[ThickGlasses]

  I believe it's supposed to represent an amplifier.

Ah, don't mind me. I'm dumb

 

[mechgamer123]

 

 

 
Really does live up to the alternate name Sony gave it. It truly is a monster. (-_-")
 
I honestly wonder why nobody has a 2-in-1 flip mechanism like the VAIO Z. The only one that's remotely close was the old XPS 12 2-in-1 and the Acer Aspire R13 but those aren't as elegant as this.

Is it really that powerful though? I think the quad core skylake in the XPS 15 would probably beat it out...
 
And probably because it looks kind of janky to me? I wasn't all that impressed with previous Sony VAIO convertibles and I'm still on the fence about this but as a laptop it looks glorious regardless.

You're comparing the predecessor architecture to the successor so...yes the Skylake will win by a very small amount.
 
Does it look jank? I find it a lot more elegant than the other stuff out there right now.
 
Samsung just released the ATIV Book 9 Pro which is a 15" w/ a 4k screen and 950M (I really wish they sold a 1080p variant) and it's beautiful but expensive. Comes w/ Wolfson stuff though for the headphone out so it eliminates the need to bring a dedicated DAC and amp with you.

You think it'll win by only a small amount, despite being dual core vs quad core? :O
 
I dunno, it just feels like the it might be susceptible to breaking moreso than a regular laptop hinge... Shrug.
 
Meh, looks like it has terrible battery life though.
 

  https://vaio.com/products/z/
 
You know what? This is one damn sexy premium laptop..... I'm totally sold on this now.
It costs around the same as a XPS13 and has similar features / performance.
 
I'm not sure how rugged the folding mechanism is from the website so I'll try to find a demo next time I go to Japan....
 
I love the sleek black design but it seems to lack keyboard back-lit.
Welp, guess that's a no-go for me because I use my laptop in the dark 40%  of the time and I can't type blind.

Wow... How much does the xps 13 cost? The 13 would cost like half the price of the vaio z here.

 

[akiroz]

  Wow... How much does the xps 13 cost? The 13 would cost like half the price of the vaio z here.

my mid-tier XPS13 was around HK$13k, a mid-tier VAIO Z is 220k JPY which is around HK$14k

 

[Tiddlesworth]

Finally finished Cowboy Beep Boop, 8/10, there was a lot of everything but they didn't really dive deep enough IMO, sometimes you gotta carry that weight.

 

[Tom Yum Goong]

  Finally finished Cowboy Beep Boop, 8/10, there was a lot of everything but they didn't really dive deep enough IMO, sometimes you gotta carry that weight.

Not deep enough into what?

 

[Tiddlesworth]

  Not deep enough into what?

Everything, it tries to do everything it gets stretched to thin, it just leaves me wanting, it focused quite a lot on the characters yet I still feel unsatisfied and wanted to know more.

 

[Ra97oR]

 
Wow... How much does the xps 13 cost? The 13 would cost like half the price of the vaio z here.

my mid-tier XPS13 was around HK$13k, a mid-tier VAIO Z is 220k JPY which is around HK$14k

Wow, laptops are so bloody expensive...

 

[Tom Yum Goong]

  Everything, it tries to do everything it gets stretched to thin, it just leaves me wanting, it focused quite a lot on the characters yet I still feel unsatisfied and wanted to know more.

So you think they should have made the characters less interesting because the show is so highly episodical?

 

[miceblue]

Wow, laptops are so bloody expensive...

My 15" rMBP was $2.8k USD. It has a 512 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM, 2.6 GHz i7, and GeForce GT650M.

http://www.amazon.com/VAIO-CORPORATION-Z-2015-Model/dp/B00ZQEE4XO
$2k for a 13" touchscreen laptop, lower resolution, half the RAM, no discrete graphics card.


I still don't see the appeal for touchscreen laptops. Every time I've tried touchscreen laptops (including the Surface line, which has a laptop form factor when used with the Touch Cover), I get tired of using it after 2 minutes and move on to the next thing.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39xLlLoSda0[/video]

 

[214324]

  https://vaio.com/products/z/
 
You know what? This is one damn sexy premium laptop..... I'm totally sold on this now.
It costs around the same as a XPS13 and has similar features / performance.
 
I'm not sure how rugged the folding mechanism is from the website so I'll try to find a demo next time I go to Japan....
 
I love the sleek black design but it seems to lack keyboard back-lit.
Welp, guess that's a no-go for me because I use my laptop in the dark 40%  of the time and I can't type blind.

Just waiting for a skylake update I guess then. XD

 

  https://vaio.com/products/z/
 
You know what? This is one damn sexy premium laptop..... I'm totally sold on this now.
It costs around the same as a XPS13 and has similar features / performance.
 
I'm not sure how rugged the folding mechanism is from the website so I'll try to find a demo next time I go to Japan....

Oh ****, I didn't know Sony brought the Vaio line back from the dead. 

VAIO split itself from Sony and is its own independent company now. Still strange though b/c Sony has a portion of their Japan webstore dedicated to VAIO still.

 

 

 

 
Really does live up to the alternate name Sony gave it. It truly is a monster. (-_-")
 
I honestly wonder why nobody has a 2-in-1 flip mechanism like the VAIO Z. The only one that's remotely close was the old XPS 12 2-in-1 and the Acer Aspire R13 but those aren't as elegant as this.

Is it really that powerful though? I think the quad core skylake in the XPS 15 would probably beat it out...
 
And probably because it looks kind of janky to me? I wasn't all that impressed with previous Sony VAIO convertibles and I'm still on the fence about this but as a laptop it looks glorious regardless.

You're comparing the predecessor architecture to the successor so...yes the Skylake will win by a very small amount.
 
Does it look jank? I find it a lot more elegant than the other stuff out there right now.
 
Samsung just released the ATIV Book 9 Pro which is a 15" w/ a 4k screen and 950M (I really wish they sold a 1080p variant) and it's beautiful but expensive. Comes w/ Wolfson stuff though for the headphone out so it eliminates the need to bring a dedicated DAC and amp with you.

You think it'll win by only a small amount, despite being dual core vs quad core? :O
 
I dunno, it just feels like the it might be susceptible to breaking moreso than a regular laptop hinge... Shrug.
 
Meh, looks like it has terrible battery life though.
 

  https://vaio.com/products/z/
 
You know what? This is one damn sexy premium laptop..... I'm totally sold on this now.
It costs around the same as a XPS13 and has similar features / performance.
 
I'm not sure how rugged the folding mechanism is from the website so I'll try to find a demo next time I go to Japan....
 
I love the sleek black design but it seems to lack keyboard back-lit.
Welp, guess that's a no-go for me because I use my laptop in the dark 40%  of the time and I can't type blind.

Wow... How much does the xps 13 cost? The 13 would cost like half the price of the vaio z here.

Oops I thought the XPS 15 was using the ULV models in which i7's are dual cores instead of quad cores. Didn't read the HQ part.
 
Yup, the new ATIV Book 9 Pro has super garbage battery life. Makes me pretty sad.
 

 

 

 
Wow... How much does the xps 13 cost? The 13 would cost like half the price of the vaio z here.

my mid-tier XPS13 was around HK$13k, a mid-tier VAIO Z is 220k JPY which is around HK$14k

Wow, laptops are so bloody expensive...

First world problems.

 

[mechgamer123]

 

  Wow... How much does the xps 13 cost? The 13 would cost like half the price of the vaio z here.

my mid-tier XPS13 was around HK$13k, a mid-tier VAIO Z is 220k JPY which is around HK$14k

Damn, the 1080p, 256gb SSD, 8GB RAM config would only cost $1150 + tax here, not $1650... :S
 
True... Though if I were to order it online apparently I'd have to pay tax on it so that would add 8% to the total cost
 
Also the VAIO Z definitely has a backilt keyboard.
 
Welp I'm gonna head up to the MS store later today and play with the XPS 15, if I like that I'll order it otherwise I'll probably order the VAIO...
 

  Oops I thought the XPS 15 was using the ULV models in which i7's are dual cores instead of quad cores. Didn't read the HQ part.
 
Yup, the new ATIV Book 9 Pro has super garbage battery life. Makes me pretty sad.

Nope, both the i5 and i7 in the XPS 15 are quad core CPUs.
 
The only concerns I have about the Sony now are: Lack of warranty or even a DOA guarantee probably, 13.3" size may be too small for me, and the 1.2mm key travel on the laptop. Guessing they scrunched the trackpad and keyboard to get a bit more battery in there

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Miceblue: Touchscreen laptops are nice for us Windows folks that have terrible trackpads; sometimes it's just easier to click on the touchscreen all the way across the screen rather than move the trackpad over there. XD

 

[vwinter]

VAIO split itself from Sony and is its own independent company now. Still strange though b/c Sony has a portion of their Japan webstore dedicated to VAIO still.

I thought Sony outright sold the Vaio arm.

 

[Tiddlesworth]

  So you think they should have made the characters less interesting because the show is so highly episodical?

Nah, I just didn't really like the characters by themselves and their past just feels "tacked on" to give them depth. The writers also try to fit concepts into a 20 minute time frame and most of the time it doesn't really go anywhere. The world seemed pretty great and space is a lot to talk about yet they feel the need to have to feature all these funky characters, it just feels sloppy overall and all over the place, I just feel that the writers just wrote what they felt like on that day, maybe I was just a little disappointed, maybe it just didn't live up to my expectations. As I said before, theres a lot of everything, but I felt everything was stretched too thin.

 

[Rozenberg]

nekomimi night
 

 

[Tiddlesworth]

  nekomimi night
 

So Thursday nights are official Head Fi Nekomimi nights?