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The Sony Vaio PCG-XR MiniDisc Laptop
Overview The Sony VAIO PCG-XR is a series of mid-size Pentium II-based laptops, released in 1999. It was superseded with the PCG-XG in 2000, which had the exact same design and build, but with updated specs.
It shipped with a dock which attaches to the back of the unit and is quite bulky, though it adds many inputs and outputs to the laptop, as many as a traditional desktop would have had at the time. PCG-XR with DCR-PC1 camcorder, highlighting its editing capabilitiesPCG-XR connecting to the MDS-PC2 directly, without the VisionTouch adapterSony intended the laptop for multimedia and work usage, as a sort of all rounder. It has a Jog-Dial on the top right, next to the keyboard assembly, which was used to scroll through text (websites, documents, etc) and an assortment of programs which Sony had created for the PCG-XR/XG, which included a photo gallery and application launcher.
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