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    My 2003 Sony VAIO o_O

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by rapion125, Nov 29, 2008.

  1. rapion125

    rapion125 Notebook Evangelist

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    For kicks and giggles, here's my 2003 Sony VAIO laptop. It's very durable. I used it everyday when I got it and it's been on 24/7 for the past 10 months torrenting. Its only other use for it is testing programs I download for viruses. It has a 95W AC adapter and a 6-cell battery. Battery life is less than 30 min.

    It's really scary to think I bought it for $1,800 in 2003. Back then, it was considered high-end o_O. Here are some pics:

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    Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHz with 512MB of DDR RAM. Considered high-end in 2003

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    DxDiag

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    It runs a Mobility Radeon 7500. That is the 3rd GPU ATI has made. Driver support ended with Windows XP.

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    40GB 4,200 RPM HDD, no HDTune results, but expect read/write to be 10MB/sec

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    Surprisingly, it runs Windows 7 OK.

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    Lol @ RAM and Page File

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    Windows 7 only has 30 something processes

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    It can even run Photoshop CS4. Although open any image and the application freezes for a few minutes

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    Technology has evolved very rapidly indeed.
     
    rapion125, Nov 29, 2008
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  2. mr__bean

    mr__bean Notebook Evangelist

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    It sure does :O

    haha you should benchmark that thing and post the results :p
     
    mr__bean, Nov 29, 2008
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  3. averagjo

    averagjo Notebook Enthusiast

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    What's truly amazing to me is that a laptop computer that's 4 times as fast costs less than 1/4 your original purchase price :eek: ... My how technology has moved forward... I remeber being 19 and super excited about getting a 486 dx 66 with a 4 meg 128 bit video card! I Imagine the same computing power can not be gotten from a low end cell phone lol... Not to mention 16 megs of ram and a 400 meg hardrive woohoo ;)
    Averagjo
     
    averagjo, Nov 29, 2008
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  4. shojun25

    shojun25 Notebook Enthusiast

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    woah...

    its almost at par with my 5 year old desktop.
     
    shojun25, Nov 29, 2008
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  5. Tricks.

    Tricks. Notebook Consultant

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    Any pics of the actual hardware? :p

    I like seeing what 'old technology' is still capable of doing!
     
    Tricks., Nov 29, 2008
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  6. SmoothTofu

    SmoothTofu Inspiron 1420 Owner

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    Nice that Windows 7 beta is using less than 400MB RAM and can run on old hardware.
     
    SmoothTofu, Nov 29, 2008
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  7. Mr. B

    Mr. B Notebook Consultant

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    What VAIO model do you have? I'm guessing R505.
     
    Mr. B, Nov 30, 2008
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  8. ascariss

    ascariss Notebook Deity

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    I think it is the PCG-GRZ660 going by the information on the pictures
     
    ascariss, Nov 30, 2008
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  9. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    uggh,
    whats wrong with a p4m laptop?

    My Dell Inspiron 8500 has the same cpu, but 2gb of Pc3200 memory, geforce 4200 and Samsung HM160HC drive, and it is faster than most notebooks on the market today.
    Their is nothing wrong with a 6 year old laptop. I paid $2600 for mine and $400 in upgrades and it runs better than my $10k voodoo.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Nov 30, 2008
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