Sony = Blonde+Brainer+Green

26Jun08

Often people ask: What’s so good about Sony?

And most of the time I get comments like, Sony is a ‘hot blonde with no brain’ – great looks and ‘but we don’t get the quality we pay for or that we can get something better with ‘that amount’ of money.

The Sony-is-a-hot-blonde part is true, but Sony as a no-brainer… is NOT.

I don’t just judge something expensive as good, or judge something beautiful as good, or judge without thorough screening and reading tonnes of review, constant prying on a particular brand’s or company’s performance as well as personal experience with the products the company produce.

I have two very old Sony products, and they are still working fine up to date.

1) My first ever Sony Walkman (yes! ‘the’ walkman, not the new rebranded MP3 Walkman) which I’d bought like, since before Form 1 and is still working great although I’ve dropped it like a million times…! (okay, exaggerated, but definitely more than 10 times! LoL)

2) My father’s Sony Hi-Fi Player, still producing great bass and high quality of sound. It is more than 10 years old now.

Finally after 2 years of much thought and considerations, I’ve decided to go for a Sony Personal Computer. The reason why is that it has great quality (less noise and lower temperature compared to other laptop), chic & aestehically pleasing to the eyes, great customer service, plus a lil’ of my personal trust for the brand, and it’s GREEN.

Latest report by Greenpeace International ranks Sony among the greenest electronics company:

“Sony and Sony Ericsson have come out on top of the latest Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, although most companies saw their scores drop due to a new ranking system based on wider criteria.

Sony comes in 2nd with the same total score of 5.1 as Sony Ericsson, but with fewer points on the chemicals criteria, which determines the ranking when total scores are tied. Sony still does relatively well on chemicals, its score boosted by having models on the market that are partially free of PVC and BFRs, including three models of video recorders and many models of the Personal Computer VAIO, “WALKMAN”, Camcorder and Digital camera.

Some companies that promote their ‘green’ policies come up short when measured against global standards of measuring impacts on climate change. Dell scores relatively poorly while Toshiba, Samsung and LGE score close to, or zero, on climate change criteria.”"

I really wouldn’t mind paying more for a greener world