Sony's Unique Tiny Laptop Had a Unique CPU Too

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This Does Not Compute

This Does Not Compute

Күн бұрын

Sony's VAIO computer line had a number of laptop models that were nothing like what the competition offered. But its Japanese-exclusive PCG-U1 and U3 subnotebooks were just as interesting on the inside.
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PCGA-BP3U battery photos: batt.co.jp/pro...
"Transmeta debuts Crusoe," InfoWorld, January 24, 2000.
Transmeta Crusoe photo: commons.wikime...
PC Magazine, November 21, 2000.
Transmeta Crusoe photo: commons.wikime...
"Transmeta chip may hold key for computing's future," Computerworld, January 31, 2000.
"The Truth About Transmeta," Maximum PC, May 2000.
"Troubles for Transmeta," PC Magazine, January 2, 2001.
Compaq TC-1000 series photo: en.wikipedia.o...
"Transmeta Bets on LongRun2," InfoWorld, August 23, 2004.
"Intel takes on Crusoe with single-watt chips," InfoWorld, June 19, 2000.
Transmeta Efficeon photo: commons.wikime...
"Why Transmeta Failed," Maximum PC, June 2005.
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@JanusCycle
@JanusCycle 2 жыл бұрын
There were reports the Transmeta CPU would benchmark up to 20% faster on the second run through as the CPU adapted it's x86 emulation. I tested this with Quake on my U1 and sure enough the frame rate improved the second time. I love the black U3, always wanted one.
@kaitlyn__L
@kaitlyn__L 2 жыл бұрын
It’s a shame that wasn’t factored-in. That’s quite common with translation layers. :/
@kudryavchik
@kudryavchik 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Janus! First of all you make great videos! On transmeta - i have c1mhp. Its a disaster, even back in a day. Very slowwww. However this chip let sony make some great designs. But for me the greatest ones are u50 and ux. First more premium and unique, second more practical
@nurullahaksay
@nurullahaksay 2 жыл бұрын
@@kaitlyn__L Even the modern Rosetta 2 is basically same. It just does first run ahead of time so you don't see awful performance first
@kaitlyn__L
@kaitlyn__L 2 жыл бұрын
@@nurullahaksay funny, I was going to bring up how the first Rosetta was bad on the first run, but then I changed my second sentence to be more generic. I knew Rosetta 2 had a hybrid model involving JIT recompilation and then saving the results to memory, but I was unaware it did a silent first-pass. So that’s neat.
@amirpourghoureiyan1637
@amirpourghoureiyan1637 2 жыл бұрын
Same thing with WINE and Proton!
@juliawolf156
@juliawolf156 2 жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, the form factor isn't exactly dead. GPD made the Win Max and that gaming laptop looks quite similar to the PCG-U1. The Win 1 and Win 2 are a bit nicer to type on when held in both hands because they're smaller.
@djneo92nl
@djneo92nl 2 жыл бұрын
I own a GPD Win 3 that looks like a Vaio UMPC. Something i always wanted
@belstar1128
@belstar1128 2 жыл бұрын
Yea i kind of want one since my smart phone has too many artificial limitations but these days i don't travel much so it would be a waste and i worry about windows lagging out all the time when i want to do something quickly on public transport.
@JohnKGoodman
@JohnKGoodman 2 жыл бұрын
I also have a WIN3, as well as a couple of the older top-end UX handhelds. The WIN3 is definitely the heir apparent to the UX design ethic, I love it.
@ciprianmogosanu7169
@ciprianmogosanu7169 2 жыл бұрын
Also have one, totally pleased by it,even one year later
@ciprianmogosanu7169
@ciprianmogosanu7169 2 жыл бұрын
@@belstar1128 to be honest it is really practical for me,(gpd win max,not gpd win 3)i use it as the main drive,for more than one year never felt like it is slow, Even if i don't use it that much, every time i do,i noticed the experience in a good way,Dont have to lift a heavy leptop, i just take it from the same place i put my phone to charge,most of the time i would even use the same charger, It can game nice, trough the battery dies fast this way, just for light tasks ,like video watching ,it has longer screen time than most phones, I guess the thing i use it the most is video watching, because of the screen stand The speakers are close to horrible
@DavisMakesGames
@DavisMakesGames 2 жыл бұрын
That's funny, just recently I was watching a Cathode Ray Dude video about a similar Sony laptop with an integrated camcorder, also making use of the Crusoe CPU. The funny thing is, despite the whole point of that laptop being the camcorder functionality, the CPU was too weak to actually handle video encode which held it back quite a bit. Interesting to see this one also using it.
@sacleocheaterz
@sacleocheaterz 2 жыл бұрын
I literally watched that video yesterday then this drops, spooky
@JeffreyPiatt
@JeffreyPiatt 2 жыл бұрын
VIAO wad always aimed at making multimedia PC's basically High end workstations and Sony lifestyle systems like Apple computers but cheaper
@markaz2kk
@markaz2kk 2 жыл бұрын
As crt mentioned. Sony was a company which built things outside the bubble, taking devices to another level.
@flp322
@flp322 2 жыл бұрын
The overlap between the viewership of CRD and this channel has got to be quite significant.
@DavisMakesGames
@DavisMakesGames 2 жыл бұрын
@@flp322 It's incredible how many other recognizable tech channels I see in the comments of other videos.
@Sb129
@Sb129 2 жыл бұрын
That CPU has some sorcery built into it, the more you run the same stuff the more it adapts and gets better at it, all while consuming much less power since it has less transistors. Having grown up only seeing Intel and AMD it is very interesting to me seeing other x86 CPUs like the Cyrix, Transmeta and VIA. I suspect the same would be true for younger people and graphic card manufacturers.
@CommodoreFan64
@CommodoreFan64 2 жыл бұрын
I will say having worked on Cyrix machines it had potential to be right on par with AMD in the 90's, but VIA never stood a chance on anything but really low power draw, as their chips both CPU, and IGPU were really slow with bad driver support, and not even a low resource Linux distro like Puppy could help them, as I owned a few VIA C7 based motherboards I put into service with my church in he mid 00's, and some Everex VIA C7 based laptops I bought for nieces, and nephews as gifts.
@Voidsworn
@Voidsworn 2 жыл бұрын
@@CommodoreFan64 most of VIA chips were based on the Winchip, not Cyrix.
@CommodoreFan64
@CommodoreFan64 2 жыл бұрын
@@Voidsworn Trust me, I'm well aware of that, and read my comment again, as I never said VIA was based on Cyrix, just that Cyrix had potential, and that VIA was over promised hot garbage, with their only advantage being power draw.
@Voidsworn
@Voidsworn 2 жыл бұрын
@@CommodoreFan64 my bad. I read more into that than was there. :)
@lawrencedoliveiro9104
@lawrencedoliveiro9104 2 жыл бұрын
Linus Torvalds worked for Transmeta for a while.
@darkwinter6028
@darkwinter6028 2 жыл бұрын
These sorts of machines are quite useful for field servicing equipment that doesn’t have it’s own display. It doesn’t take much processing power to display a settings list, or flash the firmware of a machine… and being small is a big advantage when you have to haul it around along with a bag of tools.
@jackkraken3888
@jackkraken3888 2 жыл бұрын
Great point.
@talkysassis
@talkysassis 2 жыл бұрын
That was the point of regular laptops when they were invented
@darkwinter6028
@darkwinter6028 2 жыл бұрын
@@talkysassis Well, the first generations were aimed at business users; not technicians… but as machinery started to incorporate computer-derived control systems, technicians adapted the available portable computers to their work.
@krzysztofczarnecki8238
@krzysztofczarnecki8238 2 жыл бұрын
And it can run Windows or generic Linux, and therefore most of the software for servicing said equipment. And doesn't require a lot of dongles. Which is two things smartphones fail miserably to provide. That's why I'm a happy owner of GPD WIN.
@ondrejsedlak4935
@ondrejsedlak4935 Жыл бұрын
@@darkwinter6028 That's interestinng and reminds me of what happened with mobile phones in Australia during their introduction in the 90s. Apparently mobile phones in Australia started out aimed at the business sector, which failed. It ended up being construction workers that became the primary clients as they had a real need to be contacted out on the road or in the middle of a construction site. Your average businessman was ususally stuck behind a desk at the time and ususally relied on a desk phone.
@benoitvedrines4109
@benoitvedrines4109 2 жыл бұрын
I owned a PCG-U3 back in the day. This series was something else entirely. Exotic, extremely cute, with a crazy good display. I miss the times when such creativity was allowed. Thank you for this review which took me back !
@MaoRatto
@MaoRatto 2 жыл бұрын
可愛いね?
@benoitvedrines4109
@benoitvedrines4109 2 жыл бұрын
@@MaoRatto とてもかわいい :)
@lucasRem-ku6eb
@lucasRem-ku6eb Жыл бұрын
such creativity was allowed ? Artistic skills you do, apple is what you need Forget the Windows crap you need ! Demand a better solution = apple !
@reduxmod4044
@reduxmod4044 Жыл бұрын
​Apple suck
@Sanukit
@Sanukit 2 жыл бұрын
This is what I miss the most from the late 90s/early 00s... Originality. I imagine having a desing like that, with a modern hardware, that would be dope
@matthiasmartin1975
@matthiasmartin1975 2 жыл бұрын
I was surprised to hear no mention of Linus Torvalds, the most famous employee of Transmeta. I still remember him being quoted as having said: "When we're done you're going to want one."
@iansterling9589
@iansterling9589 7 ай бұрын
I worked for Transmeta from 2000 to 2002. It was an exciting time for sure. One thing the CEO pushed was that these systems weren't intended to be desktop replacements. Instead, they were meant as portable companions to a desktop PC, and never meant to be speed demons. Some of the hardware that used the processor was *very* cool though. I'm glad to have been employed there at the time.
@flyriviera
@flyriviera 2 жыл бұрын
Oh! A friend of mine bought one in Japan. At its time, it was amazing to see such small laptop running WinXP and with so many options!
@mccarly3258
@mccarly3258 2 жыл бұрын
You'd appreciate a thumbs up would you? Well your down right getting one. This channel is quickly becoming my favourite for retro tech up there with LGR and Techmoan.
@matthewwhiting255
@matthewwhiting255 2 жыл бұрын
Check out cathode Ray dude
@mccarly3258
@mccarly3258 2 жыл бұрын
Will do. Thank you buddy
@Locutus
@Locutus Жыл бұрын
You're, not your.
@rsc9520
@rsc9520 Жыл бұрын
After watching this great video, now my new favorite channel also!
@scottcol23
@scottcol23 2 жыл бұрын
I remember when these Sub notebooks came out. I wanted one SO BAD! The Toshiba Libretto and Sony Vaio P series were so cool! I loved anything with a tiny color LCD and full keyboard like the the LG Phenom which ran win CE. I ended up scoring a like new HP Omnibook 800 Subnotebook and a Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 tablet pc off ebay in the early 2000's that I still have in my collection.
@lucasRem-ku6eb
@lucasRem-ku6eb Жыл бұрын
We needed ARM for this, and not Microsoft !
@imark7777777
@imark7777777 2 жыл бұрын
I am certainly glad there's companies out there that still try and make these things like GPD the packet three has been awesome brings back memories of the various miniature devices I saw along the way that I could never afford.
@ToadyEN
@ToadyEN 2 жыл бұрын
Japanese tech in the 80s and 90s was the best part of our timeline.
@ToadyEN
@ToadyEN 2 жыл бұрын
I can imagine Japanese salary men on the Shinkansen getting work done between the grind.
@Sb129
@Sb129 2 жыл бұрын
For sure, even the early 2000s had that spark if only a less so than the 90's.
@ubacow7109
@ubacow7109 Жыл бұрын
The western world never understood how far ahead they were for their time unfortunately, very few bleeding edge Japanese electronics actually got exported here
@boboboy8189
@boboboy8189 Жыл бұрын
Japan bubble era. Since 2000's they were slowly overtook by Korean counterpart and then American based company. Today, china is beating Japan with robot vacuum tech and smartphone
@thrjfi5360
@thrjfi5360 Жыл бұрын
Yeah it was great envying what I wish we had in USA lol
@exidy-yt
@exidy-yt 8 ай бұрын
It still astounds me just how fast PC tech moved at this time: only 5 years previous to this in 1996 retails stores were still selling 100MHz Pentium 1 machines with as little as 8mb RAM and 1mb VRAM and 500mb HDDs. This thing was a SUBNOTE with specs that were light years away, even with an underpowered CPU for the time. Just unreal.
@fungo6631
@fungo6631 2 жыл бұрын
6:35 This is how all modern Intel and AMD CPUs work like as well. Internally they are RISC, but they have an x86 front-end.
@nickthaskater
@nickthaskater 2 жыл бұрын
The forthcoming GPD Win Max 2 is effectively the modern equivalent to this, complete with a handheld form factor. Check it out!
@MrKillswitch88
@MrKillswitch88 2 жыл бұрын
Yea those 1.8 ide drives are slower than molasses in a Chicago winter compared to everything else of the period. One can get an msata adapter to replace the old drive if desired.
@lachlanbrown8110
@lachlanbrown8110 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Colin. Love your videos hope you have a great day!
@SparkRattle
@SparkRattle 2 жыл бұрын
I loved the U1 for it's colors and look. It really sings to me and I'd love to have one in a display in my collection. :3
@TheLegitAlpha
@TheLegitAlpha 6 ай бұрын
I do miss the days when Sony made laptops. Everyone talks about how they make the PlayStation and all sorts of studio equipment, but they did make computers and other media devices. In fact, the first biggest commercial success was the first transistor radio.
@RichsRandomRetroReviews
@RichsRandomRetroReviews 2 жыл бұрын
I wanted to do a video on the Transmeta processors as I've always been obsessed with them. But plans to make a video didn't pan out. Great video!
@ACRPC-dot-NET
@ACRPC-dot-NET 2 жыл бұрын
I've had a few Transmeta machines over the years, a Sony "PictureBook" PCG-C1VN (that I owned, briefly), and a Compaq TC1000 (that was supplied by my work), they both really were hot garbage in performance terms, but battery life was admittedly pretty good (more so on the Compaq which had a much larger battery). They were acceptable performance for light office work which was definitely Compaq's target market, but Sony definitely pushed multimedia uses more, and they really fell flat there. I kinda wish I had tried to buy out the TC1000 when my work retired it, I did grab a later TC1100 which is the same form factor but Intel based.
@squeeeb
@squeeeb 2 жыл бұрын
Yep those Transmeta chips were truly awful.
@prussian7
@prussian7 2 жыл бұрын
I had high hopes for that CPU. I remember seeing it used in wearable computers. Big advantage was that it didn't get hot in wearable or portable devices.
@The-i-Shakk
@The-i-Shakk 10 ай бұрын
That powermate Eco looked awesome wow.
@MegaManNeo
@MegaManNeo 2 жыл бұрын
I love these ultra compact PC form factors. True, working with these is somewhat painful and impossible but to think that we can have a computer the size of a GameBoy always stuck with me.
@Mark-pr7ug
@Mark-pr7ug Жыл бұрын
20 yrs ago, we at work received tiny sony laptops that were touchscreen too. Cool little gadgets that came with a portable floppy drive. The best thing about them was that they were free - donated to our it recycling company
@alexis0a
@alexis0a 2 жыл бұрын
I love this videos about old and not common computers, great channel!
@elmowilcox
@elmowilcox 2 жыл бұрын
Sony VAIO was a cool ass brand in general. They cranked out some neat gadgets.
@geoffeg
@geoffeg 2 жыл бұрын
I sometimes wonder if the Crusoe would fare better today. With ARM becoming more popular and RISC-V on the horizon, a processor that could run a number of instruction sets might become quite useful.
@IvyANguyen
@IvyANguyen Жыл бұрын
Very cool. A lot of people might forget that unlike the US, Japan has an excellent rail system where people might find using something like this useful during a commute where physical space is at a premium. It is cool to see companies try these ideas out even if it doesn't pan out. Nowadays we see devices like the Samsung Galaxy Fold series which may be good enough to replace both phone & tablet in one go.
@allenmovies
@allenmovies Жыл бұрын
Sony's VAIO laptops up until like 2013ish or so were some of the most gorgeous laptops ever!
@PicasYo
@PicasYo Жыл бұрын
And then something like electric dictionary came out, was very popular in 2000s among students. I had one and still keep it, mainly used for the built in dictionary, some simple learning program, videos, songs and some built in simple game. Size about a small notepad maybe 4x6 inches. Damn brings back memories.
@mattjabbar
@mattjabbar 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Colin 👍 I have a U3 with OK screen that I will be glad to give you or swap for something of equal value if you are interested 👍
@andresbravo2003
@andresbravo2003 2 жыл бұрын
More VAIO Stuff? man, quite I had some flashbacks with the Sony VAIO back in late 2000's.
@DanafoxyVixen
@DanafoxyVixen 2 жыл бұрын
I have a Thinclient based on the Transmeta Crusoe that I use for tinkering around with WinXP programs and as my Winamp music player. I would argue that for its time, the Crusoe was a very good CPU, especially considering how little power it uses. It would have been great if they had survived longer in the market, but in the end Intel copyed many of transmeta's technology and things moved on
@MrDoubleufo
@MrDoubleufo Жыл бұрын
wow! glad to see the pcg-u1!! I used to play 'ultima online' with this small pc for easyuo scripting during my bedtime almost 25 years ago!
@Computist40
@Computist40 2 жыл бұрын
I've never heard of a Crusoe CPU and MicroDIMM for RAM until now. Thank you Colin I sure learned somethings new here.
@alfonsoortizavila4373
@alfonsoortizavila4373 Жыл бұрын
Really interesting stuff here. The emulation capability of the Crusoe makes me think of what is said about M1 chips from Apple, acording to Anaconda developers, it is believed M1 chips can emulate code instructions from x64 and then translate them to ARM architecture. So story repeats but now it seams that it worked very well.
@lucasRem-ku6eb
@lucasRem-ku6eb Жыл бұрын
ARM was always the better solution, Windows was always the best crap people bought ......
@gluttonousmaximus9048
@gluttonousmaximus9048 2 жыл бұрын
Hey! Just watched Cathode Ray Dude's vid of the Crusoe-based VAIO and here's another one of these. Along with those media-center PCs and all sorts of weird things, VAIO sure was something else.
@TechMadeEasyUK
@TechMadeEasyUK 2 жыл бұрын
I have the sequel to this, the PCG-U101. Amazing little laptops
@AntiPseudo
@AntiPseudo 2 жыл бұрын
God I miss subnotebooks and netbooks. PC developers have long since abandoned the all-important cute factor.
@AgentSkyper
@AgentSkyper Жыл бұрын
I had one of these. The Vaio PCG-U3. It was amazin piece of tech. i still have the original software somewhere. And some pics too.
@richardsequeirateixeira
@richardsequeirateixeira 2 жыл бұрын
One thing about computers or computing in general at the time was the innovation and excitement. We rarely see this in the PC world. We also have a lot less peripherals to choose from.
@plotfi1
@plotfi1 Жыл бұрын
The Crusoe was all about moving the instruction scheduling from hardware to software. The idea was that if you aren't lighting up transistors to handle out of order execution in hardware that you might be able to beat it at power consumption in software.
@porygon-z5364
@porygon-z5364 2 жыл бұрын
The video port isn't specific to these computers. It's called Mini VGA and many apple computers sold between 2001-2005 used it as well. Ive used that sony adapter on an imac g4 and emac, and ive used the apple branded one on a sony picturebook.
@NicoleG944
@NicoleG944 2 жыл бұрын
This kinda looks like a proto GPD WIN Max
@deepnetx6
@deepnetx6 2 жыл бұрын
I had a Toshiba libretto u105 . Now that machine was a beast. I ran it till 2014 with Linux and windows and external display ,it was enough for college. With small upgrade for an ssd and extra memory up to 1.5 gigs. Toshiba made umpcs much better then sony. It originally came out in 2003 and it was still viable 9 years later. With everything working including rubber stumps battery external cd bay . And the umpc was small enought to fit in a big pocket. It did cost 3000 dollars when it was brand new. But Sony wasn't cheaper.
@Reckoner89
@Reckoner89 2 жыл бұрын
Congratulations 🎉 to 300k subs! You've earned it!
@HappyBeezerStudios
@HappyBeezerStudios Жыл бұрын
The Crusoe was very interesting. VLIW wasn't used much in desktop CPUs, but outside of that saw some use. Like in Radeon HD 2000-4000 cards or in a modified form in Intel's X64 Itanium chips. And the possibility to add instruction extensions per update could make them long lived. In theory.
@yt_consistency
@yt_consistency 2 жыл бұрын
The lower part of it reminds me of the GPD Win Max
@360Fov
@360Fov Жыл бұрын
That zoom in is such a cheat! It just lowers the res lmao
@capitans12
@capitans12 2 жыл бұрын
2:42 Made in Japan. Holy shit I miss seeing that on electronics!!!!
@DoubleMonoLR
@DoubleMonoLR Жыл бұрын
It seems some of their products for the Japanese market are still made there. Ultimately it doesn't have to be made in Japan to be quality anyway, any country can and does make high quality equipment if that's what they're paid to do. People blame 'China' etc, but ignore that the only reason for low quality is that companies and consumers just want whatever's cheapest. Very high quality products are also made in China and elsewhere. I've got a set of Bosch blue cordless tools, they're made in different countries such as Mexico, China, and I think US & Germany. The quality is the same on all of them.
@JohnSmith-xq1pz
@JohnSmith-xq1pz Жыл бұрын
That would look nice next to my Vaio Pentium 4 desktop
@JonathanMcCormack
@JonathanMcCormack 2 жыл бұрын
I had a Compaq TC1000 with the same CPU. The story I heard was Transmeta expected it to be as fast as an AMD/Intel CPU. However speed sucked with the first yields, but power was low. So instead they marketed it as a low power CPU instead.
@askjeevescosby2928
@askjeevescosby2928 Жыл бұрын
I have the slim pentium 3 sony laptop. Its really cool looking but i try to only collect 2 brands of comouters. Decided to go with HP and Apple. I love hp laptops truly are some of the most beautiful laptops ever designed. The mid 2000s ones with the designs molded into the plastic, that hulk of a machine the dragon with a 21 inch display, the nice silver and black of the early 2000s i just love hp laptops even though they have made some mistakes but in all fairness all computers had video issues at the time.
@OverDriveOnline7921
@OverDriveOnline7921 2 жыл бұрын
Looks a little smaller, but thicker then the Atari ST Book, with a similar pointer device, though that came out in 1991 and as there were only around 1100 ever made, are hard to find today (but had features that are missing from todays laptops that could and should be useful!). Fascinating little machine here though, I know a few people who would have loved to have one of these back in it’s day.
@Koledzy108
@Koledzy108 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Collins, you need to archive this recovery cd's ! Otherwise good video, as always.
@ilkeryoldas
@ilkeryoldas 11 ай бұрын
These were actually called ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC)
@bulletpunch9317
@bulletpunch9317 2 жыл бұрын
So this is where the gpd win design comes from
@chriswareham
@chriswareham 2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my teeny tiny Sharp Zaurus. It was even smaller and had a touch screen - which compensated a little bit for the terrible "keyboard". I thought it was an amazing bit of technology which worked great as a pocket sized terminal for working in data centres on my regular visits to fix our servers.
@kobalt_ren01
@kobalt_ren01 Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love that keyboard font hahaha
@xr.spedtech
@xr.spedtech 2 жыл бұрын
A mix of wacky and creative ... Well ... It's just art
@kenkobra
@kenkobra 2 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the great work!
@IcoOst
@IcoOst 6 ай бұрын
I would like to see how a linux would fair with that processor, maybe one that is compiled to work with the original processor
@AngadAnand1
@AngadAnand1 Жыл бұрын
Can see where the GPD win max got it's design from.
@gern0tk
@gern0tk 2 жыл бұрын
Slightly later there were also the JVC Mini Note laptops using Intel ultra low voltage variants of the Pentium III. I bought one as a student 2004 and loved it. It already had WiFi and I upgraded it to 512MB. Though you had to compromise on the keyboard, if you got used to it wasn’t that bad. It was king when giving presentations or travel abroad. I used it for years and sold it a couple of years ago to a collector for a 100 bugs while still working including the batteries.
@PatrikPakard
@PatrikPakard 2 жыл бұрын
It would be interesting to try to put upgrade the U1 with an SSD or a memory card instead of the HHD.
@madzen112
@madzen112 Жыл бұрын
Love the look of that laptop
@kobe3576
@kobe3576 2 жыл бұрын
If you think that is small, then check the Sharp Zaurus SL-C series. Although classified as a PDA it is actually a tiny laptop with Linux.
@raisdudung
@raisdudung Жыл бұрын
5:16 ah yes that small HDD, i remember using HP Elite book back then using that HDD, that's really slow, change it with regular HDD and place it in DVD area using caddy, then its soo much faster
@blakegriplingph
@blakegriplingph 2 жыл бұрын
Elements of Transmeta's VLIW tech lived on with Nvidia's Project Denver, fyi.
@KrotowX
@KrotowX Жыл бұрын
Nowadays such sized laptops are still usefull for technicians in servicing various industrial equipment at field.
@Vintechfinder
@Vintechfinder 2 жыл бұрын
Nice to see the Hitachi/Ricoh/IBM Chandra get some screen time!
@michaelturner4457
@michaelturner4457 2 жыл бұрын
I remember reading about Transmeta Crusoe in the magazines of the time, but never actually saw a machine that used it though. But then I never saw a Cyrix MediaGX either. And all PCs I've had were either Intel or AMD.
@pocketanime
@pocketanime 2 жыл бұрын
In South America they are impossible to find. Things from living in the third world :D
@dross1705
@dross1705 2 жыл бұрын
Another fine video, sir!
@washiwashi4060
@washiwashi4060 Жыл бұрын
I love the chose of music select for the video
@bentraeger230
@bentraeger230 Жыл бұрын
what a charming little PC, thank you for showing it. 😍
@acffordyce973
@acffordyce973 2 жыл бұрын
Would love to see you repairing the screen on the U3 and maybe seeing if there's upgrades you can do to them.
@jpcarballo
@jpcarballo 2 жыл бұрын
Hah! I still have the Sony external DVD and CD drives (at 10:04) that I bought with my PCG-Z505. 20+ years old and they still work. Back then, my co-worker bought a PCG-C1VE and he used it for programming. Worked well on his commute too so I heard.
@Lp-ze1tg
@Lp-ze1tg 2 жыл бұрын
This design with a practical product was a 100% forward thinking. Take a look at the laptops, Chromebook and tablet design nowadays. None of the current mobile units equipped with as many I/O as this cross over computer. Will you try booting it with Linux?
@DoubleMonoLR
@DoubleMonoLR Жыл бұрын
There's not really much need now, as so many devices can be connected via USB.
@glauco_rocha
@glauco_rocha Жыл бұрын
i absolutely LOVE the design of this machine.
@tagrauyoutube
@tagrauyoutube Жыл бұрын
I wonder if one could upgrade this in the same way that you do with the iPod iflash. Id like to see what that would change
@macblink
@macblink Жыл бұрын
I'd buy one just to try all those super light linux distros
@nicolek4076
@nicolek4076 Жыл бұрын
Olivetti produced a similar sort of PC that was beautifully designed. It wasn't at all practical, but was adopted by stylistas as a kind of fashion accessory.
@HouseOfFunQM
@HouseOfFunQM Жыл бұрын
Isn't this........ exactly how the Intel P6 architecture works anyway? Splits 386 and 486 instructions into micro-operations, that are executed out-of-order and in parallel by the execution cores?
@michaelclement1337
@michaelclement1337 2 жыл бұрын
Now we are looking at instructions per watt. Back then it wasn't the prime focus
@carlosnumbertwo
@carlosnumbertwo Жыл бұрын
Those old Sony devices are so freaking cool.
@吉田駆-i9f
@吉田駆-i9f 6 ай бұрын
How do you remove the damn VAIO recovery media laptop model check thing
@FAT8893
@FAT8893 Жыл бұрын
Nowadays, we have the likes of GPD Win Pocket and One-Netbook. If there's one thing that still stands to this day, ideas and innovation never dies. Some things can still be relevant in 2022 and beyond.
@FabioNicolasSchmidt
@FabioNicolasSchmidt 2 жыл бұрын
I love your videos, here from Brazil :)
@the_kombinator
@the_kombinator 2 жыл бұрын
So this is my Toshiba NB200 on steroids - which the last I saw of was in a teacher's hand as I left Cuba, and very likely is still there ;)
@TCOphox
@TCOphox 2 жыл бұрын
In form factor, it was the GPD Win of the 2000s. In CPU terms, it's similar to Russia's Elbrus CPUs where it has its own ISA, but has a built in x86 translator.
@leewalker23
@leewalker23 2 жыл бұрын
I consider my Yoga 6 to be quite small to work it but never thought there'll be anything way smaller than the Yoga 6
@RowanBird779
@RowanBird779 2 жыл бұрын
for the PCG-U3 you can probably just rob an LCD from the U1 and it would work as they probably aren't that different in that regard
@middle_pickup
@middle_pickup Жыл бұрын
The micro laptop thing was so cool. I always wanted one of those kind of things.
@Δημήτρης-θ7θ
@Δημήτρης-θ7θ Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, Vista killed the entire product category. Even micro-laptops and UMPCs that could run Windows XP decently (such as the ones from OQO) would struggle to run Vista. No surprise there, even normal laptops would struggle to run that pig. Windows 7 did improve things a bit, but not by much, and by then the era of the iPad had arrived anyway.
@jacobdavidcunningham1440
@jacobdavidcunningham1440 2 жыл бұрын
The NEC Mobilepro's looked pretty cool damn that's too bad about the Transmeta company looks like sold/defunct at 2009
@DEJ915
@DEJ915 2 жыл бұрын
I bought one of these (PCG-U3) to replace my 400MHz C1 and honestly it wasn't much faster lol. It was smaller though, I do need to fix the hook on it that closes it since it's broke on mine so I have to manually turn off the screen with a program. The scroll wheel was definitely one of my favourite features though, I was disappointed the new Picturebook series didn't have one but I got one of those anyway.
@tombstonefreak
@tombstonefreak 2 жыл бұрын
Your videos make me go retro again...hell no plz!! Just found your channel, and like a lot. Very nice comments and relaxing voice. English is not my mother language, but I can understand everything you say. Thx for good videos.
@AnotherFreakingDude
@AnotherFreakingDude 2 жыл бұрын
At the end I was like "And a time, when phones were FUN"
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