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My 22 months old Sony Vaio S3XP laptop, which I used for daily work is for sale. If you are interested, then feel free to place a bid via eBay.

For sale:  Sony Vaio VGN-S3XP

After about 21 months I decided last December to replace my laptop with new one.  I have been doing all my daily work with that machine, so this is the unique chance to get hold of a computer which had the original IntraWeb sources on its hard drive. I have to delete them though, before it ships – but its still a nice collectible item. 

This laptop is used of course, but it is still in a good condition. Nothing is broken, esp. the screen has no bad pixels (as far as I can see). I really liked this machine and thus I bought its successor last month (a Vaio VGN-SZ3XWP/C).

This machine comes with a full Windows XP Professional license, you will have to re-activate it though. As I activated that license only once, this should an easy process. Out of curiosity I tried Windows Vista, which installed seamlessly. Even Areo worked fine. A Vista license is NOT included though.

The original price was almost exactly 2000 Euros (excl. VAT) back in March 2005, plus the upgrade to 2 GBytes I installed later. So I’m asking for about 1000 Euros (w/o VAT) for this machine.

To place a bid, please go to ebay.
Availbale from Thursday, Feb 8th, 19:30 GMT+1. If you want to give a bid earlier, then please send me an E-Mail before that date.

Tech specs:

• 2 GB RAM (1 GB original, 1 GB added later)
• 2 GHz Pentium M
• 80 GB Harddrive
• 13.3″ display
• 1200×800 screen resolution
• German keyboard
• DVD Burner
• Modem
• 100MBit Network
• WiFi
• BlueTooth
• FireWire
• Ultra mobile: less than 2kg
• XP Professional Recovery DVD
• Windows Vista works, including Areo. See images below.
  (No Vista license included or installed. I installed Vista from my MSDN license for testing purposes only)

Here is the original description at sony-europe.com (please note that I have a German version)
Here is a review of whatlaptop.co.uk

Below are a few images. Click on the [med res] or [high res] links to see larger images.

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Top view

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Front view

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Side view. (The glare on the screen is from the flash light, it’s not  display damage)

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Screen view, with Vista running.

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