i had the exact laptop in white. The vaio button opens the the viao support app.The much more interesting button is the web button which launched a custom chrome-os like linux distro in about 10 seconds even when the system was turned off
Sony Management: "Environmentally friendly stuff sells well, I want you to make a real green laptop, you know like green all around so we are on top of the game!" Sony Engineers: "Here you go!" Sony Management: "But that's no..." Sony Marketing: "Already sold out!"
I freakin' love how green that laptop is. I love colorful tech in general. I like the white/grey/black tech as well, but it's nice to have an option for more colorful stuff.
Some feedback about the hard-drive/SSD thing. I feel that for videos it's better to use SSDs in the laptops, to show their full potential in terms of performance. SSDs make a world of difference even for older computers. Or should I say, especially for older computers. And if you'll be selling the laptop later, you could always remove the SSD and put in a hard drive.
@@nooneinpart I used to have Windows 10 on a HDD from 2005. I would press the power button, go to toilet, come back, enter my password, go to drink water and then I would come back to use it. Sometimes even right clicking would lag.
Ngl, it’s good to be reminded about HDD’s performance to realize how good we got it now, even with EMMC lol. I forced windows 11 into a windows 8 era Toshiba for “fun” yesterday and let’s just say it took most of the day to update and is borderline unusable.
> Doesn't install updates on a 14 year old OS > Is surprised that modern websites and apps don't work properly and that drivers don't install automatically Other than that, fun video!
I did install updates, there was a 3 day jump shown in the video where all I was doing was finding drivers and updating everything, which I then gave up and went onto Windows 10
@@frokfrdk That doesn't really track with Internet Explorer not being updated from Version 8 and the 85 updates it attempted to install when you rebooted the machine 🤔 IE 11 would have turned on TLS 1.2 support by default and some other updates would have updated the root certificate storage. On a fully updated Windows 7 machine you can in fact browse the web using IE (albeit sites being somewhat broken nowadays) and you can install Minecraft the normal way since Microsoft still (miraculously) supports Windows 7 for Minecraft
Hmm strange, it was really just problematic in general because I had to install several patches just to even get Windows Update to work. The video was already taking too long to make so I just kinda rolled with what I had.
Just recently did a reinstall of W7 for a customer, and I can say that both@@moki5796 is correct. Also how tf he didnt install firefox is beyond my comprehension.
Watching this vid from my Fit 14A, the 2 in 1 version of the fit. SONY's vaio products were always too ahead of their time. They made nano pc's almost 20 years before GPD and the steam deck made them cool. They made the Flip series of reversible laptops which I still believe are the best way of making a 2 in 1 laptop/tablet, even though it is sometimes fragile. Too bad new VAIO laptops' best selling gimmick is the 3D printed carbon fibre body, which while it is probably the most space-tech thing on a laptop now, it is still not as ground breaking as their old woes. I'd still buy a new one though, even if it is just to get a laptop that doesn't fall apart like this old Fit.
Nice Video! The OpenGL issues with Minecraft on Windows 7 are caused by bad drivers, the one that Windows 7 downloads/has built-in are pretty limited and mostly just work for Aero and stuff like that, they are very inoptimal for gaming tho. You should have just downloaded the drivers from AMDs site or some other place.
@@frokfrdkyou need to set javaw.exe to run on the dedicated gpu in order for minecraft to run. If thats not enough, the amd drivers are pretty modable, you can swap the opengl dll driver with one from a more recent version, I was able to run DOOM 2016 with that
And if minecraft still refuses to run on the amd, you should swap the driver with and older one that lets you fully swap to dedicated graphics, even aero is run on the amd then but I think for that to work you need a BIOS update
I was a poor college student when these came out and always wanted one. I would go to the same mall almost every week to mess with the one on display lol. Let me know if you sell it. I'd love to finally have one.
Awsome to see this nice VAIO, i have actually the same one in basicially mint condition and even a green VAIO mouse. My brother is using this model in orange which also looks stunning and upgraded it to an i7 2620m and 16GB RAM. There are actually 2 versions of this line VPCCA (the one you have, with a bad ~14 inch 1366x768 screen) and the VPCCB with a really really nice 15.6 inch 1080P screen but those 2 models have different color schemes (so no green or orange with 1080P screen sadly). Also a nice fact for the backlit keyboard, the backlight only kicks on when the room is dark
i remember seeing a bright barbie pink one of these for like 30 bucks converted. Had a 2nd gen core i3 in it. I haven't bothered to get it tho, and now i regret it, but only slightly. Vaio laptops were a beautiful mess, and bloatware and proprietary software is what killed them.
8:04 The VAIO button launches the VAIO® Media Gallery software which allows you to browse and enjoy your digital photos, videos and music. The Assist button launches the VAIO Care™ software which is a simple do-it-yourself PC maintenance tool for tune-ups, troubleshooting and system recovery.
Huh, I have a fairly similar model. A Sony VPC1J1E, with a black structured diamond design. Had the same issues finding drivers as Sony stopped hosting them since march 2023, but found them eventually
This is why i loved vaio's, they always looked so damn cool. I had a 2010 vaio E series with first gen i5 + radeon 5000M dedicated , and a 2013 vaio se series with i5 2430M + radeon 6470M dedicated and matt ips screen back in the day.
Can you do another video using an OEM Windows 7/8.1 VAIO installer? It looks like windows wasn't able to pick up the dedicated AMD graphics the system is supposed to have. Maybe next time you should go to the Internet Archive to get an OEM build. I found a windows 7 build with all the Vaio software. The windows 8.1 Sony Vaio OEM should also have the necessary drivers for this specific computer. A lot of these computers had nearly identical hardware from the transition of 7 to 8, so the OEM builds usually come with drivers compatible with the slightly older hardware. I would make the video myself, but I don't have a beautifully green laptop. ;)
I used to have this same laptop! A drunk guy stepped on it and broke it at a party my sister hosted and he refused to replace it! I also have a permanent scar from when I really did get burnt by this laptop because I fell asleep!
I still have mine working, and it's still as green as ever. Runs well on win7 ultimate, 8gm ram, and ssd. I'm thinking of selling it, but after seeing this video...hmmm, I'm gonna wait awhile 😂
Id recommend a srcond 4gb ram stick, two 8gb memes wouls also be great. Technically that laptop could be upgraded to a 2nd gen quad core i7 (QM) but the cooler and vrm would likely not be happy. Finding this channel is fun, id love to make content like this someday. As you dive into the rabbit hole it will be fun to see the quality improve!
Colourful stuff is the best. I've managed, initially through coincidence, and finally on purpose, to avoid bland coloured laptops for years, went purple, blue and back to purple again :D
Sometimes on old switchable graphics systems you have to manually assign the program to the GPU in the GPU control panel, or it always defaults to integrated.
If you have problems with drivers, use Driver Booster. It has really helped me over the years, and it works in windows 7. Just one thing: uninstall it after updating / downloading all drivers, as its quite bothersome with pop-ups
The web button turns the Vaio laptop into a linux web based os, the assist button help with resetting it to the factory os like windows 7. It will also help download whatever it is supposed to have but viao was a very messy laptop, the fans are SUPER LOUD, problems happen alot, and ALOT of bloat ware from Sony
Doing the thing at 14:42 made the thing at 16:06 happening. A friend of mine hat to reinstall at the time Win Vista because at 62 updates in progress he purged the battery
I restored a Dell Vostro desktop running Windows 7. Its video card was dead, so I replaced it and reinstalled Windows 7. The product key was missing, so I used a crack. The previous installation was crappy.
I had that GLSW error on both my laptop and pc, it means it failed to launch because of something to do with the video drivers, a few driver reinstalls (3-7) fixed it for me
I bought the 17" version of this off FB marketplace. Installed Endeavour OS on it. Runs great and does everything I need it to. I even started watching DVDs again!
5:10 That's a nice laptop that can handle light to moderate work. Some would be surprised what you can actually do with a laptop like this that is considered low spec these days. My Windows laptop runs an i5 but it has 6 GiB of RAM and Windows 10. I can play video games on it and do video editing on it. It's a misconception that you need something super high spec.
Somebody once.....
told me....
@@ieatiron1the world…
@@ieatiron1the world...
@@iFlxyis gonna roll me
*dankpods voice* IT'S THE SHREKBOOK PRO
Somewhere, Dankpods is smiling uncontrollably and he can't figure out why why.
That place probably being a short distance from frokfrdk.
DankPods would be proud
This comment is here for literally no reason, you are wasting your time reading this, now shoo
Bruh shoo
why did u scroll here
@@sparktheprotogenSTPgive me my 1 minute back
@@sparktheprotogenSTP i did not loose time because i watch the damn vid lmao
@@sparktheprotogenSTPIf I comply, it looks like you are being a jerk.
It's a green nugget lol.
Bro with Scarlet fire playing in the background at 6:40 dankpods would be happy if he found this.
i had the exact laptop in white. The vaio button opens the the viao support app.The much more interesting button is the web button which launched a custom chrome-os like linux distro in about 10 seconds even when the system was turned off
It did that?????
instantly recognized this button, because of these videos xd
th-cam.com/play/PLec1d3OBbZ8IBeFODHXLy0m0okuZhqJnT.html&si=1eZ-ofu5qPN52Jp5
Oh that was similar to that InstantON that many laptops of that time had.
@@frokfrdk to browse the web, yes. It is a basic web browser, with some network control functions
Cathode Ray Dude has a whole series on a bunch of these little fast-boot OSes, it's pretty cool
Sony Management: "Environmentally friendly stuff sells well, I want you to make a real green laptop, you know like green all around so we are on top of the game!"
Sony Engineers: "Here you go!"
Sony Management: "But that's no..."
Sony Marketing: "Already sold out!"
xD
with dankpods taking a break, thank you for making this content
i wish modern tech in color "green" was actually green like this laptop
I do too. I got an S22 in green a year ago expecting it to be green. It was just black with a tiny tiny tiny hint of green.
I freakin' love how green that laptop is. I love colorful tech in general. I like the white/grey/black tech as well, but it's nice to have an option for more colorful stuff.
Especially colourful translucent tech
@@frokfrdk Yeah! That's good stuff for sure.
@@TheNightquaker im a sucker for old colorful (translucent) tech my favorite ever might be the imac g3
Some feedback about the hard-drive/SSD thing. I feel that for videos it's better to use SSDs in the laptops, to show their full potential in terms of performance. SSDs make a world of difference even for older computers. Or should I say, especially for older computers.
And if you'll be selling the laptop later, you could always remove the SSD and put in a hard drive.
My thoughts exactly as soon as I saw he was not putting an SSD in it.
i mean i think if he's actually going to use it after the video an ssd makes sense, otherwise might as well use an old hdd that's in a box.
@@nooneinpart fair enough
@@nooneinpart I used to have Windows 10 on a HDD from 2005. I would press the power button, go to toilet, come back, enter my password, go to drink water and then I would come back to use it. Sometimes even right clicking would lag.
Ngl, it’s good to be reminded about HDD’s performance to realize how good we got it now, even with EMMC lol. I forced windows 11 into a windows 8 era Toshiba for “fun” yesterday and let’s just say it took most of the day to update and is borderline unusable.
This channel is great. I’ve never seen you before but you could be the new Dankpods lol
> Doesn't install updates on a 14 year old OS
> Is surprised that modern websites and apps don't work properly and that drivers don't install automatically
Other than that, fun video!
I did install updates, there was a 3 day jump shown in the video where all I was doing was finding drivers and updating everything, which I then gave up and went onto Windows 10
@@frokfrdk That doesn't really track with Internet Explorer not being updated from Version 8 and the 85 updates it attempted to install when you rebooted the machine 🤔
IE 11 would have turned on TLS 1.2 support by default and some other updates would have updated the root certificate storage. On a fully updated Windows 7 machine you can in fact browse the web using IE (albeit sites being somewhat broken nowadays) and you can install Minecraft the normal way since Microsoft still (miraculously) supports Windows 7 for Minecraft
Hmm strange, it was really just problematic in general because I had to install several patches just to even get Windows Update to work. The video was already taking too long to make so I just kinda rolled with what I had.
Just recently did a reinstall of W7 for a customer, and I can say that both@@moki5796 is correct.
Also how tf he didnt install firefox is beyond my comprehension.
It is neat to see your channel blow up from 5k to 33k. I hope you get 100k subs man :)
i love the dankpods reference when he opens the win7 book lmao
Watching this vid from my Fit 14A, the 2 in 1 version of the fit. SONY's vaio products were always too ahead of their time. They made nano pc's almost 20 years before GPD and the steam deck made them cool. They made the Flip series of reversible laptops which I still believe are the best way of making a 2 in 1 laptop/tablet, even though it is sometimes fragile. Too bad new VAIO laptops' best selling gimmick is the 3D printed carbon fibre body, which while it is probably the most space-tech thing on a laptop now, it is still not as ground breaking as their old woes. I'd still buy a new one though, even if it is just to get a laptop that doesn't fall apart like this old Fit.
My mom has an transparent purple laptop from 2008 it still works well
oh that sounds superrr cool
Nice Video! The OpenGL issues with Minecraft on Windows 7 are caused by bad drivers, the one that Windows 7 downloads/has built-in are pretty limited and mostly just work for Aero and stuff like that, they are very inoptimal for gaming tho. You should have just downloaded the drivers from AMDs site or some other place.
I did that and still nothing worked, it was days of just tryna troubleshoot this
@@frokfrdkyou need to set javaw.exe to run on the dedicated gpu in order for minecraft to run. If thats not enough, the amd drivers are pretty modable, you can swap the opengl dll driver with one from a more recent version, I was able to run DOOM 2016 with that
And if minecraft still refuses to run on the amd, you should swap the driver with and older one that lets you fully swap to dedicated graphics, even aero is run on the amd then but I think for that to work you need a BIOS update
dankpods would love this pc because he lacks a windows pc with an old os like this and it's shrek green just like his whole channel
I was a poor college student when these came out and always wanted one. I would go to the same mall almost every week to mess with the one on display lol. Let me know if you sell it. I'd love to finally have one.
Awsome to see this nice VAIO, i have actually the same one in basicially mint condition and even a green VAIO mouse. My brother is using this model in orange which also looks stunning and upgraded it to an i7 2620m and 16GB RAM. There are actually 2 versions of this line VPCCA (the one you have, with a bad ~14 inch 1366x768 screen) and the VPCCB with a really really nice 15.6 inch 1080P screen but those 2 models have different color schemes (so no green or orange with 1080P screen sadly). Also a nice fact for the backlit keyboard, the backlight only kicks on when the room is dark
I have a VPCCA that came with a beautiful 1600x900 panel, I could overclocked it up to 90Hz
@@ponjadito23 Oh that's interesting, is the Panel glossy or not?
@@denist.8058 It is
I am watching this on my Lime green VAIO VPCEA3L1E. Mine came with recovery DVD-s so i can use all that useful bloatware SONY provided.
i have a very similar one that’s bright orange. would never have used it back in the day, but it’s so unique
More laptops need to be like this.
why was the ram running at 20,000mhz lmao
Give it a quad core i7 2670qm, extra RAM, and repast the AMD GPU. Looks solid
Dude green is my favorite number! 💚
I had the exact laptop in white as well🔥 it was the coolest tech I've ever owned.👌😍
G R E E N 💚💚💚
Best color
you are literally the dankpods of the PC world, i love it.
i remember seeing a bright barbie pink one of these for like 30 bucks converted. Had a 2nd gen core i3 in it. I haven't bothered to get it tho, and now i regret it, but only slightly.
Vaio laptops were a beautiful mess, and bloatware and proprietary software is what killed them.
Man when i was kid, saw this update 14:33 I was like Oh No I am going to be stuck for hours because of this stupid update..😭😭
came for the color stayed for the random stuff you spat out while speaking lol
i would call this the sony shrekbook
Had the black one
Died after 15 years
8:04 The VAIO button launches the VAIO® Media Gallery software which allows you to browse and enjoy your digital photos, videos and music. The Assist button launches the VAIO Care™ software which is a simple do-it-yourself PC maintenance tool for tune-ups, troubleshooting and system recovery.
Huh, I have a fairly similar model. A Sony VPC1J1E, with a black structured diamond design. Had the same issues finding drivers as Sony stopped hosting them since march 2023, but found them eventually
I didn't think Vaio was still around.
In 2016 I was in Japan and I saw a bright orange Vaio on display I think there were other colors as well, seems like they made them for quite a while.
6:43
S C A R L E T F I R E ! !
Finally, *DankBook*
pressing the assist button while turned off leads to the vaio rescue mode
GREEN 💚
I HAD ONE EXACTLY LIKE THAT BUT ORANGE FOR LIKE 10 DAMN YEARS
And they really were that vibrant, no matter which color.
first time seeing an installer go backwards
This is why i loved vaio's, they always looked so damn cool.
I had a 2010 vaio E series with first gen i5 + radeon 5000M dedicated , and a 2013 vaio se series with i5 2430M + radeon 6470M dedicated and matt ips screen back in the day.
Diamond blocks? HA! The real pros built houses out of ender chests
Can you do another video using an OEM Windows 7/8.1 VAIO installer?
It looks like windows wasn't able to pick up the dedicated AMD graphics the system is supposed to have.
Maybe next time you should go to the Internet Archive to get an OEM build. I found a windows 7 build with all the Vaio software. The windows 8.1 Sony Vaio OEM should also have the necessary drivers for this specific computer. A lot of these computers had nearly identical hardware from the transition of 7 to 8, so the OEM builds usually come with drivers compatible with the slightly older hardware.
I would make the video myself, but I don't have a beautifully green laptop. ;)
It running Minecraft java 1.20.1 is smoother and higher frames rate than my PC :((((
Finally, a worthy successor to the EeePeeCee
I used to have this same laptop! A drunk guy stepped on it and broke it at a party my sister hosted and he refused to replace it! I also have a permanent scar from when I really did get burnt by this laptop because I fell asleep!
This looks exactly like my old Portable DVD Player
bro I only saw 3 videos and I know this channel is going go be big
This looks like a laptop Dank Pods would like lol
he said in one of his vids that he did have one, I think it was in a video on the Apple silicon macbooks
Oh yeah you're right it's in the first few seconds of the video!
I still have mine working, and it's still as green as ever. Runs well on win7 ultimate, 8gm ram, and ssd. I'm thinking of selling it, but after seeing this video...hmmm, I'm gonna wait awhile 😂
DankPods has to be proud of this work of art
Id recommend a srcond 4gb ram stick, two 8gb memes wouls also be great. Technically that laptop could be upgraded to a 2nd gen quad core i7 (QM) but the cooler and vrm would likely not be happy.
Finding this channel is fun, id love to make content like this someday. As you dive into the rabbit hole it will be fun to see the quality improve!
"you got.......... its GrAy"
That thing is amazing why have I not seen this thing anywhere else!
dankpods NEEDS this
Oh and the VAIO button opens multimedia software for watching videos, photos, listen to music and search multimedia.
Colourful stuff is the best. I've managed, initially through coincidence, and finally on purpose, to avoid bland coloured laptops for years, went purple, blue and back to purple again :D
Vaio button will launch Vaio Control Center from there you can change laptop setting like backlit keyboard, speaker setting, power button setting etc
underrated channel
Sometimes on old switchable graphics systems you have to manually assign the program to the GPU in the GPU control panel, or it always defaults to integrated.
I loved my Sony vaio bought back in 2013 sve1523cn, such a well built laptop
Seeing him force shutdown the laptop while its updating was like watching the child with the hammer destroy the PC in the Windows ME ad.
GREEN💚
If you have problems with drivers, use Driver Booster. It has really helped me over the years, and it works in windows 7. Just one thing: uninstall it after updating / downloading all drivers, as its quite bothersome with pop-ups
ive heard good things about snappy driver installer origin, its open source and has no pop ups afaik
The web button turns the Vaio laptop into a linux web based os, the assist button help with resetting it to the factory os like windows 7. It will also help download whatever it is supposed to have but viao was a very messy laptop, the fans are SUPER LOUD, problems happen alot, and ALOT of bloat ware from Sony
I highly desire a computer that intensely green.
Doing the thing at 14:42 made the thing at 16:06 happening.
A friend of mine hat to reinstall at the time Win Vista because at 62 updates in progress he purged the battery
i love how he is personifying almost everything
This is going into dankpods territory
1:03 that laptop reminds me of the book G3 clamshell days because they had a lot of colors
The laptop dankpods would approve
I had one of these. Was the first time I bought a laptop I could play games on.
Damn i remember those. When i was a kid i wanted the orange one
We need this man to send this laptop to @DankPods so he can use it "like ya grandmum taking a picture of it to put on gumtree" in his videos
Great video! I enjoyed it alot!!!
back when laptops were allowed to have fun colors, good times....
The official leap pad.
Green
dankpod's new laptop
I restored a Dell Vostro desktop running Windows 7. Its video card was dead, so I replaced it and reinstalled Windows 7. The product key was missing, so I used a crack. The previous installation was crappy.
amazing video as always
Reminds me of something that dank pods would use because of the color
I had that GLSW error on both my laptop and pc, it means it failed to launch because of something to do with the video drivers, a few driver reinstalls (3-7) fixed it for me
I bought the 17" version of this off FB marketplace. Installed Endeavour OS on it. Runs great and does everything I need it to. I even started watching DVDs again!
Never seen this laptop before , actually i really want one and upgrade it. I love neon green
5:10 That's a nice laptop that can handle light to moderate work. Some would be surprised what you can actually do with a laptop like this that is considered low spec these days. My Windows laptop runs an i5 but it has 6 GiB of RAM and Windows 10. I can play video games on it and do video editing on it. It's a misconception that you need something super high spec.
i think the PERSONAL COMPUTER bit may be required for international trade to determine what kind of import tax they'll charge in respective countries
I want to download WiFi drivers for my laptop windows 7 can you give me the link where you have downloaded that driver please ❤
GREEN 💚💚💚💚🍏🍏🍏🍏
made it trough that part of the video!💚💚💚
This laptop is so nicee
green 💚
I wonder what the price is compare to the key lime iBook g3
SSD should be the route... Even for resale. Performances are so much better. Also installing takes a lot less time.
I have this laptop, bought it from an old lady who barely used it! Mine still has the Sony Vaio software overlay.
glad to help :] great video