Sony Can't Even Think for Itself
From CNN:
The newly designed VAIO QR sheds the magnesium-grey outer shell seen on its conventional line of laptops and adopts a blue-black translucent plastic surface that is so dark it is almost opaque.
And with a light grey aluminum pipe surrounding the outer edges connecting into a fold-out handle, it is reminiscent of Apple Computer’s iBook laptop….No plans are in place yet for a wider choice of colors, Sony said.
WTF? Sony might actually be the one to pull this off. Those VAIOs were selling pretty well, as I recall, without the translucent casing. So ‘industry’ analysts will be excited when someone else can sell a translucent computer besides Apple, except they were selling anyway. What a crock. Can NO ONE come up with an idea of their own that sells well? At least they’re not coming in multiple colors (did you ever notice of all the iMac ripoffs, none ever came in yellow, because Apple never released a yellow one?).The writer of this article also misses the translucent point to begin with. ‘The aim is the same — to make laptops a fashion statement as much as portable personal and business information tools. Uh, the iMac or iBook weren’t fashion statements (I won’t go into the well-worn discussion of why the translucency worked on the iMac and not on the HP Pavilion or those ugly-as-fuck pink TVs). Why can’t any of these people get it?
Also, try to find a picture of this damn thing on Sony’s site. It’s impossible. Their’s is possibly the worst navigation system I’ve ever seen. If you try to go to the VAIO section, you end up on a page telling you that the page has moved, and why don’t you try this hideous multiple-dropdown-with-graphics-and-a-go-button-on-the-wrong-side thing?
Maybe I’m wrong. Let me know.