Sony's Unique Tiny Laptop Had a Unique CPU Too

That powermate Eco looked awesome wow.

I would have to use a wireless mouse.. that's just my opinion

These were actually called ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC)

I'd buy one just to try all those super light linux distros

If you have the money! But I'm happy with a 15" laptop

I absolutely love that keyboard font hahaha

thank you.

I have the slim pentium 3 sony laptop. Its really cool looking but i try to only collect 2 brands of comouters. Decided to go with HP and Apple. I love hp laptops truly are some of the most beautiful laptops ever designed. The mid 2000s ones with the designs molded into the plastic, that hulk of a machine the dragon with a 21 inch display, the nice silver and black of the early 2000s i just love hp laptops even though they have made some mistakes but in all fairness all computers had video issues at the time.

Love the look of that laptop

But does it run doom?

rip life now

Life sucks now why

2002 wow surprised it runs xp

I wonder if one could upgrade this in the same way that you do with the iPod iflash. Id like to see what that would change

Back when Sony had more personality

Mf at crusoe doing what apple is doing now 20 years earlier

Can see where the GPD win max got it's design from.

That zoom in is such a cheat! It just lowers the res lmao

That would look nice next to my Vaio Pentium 4 desktop

good for japanese who are smaller, but for others it's not. we used to have a lot of japanese busses in my country, but due to the size we no longer use them. they are short, and people often hit their head on the ceiling often.

i absolutely LOVE the design of this machine.

Just Japan? I swear I remember Sony Vaio netbooks from the very early 2000's in the US...

Left handed people should be isolated from the society

The story if Transmeta is sad. Super innovative upstart, butchered and sold for parts to the already established oligopoly industry giants.

There are some great Linux distros that need less than 200, even 100 MHz of RAM, I would love to see them run on this beauty!

At least you can use SSD in form of Compact Flash, and there's some MP3 player SSD conversion kit that would make it work. There's larger ones that exists for better storage capacity, ie. around 128 GB or larger. And as for RAM memory, I would honestly think Efficeon VLIW processor would actually be better off with RAM larger than 384 MB, considering the fact that Windows XP and later are RAM hogs.

Im also a leftie!

For me even this old one could be perfect . I just need it for writing and i need long battery life...

I remember Sony taking the common techie term for sticks of RAM (memory sticks) as the new name for its proprietary Flash memory cards "Memory Stick". We all predicted the average shopper would be confused by this. We were proven right when scores of customers came to us complaining that their new RAM didn't work with their PCs. Those confused customers had bought the sluggishly slow Sony Flash memory cards thinking they were buying PC memory sticks (RAM).

The other thing that Sony Vaio PCs could never shake was their poor performance. They priced their machines with that Apple-style tax but got the same piss poor Apple PC performance in return. I think that size of PC later mutated into the netbook. Of which Apple spawned its first tablet from: the iWasteofMoney netbook tablet .

20 yrs ago, we at work received tiny sony laptops that were touchscreen too. Cool little gadgets that came with a portable floppy drive.

The best thing about them was that they were free - donated to our it recycling company

Nice, just change motherboard for 16ram , thunderbolt and changable battery universal format

GPD Win Max's grandad

Used to love Sony products when i couldn't afford them, now i can they make just the same stuff as anyone else :(

The Crusoe was very interesting. VLIW wasn't used much in desktop CPUs, but outside of that saw some use. Like in Radeon HD 2000-4000 cards or in a modified form in Intel's X64 Itanium chips.
And the possibility to add instruction extensions per update could make them long lived. In theory.

You mean umpc?

The Crusoe was terrible, I had a Vaio with one (141C I think) and it was so slow. Was amazing to have such a small laptop though, way back in 2004 when most were like briefcases

Very cool. A lot of people might forget that unlike the US, Japan has an excellent rail system where people might find using something like this useful during a commute where physical space is at a premium. It is cool to see companies try these ideas out even if it doesn't pan out. Nowadays we see devices like the Samsung Galaxy Fold series which may be good enough to replace both phone & tablet in one go.

Around 2004 a college professor of mine who also the creator of Kid Pix, has one of these variants of sub laptops from Sony. In the days of iPods and lampshade iMacs, it still exotic to see in the wild.

Nowadays such sized laptops are still usefull for technicians in servicing various industrial equipment at field.

Isn't this........ exactly how the Intel P6 architecture works anyway?

Splits 386 and 486 instructions into micro-operations, that are executed out-of-order and in parallel by the execution cores?

Thank you for the video.

Very good. Nice stuff ok Review congratulaciones

The Crusoe was all about moving the instruction scheduling from hardware to software. The idea was that if you aren't lighting up transistors to handle out of order execution in hardware that you might be able to beat it at power consumption in software.

Intel 13900K: laughs in P-cores

The GPD win Max before the win Max baha

Sony's VAIO laptops up until like 2013ish or so were some of the most gorgeous laptops ever!

Sony's sub notebooks might have a chance nowadays with Android or ChromeOS.

Love the clunky ones and toughbooks

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