Sony Launches Teaser Site for Revolutionary New Vaio Laptop

alexp999 · Dec 22, 2008

Sony New Zealand has put up a teaser site called, "The Wait Is Over", stating, "On the 9th of January you will change the way you look at laptops. Forever". Other than a glossy Vaio logo and a link to enter a competition, for a chance to, "Win the revolutionary new VAIO", no other information is available. Could it be the world's thinnest laptop? The smallest? Or even the longest battery life? Who knows, all we can do now is speculate and wait for more information to emerge. If you want to see it for yourself, the website can be found here.
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vypher · Dec 22, 2008

That's a good marketing ploy, I think. Hope it turns out to be actually good.

WhiteLotus · Dec 22, 2008

I hope it can play crysis on max with a battery life of a day.

Seriously., out of all those things, battery life would make me buy it.

Triprift · Dec 22, 2008

Dont tell me a lappy that runs cool lol now thats abit farfetched.

Katanai · Dec 22, 2008

"On the 9th of January you will change the way you look at laptops. Forever"

Blah...

It's an OLED screen in a laptop. I would bet money on that.

FreedomEclipse · Dec 22, 2008

Katanai said:
"On the 9th of January you will change the way you look at laptops. Forever"

Blah...

It's an OLED screen in a laptop. I would bet money on that.

Maybe they hit a new speed record on how soon/fast their laptop batteries catch fire after date of perchase????

I suppose that would be 'sorta' worth the wait.

FordGT90Concept · Dec 22, 2008

Katanai said:
It's an OLED screen in a laptop. I would bet money on that.

Sounds about right:
http://www.itproportal.com/articles/2008/10/04/sony-working-bendable-folding-oled-screens/

AlienIsGOD · Dec 22, 2008

Maybe sony has actually put the Cell processor in it. I read somewhere that toshiba was gonna start using the Cell in some of their laptops.

lemonadesoda · Dec 22, 2008

Oh man, I hate rumour spinning and pre-launch no-info baiting

TPU should hold back news posts until FACTS are available. Let's hope we dont become yet another marketing copy+paste replication site.

FordGT90Concept · Dec 22, 2008

Only IBM is actively pursuing CELL processors and they are doing it for servers/supercomputers. It's not likely to find a CELL processor in a laptop any time soon (if ever).

AlienIsGOD · Dec 22, 2008

Toshiba is also using them http://www.cell-processor.net/news.php http://gizmodo.com/5025238/toshiba-qosmio-g55-is-first-laptop-with-cell-processor-aboard . mind u these r a cpl months old but nonetheless Toshiba is using them commercially.

Cuzza · Dec 22, 2008

I wouldn't get too excited. NZers are gullible. It's probably nothing.

ShadowFold · Dec 22, 2008

I've seen so many of these and none have actually been very exciting at all.

kysg · Dec 22, 2008

maybe because SONY excels at overhyping practically everything it owns....

zaqwsx · Dec 22, 2008

^That is very true. But if its something like an oled screen that would be sweet!

Delta6326 · Dec 22, 2008

its probably is a OLED slapped on to a laptop take a look http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/042108-sony-shows-razor-thin-prototype-oled.html

DrPepper · Dec 23, 2008

OLED ? anyone care to tell me whats so good about them :confused:

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