Sony's PCG-505 looks like a pretty typical late-90s laptop at first glance. But it actually had a big impact on the computer industry -- you probably just didn't realize it.

Sources:
Sony MSX photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
VAIO side speakers photo: https://twitter.com/froyotam/status/1...
PCG-505G recovery CD image: https://archive.org/details/sysrec_so...
"Trend-Setting Ultraportable," PC Magazine, December 1, 1998.
"Mainstream Notebooks," PC Magazine, August 1999.

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