Keepin' it real fake, part CLXXXVI: the Vaino not-so-ultraportable
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Mar 4th 2009 4:32PM
posted Mar 4th 2009 4:32PM
You know, it was just another busy Wednesday here in the Engadget compound until this guy came across our screens and greatly brightened our day. Bearing the appellation that the Vaio P's highly fashionable media campaign has thus far only hinted at, the "Vaino" is a 10.2-inch, 1.6GHz Atom-powered ultraportable also-ran that, sadly, will not be making it to these shores any time soon.
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Sony computer for a fraction of the price! No Sony Tax!
HAHA
Not only that: It comes with Windows OSX Beta! (Picture 4)
man they made this in vain-o
forget the laptop...when can I buy WIN OS-X BETA?
It's not nearly as thin, but it's got all the right ports, and I think I spy a DVD Drive. Color me impressed! Now, where's that $500 or less pricetag?
Honestly, overlooking the fact that it's a complete knockoff (Vaino is going right up there with Sorny and Magnetbox), this doesn't seem all that bad.
i'm always surprised there is a market for stuff like this. how much do you think it could really save someone who opted not to get the real thing? maybe $200?
But to some people, that $200 savings is enough for them to justify buying crap.
http://www.m8cool.com/product/detail-33-3130-7276.aspx
It says the thing costs ¥2599
2599 Japanese yen = 33.39 Canadian dollars
aguiluz
¥2599 is not japanese yen. its chinese, which is around 400 usd
Well, considering that the Vaio P is well over 2000 dollar here in Australia, it would have to try extremely hard not to be a good saving.
It's funny when the knock offs don't look like half bad products.
This is just the Acer Aspire One 10" with a facelift
"win os X beta?!?!"
"Win OS X"?
It's probably actually not bad even though it is obviously violating a tone of patent/copyright stuff.
Are these 'Keepin' it Real Fake' tangible items people can buy or photoshop 'I wish I could buy' figments of people's imagination?
On one hand, they look so similar to the name brand items, but on the otherhand, I know how chinese manufacturers can replicate stuff for cents on the dollar in Sony's case.
Oh, they're real!
In the US you would have to go into a crummy looking electronic shop and find some rare knockoffs.
Ever had some try to sell you a Rolex on the side of the street and when you look close is says Molex?
The reality is that a lot of the manufacturers for electronics or in China. The manufacturer often re-brands and re-sells the product.
Worse than that -- I tried to buy some Molex connectors, but when I looked closely, they were really Rolex -- totally useless to me!
:(
ahahahahaha
Vai-no buy me?
Wow a netbook with a slightly different lid...?
The proportions are fucked, look at the difference in width in the outside and inside shots...
For $26 I'm tempted to try and get one....(¥2599 is $26 US)
It's Chinese Yuan, not Japanese Yen, as darkrooroo stated above. So you're looking at around $400 instead of $26, Mr. Quickdraw.
It's actually ~$379.79. ¥ is for yuan in this case--not yen.
Not that they'll ever make it to Finland, either, but interestingly 'vaino' means persecution/harassment/oppression in Finnish...
Now if they ever build a PeeEssThwee, I'm sold!
+1 internet
If you could get your hands on this here in the US I would totally go for this. And Win OS X beta is waaaay faster than WindowsXP according to my informal file copy tests. But seriously, I would buy one.
Did they mean for the name to be subtly ironic?
I love the Chinese to English translations from Google Translate.
"The second half of 2008, Internet started to hot up in this, but more are the high cost or low-cost low-quality products with low configuration. Billion in early 2009 domain and then carefully selected for a U.S. high-end fashion products work well, and the configuration is also quite good in this.Intel Atom 1.6G of the CPU, 1G memory, 160G hard disk, sufficient to meet the business needs as well as audio and video and casual games. With colleagues as saying that holding a single mother to go back to using enough. For those not satisfied with relatively simple Intelligent mobile phone functionality and not enough to facilitate the operation, with the usual mobile office notebook for business professionals, so compact in size to reduce the number of their burden. My suggestion is that the home and office desktop, system performance tyrants; go travel with a Netbook, convenient and practical."
Vainos are for single mothers?
AHAHA I have to draw that.. System performance tyrants... go travel with a Netbook.
LOL I wonder if the capitalization constitutes trademark infringement...
Am I really the first to notice this?
Highly fashionable and named VAIN-o?
No, you're not.
See the writeup, where it says "Bearing the appellation that the Vaio P's highly fashionable media campaign has thus far only hinted at..."? So Joseph L. Flatley (not to mention all of us who bothered to read the writeup) noticed that before you did.
Anyone ask if Sony are royally pissed.
Vaino... Pretty negative name for a laptop because it happens to mean persecution in Finnish...
Myöhässä! ^^^ ;P
@finbred
Huomasin senkin myöhässä :D