
It’s a Tablet! It’s a PC! No, it’s a tasty floor wax!
We seem to have reached the stage of tablet evolution where ungainly variations are crawling out of the primordial ooze on a daily basis.Just today, a single Engadget story covered the Sony VAIO Duo 11–a tablet that converts into a laptop via a slid…

Sony VAIO PCs Have Been Selling with Google Chrome as Default Browser for Quite a While
Several blogs report the “news”, based on a Financial Times article that Sony VAIO PC’s will soon be selling with Google’s Chrome browser as default browser in the US. Nice, and it will no doubt help Google’s browser which still has less than 2% market share. But it’s not exactly news. A month or so […]

It’s a Sony, and It’s a Netbook. How to Turn Your Dead Weight Windows Notebook Into a Speedy Netbook.
No, it’s not a P-Series, which Sony makes a point of calling a Lifestyle PC, not a Netbook anyway. But I do have a nimble, fast Sony Netbook: a PCG FXA49. It’s my old, reliable notebook purchased about 7 years ago. It suffered from Windows Disease, the most commonly known symptom of which is the […]