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What happens when Sony merges a futuristic audio format into a chonker of a laptop? This thing.

The version on YouTube is available here: https://youtu.be/edKZVCiMpBk

Sources:
VAIO Library recovery disc listing: https://vaiolibrary.com/index.php/Recovery_Discs
"ATI Muscles Back into 3D Mobile Market," Maximum PC, October 2001.
"The New Mobile 3D Warrior," Maximum PC, January 2002.
"Head2Head: Notebook Graphics," Maximum PC, September 2002.
Forum thread with 3DMark 2001 scores: https://www.sysopt.com/showthread.php?85722-POST-YOUR-3DMARK2001-SCORES!!!!
PC-Watch article about NV-series: https://web.archive.org/web/20030317190348/https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/0513/sony1.htm
"An MP3 Walkman...Finally!," HWM, April 2005.
MZ-RH1 photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sony_mz_rh1.jpg
PCGA-MDN1 product page: https://web.archive.org/web/20030416114444/http://www.jp.sonystyle.com:80/Qnavi/Detail/PCGA-MDN1.html
VAIO tower PCs photo: https://imgur.com/PeddSC0

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

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Charles Seyle

Was SonicStage able to add the CDDB information automatically or did you have to manually enter it?

Silly Cat

I had a dream last night where I picked up an external MiniDisc drive for a computer. Shows how obsessed I am. It had an old serial connector.

Mac84

Very cool - I never knew this existed! It would have been cool if the MD drive was a basic MD player once ejected. That seems like something Sony would have done!

thisdoesnotcompute

SonicStage does support CDDB retrieval, but that functionality doesn't seem to work anymore -- it wasn't able to connect successfully. Thankfully it also recognizes CD Text information!

Jeremy Heiden

Please please please put me on the top of your list when you would like to sell this. I collect Sony vaio. This model line and the 109M I have been hunting for since 2006 and even went off to Japan in 2018 to hunt, but I was not a good tracker in that wonderful country and couldn’t find this line. I never gave up hope and I check often….. then YOU have one! I was so happy to see this!

Jeremy Heiden

This is actually an epic idea. It it’s totally a Sony thing, like that dvd burner/player-CD WALKMAN that I have a few of from back then. They were so much fun.

Alan Grassia

Interesting video - I learned about a VAIO laptop that I didn't remember from that time period and I appreciated the NetMD Mini Disc player module twist. I enjoy watching your videos. Please keep up the great work!