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    Video: Sony X Series laptop hands-on review

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Gareth_848, Sep 3, 2009.

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    Gareth_848 Newbie

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    Five years ago Sony had the VAIO X505:

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    Review: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1970

    I got to use it and review it. It was awesome for the first five minutes to look at and experience the thinness. Then you realize you just paid $2K for a laptop that's horribly underpowered relative to a $600 mainstream notebook and buyers remorse hits you hard.

    But, it's definitely great for building buzz to show these things off at an expo. You'd think by now that 5-years on we'd have a laptop as thin as paper since we already achieved the thin as a paper notebook measurement in 2004 :D
     
    Andrew Baxter, Sep 3, 2009
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  3. tizzao

    tizzao Notebook Evangelist

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    I just watched that review and when you hear "Atom" with "1000 to 1500 pounds" you question the judgment of everyone involved in making it. I hope they mean to put a new version of the atom in there (and it has miraculously high performance) or they go with a ULV.
     
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  4. Laptopaddict

    Laptopaddict Notebook Deity

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    Do they hav a link for this higher performance ?
     
    Laptopaddict, Sep 3, 2009
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