New video day! I've been spending some time with the Sony Vaio VGN-TX3XP. a 20-year-old carbon fiber ultra-portable that still puts some modern "thin and lights" to shame.

I tried modern 32-bit Linux (#antix), but ultimately decided to return it to its Windows XP glory.

Watch the teardown and setup here:
https://youtu.be/DR2uSzE6uus

or on

#PeerTube: https://tube.devwithzachary.com/w/n1NiAxBEWZj46H6qgtcD4t

#SonyVaio #RetroComputing #WindowsXP #VintageTech #Linux #Hardware #SelfHosted

My "New" Favourite Windows XP Laptop: Sony Vaio VGN-TX3XP Review

https://tube.devwithzachary.com/w/n1NiAxBEWZj46H6qgtcD4t

I Bought More Weird Hardware: Can We Put Linux On These?

https://tube.devwithzachary.com/w/gEGYUbjcYNCdCWRojHfAqj

Current mission, recycle, repurpose or recoil! That iMac has a glitchy screen, Logic/MBoard issue? There's maybe a slim chance I could install and run minimal Debian on it for 'something'. Yes, that's a MKI AppleTV you can see. Three laptops and misc hard drives (even an IDE).

#Recycling #Technology #Repurposing #Computers #Laptop #iMac #AppleTV #Linux #Debian #SonyVaio #Samsung #Iomega #WesternDigital #Maxtor #HomeLab #HomeNetwork #HeathRobinson #DuctTape #String #sata #ide

Here are three Sony Vaio appearances. New Police Story has a role for a Vaio TR and Bag of Bones has a Vaio J and a Vaio F making its debut appearance.

http://www.starringthecomputer.com/newsitem.html?i=2025-10-15%2022:53

#computersinmovies #SonyVaio

Ah, another addition to the 'Sony computers I'd love to buy just to look at' list, the Sony Vaio VPC P11 ALJ. I love how it looks like a purse when it's folded up.

https://youtu.be/qhL1s9kd1Fo

#Sony #SonyVaio #ActionRetro

There is something both sad and maddening that most of the cool Vaio models both back then and now cost a nice chunk of change.

But they have the same hardware of netbooks that costs 10% of the price

Like, of course they are rare, for 1k€ what are you gonna buy: a MacBook Air, a normal Windows laptop, or a sub notebook with an Atom CPU

#sony #vaio #sonyvaio

Thinking about selling my Sony Vaio laptop...
It was my first laptop, but it's grown really just out of use for me. It's quite heavy, it doesn't have much benefit in terms of ports or software, the hardware is really out of date for my uses ( The GPU was basically out of date when I bought it 💀 )

It has a FireWire and Sony MagicGate port, but....

My x230 has an Expressport slot. I have a FireWire PCI-E addon card. And generally I only need firewire for DV tape capture (which is very rare for me to do anyway)

And the MagicGate port is only for Memory Stick and Duo cards, which I mean were really only used for older hardware too... but I have a really nice multi-port USB 3.0 device for reading MS/Duo cards...

Also the power port is LITERALLY the most frustrating I've used. I've replaced it three times now:

I managed to find a replacement for the keyboard on Aliexpress as well (amazingly, last one, EN-US) as some of the keys stopped working following water spilling on the laptop + a year of storage making it work again somehow.

It's probably been close to a year ish of not having used this laptop... but... it feels almost wrong to sell it. it was my first laptop!

Actually honestly this was a mistake to spend as much as I did on this NEW when I bought it so many years ago. Sigh. I doubt anyone would want to buy it even! :(

There was a model variant with a blu-ray drive available, which I HAVE found listings on ebay for the bare drive, but it's close to $100 ish.
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/174930247474

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