LGR - Setting up a Japanese Sony Vaio laptop
Added 2022-04-11 20:17:33 +0000 UTCSo this one was pretty fun, I think! Unboxing and playing around with a Vaio PCG-777/BP that I imported from Japan, complete with all the software and other goodies that came with it from the factory. Hope you enjoy this episode on exploring elder electronics!
A pretty simple episode entirely by design, as I'm currently knee-deep in new house things. I closed on the new place last Wenesday, woo! Haven't started fully moving in yet since I have a lot of prepwork and renovation to do on the upper half of the house, but I've at least started the process of transferring LGR things out of storage and into the new studio space(s) that I have ready to go. So yeah, this Vaio video is probably the final one to be filmed at my old place, at least fully. There will no doubt be a mix of filming locations for the next month or two, but y'know. Expect some fresh surroundings soon :)
Comments
Hey man! Not related to this video but did you know your “thebasingers.com” server is nasty infected with Trojans? U might wanna go clean that or let them know. Just looking out since u still have some links to that on your stuff like pod phreak haha. Big fan man, take care
Zachary Eaton
2022-05-18 19:14:09 +0000 UTCSeems like your Japanese is getting better- my very non-tech wife from Tokyo (Kokubunji) is now watching your videos with Japanese computers or games and asking why my Japanese isn’t better- pls let us know if you ever want her Mom to send over anything from the greater Tokyo area for the channel :-)
Seth C
2022-04-16 03:34:12 +0000 UTCYou mentioned you didn't know what the BP stands for; I'm wondering if it's Business Productivity. I noticed in the chart around 5:40 that the only entries with "BP" also mentioned the Office suite, and the others didn't. And congrats on the house!
Shino Puppy
2022-04-13 23:55:10 +0000 UTCIn the late 90s, I ALMOST bought that A4 sized laptop... not sure why I didn't...
CubicleNate
2022-04-13 12:56:52 +0000 UTCNothing like a Sony product
Asaf Sagi
2022-04-13 05:11:48 +0000 UTCIt breaks my heart you can't fully explore that laptop since so much is online. Sony stuff from back then is immensely cool.
Alyxx the Rat
2022-04-12 14:40:20 +0000 UTCIf I remember right it was a problem with the network driver, and I think it was a 3com 509 card back then. Used to be very popular in the late 90s ISA machines after all. Maybe it was just 3com that did such a terrible job at "translation".
Lennart Sorensen
2022-04-12 11:43:56 +0000 UTC120% Burning Fest. is a good fun fighting game if you get it running. i have it on PlayStation :)
Dan Milner
2022-04-12 07:41:57 +0000 UTCAs was pretty evident from the start, the NeoMagic graphics chips in the early VAIOs were poor at scaling to non-native resolutions. The later chipsets got better at scaling but were still not great in overall graphics capabilities. Sony switched to ATI graphics around 2002 or 2003 which made a big difference. I really loved what Sony was trying to do with VAIOs with a full set of multi-media applications and connectivity to their A/V equipment and accessories. I think the price premium compared to other laptops and often not very user friendly UX in their software kept people away from systems that otherwise pushed the boundaries of what a consumer PC could do out of the box.
David Gaxiola
2022-04-12 05:15:17 +0000 UTCI have an idea of what BP stands for ...
Robert Launder
2022-04-12 00:29:20 +0000 UTCWell dang, that's something I haven't run into yet, thankfully
LGR
2022-04-11 23:49:36 +0000 UTCVaio really were the coolest brand for a while. Such style, like an extra layer of thought and handiwork went into every component. Even if, in the end, many of them could be pretty flimsy and prone to failure, ha
LGR
2022-04-11 23:49:18 +0000 UTCHeh, yeah I hear that a lot
LGR
2022-04-11 23:48:13 +0000 UTCNever dealt with windows 98 Japanese version. I have had the misfortune of dealing with windows 95 in Japanese and trying to figure out what a driver error message said. Eventually getting someone that could read Japanese to read it (and tell me it was gibberish) we determined that if read aloud (even though it was gibberish) we could understand the English error message written phonetically in Japanese. Why Microsoft did that we will never know. It certainly wasn't helpful to anyone that knew Japanese or English.
Lennart Sorensen
2022-04-11 22:47:16 +0000 UTCI love this. The first PC I bought with my own money was a Pentium 4 desktop VAIO. (PCV-RS 310, I'll never forget lol) It was sweet and came with a 15" LCD monitor back when that was still kind of rare. LTT recently did a sleeper PC in the same case and I was taken back to how cool that PC was and how liberating it was to not share a PC with my family for the first time. Also it ran Need for Speed Underground which was just next level. I would love to get ahold of some of the VAIO desktop backgrounds too. I really don't know why but VAIO was just cooler than the silver Compaqs, the blue and gray HPs, the black and gray Dells, and there were no cool eMachines.
Contreramanjaro
2022-04-11 21:49:44 +0000 UTCIs it weird that I can hear your voice speaking those last two sentences you wrote above as if they were part of a video?
Stavros Karatsoridis
2022-04-11 21:07:58 +0000 UTC
