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What you read in the title is completely true folks. Sony is actually making a computing device that is lower than the $300 mark. Gosh, I knew the company was desperate but this really proves it. They want to best the Kindle in the e-Reader market, they want to build iPad competing devices, they want make iPhone-killer smartphones and now they want to compete with Asus’ Eee PC’s! This might get ugly — I don’t think Sony even remembers how to make and sell cheap devices successfully.

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Sony — a company that has its fingers in so many pies, it has to have a zillion fingers to do that! They are practically in every consumer and prosumer gadget category you can think of and hence, they too are going to try their hand at defeating Apple in the handheld segment. Not that sony is new to the whole handheld market (hello, PSP!) but this time they are looking at the whole hog.

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Oh Sony, we like you for making Vaios. We really do. And we also think that your eReaders are really cool and all. But Apple has the best tablet of all times and we just think are acting a bit too ‘me too!’ to churn out something really useful.

So Sony CEO Nobuyuki Oneda said at a Press Conference in Tokyo recently that they were interested in what Apple is trying to do with its latest product — the iPad. He said that Sony would like to be active in that market and that means everything that the iPad is doing. But there’s a tiny little problem with that and Oneda knows it.

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So Sony is dressing up before going out to the PMA 2010 trade show that will soon take place in Las Vegas. This is the place to check out the latest things in the Imaging industry and even though Canon said they won’t be in attendance, Sony has a brand new product lined up for release at the event.

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The Christmas shopping season has officially started and Black Friday is closing in on us. This season, with the economy still feeling pretty cushy, netbooks can make for the perfect present for your loved ones. Compact, light and utilitarian – these devices are the best thing to have on the go when coupled with a mobile broadband connection. If you want to know about the latest news in netbooks, hope over to the other side and fet your fill.

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Nowadays the All-in-one form factor PCs are drawing all the attention in desktop PC segment. Till a few years back Apple used to rule this segment with its cult defining iMac range of desktops. However, the entry of manufacturers like Sony, Dell and HP is now giving Apple a run for its money. Sony has been able to capture a large part of the high end PC segment with its premium VAIO range of laptops and All in one PCs. The new VAIO L117FX All-in-one PC is Sony’s weapon to counter the revamped iMacs that Apple released late this year. The $1999 price tag of the L117FX makes it costlier than both the iMac and the HP TouchSmart 600. However, it offers impressive performance and near perfect multimedia experience for the Windows users.

The design of the VAIO L117Fx is not much different from the previous generation All-in-ones from the stable of Sony. It offers HDMI interface and beats the competition by offering a useful PIP feature with HDMI. However, recording from the HDMI input to the PC’s hard disk is not supported. Since the L117FX is shipped with Windows 7 Home Premium, it supports a set of multi touch functions, a feature that is worth noticeable.

The VAIO L117FX edges ahead of the iMac in features by a decent margin. It can be mounted on a wall and has an inbuilt TV tuner as well. Apple still does not use Blu-Ray drive. However, the price of the iMac is more realistic from a user’s perspective. The fast quad core Intel CPU in the VAIO gives it an edge in gaming and media encoding related tasks but HP and Apple have some models that sport more powerful CPUs. The iMacs take the lead in many applications over the L117FX, though the HP and Dell models lag behind. Though the margin is not much, one should expect stellar all round performance for this sort of price.

For the users who have an ever increasing collection of HD movies and games, the VAIO L117FX is the ideal choice. Its mammoth 1TB hard drive will ensure that the users do not run out of space soon. The presence of 6 GB DDR2 RAM rules out any memory upgrade in the coming years. The 24 inch display is good for watching HD content and the color reproduction is fairly accurate.

The GeForce GT 240M graphics chip used in the VAIO L117 is a robust one and its 1GB memory gives enough juice to run the current generation games with maximum effects enabled at medium resolutions. Apart from the USB ports, this model is equipped with FireWire 400 port and a media card reader. However, no eSATA port is included with this PC. Blu-Ray playback is almost flawless on this model, though the audio is a bit weaker. The audiophiles will want to pair a 5.1 speaker set with this PC to get satisfying audio-visual experience. Sony offers a standard 1 year warranty for this product and the web site offers a lot of useful information on issues like backup and maintenance.

Nowadays LCD TVs have become the gadget of choice for many tech savvy people. They produce great looking picture, consume less energy and have stylish designs that can add to the ambiance of a room. The technology used in the LCD TVs has advanced by leaps and bounds and almost every week a new model of LCD TV is launched in the market. The companies have resorted to aggressive pricing and emerging technologies to woo the users.

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No matter how much companies try to play them down, netbooks are still going pretty strong. They may no generate much profit for the companies but they sure are hits with the users. That is why Otaku Gadgets updates you on the very latest on netbook every Wednesday – cutting through all the noise and delivering you the stuff that matters.

This week, we have Litl finally releasing their Webbook (Easel) netbook, multiple new Asus models start showing up across the world and Lenovo seems to have ThinkPad series netbooks up their sleeves. Get to the other side for brand new netbooks and more netbook news.

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Hello and welcome to a brand new week. We are off to a great start here with great new rumors to tell you about, new gadgets being launched this week and a host of other things! So jump right over to the other side and get started, because you can’t start your week without catching up first!

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