Sony VAIO Japanese teaser suggests something long, thin, and "coming soon"
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted December 24th 2008 8:54AM
posted December 24th 2008 8:54AM
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The laptop isn't long and thing when opened, The keyboard is split across the two folding halves and their are two screens above it.
Oh, and I completely made that up.
Its the return of the C1 Picturebook series!
Wow, someone else that remembers these things! Every time I read something the "new" netbooks and how Sony has not moved into that market, I think back to the C1XS that I owned back in like '99.
Here's a few links to info and pics on this ultra small laptop:
http://www.videomaker.com/article/7684/
http://cowboyneal.org/vaio/
It only had like a 400mhz proc and 128mb RAM, but it was usable as what you'd call a "netbook" now. I brought it to the library at college and it literally attracted girls like crazy. They'd all come up and tell me how "cute" it was :)
Funny thing, I got linux working on it back then too, and when I searched for pics today I found cowboyneal's (of slashdot fame) site on getting linux working on it that I used way back then, almost 10 years ago now.
The laptop was super small, thin and light, and fit in my backpack with my books really easy. Browsing documents on it was a pain with a super small screen resolution but it was a good trade-off for portability.
it will be expensive and powered by windows= I don't give a fuck.
It's an OLED e-reader or some sort of e-reading device.
long, thin, and coming soon.....thats what she said
I got to see it today classy bit of tech, it wont reinvent the laptop but it will sell bucket loads
You didn't see shit.
Definitely dual screen
Im thinking the same thing Dual screen And it will sell out at $1000
I saw the sales presentation
and? what is it? short wide laptop?
hard to believe you when you say you saw it but dont offer any more info than that...
That woman has some of the longest fingers I have ever seen! Just look at her hand holding the bag!
wtf, instead of laptop you jerking with fingers?
wow you're right, that's creepy. alien styles.
maybe its photoshopped a bit.
That could be the fish eye effect of a Sony camera used to take the photo, and then again it's a model that actually believes in the old "the camera will add ten pounds", so it could also be related to a eating disorder.
Reminds me a bit about the elven weirdos in HellBoy II.
That's one hella of a tease...if you know what I mean ;D
Long, thin and coming soon?
Dude, Sony must be stalking me! o_O
long, thin and "tiny"
you get it right?
Long, thin, and coming soon... definitely doesn't sound like a laptop... If ya'll know what I mean.
..."long, thin, and coming soon".
Best title on a tech blog, ever!
"I'd like to see some woman put that in her clutch and then bitch and moan that there's no room for anything else."
How could you guys down rank this one?!
It's gonna be a crassic.
its a short wide laptop but the spec for processor is different from the leak from sony style. The spec I saw was either a 1.6 or a 1.8 atom
Japanese Penises?
I'm confused.