Out of all the PC brands, Sony made the best looking PCs. Sony left the desktop market when the Core 2 Duo began and sadly exited the computer market in 2014. I bought two Sony laptops and they have been amazing machines.
Pretty neat! I remembered way back in mid-2000’s that my family had a Vaio laptop that looked good. But I don’t remember the model number unfortunately.
Cool find and video, and LOL thick as that thing is, looks like a Early 2000's LCD TV with a keyboard slapped on it. Also LOVE the BTTF2 DeLorean, Please tell me it light's up :D
Oh wow! This is kinda rare to find. Very expensive AIO system from the day. I really doubt there's that many left in good cosmetic and working condition. This is something I will drool all over it. Due to the rarity of this, parts will be a bear to find. If you are able to get it apart, get a IDE to SATA converter and throw in a SSD. I really doubt a 20 year old mechanical will continue to function. Maybe you can image the current image or see if you can make a factory restore CD to restore to original configuration. If you do end up doing a teardown, make sure you make that video.
I tried that restore CD and unfortunately it will not work. It's different enough that it refused to run. Apparently VAIOs are notorious for having hard to find, locked down restore media.
All you need to do is Download neo 6 from internet archive and then burn that on a disk install it on this computer use the software to back up the computer our use the software in win up but neo 6 will be the better bet then back everything up do not compress and win thats done replace hard drive with ssod are hybride drive mad the ram see if by chance you can down grade this systeam to a 1000MHZ Pintum 3 and then book uth rither usb are dvd to install fresh operating system and win the new operating system is in reinstall nero 6 and take the steps of restoring your fines with the software are like i seed do it though windows but neo 6 is really good i believe Let me know i could do this for you if you needed it done i will send it back nice
IMHO VAIO more swanky than Apple stuff. Unfortunately, most SONY Software "goodies" are quite useless. Hard work to tweak these setups in a way you love to work with these retro machines. I did that several times already. My first laptop was a VAIO 17" in the year 2005 (?) by the way. SONY always delivered their consumer products with professional home editition MS OS. They also omitted Recovery CD, where you have to create them yourself from recovery partition.
I'd love to find one of the cool era Vaio desktops. I have a Pentium 4 era vgc rb30 I found thrifting. Unfortunately the OEM graphics card and AV card where missing (I assume the previous owner kept them for some reason)
You can create the Recovry Discs right on your Vaio. You need to search for Recovery Application then you will see Create Recovery Discs. Then please share eith us. I slso hsve this exact model but mine has not the otiginal partitions do no recovery discs
Back in the Windows 9X and XP days, PCs shipped with a recovery CD and not a partitioned hard drive with recovery media in a partition like new PCs do.
Very interesting PC for its time. It looks pretty wide. Nice demonstration!
That speaker crack from the error at 7:20 made me jump, I had my volume up pretty high. 💀
Out of all the PC brands, Sony made the best looking PCs. Sony left the desktop market when the Core 2 Duo began and sadly exited the computer market in 2014. I bought two Sony laptops and they have been amazing machines.
Pretty neat! I remembered way back in mid-2000’s that my family had a Vaio laptop that looked good. But I don’t remember the model number unfortunately.
Nice interesting PC Billy Coore! Sony VAIO is my favorite PCs I ever owned!
Good afternoon Billy. 😊
10:24 The fly must be a new recurring character.
Great video. Thank you for taking your time to share this with us
Cool find and video, and LOL thick as that thing is, looks like a Early 2000's LCD TV with a keyboard slapped on it.
Also LOVE the BTTF2 DeLorean, Please tell me it light's up :D
Fantastic piece! I would have died to have this back in the day... or even now, lol
Kinda looks like the supersized version of the mini Laptop VAIOs with either a 733MHz or 866MHz, one of those, Celeron SoC Sony did.
I have an Vaio VGN-SZ160P but i couldn't find any recovery disk for it. Does anyone has an ISO file for it?
Oh wow! This is kinda rare to find. Very expensive AIO system from the day. I really doubt there's that many left in good cosmetic and working condition.
This is something I will drool all over it. Due to the rarity of this, parts will be a bear to find.
If you are able to get it apart, get a IDE to SATA converter and throw in a SSD. I really doubt a 20 year old mechanical will continue to function.
Maybe you can image the current image or see if you can make a factory restore CD to restore to original configuration.
If you do end up doing a teardown, make sure you make that video.
Hi, there is only recovery CD image of VAIO PCV-W30 in archives webpage. I don't know how big the difference is between VAIO PCV-W20 and VAIO PCV-W30.
I tried that restore CD and unfortunately it will not work. It's different enough that it refused to run. Apparently VAIOs are notorious for having hard to find, locked down restore media.
That is a great looking computer. Great find.
Try pressing F10 at startup. Should launch recovery program
Unfortunately I think it might be too old for that functionality
Yeah, unfortunately I did try that and there was nothing.
wonder if you do ssd upgrade on it?
I had one of those back in the day, I wasn't impressed w/performance but the concept was interesting
Action Retro covered a very similar, but more feature packed model last year. His had a built-in TV tuner.
You should back everything up and replace hard drive for some reason i feel its getting ready to go
Hoping to do that very soon, perhaps replace it with an SSD.
All you need to do is Download neo 6 from internet archive and then burn that on a disk install it on this computer use the software to back up the computer our use the software in win up but neo 6 will be the better bet then back everything up do not compress and win thats done replace hard drive with ssod are hybride drive mad the ram see if by chance you can down grade this systeam to a 1000MHZ Pintum 3 and then book uth rither usb are dvd to install fresh operating system and win the new operating system is in reinstall nero 6 and take the steps of restoring your fines with the software are like i seed do it though windows but neo 6 is really good i believe Let me know i could do this for you if you needed it done i will send it back nice
The last Big Mac I had was way smaller than the one in that Mc Ds ad. Interesting PC though designed around multimedia.
Contact Sony in Japan, they still support them over there.
Seriously? Sony will still give tech support for something this old?
Can you share the Recovery CD's for this computer? thanks
Try booting into the recovery partition.
IMHO VAIO more swanky than Apple stuff.
Unfortunately, most SONY Software "goodies" are quite useless. Hard work to tweak these setups in a way you love to work with these retro machines. I did that several times already. My first laptop was a VAIO 17" in the year 2005 (?) by the way.
SONY always delivered their consumer products with professional home editition MS OS. They also omitted Recovery CD, where you have to create them yourself from recovery partition.
I'd love to find one of the cool era Vaio desktops. I have a Pentium 4 era vgc rb30 I found thrifting. Unfortunately the OEM graphics card and AV card where missing (I assume the previous owner kept them for some reason)
You can create the Recovry Discs right on your Vaio. You need to search for Recovery Application then you will see Create Recovery Discs. Then please share eith us. I slso hsve this exact model but mine has not the otiginal partitions do no recovery discs
Hmm revivery partition might be built in
Back in the Windows 9X and XP days, PCs shipped with a recovery CD and not a partitioned hard drive with recovery media in a partition like new PCs do.
My sony vaio windows XP laptop from 2004 had a recovery partition
Gen Z and Alpha will be really scratching their heads on this one.
It's surprising that when people donate old PCs that they don't wipe their personal stuff off the hard drive
i gotta replace PSU on mine
rare laptop lol
Nothing going on Billy. My life is boring. 😢
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