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In a number of his keynotes he regarded Sony products as the industry standard for quality.

Yup and Sony had the pebble keyboards first!

VAIO were a solid computers (at least my memory of them).

I would have killed to have Vista on my VAIO. I had Windows ME on it! Despite that fact, it still sits among my most beloved computers that I have owned. It was also the first that I had purchased new whereas all the previous ones were hand-me-downs.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Love my VAIOs if I had put an SSD in my last one I probably wouldn’t have bought a Mac until much later.

In a testament to how powerful product placement can really be, the image of James Bond using a VAIO laptop while sitting on a boat is still burned in my brain.