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[@akupegu1622]

Actually, I take this video is a beginner's guide for all new youtubers out there who don't have enough resources to edit videos. And Oz, please clean the internals of this laptop first before making any upgrades. I mean some TY Lovin'!

[@lasset9916]

And maybe new layer of cooling paste.

[@ChrisD__]

@Max Paine The T440 is pretty solid for armature video editing. This is more like digging a trench with a small shovel.

[@antikz3731]

Max Paine I would want as well (too)

[@MisterRorschach90]

@@ChrisD__ armature video editing? is there a market for making videos of spinning coils?

[@lko2181cp]

@@MisterRorschach90 I have seen a combination of spelling errors and 'English failure' online everywhere (not just KZbin). We either aren't teaching typing in schools these days, we aren't teaching English, OR (likely) both. If I didn't fail in one or both areas on occasion, I'd be more critical. Have you ever (switching to math, for a moment) tried to get someone at a checkout line try to make change if a) their computer is down (i.e. cash register) or b) if you 'make it easy for them' and give cash which means that rather than returning '$0.97' to you as change they can just give you $3.00 as change (I had this exact example - the cashier almost had a heart attack trying to compensate for my kindness)...

[@antikz3731]

That is an absolute solid deal of a laptop for $65 💻

[@bobafruti]

Lol, I remember trying to edit a student film in “full HD1080p” for the very first time on a early 2000s Mac tower... It stuttered like hell, it was horribly painful and makes editing 4K on a broke ass old thinkpad seem like a dream.

[@CobsTech]

Always makes me laugh when I see two ozi's on screen at once. Love the editing.

[@OzTalksHW]

Thanks cobby :D

[@daviddebroux4708]

IT INCOBNSITO

[@furqan9499]

@@OzTalksHW laptop model?

[@yourMAMA.]

@@OzTalksHW you suck

[@picchioknossus8096]

I edited a 4k 35m video with 4 video tracks on a t410s with kdenlive. With proxies, pre-rendering, and a couple of other optimizations I succeded. The rendering took 14 ours.

[@garethwoodall577]

One of the smoothest guys I have seen content creating, how on earth you are not being hired to present by now is amazing. Thanks for these videos!

[@unnamed715]

0:34 Oh stop it Oz, you are more than worthy of holding that godly laptop! Linus would just drop it and laugh as if he dropped an empty soda can.

[@cheesechillin]

Somethin about Oz makes watching his videos so relaxing

[@parad0x1cal83]

That "$65 laptop" is my daily driver. It honestly is just fine. I wish it was better, but you know, it's a great machine for everyday stuff!

[@MaseraSteve2]

Paradox 0073 yeah cpu is still capable mine were slightly slower the i3 one and it’s still a breeze using it for every need i have I’m also shoked it still faster than my friend brand new hp 15” laptop with “not-so-new” amd a10!!!

[@Aaron-fb6mb]

@@MaseraSteve2 do you do editing?

[@MaseraSteve2]

@@Aaron-fb6mb yeah i do once you do it it's actually addictive! till my laptop busted at wrong time 😁

[@moldoveanu8]

Congrats on the new laptop!!!

[@tibixdev]

I really like how interesting and informative this video was. I have a few ideas you could try: - Upgrading - Hackintosh - Sony Vegas and Final Cut Pro - Reskinning the laptop - Gaming test - Selling it - Turning into a server or IoT project

[@lawandnoaman1188]

ma man i subbed u when u were like 20k i blv and i knew u have potential to make amazing content, ur amazing u make amazing useful content and ur respectful and all that luv ur content ur amazing

[@Llaveocculto]

Thank you for your service

[@aceflamez00]

I would've never thought I see a thinkpad here. I love my T440P still to this day.

[@januwicak]

Its suitable for 720p/1080p editing?

[@OverdriveTech]

Great video! It's amazing what you can do with this old cheap hardware.

[@RobertGossCreator]

Love your videos OS keep them coming

[@Kylo_Ren_2033]

This $65 laptop is much better than some brand new offerings that come with Atom or ARM processors.

[@judahgamermedia]

That blue screen shirt is freakin awesome!! and frustrating at the same dam time!! Love your videos brav! God bless!

[@kiqyou]

Dude, thank you for this. I've been raging at yt review npcs all night, and while your video didn't explicitly fix much for me, it was genuinely soothing to my withered, bitter soul to simply see a view that wasn't captured by all the things that yt uses to capture their creators with. Lots of respect.

[@RCfromtheNYC]

I recently rebuilt a Lenovo T440p laptop (upgraded the CPU to an i7, 16gb of memory, dual-bandWifi card, and a heatsink hack for better cooling, with a screen update is next), and I was able to get higher benchmarks and rendering a video in 720p worked surprisingly well.

[@CryptoFeez]

You always on the budget I like that

[@andromydous]

First, I love that "BSoD" shirt! More importantly, you could fix it up, or upgrade it, and donate it. A lot of people assume that everyone has some sorta device for internet/videos. You'd be amazed at how many kids still don't have access to those devices (outside of school).

[@s.g.3042]

I have the same specs laptop as Oz, just by Fujitsu, bought it used for under 100€ - works like a charm.

[@Edman_79]

For some reason I expected a Core 2 Duo :D

[@arsucksatpvp5301]

It has a i5 man

[@ScienceAlliance]

never knew there were dual core i5s lol.

[@arsucksatpvp5301]

@@ScienceAlliance there were dual core i5 laptops during the time of desktop 4 core i5s

[@KingASE88]

I LOVE ThinkPads, best laptop ever. I own a lot of em...

[@RackaApps]

i bought this laptop last month for $120 with 240GB SSD, 8GB RAM and i7 4600u. I use for editing in Davinci and Kdenlive. Editing on Davicni is terrible but very smooth on Kdenlive with 1080p. Also Final Cut Pro X works perfectly on this thing on hackintosh. I don't like the hackintosh though because i can't change the wifi card because of the stupid Lenovo whitelist shit.

[@dousted2629]

Great vid! I love most Thinkpads but I would personally go for a t530/t430/x230. One gen older cpu with higher tdp but more powerful. They still have pcmcia for easy plug n play egpu. And some T series versions have thunderbolt. I have two x230s I use for video editing (Premiere works better than Da Vinci resolve) and machine learning with thx 970. Work great

[@dave4shmups]

Great video Oz! I’ve heard nothing but bad things about the trackpad on that Thinkpad model.

[@anthonyseboe4646]

If you plan on getting a t440s with the 126GB ssd, be warned. I have one and the ssd straight up died. Checked in the bios and it didn't show up :( Upgrading to 12Gb of ram is an option that helps a lot. My future plans are to replace the internal battery and upgrade the external. You may have difficulties getting an external gpu to work since there's a whitelist in the bios for m.2 devices. There are guides online on how to flash it but the hard part is finding someplace that is hosting the file. Good luck to you, my dude.

[@allenalesna]

0:40 Is that a Hackintosh? 3:08 That shirt!

[@ButtProsecutor]

Shoutout to old Thinkpads, I literally just picked up a T520 with basically the same specs as yours except mine has an I7-2620m. On a budget they get the job done for a solid light work laptop and you can always find them cheap when IT departments are dumping off old hardware at the end of fiscal quarters

[@coccoborg]

The T440s uses U class processors, if you want higher TDP CPUs (up to 45W!) get the T440p, you can swap the processor and go for pretty much any mobile Haswell model, have a 4810qm in mine and it still feels powerful today. You can even get PGA-adapted H series processors form TaoBao if you're daring, they have IRIS graphics, but also have a 55W TDP and will heat up significantly more.

[@thedungeondelver]

My laptops are a C2D Dell 1545 and a Mobile Celeron dual core HP/Compaq of similar vintage. Planning on upgrading both of them (both have 4gb RAM and dinky HDs).

[@XtremeConditions]

Tbh, this laptop is going to be pretty good for 1080p editing overall. Maybe nothing crazy extensive, but for basic edits, these are more than enough. Keep in mind, I used to edit on an old AMD Turion 64x2 laptop. I made it work as best as I could. It wasn't great. In fact it was terrible, but it did what I needed it to do. Considering the i5 4300u is something like 4x as powerful and the iGPU is about 8x as powerful, that should speak volumes of it's overall capabilities as a half-decent editing setup. I'm curious if Sony Vegas would have treated you better. It's what I've used forever, so I've never bothered with anything else.

[@Trusteft]

Depends on the version of Vegas. Later versions are more resource hungry and even when they run on lower spec machines, they are a pain due to the constant crashes.

[@BlazeElPadrino662]

I've been a ThinkPad fan since my childhood, but I recently made the switch over to an HP Elitebook Workstation and aside from the awful keyboard (versus the TX20 ThinkPads) the upgrade path on these is amazing as they do use MXM GPUs! I do agree that the best upgrade you can get for this specific model would be to run it with an eGPU, but I don't remember if you must install any custom BIOS for it to work... Best regards!

[@astrojade4802]

Damn man, you have amazing patience!! I have a dual core laptop, and it breaks my head on everything, from opening win explorer, to video editing, and you can forget about gaming. Sometimes i wish i could break it, but, thats the only laptop i own :(

[@100Bucks]

Keep a batch file on the desktop to clean the cache, temps files,and prefetch files. Also make another one and keep it inside the start up folder. That way every time you turn on the laptop, it will self clean all the garbage files eating the memory.

[@astrojade4802]

@@100Bucks awesum i will give it a try!! thanks!!!

[@100Bucks]

@@astrojade4802 Here's a guide to make one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l6W0fWypiph4mrM

[@spirit8745]

Hey Ozy, use ThrottleStop, it provides a function called : PowerCut, essentially tricking the TDP sensor. Activate it when its using a low wattage :P

[@Sonic6293]

Hey, the hackintosh is back!

[@keeperofthegood]

I see in the comments you don't plan on doing an upgrade curve on this but you know you give a lot of good grounded experience driven information. An upgrade ark over several uploads would be a worthy channel project and could build inspiration in audience members. Sure, you started out with 'cheap trash' and ended with 'polished tur...ash' but for the ROI of it, a 4 or 5 part series would be quite interesting. I do think that this would also marry well with your eBay foray as well.

[@Minitomate]

For a time I worked at editig videos on integrated graphics until I realized that the program wasn't using the dedicated one (yes, my lap has one integrated and another one dedicated). The weird part was that editing on the integrated one was smoother and the dedicated one was choppier but faster. I don't know the reason why it behaves this way.

[@spencerparsons3849]

You should go all out on that thinkpad, more/better ram, external gpu, water cooling, etc. that would be a dope ass video!!

[@bgn200]

Those thinkpads are very modular and easy to repair. I would see how much the keyboard and trackpad replacement would be. You can even upgrade to an ips panel (did this to my cousin's t450). As a travel laptop you can bang around and wouldn't lose sleep over, they're great.

[@scribblemethis]

For lower resource machines, you might try Shotcut

[@rcald-gz5jd]

*Oz* Consider investing in a replacement keyboard. On Ebay, if you search "T440s keyboard", you should be able to pick up an OEM keyboard for approximately $30. Remember that you want an "OEM" keyboard, so if any listing says non backlit, then it's a non-official, but compatible part.

[@ryanhines293]

Always had fun with installing lightweight linux distros (favorite distro of all time #! Crunchbang) Linux on laptops and seeing the max amount of performance I could squeeze out of it.

[@manifestasialam]

Glad that i can find this video. Because I have a poor ThinkPad X240 laptop for my first laptop :')

[@hunterfabio]

Liked it before even watching it.

[@OzTalksHW]

a real one

[@hunterfabio]

@@OzTalksHW I can't find nothing under 80usd for a decent laptop, in the US you are so lucky! Micro center for example, wish I had of that here :(

[@SMGGamingBenchmarks]

me too

[@yourMAMA.]

@@OzTalksHW you suck

[@TheCoomer]

Thank you

[@mclaine33]

Oz I challenge you to use a true dual core non-hyperthreaded laptop. I bet it won’t be possible to do editing on that! I have a classic Sony Vaio from 2009 with a Core 2 Duo T9900. It’s not a good laptop by any means nowadays but it’s still good for basic web browsing and smaller tasks.

[@SMGGamingBenchmarks]

Nice Intro BTW

[@gekotagirl]

Woah woah woah *pauses at 3:05 * I want that shirt.

[@typeqtv]

You can turn it into an emulation laptop. That’s what ETA Prime did. Seems like a better use for it than anything.

[@TheJohnDenim]

Everyone loves Ozzy! Merry Christmas my dude.

[@maltomeal3]

Did you try Throttlestop? I've had luck with it over just XTU.

[@unheard5982]

6:44 i got almost same feelings with "upgraded" Acer [E5-573G-553C] 12Gb RAM + 240GB ssd.

[@maverik0071]

keep the lenovo..clean it up and upgrade it. You will see a major difference. They really hold up to modern laptops. Thanks for the knowledge bro

[@MisterPikol]

I used to do 4k rendering with my core 2 duo E8400 bro :D

[@Cyberjin]

9:52 use it with an EGPU :) you can DIY for cheap

[@killervacuum]

I recently started using Resolve and although I really like it, I ran into a lot of optimization/freezing issues. Thanks for the tips! Vegas runs great on low-end hardware btw

[@bobafruti]

killervacuum nobody gives Vegas any credit, yet it’s been around forever and has actually been usable since the very beginning (talk to anybody about the horror stories of early versions of Premiere 🤣🤣🤣)

[@killervacuum]

@@bobafruti having used recent versions of both, I agree vegas is a lot more solid and dependable, but there's still a lot of wacky things about it. mainly the way the pan/crop tool works is way less intuitive than simply dragging and resizing something in premiere or resolve. don't know why they haven't updated it yet

[@bobafruti]

killervacuum yeah, it’s pretty weird and given that the ownership keeps changing I’m not entirely sure what the future of Vegas is.

[@kzdaptgz]

Transform this laptop into a desktop, make a case, upgrade it and build a setup! It would be amazing

[@RevDrCCoonansr]

Interesting comparison. A desktop replacement vs a paperweight/potato.

[@MaseraSteve2]

Quite interesting cases a few generation back the dualcore i5 it’ll still kinda struggles at proxy? Then How come few generation later with the surface book also equipped with dual core i5 6th gen handles them pretty well in premiere pro without frame drop and crashes (at proxy also) maybe the nvidia gpu helps? I’ll try my i3 with similar gen but also have nvidia gpu

[@nopower3970]

Try some emulation. Definitely try adding a external gpu, would like to see how it goes.👍 Also Merry Xmas 🎅

[@NormanF62]

The gpu is more the limiting factor than the dual core cpu. That’s the least expensive way to upgrade performance. If you hate waiting to get video processing done, quad core is the way to go.

[@ForeverSynce]

Do a budget eGPU setup with da laptop

[@staticnetwork]

I'm curious if you used a linux based OS on this if that would help.

[@aisle9]

Swap in a clean keyboard and palmrest then flip the thing. A T440S is still worth right around $150 on eBay with that hardware, and a T440 (is yours definitely an S?) for about the same.

[@lacucaracha111111]

Wait you have a BSOD shirt xD nice

[@Inivican]

This is the last Lenovo ThinkPad with a socketed processor. That means you can actually swap out the CPU. If you can find a better, compatible CPU, you should go for it. Also, you can replace the trackpad with a MUCH better one. You can also replace the palmrest if its ugliness bothers you too much.

[@goldenstarmusic1689]

Absolutely try using an external video card with the $65 laptop!

[@fernellherrera2828]

Old video but still subscribe today June 29th, 2020!!! keep it up

[@ChrisD__]

We just spent $300 on a T450S a few months ago. Didn't realize how cheap the busted up ones can go for outside of eBay...

[@OzTalksHW]

Yeah I didn't realize how good I had it until after the fact. I may clean it up and then sell it

[@ChrisD__]

@@OzTalksHW You might be able to get more out of it if you swap the trackpad for the one in the T450. It's a hell of a lot better.

[@denierlexiese]

I think this was a particularly good deal. I fix and resell laptops on the side, and this at 68$ is a killer deal. Laptops between 4th gen to 8th gen went through a ultra notebook phase, where laptops were slower, but slim. Fat laptops from the 2nd gen with a mq will trounce these ultra lightbooks. Only recently with the rtx 20 series have laptops gotten small and fast but you pay a premium. The t440s should be cheap - 150$, and be good enough for the average user on a budget traveling.

[@RackaApps]

$300 is pretty good for a t450s. That's if you get at least 240GB SSD and 8GB RAM or more.

[@ChrisD__]

@@RackaApps Yeah. It came with a new 128GB SSD and 12GB of RAM. It was basically new. The scam battery off Amazon brought it up to $300. My only complaints are the battery life being only about ~2.5 hours on a good day, I broke the U key, and a weird glow from the IPS panel when adjusting the lid or if it get's twisted.

[@sa1rsa]

I think you should add an external GPU to the laptop, and try to make it still as portable as possible. I have an old HP laptop with a 2nd gen i5 and a totally incompetent quadro, and have considered this mod but I never really want to put any money into it in case it catches fire or something.

[@raulsifuentes702]

I was looking for a video like this. Do you know if Davinci works on a snapdragon computer with the latest Qualcomm chip?

[@doughnutman8832]

If it was a t440p upgrading will be sweet:)

[@zain670]

Do Make a Video on Davinci Resolve. is it industry leading editing software and how it compares to Premiere pro cc

[@ej_tech]

Add an e-GPU! I have a laptop with similar specs (3rd gen 2-core i5) but has a GT 630M. It's pretty much a potato GPU but it is WAY better than nothing. Resolve will use that GPU on anything that can be GPU accelerated offloading a lot of the burden from the CPU. In Premiere, it will use the iGPU to hardware accelerate H.264 video while using the dGPU for things like color grading. I can edit 1080p60 in Premiere no problem.

[@front2760]

I`d like to find a GPS program for my old acer laptop.I have the antenna but could not find any for win 7/64.It would be interesting i think to take a full size laptop for a drive.

[@FurryDeathMedia]

Where did you buy that BSOD shirt? :D

[@joshdough1845]

Ryzen 5 5600X and a 5600XT handle well for editing but amazing for music production. 32gb of ram and an nine drive later and tis smooth

[@schumbo8324]

I can play Wot and cs:go on lowest settings on my 4310u cpu with hd4400 so you can figure out a use scenario according to that. (1080p, 8 gigs dual channel ddr3)

[@bucoescobar1961]

Here is the thing: I claim that a MacBook Pro from 2013 with comparable CPU and igpu will be a complete different story for 4k editing than this ThinkPad .(even the 2012 models with ivy bridge might beat it) It's not just about hardware . If you don't believe me . Test it :)

[@bertnijhof5413]

What about a dual core Dec 2011 HP Elitebook 8460p (i5 2520m 8GB), that I bought 2nd hand in 2017. It runs Ubuntu 19.10 on ZFS from a 1TB SSHD. The lz4 compression of ZFS almost doubled the amount of code, that I could cache in the 8GB Solid State cache and in a 1.5GB memory cache. Linux and Linux VMs run completely from both caches and have instantaneous response times. Windows 7 and 10 are more bloated, but they still have very good response times, think half a second or less. Wishes for next year: 16GB, a SSD of 500GB (sacrificing the DVD) and maybe a 4-core i7 if < $75.

[@kippenkopjes]

KZbin is trolling me. yesterday you didn`t have a beard.

[@aaronholt78]

Ya I wanna see the upgrade and external gpu then as my birthday gift haha

[@_MoshikoAz_]

did you gave up on hackintosh for laptops ?

[@michaeltechroom]

i am running davinci resolve 15 on a 4 core intel devil canyon desktop processor & a laptop with intel dual-core i7-6500U processor

[@johnsmith-gs4qf]

My laptop (2013 quad-core) won't even play 4k footage (or pauses and crashes constantly). I am really thinking of getting a new one later in the year when the new amd apu laptops come out.

[@johnrenzcaballero4308]

T540p user represent✊

[@GEDOOO]

Try to upgrade itt

[@idcrafter-cgi]

you can decrease crashes with linux

[@mikemorris4442]

These thinkpad are really easy to replace the keyboard. Also you should be able to upgrade the cpu and ram.

[@tordoff80]

im a noob how do i get the ryzen 2200g to go over its clock speed it wont go over stock settings i saw ya vid on it but it didnt help ive 16 gig ram is it cos im useing the built in gpu why it wont overclock

[@MisterPikol]

but bro, where did you get such a sweet deal on that Lenovo

[@KevinAdams06]

How did you install d resolve without a gpu? I have not had success.

[@myghi63]

Wait, the intel graphics actually worked on davinci resolve??? I have a i5-4200U and I never got opencl to work on any operationg system

[@Azam_Pakistan]

I need to buy a used video editing laptop for 1080p. There are many with 2 GB graphic cards and i7 4-5 gen (T440s, p, W 540). The problem is that these cards are not included in the list of Premiere CC (2019) list. Will these cards still benefit editing? The second choice is a bulkier zbook 15 with quadcore i5 or i7 (4th Gen), 8GB RAM, 2 GB graphics card. But I would go for it only if it's worth the price and bulk difference and it should edit 4k.Your expert advice please.

[@computerherz1]

think of using egpu. they are mostly more strong than zhe dedicated gpu inside the laptop. Just look on the size and cooling for a egpu. I think it will serve for years, if you can use it at home. on the go you might do certain editing stuff, and do renderring and heavy editing at home with a egpu.

[@jonglass]

"but somehow, I made it work" (shows the MacOS dock on the screen) ! On a more serious note, you should try to find a cheap, older MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, and try editing a 4K video with iMovie (if it can do 4K) or Final Cut Pro. Curious how well one of those would hold up.

[@shorb2289]

they don't hold up

[@Dibowac]

What is the outro music?. [24-12-2019_01-44.]

[@siolablack4340]

Can we edit KZbin videos on any laptop or ipad

[@MeechJacobs]

Max out all the parts you can AND use the EX GPU!