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  1. Acabou que eu me lembrei porque o #Fedora não é uma boa pro meu laptop #vaio. Travamentos aleatórios não são bacanas.

    Já que eu estava na vibe de #kde, agora estou às voltas com o #debian.

    Em testes.

  2. walknews.com/1190901/ ドコモショップでVAIO販売開始。約1kgの軽量モデルから – PC Watch #Business #VAIO #パソコン/タブレット/スマートフォン #ビジネス #モバイルノート

  3. ドコモショップでVAIO販売開始。約1kgの軽量モデルから – PC Watch yayafa.com/2707306/ #business #VAIO #パソコン/タブレット/スマートフォン #ビジネス #モバイルノート

  4. I know, I already have a similar #VAIO… But look, this one has custom CD and floppy drives… And even worse rubber than the previous one. 😨

  5. バッテリ供給で動きそうな #ARM のワンボードコンピュータという物、懐かしの #UMPC ( #東芝 #Libretto#SONY #VAIO C1など) と比べてどれだけ性能が高いのか?という疑問

  6. Unfortunately, most modern USB floppy drives are unable to handle 720K DD disks anymore, because they're dirty and cheap. Today, I just picked up this classic SONY VAIO disk drive. It's really sleek and nice looking and can also read and write to 720K diskettes without any issues. I think this is awesome!

    #Sony #Vaio #FloppyDisk #RetroComputing #90s #Diskette #Retro #Oldschool

  7. I know brand loyalty is unfashionable but, man, this was the future I held in my hands...

    now everything is an ugly, expensive glass lozenge.
    #cyberpunk #baudpunk #sony #vaio #psp

  8. So this #Sony #VAIO PCGA-UFD5 Floppy drive has the melting rubber pads disease… Let's fix it with laser-cut replacements!

  9. @256 I didn't know there was a desktop.

  10. I've switched back to the #Vaio SVP13 ultrabook. The battery issues with the #ThinkPad T480 kept coming back and now the internal battery is refusing to charge.

    To be honest, the T480 never felt "right" to me. I'd rather use my flimsy, significantly slower Vaio with less RAM, a dodgy battery, and a keyboard that's falling apart, but significantly better screen and speakers.

    The T480 is still under warranty, so I'm going to contact the seller and take it from there.

    Happily. the WiFi 6E card I bought for the T480 works in the Vaio, so at least I've got a bit of an upgrade.

    Where I go next I don't know. For what I do, If I can't get a refund on the T480, I might consider spending a bit more and getting an X1 Carbon gen 9, or maybe even investing in a Framework 13.

  11. Let's see if I'll have to steal @jdmcs 's #WheelOfRegrets

    So we have a nice #Sony #VAIO PCG-N505SN with a vinegar syndrome… I know it's curable but haven't tried yet.

    Also, a part to glue back on the battery (which needs a rebuild anyway). Other than that, it should only need some cleanup.

    Oh, and new rubber feet, but I'll take care of that soon. So I can send some to @thisdoesnotcomp 😉

    Note the… unusual packing material on the right 😄

    #RetroComputing #MSDOS #Windows98

  12. #RetroFlash: PCGA-TKN1 #Sony #Vaio

    Yes, it is exactly what you think it is:

    an additional number pad you can flip out of the #notebook bay:

  13. haven't got the touch screen to work yet but so far everything else has worked right out of the box and it runs like a dream
    #haiku #haikuos #vaio #sonyvaio #umpc

  14. I've been gifted a gorgeous #Sony #VAIO PCG N505X, introduced circa July 1999, which was originally bought for over €3,000. It still works beautifully!

    The lid is very bashed around, though. Does anyone have any tips on how to clean that up? Is it even possible?

    I plan to swap the hard drive for a #CompactFlash card, and I'll see if I can get a new battery for the machine. It comes complete with a dinky but sturdy carry case, a port replicator, charger, CDROM drive and a functioning 10/100 PCMCIA Ethernet card.

  15. 家電販売店が株主になってしまうと、よその家電販売店で扱ってもらいづらいのでは? #VAIO #ノジマ

    ノジマがパソコン「VAIO」を買収 再生ファンドの日本産業パートナーズから100億円で - 日本経済新聞 nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC08C

  16. VAIO launches a pair of 2.2 pound Intel Meteor Lake laptops with 14 inch displays

    Japanese PC maker VAIO is launching its first laptops with Intel Core Ultra processors. Unfortunately the new VAIO SX14-R laptop for consumers and VAIO Pro PK-R business laptops are featuring Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors based on last year’s Intel Meteor Lake architecture rather than the new Series 2 “Lunar Lake” chips.

    Still, these new laptops pack a lot of features into compact […]

    https://liliputing.com/?p=173134

    #japan #laptop #meteorLake #vaio #vaioProPkR #vaioSx14R

  17. Live at half past:

    Did a #Varta leak into this poor #Sony #VAIO too?

    This Sony VAIO PCG-F707 laptop is in very good condition… except maybe the clock battery hidden very deep inside. Let's have a look!

    youtube.com/watch?v=bRIJCyu2n2

    twitch.tv/mmu_man

    #RetroComputing #LiveAtFabrico #Repair

  18. Live at half past:

    Did a #Varta leak into this poor #Sony #VAIO too?

    This Sony VAIO PCG-F707 laptop is in very good condition… except maybe the clock battery hidden very deep inside. Let's have a look!

    youtube.com/watch?v=bRIJCyu2n2

    twitch.tv/mmu_man

    #RetroComputing #LiveAtFabrico #Repair

  19. Live at half past:

    Did a #Varta leak into this poor #Sony #VAIO too?

    This Sony VAIO PCG-F707 laptop is in very good condition… except maybe the clock battery hidden very deep inside. Let's have a look!

    youtube.com/watch?v=bRIJCyu2n2

    twitch.tv/mmu_man

    #RetroComputing #LiveAtFabrico #Repair

  20. Live at half past:

    Did a #Varta leak into this poor #Sony #VAIO too?

    This Sony VAIO PCG-F707 laptop is in very good condition… except maybe the clock battery hidden very deep inside. Let's have a look!

    youtube.com/watch?v=bRIJCyu2n2

    twitch.tv/mmu_man

    #RetroComputing #LiveAtFabrico #Repair

  21. Live at half past:

    Did a #Varta leak into this poor #Sony #VAIO too?

    This Sony VAIO PCG-F707 laptop is in very good condition… except maybe the clock battery hidden very deep inside. Let's have a look!

    youtube.com/watch?v=bRIJCyu2n2

    twitch.tv/mmu_man

    #RetroComputing #LiveAtFabrico #Repair

  22. Since I was unable to find the restore media for this super cool little #Vaio, I thought I’d see if I could use some kind of solid state media to replace the HDD, but it uses this weird CF type ATA 100 interface. I couldn’t get it to play nice with any of the CF cards I have. The HDD seems to have some minor issues. I was able to backup the files to a USB drive, then CD boot Clonezilla and make a full backup of the HDD. I was able to find a new old stock of the same 40GB HDD for a good price on eBay but only make the purchase after Clonezilla was able to successfully make and verify the image. Now I sit and wait. Put the machine back together. Next time I take it apart I wanna lube the hinge, add some epoxy to some of the hinge plastics and repaste the CPU.

    #retrocomputing

  23. VAIO Vision+ 14 portable monitor weighs just 325 grams (11.5 ounces)

    Portable monitors come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and capabilities these days. You can find models with dual screens, ePaper displays, touchscreens, and all sorts of other features.
    But while it’s nice to have plenty of options when looking for a second screen for your laptop, tablet, phone, or game console, that’s still one more thing to carry […]

    https://liliputing.com/?p=170020

    #portableDisplay #portableMonitor #vaio #vaioVisionPlus14

  24. VAIO Vision+ 14 portable monitor weighs just 325 grams (11.5 ounces)

    Portable monitors come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and capabilities these days. You can find models with dual screens, ePaper displays, touchscreens, and all sorts of other features.
    But while it’s nice to have plenty of options when looking for a second screen for your laptop, tablet, phone, or game console, that’s still one more thing to carry […]

    https://liliputing.com/?p=170020

    #portableDisplay #portableMonitor #vaio #vaioVisionPlus14

  25. Thinking about selling my Sony Vaio laptop...
    It was my first laptop, but it's grown really just out of use for me. It's quite heavy, it doesn't have much benefit in terms of ports or software, the hardware is really out of date for my uses ( The GPU was basically out of date when I bought it 💀 )

    It has a FireWire and Sony MagicGate port, but....

    My x230 has an Expressport slot. I have a FireWire PCI-E addon card. And generally I only need firewire for DV tape capture (which is very rare for me to do anyway)

    And the MagicGate port is only for Memory Stick and Duo cards, which I mean were really only used for older hardware too... but I have a really nice multi-port USB 3.0 device for reading MS/Duo cards...

    Also the power port is LITERALLY the most frustrating I've used. I've replaced it three times now:

    1. Wasn't holding the charger properly, so replaced

    2. Got banana mushed into the port, impossible to determine if it was truly clean or not, replaced

    3. goto 1.

    I managed to find a replacement for the keyboard on Aliexpress as well (amazingly, last one, EN-US) as some of the keys stopped working following water spilling on the laptop + a year of storage making it work again somehow.

    It's probably been close to a year ish of not having used this laptop... but... it feels almost wrong to sell it. it was my first laptop!

    Actually honestly this was a mistake to spend as much as I did on this NEW when I bought it so many years ago. Sigh. I doubt anyone would want to buy it even! :(

    There was a model variant with a blu-ray drive available, which I HAVE found listings on ebay for the bare drive, but it's close to $100 ish.
    ebay.ca/itm/174930247474

    #SonyVaio #Vaio #Sony #Computing #Laptop #laptops #Computers #Retro

  26. @creamqueen @eris no.

    is superior even on the same hardware!

    I tried it on several devices including a low-end li[ ]...

    OFC they all are in to but is worse than & together!

  27. @creamqueen @eris no.

    #Windows7 is superior even on the same hardware!

    I tried it on several devices including a low-end #Netbook li[#VAIO #P11Z]...

    OFC they all are #downgrades in #performance to #WindowsXP but #WindowsVista is worse than #Windows8 & #Windows10 together!

  28. Jahrzehnte war der Ruf von Sony legendär – nicht nur Apple-Gründer Steve Jobs nahm sich den Unterhaltungselektronikpionier zum Vorbild. Nun wird das Haus 75.​ 75 Jahre Sony: Tonband statt Sojasoße