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Vaio ( Formerly Sony Vaio) Launches New Laptops. High prices, High Fashion, Low Performance

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Electronic devices in Japan are very expensive. Converting from Yen to USD may not be the best idea as the laptop may be a lot cheaper elsewhere.

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4GB RAM? 2011 called, they want their specs back.

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I bet they're just as bad as the old Sony Vaios...

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12 hours ago, suicidalfranco said:

at that price, i'd rather get a Macbook air

And get a significantly better processor and design with a abandoned product, I mean really VAIO? How can you miss up so bad?

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16 hours ago, goodtofufriday said:

Source: http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/7/26/12283780/vaio-c15-specs-colors-price-japan

 

 

All I can say is that this is really a shame. The Vaio line used to be pretty good a few years back. This seems to be pretty much taking advantage of people who want something that looks good and don't know anything about computers. How disappointed they will be. 

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Vaio made the Z Canvas which was the opposite. High performance and high specs and high price.

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Vaio is going to end up just like Emachines, Nokia, Blackberry and others. This makes me sad.

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On 7/26/2016 at 10:31 PM, Weird Face said:

4GB RAM? 2011 called, they want their specs back.

more like 2009 for that price of a laptop. 

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pair this with the new Blackberry smartphone and you are golden. xD

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This is the worst thing ive ever seen 

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On 27.7.2016 at 8:08 AM, revsilverspine said:

I bet they're just as bad as the old Sony Vaios...

I think they were petty good.

My mum has a 17'' Sony Vaio with an 3rd gen i3 and 4GB of Ram. It looks still very modern for its age, it's relatively thin, has thin bezels, an awesome keyboard and the screen is not bad either. 

 

 

 

 

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24 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

I think they were petty good.

My mum has a 17'' Sony Vaio with an 3rd gen i3 and 4GB of Ram. It looks still very modern for its age, it's relatively thin, has thin bezels, an awesome keyboard and the screen is not bad either. 

Back when we had a contract with Sony we'd be getting as many as 50 Vaios in the repair shop that were in desperate need of fixing. I've seen things from power plugs all the way to motherboards failing in stupid ways with no user-damaged parts

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Just now, revsilverspine said:

Back when we had a contract with Sony we'd be getting as many as 50 Vaios in the repair shop that were in desperate need of fixing. I've seen things from power plugs all the way to motherboards failing in stupid ways with no user-damaged parts

I personally remember power plugs being an issue.

 

Their late game laptops were nice. I believe they used OLED screens and got them to be astonishingly thin, and had great specs. Then they closed up. I was a bit sad since I was impressed finally with their product. 

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They also have high end line Vaio Z which looks pretty good on the paper. Low end machines are probably there to get to the bigger crowd with something unique, in this case - their color lineup.

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That's a very ugly POS laptop, wtf. And I didn't notice the mousepad is lefthanded, more reason to not buy this POS.

GG VAIO, you were the best back in the 2006.

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