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Behold Sony's not-a-netbook - Boing Boing Gadgets

— gadgets.boingboing.net — sonynetbookmaybe.jpg Spotted at Sony's Japanese Vaio site is this device, which resembles the computer partially revealed by... the FCC . It's a pretty but indistinct image that feeds its promise to "change the way you look at laptops" next month: no ... (more) Behold Sony's not-a-netbook - Boing Boing Gadgets

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Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... to that. Sure, there's online gaming in the arcade/bowling alley (similar to the bowling alley in "Grand Theft Auto 4," except less fun), the movie theater (which keeps playing the same trailer over and over), the weak "Saucer Pop" game in the Central Plaza (which looks depressingly like an office park), and shopping for random avatar items in the Mall (uh, no thanks). But other than those modest diversions, Home—at least in its current incarnation—is a crashing bore. (And as Ars Technica notes , chatting with the unruly mob in Home's public spaces can be a depressing ...