While in Kuala Lumpur on the weekend, wandering around some of the malls (Berjaya Times Square, Suria KLCC, Low Yatt Plaza) – I noticed there are quite a number of Sony Stores around. One of the large poster advertisements caught my attention, as the only thing that it seemed to claim was that the intelligence of a laptop is somehow directly proportional to the amount of carbon fibre it contains.

Now, I’m not exactly a hardware engineer, but I’m also fairly certain that I’m not a total maroon (I don’t think?), either. This leads me to draw one of the following conclusions:

a) Sony’s engineers know something that we don’t

b) Sony needs to fire a few people in marketing, and hire some marketing folks who have a clue

That on top of the fact that the PS3 is clocking in at somewhere around US$600, it would seem that Sony is trying to flush themselves down the toilet even faster than Sun Microsystems was with Mr. McNealy at the helm.