This Does Not Compute | Restoring Sony's first VAIO laptop! @ThisDoesNotCompute | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Sony's PCG-505 looks like a pretty typical late-90s laptop at first glance. But it actually had a big impact on the computer industry -- you probably just didn't realize it.

Sources:
Sony MSX photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony_HITBIT_HB-501F_(26555006901).jpg
VAIO side speakers photo: twitter.com/froyotam/status/1345229366112915457?lang=hu
PCG-505G recovery CD image: archive.org/details/sysrec_sony-PCG-505G
"Trend-Setting Ultraportable," PC Magazine, December 1, 1998.
"Mainstream Notebooks," PC Magazine, August 1999.

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Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com).
Intro music by BoxCat Games (freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).