2003-01-24

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..bought her first laptop home last night...a SONY VAIO....not top spec but more than enough great design, looks & tech to make me sweat... As a kid I wanted to work for SONY - it was something about the logo I think; SONY always read as shorthand for "THE PHUTURE" ...Wish I'd persued that dream but to geek kid stuck in rural Essex, SONY existed in some other "modern" world; a layer impregnable to the "likes of me"..(hehe...the UK class system was obvious even as a small child. I so hope that tatty truth has dminished for kids today...) ... Still have a HiFi Amplfiier/Radio combo by them; some weird SONY seperates oddbod; Genuine wood-ended unit with faux brushed-aluminium facing; an aesthetic from the depths of design hell...but it still works after all these years...,perfectly.... and it's got the LOGO..always the LOGO...