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- PerennialTears, on 10/12/2007, -8/+61LOL, they're creatively calling it the MockBook.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+50I wonder if they will be using Sony brand batteries...
- satansbanjo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31gxcdesign: I'd like to meet the British person who talks like that
- mancat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30"lol that's how the British say it in the UK"
Do they say it differently when they're outside of the UK? - super_spyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23they are a little different the macbook has a small key floating in the middle of non key, the sony is all key. Besides this type of keyboard has been used by sony for quite a while (before the mac book) I believe the s360 was the first computer i saw them use this design on. Other than that it does look VERY similar..... but all and all they are missing the simplistic minimalistic design of a real apple (all the lights/slots on the front, and a damn cd tray waiting to get broken)
http://media.arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macbook.media/12-keys.jpg - vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -0/+16numptydumpty.. dude, this is Digg not MySpace
- boolean, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18I guess the supplier had too many keyboards...
bigger photo:
http://www.sony-europe.com/res/attachment/file/68/1158155174068.JPG - rejectpenguin, on 10/12/2007, -33/+49I guess apple now owns the licensing for anything white.
- mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -9/+23At first, I was thinking, "It's not like Apple owns the white laptop. C'mon, lighten up and give Sony a break".... but then I saw the chiclet style keyboard and started to think that maybe they did rip off the Macbook.
Sony usually makes nice looking computers, I don't see why they need to rip Apple off.... but it looks like they did rip them off. Oh well. - dw2005, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16LOL! the moto;
"Sony Like No Other"
http://www.sony-europe.com/PageView.do?section=en_EU_Press&pressrelease=1158155174078&site=odw_en_EU&page=PressReleaseDetail
Classic! - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16"It appears to have two mouse buttons. Brilliant!"
Jesus Christ, users have been able to use two-button mice with macs for at least a decade. Give it a rest already. - mozzep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10They should consider the switch to slot-loading drives. The laptop looks nice, though.
- notorious., on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@shrewduser
You linked a MacBook Pro. What they're talking about in the article is a white MacBook.
http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Umm, ok. I'm going go out on a limb and say that this is the first time any of you have ever seen a VAIO. Sony has been making VAIO laptops in this style since the days when Apple was still churning out candy-colored iBooks. This doesn't stray very far from the design style that Sony has used for years, and I don't see any evidence that Apple has a patent on using a silver finish and a recessed "chiclet" keyboard.
I don't really give a crap about Sony. I'd never buy any of their overpriced gear, but I'm getting pretty tired of the mindless group bashing here. - cragga, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17you people think apple owns the sole right to produce mildly attractive minimalist white electronics.
well they don't.
sorry.
laptop uses quasi-unique keyboard and colour white!
give me a break.
apple fanboys are the worst.
buried for fanboy masturbation. - Jacob, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14actually sony used chiclet keyboards for longer than apple has, granted now that the whole laptop is white and all it does look more like a mac but honestly it wasn't too far away from what sony already had. And I am the furthest from a sony fan as you can get don't just make stupid assumptions like that.
- notauser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Well yeah is a rip off. Its a clam-shell design has keyboard and oh my god it has a LCD too. Good lord is white. Give me a break will ya. now what I'm really interested in is whats under the hood will it run circles around the mac book, and if so who the hell cares if it looks like. All laptops are pretty much the same there's not a lot of room for improvement besides putting a different name on the case. And yeah that keyboard is not new. Just because apple made it popular it doesn't mean the invented it. Is like saying they invented the mp3 player because of the ipod. Damn apple fans
- pxa270, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8This is sensationalist bullcrap. The Sony keyboard looks much more like their own Vaio TX keyboards than the the MacBook's. See for yourself:
MacBook:
http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/14087.jpg
Sony N10:
http://www.sony-europe.com/res/attachment/file/68/1158155174068.JPG
Sony TX series (out for almost a year):
http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/11995.jpg - justinvt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12While they do look the same, that's just because Apple was the first to popularize this hyper-minimal design style. Apple doesn't own the patent for rectangles.
- FinishdLawSkool, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Who is the fool that thought Sony is still being innovative?
- pxa270, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@DelMonte
I don't know what's up with your obsession with "chicklet keyboards", but Sony has been using this exact keyboard for some time now:
New Vaio N10:
http://www.sony-europe.com/res/attachment/file/72/1158155174072.JPG
Old Vaio TX:
http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/11999.jpg - trylleklovn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Who can blame them? It's an awesome design :)
- razangriff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Apple fanboy fever + Sony-bashing bandwagon = oversensationalised rubbish.
- Nicodascorpio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I agree. Upon closer examination the keyboard is NOT a "apple chiclet style" like the macbook. Its the same keyboard Sony has been using for years. Overall the design does resemble the macbook pro more than the macbook but I encourage it. Its the operating system its running that I care about. Really, how many ways can you design "sleek/minimal". Thats the whole point of the design, to reduce bulk and unnecessary embellishments that serve no purpose. Last check apple didn't hold the patent on the minimalist design. And the fact there are media card slots on the front? Hmmm maybe apple should think about copying..... bah what do I know ;).
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6This is the first non-Apple "smooth" laptop I've seen. Pretty much 4 outside faces when it's closed, which is not usual for PC notebooks.
- LaughingMan11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Not an exact rip off... The screen hinge isn't the same as the MacBook.... and this thing has a bigger screen than the MacBook, but the same resolution heh.
- hangtown, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6As already mentioned, Apple's design is keys surrounded by the laptop cover... ie, the keys protrude up through the laptop case. Not so with the Sony design - yes, the keys are "chicklet" style but the keyboard is one piece in a large hole in the laptop case. So for those saying the keyboard is an exact copy, no, it isn't. Go to Apple's site, view the macbook gallery, and then view the jpg of the sony linked to above.
- iAlex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hi-res photos:
http://www.sony-europe.com/res/attachment/file/64/1158155174064.JPG
http://www.sony-europe.com/res/attachment/file/68/1158155174068.JPG
http://www.sony-europe.com/res/attachment/file/72/1158155174072.JPG - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8asus, off the top of my head is one manufacturer whos had that style keyboard in the past. there are a couple others, have to look them up and find some pics, but they are out there.
- notauser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was thinking more along the lines of computing power. Macbooks seem to have gotten stuck on the 2.0 intel and only supports up to 2 GB of ram (512 off the shelf) Just basic hardware questions The OS we know what it is.
- pxa270, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Correct links:
New Vaio N10:
http://www.sony-europe.com/res/attachment/file/72/1158155174072.JPG
Old Vaio TX:
http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/11999.jpg - DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -13/+16The fact that it's white alone is not a problem, but the chiclet keyboard is just screaming "rip-off".
(And please don't bring me a list of all 80's computers that had chiclet keyboards before. It doesn't mean anything in the current context) - rosebot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Thats NOT a chiclet keyboard. Sony has been using that style BEFORE the Macbook even came out. My 13" SZ110 has that style key, its beveled on the edge, and is nothing like the Macbook keyboard.
- buglord, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Oh, come on! Sony has been using keyboards like this for years!
- evilspoons, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6My friend has a pre-Macbook (or Macbook Pro, for that matter) release Vaio with a carbon-fibre body and black "chiclet" style keys, so the keyboard isn't anything new.
Come on guys, it's a silver minimalist laptop. There's not a lot you can DO with that sort of design. - TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"What would you guys say if Apple released a brown iPod"
Id lose all respect for Apple simple as that. - chrisrosa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3that's more titanium than macbook
- rosebot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Exactly, mark this inaccurate and move on.
- flabby, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6It's could be ASUS's desgin. They are the ODM for many computer companies.
"ASUS also produces components for other corporations, including Sony (PlayStation 2), Apple Computer (iPod, iPod Shuffle, MacBook), Alienware, Falcon Northwest, HP and Compaq." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asustek
ASUS also has an Apple like laptop of their own.
http://www.asus.com/products2.aspx?l1=5&l2=75 - luckyjonny, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Bollocks. Sony make silver-coloured laptop. Apple fanboys scream that Apple invented silver.
- jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4who cares... apple copies their designs and apps for many things
- rockintom99, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4...I actually think the new Viao looks a bit better than the macbook. Not that i would buy either, anyway.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Do a google search for: "chiclet keyboard" sony
A whopping 698 results! And none of them shows any Sony model like the current full-size chiclet keyboard on this Sony laptop.
Sony only used chiclet keyboards on sub-notebooks and portable keyboards for PDAs, and that until the MacBook...
This is the first time Sony uses a full size chiclet keyboard on a normal size notebook aimed at the consumer market, and just by some random coincidence, it's also white and has a similar shape and very similar keyboard/trackpard placement.
Once again, Apple had to take the risk that people wouldn't like it, and when it proved to be popular, Sony decided to push those keyboards at the forefront instead of only using them in specialized portable products like they did in the past. - daridave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3SONY copying? If anyone here follows the video game industry, this is absolutely no surprise.
- ZeroLogic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Like you all don't know who foxconn is? Uhm.. hello?
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Who cares, didn't Apple copy the GUI from Xerox? I've heard Jobs whine about people copying his designs, is he posting here? Is that all you have, whining? Get over it.
- richiestang78, on 10/12/2007, -12/+14If you cant make something cool, Rip off Apple
- dhan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Anybody who calls Vista as dressed up XP has to be dumb. This time it is MacDailyNews. God that site is crap.
On topic. That does look very similar to iBook though....oops I meant MacBook. (I hate the new name. my iBook G4 sounds way cooler than MacBook) - brandonking, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hate to break it to you fanboys, but Sony has had the chiklet keyboard on their models before Apple released the MacBook. Awww, too bad. You lose. Apple is a copycat.
- Qwfwq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The first time I saw the new Macbook, it's keyboard also reminded me of the ZX Spectrum and my old Timex Sinclair 2068, but after trying it I must say that it feels even flimsier than those (and Spectrum's keyboard was very bad).
And of course you don't get it why Sony would want to copy Apple's design - that´s why they didn't, silly Mac Paranoids. -
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