What Happened to VAIO?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 เม.ย. 2019
- Back in the day, Sony's VAIO line was absolutely incredible.
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When you comment so fast you don't even make it to the mustache part of the video
Austin Evans SHAVE IT PLS
Linus dropped Austin's mustache
Austin Evans lmfao good one man!
@@maicrophone1068 fuck off
I think its cool, i mean im not 16 anymore so the more mature look relates to me.
I was dreaming to own Sony VAIO laptop in my childhood :(
I like being a teenager
Same!
Still have mine but battery dead
Lol same. They were literally the coolest laptops
@@iisky1 Soon it will be over. So enjoy it!
Linus dropped it and broke it
*That's what happened to Vaio*
Lmao this comment look different a while ago
@@haresmahmood that's because Linus dropped the comment too
oof
And he dropped your life too
@@Rainbow__cookie jokes on you, I never had one to begin with
that 2004 one REALLY looks like it came out today.
Yeah, if the screen screen ratio was higher then I yeah it would look like it could've been released this year
The 2004 one looks like it came out in 2009/2010 actually, around 7's time. Meanwhile the one I have from the same year looks like it was made in 2006/2007, around Vista's time.
Sony vaios are JUNK. never last, mine broke 2 years after we got in in 2010 and it already went through 2 screens, mind you we never dropped it. i opened it up and found this solder fracture and thats just 1 issue, the display cable is almost gone fan nonstop spins just CRAP
@@rayhanrizvi334 hmm... I hate trolls
@@rayhanrizvi334 it may be a 1:100000 cases, so i would assume you just have a bad luck
Watching in my 2012 Sony VAIO Intel Core i5 3210M -- 4GB RAM -- 500 GB HDD.
I still love it. Amazing display and back-lit keyboard.
i cant respect ppl who dont have an ssd
Suzumebachi Agreed. It needs a ssd.
Why is everyone talking about the hdd
My vaio is 2 gb ram intel core i3 and an nvidia 410m.
same and it has touchscreen, no one would know it's so old. had vaio's all my life, no ideaa what my next laptop will have to be.
Fun fact:
Steve Jobs loved the Vaio designs so much back in the day he was willing to offer os x to sony
That's a bold move...
Le Docteur Steve loves Sony ALOT, even iPhone 4 designs is similar to a unused Sony voice recorder design.
Yep, happened during a business trip in Hawaii circa 2001. After a round of golf, Sony executive Kunitake Ando was shown a demo of Mac OS X running on a Vaio with an Intel processor. Talks fell through since Vaios were "optimized to run Windows", though probably an exclusivity deal with Microsoft was the true reason.
fun fact: Steve Jobs was not a good person
You are correct that Jobs tried to contract with Sony to manufacture OSX laptops. Sony designed the Powerbook 100 back in the day.
6:06 they even had dongles for laptops before apple did. truely ahead of its time!
They called them expansion blocks or wired dock back in the day... I like the word dongle though.... Dongle..
Black Shibe but they don’t cost 500€?
Macky4941 I think they are called docking stations. Business laptops still have them.
I think this is a docking station not a dongle.
Austin looking more French than a French man with that mustache
Yea your right
You literally read my fucking mind @MrGhost370
He looks a bit like Otto von Habsburg to me.
420 likes so i wont like'
Sony Vaio laptops used to be solid, reliable and pretty functional
Sony Used To Own The Vaio Brand Before A Japanese Holding Company Know As Japan Industrial Partners Bought The Vaio Brand In March 2014
Love the mini PC they had
It's solid asf I still use my 2013 vaio
I have still working model from 2008
Zenek PL I still have one that is running windows 98 from 1998 still works.
My sony vaio was my first laptop back in 2010 it still runs after 9 years! It's kind of lika a nostalgia.
I got the Sony VAIO S in 2010. Upgraded RAM & SSD. Running better than new 😎👊
B Adventures Vlogs what’s the resolution?
I have one from 2010 as well and runs windows 10 with all new updates
I think i bought mine at around the same time and it was also my first laptop but I broke mine last year.. it served me good 😕 but now I’m moving on to Apple cuz Microsoft isn’t doing the job for me anymore anyways..
Mine too!
I still use a vaio i bought it in 2008 and it still works to this day
Early 2000s Nokia and Sony had some very interesting products that were pushing the envelope on portable tech.
n-cage
Yup. Agreed.
those were the times when I actually liked to have a laptop and a mobile phone
TBH Austin MOST conference rooms or classrooms are rocking Only VGA for the projector with no DVI or HDMI in sight...
I was unpleasantly surprised by this during my trips to America, like, for god sake, please update your hardware.
I mean, my class paid 30 bucks for a 30m HDMI cable (so around 1 dollar per person) and you can get a cheap but functional VGA to HDMI adaptor for 5 bucks in case the projector/main computer doesn't have a HDMI port... so the total would be 35 dollars. I get it, the students shouldn't be the ones buying stuff, but someone has to, and the schools are not gonna do it, so you pretty much have to take it into your own hands
@@Verpal where are you from? The situation is the same in Europe and probably on Japan too.
Yeah, most business laptop still have VGA, but it's unusual to find it on a ultrabook. Even Lenovo with their Thinkpad are slowly getting rid of it.
VGA makes sense if you think about it. If you've got a decent but old projector why get rid of it.
The real question is
*What happened to the drug cartel mustache?!?*
It's still there.
He must of recorded the first half of the vid a while ago
Man that mustache disturbed me through the entire half of the video.
😂😂😂
The real question is
Is the drug cartel mustache still worth it in 2019?
im literally watching this video with a sony VAIO laptop.
Hahaha same. I got this Vaio maybe 7 years ago, it's a bit fucked but still works bob on.
but mines can fucking play fortnite on 30-40 fps on some cases with shitty graphics but aye creative im getting fucking 60-80 im loving it also been playing gta v, and more games but it aint that laggy. its a fucking survivor lemme tell ya. and my shit is about 10 years old.
I have a VIAO laptop that's 7 or 8 years old (because it ran windows 7 before being upgraded by my brother) and it works perfectly fine. It has a Intel core i7.
What model do you have?
My favourite Austin video so far 😍
Vaio was my first laptop I got. Over time, the laptop was running slower and slower.
It probably hat a HDD. They tend to get slower over time
Ace Yaeger I think so too
dude, mine too i wonder what happened..
Same
hard drives in computers get slower over time because of how they work. A hard drive reads data as it spins on a disc and on a new system files are bunched close together making it quicker to read, but over time as you delete stuff and use more data it gets disorganized and it takes longer for it to find the info on a disc. There was a way to fix it by reorganizing the data, its called defragging. I would do it every year or so. In early windows they didnt have it built in, so thats why it got slow. But now with windows 10 it will automatically defrag the drive for you. but thats only for hard drives, ssds in computers dont need to be defragged
I still have my Sony Vaio E series. It has playstation link for the PS3 lol
Vaio, very reliable Laptops Sony has ever made.
I worked in Sony Vaio's tech support before and had the chance to use their laptops and their All in One Desktops. They were really good and I liked the designs. They were pretty expensive though. We even had that UX180P and the Vaio P (my favorite). It was small and compact but still a fully functioning laptop. They also treated their employees well. They usually awarded their top performing employees with Sony TVs, home entertainment systems and their latest laptops.
When I was young, I used to visit the Sony store close to my home to play with those amazing VAIO laptops once a week.
Oh cool the stache is g- MOTHER OF NEPTUNE
It wasn't a Vaioble business practice, is my guess.
oof
Disgusting. Actually funny tho
Ba dum tss
Sony is infamous for ditching their product lines like Vaio, memory card, etc
KRAKEN T dont forget psvita
Bye-bye Xperia
From what I heard, but it won't happen in a few years
but yet the desperately cling onto Spiderman 🤦🏾♂️
@@JYMAHJAMES Different subsidiary of Sony dude
They only care about the PlayStation consoles which is kinda sad, dont get me wrong i have a ps4 and its awesome but the fact that they're just focusing on that alone is just like come on now
One of your best videos, Austin! Love it! Keep it up
Only thing I noticed on this video
*MOUSTACHE GLITCH HAS BEEN FIXED*
No it hasn't
Holy shit I was eating when the video popped
And I was so glad to comment about the good look after a shave
And then that change choked me
I saw your account yesterday on avengers 4 theory of Voss, damn TH-cam universe is small
@@bruhmode3041 yes about a micrometer
@@rakhimondal5949 micrometer, are u talking of ant man
Austin's vid sounds like he is selling his laptop's outside wallmart .
i used to specialize in rebuilding/refurbishing/repairing Sony Vaio notebooks in the R505 line.... l love those things. i still have a pair of maxed-out R505-ELK notebooks
Indeed what happened is that they produced futuristic and long lasting laptops so people stopped buying new ones lol
I'm currently writing on a 10 years old VAIO (model VPCEB2B4E if you wanna check its kickass specs), it still rocks to this day and at the time it was only 900€ everything included
Hey, guys. This is Austin.
Do you remember where I put my moustache?
Edit: It's back, never mind
I miss the Vaio, made the best laptops in the early 2000’s imo
Ikr... My laptop is still alive to this day after 19½ years
Bought a 17" Vaio F-series in 2009 and used it every single day until 2016 when it started freezing up because of a windows update issue. I loved that thing and was sad when I went looking for its newer replacement and found out they don't even make them anymore. I tried to revive it last year with an SSD and stuff but its just too heavy and brittle after all these years.
Yeah, the one my mother had with Windows ME that she later upgraded to a pirated Windows XP lasted her for 8 years, till she got a new computer. And even then it still worked, till the PSU died around the same number of years after it laid unused.
The only other issue it really had was that the OS oddly didn't accept any form of communication input, albeit any kind of mouse or keyboard. Just doing a repair install of XP would fix that, though.
what the dell happened to sony
vaio looked so modern for it time and it was so durable, so hard to find a laptop that looks nice and durable these days.
Great video Duncan!
My father is still using an old VAIO Laptop from 2010.
Swaped the old hard drive to an SSD and it still runs just as smooth as day 1
Just repaired a PCG-505! I love it.
hi luv ur vids :)
The startup sound is something of my youth alright. Definitely miss VAiO
My mom had a vaio back in 2005 and it has served her till a couple weeks ago. She loved it dearly. RIP white VAIO
Im still rocking some VAIO speakers that are 10 years old, and theyre gr8
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NC_ GAMEZ why are u confused
sleep. mp4 ??????????????
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I love how the thumbnail is mock up Avengers Endgame
Vignette Tsukinose April Whut?
Yeah, that red color greyscale thing is very legit
Schindler's list did it first and won an Oskar
I seriously do not understand.
@@jeromealday614 You mean "Oscar"
Still have my Sony Vaio VGN-FE 11M. From 2007 at that time was top of the line. It still works fine and still use it to do a few things. Good machine.
Absolutely is absolutely Austin’s new favorite word....
Absolutely
Never clicked off Austin Evans so fast.. wait
Wait🙄
Hold up
What a minuite
That's been a question I've been wondering for quite a while
My family got this VAIO desktop in 2001 and it's still kickin today, it's on its 3rd WinXP install though.
Just over ten minutes
No ads!
The mustache is gone... yay?
Edit: nvm it’s here
Nice video, I really enjoy these kind of videos about exotic old tech, those pc's are dope.
*_That_** feeling when you see that Austin didn't activate Windows on a laptop*
Very well put up. I have previous owned 4 vaio laptops and currently using vaio s. Sad to see them not coming up with something cool or innovate and go crazy.
Vaio ppl if you are reading this please come back strong we love you .
Finally someone who uploads in 18:9
Austin, I see a lot of hate for your mustache, but man, you look matured and good with it. Do not let anyone dishearten you, man.
I remember having a sony vaio laptop back in 2010 iirc, it looked so great, I grabbed it and installed linux on it. I still have it with me, sadly the battery last less than half of its original capacity but I still love it and use it from time to time
I had the PCG-505 from 1998. That was one of my favorite laptops I've ever owned. That baby had 128 MB (doubled from standard 64 MB) of RAM and a 6GB HD. It had a super high res 1024x768 display, and on the 10 inch screen it was really sharp. I used that thing way past its expected lifespan by putting lightweight versions of Linux on there. Thank you for bringing back those memories!
What happened to Austin Evans Mustache ?
It’s still there. 😂
It comes back later in the video
Watch the video..?
It grew back
Looks like he got rid of Dirty Sanchez off his lip XD
Edit: Damn it.... It's still there.
3:22 i was like FUCK......ITS STILL THEREEEE
My first laptop was the Sony VAIO PCG-505E. And the current laptop that I still use is Sony VAIO multi-flip.
I also have a sony vaio laptop from 2010 and it still works even its 11 YRS OLD!!!
A friend of mine had UX180P and to this date it's one of the best gadgets i have put my hands on.
I want a new rendition so bad. Favorite gadget ever.
My laptop gives me a good 30 minutes of battery life.
Sorry bout that
Pffttt... My iPad lasts 2hours while playing pubg mobile at maximum graphics
At 80% battery
SIR EŁement you play PUBG on an iPad?
@@sireement4900 noob
The Head Guy yep, using claw and gyro
My first PC was a Sony Vaio PCV-RX752. It was a great computer and I still have it with the original monitor as well.
I remember going through Vaio magazines and dreaming of owning one.
Days when Sony literally had innovations up their sleeves. I'm not saying they don't have innovations now, they still have it.
Even Japanese stopped caring about what's next from Sony since iPod, LG/Samsung/htc and whole China. I'm pretty sure they'll sell Xperia brand which I can't remember the last time I saw anyone who had them (even in Japan), even less so for the last time anyone outside Japan made a review about it. The last innovative stuff about xperia was about being waterproof before it was standard, but that was not sony's but Japanese market's standard since 2008-ish. They are just known for looking cool and expensive and this saddens old sony fanboy.
@@IoriTatsuguchi Xperia strived and is still doing the same today. Sony's mobile segment is struggling even though they came up with the first waterproof as you mentioned and perhaps, I reckon it's because of impractical pricing, which isn't frugal for a mobile phone of such standard at the current market place. On the contrary, there are other manufacturers with similar or better specifications at a lower price setting the standard. Therefore the plummet on their sales.
@@ankurdebbarma6363; I didn't need to check with facts to tell because it's visibly selling less, but, well apparently it's sold only a half units in their main market Japan in comparison to the year before. I only hear praise from foreigner too.
It was like Japanese in 90's: "Sony is the best"; 00's "Sony will come back" 05 "OK they are done"
@@IoriTatsuguchi Sony is being run by old Japanese men with no visions. Japanese companies needs reflection that they need to innovate, to take calculated risk if need, and to have their own bubble burst.
My dad had a 1990s box VAIO Computer when he was young he was 7-11 then
I love Vaio. If they get back on track and release something mid-range that I can work on and do slight gaming on, I'd be there.
I have a VAIO type P VGN-P91HS
installed windows 8.1 .
Very useful !
z series was a beautiful laptop with the mac style pricing
Im 11 now but back when I was about 9 I remember my mom having a nice vaio with a core in but I ended up destroying it with viruses accidentally
I've learned a lot more about computers and can now even dual boot arch Linux!
Dual-booting a PC isn't all too difficult, but it's impressive for an 11-year-old.
I’m still using VAIO, the T13 series one to be exact. Still pretty usable ,though the harddrive easily unplugged if bugged for no reason.
i still use 2013 sony vaio pro, its really good and beautiful laptop
I still have my Sony VAIO. It’s thicc
So do I boy
Me too
My dad still has his VAIO from like 2010 lol.
You should have check out the Vaio Z2 or Z3. It has the EGPU dock and it is still usable today.
That periwinkle color is so quintessential 90s/2000s! Love it!! ;)
Great Video! Sony is one of those brands who silently got lost in the market after they were leading in flagship designs. This was a great flash back! Much design and styling has been lost in the tech world where upgrades aren't so exciting anymore like they once were. Would love to hear more on other brand's history too and what happened.... Compaq, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Gateway, Etc....
Ha! Got lost? Sony grew far too complacent - they rested on their laurels and failed to innovate. Before long Vaio PCs became a drag on the company, barely turning a profit as they churned mediocre machine after mediocre machine out in the late 2000's early 2010's. Sony has only themselves to blame for it.
You'll be happy to know that Toshiba and Fujitsu are doing well, though they've largely refocused on industrial applications than the consumer market. You'll find many hospitals and work sites with ruggedized Fujitsu machines. Gateway may still exist in some capacity, but they were bought out years ago. When they were pulled from the US market, they carried on for years in Europe and other places for some time. Compaq eventually just rolled into HP's entry-level lineups, but they still own the name.
9:15 Reminds me of the good old days of interesting looking Sony Ericsson Xperias, unlike how it is today...
Glad Vaio is still around😁
I had the Vaio Z13 which was incredible, not as outlandish but still crazy. It had Macbook pro 15 specs in an 1.3kg light 13inch chassis. Could run games fairly well, was really well made but mad expensive. Wish they made those crazy concepts still. It was a thin and light gaming laptop way before Razer even considered making laptops.
Austin used dollar shaved club
Edit: 3:22 never mind
i like them because they start so many colors in laptops.
im using vaio since 2011 .....and it still running with grace in all aspects
I didn't know what to expect at first when opening the video but I love where this went. I'm a huge fan of unique electronics and I will actively work around having something that isn't generic. Those old Vaio designs screamed to me and I wish they would reboot something like that in today standards. I already own a GPD Win, but that mini computer looked so awesome and the tiny ultrawide was super intriguing at well.
My laptop only lasts 10-15 minutes on full brightness and high performance mode on....
My old laptop on lasted 10-15 minutes before burning my leg off, so that's pretty impressive
Obsidiack damn man ever thought of cleaning it, or changing thermal paste inside it
time to buy a new battery
Vaio is still used today, my step dad has one
Plenty of legacy Vaio machines are still in use, but they offer so little value in current models that it just doesn't make economical sense to buy them. I knew plenty of folks with Vaio computers back when they were relevant, but the few I've seen with them today are just reusing and upgrading old models.
VAIO sure was ahead of its time
You've gone the Monopoly man look and pulled it off or Myth Busters!!! Nice one Austin! Salute!!!!
my old sony vaio laptop was the best one i ever had. :D
6:06 the inspiration of the design team of macbooks in apple
My first laptop was a Sony VAIO PCG-FR415M running Windows XP. It was expensive, but really high build quality and had a good weight to it.
Watching this on my VAIO laptop.
I think it's having a nostalgic ang screengasm.
They managed to get that many ports on it by compromising the battery.
@@guardianvalor962 yeah it would have, idk why companies don't put a slim batter under the display of laptops...
@@matozka1083 because it affects the display, battery are power and power result in heat, you wouldn't want to stick a microwave to the back of the display panel. Plus, it'd make both the body and the display look and feel chunky, design wise, not really a major annoyance to me but to a lot of people, it's an insult.
The battery life was compromised more because the weight control, for a 14 inch laptop it's only 999g if I remember correctly, and almost everything else is excellent. Overall it's still better than MacBook Pro 13 in my opinion.
@ heat can be sorted with ventilation, now that i think about it chunkiness and weight ratio would probably be the main problems
Austin Evans next video - "Is the 2019 Mustache worth it?"
"No."
I love the Vaio. But ll stay with mine for now (ll look until it goes on sale)
Now thats what I call sci-fi matrix movie kinda gadgets. What a cool video. THANK YOU.
i really want a the P model to put linux on 😍😍
This was the xps of 2010.
love VAIO and use my 2011 VAIO for 5 years until changed to MBP15.
Although I've never owned a VAIO personally, (I've always been a ThinkPad guy), quite a few of my coworkers have owned Vaio's in the past. Seeing the X505 in this video was a wonderful throwback, as a friend of mine actually *bought* one of those for work, and used it for years. Here I am rocking my ThinkPad T40 though :)
Since when has logic started to review laptops ?
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3:19 “So what exactly happened?”
Easily the beard
lookin' good with the goatee
Wow surprised you review the UX180P. I Still have mine for nostalgic purposes. It's a conversation piece in my office.