I had one of these!! First laptop I ever owned, in 2009. It cost a lot of money but it was a bulletproof machine, kept working and working for over ten years. Still works, but I just don't use it much anymore. Sony got influenced by a bunch of accountants and they sold off Vaio, then stopped making a lot of electronics that they used to make. Too bad.
Im currently on an accounting degree. The drop or keep(a division)mentality is based on whether the result of the decision will result in a minus or plus in money, without considering the impact on market share(most of the time9. This mentality has been instilled since the 2nd semester Ironically, the key to counteract this is the concept of "economic" accouting, inserting oppurtunity cost and future analysis into the equation. Homever, this is only said briefly at microeconomics from the 1st semester English is not my first language, im sorry if this is not comprehensible
My local area has "repair cafe days" where volunteers from the community will repair devices for free for anyone who brings one in, it's all done on dedicated days and generally services older people with good but old hardware. Highly recommend anyone skilled sees if this is available in their area and volunteers (and if it isn't, maybe get a program like this started)
Hey man, I know this video is a few weeks old now but just wanna say love your work. I don’t have a lot to give, but I definitely hope to be able to donate again in the future. We need more technicians like you, and you’re so right about being able to repair devices. If I ever need an upgrade or fix, I’ll gladly pay shipping costs to send my PC your way. Truly the Greatest Technician that ever Lived :)
@@SalemTechsperts if he wouldn't had been such a spoiled sport he couldve finished 2nd and get a good points haul but no xD and Lando lost some respect for him
What he said around the end there is very deep. Especially coming from this man, who literally has a business REPAIRING computers and he's telling US to learn something on our own as much as we can about repair because HIS shop (computer repair in general) will be a thing of the past. One would argue he isn't supposed to tell us this as he is a business owner and has bills to pay, he should keep us hooked in. Respect man, we appreciate you!🙌🏻 You call yourself the "greatest technician that ever lived", normally people don't support self-titles like that but in this case you made the title hold respect in it✊🏻
Hey there, another computer technician here. Had similar problems being unable to find Sony's drivers for their godforsaken laptops, such as my old Vaio S from 2005, another weird 13" dockable NVIDIA ultrabook with a DVD drive from before ultrabooks existed. Finding a GeForce Go 7200 driver that works with the damn thing took hours, but I'm pretty sure that I found it through using a now-dead link and putting that into the Internet Archive. This may work for you, see if it does. It's appalling what Sony's done for supporting their old machines, given that Toshiba/DynaBook still carries drivers for machines from literally 30 years ago. Genuinely, Windows 98 drivers for the Toshiba 105CS. Still up on their site.
As someone who has never even owned a laptop, I really like your content and the fact you're pushing that boulder uphill by still doing actual repairs on stuff... keep up the good work and greetings from Croatia!
16:19 The driver is avaliable on the Internet Archive! It's the place to go for oldschool drivers and roaming through dead websites. The capture from 2014-06-21 works. Keep us posted!
I still use my old VAIO VPC. Replaced the original i3-370m with an i7-620m (no dedicated video card, so need the iGPU), 3 more Gb of RAM (6gb total), new wifi/bluetooth card and a proper SSD. Works like a charm even with is original battery but you can see the age there. Not giving up on it and hope it never dies.
Upgrading a socketed CPU on a laptop is a feeling that few young people will ever know. It was like turning your Toyota Corolla into a Toyota Supra. Interesting how these older batteries seemed to last forever vs the bloated nightmares we get after 3 years now
Still have a mint functional HP Dv7 4285dx with i5 460M and believe it or not, a discrete ATI 6370M. Those laptops used to choke themselves to death... xD Edit* I disassembled it and it was painful to do so without breaking anything. Good thing it runs 64 degrees cool now and I can upgrade the CPU. good stuff.👍
on your rant about the missing software needed for the gpu's true power, and as a computer science student, i remembered something very important: *internet archival is literally our key to survive in the future.* if you still got drivers or driver installers for old stuff, *you make sure to swear by your blood and soul you keep that safe and if possible, upload it somewhere that others can download too.* it mightn't mean anything to you, but such an act can literally be *_the_* grim reaper of someone else's old stuff - it may turn what once was usable or even capable hardware into future poison, or give it new life and even potentially propel that person's life back up that they can sustain themselves. as for myself as a comsci student, perhaps in addition to being an offensive security specialist i should also learn how to reverse engineer drivers for peoples' sake in addition to my dream of making games. much love, salem. i am with you on this eternal war for right to repair of technology. i wasn't alive during the time of the sony vaio, but i was when things were still built to last and had replacable batteries. may god bring upon his wrath on me if i fuck up my acer nitro v15-51.
This is actually why I try and make a point as a game dev to keep versions of my projects always available somewhere as well as having my own local copies, it's not the same obviously but software wise games are so infamous for shitty long term support/archival that it feels like I've had to train myself to specifically keep them considering how many industry professionals/companies have essentially no source code for many projects. Hopefully I can start braving repairing my own tech soon enough because having things like my PC die with no idea on how to fix it and no recourse with tech professionals getting priced and iced out is just really sad to see.
How do we upload old drivers to the internet? I've still got a couple of disc installers but I wouldn't know How to make that available to someone else (other than physically lending it to them, which I'm not going to do; I'll install it For them, but I'm not about to risk losing it either)
@@jimbob1862 Square Enix had to rebuild Kingdom Hearts 2 entirely from scratch for its remaster because they lost the source code. So yeah, it even happens to the big boys.
@@toastedphantom3007 Same with the original Silent Hill games yeah, it's why the HD Collection for them was so bad since the team had to basically reverse engineer actual PS2 discs alongside a half done dev build
4:41 That battery popping out makes me cry too. It was *so easy* back then. Some even let you hot-swap while connected to wall power if you carried around spares. Not even Framework is doing external batteries anymore, and while I'm sure there are very good engineering reasons for it, I still pine for the olden days.
@@SalemTechsperts old stuff Lenovo thinkpad X240, X250 and X260 also T series variant. this laptop is perfect balance of quality, performance and aesthetic. the laptop is pretty slim, it fast, doesn't love to overheat, pretty tough, have 2 damn battery. one of them is easily replaceable. i think that is one of the best laptop ever produced. i do have T440 back then. and i could confirm. that laptop is lit. one if the best ever produced.
Imagine an old style swappable battery combined with latest ultra efficient processors of today. I could buy like 10 spare batteries and I could spend a full month on summer vacation without worrying of having to find a power plug
@@SalemTechsperts whilst an internal and external battery is cool and handy sometimes, it sucks when the internal battery dies, because now the laptop has to be disassembled to replace it Oh well, at least the external one would've kept it going longer
You are so on point with the 'green' businesses. I'm an industrial designer with a love for tech and this is indeed one of the gripes I have with the industry, where the consumer comes last. Or at least their wallets come before their needs or wishes.
I have a VPC-F12Z1E from 2010, it has i7 740QM processor(1.73 to 2.93 MHz(TB), 8 GB DDR3 1333 Mhz Ram, NVidia GT330 dedicated graphics And it has a MFing Blu-Ray RW drive. I'm still amazed that it's alive and kicking. For office programs, netflix, IPTV and browsing, my dad is still using the hell out of it. And as a loyal Salem audience, I'm keeping its insides gooch-free.
Yep, I have a 17" version w the same specs. Cloned the drive to an ssd. It has standalone licenses of Adobe CS 5.5, Autodesk programs, etc. I'm keeping alive as a maker laptop to run 3d prints, vinyl cutter. Hoping it can digitize my old sony camcorder tapes too. We'll see.
They were priced way higher than MacBooks, assuming you were buying a reasonably specced MacBook and not maxing it out. You could get a good MacBook config for well under 2 grand.
As a self-styled PC builder (lol) who only buys upgrades rather than pre-built, it’s awesome to see your views on repairing computers rather than having silicon time bombs that only last 5 years if you’re lucky. As the owner of an Acer Nitro 5, I live each day in fear of my 6 cats and 2 large dogs turning my gaming laptop into a RUclips Short
As a computer signal technician I have stopped repairing pcs do to this reason it's hard to find parts, people want cheap rates or free, they don't care that it took 20 years to learn the craft to repair your computer, but so now I just build new desktops gaming pcs and I now have less stress and I make more money, so I do understand what your talking about. Your videos make me laugh In a good way lol. Keep up the great work and the videos cheers from Canada 🎉
I have a cheaper Vaio from 2012 that had some major issues throughout it's life. The battery died from one day to the next, the keyboard had stuck keys, and the backlight is partially broken. As such, it's not very useful for day-to-day use anymore. But the motherboard? It just refuses to die! For the last 2 years, I've had it working as a server, turned on 24/7, and the thing has been just absolutely rock solid! It currently has over 250 days of uptime with no sign of stopping soon.
@@rockraphlegal It reaches 70° under full load, under which it very rarely is, so it's not that bad all things considered. I do need to change it one of these days, but that would mean ruining it's current 290 day uptime
I worked in a Sony Style store from 2007 to 2009 on the weekend in college to get some extra pocket money It was a tech geek's dream come true. I had the PS3 to play with, along with the PSP. The TVs playing Blu-Ray blew your mind But the VAIO laptops, those were the creme de la creme. You were not selling based on the CPU and RAM and whatnot, you were selling a lifestyle and a dream with these laptops that looked so futuristic and out of this world.
Honestly watch the greatest technician that ever lived has kinda given me the confidence to not only try building a pc for gaming and 3d modeling but also wanting to learn more pc one reason Im currently taking a pc class at my college
As someone that saved my buddy hundreds of dollars by fixing his Vaio for him, I felt every ounce of your pain. I loved that Vaio, and after he got an upgrade I continued using that thing for years. Great video man, keep up the great work
My wife still has a VAIO from the same time period. We've kept it running for years with a SSD and some upgraded ram. Her's luckily was way easy to upgrade and change thermal paste
Opening these bad boys was an adventure. I literally took a magnetic pad and mapped out where all the screws were in a grid. There must have been like 18-20 just to open this thing up.
Glad I found your channel (our son went to Salem State). I wrote my first program in 1969 (so I've been around awhile). I used to build PCs as part of my job (old IBM PCs). I'm a firm believer in saving old PCs. We live in Florida in a senior citizens community (The Villages). Most of the residents here have old PCs running anything from Win 95 to Win 7. The thing is that they don't need Windows at all, so I converted a few of them to Linux Mint (Cinnamon). They don't have to worry about getting a virus (mostly) and it just works like Windows did. But the best thing is that I saved the old PCs from going into the land fill. Keep up the good (but hard) work!
on the other side, i have a 2008 sony vaio VGN-C1Z with a removable HDD (just loosen 2 screws and pull), expansion port , all types of connectors and it could even dock. due to almost no tracks on the web, it took me 30mins to realize i had to pull out the keyboard from the front. a challenging frustrating puzzle especially when there is no such thing as a service manual/dissasembly procedure/maintenance guide
It's actually crazy how old tech can live this long. Even if it can't run win 11 you could keep going with linux and it will last even longer! Using your advice, bought myself a used thinkpad and it is actually the best machine i had so thank you.
Seeing Vaio logo gives me shivers to this day. Though it is ironic how even though they meticulously crafted to be as dreadful to work on as humanly possible, they're still easier to upgrade than 99% of modern laptops.
I remember reading about this notebook when it first came out…it was one of the first (if not the first) notebook that had switchable graphics (that was before Nvidia Optimus was a thing), and in such a small form factor, it was a great deal at the time. The battery also lasted about 6 hours with the Intel GPU, something only netbooks could pull off. Great piece of tech.
This channel, as well as my hobby of repairing and upgrading old tech, made me come up with the idea to spend a week fixing and upgrading an old HP All in One PC. I upgraded the Ram from 8GB to 16GB and upgraded from a HDD to an SDD, while also replacing the thermal paste on the CPU. Now the computer runs like a dream. Funniest thing was that everyone told me to “throw it away” because they saw it as junk. They were shocked once I got it back working and even better than ever.
I wanna thank you for teaching people to repair their own machines. I've had a sony VAIO from 2006. YEs, 2006, 32 bit laptop, that I still use to this day. Rarely, but it's not dead. And it can play youtube/music. Tho it runs linux, hence I am able... To do anything really. b4 you ask: Xubuntu 18.06 LTS. I'll swap it to Adelie soon.
As a tech nerd who loves fixing electronics and extending the lifespan of these devices, I second your message. Thank you for giving these computers a second life, and for entertaining us in the process!
I have a Dell Rugged 5430, almost fully upgradable. Fast as hell, 11th gen i7. Built like a damn brick. But then again it’s a pro grade rugged workstation.
@@SalemTechsperts the one I bought was certified refurbished with 3 yr dell warranty. $1600 for the machine, and i bought 64gb DDR4 & a 2TB ssd. This thing is a f'ing beast. I work doing fire/ems so this thing does everything from gaming to using in the field for patient reports. I also have a WWAN modem in it, and pay $40 a month for unlimited data. It is the best computer I have ever owned, hands down.
I'll say I personally just love the aestethic of Rugged Laptops like Dell's Rugged Latitudes. Is it a lot heavier? Yes. But carrying around a beastly device like that, always felt like a much bigger flex to me than fancy LEDs or an extremely slim design.
@@cnfsdsoul I agree 100%… it turns heads like no other, and looks beautiful. I’m not a big fan of the toughbook design, but these Latitudes are gorgeous. I call it my BBC - Big Black Computer. But onboard TB4, USB 3.0, SD & SIM, HDMI full size, 3.5mm, & RS232 Serial port comes in super super clutch
it's weird how people believe so hard that old tech is completely obsolete that some people have a hard time believing when I say I can edit videos on my i3 4005U with no dedicated GPU (and of which had 4GB of RAM when I most used it for that, now having 8GB since the 4GB stick BURNT)
I can say that not every Vaio is like this. I still daily use a Vaio F series from 2010 (1st gen i7 etc). Servicing is a piece of cake. Every 2 years i clean it and replace the thermal paste. The machine is still strong with 8gb ram and of course an SSD.
Ouch to the Boeing reference man that’s a crazy situation right there weird when staff that speak out seem to start dying. Also love the long form not too long or short just right 👍
I have a VAIO UX series (the first sliding UMPC by VAIO). And boy, those DVD drivers they gave you is not a joke. Because as same as you, Sony discontinued the support 10 years ago. It took me a fortune hunting a working Japanese model with the DVD recovery discs and a pristine cradle dock. It took me 4 times buying a machine with the stock installation that has the drivers I needed. It cost me a new machine in total to find a working Japanese model with stock Windows XP. Some sellers don't know what the heck they were selling and can't be bothered with my nerd speak.
I had a Sony Vaio desktop PC. Was the first pc we got that was "mine" and not the family pc that everyone used. Lasted a good long while and was the one pc that first started doing upgrades/part swaps/etc that got me interested in building them and troubleshooting them. You were good soldier Vaio!
My mom is still using the Sony Vaio I bought in about 2012. It was around 1k. All I’ve ever had to do was give it a new HDD. Works great for Facebook, email and RUclips.
Dude... I'm myself a technician for more then 8 years , and i so feel you when i see your videos. The mental abuse you got from those jobs is indescribable, and no one can understand unless they been through it... Well I've just subscribed and only from the mutual feelings i got from watching that. For that sony laptop i can only say that you are one of the bravest technician i ever saw , to take that job is literally , emotional damage !!! Be strong my friend and continue to venture in the wasteland of this line of job ... From a fellow adventurer.
Ironically what gives you so much grievances with upgrading/repairing laptop parts today is the one what makes me search for videos like yours. There used to be a time when replacing a faulty keyboard or adding more RAM capacity was such a simple endeavor for me. But now, I have to watch laptop tutorial videos and ended up visit my local laptop repair shop anyway to do just that. Anyway I love your videos, both long and short formats. Much love from Indonesia.
I had a VAIO for many years (2014 model I think) It was immensely repairable, I even replaced the plastic shell and the keyboard after a nasty fall on concrete. Changed battery added SSD, changed wifi, memory and the plastic shells (gradually not all at once). Now my mother has it
I totally agree with everything you said about computers and their large user base. I currently have two laptops, and one of them is a 14-year-old Sony Vaio VPCF 13S0E. All drivers are fully functional, and all features are active. The best thing is that the motherboard is not double-layered like the version you repaired. Therefore, you just need to remove the bottom plastic plate for upgrade or maintenance. By the way, I installed an external Nvidia Quadro graphics card with the Express Card, and I can use the external GPU.
Holy hell I believe my teacher had this exact vaio model laptop and used it for 10 years+. The thing barely held on together with hope and prayer during her class because she didnt upgrade/replaced any component of the laptop. It gladly served her tho, even able to use projector with it.
I worked in computer repair when I was in college (computer network engineering - and hell no, as of 2024 I do not work in IT. Never again.). I was there in 2004-2008, fixing those Vaios. And when I say, "fixing," I mean, handing them back to the customer, laughing, and telling them to contact Sony. We used what Vaios we couldn't get rid of to keep warm in the winter. Those little shits produced a LOT of heat.
Look out, microsoft is probably force uploading your files to their servers if you run windows 11 unless you hacked it to not require a microsoft account by forcing one drive backup on without your conset by slipping a roofie in your drink then asking if you would like to turn on one drive backup and shaking your head yes while you're asleep.
ThinkPad E585 here. I bought it used and abused with no screws, about 6 months ago, and it's still kicking. I can see it still being usable years from now.
Man I love the heart to heart moment. Can't wait for framework to take off. Even though I repair stuff at age 14. You earned the title "the greatest technician that ever lived." You are awesome!
wow... this video is so relatable... watching this process and your frustrated mumbling and grumbling reminds me of both myself and my mom who both do the same thing when working on tech lol
Seriously love and found you from your shorts, but we definitely need more of these longer videos. It’s awesome bringing some serious points in the middle of all the jokes, really enjoying this!
Bro because of your video of helping your friend from north korea by "upgrading" his laptop I was able to fix my laptop as it's the same model,you are right knowledge is free on internet, thanks for the help through these videos, always enjoyed your content
Dear Sir, I watched this from a laptop which my father bought in 2013 and I upgraded it in 2023. And I am from India where Computer Technician are very rare and ask a lot of money for any repair. I liked this video TO Greatest Technician who ever Lived
Commenting at the beginning of the video, but I remember these laptops vividly. A couple friends of mine had them, and they loved theirs. One friend got hers as a hand-me-down from her mom after her mom's office cycled them out (only 2 years of service, and she got her hands on a barely-used one!). All my friends who had these managed to keep them alive through high school and college. Wonder of any of those friends still have these still lying around...
I'm already having this problem with my washing machine-- they designed it in such a way that you can no longer do repairs, but now need a whole new machine. It's actually insane to me
Damn I wanted one of these Sony Vaios a long time ago. They had such nice specs for how compact they were. Discrete graphics, all those ports, a DVD drive, all in this tiny package was so cool
I would have been tempted to put Windows 11 on that laptop. You can use a program called Rufus USB to create the Windows 11 installation media for a USB Drive, and not only will it give you the option to bring back the "I don't have Internet" button, allowing you to make a Local Account, you can also tell it to ignore the TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot requirements, in addition to being able to install it on systems with only a BIOS and not a UEFI. I've done this on several older systems that can accept an SSD and at least 8GB of RAM, and honestly, Windows 11 has run fine on them. I recently did this on an HP Compaq Elite 8000 that had a Core2Duo, and the only thing I had to do to Windows was turn off all the animations and transparency, as the older graphics chipset didn't like that, but otherwise, that computer was still perfectly usable.
I agree with you in the video about even old machines still have life and the new ones are more e-waste cause most of the stuff is soldered the the board and not replaceable. Seeing that the owner of the Vaio still wants to use that for a 16 year old machine makes me happy as a computer geek myself I have a zBook Fury G9 that I got from eBay and it was really beaten up. It looked like someone took it and bent it over their leg, punctured the back of the screen. Punctured a flat-head screwdriver from the bottom that the keyboard / Palm rest had a big dent on top, and the piece of the motherboard broke right at the part that the RJ45 port was. I took the laptop, and rebuilt it from ground up. I paid 450 for the laptop and with all the parts included, it cost me a total of 900 (Laptop and parts all together) to get it back to normal. It boots up fine, upgraded the screen from the original 400 nits to 1000 nits, put 16 GB of RAM, new battery (Since the other one is doing the safety lock down mode), added a 250 GB NVMe, and it's running fantastic. It also has a NVIDIA RTX A1000 card in it and that isn't damaged at all. I also replace the bottom door, and bottom frame cause there was no door and the frame was cracked in two spots, the speakers, and and the touchpad/trackpad. I'm so happy that it is alive from the abuse it went through. The notebook still has warranty but the abuse it went through wasn't to let me get the replacement parts for it. I paid for all of the parts and the laptop has a new life and running. Cheapest zBook Fury G9 I got. It has a I7 12850HX CPU in it too. These were normally 5000 to 10000 (Depending on specs) and bringing it back to life and has a chance to do more again makes me happy. I've done other zBooks (G1 to G7), Dell Latitudes, Precisions, Alienwares (Core 2 Models) and Macs and all running great.
Pretty cool story you got there, and btw I'm just glad to see another ZBook user here lol. They're underrated machines long as you can look past the HP hinge meme
@@Kazz7420 Thanks. I have 8 gens of them and each of them have their quirks but they each do great. I like using the G6 the most due to the sound of the speakers and the RTX3000 card it has now. The G6 one of mine was damaged on the one corner and I fix the screen and bottom frame and door but kept the palm rest part the same so I know which one is the G6. I was thinking of making a video on the G9 and show the pictures of what it went through and what it looks like now.
Not to sound like one of THOSE guys but my 2010 Vaio is still completely supported hardware wise on linux. Depending on the distro getting the nVidia drivers working might be a hassle, but for any use other than gaming the opensource driver branch works A-OK. I have a modern desktop but this has been my only laptop since 2010 and still more than does everything I need.
I bought a truly wrecked 13" version of this same laptop for $1 off CL back in 2015 with the intention of learning how to fix laptops. I mostly learned to hate ribbon cables, which turned out to be why that marred turd wouldn't boot initially. Half of it's remaining zombified life was spent as both a media server and hard drive wiper, otherwise it was being crushed in storage until I finally threw it away 2 months ago. Still worked the same, absolute unit!
i'm using a 13-year old dell as my main and a 13-year old thinkpad as my travel laptop. the thinkpad genuinely works like a new laptop if you have linux installed on it. greetings from Lithuania and thanks for making this vid! edit: spelling
Currently in the process of servicing and upgrading my Sony Vaio that I've owned since 2010. It's such a great little laptop, Windows 7 offline and Office 2010.
In my time as a technician have 4+ opportunities to upgrade laptops with socketed CPU, I enjoy it, really, the engineering behind this laptops are amazing, now we have laptops with ALL soldered to the motherboards, ready to damage it with the minimal error, and ready to dispose directly to the trash, because the repairing could be more expensive than buy a new laptop, and those make me think that the brands are a liars when speaks of “ecologically responsible” 😢
100% agree! I buy mid powered client device for myself and do heavy work on server, for exactly that reason - client devices have been good enough since about '08 (if you upgrade it with SSD).
I also have Sony VAIO VGN-NS with t6400, ssd 240gb (i am not that much sure about it, maybe its still OG HDD), 4gb ram and ati 3430 that is working to this day. I made few thing like change thermalpaste, clean interior and add SSD with instalation of windows 10 64bit to run it better than oryginally VISTA without updates. I was 18 as I've done it and it was great idea, bc this helped me to be more brave to do things like this on old hardware. And I am 22 now with skills to repair and upgrade few things here and there. Now this laptop after ~15 years is still in my family and is still used. Greeting from Poland, hope u see this comment to know that i confirm how VAIO series is pretty dope (i played Among Us with Discord on it) and long-living
Hey now. I love Sony Vaios. I still have one I use daily. I will agree it's not the easiest to work on. I just upgraded it to a 2TB SSD and it's better than ever. It started life with Win7, upgraded to Win10 and with this last upgrade it's now Ubuntu 22.04. Totally on board with your repair philosophy.
I miss my white and blue Sony Vaio E series. Year of death: 2019 Ran beautifully until the motherboard gave out and could no longer boot. That dvd drive was one of the things I loved the most about it. Rip Elsa
I still have a Acer gaming laptop from 2011 or something with a first gen core i5. Still works fine. Battery is nearly dead (about 20mins with a full charge) but I don't really need that. Built a gaming pc in 2022 and recently bought a new laptop for travelling/university. I was thinking about framework 14 but bought a hp elitebook (i7 7840U, 16GB DDR5, 1TB Samsung NVMe) which was available for 950€ with university discount. At least HP offers good documentation, five years guaranteed replacement parts and ram and ssd are replaceable. The offerings get really scarce if you select non-soldered ram.
I even have an old Dell Precision T3500 with a Xeon x5670, 16 GB of RAM, NVIDIA RTX 3060, and a 800W PSU I put into it and it can play games and still do everything I need without issues. It came out in 2009 and still rocking with tasks and AAA games.
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Does this Sony support 64bit os. My application needs 64bit. Pls check
@@univera1111 why mister? cuz my liddel systr !?
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@@univera1111 at 11:22 he says this is a 64 bit cpu so yeah it can
I too had a sony vaio E series I5 1st gen. Ungraded it to 8gb ddr3 and ssd. It's now working fine with fans louder than a V10 Audi
Anything from pine 64 will last forever because being open source and consumer custom manufacturing exists
I had one of these!! First laptop I ever owned, in 2009. It cost a lot of money but it was a bulletproof machine, kept working and working for over ten years. Still works, but I just don't use it much anymore. Sony got influenced by a bunch of accountants and they sold off Vaio, then stopped making a lot of electronics that they used to make. Too bad.
The accountants believed Sony's exceptional build quality had no place in modern business. They did the same with Toshiba. Enshitification
@@SalemTechspertsoh yeah I remember Toshiba
Im currently on an accounting degree. The drop or keep(a division)mentality is based on whether the result of the decision will result in a minus or plus in money, without considering the impact on market share(most of the time9. This mentality has been instilled since the 2nd semester
Ironically, the key to counteract this is the concept of "economic" accouting, inserting oppurtunity cost and future analysis into the equation. Homever, this is only said briefly at microeconomics from the 1st semester
English is not my first language, im sorry if this is not comprehensible
When are you sending it in for an upgrade?😂
Holyship I think I still have one of these, also one of the "last" Sony Z series ultrabook that come with a GPU docking.
My local area has "repair cafe days" where volunteers from the community will repair devices for free for anyone who brings one in, it's all done on dedicated days and generally services older people with good but old hardware. Highly recommend anyone skilled sees if this is available in their area and volunteers (and if it isn't, maybe get a program like this started)
I would love to dedicate a day to one of these repair cafe's. We have a few in Boston
That's sweet. I have a few old iMacs from 2011 that would be fun to try to fix up. All are functional except one.
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*THE MOST WHOLESOME TECHNICIAN THAT’S EVER LIVED*
the most technician technician that ever lived
Truly!
Glad our boy can prioritize his happiness.
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Immediately followed by "I need to save energy for tonight´s date with your mom" 💀
Hey man, I know this video is a few weeks old now but just wanna say love your work. I don’t have a lot to give, but I definitely hope to be able to donate again in the future. We need more technicians like you, and you’re so right about being able to repair devices.
If I ever need an upgrade or fix, I’ll gladly pay shipping costs to send my PC your way.
Truly the Greatest Technician that ever Lived :)
Dude you don't have to donate a dime to me, just you watching my content is enough! I appreciate you so much, seriously, thank you!
Mercedes won, and a new, epic long format video? This is the greatest Sunday that ever lived.
Finally Max Verstappen win't
Max doing Max things to anyone who gets close to him
I Like his long Form vids
@@SalemTechsperts if he wouldn't had been such a spoiled sport he couldve finished 2nd and get a good points haul but no xD and Lando lost some respect for him
@@andress.h3024 he's probably lost 3 times already if I'm not wrong?
What he said around the end there is very deep. Especially coming from this man, who literally has a business REPAIRING computers and he's telling US to learn something on our own as much as we can about repair because HIS shop (computer repair in general) will be a thing of the past. One would argue he isn't supposed to tell us this as he is a business owner and has bills to pay, he should keep us hooked in. Respect man, we appreciate you!🙌🏻
You call yourself the "greatest technician that ever lived", normally people don't support self-titles like that but in this case you made the title hold respect in it✊🏻
I really hope framework succeeds in what they’re doing with environmentally friendly materials and repairability and upgradeability in mind
Same, we're all fucked if they fail
I highly recommend the 16!
Me too, mines been awesome@@JordanKeller
Same here it's why I own one
@@simonupton-millard I wish they were a little bit cheaper but I understand that they are a small company and the prices are needed for them.
Hey there, another computer technician here. Had similar problems being unable to find Sony's drivers for their godforsaken laptops, such as my old Vaio S from 2005, another weird 13" dockable NVIDIA ultrabook with a DVD drive from before ultrabooks existed. Finding a GeForce Go 7200 driver that works with the damn thing took hours, but I'm pretty sure that I found it through using a now-dead link and putting that into the Internet Archive. This may work for you, see if it does. It's appalling what Sony's done for supporting their old machines, given that Toshiba/DynaBook still carries drivers for machines from literally 30 years ago. Genuinely, Windows 98 drivers for the Toshiba 105CS. Still up on their site.
as an enthusiast, the Internet Archive is a godsend sometimes when putting now dead links into it
As someone who has never even owned a laptop, I really like your content and the fact you're pushing that boulder uphill by still doing actual repairs on stuff... keep up the good work and greetings from Croatia!
Thank you so much. Much love to Croatia, the home of Croteam and Serious Sam!
16:19
The driver is avaliable on the Internet Archive! It's the place to go for oldschool drivers and roaming through dead websites. The capture from 2014-06-21 works. Keep us posted!
I still use my old VAIO VPC. Replaced the original i3-370m with an i7-620m (no dedicated video card, so need the iGPU), 3 more Gb of RAM (6gb total), new wifi/bluetooth card and a proper SSD. Works like a charm even with is original battery but you can see the age there. Not giving up on it and hope it never dies.
Upgrading a socketed CPU on a laptop is a feeling that few young people will ever know. It was like turning your Toyota Corolla into a Toyota Supra. Interesting how these older batteries seemed to last forever vs the bloated nightmares we get after 3 years now
@SalemTechsperts The battery on my vpc actually died within a year.
Still have a mint functional HP Dv7 4285dx with i5 460M and believe it or not, a discrete ATI 6370M. Those laptops used to choke themselves to death... xD
Edit* I disassembled it and it was painful to do so without breaking anything. Good thing it runs 64 degrees cool now and I can upgrade the CPU. good stuff.👍
on your rant about the missing software needed for the gpu's true power, and as a computer science student, i remembered something very important: *internet archival is literally our key to survive in the future.*
if you still got drivers or driver installers for old stuff, *you make sure to swear by your blood and soul you keep that safe and if possible, upload it somewhere that others can download too.* it mightn't mean anything to you, but such an act can literally be *_the_* grim reaper of someone else's old stuff - it may turn what once was usable or even capable hardware into future poison, or give it new life and even potentially propel that person's life back up that they can sustain themselves.
as for myself as a comsci student, perhaps in addition to being an offensive security specialist i should also learn how to reverse engineer drivers for peoples' sake in addition to my dream of making games.
much love, salem. i am with you on this eternal war for right to repair of technology. i wasn't alive during the time of the sony vaio, but i was when things were still built to last and had replacable batteries. may god bring upon his wrath on me if i fuck up my acer nitro v15-51.
This is actually why I try and make a point as a game dev to keep versions of my projects always available somewhere as well as having my own local copies, it's not the same obviously but software wise games are so infamous for shitty long term support/archival that it feels like I've had to train myself to specifically keep them considering how many industry professionals/companies have essentially no source code for many projects.
Hopefully I can start braving repairing my own tech soon enough because having things like my PC die with no idea on how to fix it and no recourse with tech professionals getting priced and iced out is just really sad to see.
How do we upload old drivers to the internet? I've still got a couple of disc installers but I wouldn't know How to make that available to someone else (other than physically lending it to them, which I'm not going to do; I'll install it For them, but I'm not about to risk losing it either)
@@LittleWiccan You can make them into iso disc images, I recommend cd burner xp. Then upload the iso to the internet archive.
@@jimbob1862 Square Enix had to rebuild Kingdom Hearts 2 entirely from scratch for its remaster because they lost the source code.
So yeah, it even happens to the big boys.
@@toastedphantom3007 Same with the original Silent Hill games yeah, it's why the HD Collection for them was so bad since the team had to basically reverse engineer actual PS2 discs alongside a half done dev build
4:41 That battery popping out makes me cry too. It was *so easy* back then. Some even let you hot-swap while connected to wall power if you carried around spares.
Not even Framework is doing external batteries anymore, and while I'm sure there are very good engineering reasons for it, I still pine for the olden days.
Lenovo took it up a notch and gave you 2 batteries, 1 removeable and 1 internal. Smart move
@@SalemTechsperts
old stuff Lenovo thinkpad
X240, X250 and X260
also T series variant.
this laptop is perfect balance of quality, performance and aesthetic.
the laptop is pretty slim, it fast, doesn't love to overheat, pretty tough, have 2 damn battery. one of them is easily replaceable.
i think that is one of the best laptop ever produced.
i do have T440 back then.
and i could confirm. that laptop is lit.
one if the best ever produced.
Imagine an old style swappable battery combined with latest ultra efficient processors of today.
I could buy like 10 spare batteries and I could spend a full month on summer vacation without worrying of having to find a power plug
@@SalemTechsperts😭 I miss Powerbridge, that shit was insane
@@SalemTechsperts whilst an internal and external battery is cool and handy sometimes, it sucks when the internal battery dies, because now the laptop has to be disassembled to replace it
Oh well, at least the external one would've kept it going longer
You are so on point with the 'green' businesses. I'm an industrial designer with a love for tech and this is indeed one of the gripes I have with the industry, where the consumer comes last. Or at least their wallets come before their needs or wishes.
Spot on with the "green" thing. Couldn't agree more.
please keep doing these, we all enjoy this more than forcing repairs and content you don't feel like doing!
Thank you! I wish the algorithm felt the same way
Sony Viaos were such innovative laptops.
They were gorgeous, expensive and impossible to repair. They were Apple's wet dream.
Yeah, they weren't good laptops but they were pretty and had innovative features.
They definitely pushed the limits, but so did their price!
Everything before 2010 was innovative
Your humor is what makes me anticipate your videos so much! Keep it up bro!
Thank you for watching!
I have a VPC-F12Z1E from 2010, it has i7 740QM processor(1.73 to 2.93 MHz(TB), 8 GB DDR3 1333 Mhz Ram, NVidia GT330 dedicated graphics
And it has a MFing Blu-Ray RW drive.
I'm still amazed that it's alive and kicking. For office programs, netflix, IPTV and browsing, my dad is still using the hell out of it.
And as a loyal Salem audience, I'm keeping its insides gooch-free.
Yep, I have a 17" version w the same specs. Cloned the drive to an ssd. It has standalone licenses of Adobe CS 5.5, Autodesk programs, etc. I'm keeping alive as a maker laptop to run 3d prints, vinyl cutter. Hoping it can digitize my old sony camcorder tapes too. We'll see.
There used to be a Sony store near me growing up, I would always stare at the old vaio laptops, thinking they were macbooks lmao
They were priced like MacBook's
Vaios are so pretty and awesome especially in 2010
They were priced way higher than MacBooks, assuming you were buying a reasonably specced MacBook and not maxing it out. You could get a good MacBook config for well under 2 grand.
As a self-styled PC builder (lol) who only buys upgrades rather than pre-built, it’s awesome to see your views on repairing computers rather than having silicon time bombs that only last 5 years if you’re lucky.
As the owner of an Acer Nitro 5, I live each day in fear of my 6 cats and 2 large dogs turning my gaming laptop into a RUclips Short
As a computer signal technician I have stopped repairing pcs do to this reason it's hard to find parts, people want cheap rates or free, they don't care that it took 20 years to learn the craft to repair your computer, but so now I just build new desktops gaming pcs and I now have less stress and I make more money, so I do understand what your talking about. Your videos make me laugh In a good way lol. Keep up the great work and the videos cheers from Canada 🎉
I'm glad you found a way to still be able to follow your passion and make a living. Consumers are being pushed to the edge and so are we.
Brother if you're only in my country i would like you to repair my stupidly slow 5 yrs old laptop
I have a cheaper Vaio from 2012 that had some major issues throughout it's life. The battery died from one day to the next, the keyboard had stuck keys, and the backlight is partially broken. As such, it's not very useful for day-to-day use anymore. But the motherboard? It just refuses to die! For the last 2 years, I've had it working as a server, turned on 24/7, and the thing has been just absolutely rock solid! It currently has over 250 days of uptime with no sign of stopping soon.
The thermal paste on that CPU has heard no bell.
@@rockraphlegal It reaches 70° under full load, under which it very rarely is, so it's not that bad all things considered. I do need to change it one of these days, but that would mean ruining it's current 290 day uptime
@@redpheonix1000 Bet that *_THE GREATEST TECHNICIAN THATS EVER LIVED_* could change that with the laptop running
18:25 The greatest "reincarnated and turned into a bottle" that's ever lived.
I am now filled with Tequila
@@SalemTechsperts Gooch Edition or just boring plain tequila?
I breathe Gooch, not drink it 😮💨
@@SalemTechsperts The Greatest Gooch That ever Breathed
@@SalemTechspertsI mean, you are what you drink.
I worked in a Sony Style store from 2007 to 2009 on the weekend in college to get some extra pocket money
It was a tech geek's dream come true. I had the PS3 to play with, along with the PSP. The TVs playing Blu-Ray blew your mind
But the VAIO laptops, those were the creme de la creme. You were not selling based on the CPU and RAM and whatnot, you were selling a lifestyle and a dream with these laptops that looked so futuristic and out of this world.
Honestly watch the greatest technician that ever lived has kinda given me the confidence to not only try building a pc for gaming and 3d modeling but also wanting to learn more pc one reason Im currently taking a pc class at my college
Follow your passion!
As someone that saved my buddy hundreds of dollars by fixing his Vaio for him, I felt every ounce of your pain. I loved that Vaio, and after he got an upgrade I continued using that thing for years. Great video man, keep up the great work
So happy for Lupe making it to the next level and being reborn as “The Greatest Lover your wife has ever had”
Really hyped to see you making longform stuff, you've got the on-camera skills for it. Congrats on the sponsor too! ^^
6:40 The greatest technician that’s ever respawned
My wife still has a VAIO from the same time period. We've kept it running for years with a SSD and some upgraded ram. Her's luckily was way easy to upgrade and change thermal paste
Opening these bad boys was an adventure. I literally took a magnetic pad and mapped out where all the screws were in a grid. There must have been like 18-20 just to open this thing up.
Glad I found your channel (our son went to Salem State). I wrote my first program in 1969 (so I've been around awhile). I used to build PCs as part of my job (old IBM PCs). I'm a firm believer in saving old PCs. We live in Florida in a senior citizens community (The Villages). Most of the residents here have old PCs running anything from Win 95 to Win 7. The thing is that they don't need Windows at all, so I converted a few of them to Linux Mint (Cinnamon). They don't have to worry about getting a virus (mostly) and it just works like Windows did. But the best thing is that I saved the old PCs from going into the land fill. Keep up the good (but hard) work!
ahhh..Viagra and Linux. Keeps 'em running like the energizer bunny!
on the other side, i have a 2008 sony vaio VGN-C1Z with a removable HDD (just loosen 2 screws and pull), expansion port , all types of connectors and it could even dock. due to almost no tracks on the web, it took me 30mins to realize i had to pull out the keyboard from the front. a challenging frustrating puzzle especially when there is no such thing as a service manual/dissasembly procedure/maintenance guide
I remember that model, it also stumped me back in the day
It's actually crazy how old tech can live this long. Even if it can't run win 11 you could keep going with linux and it will last even longer!
Using your advice, bought myself a used thinkpad and it is actually the best machine i had so thank you.
Seeing Vaio logo gives me shivers to this day.
Though it is ironic how even though they meticulously crafted to be as dreadful to work on as humanly possible, they're still easier to upgrade than 99% of modern laptops.
I remember reading about this notebook when it first came out…it was one of the first (if not the first) notebook that had switchable graphics (that was before Nvidia Optimus was a thing), and in such a small form factor, it was a great deal at the time. The battery also lasted about 6 hours with the Intel GPU, something only netbooks could pull off. Great piece of tech.
18:18 THE "SPINE" STICKING OUT (this is killing me rn)
I workout, what can I say?
"sorry, wrong spine"
This channel, as well as my hobby of repairing and upgrading old tech, made me come up with the idea to spend a week fixing and upgrading an old HP All in One PC. I upgraded the Ram from 8GB to 16GB and upgraded from a HDD to an SDD, while also replacing the thermal paste on the CPU. Now the computer runs like a dream. Funniest thing was that everyone told me to “throw it away” because they saw it as junk. They were shocked once I got it back working and even better than ever.
I wanna thank you for teaching people to repair their own machines. I've had a sony VAIO from 2006. YEs, 2006, 32 bit laptop, that I still use to this day. Rarely, but it's not dead.
And it can play youtube/music. Tho it runs linux, hence I am able... To do anything really.
b4 you ask: Xubuntu 18.06 LTS. I'll swap it to Adelie soon.
As a tech nerd who loves fixing electronics and extending the lifespan of these devices, I second your message. Thank you for giving these computers a second life, and for entertaining us in the process!
I have a Dell Rugged 5430, almost fully upgradable. Fast as hell, 11th gen i7. Built like a damn brick. But then again it’s a pro grade rugged workstation.
These are the best to buy used. You get so much for so cheap
@@SalemTechsperts the one I bought was certified refurbished with 3 yr dell warranty. $1600 for the machine, and i bought 64gb DDR4 & a 2TB ssd. This thing is a f'ing beast. I work doing fire/ems so this thing does everything from gaming to using in the field for patient reports. I also have a WWAN modem in it, and pay $40 a month for unlimited data. It is the best computer I have ever owned, hands down.
I'll say I personally just love the aestethic of Rugged Laptops like Dell's Rugged Latitudes. Is it a lot heavier? Yes. But carrying around a beastly device like that, always felt like a much bigger flex to me than fancy LEDs or an extremely slim design.
@@cnfsdsoul I agree 100%… it turns heads like no other, and looks beautiful. I’m not a big fan of the toughbook design, but these Latitudes are gorgeous. I call it my BBC - Big Black Computer.
But onboard TB4, USB 3.0, SD & SIM, HDMI full size, 3.5mm, & RS232 Serial port comes in super super clutch
it's weird how people believe so hard that old tech is completely obsolete that some people have a hard time believing when I say I can edit videos on my i3 4005U with no dedicated GPU (and of which had 4GB of RAM when I most used it for that, now having 8GB since the 4GB stick BURNT)
G’day, from Australia mate, your videos always give me the boost I need. You sir are a legend. Thank you
my tongue work is legendary, kennith.
would you like a strobe?
I can say that not every Vaio is like this. I still daily use a Vaio F series from 2010 (1st gen i7 etc). Servicing is a piece of cake. Every 2 years i clean it and replace the thermal paste. The machine is still strong with 8gb ram and of course an SSD.
Ouch to the Boeing reference man that’s a crazy situation right there weird when staff that speak out seem to start dying.
Also love the long form not too long or short just right 👍
I have a VAIO UX series (the first sliding UMPC by VAIO). And boy, those DVD drivers they gave you is not a joke. Because as same as you, Sony discontinued the support 10 years ago. It took me a fortune hunting a working Japanese model with the DVD recovery discs and a pristine cradle dock. It took me 4 times buying a machine with the stock installation that has the drivers I needed. It cost me a new machine in total to find a working Japanese model with stock Windows XP. Some sellers don't know what the heck they were selling and can't be bothered with my nerd speak.
bruh the link at 0:17 is real ☠️☠️☠️
Bro why'd you try it 💀
Lmao
The sarcasm of this dude is just perfect, instead of a boring video showing a repair, this videos shows a repair and their funny
15:09 if we couldn't learn it from ❤❤the greatest technician that's ever lived❤❤ who else are we going to be able to learn from
I had a Sony Vaio desktop PC. Was the first pc we got that was "mine" and not the family pc that everyone used.
Lasted a good long while and was the one pc that first started doing upgrades/part swaps/etc that got me interested in building them and troubleshooting them.
You were good soldier Vaio!
0:50 The swiftiest technician that's ever lived 😂
😂
Was searching for that comment. It's great to find another swifteyyyyy
@@MrAmin7000 🤜🤛
My mom is still using the Sony Vaio I bought in about 2012. It was around 1k. All I’ve ever had to do was give it a new HDD. Works great for Facebook, email and RUclips.
Not gonna lie, 19 seconds to boot was impressive AF for this machine.
Also, I absolutely lost with the dc connector 😭
Dude... I'm myself a technician for more then 8 years , and i so feel you when i see your videos.
The mental abuse you got from those jobs is indescribable, and no one can understand unless they been through it... Well I've just subscribed and only from the mutual feelings i got from watching that.
For that sony laptop i can only say that you are one of the bravest technician i ever saw , to take that job is literally , emotional damage !!!
Be strong my friend and continue to venture in the wasteland of this line of job ...
From a fellow adventurer.
Please never stop making videos or speaking truth
Ironically what gives you so much grievances with upgrading/repairing laptop parts today is the one what makes me search for videos like yours. There used to be a time when replacing a faulty keyboard or adding more RAM capacity was such a simple endeavor for me. But now, I have to watch laptop tutorial videos and ended up visit my local laptop repair shop anyway to do just that.
Anyway I love your videos, both long and short formats. Much love from Indonesia.
Greetings from Germany 😊
Keep up the good work, the greatest technician that ever lived
I drive a Mercedes so we're basically brothers
I drive a Mercedes too, but an old 2001 Model C180 Coupe. I'm a turk and i live in Germany. Love your videos 😊
I had a VAIO for many years (2014 model I think) It was immensely repairable, I even replaced the plastic shell and the keyboard after a nasty fall on concrete. Changed battery added SSD, changed wifi, memory and the plastic shells (gradually not all at once). Now my mother has it
I totally agree with everything you said about computers and their large user base. I currently have two laptops, and one of them is a 14-year-old Sony Vaio VPCF 13S0E. All drivers are fully functional, and all features are active. The best thing is that the motherboard is not double-layered like the version you repaired. Therefore, you just need to remove the bottom plastic plate for upgrade or maintenance. By the way, I installed an external Nvidia Quadro graphics card with the Express Card, and I can use the external GPU.
That is so insanely cool, thanks for sharing that!
Holy hell I believe my teacher had this exact vaio model laptop and used it for 10 years+. The thing barely held on together with hope and prayer during her class because she didnt upgrade/replaced any component of the laptop. It gladly served her tho, even able to use projector with it.
I worked in computer repair when I was in college (computer network engineering - and hell no, as of 2024 I do not work in IT. Never again.). I was there in 2004-2008, fixing those Vaios. And when I say, "fixing," I mean, handing them back to the customer, laughing, and telling them to contact Sony. We used what Vaios we couldn't get rid of to keep warm in the winter. Those little shits produced a LOT of heat.
Hah. People seem to forget just how spicy those older laptops got. 2008-2012 was prime time when it came to heating your office with your laptop
“The heatsink was attached on both sides” The greatest technician that’s ever lived said calmly.
Agree, I still use an HP G42 from 2010. Upgraded SSD and topped the ram to 8GB. Still going strong. BTW, it is running Windows 11.
Wow, I'm surprised the left trackpad button hasn't collapsed on itself and the hinge hasn't broken off. Oh and the overheating lol
@@SalemTechsperts taking good care of it and doing the proper maintenance. 🤙🏼
Look out, microsoft is probably force uploading your files to their servers if you run windows 11 unless you hacked it to not require a microsoft account by forcing one drive backup on without your conset by slipping a roofie in your drink then asking if you would like to turn on one drive backup and shaking your head yes while you're asleep.
@@user-lh3uz1cp7y they won't give me the TBs I need
ThinkPad E585 here. I bought it used and abused with no screws, about 6 months ago, and it's still kicking. I can see it still being usable years from now.
I do remember when Sony made laptops. I still own one that's been sitting in a drawer for the last 10 years.
fix it! Or mail it to me so I can steal it and make a video on it
Man I love the heart to heart moment. Can't wait for framework to take off. Even though I repair stuff at age 14. You earned the title "the greatest technician that ever lived." You are awesome!
wow... this video is so relatable... watching this process and your frustrated mumbling and grumbling reminds me of both myself and my mom who both do the same thing when working on tech lol
I wasn't even going to include the audio until I was scrubbing the clip and heard my rant. I do it so much I didn't even realize I recorded it.
Seriously love and found you from your shorts, but we definitely need more of these longer videos. It’s awesome bringing some serious points in the middle of all the jokes, really enjoying this!
7:09 rich rebuilds!!!
Bro because of your video of helping your friend from north korea by "upgrading" his laptop I was able to fix my laptop as it's the same model,you are right knowledge is free on internet, thanks for the help through these videos, always enjoyed your content
7:36 11 swearing of 💩
Dear Sir,
I watched this from a laptop which my father bought in 2013 and I upgraded it in 2023. And I am from India where Computer Technician are very rare and ask a lot of money for any repair.
I liked this video
TO
Greatest Technician who ever Lived
7:16 excessive swearing
Commenting at the beginning of the video, but I remember these laptops vividly. A couple friends of mine had them, and they loved theirs. One friend got hers as a hand-me-down from her mom after her mom's office cycled them out (only 2 years of service, and she got her hands on a barely-used one!). All my friends who had these managed to keep them alive through high school and college.
Wonder of any of those friends still have these still lying around...
9:49 Oooooohhhh... spicy~ hahaha
I'm already having this problem with my washing machine-- they designed it in such a way that you can no longer do repairs, but now need a whole new machine. It's actually insane to me
5:20 AI generated image :(
Damn I wanted one of these Sony Vaios a long time ago. They had such nice specs for how compact they were. Discrete graphics, all those ports, a DVD drive, all in this tiny package was so cool
3:04 Boner-Bone
Had a vaio back in the day. Sturdy and reliable and never let me down.
Man. I swear you are the coolest technician that ever lived. I love your videos and your approach to right to repair.
I would have been tempted to put Windows 11 on that laptop. You can use a program called Rufus USB to create the Windows 11 installation media for a USB Drive, and not only will it give you the option to bring back the "I don't have Internet" button, allowing you to make a Local Account, you can also tell it to ignore the TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot requirements, in addition to being able to install it on systems with only a BIOS and not a UEFI. I've done this on several older systems that can accept an SSD and at least 8GB of RAM, and honestly, Windows 11 has run fine on them. I recently did this on an HP Compaq Elite 8000 that had a Core2Duo, and the only thing I had to do to Windows was turn off all the animations and transparency, as the older graphics chipset didn't like that, but otherwise, that computer was still perfectly usable.
I agree with you in the video about even old machines still have life and the new ones are more e-waste cause most of the stuff is soldered the the board and not replaceable. Seeing that the owner of the Vaio still wants to use that for a 16 year old machine makes me happy as a computer geek myself
I have a zBook Fury G9 that I got from eBay and it was really beaten up. It looked like someone took it and bent it over their leg, punctured the back of the screen. Punctured a flat-head screwdriver from the bottom that the keyboard / Palm rest had a big dent on top, and the piece of the motherboard broke right at the part that the RJ45 port was. I took the laptop, and rebuilt it from ground up. I paid 450 for the laptop and with all the parts included, it cost me a total of 900 (Laptop and parts all together) to get it back to normal. It boots up fine, upgraded the screen from the original 400 nits to 1000 nits, put 16 GB of RAM, new battery (Since the other one is doing the safety lock down mode), added a 250 GB NVMe, and it's running fantastic. It also has a NVIDIA RTX A1000 card in it and that isn't damaged at all. I also replace the bottom door, and bottom frame cause there was no door and the frame was cracked in two spots, the speakers, and and the touchpad/trackpad.
I'm so happy that it is alive from the abuse it went through. The notebook still has warranty but the abuse it went through wasn't to let me get the replacement parts for it. I paid for all of the parts and the laptop has a new life and running.
Cheapest zBook Fury G9 I got. It has a I7 12850HX CPU in it too. These were normally 5000 to 10000 (Depending on specs) and bringing it back to life and has a chance to do more again makes me happy. I've done other zBooks (G1 to G7), Dell Latitudes, Precisions, Alienwares (Core 2 Models) and Macs and all running great.
Pretty cool story you got there, and btw I'm just glad to see another ZBook user here lol. They're underrated machines long as you can look past the HP hinge meme
@@Kazz7420 Thanks. I have 8 gens of them and each of them have their quirks but they each do great. I like using the G6 the most due to the sound of the speakers and the RTX3000 card it has now. The G6 one of mine was damaged on the one corner and I fix the screen and bottom frame and door but kept the palm rest part the same so I know which one is the G6. I was thinking of making a video on the G9 and show the pictures of what it went through and what it looks like now.
Not to sound like one of THOSE guys but my 2010 Vaio is still completely supported hardware wise on linux. Depending on the distro getting the nVidia drivers working might be a hassle, but for any use other than gaming the opensource driver branch works A-OK.
I have a modern desktop but this has been my only laptop since 2010 and still more than does everything I need.
Phone Repair Guru got me into repairing phones and you got me into tinkering with computers. Thanks racoon boy
I bought a truly wrecked 13" version of this same laptop for $1 off CL back in 2015 with the intention of learning how to fix laptops. I mostly learned to hate ribbon cables, which turned out to be why that marred turd wouldn't boot initially. Half of it's remaining zombified life was spent as both a media server and hard drive wiper, otherwise it was being crushed in storage until I finally threw it away 2 months ago. Still worked the same, absolute unit!
8:09 I can never get over this damn part it's so funny 🤣
i'm using a 13-year old dell as my main and a 13-year old thinkpad as my travel laptop. the thinkpad genuinely works like a new laptop if you have linux installed on it. greetings from Lithuania and thanks for making this vid!
edit: spelling
Man Vaio brings back memories, owning that PC back in 2008 immediately upgraded your status
Currently in the process of servicing and upgrading my Sony Vaio that I've owned since 2010. It's such a great little laptop, Windows 7 offline and Office 2010.
In my time as a technician have 4+ opportunities to upgrade laptops with socketed CPU, I enjoy it, really, the engineering behind this laptops are amazing, now we have laptops with ALL soldered to the motherboards, ready to damage it with the minimal error, and ready to dispose directly to the trash, because the repairing could be more expensive than buy a new laptop, and those make me think that the brands are a liars when speaks of “ecologically responsible” 😢
100% agree! I buy mid powered client device for myself and do heavy work on server, for exactly that reason - client devices have been good enough since about '08 (if you upgrade it with SSD).
I also have Sony VAIO VGN-NS with t6400, ssd 240gb (i am not that much sure about it, maybe its still OG HDD), 4gb ram and ati 3430 that is working to this day. I made few thing like change thermalpaste, clean interior and add SSD with instalation of windows 10 64bit to run it better than oryginally VISTA without updates. I was 18 as I've done it and it was great idea, bc this helped me to be more brave to do things like this on old hardware. And I am 22 now with skills to repair and upgrade few things here and there. Now this laptop after ~15 years is still in my family and is still used. Greeting from Poland, hope u see this comment to know that i confirm how VAIO series is pretty dope (i played Among Us with Discord on it) and long-living
Hey now. I love Sony Vaios. I still have one I use daily. I will agree it's not the easiest to work on. I just upgraded it to a 2TB SSD and it's better than ever. It started life with Win7, upgraded to Win10 and with this last upgrade it's now Ubuntu 22.04. Totally on board with your repair philosophy.
I miss my white and blue Sony Vaio E series. Year of death: 2019
Ran beautifully until the motherboard gave out and could no longer boot.
That dvd drive was one of the things I loved the most about it. Rip Elsa
I still have a Acer gaming laptop from 2011 or something with a first gen core i5. Still works fine. Battery is nearly dead (about 20mins with a full charge) but I don't really need that. Built a gaming pc in 2022 and recently bought a new laptop for travelling/university.
I was thinking about framework 14 but bought a hp elitebook (i7 7840U, 16GB DDR5, 1TB Samsung NVMe) which was available for 950€ with university discount. At least HP offers good documentation, five years guaranteed replacement parts and ram and ssd are replaceable.
The offerings get really scarce if you select non-soldered ram.
I can't think of any laptop dude. I love that you talk about this stuff, it's so freaking important.
Anyone here listen to Chapo? True anon?
I even have an old Dell Precision T3500 with a Xeon x5670, 16 GB of RAM, NVIDIA RTX 3060, and a 800W PSU I put into it and it can play games and still do everything I need without issues. It came out in 2009 and still rocking with tasks and AAA games.
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