Back when Dell tried to be “fun”.

[@reeeee3398]

dude you are getting weed

[@somethingIsRad]

;)

[@coolcomments]

Yes please

[@CrashOverride2507]

sweet!

[@Win98-f8p]

0:36 that aged well

[@Balrog-tf3bg]

Adele must have been terrified when that spiky hair dude kept telling dudes to go get her

[@37Kilo2]

Everyone I knew couldn't stand the "Dude, you're getting a Dell" kid. Yet, it was a successful ad campaign. I love older laptops. They were easily upgradeable. Nothing was soldered on, easy access components, removable batteries. Times have changed.

[@chaweeasdfghjkl]

that p4 sound at 1:55 gave me goosebumps

[@BilisNegra]

14:16 Not the year 2000. The ad itself mentions a 1997 review, and Pentium IIs are obviously a 97/98 thing, early 99 too maybe. But that said, computing was evolving at a crazy speed by then, much to the pleasure of the computer magazine reader (the kind who also would read about sports cars they will never own), much to the distress of owners whose PCs were going obsolete in so few years. Using a 10+ year old computer for everyday computing is totally doable today, and absolutely unthinkable back then. By the way, your using a clean Win XP install makes all the difference with that impressively low RAM consumption. A factory image with all the additional software would typically get way worse results (I said "typically" because I have no idea what may have come preinstalled with that specific model). Last, but not least, congrats on that history intro with all the marketing stuff and commercials from the time. That's quite an unexpected bonus for a smallish (but a growing one, I expect) channel.

[@Duraputer]

Yeah, I was looking for an early 2000s add, but couldn't find one as interesting as this one. Still considering that the Pentium 4 was released 4-5 years after that shows how fast things were improving.

[@ElectronicInspiration]

I love the design of early 2000s products, like my blue Toshiba A75

[@ElectronicInspiration]

@@askjeevescosby2928 who could've guessed that it died lol... had some fun with is while it lasted

[@stoerre]

What do you think of late 2000s laptops? Such as my Toshiba Satellite L505-S5990. As for early 2000s desktops, I do wish I could get a Dell Dimension desktop with OEM Windows XP.

[@brady_w904]

⁠@@stoerrei have a dying qosmio from the late 2000s with a type of innovative design never seen again

[@stoerre]

@@brady_w904 pics?

[@brady_w904]

@@stoerre just look up qosmio x305

[@MotownBatman]

Dude You're Getting a Dell! This was Common Speak like WAZZUUUUPPP! LOL or BOOM! Tuff Actin' Tinnactin!

[@subwaygaragemusic]

The WMP visualizations in 60fps looked so trippy. I love it.

[@starsINSPACE]

When I was a little kid, I wanted a Gateway computer because the ads always showed their computers coming in a cow-print box and I thought that box was cool! Back then, another marketing gimmick was computer monitors with cutouts of cartoon characters velcroed onto the big bevels of the CRT screens. I mean to say the silliest things get kids to influence their parents to go to the computer store in the 90s and 00s 😂 I think the "Dude, you're getting a Dell!" advertising campaign worked because it helped normalize the "family computer" or even a computer that was exclusively just for the kids. Your average young kid or even teen was lucky if they got any computer, let alone one that ran an OS like Windows XP. It took parents a while to realize Windows 95 through Windows XP were so user-friendly and that getting on the Internet wasn't too hard to do. Moreover, I think most parents didn't give kids laptops back then. Kids would just drop them or take them to the kitchen and spill something on them. The way I remember it, all the computer labs in schools had desktop computers just sitting out but the laptop were kept locked away in a cart and were brought out only for particular lessons. Wireless networking was new back then too which made laptops even less appealing for schools. In 1999, no more than 23 percent of schools used wireless networking (according to the national center for education statistics / U.S. department of education) I looked at some other stats and only 30 percent of American elementary schools had internet access on computers in 1994; 94 percent did by 1999.

[@Vint_2003]

I'm a proud owner of a Dell XPS M1710 in fomula red and a Dell Latitude C600, I love both of them despite me not using them much.

[@Psythik]

I bought (and still have) the big and bulky first gen XPS laptop from 2004. It had a 3.4GHz *desktop* Pentium 4, an entire gigabyte of RAM, and a Mobility Radeon 9700, one of the worst graphics cards I ever had the misfortune of gaming on. It was so underpowered that you couldn't run a single contemporary game at its native 1920x1200 resolution. Half-Life 2 couldn't even maintain 30 FPS with *medium* settings at 720p. Worst $3000 I ever spent on a PC. It was so bad that I learned how to build PCs and never bought another laptop ever again.

[@Vint_2003]

@@Psythik Damn.

[@vaultdweller2287]

@@PsythikNot running half life at 60+ fps is quite the achievement

[@Nyorane]

Great vid =) I remember using an Inspiron as a youth. (It's in an eternal sleep in my closet.)

[@tocaizo]

Its like Dude, your getting a dell! But it sounds like “Dude, your getting Adele!

[@askjeevescosby2928]

Cool you still have your old laptop. I had the black Friday special hp ze2000 349 was a amazing deal for a laptop in 2004. The charger port went bad but it actually had a second charger port that the original port plugged into inside the laptop. Since a new port cost like 100 dollars I instead cut the corner of the laptop off so I could plug the charger directly into the interior charger port 🤣 I really don't know why the laptop had a second power port inside but I used it like that for years before that port broke. Then I got a hp dv6900.

[@dylanlindsay1993]

the screen resolution on that old dell is higher than my 2011 15 inch macbook pro that im watching this video on! my MBP screen res is 1400x900 so that old dell screen res is a lil higher!

[@presidentcherry6193]

This video is, like, TOTES rad, dude! I can see the potential in this guy. Keep up the good work, dude.

[@VarnokGamer]

Dell: The Buick of the computer world

[@theodricaethelfrith]

Dude, you're getting a cell

[@sprintertrueno1985]

The "dude you're getting a dell!" that sound so f*cking boring hahaha it's like telling your kid "hey dude! you're getting a potato for christmas!" hahahah

[@WalterKnox]

I have 2 inspiron 5100 machines. I quite like them, both of them still have great battery life despite having the original batteries and full desktop Pentium 4 CPUs. I actually used one to replace my main laptop of 10 years, my Dell Latitude D610 when it died earlier this year. The only big issues with these machines were the hinge screws would come loose and cause the plastic lid to crack around them due to flexing. Keeping those screws tight with some thread locker is a great idea, it is an almost guaranteed failure otherwise.

[@Balrog-tf3bg]

May I ask what you use your laptop for that would make this still useable?

[@WalterKnox]

@@Balrog-tf3bg Make this still usable? It is still fully usable as a normal PC as long as you don't do any power user type things(which on a laptop, I would not.) Mine has a wifi card and 2gb RAM installed, and it is still great.

[@Balrog-tf3bg]

@@WalterKnox Please educate me then. I’m still trying to learn about computers, old and new. Only been into them little over a year

[@WalterKnox]

@@Balrog-tf3bg I am genuinely confused on what you want me to educate you on. You asked what I did to make the laptop usable. I didn't do anything to make it usable, with 2GB RAM, it is still fully usable as a basic laptop, there is nothing more to it than that. The only addition would be to use the viewtube extension for KZbin because KZbin can be a bit slow to play.

[@Balrog-tf3bg]

@@WalterKnox I’m autistic and I kinda find it mind blowing that such old hardware can still compete in some sense. I love learning. What sort of programs do you run? We have older dell latitudes running i5, at school that can barely run the software needed for my classes, yet my R9 runs it without breaking a sweat. It’s just cool I guess

[@VAG2001]

Dude, your getting a cell!

[@pacbloxer6932]

1:45 "DUDE were getting a dell." Was actually refrenced in the anime Ghost Stories in 2000. Episode 8 15:07 which is crazy cuz the English voice actors saw the add

[@Psythik]

Dude, *everyone* in America saw this ad back then.

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

I always love these Pentium 4 dells. Some of them are duds, but some like the 5150 and the 5160 are super functional with the right upgrades as they use the more modern dell barrel charger instead of the horrid 3 prong charger that this model and many others use.

[@remixedcat]

green beans!!!!!! grean bean battery!

[@GamingLiveEnt457PH]

I wonder if you can Dissasemble that "Dell Blue Dude"

[@jamestheredenginefan5268]

Hey that’s my dad’s laptop!!!! He gave it to me though. Muahahahaha!

[@allentoyokawa9068]

Made In Japan Battery, that is why it works

[@ulungultrapromax]

What's the max amount of RAM it can run? Maybe it can run modern OSes like Windows 10?🤔🤔🤔🙏🏻

[@GamingLiveEnt457PH]

There are some VIds that this Laptop could run Windows 7

[@dcfbf]

very cool laptop though I am very bothered by the cursed windows key placement on the top right of the keyboard

[@HardbassTV.]

Dell was my childhood, i had a xp pc

[@amdintelxsniperx]

the 1100 and 5100 were pretty much identical minus the radeon gpu

[@amdintelxsniperx]

back in the day when intel used to threaten oems to charge more for there cpus if they used amd athlons which ran circles around them

[@faqih10c]

Omg that laptop screen resolution is better than mine which only 1366x768

[@jmwloup5110]

Looks like Linus of linus tech tips

[@gamagama69]

bruh thats more than my 2017 inspiron was lmao (768p)

[@Gabriel_from_ultrakill_]

Dude, you're getting an HP

[@raincatpawz]

im watching this on a dell computer 💀💀

[@eocbbdoslab]

me to

[@itstheweirdguy]

Dude, if I ever made a youtube video showing off a laptop, I'd probably smell it too. How would the audience know?

[@tada.orotsu]

\o/

[@4verageYTuser]

Those were cool. But I don't get why they just couldn't go with a minimalist design like apple.

[@samuelzinjgs]

0:36 bro 💀💀💀💀

[@plechaim]

No one ever said dude were getting a dell And who has $750 stuffed down the couch? 😂 awful!

[@grabasandwich]

It was going great til the Dell guy got busted 🤣

[@prodbyphntm]

i coulda told you myself hes a stoner lmaoooo

[@pepsiman91]

Apple and its moronic following ruined the industry behind the product visuals, I WANT MY BULKY LAPTOP WITH FAN PORTS BACK NOW

[@cpyt]

0:36 uhm

[@Duraputer]

Yeah, that is from an add from 1999. Here is a link to it if you want to see the whole thing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4u0iYGpe9tnj5osi=-9_Lu-rOzucTRDIr

[@samuelzinjgs]

@@Duraputer well that quite didnt aged well

[@marvinochieng6295]

everything doesnt have to be cool you guy. it is a laptop fan, dvd drive etc

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

Call me boring, but my Dimension 2400 being "le computer" makes it one of my favorites.

[@antonmuffin6214]

Dell, we know you cant afford a mac

[@vaultdweller2287]

if sensible people could afford a Mac they wouldn’t buy it.

[@arki_cds422]

pum 4

[@TCperry]

Cool xp laptop. Would be a neat old pc games machine. Jesus loves you!

[@NervesiT]

how did this lame marketing techinic even work

[@computersetc1123]

Dell was never boring at all. Apple iBook of that time was ugly. And Apple is an awful company you cannot custom build desktops. You cannot repair your own and I am in rural Georgia no Apple Store you have to drive over 100 miles. Build your own or buy a Dell is best.

[@remixedcat]

their optiplex and precision desktops and latitude and precision laptops are awesome.

[@NottJoeyOfficial]

I used a Dell Latitude E5430 from 2013 to 2019. It was so good that I replaced it with the same model when it needed to be replaced. Been on my current Dell Latitude E5430 ever since 2019 now and plan to use it until around 2028. They are amazing machines, and I pieced mine together from broken laptops and about $150 of parts. It works amazingly well for a 2012 laptop, does everything except games released in the past 10 years or so. Lower requirement games and retro games work great on it!

[@Some_guy_whos_here]

Dum

[@cgwworldministries83]

what the heck is that music? just don't include music if it has to be that terrible bro.