Now, I like Vaio designs, but the systems themselves have always struck me as compromises, with far too much proprietary hardware that isn't supported from one Windows version to the next.
Let's hope they don't keep up the tradition at Apple...
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IBMThinkPads; have a used 750 I picked up a couple of weeks ago for $300.Whether the design/quality will continue in the same vein given IBM's sale of their PC-side to Lenovo we shall have to see.
I am looking forward to an Apple design x86-64 computer. It should run Windows quite nicely and look good too.
> The problem is that Sony never got the guts quite right...
Nobody gets the guts quite right. Yes, many PC designs have extraordinary capabilities, but they never quite get the chrome and polish finished. I have a Dell Lattitude C800, Selene has a Dell Inspiron 600M, I have a friend with a Toshiba Tecra M series, and they all work most of the time, but they all have some weird little wart that causes massive frustration. I really get tired of watching laptop sometimes drain their batteries when their lid is closed - and no, it's not windows, but instead, it is the vendor's power management driver or their firmware hiccuping.
I get tired of system designers breaking the written architecture in order to squeeze out a little more battery life or forcing the chips to fit within the heat dissipation budget of their enclosures. It goes on, and it is my hope that an Apple designed x86 laptop will suffer less from these problems than all of the PC latops I have seen to date.
Unfortunately I don't think it'll be Apple now, if that story is true...
I know Apple won't make all the mistakes that Sony did. I just don't rate Sony as PC designers that highly. It's a shame Apple can't hire back the PowerBook/iBook designers who went off to Motion and OQO and places like that; after all, they have x86 experience now ;-)
You read the part about how they had been building Mac OS X on Intel platforms for the past 5 years, just in case. You know that you can buy Macintosh Intel development system today. How are they're doing that without hardware and software engineers that know Intel? And considering that the H1B visa have been used up for the year (in fact, this year's allotment was allocated in October of last year), and that if you hired a Japanese engineer, it would be best case 6 months before you could get them into the US to work...
As it is, Apple have no need to move engineers to the US - they're much more likely to employ them in the far east. That would solve a lot of problems when transferring the design to manufacturing by their existing OEM partners (who currently ODM several Intel laptops themselves...). The TiBook I'm using right now was made by Acer...