Sony VAIO PictureBook Millennium Edition 

Especially cellphones! Have you noticed how just about every manufacturer's devices look the same!? There is very little innovation going into electronic devices these days and it's all thanks to decreased competition and the influx of cheap chinese shit as the chinese are not good at innovation, but great at copying.

@@neelsmostert yes, everything is so stale, no excitement whatsoever

@CEO of Unpopular Opinions agreed, nothing good lasts forever and perhaps we will miss what we have today someday, but still the 90s and early 2000s were the best

@CEO of Unpopular Opinions true everything becomes like crab naturally

Same :(

What, you don't like modern ads with fat transvestites mean mugging the camera?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NXVeSJ1WAt0.html

she's in the mood and he's in a meeting gotta love that one🤣🤣🤣

I'd never heard of that before, but imagine if Sony made Macintosh clones after the clone debacle of the late 90s and it actually created some cool products instead of generic PCs that ran mac os. Remember that Sony actually made the very first PowerBooks too

It's because NEXT was licensed and produced by Sony. He had some good relationships with the Japanese bosses. In fact all of the 2002-2008 MacBook batteries and SMC's were Sony's.

Had 2 iterations of these in the day .They were beyond garbage. Wow Steve Jobs tho? Hes that sociopath from films and commercials. I'm all switched around now that I know the Princess Diana of nerds expressed an interest allegedly.

the problem was materials, all plastic.

You're/your 🤦

Really glad you are enjoying. I hope your retro build goes well. And it ends up small, but awesome :)

​@@xero110 i guess there you have the answer why you have been bullied in school.

@@RBMK1500You know the user replied to his own comment? he realized the mistake after

We kinda do but only from niche manufacturers and you will pay heavily for it. For example GPD has Pocket series of mini laptops.

I know Nanote still make laptops just like this, unfortunately they seem to be mainly for the Asian market so getting one overseas is a bit of a pain. MNT are also working on a hobbyist 7" laptop called the MNT pocket reform so that might be something worth looking out for if this interests you

We still do. Get yourself a galaxy fold.

I pleased you enjoyed yourself, thanks for subscribing :)

Thank you for watching and enjoying it with me all these years later :)

Thank you! I'm always working to make better videos.

Glad you are enjoying :)

Cool, enjoy :)

Hey I just got a C1XS myself and was wondering if you have the recovery cds for it?

Videopro? Was this another incarnation of world imports that later became videoworld?

Thanks, I will be experimenting more with CF and other methods.

you can load something like parted magic and run trim command manually if that was your choice or use an msata SSD with fast read writes and keep fresh images of the os and do an occasional 6 month+ secure wipe which in the SSD world sends electromagnetic pulses to the nand cells and flushes the chips keeping your memory alive which the SSD toolbox can do or parted magic can do without exhaustive command line. also if you prefer to run WIN2K there is an unofficial service pack plus a whole windows XP compatibility layer you can add you just need to research it. unofficial 2000 support can enable you to do much more with the pc with some limitations of course also i recommend using WinNTSetup tool for these old sony laptops installing them directly to the HDD which you can provide any missing drivers and slipstream them in @@JanusCycle

There are ways to patch W2k to run *some* XP software if you are so inclined, although it is a lot of effort for something that XP can do without a hitch

Debian runs on most things still with a recent kernel

Thanks for the tip. I guess Compact Flash would be better.

cool, thank you!

Please confirm your exact model number? There are different software images for each C1 model version. See some here archive.org/search?query=vaio+c1&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22software%22

It would be very difficult to boot anything from USB. Sony did not include native USB booting in VAIO until the late 2000s.

@@JanusCycle is there any other option? , using a memory stick , or use part of the internal hard disk to bootable? , because i dont have the cd rom , and Verry hard to find here

@@retronrandom835 It's possible to setup a DOS bootable hand drive with Windows 98 or probably Windows ME install files. Boot the drive inside the machine into DOS and install from there. I did this in my Toshiba Portégé ultraportable Windows 98 revival video.

@@JanusCycle Thank you brother

It's quite loud at full speed, especially by today's standards. But it's not constantly on. The CPU in mine is the Transmeta Crusoe which could run cooler.

@@JanusCycle Thanks for the feedback. I have the CWMWP so its a 867Mhz Crusoe as well.

Thank you, that is very kind. There was a time when I didn't know much. But I was interested and learned. If you appreciate old tech you will learn too. It's slow at first but the more you learn the better it gets. A good first step is finding or making a copy of the drivers, if you don't have the original discs. I found a photo of your model. It looks really nice with the darker colour. Does it turn on and work? If you have any questions or need help please ask.

I agree. I have not been watching any Picard. But should I try season 3 for nostalgia reasons? Some people tell me to.

Do you have EN recovery CDs, maybe?

@@teamexplit3363 no, I don't have any cd, laptop come with OS Germany 👍

Yep, there were Windows 98, 2000 and XP versions

@@JanusCycle ahh that's interesting thanks for telling that

Así es, un módulo Conexant - Sony 56 kbps que se conecta al lado del DialJog. Lo acabo de ver porque desarmé mi C1VR/BP

The CPU is very interesting indeed. Doing a Quake benchmark yields a better result on the second pass. Supposedly because the CPU adapts to the x86 code.

Thank you

Yes, here are the original files. They are in Adobe Shockwave Flash format. There are legacy players that will play them. I captured the screen to make the video. drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lvM4w5Px9AoBILxiBTcR6bkiEOsDHKHa

@@JanusCycle thank you a lot for sharing this :)

This was a fairly common claim in their marketing. If you continue to not find anything I can review my sources sometime. Have you also watched my 'The strange code morphing CPU inside the Sony VAIO U1' video ?

@@JanusCycle I have indeed, I thought it was very good; I suppose I'll spend some time looking through contemporary marketing material, but if you recall off the top of your head it would be much appreciated.

@@pawanyr360 I don't recall, but I will find a way to check. I would like to be able to back up my statements. Thanks for watching and your comments.

@@JanusCycle Thanks! I'm a new subscriber, and your videos are great - you should make more of them!

something like the gpd pocket maybe?

I do, though it has developed an issue :(

@@JanusCycle What's the issue?

@@phreapersoonlijk The LCD polarizer has started delaminating from the glass underneath. Here is an example of what is happening to mine. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zbrW7uUYpkw.html

@@JanusCycle Oh geez, that is a bad problem... Great video though, but I'd be very scared doing a polariser swap. :o

I believe it's some sort of connector, possibly for memory expansion, but not confirmed.

@@JanusCycle Was there a wee hole maybe for a dock?

I'm glad we will always have older Trek. And for modern TV, there are occasionally some other shows worth watching. I don't watch new Trek, but one day, maybe, I'll give Season 3 Picard a watch for nostalgia reasons.

Yes quite possibly. Next time I will comparison benchmark. We need to know!

I was able to install Windows XP fine. But I was unable to find a display driver to drive the display with it's odd resolution. I believe it must be possible though.

Thanks that's good info. But I kinda like the idea of pushing an SD card beyond it's limits. I put Windows 98 on an SD card in my Toshiba a couple of years ago. I want to see how long it lasts.

@@JanusCycle Sounds good; if you pick good quality SD cards they last longer, since they have more write cycles than the cheap ones. For modern OS you can turn off the swap file, but for old machines running W95-98 and ME I don't believe you can do that; so the SD really get hammered. If you can access the SD card from the bottom, then that's not a big deal, cards are cheap these days

Have a look on archive.org. There are C1 recovery images available. Not all models are compatible with all images. Some are for 98, ME or XP. Let me know which model you have if you can't find the correct image.

@@JanusCycle Thanks. Found something, but unfortunately only in French. If you know a place, where its possible to download English Recovery Images - would be great. 1000sun [at] mailbox dot org Thank you very much

@@JanusCycle Have the same C1VE with Transmeta Crusoe

lol

These appear to be quite hard to find. I don't know where to get one. I would keep looking. I would also consider building a connector and modding a different power adapter. Doing this is very risky though. If you get the polarity or voltage wrong you can kill the VAIO in an instant.

Yep, I have had a closer look at Crusoe, they are interesting, but slow.

@@JanusCycle Yeah I did a bit of reading on it - it seems like they were pretty much just ahead of Intel of the "converting instructions to micro-operations" and splitting across multiple execution units. Once Intel brought that in with Pentium Pro and Pentium II, they gained like 200% performance and murdered everyone except AMD.

Magic beans?

@@JanusCycle no unfortunately just the canned variety

I didn't know about KernelEx until you mentioned it, thanks. Sounds interesting, says it works with ME as well as 98. Since this video, I have been able to successfully install both 2000 and XP triple boot with 98. The current problem is the display or monitor drivers on 2000/XP. I've tried many and they all refuse to work with this custom resolution display.

@@JanusCycle That's sad. But I hope that KernelEx will help. I've seen people use KernelEx to run Minecraft on Windows 98, lol