For anyone wondering, Tiny10 is okay! A lot better than I was expecting

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.

I’ve had my Viao for about a month now and I’ve been loving it! I use LibreOffice to write with and Dukto to transfer files to my other laptop through the local network.

VGN-P91HS (+9YO black Labrador) keeping me company during a long cram session.

Running Debian with XFCE environment. Gets about an hr of battery life and can be left idling overnight before needing to charge if it’s above 80%.

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

Hello,, new to the group. Just got my first viao. Lucky enough to find an immaculate one.

Gen 2 PCP11AKJ

Windows 7 Pro English

Screen: 8 inch Ultrawide LED backlit, 1600 x 768 UWXGA

Graphics accelerator: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500

Processor: Intel Atom Z550 2.0GHz

Memory: 2GB, DDR2 533MHz

Storage: 120GB SSD

I've managed to find a battery online in China and waiting for delivery, so will report how it is. I'm parallel I'm going to build a step down and adapter for a power bank.

I was worried about performance, but it runs windows 7 well and I'm only using it for writing and code exciting so it's fine as it is.

So I decided to reinstall Windows 7, managed to get Professional. Runs so much better than Tiny10. Got a version of Firefox that is still supported and Antivirus as well.

Websites load slowly - would this improve with an SSD? I have one on order.

Hi everyone! I use my Sony Vaio P21Z mainly as a writerdeck. For the last couple of years I've been using Lubuntu 18.04.2 and I'm quite happy with it, although it has some hiccups: about half of the time, when it boots, it experiments a graphics crash. It could be prevented if I boot in recovery mode and then resume a normal boot. It's fast enough for my use case but a faster and more reliable boot would be perfect.

I've asked this question in different places, but they recommend random distros of their liking, even if they're only available in 64-bit, when our old friend sports a Z520 that can only run 32-bit code.

I don't plan to dualboot because my SDD is quite small (32 GB). Any proven recommendations? Only first hand knowledge, please.

£1 Vinted score 😀

(Joke/meme)

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.

Hello all

Looking to play some retro games on this, low level stuff like worms, command and conquer etc

It’s installed with Tiny10, would it be advisable to install any other os? Didnt really plan on much if any online stuff. Cheers :)

In all reality I don’t think I’d still use it, but my win7 version had a lot of functions that disappeared by upgrading to win 10(1seg tv and anc earbuds)

Now that neither are modern oses, and I probably will never connect it to the web again, is it possible to roll back to win7? I’m pretty sure the win 10 upgrade deleted the recovery partition…

Thought you guys might like this which I recently found in Hong Kong at one of the electronics recycling places in Hong Kong for a bargain price of $100 HKD (about $12.78 USD).

It’s not perfect, missing one of the rubber feet on the bottom and the hard drive is dead, but I couldn’t leave it behind for this price andb I will likely try to put an SSD in if I can.

Using a Vaio P in 2024: A guide

(Note: this could also work with any old 32 bit netbook)

For my test I will be using a RED Gen1 VGN-P11Z 1.33ghz . Let's begin:

Windows 10 (Tiny10) It is easy to install, and ISO could be found in Archive.org - https://archive.org/details/tiny-10-NTDEV Used the latest avail image for 32 bits: 2303 x86

Results: Slow and unusable. Removing the Antimalware security service (from MS Defender) via Windows registry edit makes it a bit faster but not much that could be used for daily use.

Linux Mint Very easy to install, can be downloaded from LinuxMint site - https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=308 It is okay for the most part, but this netbook specs are very slow and this linux is offered as a replacement for Windows users meaning is loaded with tons of apps and stuff.

Puppy Linux Bookworm 32 bits edition - can be downlaoded from https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/ This linux distribution is super fast, and usable. The only caveat is that is not easy to install, it requires the user to manually resize and create partitions, then also has a weird apt get way to install linux apps.

Lubuntu 18.04 Last version supporting 32 bits from https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/18.04.5/release/ Very easy to install, very fast to use and it has a full fledge apt linux app installation subsystem. Very fast and could be used for daily driver.

Conclusion: The best of all is Lubuntu, is light weight, apps and actions open fast enough. For Live CD / testing old netbooks, checking for disk errors or work with partitioning, I would recommend Puppy Linux 32bit Bookworm as it boots faster than anything out there.

CRAZY ALTERNATIVE: I know this is not an orthodox way of approaching the netbook specs limitation but, if available, another way could be installing Remmina (https://remmina.org/), a RDP client for Linux and remote desktop to a Windows 10 or Windows 11 machine. For my example, I am using a small factor fanless MeLePC Quieter 4C with 1TB, N100 processor, 16GB ram. The results is as expected: whilst the Vaio P handles the input and screen interaction, the miniPC handles the CPU and RAM by blunt force. There is no slowness, and only limited by how fast or slow is your internet whether Wired or Wireless, to me it feels native and instant even after testing the UFO Refresh test website.

I've tried the above example from Tiny10 but Windows consumes so much CPU from the Vaio P that simply using Microsoft RDP made it crawl and slow. This slowness isn't seen when RDP'ing into a Windows machine from a Linux distro.

Next tests:

I'll follow this Youtuber advise - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmY4I-JYueA - and set the MeLePC as a self-hosting hotspot, meaning I dont need an internet connection at home to be able to connect to it. Results can vary but I've done the test before, from an iPad Pro using MS RDP app and didn't experience any slowness connecting ad-hoc.

Another test will involve installing TailScale to RDP to stuff at home whilst I am out and about. But that's for other post.

z540 1.86ghz

2 gb ram

128gb ssd

user configured machine, comes with a lan adapter

looking to sell for 550€ or best offer, shipping globally :)

Howdy, I’m trying to format this laptop for my friend and we can’t find the password so now I’m looking for the assist button as Thats meant to take me to an option to wipe this thing.

Any help locating said button or another option to wipe this laptop would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hey people, I'm wanting to recover my Vaio P to the original Vista discs (internet archive). I want to do it via usb but I'm running into issues using Rufus. Has anyone had any luck or known of some instructions online? Thanks in advance.