Re: 1:30 The U-Series was actually sold in the US! The Japanese models were the U50 (with a Celeron) and U70P (with a Pentium M and Windows XP Pro). The latter model was sold as the U750P in the US, but probably not as many surviving examples as the U50/70 Japanese models.
Yeah, U750P is a really rare one. I am lucky to have one in near perfect condition with box and accessories, but there were like 5000 units (if not less) produced back in 2004, and the number of surviving units seems to be very low nowadays
Can confirm this is the case here - the error message is complaining that the entry point for EncodePointer could not be found, and EncodePointer was first introduced in SP2
1:45 The New Bliss wallpaper was included with the downloadable Royal Theme as used in Media Center by default but for normal XP. The MCE used a modified Bliss wallpaper called Energy Bliss as dafault however. (I was a Bliss geek back then as I was building my XP version with my own Bliss wallpaper because, of couse, I did)
I remember this one to be by far the least quirky and the most solid among UMPCs. Not so practical for real world uses, none of UMPCs were, but the perfection shows in the briefness of this video. It's exactly what it looks like, and there's no special care needed. Most others has creaks and flexes and rooms for tweaks.
The Vaio micro devices were meant to be used with the optional Vaio port expansion hub so you could plug in more than one USB device at a time. There were a whole line of USB peripherals designed to work with these machines including USB mice and keyboards.
it might be possible to get it to display stuff with english if all the language packs for XP can still be found as for the browser it could be because the version of windows is sp1 or sp2
Well Psivewri, i just wanted to say thank you, thank you for making it into my childhood. Even though those gold days wont be back, ill never forget you and i still watch u till this day ❤❤
new bliss was the version of bliss for Windows XP Media Centre Edition (which is the version of Windows XP installed on there because it uses the Royale theme instead of Luna)
The New Bliss wallpaper was included with the downloadable Royal Theme for normal XP, but it's not the default wallpaper of MCE, as it used a modified Bliss wallpaper called Energy Bliss.
@@TommyCrosby oo you're absolutely right - it's been years since I've seen either of them so I mistook it for Energy Bliss. A quick google says Microsoft stole New Bliss from a Deviant Art artist without permission!
New Bliss was most likely on there by default. It's part of the Luna Royale theme that came with XP Media Center Edition. If I saw it right, it's also installed and currently set.
The New Bliss wallpaper was included with the downloadable Royal Theme for normal XP, but it's not the default wallpaper of MCE, as it used a modified Bliss wallpaper called Energy Bliss.
Just started getting into computer tinkering and found your channel. Your videos make me mad that I didn't get into tech sooner. So much old nostalgia to disassemble and reassemble out there.
I remember reading about these in an article from Engadget back in the day. I really wanted one, but it was only sold in Japan. I forgot it existed until today lol
That thing reminds me of my buddy's old Cowon R7 PMP after I messed something up on it and it crashed to the windows CE desktop. You could run so much more stuff on it after that but still no internet. This thing should have run a mobile OS but given it was 2004 I don't know what else they could have done.
Hello Psivewri, love your content. Im also obsessed with older hardware, Im currently enjoying vintage gaming from the 98 and xp era ! My dad gave me his Old Mecer M288+ laptop from back in the day, but sadly it needs a keyboard. Hopefully you can maybe see if there is one on your side, greetings from South Africa. The ribbon cable ripped and not sure if you can repair a ribbon cable?
Not bad at all, seems like a nice little unit if only it wasn't a Japan exclusive. The only question is, was there a market for pocket sized XP computers in 2004?
i haee sony vaio to, but its laptop with windows vista x86, and im unable to install SP1 (Maybe its beacouse in BIOS is activated secure boot. But it have dead CMOS battery, and i cant change it :( )
900mhz Celeron in 2004. We were breaking the 3ghz barrier that year. Also 1gb of memory in more pricey systems, which this was, was normal that year. I can see why this flopped :D.
Dont compare this ULV celeron with desktop 3ghz. It was centrino, this 900mhz celeron was on par with sub 2 ghz P4 Willamette & Northwood... Also, there were the versions with ULV Pm 1 and 1.1 ghz 1MB and 2 MB L2 cache
@@kudryavchik How was it on par with those P4's? Wasn't this generation of celeron pretty much an underclocked P4? And didn't centrino just pretty much mean 'mobile processor with intel wi-fi'?
@@rollingtroll nope. Centrino was a totally different thing to p4. It was a revolution like apples m1. P4 architecture was inefficient, so intel had to increase frequency. Pm cpus had the architecture that was the evolution of p3 instead. Banias was the 1st Pm core evolved into Dothan. Lots of info about them. U50 uses ULV celeron M banias CPU. Its quite on par with 1,5-1,7 ghz p4. Its not atom:-). In 2004 celeron M ULV 900mhz and pm ULV 1.0 and 1.1 ghz were the high end choice for subnotebooks (dont be confused with netbooks). Subnotebooks costed from 1,5 to 3,5 k usd:-)
@@OverTallman Yep in late 2007 (3,5 years after U50) with frequency limitations. Also, they used GML910 chipset (GML is lower grade 910) and if I am not wrong even slower than 855
Very nicely build and alot of IO for the size. Japanese only meant business only. If they had added more gamery controls on the outside they would have created a PSP that runs Windows :)
2000s Sony was nice, some stupid stuff like the CD rootkits (in defense of the Memory Stick: SD wasn't the only competitor but also CompactFlash/Microdrive, MMC, SmartMedia and xD and some digital cameras from the 2000s also had some proprietary USB connectors while Sony was using mini-USB "B" and/or i.Link (4-pin FireWire)), but they did a bunch of quirky things like their Qualia product line (the 016 was a tiny digital camera in 2003 around that time first mobile phones with cameras appeared, the Siemens S55 seemed to be one of the first but its camera wasn't integrated, it was externally connected via the charging/data port), their NW-A3000 walkman was one of the first with an OLED screen in 2006 and the XEL-1 in 2008 the world's first OLED TV, just 11" small with 960x540 (but that's equal to a 22" screen with 1920x1080. It also matches with their slogan "like.no.other" at that time. It's a little sad that such UMPCs, Netbooks and Tablet-PCs got mostly killed off by the iPad and Tablet boom, however at least the Tablet-PCs returned just a few years later with the Microsoft Surface (Pro) and Windows 8 that had finally a UI made for touch control and we got Ultrabooks now, but a
I've got a similar device! It's an Arcos 9 and the variant I've got shipped with Windows 7 Starter and an SSD on an IDE ZIF connector. Crazy thing and unfortunately not very usable (linux drivers for the touch screen never work for me), but I keep it around as a little pet project.
Bro, I am always worried I mistype and don't find your channel. MKB HD changed his channel name to his name ... which I would also butcher if trying to spell. Kenya change your channel to something simple? :D
Hey Psivewri try to buy some thinkpad t420 with some i5 or i7 not the i3 and the nvidia nvs4200 and if you buy some t420 with gpu you need 90 w charger or more because the gpu runs on 3 w with 65w charger i have t420 with this specs: i7 2620m nvidia nvs 4200 1gb vram ddr3 8gb ram ddr3 4+4 1333 mhz and 128 gb ssd with win 11 pro all on 90 w charger all of this for 2600 kč / 43 usd and i live in czech :D
It's a good thing you skipped Roboland which is where I spent $160, it had 6 setups with various robots 2 didn't work at all, 1 was half broken. The whole experience was like 20 minutes. It was THE definition of a tourist trap. This is also where whirley dome was
Once again thanks for tuning into my videos. I had a lot of fun playing around with this device 😊
First :D
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I still have an acer aspire d255e
The og steamdeck
A celeron 😯 kinda makes sense for a tiny pc
Re: 1:30 The U-Series was actually sold in the US! The Japanese models were the U50 (with a Celeron) and U70P (with a Pentium M and Windows XP Pro). The latter model was sold as the U750P in the US, but probably not as many surviving examples as the U50/70 Japanese models.
Yeah, U750P is a really rare one. I am lucky to have one in near perfect condition with box and accessories, but there were like 5000 units (if not less) produced back in 2004, and the number of surviving units seems to be very low nowadays
20 years later, the handheld PC market is more heated than ever
Playing those games seems mind blowing considering that's the year when PSP came out.
Most late XP programs won't work if you don't install Service Pack 2 or 3... This only comes with SP1.
Can confirm this is the case here - the error message is complaining that the entry point for EncodePointer could not be found, and EncodePointer was first introduced in SP2
probably he didn't update it for preservation green loading bar of XP Home pre-SP2 ;-)
It took me almost 10 YEARS to finally know that the Windows "feature upgrades" were already exist far before Windows 10. Thanks for the info
also you would need sse2 for a lot of them but thankfully the celeron m supports it
Darn, I forgot Service Packs were a thing. Great memories with XP
That's a big Game & Watch.
Wow! Had no idea that computer existed!
it wasn't a failure, cause we got a video from you thanks to it.
lol.
Who said anything about it to be a failure? It's directed to a specific audience, so for them it was a success, it fulfilled its purpose..
@@H.EL-Othemany yeah, he also changed the title..
the sony memory format is called „MemoryStick“. Magic Gate is their copy protection, also used on PS2 Memory Cards.
Looks like a magnified Nintendo Game & Watch!
4:06 Those screensavers are form the Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP ad on
1:45 The New Bliss wallpaper was included with the downloadable Royal Theme as used in Media Center by default but for normal XP.
The MCE used a modified Bliss wallpaper called Energy Bliss as dafault however. (I was a Bliss geek back then as I was building my XP version with my own Bliss wallpaper because, of couse, I did)
3:51 Nice Portable Keyboard my dude :)
I remember this one to be by far the least quirky and the most solid among UMPCs. Not so practical for real world uses, none of UMPCs were, but the perfection shows in the briefness of this video. It's exactly what it looks like, and there's no special care needed. Most others has creaks and flexes and rooms for tweaks.
Great review love your work ♥️ good luck with your new home❤
3:58 Oh my lord. You just activated a ton of core memories showing the aquarium.
The Vaio micro devices were meant to be used with the optional Vaio port expansion hub so you could plug in more than one USB device at a time. There were a whole line of USB peripherals designed to work with these machines including USB mice and keyboards.
I had a OQO Model 01 and loved it
it might be possible to get it to display stuff with english if all the language packs for XP can still be found as for the browser it could be because the version of windows is sp1 or sp2
A used one of those 15 years ago as a portable music studio.
The new bliss image was actually part of a downloadable theme from Microsoft’s New Zealand division.
Well Psivewri, i just wanted to say thank you, thank you for making it into my childhood. Even though those gold days wont be back, ill never forget you and i still watch u till this day ❤❤
If you drink eucolyptus oil prior to playing games on Sony Pocket PC, your brain will generate 50% more FPS.
new bliss was the version of bliss for Windows XP Media Centre Edition (which is the version of Windows XP installed on there because it uses the Royale theme instead of Luna)
The New Bliss wallpaper was included with the downloadable Royal Theme for normal XP, but it's not the default wallpaper of MCE, as it used a modified Bliss wallpaper called Energy Bliss.
@@TommyCrosby oo you're absolutely right - it's been years since I've seen either of them so I mistook it for Energy Bliss. A quick google says Microsoft stole New Bliss from a Deviant Art artist without permission!
New Bliss was most likely on there by default. It's part of the Luna Royale theme that came with XP Media Center Edition. If I saw it right, it's also installed and currently set.
The New Bliss wallpaper was included with the downloadable Royal Theme for normal XP, but it's not the default wallpaper of MCE, as it used a modified Bliss wallpaper called Energy Bliss.
Love the Chanel. Keep it up! :)
Great work love Windows xp my Windows of all time ❤
Just started getting into computer tinkering and found your channel. Your videos make me mad that I didn't get into tech sooner. So much old nostalgia to disassemble and reassemble out there.
I'm pretty sure Japanese businessmen of the early 2000's didn't buy this to play Star Wars on mate!
I remember reading about these in an article from Engadget back in the day. I really wanted one, but it was only sold in Japan. I forgot it existed until today lol
these Vaio PCs, just crazy
Reminds me of the OQO pocketable PC, a fairly contemporary device if memory serves.
What a vid Nathan! 🔥🔥🔥
I'm having an original ibm netvista and is not recognising the hdd. PLEASE HELP ME!
i bought / used one in hong kong around 2005 . english windows xp . good for my application
That thing reminds me of my buddy's old Cowon R7 PMP after I messed something up on it and it crashed to the windows CE desktop. You could run so much more stuff on it after that but still no internet. This thing should have run a mobile OS but given it was 2004 I don't know what else they could have done.
That is incredibly powerful for 2004
How many years of software support is available on Mac operating system?
Hello Psivewri, love your content. Im also obsessed with older hardware, Im currently enjoying vintage gaming from the 98 and xp era ! My dad gave me his Old Mecer M288+ laptop from back in the day, but sadly it needs a keyboard. Hopefully you can maybe see if there is one on your side, greetings from South Africa. The ribbon cable ripped and not sure if you can repair a ribbon cable?
I own one of those, full drivers and gimmicks in English and Spanish. It's a pretty cool toy
4:14 Na, thery are fine.... They have the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
I really wish I can get the device, seems interesting personally
maybe supermium will work if you update Windows XP to Service Pack 2 or 3
woah what was that new bliss wallpaper
Not bad at all, seems like a nice little unit if only it wasn't a Japan exclusive. The only question is, was there a market for pocket sized XP computers in 2004?
i haee sony vaio to, but its laptop with windows vista x86, and im unable to install SP1 (Maybe its beacouse in BIOS is activated secure boot. But it have dead CMOS battery, and i cant change it :( )
Ngl, as a sucker for portables (which I still am), teen me would've loved this.
Those wallpapers correspond to Microsoft Plus for Windows XP.
Screensavers, too
I’ve always been intrigued by devices like this. Too bad they weren’t more widespread outside of Japan.
Would be nice to print a keyboard case to fixe on it
That seems comfortable to play games with it since the trackpad is like a joystick
now we have stuff like the deck and gpd win mini
You know that the computer is good when he uses the EUCALYPTUS OIL
Remember when big companies wanted to make the most out of the box design?
**An astronaut was harmed in the making of this excellent video
Nice video, and a very interesting device. Sony has made all sorts of bizarre yet cool PCs.
How could I remember this Channel Name?
Searched it for so long
You gotta get your hands on the Sony mylo from like 2007 or 2008
900mhz Celeron in 2004. We were breaking the 3ghz barrier that year. Also 1gb of memory in more pricey systems, which this was, was normal that year. I can see why this flopped :D.
Dont compare this ULV celeron with desktop 3ghz. It was centrino, this 900mhz celeron was on par with sub 2 ghz P4 Willamette & Northwood... Also, there were the versions with ULV Pm 1 and 1.1 ghz 1MB and 2 MB L2 cache
@@kudryavchik How was it on par with those P4's? Wasn't this generation of celeron pretty much an underclocked P4? And didn't centrino just pretty much mean 'mobile processor with intel wi-fi'?
@@rollingtroll nope. Centrino was a totally different thing to p4. It was a revolution like apples m1. P4 architecture was inefficient, so intel had to increase frequency. Pm cpus had the architecture that was the evolution of p3 instead. Banias was the 1st Pm core evolved into Dothan. Lots of info about them. U50 uses ULV celeron M banias CPU. Its quite on par with 1,5-1,7 ghz p4. Its not atom:-). In 2004 celeron M ULV 900mhz and pm ULV 1.0 and 1.1 ghz were the high end choice for subnotebooks (dont be confused with netbooks). Subnotebooks costed from 1,5 to 3,5 k usd:-)
@@kudryavchikSome early netbooks did use Celeron M ULV chips though, the Asus Eee PC 700 lineup being a prime example.
@@OverTallman Yep in late 2007 (3,5 years after U50) with frequency limitations. Also, they used GML910 chipset (GML is lower grade 910) and if I am not wrong even slower than 855
I wish you talked more about storage, there was barely any info.
Sony were great back in the day for cramming a lot of tech into very small form factors. Very interesting little device !
550g isn't that heavy. The Surface Go is of similar weight.
I miss your old BGMs
Very nicely build and alot of IO for the size.
Japanese only meant business only. If they had added more gamery controls on the outside they would have created a PSP that runs Windows :)
No Eucalyptus spray? 😦
Super unrelated, but: nice watch!
2000s Sony was nice, some stupid stuff like the CD rootkits (in defense of the Memory Stick: SD wasn't the only competitor but also CompactFlash/Microdrive, MMC, SmartMedia and xD and some digital cameras from the 2000s also had some proprietary USB connectors while Sony was using mini-USB "B" and/or i.Link (4-pin FireWire)), but they did a bunch of quirky things like their Qualia product line (the 016 was a tiny digital camera in 2003 around that time first mobile phones with cameras appeared, the Siemens S55 seemed to be one of the first but its camera wasn't integrated, it was externally connected via the charging/data port), their NW-A3000 walkman was one of the first with an OLED screen in 2006 and the XEL-1 in 2008 the world's first OLED TV, just 11" small with 960x540 (but that's equal to a 22" screen with 1920x1080.
It also matches with their slogan "like.no.other" at that time.
It's a little sad that such UMPCs, Netbooks and Tablet-PCs got mostly killed off by the iPad and Tablet boom, however at least the Tablet-PCs returned just a few years later with the Microsoft Surface (Pro) and Windows 8 that had finally a UI made for touch control and we got Ultrabooks now, but a
Is it just me or is the mic volume on this video very quiet?
Just you.
I've got a similar device! It's an Arcos 9 and the variant I've got shipped with Windows 7 Starter and an SSD on an IDE ZIF connector. Crazy thing and unfortunately not very usable (linux drivers for the touch screen never work for me), but I keep it around as a little pet project.
In a way, the handheld laptop craze kinda traces it's lineage to these Sony pcs huh?
Such a cool device
Windows Xp hasn’t even come out yet….. we still on windows 2000. Gosh jumping the gun already
My favourite channel 😊
Please make a Tutorial how we should spell your name
We NEED him to make tutorial !!1!!!1
I need this NOW
I used to have the asus version of that tablet
man Japan is just way too ahead of it's time.
I accidentally spilled toothpaste on my laptop, what should I do now?
Omg SONY placed expandable memory to this in 2004 and in 2024 apple don't have this option in hugee laptops.
Sony needs to make computers and phones again
Tablets before tablets were a thing.
Ah, yes.
The Nintendo Work & Watch.
Eline sağlık!
YAY, new video dropped
Honestly it looks like it would be pretty fun to play age of empires on
more Mac restoration videos please
You need to install updates using Legacy Update before trying modern programs
Hey, why are your videos 25fps. It makes it difficult to watch.
Is that a deep sea rolex?
Nope! Just a dirt cheap Addiesdive automatic dive watch! It cost $89 AUD :)
Bro, I am always worried I mistype and don't find your channel. MKB HD changed his channel name to his name ... which I would also butcher if trying to spell. Kenya change your channel to something simple? :D
nice old pc
it feels like engineer from team fortress 2 (I am talking about pda)
I guess today you would use a steam deck also the switch to
Hey Psivewri try to buy some thinkpad t420 with some i5 or i7 not the i3 and the nvidia nvs4200 and if you buy some t420 with gpu you need 90 w charger or more because the gpu runs on 3 w with 65w charger
i have t420 with this specs:
i7 2620m
nvidia nvs 4200 1gb vram ddr3
8gb ram ddr3 4+4 1333 mhz
and 128 gb ssd with win 11 pro
all on 90 w charger
all of this for 2600 kč / 43 usd
and i live in czech :D
And if you want to you can upgrade the cpu to i7 2670gm (quad core ) but it runs bit hot with this cpu and you need 135w charger with the nvs 4200
the windows xp home has no service pack all the browsers you tried need sp3
I love you're videos!!
The original PC gaming machine on the go
It's a good thing you skipped Roboland which is where I spent $160, it had 6 setups with various robots 2 didn't work at all, 1 was half broken. The whole experience was like 20 minutes. It was THE definition of a tourist trap. This is also where whirley dome was
It's just a overpriced PSP which can't play Burnout.
Nice watch, is that a Steeldive?