Sony stopping pc production

chaparral said:
The worst thing for me about tablets is that they don't support many USB items...

For example
1) I can't plug my power commander on my bike into a tablet to change/adjust maps..
2) I can't plug my digital camera's into a tablet ...
3) I can't plug my Logitech harmony remote into a Tablet to program it


Can you get a tablet that runs windows 8.1 that would support doing these things ??? :confused:
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Surface Pro?
 
sad to hear, maybe they'll be back.

as for the tablet takeover, maybe in the OK! reading households, but not in the workplace. ask me to type something long i will flat down refuse to do so unless its at least on a 15" laptop keyboard or preferably my k90 and revel in triple screen working gloriousness.

i'll stick with decent sized and powered laptops for quite a while, its not like the weight is much odds despite the fact i'm a self confessed lazy sod.

what companies need to stop doing is making stuff with 1366x768. thats not a resolution, its a crime...
 
not surprised. ID BE DOING THE SAME.

My work has HP
My other work had mix of Dell/HP
i bought a dell latitude e5400 for 20 when my old job went down the pan
bought my gf an acer.

If i was picking for myself i would shop around and avoid samsung!

i dont use my tablet much. Use my laptop every day
 
Not surprising really. Sod all margin in selling laptops and Sony has been haemorrhaging money for years now.

I believe they are stopping most of their TV production as well.

Retailers don't make much on them either (particularly the ~£400 market), probably make more profit on a pack of blank dvds than a £400 - £500 laptop.
 
pitchfork said:
Most people will buy whatever cheap crap the guy in purple shirt world will give them, consumers are morons - they don't know jack **** about pc's
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It's not just PCs. It's anything electrical.

People don't want to/don't have time to research anything before they buy.

People who can tell you why they bought the TV/phone/DVD player/hi-fi/heaphones they did are considered geeks.

Everybody else walks into a store and buys what they like the look of, or what the salesman tells them is good.
 
Caged said:
Apple and urm...

I think everyone else is trying to compete for the scraps.
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Depends what you mean by premium, I think there are only three types of laptop, gaming laptops, and business laptops.. and Apple, the market for gaming laptops is almost non-existent, business laptops don't need high end specs as pretty much everything is done by remotely connecting to a more powerful environment. I have a Dell i5 for work and it's probably over specced as it's just used as a dumb terminal for remote connections.

Apple is basically for people with lots of money who want a shiny, again like the gaming laptops, non existent in terms of mass market.
 
Buying laptops has always been a gamble. Few brands seem to have consistent quality control. Only Apple Macbooks spring to mind.

Currently browsing on a £200 laptop, about a year old. It's doing fine and does everything I need it to. I truly believe Apple's success in part is due to the crappy laptops that were available in the 2000s. They were grossly under powered and frequently died, leaving many jaded. Nowadays the power and quality has risen. I see little reason to not go budget.
 
Well obviously by premium I mean highly specced, well built and well supported. Apple own the high end of the market and have the profit figures to back it up. The rest are left fighting for their share of the £400 supermarket special market, or are HP and Dell trying to make money by selling docking stations into enterprises.

To be honest Apple deserve everything they've achieved, at times they seem like the only people who are actually bothered to make a good product. The amount of other 13" laptops that people try to shift that have spinning drives and WXGA displays is depressing.
 
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mrk said:
Well the one that undocks from its keyboard and can be used as a fully featured tablet, that's where :p

I have ultrabooks and surface 2 pros at work and they are inherently different beasts. The Surface can be used as a full on laptop and has a bluetooth mouse, has the latest connectivity and runs the same OS as any high end laptop. Just so happens it's more versatile and because of that, better.
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Well you see tablets like the surface suffer from the lack of power I mentioned.

I use a laptop with a 3.5GHz quad core i7, the work I do would be greatly hindered by a device with only a dual core cpu. Not to mention the small screen which honestly makes them painful even for web browsing, and despite having a keyboard the surface is not as nice to use as a laptop.
 
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matthab said:
I used to work for Evesham Technology and well they went in 2008ish and was sold to the Time/Tiny Group. Even with the popularity of the company and British status it still made huge losses.
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That's interesting. I worked as a 1st/2nd-line tech for a reseller, and you were our main supplier for quite a while. Didn't realise that Evesham went, but we folded too only a year later in 2009.
 
^TANK^ said:
I wouldn't buy an Apple product.
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Top end Lenovo, Samsung, Dell xps ranges I think. That and the surface pro

For what it's worth my £260 Samsung laptop is near 5 years old (bought on the mm here 4 years ago) and still serving me well! Put in an ssd and it flies.
 
The Craig said:
Top end Lenovo, Samsung, Dell xps ranges I think. That and the surface pro

For what it's worth my £260 Samsung laptop is near 5 years old (bought on the mm here 4 years ago) and still serving me well! Put in an ssd and it flies.
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Thank you for the reply to my question. I'll probably go with Lenovo next they seem to be a trusted decent manufacturer.
 
^TANK^ said:
Thank you for the reply to my question. I'll probably go with Lenovo next they seem to be a trusted decent manufacturer.
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Best asking on the laptop forum as I think once IBM parted from lenovo there was a decline in quality (i think they were merged... Or something like that). Actually I'm thinking about IBM think pads being better than lenovo think pads (business laptops)

Regardless I've still heard good things.
 
^TANK^ said:
I wouldn't buy an Apple product.
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You asked people's opinions of what a premium laptop was. Last time I looked the higher end non-Apple laptops cost the same if not more than the MBAs/MBPs and had poorer quality screens.

The ThinkPad X1 Carbon looks fantastic, but it's eye wateringly expensive and still suffers from the trackpads that every laptop that isn't a Mac uses.
 
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