Sony’s latest portable is the “Pocket Style” Vaio Type P, which you can see rather optimistically illustrated above almost fitting into a pocket, in what Sony probably hopes is the latest fashion trend.
Their slogan is “The PC you can’t keep your hands off”; wags immediately added “(because it’ll fall out)”.
The online reaction has not been kind:
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This is Sony Style (or possibly S**y Style). Will it catch on, like Aya Style has?
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LOL at the last picture
no server?
Forget the server, where's the monitor?
"It's a S**y!"
Just a monitor?
I could fit a whole TV in my back pocket
lols i wonder where u would fit the monitor on the last pic
Gotta love Vaio. The specs are always good, not spectacular though, and you know you will look hot with it.
I love when some isch-looking guys sits on the cafeteria with some disgusting IBM or Dell and I come there, pulling up my designer Vaio computer with the ingraved VAIO on the back being so dazzling that people can't keep their eyes of it (or me ;) ).
A ThinkPad is about a hundred times more gorgeous than any shiny Vaio...
People still buy Thinkpads? o.0
People still buy S**y?
Nothing wrong with Dell, or IBM for the matter.
I agree - without irony - that I prefer the classic style of a ThinkPad over the overly shiny Vaios.
I'm in fact writing from my ThinkPad T61p, which specs beats these of most laptops out there at the moment, by the way...
I rather have a powerful computer that does not cost me an arm and a leg, instead of some mediocre machine that is little more than a fashion accesory.
To be honest both brands pretty much suck.
But I'm sure that Sony VAIO will lose to any IBM Thinkpad in the endurance department. ThinkPads are performance monsters.
Spoken like a true Narcissist
I'm pretty sure Narcissist was making a play on his nick here. =/
On that note, I do think that anyone willing to pay 50%-100% extra for a 'designer brand' laptop is completely broken in the head.
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"People still buy Thinkpads?"
Er, uh. yes.
They're among the best PC notebooks to choose from. They are not quite as slick as HPaqs, SONY or Apple - but that can also be an opinion.
The new SL series is very slick, very nice and costs about $550USD with Core2Duo, 2GB, 15" screen.
Their IDEApads are more consumer friendly in terms of looks. Not as tough or expensive as the ThinkPad line.
As of today, I still recommend ThinkPad over most notebooks.
the monitor goes on the other pocket
The other pocket is free... I don't get your point...
=3
Heh, I love the normal laptop & PC images xD
It's still pretty big to be putting it in your pocket though. Also if you don't keep your hand on it someone would easily still it from you.
“The PC you can’t keep your hands off” EVER!!
This article certainly cheered up my day.
Amazing how the 3rd last and last seem to balance in thier pockets with no other support
You can't see what the camera didn't captured.
Probably that CPU box is ripped off the unnecessary peripherals.
Or that's a strong jeans. Hmm..
I wonder if the Sony add is taking the piss out of all those stupidly large wallets that all the guys in Japan jam into their back pocket. Bloody things are the size of a shoe and they still squeeze them in...
This post is full of win.
I lol'ed. EEE is still a better option. And it FITS in my pants
ROFLMAO @last image
XDDDDD
What's interesting is the "Photoshop" tag added in this post.
Please don't tell me you can't tell which is shopped...
I can't tell which is shopped...
Unfortunately, I can't tell which ones are shopped. The Macbook looks suspicious than the others though.
lol
my first chuckle of the day.
IT'S A SONY
IT'S A SONY
Yer doin it wrong.
It's a S**y!
could be worse toshibas laptops exploded... wai that was sonys fault nevermind.
I lol'ed at the last 3. xD
Now thats humour xD
I assume it's going to be a typing disaster. I own a Vaio CR; it looks sleek, stylish, and ergonomic, but the keyboard was absolute crap. Although it does muffle the typing sounds, but the keys were too flat and unfeeling on the board. I couldn't type a simple sentence without massive typos; most involving missing letters. I assume that the sensors in the keys are so bad that they can't detect keys that are pressed a fraction of a millisecond from each other. It can't detect simultaneous keys. It's a pain for those who type fast. Shame that my Vaio can't keep up with me; causing my documents to contain missing letters. Did I also mention that the keys are also too far apart and lacks much of that "pressure" feel when typing?
Also, even with a better graphics card than the standard issue Dell cards, there isn't much improvement in performance and graphics.
I regret purchasing a Vaio. If I had known that Vaio was more style than performance, I would have purchased a Lenovo or Acer. An article on Kotaku once mentioned about a Sony staff saying that Sony stuffs 10 year old computer parts into shiny shells.
And that was just the older CR. Now with a smaller laptop such as this; I had tried many mini laptops, and I can tell you that the typing experience was a complete disaster. Keys are always too small and too close to each other that you had to resort to the old school Typewriter two finger style to avoid typos. Couple that with crappy flat keyboard keys; it would be an epic fail.
And you are paying a high price for it. I'm not kidding. It's expensive and you're paying for crap. Unless you don't mind spending extra on portable foldable USB keyboards to go with it.
But I still want to buy that Pocket Vaio up there because it looks so damn awesome stylish and nice and I'm a fucking hypocrite.
I really like the keyboard on my old (1998?) Vaio PCG-161L. This was a "netbook" before the netbook fad ever began. It's small, but the keys have a distinct, clicky-feel, and the eraser-head mouse means I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard.
Its hard drive failed about one month after the one-year warranty expired.
Okay... I looked for manuals for it, and found nothing.
No BIOS updates. (It'd be nice to be able to boot from USB CD, MemoryStick, etc., but noooo . . .)
I bought a PS2 because I'd read it had a Linux development kit offered by S**y; they yanked it off the market before I could buy it.
They brought us DRM'd CDs (with included rootkit)...
I'm never buying another S**y product. Their corporate practices are corrupt, and they're a bunch of arrogant, F**king D**ks. F**k 'em.
But hey, that's just my opinion. (Did I mention that I really like the keyboard on my PCG-161L?)
Oh yeah, what's the possibility of falling victim to snatch thieves while carrying these things around in your jeans?
im pretty sure you would notice something that large being pulled out jeans that small. also who the fuck would bring a laptop to place you know its going to get stolen at?
On that matter, who the fuck would bring a laptop in their pockets?
Who the fuck would know when or where it's gonna get stolen?
There was a girl standing just outside college, getting ready to go in, and someone snatches away her purse. And why didn't anyone else help, including the guard standing nearby, I will never know.
By the way, just walking by the road is enough to fall victim. You'll know it when you hear a motorcycle coming right at you from behind.
It's Japan. Fashionable men carry their giant wallets in their pockets like that everywhere. People leave their phones completely exposed in a side pocket of their bag. Nobody seems to give a crap about pickpockets...
The internet is not so kind indeed.
Enjoy your sixty minute battery life, these ridiculously small computers are retarded.
but but but.. they get you laid, dont they?
When you say "laid", do you mean laid out on the pavement after some guy knocked you out so he can steal your Sony?
computers will not get you laid
but they're chic. like ipods. and girls are stupid like that.
Actually it's supposed to have pretty good battery life like around 4 hrs I think.
Must have really shitty resolution or brightness to achieve that much life, my laptop gets only six or so, and it's roughly double the size.
The tiny TZ series had good battery life and remember this one's atom powered with a smaller screen and probably SSD.
Well once again they haven't released the specs yet and hell I wish mine got six, I can barely scrape two(although the blu-ray and 9800 gts might have something to do with that).
The Monitor is about 1600 by something resolution. 768 I think it was.
Most of these small computers last for 4-5 hours if not more.
Haha. The reaction pictures are so full of win!
I'm gonna have nightmares about the size of the keyboard on that thing.
But where is the rack mounted version?
I'd ROFL like hell if that desktop PC tower crushed someone's feet or toes!
and we have winrar
dugg.
http://digg.com/design/Sony_s_Pocket_Style_VAIO_Type_P_Sony_Style
Thanks, we've still yet to manage the front page - many thanks to anyone who Diggs us.
I'd rather have a PSP with a touchscreen. Seems like that would work 100 times better.
They wouldn't do it until after they're satisfied that everyone has bought enough Sony PSPs. Then they would fuck everyone up by releasing the touchscreen version soon after that when they could have done it much sooner. Then everyone is forced to buy it despite already owning an older PSP.
rofl scrolling down was a great lulz
The last was absolutely hilarious.
If they can make a PC that fits in your pants how come they cant make it so we can have lolis >__> I just dont get this world anymore D:
I lol'd so hard on the last one
That was so full of win, really. Notice how the reaction pics didn't have a S**y in them at all? IBM, Mac and a Dell, but the Dell wins it.
I can imagine stealing one from an idiot who puts it in his pocket the same way as the pic...
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=4GeWRqZHYEY&feature=hd
The funny part is: If it really was "pocketable", it would be useless... :P
But Sony already does have a pocketable laptop, don't it?
Known as Sony U
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/vaio73.jpg
I'd buy it if I had the cash. While it may not be pocket size it's still sexy for a netbook.
Sexy, but I'd rather buy a notebook that would actually be big enough for me to read the worlds on the screen. O:
They have to beat Panasonic's Toughbooks first. That is, if Sony has the balls to put one of these VAIO Ps on a lighted bunch of dynamite.
I've done this with my Acer Aspire One and the pockets of my cargo pants :D