This Laptop is Unbelievably Tiny - Sony PCG-U101

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This #PCG-U101 was my daily driver laptop back in 2005, and it was uber impressive back then when you consider what it could do in such a small frame.
Bear in mind that back then it was essentially a full-sized laptop or something like a Palm or maybe Windows CE PDA.
This thing was incredible and I'm so glad I've managed to pick one up for my colleciton.
Special thanks to Matthew Miller for posting about his PCG-U101 and his adventures getting Linux to work on it, you can find his website here:
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@dbransom 7 месяцев назад

I used to go to work in the 1990's and pass a Sony Shop in Chatswood here in Australia... Honestly they had the best stuff back then. I used to drool over all the light blue and purple plastic devices that my budget could never stretch to. The ones I used to go nuts over where the Clie handhelds, there was just something magic about their industrial design. I wish we had shops and design like that these days. All the black rectangles and metal PC's are kinda boring. Great video too.

@JimmyBels 7 месяцев назад

Good old days when devices were made by engineers not by marketologists.

@t_w_7821 6 месяцев назад

I love VAIO computers when I was young! they are slick, they are cool! I simply don't know what went wrong with Sony with the VAIO computer line

@dustojnikhummer Год назад

This little beauty deserves a Compact Flash card as a HDD replacement.

@TechMadeEasyUK Год назад

I’ve got an MSATA adapter on order for it

@FennecTECH 9 месяцев назад

Got a video on the upgrade and performance comparisons?

@agenttexx 7 месяцев назад

If this is the same as the Ipod HDD, then its a PATA ZIF connector. There are several PATA ZIF SSDs available. HP used one in their earlier Netbooks.

@everythingpony 7 месяцев назад

Update?@@TechMadeEasyUK

@yjk_ch 7 месяцев назад

@@agenttexxNot all iPod models used ZIF. Some had CF-style connector.

@thibaldus3 7 месяцев назад

GPD is one of the last handheld laptop manufacturer.

@beezrow 7 месяцев назад

That's GPD Win Mini & Win Max grandfather, Still cool, even by today's standards. Feels like GPD to took over from Sony 🎮

@badtasteincars Год назад

Looks pretty much like a mini-vga port to me. Excellent video, btw.!

@TechMadeEasyUK Год назад

Ooh, you could well be right! Thanks

@Couchflyer-NY Месяц назад

Well here’s another memory jolted back into my consciousness. I worked for a Sony Authorized Service Center in the US. Believe it or not, customers abandoned thousands of dollars worth of computers and electronics on a regular basis. I was able to buy a working machine like that one for relatively nothing. Impressive multi media preformance for something so small.

@PolyesterMoustache 7 месяцев назад

watching this on my GPD Win Max 2 right after playing a slightly older game on it was crazy

@Sugalime3D_FPV 5 месяцев назад

I had 15, then 15 Notebook for Home + 11 Netbook for mobility, then 17 and then 14 inch. And now I know, that 13 inches is probably the best size if you only use a notebook occasionally...

@darrylbrown163 7 месяцев назад

i think sony made one that is even smaller than that one. this was years ago when a small store called Comp USA was still going strong. there was this laptop that sony made where the screen slides up to revel the keyboard. i was a poor man working check to check and could not afford it at that time since the price was around $1000. this was super early 2000s too...

@Saavik256 6 месяцев назад

This gives me strong EeePC 701 vibes which I used as a daily driver for a couple of years.

@imark7777777 7 месяцев назад

It kind of sucks to know these existed now although I would've never been able to afford them back then I remember seeing the OQO and Sony had a similar device a few years later In the US. I remember looking at the windows CE PDA things thinking it would be really nice to have something the size of a VHS tape that was a full system and relatively usable. Fast forward I find out all this time there's been mini laptops for a long time just not in the US. That's OK though I got GPD pocket3 now it's almost exactly what I was looking for way back then and I've used it a lot. I have also told Ebay a bit for some beige wells, cough Sharp mobilion HC-4600 that I remember looking at so much as a child in OfficeMax (or was it Staples?). I was also gifted an libretto 70 CT which just makes my head crash thinking that these small systems were around for a long time outside of the US.

@raphi154farel5 6 месяцев назад

Got a Sony Vaio P11 when it was new. It was tiny with a great screen and keyboard. A real marvel of craftsmanship building a notebook. It was amazing - and absolutely useless. A pain in the back regarding performance 😂

@MrScottyTay 7 месяцев назад

I think thumb phrase allows you to use the T9 style function keys on the left side so you dould just use a few keys to type with, like when you would text on a phone. Seems pretty useful for a handheld laptop

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

Hey that’s sounds awesome and I agree it makes sense!

@Sabundy 7 месяцев назад

Sony Vaio laptops were beautiful

@ThePrimaFacie 7 месяцев назад

Please a tear-down would be really cool if you feel up to it. Not wanting you to risk anything if you dont wanna, Im sure there are Ribbon cables galore and may need a new dab of Thermal paste, too. Just an idea. Thanks for the vid

@stefanmisch5272 23 дня назад

they never should have made laptops larger than this

@rickkarrer8370 7 месяцев назад

You may be able to use the iPod drive adaptors to get na SSD in this, but they do/did make 1.8" SSDs.

@allenmovies 7 месяцев назад

Sony used to make the most fascinating electronics and gadgets that were so ahead of their time.

@tommystahl7119 7 месяцев назад

It’s a mini VGA port, old Mac’s used to have these

@JeanSamyr 7 месяцев назад

5:40 This port is a MiniVGA

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

I’m going to get that made up as a T-shirt and wear it with pride. We live and learn

@Mad-Coo 7 месяцев назад

It's not for a wrist strap,it's for a security wire for theft protection.

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

Like a Kensington lock?

@TeraByte38 6 месяцев назад

the og GPD-like pc

@hellf.o 5 месяцев назад

Corrente alternatives to this? Thanks a lot

@FedericoLucifredi0xF2 Месяц назад

Working on restoring one. Any luck with WPA/WPA2 Wifi? If yes, what driver are you using, and what version?

@TechMadeEasyUK Месяц назад

Sadly the WiFi chipset is not compatible with anything other than WEP

@FedericoLucifredi0xF2 Месяц назад

@@TechMadeEasyUK ah, I was afraid of that. I am also looking at a mini-pci replacement, but the unique ribbon connector interface makes that impossible as best as I can tell...

@FedericoLucifredi0xF2 Месяц назад

@@TechMadeEasyUK Ty!

@schutzaustin 7 месяцев назад

seeing someone play tribes is amazing lol

@duyanhtran9494 8 месяцев назад

If this thing actually use the same hard drive that has been use in Ipod, then you can replace that with iflash solution use to replace stock hard drive in Ipod

@TechMadeEasyUK 8 месяцев назад

Good point, thanks!

@KLONESNETWORK 7 месяцев назад

Basically a samsung fold... just much more advanced and slimmer

@fungo6631 7 месяцев назад

GTA 3 doesn't run much worse than on Intel atom netbooks from 2010.

@nancyanderson5320 Год назад

Thanks for your video- I own a Sony VAIO model PCG-4E1L I am the original owner the laptop is beautiful but I am having a hard time to connect it to the internet. It has Bluetooth but it is not picking up the Bluetooth connection. This model come with a DVD player and it works. Just trying to figure out where to take it to make it connect with internet

@TechMadeEasyUK Год назад

Does it support modern WPA2 encryption methods? Some older devices only have Wi-Fi cards capable of supporting the older WEP encryption standard and won’t connect to modern networks

@KSurjnarine 7 месяцев назад

you're not supposed to use this for typing an essay it at the time pewpies on a blackberry but is not a fully functional PC Hardware like this is for the person using it

@hanspeter9636 7 месяцев назад

I have a 20.1" acer 9810 sitting here

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

🤯

@sulthan9086 7 месяцев назад

we have a modern version of it, lenovo legion go

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

Super cool device but I disagree that it’s a modern equivalent to this style of laptop. These were never intended for gaming, they were fully fledged Windows devices that could run standard desktop apps while remaining ultra-portable. That said I do think the likes of the Legion Go, Steamdeck and ROG Ally are amazing devices in their own class

@TheBlackFoxMaster 6 месяцев назад

0:35 Подарите мне такой!

@alexcrouse 7 месяцев назад

I love my PCG-C1XS. No one was ready for me to show up and whip a laptop out of my pants... and then edit broadcast quality video over firewire on it.

@5alpha23 7 месяцев назад

"The tiny keyboard is a stretch for my hands" - I beg to differ on that expression, sir

@DijaVlogsGames 10 месяцев назад

This looks like it was a great and between portability and actual usability, unlike by other mini laptops of the time. And it looks gorgeous

@imark7777777 7 месяцев назад

5:40 the 4 pin i.link connector that Sony liked to use did not carry power which was great for their camcorders but not so great for their external cd drive which was a better way to connect them then over USB 1.1 and then later 2.0. Thus the added an extra power connector on some of their systems. And I think that might be mini VGA? It looks like an apple connector but I could be wrong. I do know that there was a few systems that Sony shared their or the other way around Apple shared their video connector with Sony. So you could claim it wasn't proprietary but when it was only used on very few other systems. I believe there's only two devices that use the "micro DVI" port the original MacBook Air and I don't remember what Sony device.

@Kalvinjj 6 месяцев назад

Mini VGA indeed, as proprietary as non-proprietary standards can get I would say. Didn't even know anyone other than Apple used those. The mini/micro ports are so weird, the worst is seeing something like a full PC graphics card with mini HDMI on it instead of the full size connector.

@heckintech Год назад

Dang, I am mad in love with this tiny thing. So long as a machine can play Unreal Tournament, it's immediately super valuable to me 😂 UT99 is always the first thing I install on any retro machine capable of running it! 😁

@TechMadeEasyUK Год назад

It’s for sale 😂

@heckintech Год назад

@@TechMadeEasyUK 🤣 How much? Hahah who am I kidding, I'm broke lol

@vincenzopromedia 9 месяцев назад

Both the design style and the performance though only for its time still only bare a resemblence to the gpd line of computers nowadays especually the win max. Small and powerful. It's one thing to say it it's another to be the smallest and still be able to play AAA titles.

@denvera1g1 7 месяцев назад

I love the small form factor laptop market. My GPD Pocket(gen1) was an amazing tool at work Lenovo Legion Go is a great combination device with removable controllers for when you dont want to game, just wish it had a way to hard mount a Trackpoint 2 style keyboard, like the Lenovo miix 320 or microsoft surface book line of 2 piece convertible laptops that actually functioned like clamshell laptops when their keyboard was attached, as opposed to those floppy folio style keyboards common on the standard Microsoft Surface or Lenovo M500/700 series.

@cloudycolacorp 6 месяцев назад

I had a onexplayer that had a little folio keyboard, which I thought would be great. It was so bad lol

@denvera1g1 6 месяцев назад

@@cloudycolacorpYea i try to insist on rigid detachable keyboards at work but often times these are 'professional' devices and spec for spec can be as much as $700 more than the same thing with a folio

@Jackpkmn 11 месяцев назад

As a Dell Mini 9/Dell Inspirion 910 enjoyer the diminutive size of it isn't shocking at all. I also love my HP Stream 7, I may develop a love for mini computers if I'm not careful. The video port is not proprietary actually! It's a very uncommon for Windows standard called MiniVGA. It was basically the only thing Apple laptops used at the time tho so you can find adapters for it pretty easily if you don't mind the Apple iBook white color.

@KSurjnarine 7 месяцев назад

My Gf had one and i Had the Acer Aspire she was envious at the performance cuz we would play silly games together lol

@KSurjnarine 7 месяцев назад

the dell version had a way better setupp sytem wise for work and the aspire somehow had better cooling and was thinner lol but the battery was fat as fuck in the back and kinda worked like a cooling stand

@RyouConcord 7 месяцев назад

Damn that's awesome. I wish more "mainstream" companies still made stuff like that. Hell, this thing has more IO than on a modern device. The closest I can get is the GPD Win Max series, which is incredible, but it's not coming from a company that has as much presence as, say, Sony, ASUS etc.

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

Sony did some weird and wonderful stuff in this period. I wish they hadn’t stopped

@chris.take.the.L 7 месяцев назад

Amazing video, great trip down memory lane (I always wanted one of these!) but if i can point something out for future videos if you don’t mind: there’s a super high-pitched overtone in the voice track that’s a little bit painful to my ears. Maybe you already do this in your newer videos, but if not, it’d do wonders to run your voice track through a low-pass filter before exporting. ❤️❤️

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for pointing out. I can’t hear it myself (joys of getting older) but others have pointed it out too. It doesn’t seem to be present with my more recent videos

@Zulonix 6 месяцев назад

Sony lost their mojo in 1989 as a result of buying Columbia Studios.

@bombfog1 7 месяцев назад

What a sexy, smart piece of kit this VAIO is. Thank you for sharing.

@valley_robot 7 месяцев назад

I love umpc I own a GPD pocket 2, it's very cool, 8gb ram, windows 10, 256gb SSD, it fits in your pocket and it's very capable

@6Twisted 7 месяцев назад

I'd love a 19 inch laptop. I've got a 17 inch 1440p and it's difficult to see.

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

It’s not the size of the laptop, it’s what you do with it that counts

@Raptor50aus 3 месяца назад

I picked a U101 recently and i'm very happy with it. Old games run great thanks to dosbox. Duke3D runs a little slow though. I have converted alot of movies and music video clips to 720x480 and they play great nice and smooth. The battery still fully charges too. I have the IDE to CF adapter and a CF card running XP.

@gordo8189 2 месяца назад

If you want really pocketable, check out Sony's UX range - I actually used one back in the day, for developing Pascal software. It was quite usable when docked, not so much on the train due to the miscule screen and keyboard. Like the U1/101, the UX also has a 1.8" parallel ATA spinning hard drive, now available cheaply as an SSD from AliExpress and easily upgraded. My absolute favourite though was the Sony P-series - super small, insanely high-res screen, a keyboard you could actually type on and again, readily upgradeable to SSD. And the killer feature - it had a lanyard loop! The P-series had an Atom processor and shipped with Vista making it unusably slow. After installing a super-light version of XP however, amazingly responsive and I still use mine with an XP-only photospectrometer (the UX280 is an ornament in a drawer). If you ever need cut-down XP Acronis images for the UX or P-series, let me know..

@LittleMikeStarCraft 7 месяцев назад

I wish 11" laptops were more common---- I'm running a lenovo 11e yoga.. and I love it.

@Knight00001 7 месяцев назад

Yeah I think so too, unfortunately they're not too common, and that's an adorable laptop !

@noth606 6 месяцев назад

Heh, I used to rock, and still actually have a Toshiba Libretto CT-50, with RAM upgrade and both docking thingimajongs, ie a port replicator strip as well as a desktop dock. It would make this thing look quite big, believe it or not. My CT-50 has died unfortunately, but I used it for many many years. Specs on this absolute jewel of high performance computing is a Pentium 75MHz, a mind bending 8mb RAM and an unfathomable 810mb HDD, and it comes with a kinda proprietary PC card 1.44mb floppy disk drive. Obviously no LAN, much less Wifi, but I did have a serial cable to hook it up to my Nokia 9110 Communicator for internet access back in the day - I'm talking about the mid/late 90's.

@redfonzie21 6 месяцев назад

I'm just wondering if you've ever experienced the keyboards of the GPD brand UMPCs. These UMPCs are like mini-desktops in a portable form factor with a built in screen. Unfortunately. the place they fail - and miserably at that - is in the keyboard layout. The size of the main keys aren't TOO bad and the space bar is at least maybe twice the size of your Viao, at least from watching this video and using my GPD Win Max. I also have the original GPD Pocket. So I would be interested in seeing what you think of the GPD line. They even have a modern handheld that is a full mini-pc that is quite easily a Steamdeck killer. Actually I thinjk the last couple generations of the GPD handhelds would qualify as such. And if they ran the same OS... well, there's no doubt in my mind which brand would come out on top. Hope you have a chance to give some of these units a good workthrough. Hopefully you'll be as impressed as I am.

@Raptor50aus 3 месяца назад

My Sony Vaio UX has a much smaller keyboard. The U101 is just large enough to be still useful.

@Kalvinjj 6 месяцев назад

That thing is so adorably small that it has that option to type the same way as a Japanese phone: those orange hiragana on the Q, W, E, A... until C are exactly what a Japanese phone would have on it's 1 - 9, *, 0 and # keyboard. Somewhat similar to how we typed in numerical keypads, but with 5 directions instead of 3 presses. It works as follows: each key from 1 to 9 has one "a" phones, one is "ka", then "na", "ta" and so on. You press the corresponding key and 5 options exist: just press on it and it's the "a" character, hold it and press any of the 4 directions for the other ones "i", "u", "e", "o", same with "ka" for example ("ki", "ku", "ke", "ko") and so on. 0 handles "wa", "wo", the consonant sound "n" and vowel sound extension (like doubling a vowel in roman characters), while "#" does special characters like ! and ?, and "*" does small letter (for example the "tsu" character is used in small size to extend a consonant sound that will come after it like doubling it does in roman character writing), plus the "dakuten" and "handakuten" marks that change the pronunciation of the characters.

@pwnmeisterage 6 месяцев назад

Framework laptops have a physical slider switch for Airplane Mode. I don't think any other OEMs offer any mobile devices/phones/laptops with this feature anymore. Especially not Sony, which always goes out of its way to implement as many proprietary DRM-locked anti-consumer controls as they can.

@mikeyjohnson5888 7 месяцев назад

Sonys products for awhile were very appealing for their design aesthetics. Quality was already expected. Its sad that Sony has moved away from this philosophy. As for the lanyard strap mount, there are some modern tiny laptop device that have them. Many of GPD line of products include them though tbh I think are just a bit to big to be useful that way.

@ManuelSanchezArtiles-jh8ct 7 месяцев назад

HTC Shift x9500

@Rawstock92 7 месяцев назад

That port is FireWire (“4-pin”?), would’ve connected to Sony DV cams, as well as some other brands and devices …

@nickthaskater 2 месяца назад

The GPD Win Mini is exactly this with modern specs. It even has the lanyard holes!

@UnitedPebbles 6 месяцев назад

Eh Panasonic workbook is more real for work and distance travel (equals million plus Yen?)?

@martinharding 7 месяцев назад

SSD and something like Puppy Linux and this would be incredible.

@alpaykasal2902 7 месяцев назад

Sony and Toshiba brought their A game... I'm glad 'tiny' is back.

@imark7777777 7 месяцев назад

It's not in Japanese that's just the windows license key, oh wait you mean it's literally in Japanese.... haha

@Ucceah 7 месяцев назад

i have the strong urge to plug a saitek cyborg 3D pad into it. (that thing was humongous)

@TimothyTimPSP 7 месяцев назад

Did you record the voice over using that thing. There's strange auido effects when you are spending. Like a high squeal.

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

It’s signal noise from my USB mic. I don’t notice it during editing because my hearing is crap

@sdxq 7 месяцев назад

i see this as the perfect laptop to play gzdoom on and maybe some half life 1

@vincenzopromedia 9 месяцев назад

I tell people all the time these new handheld gaming PCs are not copying the steamdeck they're trying to recreate sony's old umpcs and nobody can see it that way. They're unaware of the history and have no idea this were a thing but if they just knew this they would never say it has no relation. GPD anyoneo onexplayer rog they're only marketed as PC gaming devices to get more buzz becaue gaming takes off more than a regular or random ultra mobile PC would even if it has the muscle to game. Because theyre as small as gaming console controllers they might as well ad D-pads, trigger buttons and analog ganing sticks onto them even if the main idea is just to run windows, all windows programs, and not just games. If they wanted them to just run games there are operating systems suited better for just that like steam os or playstation OS. Either way UMPCs have always been the future and we haven't had the power to realize them until ryzen 6800u in the GPD win 4. OQO and vaio ux shook the world but were just too slow. The win 3 was the closest thing to perfecting a umpc or a modern version of a vaio ux but it too was imperfect more high tech than functional too big and still too slow. The win 4 is the best we have but its still too big to put into your pocket and borrows too much from the PS vita.

@gentuxable 7 месяцев назад

Why Sony though? UMPC was a design by Intel together with MIDs. This laptop predates those designs of course but the Toshiba Libretto that is even older was also some kind of this and if you go back further the HP 100LX was also similar to that one but older. So at the end I don't see why Sony should take any credit for anything now and why that matters and how you're missing on history.

@dave4shmups Год назад

Great video on this tiny laptop! What strategy game were you playing on it?

@TechMadeEasyUK Год назад

That was Age of Empires. Not a great demonstration of what this machine can do but an awesome game none the less

@nakternal 6 месяцев назад

Pull the fucking laptop out of the stupid box alredy

@dfbess 6 месяцев назад

I saw one of these in a magazine when they came out and i wanted one so badly lol

@eternal_affairs 3 месяца назад

Seller probably set it up, played with it a bit, then put it up.

@dasfawsfasf935 7 месяцев назад

This slightly thicker but small form factor is perfect. That fact that that no one wants to experiemtn in this space is fustrating. And yes I know gdp, and I have a nanote lol

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

It could be made even chunkier with the expanded battery, but it really was perfect

@kraziivan_ Год назад

i've been waiting for a windows xp Professional key for 15 years! Finally!

@TechMadeEasyUK Год назад

Wow, you can’t have looked very hard

@links-awakening 4 месяца назад

I had 2 of these over the years it was so good. The extended battery pack was amazing. Rotation was used to change the screen so you could hold the laptop like a book and read e books. Thumb phrase was programmable.

@TechMadeEasyUK 4 месяца назад

I know, right?

@PixelShade 7 месяцев назад

To be honest, I was massively surprised with the gaming performance... Sure, you are playing a game from '99, but still. Back in 2003 that would still be considered amazing considering the diminutive size of the machine!

@thiagotatagiba 7 месяцев назад

The vaio P series was a great mini pc. With Atom cpu, was a great device, with a stunning screen.

@KSurjnarine 7 месяцев назад

I had a 8 inch acer aspire 1st gen and the new 10 inch 2nd gen at the time the atom was crazy I even had one in my Asus Zenphone and hacked it to run windows when i was done with it lol

@NeoTechni 6 месяцев назад

I loved my Samsung Q1 (original, not ultra) and it blew people's minds at an anime convention I took it to. It was vastly superior to the iPad that came out after it. Q1 had an 800*480 LCD, ran Windows XP, had 2 USB ports, VGA out, wifi/bluetooth/ETHERNET, a compact flash slot, 512 MB of RAM and a 60GB HDD. And it dualbooted some media player OS

@troyom 6 месяцев назад

I miss when Sony made computers.

@JulioBarrancoGalaviz 7 месяцев назад

The Toshiba Libretto was even smaller.

@Hadisabetghadam 8 месяцев назад

5:50 Is mini Vga

@TechMadeEasyUK 8 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@jseden 7 месяцев назад

Always wanted one of these back then.. I had a 10” sr17 back in the early 2000s but one of these Minis was always at the top of my want list!

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

Very cool machine. There’s something about Sony’s design from this era that’s just awesome

@danielktdoranie 7 месяцев назад

Shame we don’t have laptops like this today… and yes I know about the Pocket GDP

@frostedbutts4340 7 месяцев назад

GPD, Chuwi, whole bunch of smaller brands on Aliexpress.

@LisSolitudinous 7 месяцев назад

I miss my HP mini 210, even if it was slow af

@ricenoodles632 6 месяцев назад

The design philosophy between the 2002 and 2003 model feels like 5 years gap

@TechMadeEasyUK 6 месяцев назад

Sony from this period were so progressive

@nicoftime1534 7 месяцев назад

Netbooks please come back to market pretty please

@UncleThor 7 месяцев назад

I noticed that the Fn and Ctrl keys were swapped. That would bother me to no end. It's funny, because I recently bought a ThinkPad Z13 as a new daily driver, and those two keys are also swapped. It drove me crazy. I found out that I can re-swap not only the physical keys, but the functions as well (Lenovo Vantage had that software), so I promptly put the keys where they belong. I wonder if that is something they do on certain foreign keyboards.

@andrewbass6837 7 месяцев назад

I think it would be ideal to run moden Puppy Linux distro

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

It used to run contemporary versions of Fedora quite well!

@Lnclt-tc3ln 6 месяцев назад

This device looks like something GPD would produce today, including the "gamepad" mouse replacement above the keyboard. Which is not only quite impressive for the time but also shows how that particular kind of PC is still something people ask for. (I use a GPD Pocket 2 myself when not at home...)

@RetroVilla-HD 7 месяцев назад

It looks amazing and what if Sony recreate this model with a ryzen and all the new tech

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

Sorry to say Sony no longer make PC's or laptops :(

@lobau_ 7 месяцев назад

Looks like an OG GPD Win Max 2 lol

@JessicaFEREM 7 месяцев назад

Make sure to backup the hard drive or your vaio NOW. If your hard drive goes it could be the end of having all the pre installed software.

@keithmaggioni4388 6 месяцев назад

I've still got that Samsung 19 inch laptop. Still works with upped mem, an ssd and W10 for basic functions. My back up and the optical drive comes in handy.

@chaosordeal294 7 месяцев назад

It's bigger and less capable than a phone from the same year.

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

That’s a bold claim, which phone were you thinking of?

@JimmyBels 7 месяцев назад

I've dreamed of this one when Sony had launched it, but it was a way more expensive than i could afford myself.

@MiguelRPD 6 месяцев назад

Legacy of Kain 🙌

@theeduummpp 6 месяцев назад

prehistoric steamdeck

@DigitalNomadOnFIRE 7 месяцев назад

Awful electrical noise in the audio.

@TechMadeEasyUK 7 месяцев назад

You know, I’d never even noticed that until you said. How odd!

@therealsechs 7 месяцев назад

QUICKTIME?! OMG

@MarceloAugusto-fb1lx 4 месяца назад

Sony flex

@voltare2amstereo Год назад

Looks related to the Sony camera computer shown on cathode ray dude's channel. Kudos Sony not using soft touch coating on this or it'll be untouchable

@TechMadeEasyUK Год назад

Different product line, but yeah it’s still Sony messing around and being different. 2000s Sony was fun!