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Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by venom on Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:23 pm

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/sonys-new-all-i.html



This is Sony's innovative new Vaio JS1. It's one good looking computer, and it's hard to know how Sony's engineers came up with such an out-there, brand new PC design. The computer is completely housed in that thin, brushed metal (or is it silver plastic?) and glass slab, and the keyboard is a sleek and slimline model which can be easily slid out of the way. There's even a vertical optical drive in there, although Sony has opted for the old-fashioned kind with an actual pop-out disk tray.

In fact, it seems that Sony's innovation knows no bounds: there's a webcam built in to the 20.1" screen bezel. The Core 2 Duo comes with 3GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive and a couple of real extras -- Super Audio CD support, and a signal processor chip to pump out Dolby 5.1 sound. Clearly Sony is hawking this as a media center PC, as there is also a Blu-ray option.

The price has not yet been announced, but it had better be less than $1200. Otherwise, you might want to buy the real iMac. That'll run Windows just fine, and it will also run the Mac OS, which Sony's clone can't do. Launch date TBA.

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by twoodcc on Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:28 pm

everyone tries to copy apple

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by krypto on Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:25 pm

what?! i can't believe that sony made something so close to apple's imac
watch it cost like $500

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by venom on Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:37 pm

it won't be $500. probably around $1000

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by macbook on Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:44 pm

yeah, looks just like the imac

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by twoodcc on Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:12 pm

even the keyboard is similar

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by G3 on Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:40 pm

i guess people can't get over how good macs are and tries to copy them

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by twoodcc on Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:37 pm

pretty much

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by G3 on Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:14 pm

ipods too, look at the zune

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by twoodcc on Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:20 am

yeah, but this is even worse

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by dmxplosive on Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:41 am

dang, it has a blu-ray support option

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by twoodcc on Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:50 pm

maybe apple will bring out blu-ray options at macworld

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by macbook on Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:10 pm

the specs are so close to the imac's

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by dmxplosive on Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:55 am

copycats

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by ubuntu on Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:47 pm

people are always copying apple

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by ubuntu on Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:47 pm

13:47 up 39 days, 16:49

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by ac/dc on Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:21 am

yep, very close

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by clark on Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:03 am

i saw one of these at best buy

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by windows7 on Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:49 pm

how do they look in person?

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by mba on Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:23 pm

about like that picture. i'm not all that impressed

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by ipepsi on Sat Nov 22, 2008 12:26 am

can't believe how close this is to the imac

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by macmini on Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:20 am

yep, me either

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by xp on Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:51 pm

pretty close

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

Post by ron on Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:15 pm

very close

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Re: Sony's New All-In-One Vaio is Oddly Familiar

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