My 1998 Sony Vaio - the brand was only about a year old at this point - still remains a beautiful piece of design in 2014, although not nearly so compact looking as it seemed back then. News earlier this month that Sony is in talks to offload its PC business to an investment fund for around $490m, according to reports had me searching out my old Vaio from way back in 1998. Sony and Apple have had a lot in common, so much so that according to one memoir Steve Jobs was shown a working version of a Sony Vaio running MacOS - perhaps the ideal marriage of Sony design and Apple systems experience. That emphasis on the "look" of a product came from the company's co-founder, Akio Morita who was the driving force behind design successes like Trinitron and Walkman. To me Sony products have always had a certain style.
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