Middle Earth says hi to Sony's new Vaio

From the far side of the world Sony New Zealand is telling us that a new Vaio is coming. It is a countdown webpage saying that on January 9 a new Vaio will be announced that will change the way we look at notebooks, forever. Coincidentally a day earlier, at the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony …

[Anonymous Coward]

..just...take a slice!

Double Touchscreen.

I called it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Eh wot?

A clamshell design? You mean like every single laptop ever made?

"It runs Windows, making it smaller than the average netbook". Am I missing something or is that a complete non-sequitur? What does that comment actually mean?

[Aron]

Specs

It's an Atom based machine with 1GB memory, 120GB HDD, 2xUSB, WiFi, 3G and a combined touchpad keyboard similar to the PS3's chat keypad. It will be bundled with a host of communication apps that will allow phone calls, SMS, MMS, VOIP, etc. Not as revolutionary as you think but a pretty good PDA replacement that can be used as a big phone.

[The Mighty Spang]

this does not look like anything new

I used to have a sony in that form factor, this was way before widescreen became even remotely popular in computing. I think I had it in around the year 2000. It was a pentium pro machine IIRC and I used to run IBM VisualAge for Java on it and work on the train.

fantastic little machine, wish i had one now, though I *wont* be able to afford sony prices for a while... sigh...

[The Mighty Spang]

oops should have scrolled the linked article

thats one of them things i had, right there :)

great machine.

[Jerome]

Double touchscreen?

The double touchscreen thing, if it turns out to be true, would be a huge shame. The advantage of a touchscreen is ditching the keyboard, so the device can be ultra-slimline and lightweight (see the iPhone). The advantage of a physical keyboard is that you can actually type on it at speed (see the Blackberry). The advantage of two touchscreens and no keyboard is... er, the worst of both worlds?

[Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse]

It could be so revolutionary a laptop design...

As to be shaped like a badger wearing a satellite ground station. But at the end of the day after the hassle I had with my Sony over the pile of fail that was my Vaio - I wouldn't even touch this with an extremely long and safe stick.

[Anonymous Coward]

PCG

PCG = Sony Picturebook range as I recall, having owned one of the early incarnations (and vowed never to buy Sony again as a result).

[Chris Mellor]

Reply to Eh wot?

The non sequitur you referred to is now a sequitur - if that makes sense :-)

Chris.

[Britt Johnston]

@ jerome - double trouble

'two touchscreens and no keyboard is... er, the worst of both worlds?'

...better than two keyboards and no screen, though.

[Anonymous Coward]

Fire supression system built in?

Maybe the new thing is that the batteries won't burst into flames.