4:29 the button there quite literally says "sutanbai" (standby). knowing how to read kana helps with dealing with japanese electronics in general - it's how they write foreign (mainly english) words with japanese characters.
I do always find it amusing when transliterated English baffles tech reviewers. My favourite instance is probably still a hifi guy saying they’re “all labelled in Japanese” on a radio/amplifier (IIRC) remote control, when literally all of it was transliterated English. Volume, channel, power, etc. All katakana. Usually at least a couple are in kanji, especially power, but not in this case!
I still have my U3 in working condition. It's an amazing, albeit slow, piece of tech. The Japanese specifically used these tiny pc's on the road. While standing up in subways/metros made this device easy to handle with those mouse buttons and joystick + text input on that orange pad. The pc card slot could be used for wifi card or cellular. Picked the U3 up second hand in 2005 for about 650 euro. I used it primarily for parttime school, easy to pack for a weekend away. Also fun to play some games on. Did a ton of Settlers 2 on it. Mine came also with an external cd-rom drive.
This was the golden era of personal electronics. I absolutely loved everything Sony Clié, I went through a couple of UX50.. Also had the mobile phones, P900, p910i. Haven't had that same feeling since.
Yeah, it's sad when they really nail a good vibe, but then move on to something else. I got really into Apple products in the late 2000's, and loved the vibe they had going, but then 2013 came around and completely ruined it for me. I still deeply resent Apple for firing Scott Forstall.
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I had one , in Hong Kong around 2003. Vividly remember that I connected via Bluetooth (not sure it was optional or built in) to my Ericsson phone in the subway (MTR) and surfed the internet. I was feeling like looking into the future back then - and i certainly was , if we consider portable computers - mobile phone, are now the standard in subways in Hong Kong and around the world. Thanks for this review!
I'm so glad you compared this to the ASUS Transformer, which I used with Windows 8 in middle school and immediately thought of when I saw this Sony XP mini laptop. Thank you for these videos! Subcribed.
Magic Gate was a DRM thingy from sony used on MemoryStick and the PS2 Memory Cards. It‘s not the flash format. There are MemorySticks and PS2 Memory Cards without MagicGate support. It‘s to compete with the „Secure“ DRM part of SD Cards
I have a old Sony Vaio that was my Mom's. It was a Windows XP computer but has the old Windows logo on the keyboard as well. It also makes the VAIO startup sound.
I used to own one! A few years back I donated it to the computer museum in Cambridge, UK. Btw, there are english drivers and software for it (including the jogdial software) ... if you want to put not-japanese windows on it.
I LOOOOOOOVE the external battery compartment. So much safer if something goes wrong with the battery. Others wanted a Macbook, I wanted a Sony Vaio laptop. Unfortunately never got one. Still annoyed they sold Vaio.
My main travel notebooks is the GPD Win Max. It's big enough for me and now with VR headsets I don't even need anything that large, just a keyboard. I missed the netbook PCs, I always wanted one but never had the money. Something this small back then was underpowered but now something this size is just as good as a full sized notebook.
As someone who can read the Japanese syllabaries, but doesn’t have very much kanji under my belt (I’m at like a 3rd grade level) it will always amuse me when baffling Japanese buttons are actually labelled in transliterated English. That standby button is literally labelled “stan-bai”, just as the Start button in XP says “staato”. However, at least the Welcome screen is an actual Japanese word - youkoso, which is more like how you’re welcomed to an office than welcomed back home. Which changes the tone for me, because I personally always viewed the Welcome screen as welcoming me back home. But for office use, _youkoso_ is certainly far more appropriate.
I very nearly bought one of these second-hand twenty years ago, but I ended up choosing a Vaio Picturebook instead. Imagine a widescreen version of the U1, with a much more usable keyboard. It still had the infamous Transmeta Crusoe processor, topping out at 867MHz in my model. I ran Windows 2000 on it, not XP, and I remember it running pretty smoothly actually. It was plenty powerful enough for web browsing, office applications, and watching DivX DVD rips on the go. Lots of fun!
1:50 hmm, i like the jingle, im gonna set this as my startup sound for a old school computer from somewhere back in 2006 (i can see that cuz it has a windows xp sticker and a intel core 2 duo sticker) that i got (btw my school didn't need it anymore meaning they gave me permission to get it, welp i got 2 of them, the windows vista was really broken and barely even works sometimes but the windows xp one was working no problem)
Very neat little device, I did not know it even exists. I am also into collecting old laptops, especially Sony Vaios. My gems are two PCG-C1 picture books, one with Pentium II 400MHz and one with a Transmeta Crusoe CPU as well.
I picked up a U3 ages ago to replace my old C1XF and it wasn't any faster which was hilarious but it does run a lot cooler and that old C1 was hot. Only thing that was a bummer is the moving clip bit that causes the screen to go off is broken off.
I learned last year that Transmeta x86 recompiler was based off licensed russian MCST or Baikal code (i dont remember which one) and that code still used today to power x86 translator of said processors. Updated ofcourse.
I always loved the UMPC/netbook form factor, took awhile for the tech to catch up but they were still neat. Loved my old N810, that thing had so much functionality.
2002 mini laptop and still has more IO than modern laptops. I know that's an old point but damn even this. Also that external better is pretty neat for typing
Anyone ever wondered why Sony had a crush with fonts that look like the Spiderman 3 logo? (Look at the keyboard, it's a different font, but same style)
I've never seen a laptop that small before! That thing looked tiny - certainly would have been useful though. And who can't forget XP - I still have an XP laptop lying around :)
The slow performance (other than being caused by the CPU being very slow and underpowered) is certainly due to the 1.8-inch hard drive. The 1.8-inch hard drives found in these laptops were actually the same ones used in Apple iPods back in the day before they switched to flash storage near the end of their mainstream life. They were never really intended to be used in a laptop or computer that constantly and frequently accesses the disk for reading and writing during use. Upgrading that to an SSD will definitely improve the performance when it comes to the boot up time and launching applications, although the CPU will remain a bottleneck for CPU-intensive applications regardless.
There is an updated sound driver for XP SP1 on the archives (og driver only worked on RTM XP) I uploaded, that should solve your issues with the sound driver
@@notsoseagatey the gaming controls are hardly any different than the joysticks seen here, and they function the same, too (you can use them for mouse and scrolling input). You can disable the touchscreen if you don't like it for whatever reason (genuinely curious why that is an issue given it's still nearly bezel-less and thin). I guess at the end of the day it's about 90% of the way there and it's going to be the closest you will likely ever get to a modern U1.
An intresting device. A little more power and it couls have been of some use. Also, Since you didn't mention it, i'll presume it doesn't have blutooth.
Love your videos! I wonder if you would give your opinion on which I should buy to replace my still ok 2010 15”MBP running Monterey via OCLP. An M1 MacBook Air or MBP? I value your thoughts and thanks in advance.
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I hope you enjoy this video. The next one will be about one of the BIGGEST laptops ever made... I hope you're ready for that one :)
Nah, its average
post luggable era?
Hasn't LTT featured a "Laptop" that made the old timey look comfy to sit on your lap?
The one with the detachable keyboard
Need more tiny things
Dell XPS M2010 incoming...
I guess the Predator 21x???
I work with Douglas and had the pleasure of having a look at this laptop when it first arrived. Certainly something unique!
4:29 the button there quite literally says "sutanbai" (standby). knowing how to read kana helps with dealing with japanese electronics in general - it's how they write foreign (mainly english) words with japanese characters.
Sometimes Google lens + translate also does a fine job
Was just about to comment this, but I knew someone else would have got it by now.
@@S己GI knew someone would’ve said it, but I just made one anyway. Partly so I could also ramble about the ようこそ Welcome screen lol
I do always find it amusing when transliterated English baffles tech reviewers.
My favourite instance is probably still a hifi guy saying they’re “all labelled in Japanese” on a radio/amplifier (IIRC) remote control, when literally all of it was transliterated English. Volume, channel, power, etc. All katakana. Usually at least a couple are in kanji, especially power, but not in this case!
I saw God a moment there when he says "Ka..WaA..iii!"
I still have my U3 in working condition. It's an amazing, albeit slow, piece of tech. The Japanese specifically used these tiny pc's on the road. While standing up in subways/metros made this device easy to handle with those mouse buttons and joystick + text input on that orange pad. The pc card slot could be used for wifi card or cellular. Picked the U3 up second hand in 2005 for about 650 euro. I used it primarily for parttime school, easy to pack for a weekend away. Also fun to play some games on. Did a ton of Settlers 2 on it. Mine came also with an external cd-rom drive.
Such a beautifully build little thing. Love it! Looking forward to future videos of this series!
It's adorable
That font on the keys with the blue and orange highlights on a blue/grey background is very much my jam!
This was the golden era of personal electronics. I absolutely loved everything Sony Clié, I went through a couple of UX50.. Also had the mobile phones, P900, p910i. Haven't had that same feeling since.
I really hope you used those Symbian phones to it's full potential.
Yeah, it's sad when they really nail a good vibe, but then move on to something else.
I got really into Apple products in the late 2000's, and loved the vibe they had going, but then 2013 came around and completely ruined it for me.
I still deeply resent Apple for firing Scott Forstall.
@@Michael-Archonaeus2017 MacBook 12in is the GOATop
Great to see you again. I need my Eucalyptus oil fix and you are the only provider 😂
This channel turning into ThisDoesNotCompute 😅
I'm here for it
A blend of TDNC and Garbage Time
And that’s great 😃
Not enough recapping and 3D printed screw mounts
But with more eucalyptus oil
That feeling when you advertise a keyboard brand I use myself and can confirm it's pretty good.
Hey! Just leaving a comment so the algorithm knows I want to see your content in the future. I've been subbed for a long time but your content rarely hits my front page! Thankfully today was different. Always charming to see your videos! Randomly while watching this, I got it in my head that your channel gives off LGR vibes for obvious reasons, but also I now have a head canon that you're LGR's nephew from Australia XD
Great work true legendary man never forgot ❤
My Vaio also has that start jingle, it's so adorable
PLEASE someone make a new machine in this style... it's adorable!
Amazing review Nathan, you nailed it again ;)
I had one , in Hong Kong around 2003. Vividly remember that I connected via Bluetooth (not sure it was optional or built in) to my Ericsson phone in the subway (MTR) and surfed the internet. I was feeling like looking into the future back then - and i certainly was , if we consider portable computers - mobile phone, are now the standard in subways in Hong Kong and around the world. Thanks for this review!
That is so cool. Thanks for sharing
@@lbnFadl welcome, glad you like it 👍🏻
1:51 that jingle is amazing
dear god the instagram meme calculator profile picture brainrot has spread
The jingle at 1:51 is usually present on Sony laptops. I don't know any manufacturer (besides Apple) that has such feature.
ASUS ROG
Lenovo B/G/Z laptops in the early 2010s have animated POST screen and jingles too
A long awaited video
The man is back! Hope everything is going fine in your house shift!
Man love your videos 😊, please don't make wait us for videos for eternity 😢
懐かしい。きれいな個体がまだあるなんて奇跡だ！
Ikr
this is absolutely stunning
I'm so glad you compared this to the ASUS Transformer, which I used with Windows 8 in middle school and immediately thought of when I saw this Sony XP mini laptop. Thank you for these videos! Subcribed.
Magic Gate was a DRM thingy from sony used on MemoryStick and the PS2 Memory Cards. It‘s not the flash format. There are MemorySticks and PS2 Memory Cards without MagicGate support.
It‘s to compete with the „Secure“ DRM part of SD Cards
This is probably the best tech channel to ever exist
It's been a while! Welcome back!😅
What a neat little pc! Funny how innovative tech was back then, and now now so much! they could learn a thing or two from old tech from back then!
Welcome back. Yep, that's a cute little device.
By the time this came out I already owned a Sony VAIO PCG-C1 picturebook, running Win 98 ME.
Still have it, and it still works
I have a old Sony Vaio that was my Mom's. It was a Windows XP computer but has the old Windows logo on the keyboard as well. It also makes the VAIO startup sound.
Had no idea this thing existed, very cool! All I remember is the Vaio P
That start-up jingle was really cool!
I used to own one! A few years back I donated it to the computer museum in Cambridge, UK. Btw, there are english drivers and software for it (including the jogdial software) ... if you want to put not-japanese windows on it.
Great work great channel❤
Even I didn't know this device existed back then! And I was obsessed with netbooks/mini laptops... Haha
I LOOOOOOOVE the external battery compartment. So much safer if something goes wrong with the battery.
Others wanted a Macbook, I wanted a Sony Vaio laptop. Unfortunately never got one. Still annoyed they sold Vaio.
My main travel notebooks is the GPD Win Max. It's big enough for me and now with VR headsets I don't even need anything that large, just a keyboard. I missed the netbook PCs, I always wanted one but never had the money. Something this small back then was underpowered but now something this size is just as good as a full sized notebook.
As someone who can read the Japanese syllabaries, but doesn’t have very much kanji under my belt (I’m at like a 3rd grade level) it will always amuse me when baffling Japanese buttons are actually labelled in transliterated English. That standby button is literally labelled “stan-bai”, just as the Start button in XP says “staato”.
However, at least the Welcome screen is an actual Japanese word - youkoso, which is more like how you’re welcomed to an office than welcomed back home. Which changes the tone for me, because I personally always viewed the Welcome screen as welcoming me back home. But for office use, _youkoso_ is certainly far more appropriate.
I very nearly bought one of these second-hand twenty years ago, but I ended up choosing a Vaio Picturebook instead. Imagine a widescreen version of the U1, with a much more usable keyboard. It still had the infamous Transmeta Crusoe processor, topping out at 867MHz in my model. I ran Windows 2000 on it, not XP, and I remember it running pretty smoothly actually. It was plenty powerful enough for web browsing, office applications, and watching DivX DVD rips on the go. Lots of fun!
gpd win 2 drew heavy inspirations from this.
I got more GPD win max vibes
this vaio fits the frutiger aero aesthetic perfectly
As always, another great entertaining video.
I want one so I can turn it into a beast of a gaming laptop, the only thing I would keep from the original is all of the external components
I absolute love VAIO computers
remember seeing that in the Sony magazine at the time
best for the reading books and wathinc movies and handy like a mini tab with keyboard
1:50 hmm, i like the jingle, im gonna set this as my startup sound for a old school computer from somewhere back in 2006 (i can see that cuz it has a windows xp sticker and a intel core 2 duo sticker) that i got (btw my school didn't need it anymore meaning they gave me permission to get it, welp i got 2 of them, the windows vista was really broken and barely even works sometimes but the windows xp one was working no problem)
I've always loved these tiny little laptops, these and the Toshiba Librettos are incredible (and I want them)
Wow, so Sony designers are working for GPD now? Look at the VAIO NX PC's vs the GPD Win3 and this U1 vs the GPD Win Max 2, I love it!
Yo! Was that a cucumber Joe pin? Are teasing a cold ones podcast appearance haha 😂
The vaio animation is so good
The year is 2002 and u go to class carrying this with u:
Windows 3D pinball was originally included with the Plus! 95 expansion pack for Windows 95. Pinball will run on any half-decent computer
Very neat little device, I did not know it even exists.
I am also into collecting old laptops, especially Sony Vaios. My gems are two PCG-C1 picture books, one with Pentium II 400MHz and one with a Transmeta Crusoe CPU as well.
I had an old Vaio that had an identical jingle on boot. I miss that thing. It was so cool. Fingerprint reader, big screen.
Vaio was always cool.
I picked up a U3 ages ago to replace my old C1XF and it wasn't any faster which was hilarious but it does run a lot cooler and that old C1 was hot. Only thing that was a bummer is the moving clip bit that causes the screen to go off is broken off.
No HDD upgrade? 😢
Yet another wonderfully entertaining and informative video, Nathan. Excellent work as always.
I learned last year that Transmeta x86 recompiler was based off licensed russian MCST or Baikal code (i dont remember which one) and that code still used today to power x86 translator of said processors. Updated ofcourse.
I always loved the UMPC/netbook form factor, took awhile for the tech to catch up but they were still neat. Loved my old N810, that thing had so much functionality.
2002 mini laptop and still has more IO than modern laptops. I know that's an old point but damn even this. Also that external better is pretty neat for typing
i was not ready for that "ka-wa-ii 😩💞"
Anyone ever wondered why Sony had a crush with fonts that look like the Spiderman 3 logo? (Look at the keyboard, it's a different font, but same style)
Nice one! Is the thing under the space bar also a mouse input like a mini touchpad.
It's a good day when I wake up and see a subnotebook video from the man himself!
rare footage of a newborn vaio
I want one too. Where'd you found it?
Is eucalyptus oil sponsored or you just love it ?
I also worked on one of these. Around the eeepc era
nice video
I've never seen a laptop that small before! That thing looked tiny - certainly would have been useful though. And who can't forget XP - I still have an XP laptop lying around :)
The slow performance (other than being caused by the CPU being very slow and underpowered) is certainly due to the 1.8-inch hard drive. The 1.8-inch hard drives found in these laptops were actually the same ones used in Apple iPods back in the day before they switched to flash storage near the end of their mainstream life. They were never really intended to be used in a laptop or computer that constantly and frequently accesses the disk for reading and writing during use. Upgrading that to an SSD will definitely improve the performance when it comes to the boot up time and launching applications, although the CPU will remain a bottleneck for CPU-intensive applications regardless.
This looks very similar to the first sony DVD player, the DVP-FX1
Very interesting device. Japanese guys made a lot of unusual things for their internal market.
I just want to see him dump a gallon of eucalyptus oil on the keyboard of a laptop 🤣
Good Video
There is an updated sound driver for XP SP1 on the archives (og driver only worked on RTM XP) I uploaded, that should solve your issues with the sound driver
Imagine Ayaneo making a homage to the PCG-U1!
Nice to see you again great work true legendary man never forgot ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ great technology
What watch are you wearing? I want one it looks so elegant 😊
Sounds like a fair deal. You can borrow it for the video and in turn clean it up 😎
If they re-released this with modern day specs then I will buy it.
See GPD Win Max 2
@@nickthaskater not really a fan of the gaming controls, and the touchscreen. would much prefer something like the PCG U1
@@notsoseagatey the gaming controls are hardly any different than the joysticks seen here, and they function the same, too (you can use them for mouse and scrolling input). You can disable the touchscreen if you don't like it for whatever reason (genuinely curious why that is an issue given it's still nearly bezel-less and thin).
I guess at the end of the day it's about 90% of the way there and it's going to be the closest you will likely ever get to a modern U1.
@@nickthaskater will consider that, thx
Yep, going to look up where and for how much to buy a GPD now. Keyboards are always a compromise for me, but screw it, I want a tiny laptop.
Wow never saw one of it before
You should review a Toshiba Qosmio X505, a brilliant 18.4" laptop from 2010.
An intresting device. A little more power and it couls have been of some use. Also, Since you didn't mention it, i'll presume it doesn't have blutooth.
Man of culture! tries Quake3Arena on it!
Love your videos! I wonder if you would give your opinion on which I should buy to replace my still ok 2010 15”MBP running Monterey via OCLP. An M1 MacBook Air or MBP? I value your thoughts and thanks in advance.
Where can I find the credits song? It’s great!
Do Micro laptops like this still exist with Windows 11?
It's not a Psivewri video without a dab of eucalyptus oil
YOO NEW VID
5 comments, 92 views and 2 of those comments are bots, well done youtube
also the new set is nice
I have a little e machine. Its ten in with 1 gig of memory and a 120 gig hard drive . I used for watching movies and corel draw .
You’re BAAACKKK
The hardware design language looks a lot the handycam one from the same era.
This Channel Turning into JanusCycle And ThisDoesNotCompute😂❤