Guy’s this was my first laptop ever.
I purchased back around 1997/1998 for about $1600 USD
I remember other laptops cost over $2000
It served me well. I used it until 2000 when I switched to IBM Thinkpads.
But I still have fond memories of this Vaio.
They are very tough , resilient and enduring.
I have purchased a few of these used not working also from eBay.
I put in new cmos battery , upgrade the ram, replace the hard drives with IBM, HGST, or
Hitachi 7200 rpm drives with larger capacity.
And clean them up from dust and grime and they work great again.
Better than new.

Specs:
Pentium III 500mhz CPU
32mb ram PC-100
60gb hardrive upgrade 7200 rpm.
Yahmaha audio
Nice diplay and graphics; 14-inch and 15-inch
Floppy drive built in
DVD drive built in
USB ports
PS2 port
Parallel port
Serial port
Audio in and out
Sony ilink
Sony webcam port
Good speakers built in

Easy to fix and upgrade.
I think this is easier to fix and upgrade than some IBM thinkpads.
Very tough shell. For being plastic the shell is pretty tough.
Stronger than the IBM thinkpad 380 shells which are made of
Brittle plastic that cracks easy.

I remember I choose this laptop to use with my Sony handycam video camera
This was before smartphones and allot of people made home videos this way.
8mm video cameras where popular until compact Flashcards came out.
Then Sony later switched from 8mm to smaller compact flash card cameras.

These laptops are from around 1997 and they still work good.