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Surfing is generally not a popular activity here as a) the water is fairly chilly and b) you have to go REALLY FAR AWAY to find the good waves (like, 400+ miles away). Anchorage (the biggest city, with half the state's population) is on a sheltered inlet, and all of the water within driving distance (actually, pretty much all of the coast that's at all accessible from the road system) is in sheltered bays/fjords/sounds/inlets, so the water is fairly calm.

As far as surfing in the electronic sense, are they talking about a built-in EVDO deal? I've got EVDO through a local phone/wireless company, and it works fine. Whatever it is, it should be able to surf in Alaska, unless they lock it down to Verizon only (ACS has a roaming agreement that lets me surf at 1xRTT speeds on Verizon's network, but I'm not sure it works in reverse).

Clue me in, Sony, please...]]>May 10th 2006 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/May 10th 2006 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/*Sigh* gotta love the uneducated view of Alaska.]]>May 10th 2006 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/May 10th 2006 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_bore.

Even though that probably has nothing to do with the VAIO.]]>May 10th 2006 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/FE21 series - replacement for current FE11 series, faster, bigger hard drives etc
FJ3S - slim lightweight affordable mobile PC, webcam, comms, tv connection
AR11 series - replacement for current A series, but dual core, up to 2 x 100Gb hdd, TV tuner, and XPMCE - sounds awesome!
Trust me on these!]]>May 10th 2006 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/
The worst part about viral marketing, is it can be goddamn obvious, no bones about it, viral marketing and we still fall for it. Instead of "hey, I heard Sony is putting out new lappies soon," you say "hey, I heard Sony is running a viral marketing scam for some new lappies." Either way, they win.

Gah.]]>May 10th 2006 6:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/
With some semi-decent spec like at least a centrino.

ShMeE]]>May 10th 2006 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/May 10th 2006 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://xrl.us/mcwa [imageshack]]]>May 10th 2006 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/May 10th 2006 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/AR11D:
Core T2300, 100GB HD (5400 rpm?), 1GB RAM, XP MCE, NVIDIA 7600 128Mb, WXGA 1366x768, Integrated camera, havent been able to confirm Bluetooth.

I was surprised to learn it will be 1366x768 instead of the current A series 1440x900 or the more desirable 1680x1050.]]>May 10th 2006 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/The second image, it says MOTION EYE on the top edge of LCD and something antenna. ]]>May 10th 2006 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/May 10th 2006 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/
UX: 7" touch screen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Core Solo, WAN, biometric sensor, dual cameras, "UMPC" with Windows XP Pro (not Tablet Edition).

The information is there, you just have to dig a little deeper...]]>May 11th 2006 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/
So you can surf two times per day! :-)

The whole time I've lived in Anchorage, I've never seen the bore tide. Seen the display at Beluga Point a bunch of times, but never the tide itself.

And yes, folks, we do have broadband in Alaska. In addition to my EV-DO, I'm also typing this over my 5mbps cable connection. The only thing is that both GSM and CDMA cell phone service sucks at my house...grr...but I digress...]]>May 11th 2006 1:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/
That's a shame... [sigh]... guess I'm getting a Dell again... -_-]]>May 11th 2006 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/
I thought these things would not come out till the end of the year! Any more details and -- especially -- on pricing?

I use my HD camcorder a lot (kids and all...) and would love to be able to keep those images in their original HD resolution for my sons' future reference. The sooner I can record my clips in HD rez to an optical disc, the more I will be able to share with my sons in the future...]]>May 11th 2006 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/10/sony-goes-viral-with-vaio-tomorrow/May 14th 2006 9:49AM