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Thursday, March 06, 2008

Six years old and kicking the Eeepc's butt!

This is a picture of my very first Sony Vaio laptop (a Vaio PCG-C1MGP). It is Soooo old that it was built without wifi and only has one USB 1.0 port! It has a 20 gig hard drive, and the max ram it could take is 384MB.

Amazingly, my 3G modem works in it. It also has an extended battery that gives about 8 hours. They keyboard is FANTASTIC (in fact I typed quite a lot of my Doctorate on this little machine!)

So, there you have it, 6 years old, smaller than an Asus Eeepc, it runs Linux and Windows, and thanks to my accident I have rediscovered it (I'm using it to edit the book Wes and I have that is coming out soon)!

The best thing of all!? It cost me nothing! Geek value for free! [Although, I can't remember what I traded for it when I got it from Paul 5 years ago]

posted by digitaldion (Dion Forster) at 3:02 PM
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2 Comments:

  • This little machine does look awesome :) But can it run openarena? http://www.iceblue.co.za/openarena-eeepc/ cool!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:29 PM  

  • Kicking the EEEpc's butt with only a paltry 384Mb of RAM?

    I have 2GB of RAM on my EEEpc and I run Virtualbox on it. I can easily run Windows/etc without an issue if need be.
    i get an average of 4 hours use with my EEEpc, but i'm planning on getting the extended battery on e-bay so we'll see how much battery life that gives me
    Battery life sounds good.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:49 PM  

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