My UX has a Toshiba MK3008GAL 1.8-inch CE HDD 30.0 GB.
It’s used in consumer electronic product and have a Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) connector.
So the maximum people will be able to upgrade at this time is the MK6008GAH with 60GB. I don’t know if other manufacturers have bigger ones.
**Update **
As someone reported, the […]

People like to boast my numbers and still thinks of me as crap… who am I ? …

So know you know what to expect from the Intel Express Graphics.
Every bench were performed with default settings @ 1024×600×32.
As for 3Dmark06 I didn’t take a shot, with the 2005 being very laggy already.

3DMark 2000 - 5664
Game […]

If you don’t have eagle eyes or understand french
Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility
Version: 2.8.20060328
Number of processors in system: 1
Current processor: #1
Processor Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) Solo CPU U1400 @ 1.20GHz
Type: 0
Family: 6
Model: E
Stepping: 8
Revision: 39
L1 Instruction Cache: 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 32 KB
L2 Cache: 2 MB
Packaging: µFCPGA/µFCBGA
EIST: Yes
MMX(TM): Yes
SIMD: Yes
SIMD2: Yes
SIMD3: Yes
Enhanced Halt State: No
Execute […]

You love planes ?
This post isn’t about them.

press Fn+F2 and read next.

I guess you figured that this post is about the BIOS.

The security feature lets you protect your Hard Drive with a Password, I first thought that it allowed me to protect it from being used outside the UX but I was wrong, it asks […]

So I finally got mine from geekstuff4u. Since there is already an unboxing slideshow here, I will spare you another one .
One difference is that it comes with the Carrying Stand that James Kendrick over at jkOnTheRun was looking for in his video.
So my VAIO OWNER MADE UX90 boast

Intel Core Solo U1400 @ […]

I just wanted to do a quick post to inform everyone that I managed to install Windows XP Tablet Edition on to My Vaio UX50. Booting off my new DVD drive, I used my wife’s Windows the office’s XP Tablet Edition OEM install CDs that came with her HP TC1100 tablet from it’s MSDN subscription […]

Last time I mentioned that I was upgrading my external optical drive to the Sony PCGA-DDRW3. I did place
an order for it at SonyStyle for $100 and it arrived after two days. This is a great deal by the way since this same drive is $200+ elesewhere. 

This firewire drive supports reading and writing to CDs, DVDs, and dual-layer […]

Whenever someone asks what I dislike most about the UX, I always say, the keyboard. I found the keyboard quite unintuitive, having my right thumb stretch all the way to the left to do a cut (CTRL-X), paste (CTRL-V), select all (CTRL-A), bring up Windows Explorer (WINDOWS-E), even uppercase a letter using the SHIFT key. […]

SonyStyle Taiwan has now the Sony Vaio UX17TP (VGN-UX17TP) for pre-order. Similar to the the Japanese UX90PS model, it runs on the Intel Core Single processor at 1.2GHz, has 512MB of RAM, 30GB hard drive, Compact Flash slot, Bluetooth 2.0, wireless (a/b/g), two cameras, fingerprint scanner, and a 1024×600 4.5-inch screen. It comes with Windows […]

I have managed to put together my semi-perfect mobile micro desktop. It is comprised of the Sony Vaio UX50, a slim CD/DVD drive, an external hard drive, a bluetooth keyboard, and an optical mobile mouse.
The slim CD/DVD drive in the pic is an old USB Sony DVD-reader/CD-writer. I am upgrading it to the PCG-DDRW3, a […]