SONY unibody-design

That is the beauty of marketing, it doesn't have to be special.
It's all in how you spin it.

A recent car advertisement said it "Comes standard with dual airbags!"
Great, that means it conforms to the letter of the law in the U.S..
Let me guess, it comes with 4 tires too!

 

I think the Vaio X is basically a unibody design.

The Z i would have said that the upper body was unibody but it is harder to make that argument because of the palmrests. The shell has been cut out quite a bit to fit the raised palmrests.

YouTube - Hands On With Sonys Z Series VAIO Aluminum Notebook

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/design.html

The VGN Z did have more a unibody upper case.

 

Marketing people are from a different planet, I swear.
When I was a kid, a famous German car manufacturer had an advertising campaign: "[Car brand] -- always first in line".
Um, personally, I wouldn't buy a car so slow that it would always be first in line...

Then again, consumers aren't much better. They think that "can save you up to 15% or more" is a promise of savings, so perhaps the advertisers know what they're doing after all...

 

I don't get what is wrong with that statement?
The car is so fast that its always at the front of the line, it doesn't come in last. Thats what I get from that statement.

 

In some forms of racing the slow cars from qualifying start in front, faster cars in back.

 

If there's a line, it means the cars behind the head of the line have caught up because they went faster, and are waiting for a chance to pass. If the leader were faster, it would pull away.

 

I think that only happens in US, especially the south...you don't see that on German Autobahn, though....

 

Well, it would happen anytime there is one lane of traffic for any significant distance. I'm sure that somewhere in Germany there is such a road?

 

I thought 'always first in line' means that there's a queue to be set up, and all the cars start at the same time to get in line. And the fastest cars can get there first and hence are at the front of the queue.

If there's nothing stopping the cars (like red lights), then yeah I would imagine the fastest ones will always be at the back of any line of cars.

 

No, you don't know that. You just know that the lead car is the slowest.
(Which is disproportionately more often a white car than any other colour. Points to whoever can rationalise why.)

Back on topic, I am pretty convinced that "unibody" more than anything is an excuse for not having user replaceable batteries. Call it a feature, charge extra, and sit back -- the buyers will come up with explanations for why it's better, in order to justify their spendings.