PC Pro blog » picture frame http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs Blogging in the real world Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:54:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Sony invents form factor no one asked for http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/05/21/sony-invents-the-form-factor-no-one-asked-for/ http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/05/21/sony-invents-the-form-factor-no-one-asked-for/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 10:16:31 +0000 David Bayon http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=750 All-in-one PCs still haven’t quite caught on, despite some great attempts such as Dell’s XPS One, but this one from Sony is verging on the ridiculous.

Sony VGC-LJ25L

The VGC-LJ25L is only available in Korea for 1,399,000 KRW (around £680), and consists of a picture frame-style, glass- surround, 15.4in display with the usual 1,280 x 800 laptop resolution. With a discreetly hidden 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo T8100, 2GB of RAM and a 200GB hard disk, it’s actually a pretty capable PC.

But when you look at the photo below, we just can’t see the point. A half-laptop, half-PC, with a little bit of Sony’s VAIO VGC-LT2S styling thrown in, who exactly is going to want to carry it around? And more to the point, how do you carry it around without damaging the thing?!

“I know, let’s cut off half the keyboard!” might have sounded novel in that ideas meeting but we can’t see it reaching these shores anytime soon.

Sony VGC-LJ25L folded

[Original story via AVING.]

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