Thanks, I should probably for an errata for this video since it was one of my earlier ones before I did the OS tour, and I have the original box and materials. The laptops I got with the original boxes tended to come with extra nubs. It probably won't help much but the bag has 412178301. It has two styles, a rounded black tip with grit coating and a gray tip with flat textured pattern top. You can find generic nubs on eBay in both styles that seem to have the same connector, though most common in thinkpad red.
Yes, it mostly likely will be the same. The P688E is a 1st generation like mine, just a version made for the US market with an English keyboard. It looks like it possibly came with a 64gb SSD stock.
@@jasonnovak2121 yes, it came with this same Samsung MMCRE64GFMPP. Do you still have the link for adapter? This ghost image is in japanese ? Thanks in advance.
Here are some suggestions but a lot of sellers sell the same thing so can find the best price For Factory SSDs (micro SATA) MSATA Card to 1.8in Micro SATA www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07X32JCJB For Factory HDD (ZIF) mSATA to CE ZIF 1.8 inch SSD to 40 pin ZIF www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MGLGNSH Yes, my factory image is Japanese language Vista. I ended up dual booting to keep Vista for fun, and then Windows 7 in English to be more practical / faster. The official Sony upgrade I bought did install, though didn't actually seem to have any special Vaio drivers or customization since it didn't recognize my model. Worked fine with built in drivers. I was able to activate win7 over the phone. @@enzo.fagundes
You should be able to use the existing cable from the previous drive. Mine had a factory SSD, so it has a microSata cable + adapter. If you have a factory HDD, it has a zif ribbon cable instead. You don't need to replace the cable, you can still use an SSD, you just need a ZIF style adapter that fits your cable.
I don't believe the HDD version uses one, it just has some rubber bumpers on the corners fills the compartment so won't move around, but the thinner SSD needs that bracket to keep in place
I have installed Arch32 on my P90S. While sluggish, it's "usable". Granted I'm on HDD and not SSD, which really doesn't help, and the Atom wasn't fantastic even when it came out. W10 22H2 was installed when I got it, it was unusable. For the record, from GRUB to the login prompt takes about a minute, and on idle it uses about 256M of RAM. Not too bad for what it is
yes, pretty much. I believe the US models all came with 2GB, some Japanese models came with 1GB, but it's soldered onto the motherboard and not really upgradeable
@@phils7921 I'm guessing the CPU is probably hurting it too, it has an early gen single core low power Atom processor which wasn't too fast even at the time. A fairly wide range of speeds too from 1.3Ghz to 2Ghz
@@cesarramirez9975 I would recommend Windows 7 over Vista for retrocomputing, if you need to do something modern then Windows 10 32-bit, but won't be ideal.
31:00 the pcb you just removed before is the ide > microsata converter, thats why hdd version uses ide zif interface, ie no adaptor required
Nice tear down! Where did you find the replacement nub for the track point?
Thanks, I should probably for an errata for this video since it was one of my earlier ones before I did the OS tour, and I have the original box and materials. The laptops I got with the original boxes tended to come with extra nubs. It probably won't help much but the bag has 412178301. It has two styles, a rounded black tip with grit coating and a gray tip with flat textured pattern top. You can find generic nubs on eBay in both styles that seem to have the same connector, though most common in thinkpad red.
you can upgrade the motherboard
Great ! I have one p688 wich i’ll do this upgrade. Did you know if hardware compatible?
Yes, it mostly likely will be the same. The P688E is a 1st generation like mine, just a version made for the US market with an English keyboard. It looks like it possibly came with a 64gb SSD stock.
@@jasonnovak2121 yes, it came with this same Samsung MMCRE64GFMPP. Do you still have the link for adapter? This ghost image is in japanese ? Thanks in advance.
Here are some suggestions but a lot of sellers sell the same thing so can find the best price
For Factory SSDs (micro SATA)
MSATA Card to 1.8in Micro SATA
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07X32JCJB
For Factory HDD (ZIF)
mSATA to CE ZIF 1.8 inch SSD to 40 pin ZIF
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MGLGNSH
Yes, my factory image is Japanese language Vista. I ended up dual booting to keep Vista for fun, and then Windows 7 in English to be more practical / faster. The official Sony upgrade I bought did install, though didn't actually seem to have any special Vaio drivers or customization since it didn't recognize my model. Worked fine with built in drivers. I was able to activate win7 over the phone.
@@enzo.fagundes
Hello where do I buy the ssd cable from eBay or Amazon,I just need a link
This is the one I used:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S6HVJWW
Sorry to bother you again , I got the adapter but I did not know where to get the SSD cable to motherboard. Any ideas?
You should be able to use the existing cable from the previous drive. Mine had a factory SSD, so it has a microSata cable + adapter. If you have a factory HDD, it has a zif ribbon cable instead. You don't need to replace the cable, you can still use an SSD, you just need a ZIF style adapter that fits your cable.
Was that metal tray for structural support? Curious how the performance would be with linux. :)
I don't believe the HDD version uses one, it just has some rubber bumpers on the corners fills the compartment so won't move around, but the thinner SSD needs that bracket to keep in place
I have installed Arch32 on my P90S. While sluggish, it's "usable". Granted I'm on HDD and not SSD, which really doesn't help, and the Atom wasn't fantastic even when it came out. W10 22H2 was installed when I got it, it was unusable. For the record, from GRUB to the login prompt takes about a minute, and on idle it uses about 256M of RAM. Not too bad for what it is
Is 2 GB the absolute maximum memory for a P Series?
yes, pretty much. I believe the US models all came with 2GB, some Japanese models came with 1GB, but it's soldered onto the motherboard and not really upgradeable
@@jasonnovak2121 mine has 2 GB and SSD but it's slow probably due to Java heavy websites
@@phils7921 I'm guessing the CPU is probably hurting it too, it has an early gen single core low power Atom processor which wasn't too fast even at the time. A fairly wide range of speeds too from 1.3Ghz to 2Ghz
@@jasonnovak2121 hola, que window
s, es que el funciona mejor en esta laptop?
@@cesarramirez9975 I would recommend Windows 7 over Vista for retrocomputing, if you need to do something modern then Windows 10 32-bit, but won't be ideal.