Comments on: Sony slashes Vaio P prices in Taiwan http://liliputing.com/2009/06/sony-slashes-vaio-p-prices-in-taiwan.html Compact Computing Sat, 26 May 2012 01:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: wayne http://liliputing.com/2009/06/sony-slashes-vaio-p-prices-in-taiwan.html#comment-47397 wayne Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:07:43 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=10077#comment-47397 Don't worry about the price... Sony have enteres an alternative universe lately...<br><br>In Australia, you need to mortgage your house for one of these laptops!<br><br>Yes, the Aussie dollar did a nosedive a few months ago but now it's back around US80 cents but Sony keep on pricing items here like the dollar is worth US50 cents.<br><br>They just launched the X series Walkman with the nice touch screen... the ipod model it competes with is half the price. When they say they have them in "limited availability" they mean "we dont need to carry them as no one is silly enough to buy them at this price".<br><br>Don't get me wrong, this netbook is a great little device and should be a slightly premium price with that screen but it isn't worth what they are asking for it. How many do you see in the wild? None spotted here... Don't worry about the price… Sony have enteres an alternative universe lately…

In Australia, you need to mortgage your house for one of these laptops!

Yes, the Aussie dollar did a nosedive a few months ago but now it's back around US80 cents but Sony keep on pricing items here like the dollar is worth US50 cents.

They just launched the X series Walkman with the nice touch screen… the ipod model it competes with is half the price. When they say they have them in “limited availability” they mean “we dont need to carry them as no one is silly enough to buy them at this price”.

Don't get me wrong, this netbook is a great little device and should be a slightly premium price with that screen but it isn't worth what they are asking for it. How many do you see in the wild? None spotted here…

]]> By: wayne http://liliputing.com/2009/06/sony-slashes-vaio-p-prices-in-taiwan.html#comment-22970 wayne Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:07:43 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=10077#comment-22970 Don't worry about the price... Sony have enteres an alternative universe lately...<br><br>In Australia, you need to mortgage your house for one of these laptops!<br><br>Yes, the Aussie dollar did a nosedive a few months ago but now it's back around US80 cents but Sony keep on pricing items here like the dollar is worth US50 cents.<br><br>They just launched the X series Walkman with the nice touch screen... the ipod model it competes with is half the price. When they say they have them in "limited availability" they mean "we dont need to carry them as no one is silly enough to buy them at this price".<br><br>Don't get me wrong, this netbook is a great little device and should be a slightly premium price with that screen but it isn't worth what they are asking for it. How many do you see in the wild? None spotted here... Don't worry about the price… Sony have enteres an alternative universe lately…

In Australia, you need to mortgage your house for one of these laptops!

Yes, the Aussie dollar did a nosedive a few months ago but now it's back around US80 cents but Sony keep on pricing items here like the dollar is worth US50 cents.

They just launched the X series Walkman with the nice touch screen… the ipod model it competes with is half the price. When they say they have them in “limited availability” they mean “we dont need to carry them as no one is silly enough to buy them at this price”.

Don't get me wrong, this netbook is a great little device and should be a slightly premium price with that screen but it isn't worth what they are asking for it. How many do you see in the wild? None spotted here…

]]> By: MonkeyKing1969 http://liliputing.com/2009/06/sony-slashes-vaio-p-prices-in-taiwan.html#comment-22931 MonkeyKing1969 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:24:00 +0000 http://www.liliputing.com/?p=10077#comment-22931 Somewhere along the line some Japanese people at Sony started thinking they were on the same level as Jaguar or Ferrari. Sorry Sony you don't build hand-crafted products that number in the dozens, what you do is mass produce electronics that are very much dictated by the cost of other products on the open market.<br><br>The VAIO P isn't/wasn't ever worth $1000 or $800. It is not even worth $650 or $550 now. At best it is a $500 machine, and sadly as the price drops the buyers who might have been in the market for this drop to half price and think, "Well, I'll just wait until it is being sold at TigerDirect for $339 because I see dropping like a stone." Somewhere along the line some Japanese people at Sony started thinking they were on the same level as Jaguar or Ferrari. Sorry Sony you don't build hand-crafted products that number in the dozens, what you do is mass produce electronics that are very much dictated by the cost of other products on the open market.

The VAIO P isn't/wasn't ever worth $1000 or $800. It is not even worth $650 or $550 now. At best it is a $500 machine, and sadly as the price drops the buyers who might have been in the market for this drop to half price and think, “Well, I'll just wait until it is being sold at TigerDirect for $339 because I see dropping like a stone.”

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