I see tiny has been redefined. Doesn’t anyone remember when there were 6” subnotebooks in the vaio catalog?
VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports
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#22Does it have a Memory Stick Pro Duo reader to go with the SD?
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#23Suddenly Apple's plethora of dongles looks like the better option
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#24I thought Sony quit making VAIO computers at one point?
Am I wrong? Did they never leave? Did they come back? Or are these just rebadged Chinese laptops?
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#25Reminded me somewhat of "A small notebook for a system administrator": https://habr.com/en/post/437912/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19052688
The domain may have given a hint, but my first thought upon seeing the pictures was "this looks like a very stereotypically Russian/former-USSR design" --- it does not even try to be elegant or beautiful at all, but has a very practical and functional aesthetic.
It looks like a portable version of industrial computers to me.
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#26It's pretty funny how this has basically the same ports (besides the USB C for charging) as my 2010 VAIO Z. VGA is the most surprising one to still see. I wonder what the reasoning behind that is. I can't really see them targeting the corporate market.
HDMI cables are fragile. More than a few times this year I had to revert to VGA. Crazy really.
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#27What are the practical and functional use cases that benefit from a clit mouse vs, say, a trackpad? Genuine question, I've seen them on older laptops but I always assumed they were purely vestigial from a time when trackpads were no good.
Also, mandatory: in Russia, clit mouse is blue.
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#28I thought Sony quit making VAIO computers at one point? Am I wrong? Did they never leave? Did they come back? Or are these just rebadged Chinese laptops?
It is now made by VAIO Corporation. Sony owns 25%, rest it sold to Japan Industrial Partners in 2014.
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#29What are the practical and functional use cases that benefit from a clit mouse vs, say, a trackpad? Genuine question, I've seen them on older laptops but I always assumed they were purely vestigial from a time when trackpads were no good. Also, mandatory: in Russia, clit mouse is blue .
No movement of the fingers off the homerow. It's really actually very useful if you get a good one, though having no middle mouse button (I'm looking at you HP Elitebook I have to use for work) is a horrible mistake.
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#30Ports are useful (to state the obvious). I like this.