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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:55 PM PT Posted by Kalpana Ettenson

Get Online Anywhere With This Notebook

For those who need to connect to the Internet just about anywhere, Sony's revamped VAIO T-Series ultraportable, announced today, might be ideal. The notebook will have built-in WWAN (wireless wide area network) access technology, thereby enabling users to connect to the Internet using cellular coverage. Along with the technology, Sony will offer the choice of several extra-cost Cingular Wireless service plans. The T-Series will have 802.11g and Bluetooth built-in as well, providing users with a breadth of connectivity options.

It certainly seems like a well-equipped ultraportable: The 3-pound T-Series has a 10.6-inch widescreen, built-in rewritable DVD drive, and a 60GB hard drive. But at $2200, this model is not cheap. And I'm not so sure about the Cingular Wireless?will people want to pay extra monthly fees for Internet access any and everywhere?
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With the technology of having a one size fits all swiss army knife to tackle and use the internet everwhere. This at first seems like a good idea. Yet the downside to this is if one component fails, and you have everything in that one component ; then you you have to send the entire thing for repair along with your configuration and data stored in the hard drive and your bookmarks and e-mails together with it. So my take on this, is modular sepparate component that can be upgraded inidividualy so that you have access to other stuff you place in it. Sharp makes a little notebook called the MM20, I use it as a laptop if I dont reallyt want to carry a laptop computer. Its primarily for use in PowerPoint Presentations or quick excel spreadsheet reading...but I never use it as my main laptop, since it is limited in data storage. I carry a Gigabyte thumb drive with all my data in it. But in a pinch its better than not having anything. Suggested comment..."DONT" buy the SONY despite its claim, for the same amount of money you can assemble a similar laptop but using Verizon ( much better) if you do decide to pursue buying the thing, you will become obselete in the next 6 months, as technology changes that fast! and you are limited by what you have as hardware, if newer things come around, you would have an issue with unupgradability. Dont tie yourself down buying a one size fits all, technology changes every six, if not in the hardware, it would be in the Firm whare ( drivers for your components that make the system ) Sony is notorious for leaving you in the dust when it comes to SOny Laptops, I have bought Two of them, over 3 years time. They are not robusts units - very fragile...Fujitsu is seems to be better supporting their laptops....modularity is key here not a swiss army knife. Think about this...

cowb0yup
May 11, 2005
1:13 PM PT

In the future they should make notebooks with everything modular. This removable hard drives, memory chips, and drive bays that can be switched at the press of a button.

Joe Smith
May 12, 2005
6:25 AM PT
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