08.09.07
Vostro is an ugly sounding name
Well this posting was delayed while I tried to review my opinion of Dell’s name for their new line of PC’s. But it is not aging any better, so I am coming right out and saying that Vostro is an ugly sounding name. Their lawyers might like it. Certain linguists might
make up stories about the rariefied roots. But certain names and word forms just don’t sound good. And this is one of them.
Compare this name with Sony’s VAIO. Very few people know that VAIO stands for Very Advanced I/O, but that doesn’t matter. This a coined unique word that doesn’t sound ugly. In fact, it has a nice open sound to it, even though it might have taken the brand power of Sony to promote such a name.
Come on Dell. You can do better than pulling names out of some language dump.
