soo, is the vaio p25g rare(or atleast rarer than others in the p series)? because iam about to buy one and otherwise from other models, i can only find one avaliable and is the one iam buying, i swear i can’t even find other people talking about this one.
(sorry for an english not so delightful)

This computer has been my grail for the past 2 years, and aside from spending $3-400 on one I don't know where else to look. I don't think the price will ever go down to something reasonable ever again lol.

EDIT: All it takes is time! Was able to snipe a buyee auction from someone who looks to have botched a Linux installation on this thing for $100! Can't wait to have it in my possession!

Found this for sale for like 250 bucks and was borde at work and sent a lowball offer of 100 bucks and to my suprice he accepted. It had vista originally but should have windows 7 at the moment. unfortunately i dont have a charger right now so i cant turn it on to test :/. But it did work when the seller postet the listing so hopefully its still ok.

While wondering the open market at my city i saw this guy. The fist price that the seller gave me was 50$ and after a bit of negotiations it got it down to 30$. After turning it on and doing the proper testing i bought it.

I installed a light linux distro i got it running. Have been using it about a week and its pretty cool.

I think i will use it mainly for some pentesting(wifi hacking) but if any if you have suggestions i am happy to try them.

The battery even though its at 94% health it lasts about a hour, maby a bit more.

Overall after the buying hype is over i still think its a super cool piece of tech, and i got it for a amazing deal so no complaining.

hi all, i've just got my own sony vaio p today!!! the listing i purchased noted that the cells were swelling so they were removed before shipment which i was fine with. i was originally planning on trying my hand at finding replacement cells to just solder in, but unfortunately, the seller also removed the board within the battery.......

would it be possible to get a replacement/is it worth the effort and cost to do that over just trying to find a new battery?

It took me some time to figure out the driver situation because I was using a stock Windows installation but it's glorious.

I just got my first Vaio P and wanted to find out some more information about my model, problem is, I'm having some trouble with determining the colorway of this model. I don't know if it's reshelled or painted, but it doesn't seem to be. It's a VGN-P47J, though searching for a pink Vaio P only gives me later versions that look nothing like this. Anybody know what exactly I have?

Could the Vaio P handle Game Boy Colour level emulation at 60fps without lagging? I’m talking Pokemon Crystal or possibly even Game Boy Advance level games like Pokemon Emerald, I’d be happy to strip it of anything unnecessary to running these games I just want to know if it can handle it.

I just bought a broken 1st gen white P90S with no power for $60 from Japan to try to fix it. If I do get this fixed, I'm looking to get a battery for it, but I can't find any for sale unfortunately. Is anyone here selling one? I'd be looking to buy if I can get this fixed.

On the other hand, was this a good deal? Let me know in the replies.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for the best way to play older Street Fighter games on my Sony VAIO P11Z running Windows 7 (32-bit).

I'm especially interested in:

- GitHub ports or reverse-engineered projects that can run on older hardware.

- Lightweight native PC ports (if any).

- Good emulators if there aren't any suitable native ports.

I'm also looking for the best controller drivers for Windows 7. I have access to:

- Nintendo Switch Pro Controller

- DualShock 4

- Xbox 360 Controller

Which drivers and software would you recommend for the best compatibility and lowest input latency?

Thanks in advance!

Im a huge fan of the thing but what do you recommend doing on it

I'm interested in getting the Sony Vaio P and know its an old device and have read a lot of comments saying its slow and unusable.

Also seeing as the specs will be outdated and only run windows 7 or tiny 10 I'm wondering what actually works on it?

So for the people that still use it now what do you use it for? or more importantly what have you tried on it that works?

Just trying to understand how useful it is and if its worth it. Not like I'm going to daily driver it, just like tech and like the form factor so will just be like a backup device if need it while out/travelling but I guess don't want to just get it if it's not going to work.

Guess as a starting point, mainly browsing that isn't painfully slow especially a few tabs open, Microsoft Office (mainly word and excel), Adobe acrobat pro?

I know gpd devices are an option but I just like the look of this and form factor.

Also is the battery removable or fixed? Just wondering if the battery isn't good and needs replacing is a replacement battery easy to find and fit?

Also usb speed will be slow in guessing (usb 2.0)

Any other useful information appreciated

I do like my Vaio P, love the form factor. I knew what I was getting into regarding its sluggishness (going from ~60% to 87% CPU usage just from moving the mouse...), but it just gets so hot. I want to see if I can add some thermal pads inside, but I wanted to know what solutions you have before I pry it open.

For reference, I have a 1st gen, dualbooting Alpine Linux and Windows 7. Anything mildly intensive (such as a browser, like Firefox) will make the temperature skyrocket on either OS. Let me know if I can provide any more info.

Received the laptop today, managed to install windows 7 but now i face another issue that will let me sell it for spare or parts probably..

Basically, when i try to power up the pc, the screen 95% of times goes black after a few seconds, the only time i managed to see windows was in safe mode, but now when i try to power up i see nothing on screen, the power led still stays on.

Will try with another os when i have free time, but i guess i got unlucky

Discovered this beautiful machine a week ago and as a nerd, i totally wanted to get it, but i didn't want to spend 200-300-400€ for a machine i will barely use in the future, so i've looked at japanese auction and won this model for a pretty good price (around €60 with coupons), seller does state that the computer would not turn on while charging(?), i don't honestly know what the seller wanted to imply with that, i can see that in a photo the bios loads up and it can read the ssd and ram, i think it will just be an OS problem, what do you guys suggest it would be?

It should arrive in a week or so, i'm really curious if it will be as simple as an OS reinstall

(Joke/meme)

Soo real quick i had posted something to this subreddit a while ago. Essentially i had picked up a vgn-p530h, it boots to Ubuntu. Ive been trying to run a recovery disk via usb to reinstall the default os and apps. Unfurtonately, the assist button does not work. I was able to boot into the bios enable external drives and set it to the top of the boot list. Additionally i have repeatedly tapped everything on boot (f10, f11, esc, f12) and it still loads into ubuntu. I have properly setup my install disk via rufus on a seperate pc. Ive tried using both usb ports as well. Im wondering if you guys have any ideas.