Comments on: Sony lets us look at the Vaio Pocket’s keyboard http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/30/sony-lets-us-look-at-the-vaio-pockets-keyboard/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:57:53 -0500 hourly 1 By: Steve Jabs http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/12/30/sony-lets-us-look-at-the-vaio-pockets-keyboard/comment-page-1/#comment-964036 Steve Jabs Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:10:21 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/?p=61870#comment-964036 Knowing Sony Vaio's I can already say that it will be expensive. However, it will likely be a beast of a netbook. The Vaio that I had before making a switch to my new Dell, so that I could run OS X on it, ran smooth and sweet... for almost 5 years. I had an issue with the logic board right at the end of my 3-year warranty (which only cost me $100 by the way) and they replaced the entire guts of the machine, extending the warranty another year and it is back running like a rock under the hands of my father now. For a machine that had a centrino processor and 512MB of RAM it still ran the Adobe CS3 Master suite just fine. I never once had any issues with it bogging down or being unusable. I think the only disappointing thing that will come of this netbook is it's price. I'm guessing it will be around $899. Here is my suggestion when it comes out. Wait 6 months. Buy it on their remanufactured site. You'll save between 25 and 50% and it will still carry the same 3 year warranty that it would if you bought it brand new. At least a.) it's a netbook from a great computer maker, and b.) it's not apple w/ some bullshit trendy tax. At least when I spend the money on a Vaio I feel like I am getting the full pricetag's worth out of it. Knowing Sony Vaio’s I can already say that it will be expensive. However, it will likely be a beast of a netbook. The Vaio that I had before making a switch to my new Dell, so that I could run OS X on it, ran smooth and sweet… for almost 5 years. I had an issue with the logic board right at the end of my 3-year warranty (which only cost me $100 by the way) and they replaced the entire guts of the machine, extending the warranty another year and it is back running like a rock under the hands of my father now. For a machine that had a centrino processor and 512MB of RAM it still ran the Adobe CS3 Master suite just fine. I never once had any issues with it bogging down or being unusable.

I think the only disappointing thing that will come of this netbook is it’s price. I’m guessing it will be around $899. Here is my suggestion when it comes out. Wait 6 months. Buy it on their remanufactured site. You’ll save between 25 and 50% and it will still carry the same 3 year warranty that it would if you bought it brand new.

At least a.) it’s a netbook from a great computer maker, and b.) it’s not apple w/ some bullshit trendy tax. At least when I spend the money on a Vaio I feel like I am getting the full pricetag’s worth out of it.

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