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Eucalypus Oil seems to improve performance by a decent 15%

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.

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 remember seeing this and the HTC portable computer on my local tech magazine.

this thing had an ultrawide display before they were in fashion with phones

"and my favorite background was not in fact the iconic Bliss wallpaper" Traitor, we must throw him into the dungeon.

I literally convinced my dad to buy me this when I was younger, I loved it

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 😂

Psivewri: posts a new video Everyone: Eucalyptus Time!!! (EDIT) imagine getting a comment pinned by Psivewri

Damn I love gadgets like this. Great job on the disassemble and fixing a few issues. Great vid mate :)

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 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.

I don't need sleep, I need Sony Vaio

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 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..

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 was really awesome of you to fix those issues whilst you were in there! Trully leaving something better than when you got it!

Thanks KZfaq for recommending this video/channel to me! Excellent stuff, you've gained a new follower, can't wait for more.

"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!! 🙂

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

3:51 you definitely brought back a long lost memory, azul was my favorite background as well!

I really love the size and form factor! It looks so cool and cute at the same time :)

I remember seeing those in sony stores as a kid! It blew my mind that they could make computers that small back then.

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.

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")

You're literally the reason why I'm not going crazy over the Australian GP cancellation.

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.

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.

Just discovered your channel. Excellent video! Subscribed.

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.

This is the form factor I would like a surface laptop version made. Loved this back in the day.

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......

3:55 Wow I liked the same XP theme and wallpaper when I was using my family PC

I wanted one of these so badly when I saw it! A trip down memory lane!

I wanted to have one of these so badly... It was awesome tech back then

awesome video. I'm going to buy one of these vaio. I use to own a vaio c1 picture book.

It is a beautiful device... beautifully crafted... love só much the lime version

This makes for a nice machine for portable emulation.

Never knew we had the same favourite theme/wallpaper combo in XP

I share the same passion when finding the problem that’s been there for years and fixing it.

What a coincidence! I saw a picture of this on Wikipedia not too long ago. It's such an interesting computer.

I have both generation Vaio P and C1 with Bluetooth from 2000, nice video 😁

cool as hell that you fixed and cleaned up this device for the guy who let you borrow it!

Yeah! Nathan! Love your work!

Bro, you should have 500k Subs.... keep posting the great content.

I missed a few chances of owning a Vaio P-these sell like pancakes on Facebook Marketplace!

I vaguely remember seeing one of those at a Best Buy or something. It blew my mind at the time.

Dude, awesome delivery!

Hope you had a good day. Let’s get psivewri to 1Million subs he deserves it

I always wanted one of the first gen ones when I was younger. Also 50MB/s = 400mbps which is pretty standard.

It is still an awesome piece of technology. It is impressive it has almost 11 years old.

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.

I remember wanting one of these back in 2011

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! 😁

The keypad looks so aesthetic clean 😍😍

It’s an amazing day when Nathan uploads

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.

Amazing videos your a computer legend thank you my friend stay safe a😘😎

it looks sooooo nice, i really like the older Sony Products

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.

Such a nice channel, i love your content you deserve more sub and views

I find that cutting strips of tissue paper and applying them over super glue helps strengthen without adding bulk.

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.

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.

It was my student age and this teeny tiny full functional laptop was my dream machine

I never saw this Sony portable laptop until now. I like it. 👍🏼

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.

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.

ohhh that photography of the beach in windows XP, sweeet!!

Hey Nathan, I just got my month 6 loyalty badge! keep up with the amazing videos!💝

Thanks for the video

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.

Great video as always!

i love the Viao P, i had 2 of them ! the black and orange is super nice ! but it is slow and clanky

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.

3:27 - No-one ever talks about Monster Truck Madness, but I had many hours of fun with it in the 2000s!

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.

Seeing stuff like this really makes me hope the steam deck takes off. Closest thing I have to this is the GPD win

I always leave a like BEFORE watching because.I know the video is going to be good!

I love these laptops! ❤️ I have always wanted one

This one is slightly different from other UMPCs in that it's mainly designed to be carried in a bag too small for a laptop and used on a cluttered desk for literally works, like in a women's purse and on a university library desk aside a hardcover book. Most others are narrower and thicker to be also held in both hands while standing, but this one feels actually like a half depth laptop doing that and that's the difference.

I really wanted this back in the day...

Didn't realise you were in SA until this video. Would love to see you collab with DankPods in the future :)

I used to own one of these but it was an eye-sight killer !

Eucalyptus oil looks quite improved for the Vaio!! 😇👍🏻💙

I really love these.... Shame they are too expensive, I'd love it if you could make a video on a Clevo D900t notebook! (also known as the Alienware aurora M7700)

Man I wanted one so bad back then. Like you said it was very expensive

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.

Jesus, I wanted this one sooo much back in the day.

Ooooohh baby I got a tingling as soon as I saw the pic of the baby laptop

I remember seeing this laptop in a Sony shop when I was a kid. My mind was blown I really wanted one but it was really expensive.

Honesty you'r the best man 👍

Thank you for the video. That brings old memories. I still have one. Loved this device but I had to use minimal Linux distros. Love the form factor. Too bad there aren't enough computers that size. I would love to hear from you guys recommendations if anyone know any modern laptop (with decent horsepower) with the same (or close to this) sizes.

I do remember when there was a Sony ultra mobile pc being sold at Best Buy back in early 2007. This seems to be a newer version of that PC