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LGR - Setting up a Japanese Sony Vaio laptop

🕑 Added 2022-04-11 20:17:33 +0000 UTC

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Zachary Eaton

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

Seth C

Seems 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 :-)

Shino Puppy

You 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!

CubicleNate

In the late 90s, I ALMOST bought that A4 sized laptop... not sure why I didn't...

Asaf Sagi

Nothing like a Sony product

Alyxx the Rat

It breaks my heart you can't fully explore that laptop since so much is online. Sony stuff from back then is immensely cool.

Lennart Sorensen

If 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".

Dan Milner

120% Burning Fest. is a good fun fighting game if you get it running. i have it on PlayStation :)

David Gaxiola

As 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.

Robert Launder

I have an idea of what BP stands for ...

LGR

Well dang, that's something I haven't run into yet, thankfully

LGR

Vaio 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

Heh, yeah I hear that a lot

Lennart Sorensen

Never 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.

Contreramanjaro

I 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.