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I remember being a kid and seeing a similar Vaio subnotebook at Best Buy sometime in 2007 or 2008 and being amazed how such a tiny laptop could exist and run Vista. Obviously the $1.5k pricepoint was too high for an 8 year old. I eventually got a handmedown decade-old Thinkpad running 98.
@@EpicB Steam Deck and GPD handhelds acting as gaming devices are cool. HoloISO runs the SteamOS on basically anything. Would run on this too, but sadly only with OpenGL acceleration with the Intel integrated graphics and not Vulkan with FSR upscaling hahaha
I remember seeing the Sony on sale in PC world for like £999 and thought to myself that’s expensive when you could buy a pretty decent laptop for that money.
@@psivewri Hey, cleaning up today I found mine (that´s how I landed in your video). I really loved it back then. When I plugged it in, I was amazed that it was still performing good. Of course, with nowadays tech they are desperately slow :) Thanks for this video... Now I have to decide what to do with it, I don´t think anyone collects such things here in Austria :)
A lot may know this but instead of the plastic strips you can just pour a small amount of baking soda on a bit of wet super glue and build up as necessary. It'll quickly form a solid mass, the same shape as the wet super glue, that's surprisingly strong. Works great for building up odd shaped areas or if a piece is actually missing. I've had some luck shaping with a dremel too.
These were sold in India as well and I also remember the advertisements for these. Correct me if I am wrong on this, but as far as I remember the actress/model featured in the advertisement was shown carrying this in the back pocket of her jeans. I mean that was the last place I would keep my laptop 😂
An interesting tidbit about these old Atom processors with the "GMA 500" or similar graphics- I've run a couple of these devices over the years and if you do enough digging, you'll realize that the graphics aren't actually intel at all but a PowerVR chip glued to an Atom processor, more akin to what you might see as the integrated graphics in an ARM processor at the time than on a desktop PC. This is why the performance is so horrid: in theory these are actually decently capable chips, but Windows isn't able to leverage those capabilities due to poor driver optimization. This was also true of the Raspberry Pi for many years which had similar graphical limitations in Linux, but once a proper driver came along the GPU performance skyrocketed. I haven't checked in a few years, but last I recall there were some veeery specific driver tweaks you could do on these Atom SoCs that would actually give you decent performance and properly accelerated graphical capabilities, assuming your application supported the ancient version of OpenGL in question!
I had one of these. Finally sold it for two reasons: 1) screen resolution was a mismatch with Windows. Either everything was too small or, if scaling was used, some dialog windows didn't fit onto the screen. 2) battery life was too short. In practice it was just over 2 hours, not even with heavy multimedia usage but just with wordprocessing and the internet.
I remember ALMOST buying one of these back in the day. I needed a basic computer, decided to go netbook but the $800 price tag seemed just a little high.. although it was super cool. My last two laptops had been Sonys tho and I hadn’t been impressed. Ended up with a dell mini 10 for $300. It did it’s job for a while but was stolen in 2013ish..
Me too! I always had a soft spot for these things but I ultimately ended up finding a mini dell laptop out in public so I used that until very recently
I actually have one of these in great condition but don't use it anymore and been thinking about selling it. That said it has been a lot of fun to have over the years and the coolness factor is just off the charts!! 🙂
I used to look at this laptop every time I went in the Somy store for a while, thinking it looked ace. Kinda glad I never had the money to waste on it now! Thanks for sharing it today.
You make me buy some eucalyptus from shop, I'm from Malaysia and I always waiting for new videos, thanks for awesome sharing. Really enjoy PSIVEWRY! (sorry for bad english)
I had one (1st gen) and I am glad that I sold it. The screen was way too small and the cpu+gpu were abysmal. Had the X too, it had a great screen with great colours.
my favorite windows xp theme was Royale Noir, with a nice Plasma ball wallpaper that i still use today! (you can see which one is royale noir on the wikipedia page "windows xp visual styles")
I am absolutely fond of your videos - the reason being that it is always very properly structured, cramped with fruitful information yet concise, and one can easily follow your content as well as the visuals; all are properly intertwined whilst adequately related to the other. There is no rambling, stuttering, no unprofessional presentation nor senseless artifacts and your camera management is very much pleasing to the eye. In my opinion, you definitely meet international standards for the presentation of televised productions - meaning I think that you should head towards a television career if you have ever wondered whether or not you should.
My dad has a friend who worked corporate back when this was new and when I saw him casually pull it out of his bag and start browsing on it back then, it was the most amazing thing I’ve seen.
I remember being 17 years old when this came out and I wanted one so freaking bad. I had a custom made Dell laptop with a blue ray disk drive that was glitchy af out of the package and all the custom orders on it were factory parts and top notch specifications too. This still looks like a neat little tool to use if the specs were brought up to modern design. Thank you for the nostalgia of looking at the best buy ads for this laptop when I was in high school. I then saved my money from my first job that got me through college for pocket money for fun spending and bought the 2$k top spec MacBook pro with the CD DVD disk drive in late 2013. It shat the bed last year so I bought the Samsung galaxy book 360 with the top specs summer of 2021. Still wondering if the Sony Vaio laptops were worth their price tags.... The laptop not bought for me......
Holy crap, never thought anyone would make a video about these. Remember always wanting one as a kid when I’d see them at Sony Outlet stores. Really cool
@@NormanF62 Possibly but I think 32 bit is not supported on Lubuntu anymore unless you use an older version. Not sure if the performance hit on 64 but is worse than XP with the new versions.
@@Edmundostudios it's not like your gonna be using it for the internet so just keep it offline and use a USB or whatever to copy stuff to it if you need to so it's not like security is that much of an issue. I used Lubuntu for a long time on an old PC I had with no drive
I remember seeing one of these in the wild being used at a coffee shop when they were new. I was amazed by the form factor but somewhat perplexed by the screen size + resolution.
Would an SSD with windows 7 work with this. Might be worth doing a part 2 video with that but keep the old drive and pop that back in as it belongs to Douglas
I actually tried windows 7 before giving to Nathan, it was slow, although the GMA500 graphics supports Windows 7 Aero, the experience was not even close compared to Windows XP
Man, back in the day, I had a HUGE crush on UMPCs. I used to watch videos about the OQO's, and the Vaio P. The Vaio P is my favorite of the bunch, because, just look at it! The fact they crammed a usable keyboard into something small enough to throw in a pocket was also a nice touch. Shame the specs were so woefully underwhelming. I got to see one at Fry's back in the day, and witnessed it just struggling to render the desktop with Aero. Today, It'd probably be an okay Linux UMPC, but something like the GPD Micro will blow this out of the water in terms of performance!
Many years after its launch, I had one of these, in a marvelous pink color, with a croco finish on the glossy plastic. It was a good companion for work, and only for very basic things. But I am a simple person, I use a Chromebook nowadays. I miss that craziness that we had on the cell phones and laptops back in the early 2010s.
I remember back when the Sony Store was still open at the mall, they had display units on the shelf. It was $3000 or something rediculous like that. I remember the floor model had Vista loaded on it, and it was unusably slow, and the build quality felt incedibly fragile. A heroic effort but cutting it too close. I feel like it was the Samsung Fold of its day. That Sony store also had the 11 inch OLED TV playing Iron Man in a dark room, I was floored when the credits rolled and they appeared to be floating.
I remember something similar to this also with Sony's Vaio brand name from when netbooks exploded in popularity. It was ~$899USD as I recall & I probably would've found some stupid reason to buy one...if not for the fact I had just dropped $1700USD on a 21" Vaio laptop. I still have that laptop too & it works; ...but if the return policy extended some 11-12 years, I would be getting my $1700USD back & buying a PC that could obliterate the Vaio... I still can't believe I spent that on a computer...
7:40 I've got one with both battery sizes, the extended battery only adds a few mm of thickness and gives the a more comfortable angle. Unfortunately I've got the spinning rust variant.
The P Series from Sony were probably my favorite of the UMPC era. I kind of wish this was still a category given how powerful our phones have gotten, seems it'd be quite easy to produce a UMPC today.
The last device that I saw that really qualifies as a PC you can put in your pocket was an HP Stream 7 tablet from 2014. Honestly it was great and i loved it but with 2gb of soldered ram and no upgrade as well as being forced to use 32bit windows basically cut it off at the knees and it went obsolete too fast. Really only GPD is making devices you could pocket but they are not price friendly.
I wanted one of these so badly when they came out. That and the even smaller Lenovos (If I remember correctly) seemed so insanely futuristic at the time.
I bought one of these on clearance for around $180 when they were newish, played with it briefly and resold it on ebay right away for $500-600. Mine came with Vista and I upgraded it to 7. The atom processor was truly horrible, slower than even the Atom N450 netbooks of the time. Around that time I had an N450 based $150 Asus eee pc that was actually far more usable (if much poorer quality) that I used with a very stripped down version of 7 for a good while.
If the headphone jack works but not the speakers, it's very unlikely to be a driver issue. It could be that the jack port kinda failed in such a way that it believes something is plugged in constantly! Anyway, I never see you installing drivers on your devices after reinstalling Windows, but it's important to do it!
I wonder if a modern mobile OS would work on this. I had a 10” Dell netbook from 2007 with the 1.6 mHz Atom processor that was painfully underpowered even back then.
Liked your video, boy you are a brave man taking the little lap apart. I have two of the firs generation vaios and just love them. One of them is the green color with an ssd. Its fast with windows 7. I disagree that they are not functional. They are NOT made for playing games. They are made for documents, music and even movies. To make the battery last I turn off wifi. I go to a café and sit and write word documents with a smile on my face. Its so light!! They have their own niche as far as computers go, if you want to type a document ir irganize files this is it. I even have autocad 2002 in it which is great for drawing house plans! Movies look great with a movie player. Even the ac adapter is tiny. I love my vaios and wouldnt sell them, they are so well made. Wanna play games ,get an xbox this is for grown ups. Mine cost me like 100 bucks andd the green one 30 in ebay Mexico. Well worth it.
I remember wanting one of these really bad back in the day. Too bad the performance sucked big time. Also I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves the silver theme! 😁
I personally never saw the scenario in which devices like this would shine. Small but much more powerful notebooks were available and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets were not only optimized for being mobile devices, but much more comfortable to use.
I picked up one of these on eBay a while back. Loaded latest kernel on it running Arch. Ended up frying it (no longer powers on fully)... Anyway always liked the looks of these.
If I did not remember wrong that I used 10" Intel Atom Windows tablet for educational use and stocks trading when i was at university. It had really poor performance experience but had a decent battery life and great portability. Good memories... :)
Back in 1999, I was a motorcycle courier in London, UK. Our boss invested in brand new Nokia 9110 Communicator phones. We did feel like we were in a James Bond movie... 😂
There was one of these on eBay finished in a stylish red. I was tempted to bid for it, but the bidding went above my price bracket. The seller had upgraded it to Windows 10. Good job I didn't bid - it must be as slow as molasses! Your video told me the decision not to bid was the right one. Thanks for uploading.
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Imagine a discord server
Maybe do a gpd win 2 review? Cheap as $250 or 212€
I forgot your channel name so i searched Australian laptop repair guy🤣
Carlos Romeu Pereira dos Santos
@@Alex-yj9xl how, what
Gpd is a laptop brand
Eucalypus Oil seems to improve performance by a decent 15%
You got a point.
yup, ive tried it before.
He's the only youtuber I've ever seen use it LOL
spitting Facts
@@tazz1911er true facts
I remember being a kid and seeing a similar Vaio subnotebook at Best Buy sometime in 2007 or 2008 and being amazed how such a tiny laptop could exist and run Vista. Obviously the $1.5k pricepoint was too high for an 8 year old. I eventually got a handmedown decade-old Thinkpad running 98.
@Inje Kim And it seems handheld PCs are starting to make a comeback too, but as more gaming oriented devices.
@@EpicB Steam Deck and GPD handhelds acting as gaming devices are cool. HoloISO runs the SteamOS on basically anything. Would run on this too, but sadly only with OpenGL acceleration with the Intel integrated graphics and not Vulkan with FSR upscaling hahaha
i love how when someone loans him a pc to try out he sends it back in better condition than when he received it :)
I wish more UA-camrs did that, a lot I have seen break it more
I remember seeing this and the HTC portable computer on my local tech magazine.
I remember seeing the Sony on sale in PC world for like £999 and thought to myself that’s expensive when you could buy a pretty decent laptop for that money.
HTC Shift?
@Khavvie not a lookalike, it was Windows Mobile, but it was limited
I literally convinced my dad to buy me this when I was younger, I loved it
Do you still have it? They're quite collectable now :)
@@psivewri Hey, cleaning up today I found mine (that´s how I landed in your video). I really loved it back then. When I plugged it in, I was amazed that it was still performing good. Of course, with nowadays tech they are desperately slow :) Thanks for this video... Now I have to decide what to do with it, I don´t think anyone collects such things here in Austria :)
A lot may know this but instead of the plastic strips you can just pour a small amount of baking soda on a bit of wet super glue and build up as necessary. It'll quickly form a solid mass, the same shape as the wet super glue, that's surprisingly strong. Works great for building up odd shaped areas or if a piece is actually missing. I've had some luck shaping with a dremel too.
@@beanboy5315 that makes it more brittle
this thing had an ultrawide display before they were in fashion with phones
Psivewri: posts a new video
Everyone: Eucalyptus Time!!!
(EDIT) imagine getting a comment pinned by Psivewri
everyone keep it on 69 likes
3AM back for more eucalyptus
eucalyptus time!
You know your comment won't be pinned if you edit your comment
LMAO DUDE SERIOUSLY DIDN’T YOU KNEW THAT BRUH? You literally edited the comment which unpinned your comment sadly..
These were sold in India as well and I also remember the advertisements for these. Correct me if I am wrong on this, but as far as I remember the actress/model featured in the advertisement was shown carrying this in the back pocket of her jeans. I mean that was the last place I would keep my laptop 😂
Sit and... oops...
especially with girls pocket size o.O
@@aetvrna well you certainly couldn’t fit it in the front “pockets”!
I too saw the ads with these on the back pockets of models.
"and my favorite background was not in fact the iconic Bliss wallpaper"
Traitor, we must throw him into the dungeon.
"It is better to be broken in body than corrupted in mind. NOW BEGONE, HERETIC!"
This is one of the laptops I would like to add to my collection.
An interesting tidbit about these old Atom processors with the "GMA 500" or similar graphics- I've run a couple of these devices over the years and if you do enough digging, you'll realize that the graphics aren't actually intel at all but a PowerVR chip glued to an Atom processor, more akin to what you might see as the integrated graphics in an ARM processor at the time than on a desktop PC. This is why the performance is so horrid: in theory these are actually decently capable chips, but Windows isn't able to leverage those capabilities due to poor driver optimization. This was also true of the Raspberry Pi for many years which had similar graphical limitations in Linux, but once a proper driver came along the GPU performance skyrocketed. I haven't checked in a few years, but last I recall there were some veeery specific driver tweaks you could do on these Atom SoCs that would actually give you decent performance and properly accelerated graphical capabilities, assuming your application supported the ancient version of OpenGL in question!
I have one of these in great condition and about 6 months ago I loaded Linux Mint . Everything works and it's been in a drawer ever since.
I had one of these. Finally sold it for two reasons: 1) screen resolution was a mismatch with Windows. Either everything was too small or, if scaling was used, some dialog windows didn't fit onto the screen. 2) battery life was too short. In practice it was just over 2 hours, not even with heavy multimedia usage but just with wordprocessing and the internet.
Damn I love gadgets like this. Great job on the disassemble and fixing a few issues. Great vid mate :)
You're literally the reason why I'm not going crazy over the Australian GP cancellation.
Are you also an F1 fan?
@@vepehthegreat6757 y e s
I don't need sleep, I need Sony Vaio
That was really awesome of you to fix those issues whilst you were in there! Trully leaving something better than when you got it!
I remember ALMOST buying one of these back in the day. I needed a basic computer, decided to go netbook but the $800 price tag seemed just a little high.. although it was super cool. My last two laptops had been Sonys tho and I hadn’t been impressed. Ended up with a dell mini 10 for $300. It did it’s job for a while but was stolen in 2013ish..
Me too! I always had a soft spot for these things but I ultimately ended up finding a mini dell laptop out in public so I used that until very recently
"It's a concept that's largely been forgotten..."
[laughs in GPD Pocket]
I actually have one of these in great condition but don't use it anymore and been thinking about selling it. That said it has been a lot of fun to have over the years and the coolness factor is just off the charts!! 🙂
I used to look at this laptop every time I went in the Somy store for a while, thinking it looked ace. Kinda glad I never had the money to waste on it now! Thanks for sharing it today.
You make me buy some eucalyptus from shop, I'm from Malaysia and I always waiting for new videos, thanks for awesome sharing. Really enjoy PSIVEWRY! (sorry for bad english)
That’s a big Nintendo DS!
I missed a few chances of owning a Vaio P-these sell like pancakes on Facebook Marketplace!
I had one (1st gen) and I am glad that I sold it. The screen was way too small and the cpu+gpu were abysmal. Had the X too, it had a great screen with great colours.
my favorite windows xp theme was Royale Noir, with a nice Plasma ball wallpaper that i still use today! (you can see which one is royale noir on the wikipedia page "windows xp visual styles")
This makes for a nice machine for portable emulation.
not really.. a ps vita is far more suitable for that.
@@TurtlePower99 unless you want to play old computer games like c64 msDOS zxspectrum ect.
I share the same passion when finding the problem that’s been there for years and fixing it.
I am absolutely fond of your videos - the reason being that it is always very properly structured, cramped with fruitful information yet concise, and one can easily follow your content as well as the visuals; all are properly intertwined whilst adequately related to the other. There is no rambling, stuttering, no unprofessional presentation nor senseless artifacts and your camera management is very much pleasing to the eye. In my opinion, you definitely meet international standards for the presentation of televised productions - meaning I think that you should head towards a television career if you have ever wondered whether or not you should.
My dad has a friend who worked corporate back when this was new and when I saw him casually pull it out of his bag and start browsing on it back then, it was the most amazing thing I’ve seen.
I remember seeing those in sony stores as a kid! It blew my mind that they could make computers that small back then.
I find that cutting strips of tissue paper and applying them over super glue helps strengthen without adding bulk.
Yup soaks right into the gaps of the paper
3:51 you definitely brought back a long lost memory, azul was my favorite background as well!
I remember being 17 years old when this came out and I wanted one so freaking bad. I had a custom made Dell laptop with a blue ray disk drive that was glitchy af out of the package and all the custom orders on it were factory parts and top notch specifications too. This still looks like a neat little tool to use if the specs were brought up to modern design. Thank you for the nostalgia of looking at the best buy ads for this laptop when I was in high school.
I then saved my money from my first job that got me through college for pocket money for fun spending and bought the 2$k top spec MacBook pro with the CD DVD disk drive in late 2013. It shat the bed last year so I bought the Samsung galaxy book 360 with the top specs summer of 2021. Still wondering if the Sony Vaio laptops were worth their price tags.... The laptop not bought for me......
Try gpd win max 2
Holy crap, never thought anyone would make a video about these. Remember always wanting one as a kid when I’d see them at Sony Outlet stores. Really cool
Psivewri: at least it fits in a pocket
Girls: uh no.
You have pockets?!
Lol and I just heard of fake pockets for some women's cloths. hahahahah!
It would fit nicely in a woman's purse, tho
was about to say that as well lmao
would fit nicely with 2 boeing 707's and a few plant pots in a purse.
Maybe a cool device for Dos games and 2D emulation on the go.
You’d want to install Lubuntu on it. Then it will really fly!
@@NormanF62 Possibly but I think 32 bit is not supported on Lubuntu anymore unless you use an older version. Not sure if the performance hit on 64 but is worse than XP with the new versions.
@@NormanF62 ye then mebe gfn
@@NormanF62 lxde is a freakin hideous DE though... I'd rather use a tiling WM than to have to Look at lxde.
@@Edmundostudios it's not like your gonna be using it for the internet so just keep it offline and use a USB or whatever to copy stuff to it if you need to so it's not like security is that much of an issue. I used Lubuntu for a long time on an old PC I had with no drive
I always wanted one of the first gen ones when I was younger.
Also 50MB/s = 400mbps which is pretty standard.
Seeing stuff like this really makes me hope the steam deck takes off. Closest thing I have to this is the GPD win
cool as hell that you fixed and cleaned up this device for the guy who let you borrow it!
I’ve got a Toshiba Libretto 110ct with accessories, happy to lend it to you if you want to review it.
Awesome video man👍👍👌 👏 we need more laptop like this.
I remember seeing one of these in the wild being used at a coffee shop when they were new. I was amazed by the form factor but somewhat perplexed by the screen size + resolution.
It is still an awesome piece of technology. It is impressive it has almost 11 years old.
Y'know, the way this looks on the inside reminds me of PSPs. Which makes sense, because it's a tiny Sony device from a similar point in time.
I wanted to have one of these so badly... It was awesome tech back then
Would an SSD with windows 7 work with this. Might be worth doing a part 2 video with that but keep the old drive and pop that back in as it belongs to Douglas
I actually tried windows 7 before giving to Nathan, it was slow, although the GMA500 graphics supports Windows 7 Aero, the experience was not even close compared to Windows XP
@@dongyi108633 that's cause your supposed to use windows 7 starter it's the only one that's good somewhat on netbooks
“It fits right in the pocket”
Me, looking at my pocket: no…
I would have loved to have seen you install Windows 10 on this device, to see better handling of scaling on that high resolution display.
Man, back in the day, I had a HUGE crush on UMPCs. I used to watch videos about the OQO's, and the Vaio P. The Vaio P is my favorite of the bunch, because, just look at it! The fact they crammed a usable keyboard into something small enough to throw in a pocket was also a nice touch. Shame the specs were so woefully underwhelming. I got to see one at Fry's back in the day, and witnessed it just struggling to render the desktop with Aero. Today, It'd probably be an okay Linux UMPC, but something like the GPD Micro will blow this out of the water in terms of performance!
My Pi 4 4GB based android/Linux tablet will probably blow it out of the water
Many years after its launch, I had one of these, in a marvelous pink color, with a croco finish on the glossy plastic. It was a good companion for work, and only for very basic things. But I am a simple person, I use a Chromebook nowadays. I miss that craziness that we had on the cell phones and laptops back in the early 2010s.
I really love the size and form factor! It looks so cool and cute at the same time :)
3:55 Wow I liked the same XP theme and wallpaper when I was using my family PC
Man I wanted one so bad back then. Like you said it was very expensive
I like how he says to “ consider subscribing , if you like it “ I respect that- NO UA-camR TELLS ME WHAT TO DO !
I remember wanting one of these back in 2011
This is the form factor I would like a surface laptop version made. Loved this back in the day.
3:27 - No-one ever talks about Monster Truck Madness, but I had many hours of fun with it in the 2000s!
Maybe check gpd win for a pocket laptop? You can even run some modern games on them .
I remember back when the Sony Store was still open at the mall, they had display units on the shelf. It was $3000 or something rediculous like that. I remember the floor model had Vista loaded on it, and it was unusably slow, and the build quality felt incedibly fragile. A heroic effort but cutting it too close. I feel like it was the Samsung Fold of its day. That Sony store also had the 11 inch OLED TV playing Iron Man in a dark room, I was floored when the credits rolled and they appeared to be floating.
Nah Samsung fold is leagues better lol at least compared to other stuff
Thanks UA-cam for recommending this video/channel to me! Excellent stuff, you've gained a new follower, can't wait for more.
I recall at Frys electronics seeing a sub sub netbook that fit in the palm of your hand and ran XP. Wish I could recall what that was.
Every laptop and device Vaio made under Sony was so ahead of it's time
It is a beautiful device... beautifully crafted... love só much the lime version
I remember something similar to this also with Sony's Vaio brand name from when netbooks exploded in popularity. It was ~$899USD as I recall & I probably would've found some stupid reason to buy one...if not for the fact I had just dropped $1700USD on a 21" Vaio laptop. I still have that laptop too & it works; ...but if the return policy extended some 11-12 years, I would be getting my $1700USD back & buying a PC that could obliterate the Vaio...
I still can't believe I spent that on a computer...
7:40 I've got one with both battery sizes, the extended battery only adds a few mm of thickness and gives the a more comfortable angle. Unfortunately I've got the spinning rust variant.
The P Series from Sony were probably my favorite of the UMPC era. I kind of wish this was still a category given how powerful our phones have gotten, seems it'd be quite easy to produce a UMPC today.
Never knew we had the same favourite theme/wallpaper combo in XP
6:42 Hey! Free Windows 7 License Key! xD
Damn I coveted these so badly back in the day.
I think pocket pcs are making a comeback for enterprise and gaming use
I really wanted this back in the day...
The last device that I saw that really qualifies as a PC you can put in your pocket was an HP Stream 7 tablet from 2014. Honestly it was great and i loved it but with 2gb of soldered ram and no upgrade as well as being forced to use 32bit windows basically cut it off at the knees and it went obsolete too fast. Really only GPD is making devices you could pocket but they are not price friendly.
goddamn, the black and white model is beautiful
I wanted one of these so badly when they came out. That and the even smaller Lenovos (If I remember correctly) seemed so insanely futuristic at the time.
You mean the Toshiba Librettos?
@@hifinerd5399 Not Toshiba, pretty certain it was Lenovo.
Pocket Yoga? I wanted one on those so bad
I bought one of these on clearance for around $180 when they were newish, played with it briefly and resold it on ebay right away for $500-600. Mine came with Vista and I upgraded it to 7. The atom processor was truly horrible, slower than even the Atom N450 netbooks of the time. Around that time I had an N450 based $150 Asus eee pc that was actually far more usable (if much poorer quality) that I used with a very stripped down version of 7 for a good while.
50MB/s it pretty standard for sub-laptops of that era, does the same on my Fujitsu LifeBook P7230.
If the headphone jack works but not the speakers, it's very unlikely to be a driver issue.
It could be that the jack port kinda failed in such a way that it believes something is plugged in constantly!
Anyway, I never see you installing drivers on your devices after reinstalling Windows, but it's important to do it!
Get in there with the trusty soldering iron and you'll be laughing.
@@marcwilliams9824 what do you mean?
Windows xp and windows 7 are my favorite OS.
I wonder if a modern mobile OS would work on this. I had a 10” Dell netbook from 2007 with the 1.6 mHz Atom processor that was painfully underpowered even back then.
Liked your video, boy you are a brave man taking the little lap apart. I have two of the firs generation vaios and just love them. One of them is the green color with an ssd. Its fast with windows 7. I disagree that they are not functional. They are NOT made for playing games. They are made for documents, music and even movies. To make the battery last I turn off wifi. I go to a café and sit and write word documents with a smile on my face. Its so light!! They have their own niche as far as computers go, if you want to type a document ir irganize files this is it. I even have autocad 2002 in it which is great for drawing house plans! Movies look great with a movie player. Even the ac adapter is tiny. I love my vaios and wouldnt sell them, they are so well made. Wanna play games ,get an xbox this is for grown ups. Mine cost me like 100 bucks andd the green one 30 in ebay Mexico. Well worth it.
It was my student age and this teeny tiny full functional laptop was my dream machine
Wow finally at first time he's useing a outro wow
I remember wanting one of these really bad back in the day. Too bad the performance sucked big time.
Also I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves the silver theme! 😁
I really wanted that Vaio back in the days.
What a coincidence! I saw a picture of this on Wikipedia not too long ago. It's such an interesting computer.
I remember seeing this in popular science and wanted one so badly
I personally never saw the scenario in which devices like this would shine. Small but much more powerful notebooks were available and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets were not only optimized for being mobile devices, but much more comfortable to use.
I had a Samsung Q1. A bit different setup, very unique.
I picked up one of these on eBay a while back. Loaded latest kernel on it running Arch. Ended up frying it (no longer powers on fully)... Anyway always liked the looks of these.
If I did not remember wrong that I used 10" Intel Atom Windows tablet for educational use and stocks trading when i was at university. It had really poor performance experience but had a decent battery life and great portability. Good memories... :)
Back in 1999, I was a motorcycle courier in London, UK. Our boss invested in brand new Nokia 9110 Communicator phones.
We did feel like we were in a James Bond movie... 😂
Ooooohh baby I got a tingling as soon as I saw the pic of the baby laptop
4:25 thanks for that free Windows 7 home premium product key
this sort of device would of been perfect to fuel my rs addiction back then
I remember seeing this and the HTC portable computer on my local tech magazine.
This existed in 2004. We had one at Costco.
This guy at Walmart: I'll have 20 cans of eucalyptus oil please
Since Australia doesn't have Walmart, he'd probably be doing the same thing but at Coles or Woolworths.
Storage might be eMMC, which is more comparable in performance to memory cards than to 'true' solid state drives.
I wish there was newer computers like this. Would be great for leaving in the car to be able to plug in and talk to the ECU.
I always loved my Viaos, but everyone I have ever been in, from 14" to 17", were a mess of ribbon cables.
There was one of these on eBay finished in a stylish red. I was tempted to bid for it, but the bidding went above my price bracket. The seller had upgraded it to Windows 10. Good job I didn't bid - it must be as slow as molasses! Your video told me the decision not to bid was the right one. Thanks for uploading.