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Posted by Steve on 10/06/36 11:45
On 19 Apr 2006 20:46:28 -0700, "Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Allan wrote:
>> On 19 Apr 2006 07:06:39 -0700, "Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> >This time with their laptops.
>> >
>> >It's getting harder and harder to want to have anything to do with this
>> >company (*cough*blur-ay* (Sic) cough*)
>> >
>> >-goro-
>> >
>> >http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=49664
>> >
>> >If you are like me, you purchased the VGN-SZ160p/c thinking it will
>> >have a carbon fibre case.
>>
>> Yeah.... one "forum" review kills a company like Sony.......
>>
>> How about these two?
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>> "Fantastic design, feels fast and powerful, beautiful screen, AV
>> Entertainment Dock"
>>
>> Sony VAIO VGN-A160 Full Review
>>
>> http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review1781_main8913.html
>>
>> Four out of Five Stars:
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>> Stay connected everywhere with this sleek, tiny notebook.
>>
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1860090,00.asp
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>Allan,
>you do recall that the Sony ROOTKIT fiasco started on a single blog.
>
>The point here is not an opinion poast regarding the quality or speed
>or expense of a Sony product. It is about whether the product has been
>falsely advertised as having a CARBON FIBER case when it, in fact, has
>a PLASTIC case.
>
>This is a fsck up. Does this mean that notebook is not a good
>notebook? no. But it does mean that once again, Sony (or in this case
>the disconnect b/w the Sony marketeers and the engineers) has created a
>problem for themselves.
Apparently the laptop DOES in fact use a carbon fibre case, but it is
fibre in black rather than clear resin. Scraping away at the material
on the so called "Plastic" case reveals the diagonal cross fibres. So
it may be an ethetic issue, but not misrepresentation in any way on
the part of Sony.
... Steve ..
>
>-goro-
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