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First post, by Intel486dx33

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Guys, I am very fond of these old Sony Vaio laptop.
I bought one back around 1998.
It was not exactly this one but similar.
I actually had the Pentium-III@500mhz model with WIn95
I still have one in my Garage.

This one is an Athlon 1ghz model running WinXP
These have a CDROM and Floppy drive built in.

It works really good
I upgraded the ram to 256mb and replaced the hard drive with HGST 7200rpm 80gb
The original hard drives were very Slow. These 7200rpm drives are a BIG upgrade in performance.

I am not sure what audio it is using but it sounds really good for an old laptop
Crystal clear audio with good bass.
Sounds really good.

Well, I have a few of these old Vaio laptops in my garage that I repaired and upgraded and they work really good.

These bring back allot of memories for me of the late 1990’s

I really like these laptops. They are EASY to fix and upgrade. But the trackpad was a little small.

Not bad for gaming. “Curse of Monkey Island” plays really good on this laptop with WinXP.
Reminds me of the White Apple G4 MacBooks.

Commercial video link:
https://youtu.be/TXpqw9xu-to?si=ytjou-sYIgVJ22Wd

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Reply 1 of 4, by MAZter

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Nice one, I have PCG-F480, with large & bright 15" screen, I think biggest screen in class. A little upset NeoMagic video, but for late DOS games that's fine.

I remember they used Yamaha YMF744B-R chipsets, so sound really great. TFT screen LT150X3-126 or LT150X3-124, very cheap and easy to replace.

Doom is what you want (c) MAZter

Reply 2 of 4, by Intel486dx33

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Yeah, I think the one I had was a PCG-F490 or PCG-F590
I don’t remember only that it had a Pentium III
I have it in my Garage.
But I like this one with WinXP.
It plays games very good.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Intel486dx33

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These were popular in USA computer stores.
Marketed towards the Home family multimedia computer for games, applications, video editing and music editing.
Came with the Sony iLink connector for connecting the Sony Digital Camera and video cameras.

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Reply 4 of 4, by Intel486dx33

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“I Feel the Need For Speed”.

This laptop has pretty good Speakers.
These have a audio feature called "3D audio" that sounds like "Aureal 3D"

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