http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/ Engadget Comments for Sony's MacBook Pro, the VAIO VGN-N17L http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://discount-laptopbattery.com is a good place.]]>Apr 12th 2009 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 4th 2006 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/
Sony makes good looking laptops; look at their carbon fibre TX series... where its the CarbonMac?]]>Nov 1st 2006 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/
The "web browser" is a wallpaper image (a never expiring joke on computer related biz), since the desktop icons lie on top of the "window" unconspicuously on the left margin.

Son Yi: – Oh! I can't seem to understand this web browser, nothing happens when I click!!

Kids: – HA ha ha ha! He though this Peezee was as dumb as a Mac to use!!

MORAL: the kids are way ahead, folks. Way ahead. ]]>Nov 1st 2006 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/
The "web browser" is a wallpaper image (a never expiring joke on computer related biz), since the desktop icons lie on top of the "window" unconspicuously on the left margin.

Son Yi: – Oh! I can't seem to understand this web browser, nothing happens when I click!!

Kids: – HA ha ha ha! He though this Peezee was as dumb as a Mac to use!!

MORAL: the kids are way ahead, folks. Way ahead. ]]>Nov 1st 2006 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Kudos to Sony on its revenge.]]>Nov 1st 2006 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/
Poor Sony, they could have done better than copying the Powerbooks.]]>Nov 1st 2006 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8103704&st=vaio+VGN-N17L&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1158317794732
Best Buy already has another model with the same case on their shelves. ]]>Nov 1st 2006 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/
Sorry I didn't know that, I must have mislaid the latest 'Windows Geeks Weekly' newsletter.]]>Nov 1st 2006 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 6th 2006 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/i love macs and all, but Sony still makes the BEST hardware, and has always had nice designs]]>Nov 1st 2006 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/

I'll still take a Mac and Mac OS X, thanks-very-much.

]]>Nov 4th 2006 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/
What a bunch of sheep!]]>Nov 1st 2006 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 1st 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/
Doing "cool" things in the past doesn't somehow turn phoned-in generic design into genius, just because "cool" people automatically associate the corporate brand with the word "cool."

Anyone who would defend the rather boring design of the current MacBook as some high point of industrial design, is far too blinded by their Pavlovian response to the Apple brand to be able to make any kind of objective critique of the design. Thus, the sheep comment!]]>Nov 1st 2006 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/
Apple-haters please cut down on the drugs a bit and remember this is just a company and if you don't like their products just don't buy them.

The MBP design is getting a bit old but it's still great - in fact, it's timeless. If you have ever looked at the detail on these you will have to admit that it's the product of a deep obsession with design; even the tiniest screw on the MBP is perfect.

Evidence of timeless design: I have a 5 year old laptop
which looks better than any PC laptop out there - sexier, sleeker, thinner, just hot, a titanium PowerBook. It can't just "keep up" with the latest from Asus, Sony, Acer - it beats them hands-down in the looks department.
Same is true for my 5 year old iPod. It looks as cool today as it did back then. That's because it's not following some fashion trend but because it's a design classic.

Blast Apple on their control-freakery or their initial quality, but not on design - that's just dumb.]]>Nov 1st 2006 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/
And the original PowerBooks were the birth of modern laptop design.

So your point was?]]>Nov 1st 2006 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/Nov 2nd 2006 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/01/sonys-macbook-pro-the-vaio-vgn-n17l/As far as quality goes, I havent noticed any real flaws on the sony's I've encountered so far.
They feel sturdy and well built, from their tiniest models to the grand 17". In terms of quality we would all wish Apple could try to learn something here - but the simple truth is that they don't have to! Quality costs and Apple philosophy is not so much about selling the hardware, it's about selling the lifestyle and making sweet dollares off it.
Even as of today (2006) I have yet to see a apple lappie or stationary, that hasn't got scratches on it or didn't have any broken or missing piece (even the ipod look like a cats scratchpad after sometime w/o protection). The sub level quality is not only attribute to the white plastics, even the powerbooks suffer as they share the same DNA of papa Jobs.. That said I do not hate macs, I only wish for OSX to be unrestricted so that I can use it on my pc.. :)]]>Nov 2nd 2006 8:11AM