Look like
Sony's giving their European laptop releases some spec bumps to fend off the summer slump. The most interesting is the
FE line's new FE20, with Sony's new 2nd gen
X-black display (aka
XBRITE, some of the nicest laptop displays
money can buy), which finally addresses its most typical complaint with an anti-reflective surface layer, and also
throws in some extra brightness with a dual lamp backlight; the
FJ line's new FJ3 gets a dual layer DVD burner, 1GB
DDR2 SDRAM, and a 100GB drive; the
SZ series
gets the SZ2 with the upgrades are the least exciting, and from what we can tell they'll just have a version with a
2.16GHz T2600 Core Duo chip, which is already available as an upgrade on the Sony Style configurator. Keep an eye out
for these in the states sometime in the near future (with different names, of course).
[Via
MobileWhack]
posted May 3rd 2006 9:31AM
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooohh. That's hot.
looks like sony's becoming an apple fan boy, having lost their way for quite some time, seems like they have been looking at the apple online store when designing the keyboard, next they will be asking us to 'think different' with the new simplicity of form of their computers
#3 So is anything white ripped off from Apple? I don't think they have a patent on the color.
#3 Sony has been designing great looking notebooks with this simple and clean look for some time now.
I own a sz160, pictured at the bottom. And it comes with a black keyboard with the option in japan to get a silver colored keyboard.
it would be great if sony and apple would team up.
apple with itunes,sony with there music label.
apple laptops with sony sounds systems.
apple media player and sonys movies.
sony and apple together would like ass.
>>looks like sony's becoming an apple fan boy, having lost their way for quite some time, seems like they have been looking at the apple online store when designing the keyboard, next they will be asking us to 'think different' with the new simplicity of form of their computers
Actually, Apple head-hunted the Sony Vaio designers to design the current crop of Apple laptops.
http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/30/apple-recruiting-sony-vaio-engineers-to-build-the-first-intel/
brendon: i wasnt talking about the colour, i was talking about the industrial design, the keyboard form is the same as apples macbook/powerbook
ag: i know that apple headhunted sony vaio engineers but that was after they released the powerbook, it was reputedly for the next revision in the design.
i am designer and i have followed both companies industrial design quite closely and although i understand that sony have done some good stuff in the past, its usually quite different in philosophy from apple. sony is much more about putting lots of features in an attractive package and not neccesarily simplicity of form and usablity which is apple's strong point. i just see it as another example of sony losing there way. the company is in a mess, its become too big and focussed on selling boxe, rathers than pushing forward in areas like design and innovation. too stifled by propriety formats such as atrac and the memory stick. it has also failed to realise that the digital player business is about a complete service, not just putting out endless models in the hope that one of them will interest potential purchasers.