I was around 13-14 when we first bought this computer in 2001 or 2002 and man it is nostalgic to see this. I love that blue power light. I played so much Empire Earth and Civilization back in those days. Takes me back.. Thanks for the video!
i had the Sony VAIO RX407 back in 2001-2008 and it was a stellar machine... mine ran WinXP and it never crashed... not once in 7 years... loved that machine but i passed it on to a good mate who was without a PC who used it for awhile... really solid machine!
This computer was my childhood lol, my mom bought it for my sister and I when we were in middle school it was our most favorite thing this is so memorable...
Ive owned a rx 850 and a rx550. Still have the rx 550, except i threw out the motherboard and everything esle on the inside of the pc and use it as a storage box to store stuff in. Pretty good storage box actually cause of thw latch you pull to open it up. Still got all the accessories and cds. Pretty cool pc in general and the design is pretty gnarley (only if it has the sticker, without the sticker it doesnt look as good)
This was one my family's first big purchase computers. It was also the first one that I upgraded parts on. It funny that this thing has more cpu power than my current netbook I have for school which is a 2017 model.
My grandmother owned one of these Sony PCs (i'm sorry, I cannot remember the model number) and we still have the computer to this day. She bought it as one packaged since it came with a matching monitor from CompUSA. I added more RAM and an Ethernet card in it for her to make it more usable for we had extra parts in our house. These machines are really reliable. Sadly, she passed away but we kept the computer because the hard drive has a lot of family history information on it. I do not intend on getting rid of the computer (partly because I like the case design and sentimental reasons) but my plans are to preserve the old drives and rebuild it into a more modern workstation since the original parts are too old for some software.
@@jwoolery99 Hey there Jordan. Awesome video. Just picked one of these up at my local thrift store. Can't find much info out there on whether this system can handle a total of 1gb (512 on each dimm) of ram. Can it? Dont want to source the extra ram if it cant. Look forward to your response. Thanks.
You don’t need to remove the top panel to remove the side panel…. This is why the the metal tab is a pull tab rather than a push tab, because it enables you to hook your finger under and pull it to release the side panel whilst the top panel is still in place. The top panel only needs removing to gain access to the optical drives.
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I was around 13-14 when we first bought this computer in 2001 or 2002 and man it is nostalgic to see this. I love that blue power light. I played so much Empire Earth and Civilization back in those days. Takes me back.. Thanks for the video!
i had the Sony VAIO RX407 back in 2001-2008 and it was a stellar machine... mine ran WinXP and it never crashed... not once in 7 years... loved that machine but i passed it on to a good mate who was without a PC who used it for awhile... really solid machine!
This was my first computer. I'm buying one and putting modern parts in it, purely for sentimental reasons.
My first computer was an older version of this. Very nice computer. I played classic games.
This computer was my childhood lol, my mom bought it for my sister and I when we were in middle school it was our most favorite thing this is so memorable...
This was our first family computer 🤣 Back in 2001 or 2002. Good times.
Ive owned a rx 850 and a rx550. Still have the rx 550, except i threw out the motherboard and everything esle on the inside of the pc and use it as a storage box to store stuff in. Pretty good storage box actually cause of thw latch you pull to open it up. Still got all the accessories and cds. Pretty cool pc in general and the design is pretty gnarley (only if it has the sticker, without the sticker it doesnt look as good)
This was one my family's first big purchase computers. It was also the first one that I upgraded parts on. It funny that this thing has more cpu power than my current netbook I have for school which is a 2017 model.
+Wildchild_inc rip netbook. Lol
must have one hell of a potato computer for it to be beaten by almost two decade old hardware...
These vaios with the grey and purple design look SO much cooler than modern pcs
My grandmother owned one of these Sony PCs (i'm sorry, I cannot remember the model number) and we still have the computer to this day. She bought it as one packaged since it came with a matching monitor from CompUSA. I added more RAM and an Ethernet card in it for her to make it more usable for we had extra parts in our house. These machines are really reliable. Sadly, she passed away but we kept the computer because the hard drive has a lot of family history information on it. I do not intend on getting rid of the computer (partly because I like the case design and sentimental reasons) but my plans are to preserve the old drives and rebuild it into a more modern workstation since the original parts are too old for some software.
Retrofit projects sound fun, and I'd love to do that someday, but that would require money and lots of time, neither of which I have a surplus of.
@@jwoolery99 Money is an issue here so I have to buy parts piece by piece but it gives me time to figure out what exactly what I want inside.
@@jwoolery99 Hey there Jordan. Awesome video. Just picked one of these up at my local thrift store. Can't find much info out there on whether this system can handle a total of 1gb (512 on each dimm) of ram. Can it? Dont want to source the extra ram if it cant. Look forward to your response. Thanks.
The PC originally shipped with a 1024×768 TFT LCD monitor. I still have one.
You don’t need to remove the top panel to remove the side panel…. This is why the the metal tab is a pull tab rather than a push tab, because it enables you to hook your finger under and pull it to release the side panel whilst the top panel is still in place. The top panel only needs removing to gain access to the optical drives.
Mine on the side panel has weird tabs keeping the side panel on are they supposed to be taken off?
Where do i find the monitor and etc i have the pc but nothing else for it
I have that exact same model, how do you remove the 2 cd drives?
I'm going to pic me up one just for old time sake!
lol my first computer was the PCV-RX650. still have the internals but no longer have the case.
Are you using the Sony Vaio keyboard that came with it originally in this video?
No. I didn’t get it with a Sony keyboard. Which is fine cause I have too many.
That was my first computer, but, with AMD, 80 GB HDD, 380 MB RAM, Nvidia graphics.
i have one of the same model and i think the power supply is a 206 watt
Dumb question, but does this computer only have 1 hard drive? I was curious because it has both C: and D: drives. Thank you.
It’s got multiple partitions on the one hard drive.
@@jwoolery99 wow thanks for your speedy expertise!
Of course you might have a suspicion who owned it, you bought it from them right?
Re-al Pla-yer!
If only Sony still making pc
2020
Make a virtual machine out of it and enjoy it on modern hardware
Its pronounced WILL-AM-ETTE... not WILL-EM-ETTE... trust me im from oregun... and thats where intel is from
I’m not saying you’re wrong but other people have different dialects and say the same things differently.
Also “Oregun” is spelled Oregon. :)
This was our first family computer 🤣 Back in 2001 or 2002. Good times.