Apple Recruiting Sony VAIO Engineers?

This is great. Sony Knowledge + Apple Knowledge= AWESOME.

This is great. Sony + Apple = AWESOME.

stealing engineers away from sony doesnt look like Sony + Apple but uhm, i must admit, that if this is true, its actually pretty cool.

Apple, which curently produce the best looking hardware need help form Sony engineers this Bull**** I mean come on, how challenging can Intel chips be after having experience with PPCs

I think this is false rumors. :D Don't beat me up for my opinion, Ok.

Yeah Sony does a great job of laptop design, although their latest incarnations have had some thermal problems, particularly the S3 & S4 Series (which I think is their best looking).

The question, if this is true, is why would Apple's engineers be behind the curve?

They've been tied up on an updated dual-core Powerbook (satisfying that exciting PPC based report) and are hence behind on the Intel versions...

or

they can't get the Intel MB's working as well as they hoped in a small enclosure

or

they're coping quite nicely but since they're planning global domination, they need a few extra bods and the Vaio people look good.

Who knows if any of those is right - let's just be thankful that they're headhunting Vaio engineers as opposed to Dell ones. And they don't leave the 'Intel' sticker placement in their hands... ;)

sweet I really like some of the viao's. And if we can hurt sony while doing it even better! ;)

No tech guy here...why would it be that much different in engineering between the two chips???

I guess this is better than recruiting Microsoft programmers for the next version of OSX...

I really hope that these Intel PowerBooks will be faster than the last PPC update of the PowerBooks. I'm going to buy a 15" when Apple puts the Freescale 7448 in (hopefully) in September. I'm wary of these Intel processors. I want faster bus speeds and Altivec!

If it means better hardware im all for it, regardless of sony connections..

the real reason this is of interest is that it presents a time frame for the powerbook. at least..it might give an idea of a minimum wait time. if they are really pulling people in, then it cant be too soon can it?