http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/ Engadget Comments for Sony announces 'division two' series of VAIO laptops built by other manufacturers 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/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
Or are you forced to buy a Vaio laptop without knowing whether it is made by Sony or some third party?]]>Apr 15th 2010 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
Probably be something like HP -> Compaq.]]>Apr 15th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Sony Vaio's are the MAC's of PC's. They are more expensive for no reason aside for being shiny and has a sony logo. Vaio's are more expensive than any other computers that has exactly the same specs]]>Apr 15th 2010 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/clearly you have no idea about computers. there's lots reasons for vaios to be expensive, especially for the high end series
and macs are not superior to PCs, they are just different things]]>Apr 15th 2010 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
You couldn't be more wrong. Some Vaios are slightly more expensive than they should be (like the netbook line), but others push the envelope with design and usability.

Just take a look at the Vaio P and Vaio Z series. Nobody else has laptops even close to touching those.]]>Apr 15th 2010 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
Woww you completely missed his analogy.. he said nothing about superiority. ]]>Apr 15th 2010 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
Well enough of that irrelevant Mac/Vaio talk...

I'm curious if it's a relationship like HP->Compaq, then should it even have a Vaio label. Assuming the third-party-built laptops will have a higher failure rate and overall "cheap", it could hurt Vaio-brand's reputation. ]]>Apr 15th 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/This is a well planned strategy by Sony, Sell two diff lines of Vaios, One by Sony, one by cheap labor on China, Both with Vaio name, over time slowly blur the line between the two, then viola, more profit, because eventually they'll all be made cheaply and carry the Vaio name.]]>Apr 15th 2010 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
To be fair, all laptops have to fail at one point. Sony does carry a high reputation for their laptops, and you may have been just unlucky. What is important is how often the laptop is faulty.

And in this case, the probability of a Vaio laptop dying on you would probably increase from this division. ]]>Apr 15th 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
True, but after spending a few days searching online and trying to fix the sony before returning it, I found that it was a known issue with the current core i7 F series laptops.]]>Apr 15th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
I'm confused too and I don't think this move makes any sense... Why would third party companies submit designs for Sony? Also, this can make the Vaio brand diluted...]]>Apr 15th 2010 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 16th 2010 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 16th 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 17th 2010 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
Or are you forced to buy a Vaio laptop without knowing whether it is made by Sony or some third party?]]>Apr 15th 2010 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
Damn ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttt. Low rank this one D:]]>Apr 15th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
I hope not.]]>Apr 15th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/ Lenovo?]]>Apr 15th 2010 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
You would if you left your art school more often.]]>Apr 15th 2010 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
Perhaps.

But does anyone need a premium machine if all they need to do it writing and websurfing?]]>Apr 15th 2010 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
so even more expensive VAIOs....]]>Apr 15th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
Please lower the price of REAL VAIOs MORE and MORE.]]>Apr 15th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
There's a few giant Taiwanese ODMs (Quanta, Compal, Wistron etc) and they make every freakin laptop on the market. Its not like Mr Sony has been sitting at a production line making Vaio's. ]]>Apr 15th 2010 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Both the article and my comment are referring to the actual manufacture of the laptops, not the design. Hence terms such as 'built', 'make' etc
So you have missed the point entirely. ]]>Apr 15th 2010 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
I highly doubt that taiwan still put parts together, its mostly contracted to Taiwanese firms (FOXCONN for example) and they outsources the labor to china. Taiwanese nowadays do have the technology to design their own products, HTC anyone?

oh yeh, sony designs shitty phones.]]>Apr 16th 2010 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/dude, you missed the point entirely. The article is stating the Sony will start to give the built - meaning designing the PC (not talking about looks, but motherboard, circuits, engineering) - to other manufacturers like the huge ODMs, instead of building the PCs and just giving to them to "put together".
If they were referring to just "making" (putting together the PC), then as you stated, there is nothing new - read it carefully. This is a huge change for them.
And as Endeavour1934 said, they also still have a factory in Japan which produces VAIO Z, P and X series...]]>Apr 16th 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
ASUS screens are horrible. Sony's screens are incredible. ]]>Apr 15th 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Well firstly I'm not sure whether this is right source or not....please down rank me if this information is wrong.

In case if you don't know or not, I seems heard from somewhere that ASUS is actually ODM of some Apple Mac laptops.]]>Apr 15th 2010 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/How are they overpriced? My Vaio F1190X had a base price of $999, that is including a core i7 quad. The only real expensive ones are the high end Signature Collection. ]]>Apr 15th 2010 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/Apr 15th 2010 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/So they are essentially licensing their case "design"?]]>Apr 15th 2010 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
Umm no, they're opening the sketchbooks to other companies to produce designs and products but retain approval restrictions.]]>Apr 15th 2010 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/15/sony-announces-division-two-series-of-vaio-laptops-built-by-ot/
They're licensing the name and logo of VAIO]]>Apr 15th 2010 8:31PM