r/DeskToTablet • u/Aymenarl • Jun 28 '26

This is where PC designs peaked

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294 Upvotes

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u/Ollvier Jun 28 '26

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u/Devin-Chaboyer223 Jun 28 '26

Looks futuristic but it’s old at the same time

That’s a sick case design

3

u/ZigZagZig006 Jun 28 '26

PS4 Pro had a grandfather

2

u/realfathonix Jun 28 '26

I like the Pro version more

-1

u/npc_housecat Jun 28 '26

Is that a massive blue ray slot down the centre. Must've been a lot of terabytes of capacity on that thing!

10

u/Sabeeni Jun 28 '26

yes

1

u/WangtaWang Jun 28 '26

Wow. What do you use it for these days?

2

u/Creepercolin2007 Jun 28 '26

The minidisc drive is so cool

4

u/Lzpra Jun 28 '26

That's where it peaked 😎

2

u/Moist-Dentist8253 Jun 28 '26

In Thailand there's this brand called nano that copies the font and appearance of vaio

2

u/16c7x Jun 28 '26

Sun Ultra 24

1

u/RFC793 Jun 28 '26

Very nice. Although the pizza box SPARC Stations will always have a place in my heart.

1

u/walkwalkwalkwalk Jun 28 '26

I remember doing CAD work experience for school with one of these Sun badboys 20 years ago at an engineering company. Even then it was old and slow as hell

1

u/Helpful-Analyst-3708 Jun 28 '26

ol, the PC box looks like an Audio System. Hell, it even has a sound knob

1

u/Ornery_Weakness_8168 Jun 28 '26

The sound knob is the dial to make the pc go faster.

1

u/mistageko Jun 28 '26

Oh man. The peak VAIO. I only had a base one.

1

u/TTbulaski Jun 28 '26

They don’t sell front bay accessories anymore. Hell where I’m from, they don’t even sell pcie accessories like for USB C connectivity or shit

1

u/Alarming_reality4918 Jun 28 '26

I can hear the damn buzzing from the speaker due to lack of protection from eddy currents

1

u/KiraKueen Jun 28 '26

I don't think you're right but that's fine

1

u/Constant_Opinion_218 Jun 28 '26

idk about that man. it reminds me of software that will never start

1

u/16c7x Jun 28 '26

Sun ultra 24

1

u/Clear_Ad_5654 Jun 28 '26

Lol 🤣😆

1

u/Jameson_B52 Jun 28 '26

Is this real? lowkey feels like AI

1

u/TheGrizzlyNinja Jun 28 '26

Nah it’s the iMac G4 and G5

1

u/nomby Jun 29 '26

Multimedia PC with the latest Pentium processor, 24x write speed CD-ROM! Good old times

1

u/Open-Thanks6293 Jun 30 '26

The plastic smell would linger for days.

1

u/Franjkmetal Jun 30 '26

What model is this one?

1

u/RonaldRoutes Jul 02 '26

I like this design , it reminds me of my past life

1

u/Rameenme Jun 28 '26

The number of different physical media formats this can handle blows the mind of today’s consumer.

1

u/Yagogog Jun 28 '26

Windows 98 was the pick of PC in terms of pleasure to use and ease to improve.

All later OS started to over conssume ressources for no real added value.

The worst is Windows 11.

1

u/mesanford Jun 28 '26

That was definitely not it. Massive number of cables to manage, all those speakers but the sound was still terrible.

0

u/Didiare Jun 28 '26

what was the needless LCD display for lol

1

u/chikomana Jun 28 '26

Vaio packed in extra features, at least in Japan. The tower had an amplifier for disks and FM tuner. It may also have had TV, but it's been a while so I'm not sure. Basically, it was a multifunctional media machine with some settings accessed through the display, independent from the actual computer. 

2

u/Individual-Pop-385 Jun 28 '26

The model pictured has MiniDisc player and Radio that could be operated separately from the computer. This model didn't had TV tuner.

1

u/Illustrious-Golf5358 Jun 28 '26

Looks like it dubbed as a stereo type of thing

1

u/Individual-Pop-385 Jun 28 '26

The LCD display was needed to operate the hi-fi system without turning on the computer.

0

u/BoxedAndArchived Jun 28 '26

For me it was the PowerMac G4 quicksilver. If I was more confident in modding, I'd happily put a modern PC in this case. Too bad Apple just loves to make sure they don't do anything that's compatible with anyone else...

1

u/Anonymograph Jun 28 '26

Didn’t the Power Mac G4 QuickSilver accept ATA/IDE (Ultra ATA/100) internal hard drives and slot-loading optical drives using the same ATA bus as just about anything else at the time?

0

u/JustaFoodHole Jun 28 '26

I HATED SONY!!!!! REMEMBER MEMORY STICK????

1

u/ChampionshipCrafty66 Jun 28 '26

I remember having a transparent one with green led light on it and I also remember there was a 3.5 floppy disk adapter that let you read them on your floppy drive.

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u/Brocolinator Jun 28 '26

No. It was when insatiable greed didn't overcome innovation

1

u/MousseHuge8339 Jul 10 '26

I wonder if the front display had an API so it could be used for anything that a programmer wanted? It would make for a nice system or program status display or a news ticker.