Sony's AR Blu-ray Vaio laptop goes on pre-sale
By Ryan Block 
posted May 15th 2006 7:43AM
posted May 15th 2006 7:43AM
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posted May 15th 2006 7:43AM
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I wonder if it's 90999999999 degrees?
who ever heard of canada geting this stuff first??
this powerhouse is going to weigh a tonne!
I want one!
Except it is presumably going to weigh a ton having a hewawge 17.8" screen, and the border around that as well.
ShMeE
200GB RAID HDD in a laptop is pretty sweet.
"1920 x 1200 XBRITE display"
means 1080p from the laptop monitor, really good resolution for a laptop monitor, maybe one of the few times that you will actually have to increase resolution from your desktop to watch a movie in its native resolution.
TV-tuner and HDMI is also pretty good.
I guess if money isn't an issue this is probably the best high-end laptop you can buy right now, but I'll wait until the Blu-ray drives become cheaper.
Gaaaah! Why, oh why, Sony, couldn't you give us A FREAKING NUMBER PAD?
too bad it has XBRITE. it's so reflective you can't see details when working with images and when watching movies.
I think the Qosmio G35-650 is better for the money. Everything is almost identical and it's (presuming the price is @ $3,600) $600 cheaper.
Main difference is that the Qosmio has HD-DVD drive vs Sony's BluRay.
Isn't if funny that these two (Toshiba and Sony) are worked together on the Cell processor but can't agree on HD-DVD/BluRay.
No such thing as a 17.8" display. If it's close to 17", it's a 17.05" display, which the industry simply calls 17". Notebook review's got it wrong. Even the add they show lists it as 17".
>>Gaaaah! Why, oh why, Sony, couldn't you give us A FREAKING NUMBER PAD?
Most laptops don't have number pads for space reasons, neither my Dell or HP laptops have it. You can buy a slim usb number pad for like $15; I carry one around just for excel.
>>too bad it has XBRITE. it's so reflective you can't see details when working with images and when watching movies.
Personally find the XBRITE to be very good. My HP has a similar thing called "Brightview" which is great.
The new Xbrite type displays do reflect light more since the LCD surface is very smooth and glassy but for those who appreciate the brighter, clearer, sharper aspects of the displays, the tradeoff is worth it. Sony's Xbrite technology is the combination of new pass-through and multi-layered anti-reflection coatings and dual lamps. The difference is very apparent when Xbrite vs non-Xbrite LCDs are compared side-by-side at CompUSA elsewhere.
And so, how does it compare to an Intel Mac with a 17" screen? That would ne my benchmark.
I was told by my manager that London Drugs, here in western Canada, would be the exclusive carrier of this series of laptops with bluray.
Where's this Canadia you speak of?
"Watch out Canadia, looks like Sony's about to drop their... "
#12. It's to the west of Canuckistan
actually, toshiba came out with a similar product (less HD space, other minor details) that was a 17" widescreen, and it weighed somewhere around 4 pounds. i would assume that for the price, sony would attempt to get somewhere in this lighter range.
i clicked on the link and it says whatever it is (no pics, specs, anything) is $10,000 and it says i have 1,000,000 sony points
wtf?
"11. I was told by my manager that London Drugs, here in western Canada, would be the exclusive carrier of this series of laptops with bluray."
So in western Canada you buy a computer at a drugstore? And you get your drugs from ??? Oh, probably Columbia, same as the rest of us.
In any case, this new laptop seems to be an appropriate Sony response to Apple's stealing the portable music market. (Ouch!) Prior to this model the (Intel) MacbookPro was the leader in this size category even compared to Toshiba's 17". But don't jump just yet. Just wait a few months and I'm sure a new Mac will be around to once again kick the pants out of the MS based systems.
Why do people take this. $4000.00 give me a break everything to do with burning to disk has droped in price because no one wants to loose the image on the disk because they fade away. why would anyone pay this price for Blue ray. this will cost $899.00 after a year.
buy a Mac and forget the problems PC gives to everyone, PC is Dead.