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Re: VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports

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Post by m3at »

Ambroos wrote: post #9

It'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.

I think it is aimed at the Japanese corporate market.

I work in tech in Japan, and you would be surprised how often we have to use VGA-only screens when giving a presentation outside of the startup bubble. I would say that about 2/3 of my clients have a VGA port on their bulky laptops. So VGA definitely make sense for this market.

A VAIO like this one would be on the expensive range compared to the Dell or cheaper Lenovo I commonly see though, but maybe the bulk price is be quite cheaper than the retail price?

Re: VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports

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Post by toast0 »

jjoonathan wrote: post #27

What 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 .

Properly keyboarding technique has your keyboard at the edge of your desk, that's not acheivable when your keyboard is on the far side of an 18 acre touchpad.

Re: VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports

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Post by yalok »

joezydeco wrote: post #97
owenversteeg wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VGA is incredible to have, yes, even in 2019. As a sibling comment says, it's "for the people who actually have to solve problems". Nearly all projectors, even new and expensive ones I've used, do not have HDMI. So there's an adapter. But maybe the damned fragile thing is broken, or it's missing, or it doesn't adapt to what you have (mini display port? USB-C? Who even knows!) or it requires power, or God knows what.…

it's a real hacker's port, dammit! Too young to remember the PC parallel port? That was the hacker port.

Totally. I remember building a LPT to IDE adapter to connect an IDE drive to my PDP-11 clone computer around 1994, and my friend wrote a driver for it... it worked!

Re: VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports

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Post by y4mi »

tobias2014 wrote: post #67
SECProto wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny, to me it just reminds me of a standard laptop from a few years ago. I have a consumer lenovo from a few years back, and it has all those ports except the USB-C.

Exactly, T-series! I even have a card reader in my T450s.

you could never use your T-laptop as an input or display device for another system. that was one of the best features of that theoretical adminbook

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Post by mulmen »

owenversteeg wrote: post #45
Ambroos wrote: post #9

It'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.

VGA is incredible to have, yes, even in 2019. As a sibling comment says, it's "for the people who actually have to solve problems". Nearly all projectors, even new and expensive ones I've used, do not have HDMI. So there's an adapter. But maybe the damned fragile thing is broken, or it's missing, or it doesn't adapt to what you have (mini display port? USB-C? Who even knows!) or it requires power, or God knows what.…

Just last week I presented a project on a TV from my 2017 MacBook Pro. I used a USB-C to HDMI adapter to connect to the HDMI to VGA connector to the VGA cable to the TV. I had to reconnect it three times and open and close the laptop to get it to work properly.

A paperclip would have been much easier.

Re: VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports

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Post by yyyk »

Half the comments seem to be surprised by VGA. But just about every 1080p monitor has the port, and even Steam statistics[0] show that over 60% of their users use 1080p, and about 75 percent use resolutions that are VGA compatible. 4K computer monitors are still uncommon - and Steam is likely tilted towards higher resolutions.

In short: Most existing monitors support VGA, and probably a good deal of those actually use the port.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

VGA can do 1440p, but it's rare on these monitors, so I didn't count the 4.71% 2560x1440 users.

Re: VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports

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Post by kristofferR »

microdrum wrote: post #83
jotto wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are the thermals that bad? My understanding is that they had a bad incident with a 6-core MBP in 2018, but they managed to fix it.

It’s not going to melt down. The whole line just falls way short of benchmarks for the chips. Linus Tech Tips did a good video on it.

Uhhh, I don't think you've seen LTTs recent video review of it - they came away quite impressed at its performance and thermals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxocVricANg

You've probably only seen an old video about the old models of the Macbook Pro. ;)

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