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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.
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.
