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I'm pretty sure the VAIO also runs the NeoMagic video chip, which means you can run any operating system you want as long as it's windows. On Wed, 29 Apr 98 22:16:14, Paul Khoury wrote: >On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 22:56:59 GMT, Emanuel Brown wrote: > >>On Tue, 28 Apr 98 21:43:55 , you wrote: >>>Anyone seen the Sony VAIO though? I saw it in a magazine (I think Mobile Computing & Communications), >>>and it's supposed to be less than an inch thick. That'd be nice if it were a ThinkPad. >> >> The SONY VAIOs are actually what I think IBM was shooting for with >>the 600 series. However, the only VAIO model less than 1" thick is the >>505, which has a 10.4" SVGA display, P133 chip, and weighs about 3lbs. >>SONY is supposed to release a US model in June 1998. > >It looks like a very nice machine, but the only caveats for me would be OS support, >the Glidepoint (I have to suffer with one on my TP 300 as it has no Trackpoint), and it >being fragile. > >-- >Paul Khoury | <pkhoury@loop.com> | Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS >Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3/4, Slackware Linux, and Sun Solaris 2.4 > > ________________________________ Victor Kress Geological Sciences Box 351310 University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195-1310 (206)616-8512 kress@u.washington.edu