Dots Not Nice"> Dots Not Nice

“But what do you mean by that, Bill,” you ask. Hey, don’t ask me. It’s the livedigitally.com gang at it again. Asher Saeed over there has his shorts in a bunch over the quality of the LCD screens that accompany (in particularly) Sony notebook computers. Says the VAIO high-end line is plagued by dead pixels. (Could that be why Sony bought International Display Technology earlier this month?) He didn’t like one of the IBM Thinkpad models either.

Obviously, it would seem that Mr. Saeed must be a young and inexperienced gentleman when dead pixels (IBM had hotspots) on only 6 laptops in a row get his shorts in a bunch. Why, in my day, we were so glad to be able to carry around our lightweight 26lb portables that we had no reason to complain about their 5-inch CRTs at all, no matter what they looked like. Ah, those were the days with the Osborne 1s, KayPros, and the like! We knew what a real portable was! Not like today. Computers are for tough people… We knew when to keep our mouths shut too.