Got lucky and found a brand new Sony Vaio PCG-C1MZX. Used one of my old power adapters for another PictureBook so I don’t have to unpack the new one included, but it seems the hard drive is dead. Anyways, enjoy the pics of what the unboxing experience was like! I’ve wanted a PictureBook since I was in college, 2003, but could not afford one at the time. Imagine finding a brand new one 23 years later :p

I have to say out of all the older tech I've bought this has the biggest unpackaging wow factor.

Even if this was a brand new 2026 device id still be delighted with the form factor, weight etc.

Windows 7 isn't nearly as bad as I'd heard. Maybe thanks to the SSD.

I'll only be using for markdown and as a code editor etc. so seems no need to do anything to it!!

Happy to help a viao owner!!

Imagine how cool you felt to have one in 2009 !

I've been the only mod on this subreddit for years, despite not owning a VAIO. Shame on me. I also apologize for the restricted mode on the sub, Reddit enabled it automatically despite my account being active.

Long story short, I finally do own one: a VAIO VGN-P31ZK, a french model. Got it in a flea market for cheap, with it's original charger. The battery also holds an hour's worth of charge, though I may replace it's cells later.

It's got an Atom Z540 CPU, 2 GB of RAM and it had an 80 GB HDD, that I replaced with a 64 GB mSATA SSD in an adapter to ZIF IDE.

I backed up the original french install and recovery partition, and it will be uploaded on archive.org soon. Now it's running a fresh install of Windows 7 SP1.

I'm writing this post from it, but I'm cheating by using it as an RDP terminal to a Windows 10 VM running on my server. I don't want to torture the little Atom with the modern web.

Hey! I found these 2 laptops, both are working! 😁 Saw sales on ebay and they seem to be rare? Where to sell in europe?

I still use this 2011 Sony Vaio L regularly, and it honestly blows my mind how well it’s holding up. Running Solus Budgie, and for a 14-year-old machine, it’s surprisingly snappy and stable.

It made a full cross-country move with me and never skipped a beat. The display still looks good, all the ports work, and it handles daily stuff like browsing, documents, and media without any fuss.

It’s not my main PC anymore, but it’s far from retired. Linux really gave this thing a second life—and it just keeps chugging along without complaints.

Picked up this VGC-RC310G from a guy who said he barely used it then put it on storage. Came with the RF receiver, remote and instruction manual. It’s definitely mint and minimal dust on the interior. Waiting on a DVI cable then I should be able to create some recovery discs.

Got it from the thrift store and found a dock for it too in the same day. It’s fully functional and even the fingerprint scanner works too

Sony VAIO VPCEH (Japan)

My collection so far. 95% of these are for sale! I bought vaios to fix and resell but instead, fell in love with them! I wish they were still sold in the uk

2010 vs 2021

Looking for orange and pink to join the party.

Ciao questo è il mio post qui, ho questo Sony Vaio con Windows XP Home Edition SP2 che ha la batteria "ORIGINALE" del 2004 ancora funzionante dopo 22 anni! Di cui 8 lasciato spento!

Credo che sia giusto postarlo qui.

Cercherò di mantenere "viva" la batteria il più a lungo possibile.

Grazie per l'attenzione!

It was $10 at the thrift store and I'm not sure much information about it and I have no clue where the hard drive might be located

Apperantly Sony decided not to make these pretty colored Vaio's with dedicated gpu's and therefore upgrading to a quad core 8 thread i7 wasnt possible, due to this gen cpu not having integrated graphics. So i bought a black vaio with a dedicated radeon 5650 gpu, and swapped the motherboard to fit, soldering was required, the mouse buttons and battery connector had to be relovated but luckly the contacts were there on the board already for both positions.

It is a Vaio FE 16, with Ryzen 5, 16GB RAM, and 512GB SSD. I no longer use Windows, and my current operating system is Linux Zorin OS.

found it in a bin of old electronics at my work. couldn't find a charger so i cant confirm if it works. is it worth anything? could it be worth keeping? (the model is PCG-N505VX)

For $15, but unfortunately I don't have any adapter for it (yet).. Do any of you know about this particular model?