Sony's Pocket Sized Laptop from 2010!
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- Today we're going to be using the tiny Sony Vaio VPCP11S1E, otherwise known as the second generation Sony Vaio P from 2010. This pocket sized laptop has always been fascinating to me and now, thanks to a fan called Douglas, I'm able to show you one! Enjoy :) #sony #vaio #laptop
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Specifications of the Vaio P:
Intel Atom Z540 1.86GHz CPU (1 Core, 2 Thread)
2GB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz
64GB PATA SSD
8" 1600x768 "Vaio Display Plus"
Intel GMA 500 Graphics
19Wh (2500mAh battery)
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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
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@@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 CZcamsrs 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
"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!"
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!!!
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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.
Damn I love gadgets like this. Great job on the disassemble and fixing a few issues. Great vid mate :)
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.
This is one of the laptops I would like to add to my collection.
I don't need sleep, I need Sony Vaio
"It's a concept that's largely been forgotten..."
[laughs in GPD Pocket]
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.
Thanks CZcams for recommending this video/channel to me! Excellent stuff, you've gained a new follower, can't wait for more.
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'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
Just discovered your channel. Excellent video! Subscribed.
That was really awesome of you to fix those issues whilst you were in there! Trully leaving something better than when you got it!
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)
Awesome video man👍👍👌 👏 we need more laptop like this.
Yeah! Nathan! Love your work!
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!! 🙂
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
Dude, awesome delivery!
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 really love the size and form factor! It looks so cool and cute at the same time :)
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.
Thanks for the video
I remember seeing those in sony stores as a kid! It blew my mind that they could make computers that small back then.
Great video as always!
3:51 you definitely brought back a long lost memory, azul was my favorite background as well!
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.
Such a nice channel, i love your content you deserve more sub and views
cool as hell that you fixed and cleaned up this device for the guy who let you borrow it!
Cool review!
awesome video. I'm going to buy one of these vaio. I use to own a vaio c1 picture book.
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.
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.
It’s an amazing day when Nathan uploads
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 is the form factor I would like a surface laptop version made. Loved this back in the day.
It is a beautiful device... beautifully crafted... love só much the lime version
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 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.
I share the same passion when finding the problem that’s been there for years and fixing it.
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
I wanted to have one of these so badly... It was awesome tech back then
Never knew we had the same favourite theme/wallpaper combo in XP
I wanted one of these so badly when I saw it! A trip down memory lane!
I have both generation Vaio P and C1 with Bluetooth from 2000, nice video 😁
Bro, you should have 500k Subs.... keep posting the great content.
Amazing videos your a computer legend thank you my friend stay safe a😘😎
The keypad looks so aesthetic clean 😍😍
What a coincidence! I saw a picture of this on Wikipedia not too long ago. It's such an interesting computer.
Hope you had a good day. Let’s get psivewri to 1Million subs he deserves it
Honesty you'r the best man 👍
It is still an awesome piece of technology. It is impressive it has almost 11 years old.
I remember wanting one of these back in 2011
3:55 Wow I liked the same XP theme and wallpaper when I was using my family PC
I always wanted one of the first gen ones when I was younger.
Also 50MB/s = 400mbps which is pretty standard.
Hey Nathan, I just got my month 6 loyalty badge! keep up with the amazing videos!💝
I love these laptops! ❤️ I have always wanted one
it looks sooooo nice, i really like the older Sony Products
I vaguely remember seeing one of those at a Best Buy or something. It blew my mind at the time.
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
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
Seeing stuff like this really makes me hope the steam deck takes off. Closest thing I have to this is the GPD win
ohhh that photography of the beach in windows XP, sweeet!!
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! 😁
Excellent Video ! God bless.
It was my student age and this teeny tiny full functional laptop was my dream machine
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.
Ahh, I had a similar Sony which was also small, but pre-dates this - 1997 era Windows 95 PC. Was beautiful. I lusted after the Toshiba Libretto, which you should try and get hold of. They're way more chunky than these svelte Sony's, but fun. Thanks for another great video.
great vid
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
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.
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.
I always wanted one of these!
Thanks Awesome I never seen that thing before😁👊
I really wanted this back in the day...
Nice video
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Greetings from Jakarta
Looks great!
I always leave a like BEFORE watching because.I know the video is going to be good!
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've got two of first generations. I've almost always had linux installed on it. It was a great little laptop except it's biggest fault of the GMA 500 -- closed source drivers that never kept modern. Way back in the day when there was working kernel drivers with full hardware acceleration, videos places perfectly, the UI was clean and quick.
Looking for this a long time ago, Cute 😍
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.
I really wanted that Vaio back in the days.
I always wanted one of these... I wish they could re-make it. I really liked this it was like the Nokia communicator but it's perfect.
I never saw this Sony portable laptop until now. I like it. 👍🏼
AS has been mentioned, the biggest hang-up with this and other netbooks IMHO when trying to run modern OS's on them was the single-core CPUs a lot of them used. Small and/or "lite" Linux distros still run sluggishly on them, in my experience; they really seem to want some kind of multi-core CPU.
I remember seeing this in popular science and wanted one so badly
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.
super early! I was actually just watching you.
Man I wanted one so bad back then. Like you said it was very expensive
“It fits right in the pocket”
Me, looking at my pocket: no…