 with all the bells and whistles, that’s great for them, go buy a PS3. For those of us who wish to have to buy a PS3 sans Blu-ray capabilities, Wi-Fi etc, we should be given the “option†by Sony and not have to have all these features rammed down our throat, just so Sony can attempt to make a profit on a console that has provided little profit since its release over 2 years ago. If Microsoft can provide the “option†with the Xbox 360, then Sony can do the same with the PS3. For anyone who pauses to think, “Why didn’t Sony offer the PS3 without a Blu-ray drive and offer games on DVD instead of Blu-ray?â€, I say this to them. Sony knew they had to fight multiple wars on multiple fronts and chose the PS3 as their weapon. They had the console war, competing against Wii and the Xbox 360, and they had the HD format war, competing against Toshiba with their HD-DVD format. In using the PS3, Sony played the famous Trojan horse tactic; they used a Blu-ray drive in the PS3 to drive sales of their HD format. This meant that the customers who bought the PS3 would now have, unbeknownst to the vast majority, the capabilities to play Blu-ray movies too. Some say a smart business move, others, like myself, say a dirty tactic to drive adoption of their latest proprietary format.
We all know how the HD format war ended, Toshiba threw in the towel, and now Sony still have one war left; the console war. Some say the console war has pretty much ended, with Wii trailblazing in 1st place, however, Sony will try everything in their power in an attempt to save their console. How they will do that, remains to be seen.
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