{"id":11101,"date":"2014-02-06T15:35:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T23:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=11101"},"modified":"2014-02-06T15:35:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T23:35:06","slug":"sony-to-sell-vaio-division-exit-pc-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/02\/06\/sony-to-sell-vaio-division-exit-pc-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony to Sell VAIO Division, Exit PC Business."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Sony <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony.net\/SonyInfo\/News\/Press\/201402\/14-019E\/\" target=\"_blank\">Press Release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sony and Japan Industrial Partners Inc. (&#8220;JIP&#8221;) today concluded a memorandum of understanding confirming the parties&#8217; intent for Sony to sell to JIP Sony&#8217;s PC business currently operated under the VAIO brand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sony-sells-VAIO-Divison\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sony-sells-VAIO-Divison.png\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just had the conversation about Sony VAIO computers last night. I almost bought a Sony VAIO PC as my first computer ever back in college. Throughout the years I owned two high-end Sony VAIO notebook computers, before I bought the first MacBook Pro in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>In recent news, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2014\/02\/05\/sony-turned-down-offer-from-steve-jobs-to-run-mac-os-on-vaio-laptops-says-ex-president\/\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> that Steve Jobs offered Sony to run Mac OS on VAIO computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Sony Press Release: Sony and Japan Industrial Partners Inc. (&#8220;JIP&#8221;) today concluded a memorandum of understanding confirming the parties&#8217; intent for Sony to sell to JIP Sony&#8217;s PC business currently operated under the VAIO brand. I just had the conversation about Sony VAIO computers last night. I almost bought a Sony VAIO PC as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/02\/06\/sony-to-sell-vaio-division-exit-pc-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sony to Sell VAIO Division, Exit PC Business.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1930,2283,2756,2823,936,3104],"class_list":["post-11101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mac-os","tag-pc","tag-sony","tag-steve-jobs","tag-tech","tag-vaio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2T3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}