Fro Productions(tm)
Join Date: May 2004
Location: London Town
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Sony's new A Series is pretty nice.
It equals the DaddyMac in many respects:
It even 'beats' the PowerBook G4 17" in a few ways:
However, rest assured, the DaddyMac is still king:
So, yeah. Sony makes an impressive challenge with TIVOesque potential, enormous real-estate and an ultra-fast chipset/architecture. Eh... But, the PowerBook has superior ergonomics, is more aesthetically pleasing and is more pleasurable to use (heh)... so what the heck... *I was really disappointed with the build quality of the Sony VGN-A190 17" (I played around with three models today). It is all plasticky, flexy and hollow sounding. The lid hinges are really stiff requiring both hands to open the 'book. The mouse buttons dug into my thumbs. Plus, the bezel at the top two corners of the display is fugly, designed so that it curves away from the screen. I hate this, much preferring the uniform bezels of the Apple notebook line. Comments? Opinions? Have you found a PC notebook to challenge your PowerBook/iBook? bouncy bouncy Last edited by SonOfSylvanus : 2004-06-04 at 13:54. Reason: OCD... heh |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Neat find.
I have always liked Sony's computers. They are very well designed. But it's what Sony puts under the hood that makes me dislike them. Cheap parts, cheap parts and more cheap parts. Take a look at their TV-computer-in-one... it's like three grand Canadian to start with but under the hood is a SiS chipset using integrated video. For three freaking grand I would expect much more then SiS... So what if it doubles as a TV and has a butt load of extras, as someone with a fair amount of PC knowledge, I would find it really hard to invest so much money for a SiS based computer. Anyway. . . |
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I must be a total Apple zealot, but I just love the clean lines of the Powerbooks. Whilst there are some designs that rival the PBs, they just lack a je ne se quoi. I think this testified by Apple's recent success in the D&AD award
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what gets me the most about some of these nice viao's, is you'll have a beautiful machine, then there's 7 ugly ass stickers plastered all over it declaring what's inside, what it runs, how great it is etc.
like neon lights and info stickers on a piece of artwork. just stupid. |
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