Sony Unveils Carbon Fibre Vaio X
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Hopefully this thing will be as beautiful inside as it is outside.
At IFA 2009 in Berlin, Sony unveiled the amazingly sexy Vaio X ultra portable that has an 11.1-inch screen, features an 'all-day' battery, weighs just 1.5 lbs and is just half an inch (14 mm) thick. Perhaps making it all the more attractive is that its casing is built from carbon fibre.
Check out the video from Netbooknews:
Vaio X First Look
As much as we love it from the outside, the Vaio X's internals are still very much a mystery. There's strong indication right now that it's an Atom processor inside – and even if it'll be the based on the upcoming Pine Trail platform, it's a little unpowered for how great rest of the design looks.
Stay tuned for more as we hear about it.
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Me either.
Yes, we should have stopped support for VGA years ago. But alas, too many people still have VGA only monitors and sadly, more VGA only LCD's are still being produced.
I noticed that as well, I was just about to write that
(btw carbon fiber is fairly strong, so i wouldn't worry about the flimsy look of it)
actually sony can be worse than apple, one of sony's desktops (an imac-like thing) can go as high as $4000, and it only has a core 2 quad, at least at apple you'd get dual quad core xeons and still pay less
Yeah, I reread my comment earlier and realized I put as bad as, when I meant to put as bad as, or worse.
A lot of LED screens have a thinner profile...I guess that's why it flexes.
My friend's Dell XPS M1330 has a LED screen, and it sorta flexes like that.
First a Gold computer 20k+ with an Atom inside and now a Vaio X made of uber-cool Carbon Fiber....with (possibly) an Atom inside. Personally that's waste of unique materials in underpowered computers.
Yeah. A sheep with wolf's clothing.
The worst part is...I cannot imagine this soaring oon the thousands just because you're using the same material as your Fast and Furious Racing vehicle.
Doesn't everybody carry CPU-Z and GPU-Z everywhere they go?
If only...
But why not Magnesium instead of Carbon Fiber? Stronger and lighter than aluminum and very rigid also (so you don't have that flexing screen crap).
The cost of magnesium is multiple times as expensive as carbon fiber.
Agreed. VGA should have died like 3 - 4 years ago. One thing they can do is just put in a HDMI/DVI port and like Apple, expect them to upgrade or buy a converter. IIRC Apple dropped VGA for most of their stuff?