Sylvania's G Netbook Meso toyed with on video
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 8th 2008 12:35AM
posted Aug 8th 2008 12:35AM
posted Aug 8th 2008 12:35AM
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I'm actually looking into this one...
not bad at all.
YAY MATTE SCREEN!
Hopefully someday we'll see an end to the idiotic glossy-screen fad, the biggest regression to hit computing since...
They have it for pre-order @ J & R:
http://www.jr.com/brand/sylvania/
They should call it the G-Unit.
Not first!
Noob, Of course you were'nt.. (-:
Do you have a multiple personality disorder doug?
Only when I'm working over night.. I get bored.. )=
Not too bad looking.... Can't say the giant "sylvania" logo below the screen is a redeeming quality...
If anything... I suppose the screen makes up for it.
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Sheesh, Sylvania? Who's next, GE and Philips? I have a light bulb I wanna sell them...
Sylvania is no longer Philips. It's a random Chinese brand now, often seen on ... anything.
Think "Bell & Howell" -- not your father's B&H!
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are matte displays better or worse than glossy?
cuz my (matte) display has a really low vertical viewing angle.
like, you move up at all and the contrast gets really dark at the bottom, and vice versa. makes it hard to play dark games, like HL2 EP1, or even wow at some points.
Glossy displays are shite. The highly touted "deeper blacks"? You'll never see them, because they'll be obscured by your own reflection in the screen. Or the reflection of whatever's behind you.
The glossy fad resulted from vendors' desperate attempt to differentiate themselves from others in a world of commodity hardware and razor-thin margins. That, and ignorant consumers who swallow whatever they're beaten over the head with.
People who actually USE the computers prefer matte:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061018-8022.html
looks pretty durable... good to have on the road. Ugly.... but useful and cheap. kinda like my ex.
as a fellow who was left by an ex of 2 years for a douchebag. that totally just made my morning.
thanks :-)
matte and glossy FTW!
i meant matte and BLACK FTW. >_
i meant matte and BLACK. sry bout that. ^^;;
It's just a rebadged everex cloudbook people, which isn't a good netbook.
actually never mind, i was thinking about another model.
Now, which companies HAVEN'T released a netbook so far?
Lets see, Toshiba and Sony and I hear Sony is planning to later this year, I hope they can reveal a higher-end one to rival all the ones on the market so far.
Record straight:
It's not Sylvania!
The Sylvania name died years ago. A company called OSRAM now licenses out the name. The company that makes these netbooks just took the name to get access to retail space in high profile stores, and get mentioned on sites like Engadget.
If people followed the story links:
But before we got the low down on the new Sylvania mini-notebooks we just had to find out what the heck Sylvania, the lighting and electric company, was doing in the computing space. I mean, we cannot forget that Sylvania was founded in 1901 to repair light bulbs and soon after began making lighting products.
When we reached out to Sylvania we learned quickly that they aren’t exactly behind the netbooks. A company cleverly named Digital Gadgets is an OEM of consumer electronic products and accessories and has licensed the Sylvania brand for its netbooks.
“Sylvania is a living brand. We aren’t just a heritage brand. We continue to be a dynamic living brand and these new netbooks allow us to connect with new generation of consumers,” Sylvania’s Chief Corporate Spokesman Stephanie J. Anderson told us.
Digital Gadgets can be found here: http://www.digitalgadgets.com/
They only produce for SYLVANIA.
Way to have the display look like a cheap portable dvd player - massively thick bezel much?
Sylvania selling netbooks is kind of like Disney selling condoms and hardcore porn.
It's just really hard to see the two go together.
WHERE?!?!?!
Thank you for that mental image of a Mickey-mouse French tickler
They've been selling Sylvania-branded TV''s for a long time, I believe.
Aren't we a few decades past the mindset that "brand-name", especially in electronics, really means anything?
Very few companies actually make their own products anymore.
Can you say "China"?
Ed,
Sylvania being making electronic before you've even existed, you can watch some of those old 50's game shows to see this brand in it's glory.
http://www.sylvaniacomputers.com/products.php?p=meso
like the color
FUGLY
Since comparing netbooks to notebooks doesn't work as we all know, the word "atypical" in "[...] the 8.9-inch Sylvania G Netbook Meso sports an atypical (albeit appreciated) matte display [...]" is completely inappropriate, because most netbooks have a matte display.
Someone has to lower there price from that $400 mark for XP !!
the aspire one looks better and is a better value, the hdd version is a 120 gb
i used one and the glossy screen didnt bother me that much