Sony Vaio 505 series


The Sony Vaio 505 series was a line of ultraportable notebook computers from Sony's VAIO brand. The introduction date in the United States was July 24, 1998.
Hardware specifications at introduction were a 200 MHz or 266 MHz Pentium MMX CPU, 32 MB RAM, a 2.1 GB hard drive, 10.4" SVGA screen, integrated sound, modem, speakers, microphone, PC-Card slot, and optional firewire port. It also featured a touchpad with additional pen functionality.
The weight was 3.1 lbs.
In addition to the 10.4" models, a 12.1" 505 Superslim was introduced in April 1999, weighing 3.75 lbs, and featuring 1024x768 screen. Starting from the R505 revision, the laptops were supplied with a docking station with integrated CDRW/DVD drive. From R505D onwards, 802.11B wireless was integrated.
The V505 models increased weight and thickness due to the integration of the DVD drive; they were no longer branded 'superslim', as thickness increased from 1 to 1.33", and weight to 4.37 lbs.
A one-off X505 model was produced in 2004, with the same screen size and 1024x768 resolution as the 1999 models, but with a greatly reduced weight of only 1.73 lbs. Case was made with a nickel-carbon alloy. Connectivity was provided by a fast ethernet port, unlike previous models, no modem was included, and neither was 802.11 wireless or bluetooth. The Sony VAIO X series, launched in 2009, had many similarities with this product.

US Models

10.4":
12.1":