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> that the famous "yellow envelope" moment was pure marketing ad there were already Sony laptops that could do the same trick. I can't remember any laptop doin
by dmitriid 5y ago
> that the famous "yellow envelope" moment was pure marketing ad there were already Sony laptops that could do the same trick.
I can't remember any laptop doing the same trick at the time. Perhaps some Vaio models could?
The trick with the envelope was the long-needed nail in the coffin of netbooks: it was a fully-functional laptop with none of the compromises that netbooks at the time had.
- wffurr 5y ago"It didn’t matter that there were many PCs smaller/ lighter (including from SONY!) and many that fit in a yellow envelope." https://mobile.twitter.com/stevesi/status/1449443653349376010 https://mobile.twitter.com/stevesi/status/144944365334937601...
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- Joeri 5y agoFor example, the Sony Vaio TZ from 2007: http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/sony-vaio-tz-review-2/ http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/sony-vaio-tz-re... The air was the thinnest laptop at the time of its reveal though.
- lmilcin 5y agoBy entire 0.8mm. Not exactly Earth shattering.