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@iceeandreimecija8605

3 жыл бұрын

idk if my mid 2012 mbp would be that rock hard with the 9 year old thermal paste,I kind of torture my mac by playing hitman absolution,the gpu running at like 90-95 degrees and the fans running at 6200 rpm.

@windowsxpprofessional

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I did and specially the part of *crusty* thermal paste

@nurci67

3 жыл бұрын

I just recently sold off a white Sony Vaio!

@aldesigns

3 жыл бұрын

Im not sure if this is a useful information but I use an application called Driver Booster. It has a large database collection of drivers. Maybe it would help you in updating old laptop drivers since I use it mainly also on my old emachine 2010 laptop. Which is now used for experimenting different linux distributions. But after, I install windows 10 again and update the drivers.

@imanolarias4544

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Psivewri, i have the same problem with the drivers on a Sony (i think's the same) you need to use the crimson beta drivers: www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-non-gcn-16-2-1-beta

Can we talk about how hot it would be to bring back colorful, clear plastic builds?! I feel like that y2k aesthetic is what most people like atm.

@MinnieMinroe

2 жыл бұрын

YES

@lillebrorsanvincent2017

Жыл бұрын

IBOOK G3, IMAC G3

Laptop in a woolies bag? Mate thats what bogans call a laptop bag...

@TransilPro

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@rarinth

3 жыл бұрын

Hey hugh, nice content you got there :]

@TransilPro

3 жыл бұрын

@@rarinth nais

@hanihashmi

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@xxigilz

3 жыл бұрын

idk if this was a hate comment, im very confused

I do remember that. Hah.

@k3nz1e73

3 жыл бұрын

hehehehehehehehehehe.

@hazardtech4873

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Luke!

@NoahAviation09

3 жыл бұрын

I dont

@tacocat1714

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Luke!

@MrTroll69onyt

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

1:19 "both very memorable and easy to remember" lol

@techmad8204

3 жыл бұрын

sony names have never changed ,have they? lol!

@stpedro-ht9ng

2 жыл бұрын

@@techmad8204 I love my Sony XBR-69420 Extra Bass Headphones!

I don’t remember when Sony made pink laptops but that made this video even more interesting. great video as always 😀

@Cheen03

3 жыл бұрын

I got a pink Sony vaio last week dated 2007/8 it had vista and a celeron d so this video is very time correct

@sussysusan4436

3 жыл бұрын

my teacher has one!

@peterhollitzer4786

3 жыл бұрын

U don't know it??? They also made a kind of blue (for men), "champagne" (kind of gold/brown); They got the succes of color after Acer Aspire A150 (Netbook) in different colors (Happend around 2007/08) ; and later on Apple jump on this train Last year Asus or Acer also tryed to rerun colorfull odels (mint-green, softgrey, lght pink etc)

@milkyproduxions

3 жыл бұрын

pink ps2 slim

@darq_music4780

2 жыл бұрын

Had one in 2012

I always loved those Sony Vaios for some reason.

@danis8455

3 жыл бұрын

Always hated them! But i did work for Sony Vaio! :D

@miguelalbarracin9077

2 жыл бұрын

Loved them for the design. As clean and sharp as a Mac would be but more vibrant.

I don't remember Sony making those but now I have an urge to obtain one.

@TitaniumTronic

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@waytostoned

3 жыл бұрын

I have an i3 one I be willing to part with...

@Angela-kr9dk

2 жыл бұрын

@@waytostoned YOU GOT A PINK ONE IL PAY ANYTHING YOU BETTER NOT SCAM ME

I used to play gta san andreas on a lime green vaio that my mom gave me years ago. I miss that laptop

@doctahjonez

3 жыл бұрын

I had a VAIO desktop from 2002 my mom also gave me I used until early 2016 lol. I don't miss it much tho since it could barely get 25 fps in Minecraft.

@estofadodepollo16

3 жыл бұрын

@@doctahjonez back in 2013 I used to heavily mod gta san andreas with cars from real life and other mods. Never failed me.

@tailsprower9542

3 жыл бұрын

Hm yes my First computer was one i Picked up at a yard sale and actually i played GTA III instead lol But yes i wish i could go back to those Times in the basement i agree

@Lightning2011

3 жыл бұрын

Why don't you look for one on Ebay and bring back nostalgia?

@jessicahyde8461

3 жыл бұрын

@@doctahjonez damn bro, you use that pc for 14 years. It still can be use for browsing right now?

You know it's good when it looks like a doll accessory

@MvsG18

3 жыл бұрын

Best analogy so far, it's so true that early 2000 aesthics, Sony Vaio Notebooks, PSP, PS3, Matrix phone, all that spiderman 3 style. Man it gives me Goosebumps reminding those era styles, fun enough i feel like early 2000 are like an old era... Man time runs fast

I remember my parents buying a family computer from one of their friends who worked in PC World. At the time it worked incredibly well in the Windows 7 ecosystem with its unique touchscreen that would have jealous guests in awe. Vaio had a lot of potential, but simply couldn’t keep up to what the PC market has become today.

@danis8455

3 жыл бұрын

I worked in Sony Vaio repair/support. And i can tell you that was not the reason. They had a crazy high break down rate and in general pretty bad internal design, and dont think they ever made money for that reason.....So they sold off a torn in their side. Specially their cooling solution and terrible cheap haddrives and fans was the main issues.

@shamen781

2 жыл бұрын

@@danis8455 yeah I had a vaio laptop and the fan was a pain in the ears

@allentoyokawa9068

2 жыл бұрын

@@danis8455 I doubt that it is true, it is a Sony

@danis8455

2 жыл бұрын

@@allentoyokawa9068 that its a sony hasent really been much of an bonus argument for the last 25ish years. Most of sony is bleeding money But its a free world and you can think what you want....But i know Sony vaio was the worst laptops ever designed.

@0w3nn

5 ай бұрын

@@danis8455 No, I thought Toshiba and Acer had the worst laptops. Acer improved, but Toshiba didn't/

Back in my school years Vaio was the THING by their design line and thickness

@LeonXOV

3 жыл бұрын

They still produce today and highly overpriced 😂 ngl the design still dope

@denamaharani6479

3 жыл бұрын

@@LeonXOV except vaios aren't made by sony anymore... yeah they are very pricey lol

@danis8455

3 жыл бұрын

I used to work in Sony Vaio support and let me just tell you Vaio made some of the worst overpriced crap ever made! their harddrives has like 30-40% break down rate in the first 2 years! And the cooling solution in these computer was frying the CPU!

@DwightCastillo

3 жыл бұрын

@@danis8455 mine also broke the GPU

@LeonXOV

3 жыл бұрын

@@denamaharani6479 they think the Made In Japan marketing bs still works in 21st century 😂it's not 1980s anymore bruh

yes, Yes, YES a video about Sony VAIO laptops ! And it's from Psivewri ! As a complete Sony VAIO fan and collectioner, I love seeing videos about them. And, if you want, I can help you correctly install the drivers on the VAIO on Windows as I have a working method for it as I have the same model. It only works on Windows 7 though. It took me more than 8 hours to make it work.

@infinity.8

10 ай бұрын

Mmmm i can make it work with windows 10, 8 and 7... Schools should teach poeple to read manuals before to use whatever electronincs device ... .😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

@RoxGYT

10 ай бұрын

Bruh ofc it works, I'm talking about the graphics switch. If you can make that work, especially now that Sony removed drivers from their website, we'll talk.

@0w3nn

5 ай бұрын

@@RoxGYT Why?? Why did they remove the drivers?!? I hate them

Ahh,good old Windows 7 laptops.I miss them so much!

@danis8455

3 жыл бұрын

Only if you never experinced how awesome windows XP was! But yea i miss 7 as well compared to 10.

Welcome to the Linux world pal. So many more possibilities open to you now for your channel and older hardware :)

@zorro315754442

3 жыл бұрын

Fully agree!

@VladRSK

3 жыл бұрын

Came here to comment the exact same thing

@namesurname4666

3 жыл бұрын

well depends if they made special drivers for special features, my low end gpu nvidia driver doesn't work on my sony vaio laptop it just won't change the brightness without editing some text in the terminal, but a strange old version of deepin can adjust the brightness out of the box

@dariolloshi2007

3 жыл бұрын

Way ahead of u bro

@sorae42

2 жыл бұрын

@@namesurname4666 You can use backlightctl and bind some key to it.

I am really nostalgic for the Sony VAIO. Never owned one myself, but they always had such a sleek presence.

Finally a Sony Vaio video, I don't feel all too alone with my 2009 Sony Vaio laptop

@ghekomakmur1605

3 жыл бұрын

I have working sony vaio from 2010, and I gave it to my mom this year, still great for daily task

@MvsG18

3 жыл бұрын

I used my 2009 Vaio laptop all the time, fun fact my 40's grandpa always loved technology, and in fact updated it so it had 16gb ram / SSD like in 2014 lol, until it broke 2018/2019 and bought another

@alsrig0420

3 жыл бұрын

@@ghekomakmur1605 That's really awesome, it will last a good long time

@alsrig0420

3 жыл бұрын

@@MvsG18 Oh, I too have a very similar 3GB Ram, 320 GB HDD, I was wondering about upgrades and how it stopped working? Keep it as a collectible tho

@ghekomakmur1605

3 жыл бұрын

@@alsrig0420 yes, and I just upgrade it from i5 dual core to i7 quad core, but it needs extra fan to cool it down..

Vaios were built like tanks! Also I remember having one of the first dedicated graphics laptops from HP. Always had issues with the laptop not switching to dedicated graphics and also not being able to find any drivers for it. Went as far as the AMD not even having the card on their list.

I also have one HP laptop with similar issue with graphics, seems like Windows 7 is one and only OS for those older switchable graphics things.

@windowsxpprofessional

3 жыл бұрын

Yes and windows 7 is best

@retropctech2407

3 жыл бұрын

I also have an older HP with the same issue. Switchable graphics do simply not work on Windows 10 or Linux. But to still be able to use it, I tried windows 8.1 and to my surprise switchable graphics do work absolutely fine :) And Windows 8.1 still has official support until 2023

@SummonerArthur

3 жыл бұрын

Switchable graphics arent supported since an (very) old version of windows 10. If you guys dont want to use w7, use 8.1. I use it and it works fine, but drivers works better on w7 (switching graphics on w7 was way faster than on w8.1) But still, you guys can just use w8. Its just an unbloated w10 anyway.

@windowsxpprofessional

3 жыл бұрын

@@SummonerArthur windows 7 is the best bruh

@DacLMK

3 жыл бұрын

On newer laptops it's supported (like on my HP 205 G6, which it has AMD Radeon 520)

I had a blue one and my sister had the pink one. This is nostalgic.

I bought a similar VAIO model almost 10 years ago, over time made the same upgrades to it and with Ubuntu it still runs perfectly fine to this day as my main Laptop for uni! ^^ Mine doesn't have AMD graphics though, so I didn't have to bother with the issues you had... 🤔

@andra_syawwal

3 жыл бұрын

You did have the same problem with amd graphics because you don't have them! Lol

@bungkusi2432

3 жыл бұрын

I also owned the similar VAIO. 2nd Gen intel i3 with intel integrated GPU. Still working perfectly fine with Ubuntu

@_framedlife

3 жыл бұрын

I recently upgraded to a dell and use my old Sony Vaio as a server. Still going strong after 9 years. I'm surprised how well the Sony firmware was implemented after using dell and it's broken mess.

This era of aesthetics and Vaio in general always caught my eye, and I especially like all the neat features and design choices this has. Needless to say, I want one now. Even a pink one.

Sony Vaio's were great laptops back in the day. I remember a lot of fellow-students having one. The big benefit was that you could entirely customise the notebook when ordering.

I remember my uncle used to have that vaio, but it's dark colour. Ran windows 10 with record speed and with 5 lines in the screen, yet it still works nowadays! So much memories with it... Memento Mori.

1:22 funnily enough another Aussie tech youtuber recently complained about Sony's memorable product naming technique!

@TheOgWalterMelon

3 жыл бұрын

dankpods with the sony wh-100xm4 right?

@andra_syawwal

3 жыл бұрын

Sebo Abram-Pavlov yeee

@andra_syawwal

3 жыл бұрын

Sebo Abram-Pavlov too bad it's not low quality for the 1 grit

@slavboii420

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheOgWalterMelon yeah it is confusing. Just change one letter and you will get a wireless earbuds. It really is like that

Psivewri : New video is coming out Eucalyptus oil : Ah $#@&, here we go again

I love watching him save and upgrade laptops that are past their prime and making them usable for todays use

Great vid psivewri Keep up the great work.love ur channel and videos

These older laptops FLY with Linux installed. I hope we see more videos of Psivewri trying out Linux.

I remember a fancy gold one with a pattern on it 😭 been tryna find one but I can’t

Thanks for another awesome vid Nathan! Keep up the awesome content

Man I watch alot of tech channels but the color grading on your videos is just so good!

For the GPU, you might need custom drivers for it. It worked on my H8570M.

@infinity.8

10 ай бұрын

Naaa its s problem of instalation... nothign else simle like that

You can try with windows 7 to get the Radeon working

@lefteris.adamou.1

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I commented

This was my exact laptop 6 years ago. Yes, pink and everything.

Amazing that it arrived in one piece, given the packaging. I’ve wrapped laptops two inches thick in bubblewrap and Australia Post has still managed to destroy them. Thankfully they were company property, not a personal expense, but I saw photos of one that I sent that arrived bent in half, on the wrong axis. As in, there was a new fold running from the hinge to the front. The screen and the main board were both snapped in half along that line. I swear Australia Post could find a way to break a solid block of titanium if you tried to ship one.

Psivewri: Remember when Sony Made PINK Laptops? Ecualytus Oil: After this video, I think I'll remember them really well..

@CardboardGuy

3 жыл бұрын

@ovaDXcipE since I posted this commment lol

That pink is very remonstrant of the Nintendo DS Lite. Damn I just love the look of this, wouldn't mind a modern PC in this colour!

@weskarcher483

Жыл бұрын

I sell upgraded Vaios. Usually upgraded with a 1TB SSD, 8GB ram and Win 11 Pro loaded...

@cadenchurchill4296

Жыл бұрын

@@weskarcher483 Cool!

More sony products in the future will be appreciated. 👏 This is definitely awesome and memorable. 🇪🇪

Still have my white vpcsb16fg from jbhifi 2011. You're spot on about the disassembly nightmare. Problem with mine is the thin power board seems faulty, so it won't even power on with or without the batt. Can't find parts

Psivewri use sdi-tool.org that's a driver installer it auto installs the drivers cause windows 10 uses old ones

@LBSiUK

3 жыл бұрын

Na, his GPU is probably dead.

@Moskito844

3 жыл бұрын

linux is best

@shockwaveexp3465

3 жыл бұрын

AMD has stopped supporting this laptop’s GPU since 2015.

@kielagut

3 жыл бұрын

I used this recently when I installed Windows 2000 on my old Dell laptop!

@anhez28

3 жыл бұрын

I think the problem is related to the stamina and power switch. That switch controls dedicated and integrated gpus

Psivewri! My parents had a vaio from around 2007! nobody knows how to fix this and frankly im stumped too. when you press the button only the battery light comes on, but only when you press the power button, when you stop pressing it it goes off.

@lolcat

3 жыл бұрын

Tried removing the battery and running from the charger

@ogorekkiszony7236

3 жыл бұрын

@@lolcat battery was removed since 2014 cause it died. it worked fine up until we stopped using it in 2017, then when i used it in 2020 it worked, but stopped after a week

@ogorekkiszony7236

3 жыл бұрын

@@kyria_kous il try that later today, il let you know if it works

@ogorekkiszony7236

3 жыл бұрын

@@kyria_kous it did not work

@ogorekkiszony7236

3 жыл бұрын

@@kyria_kous i will try this, but as a last resort, i read into it and it could be battery related.

I had a really bad day and you posting made it a little better. Thank you.

Oh man I remember these things, loved their colour options as well

Love that lens flare thing at the beginning of the video and in transitions. How do you do that?

@florida-boy

3 жыл бұрын

A transition pack

glad to see that you have used linux

Great video as always!

Dude i love how this vaio looks

01:41 nah, 100% sure thats windows 10 just being windows 10. Nothing unusual there.

@EVRLYNMedia

3 жыл бұрын

yeah windows liked to peg my old hard drive for at least 5 minutes after bootup. glad i got an ssd lol

@FireFoxDestroyer

3 жыл бұрын

Windows sucks with slow computers My second worst computer takes soooooooooooooooooo long just to log in

@SummonerArthur

3 жыл бұрын

@@FireFoxDestroyer windows 10*

@EVRLYNMedia

3 жыл бұрын

@@SummonerArthur ^^ i also have a laptop with windows xp installed to an SD card, and its quick as a bullet :)

Jist run windows 7 and install the driver from amds site.

That is such a beautiful design.

I love these laptops. We still have one going strong at my work

I know a youtuber (Garret Claridge) and he still uses one of these lol

@jblbasstester6198

3 жыл бұрын

Good old Garret

@applefanboy1770

3 жыл бұрын

@@jblbasstester6198 hey you used to be my worlds greatest KZreadr when I was 8 lol nice to she you here I would pee myself if I was 8 lmao

Welcome to the Linux land!

I have one very similar to it, a 2012 Vaio S15, great laptop, still working flawlessly to this day, and just replaced last year because I wanted more battery life

I remember seeing a fluorescent orange Vaio laptop at work once (which I guess was from the early 2010's). I'm pretty sure the plastic was semitransparent as well.

Hello! Do you fix laptops for other people?

Maybe you should switch that thing to “Speed” for the graphics card to kick in.

@ThatTonybo

3 жыл бұрын

The issue is though there's no drivers for Windows 10, so the switcher won't work.

Hey, I've never come across this laptop! This is amazing man!

This is my first laptop! nostalgia feel❤

me as a gay teenager wanted one of those SO BAD, I had to settle for the white one

@MvsG18

3 жыл бұрын

Damn ive never seen a gay with bad body shape, it's like a requisite!? Man i want those muscles!!!

@the-shork

3 жыл бұрын

@@MvsG18 when you come out you'll automatically assigned get a personal trainer assigned, it's part of the gay agenda

@MvsG18

3 жыл бұрын

@@the-shork fucking closets, if i just had one

@MvsG18

3 жыл бұрын

@@the-shork btw it's just a joke, not trying to insult any gay person

@MvsG18

3 жыл бұрын

@Bzake saying "gays have a good body" is not homophobic, and im also not bodyshaming, its a joke, a compliment and also just generalizing, it's like saying all woman have long hair, i'm not excluiding woman that don't have long hair or hair at all, i'm just generalizing, and was also a joke, but i think you don't have to begin with this talk yet.

I litterly always tbaught that Vaio was a different company than sony lol

@tailsprower9542

3 жыл бұрын

Your not alone lol i used to think that as well

@xalataf3365

3 жыл бұрын

it is now

I Love that Sony Vaio Pink Laptop and it's so epic!

i loved Vaios back then.. such beautiful machines. especially the "VAIO FW Series"

bruh i just found an old sony/vaio laptop in the closet perfect timing

He sadly became one of those. Who doesnt install the windows version that is on the sticker

Something to note when dealing with older tech that works for me,use Snappy Driver Installer, makes finding old drivers for computers easy when they discontinue them on the manufacturers website, love the content dude :)

@echonomad94

Жыл бұрын

bruh thanks I needed that for my vaio cs

My friend had a Sony Vaio back in 2013 and I was jealous of him because I had a HP DV4000 at the time, and it struggled to open Minecraft. Good old times

someone who makes videos on computers had no idea how many linux distributions there are?

@SummonerArthur

3 жыл бұрын

I find it way funnier that he didnt search for a second about the switchable graphics on google. A quick search would have told him that switchable graphics were discontinued and thus are unsupported on windows 10, no matter what you do, they're not gonna work on w10. The latest windows version to support switchable graphics is w8.1

@aKuBiKu

3 жыл бұрын

@@SummonerArthur What? I've seen many win10 laptops with switchable graphics. Even AMD has a tutorial on their website on how to configure it. www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/dh-017

@SummonerArthur

3 жыл бұрын

@@aKuBiKu from intel itself, it says exactly the opposite. www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005669/graphics.html 7 and 8 only. I think it might work on amd side, since from what i remember you can even crossfire your apu with your switchable graphics on some older HPs ( i remember doing this on a g4) but not on intel.

@aKuBiKu

3 жыл бұрын

@@SummonerArthur Uh, that's weird. Well I know for a fact switchable graphics work on Intel iGPUs on win10, both my sisters and my dad's laptop have them. My sister's is paired with an nVidia GPU and my dad's with a Radeon.

@Lollllllz

3 жыл бұрын

​@@aKuBiKu It seems that hd5000/6000's implementation of switchable graphics is pretty much unsupported on win 8 and newer with the computer being unable to switch graphic's mode being a common complaint.There is a modded driver that makes it work under 8(and earlier versions of 10) but even that is hit or miss.

I love the look of that thing. Colourful laptops are great.

Excellent job 👍👍👍

I've always looked at these as a teenager but ended up with going for the 13" MacBook pro. Still works until this day, but wow I would really like to own one of these to play older simulation games if it's compatible. This video has made me even more motivated do do my research :)

awww I remember those colorful sony laptops. I always wanted the green one, but couldn't afford it and went for a toshiba instead, which still works fine to this very day (had been replaced by a fancier new lenovo yoga last year though and has thus become a secondary device)

I had this laptop it was always brilliant to turn up to tech repair jobs and pull out my bright pink laptop.

Psivewri you are awesome!!!

As someone who is alive in the 2000s I can indeed confirm this is a burning memory

Good vid like every time 👍

My friend has this still working and he uses it even today.

The ultimate return

It looks so good... Even now❤️

Oh yeah I had one of these. Win 7 is basically the only OS that supports the switchable GPU. You use the "stamina/speed" switch to change between them; doesn't do anything without the right drivers though. If you do install win7, Minecraft will just crash when using the discrete GPU for whatever reason. It ran Fallout NV pretty well, though. Mine bit the dust literally the last day of college where the power button failed (I assume). The thing never turned on again.

Wonderful vid! :)

0:36 You can compact multiple bags so that they accumulate space inside the package. You can also use shredded paper as a more ecofriendly alternative.

Enjoyed the video

Man this laptop is awesome

Hey Nathan I'm a huge fan I check every week

Love your video so much

i remember way back like 15 years ago, when people who had VAIO laptops were absolute bosses

The Stamina/Speed Switch is to select the graphics cards, it does not change automatically and you need the original Sony Drivers like Sony Shared Library, Control Panel, Event System etc all installed. You could always update the drivers using Driver Easy but you will need the original drivers for everything to function correctly.

Cool video, keep it up :)

My dad still has one of these (blue, not pink) and he uses it to back up all his music recordings. He spilled beer on it and it still works, so nice job on this one Sony

sony vaio were the best windows laptops. one of the few ones with a blu ray drive to watch movies on the go. the real challenger to the macbook pro.

So cute computer! this was my dream computer when I was a child. My older cousin had one and I wanted to use it so badly.

That's laptop is amazing. Few months ago I have bought the silver version and comes with 8 GB of RAM but without the VGA port. Its a great laptop to work with design and digital art. Is strange that this laptop cannot change to the AMD graphics but it's ok. Great video and waiting for a new one. Greetings from Brazil. ✌️

Yeah I do My sister had a pink Vaio back in 2008 that lasted for several years, it was a solid laptop

Love your vids

I have the same one in black and a generation later called SVS13P. You have to switch it to SPEED mode to get the discreet gfx to kick in. Try rebooting after switching modes, and looking in your device manager.

I do remember. My aunt used to have this one.

Also you can try to disable the integrated graphics in bios or what you can do what I did was disable the processor or the graphics card in device manager also worked to force the pc to use the gpu

I remember this unique laptops too. I think the driver issue can be fixed by installing older version of windows like W8 or W8.1.