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Re:What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem by NoPiece on Monday November 14, 2011 @10:08PM (#3236829)
If you go to the sony store, and search for "Z14" you get a bunch of camera accessories, and no Z series laptops in the results. No laptop results on page 1 of a google search either. I have an old sony Vaio that I really liked, and I only know how to describe by its model number: VGN-S360. I think they could benefit from more coherent model names.
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Re:What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem by ghc on Monday November 14, 2011 @11:02PM (#3236958)
My apologies. The model is the Z21, not Z14.

A letter (or two) followed by digits denoting the series iteration is Sony's standard naming convention. If you google "VAIO S360" or "VAIO Z12" you'll find exactly what you want. But, if you're not looking for your model year, you can google "VAIO S Series" or "VAIO Z Series" and get what you want.

I don't find it very hard, especially since the series names stay pretty consistent over a long time.

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Re:What the Vaio Z says about Sony's little design problem by tikhonj on Monday November 14, 2011 @10:13PM (#3236841)
Oh, they could definitely do better with the model names. Happily, that doesn't affect the computer itself once you've bought it--if anything, it makes it more exclusive ;)

I also think they should break VAIO up into two brands, one for cheap computers and one for high-end ones. They could be like Toyota/Lexus.

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