Dell's Massive 17" Gaming Laptop from 2004!

[@psivewri]

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[@TechProYoutube]

Psivewri have a great weekend too

[@basshead2.089]

Love your vids man!

[@maxmunday5703]

Have a good weekend too

[@banabreadd]

Great video! Do you use the H264ify extension when testing KZbin videos?

[@gamenfix2586]

I owned that exact laptop I almost ran windows ten

[@dors5969]

FHD screen in 16 years old laptop... amazing.

[@_shadow_1]

The screen is better than my laptop that is only one year old ( 1366×768 I think )

[@Praneel]

@@_shadow_1 yo same

[@nihatshalkar4410]

Dor s my 8 year old laptop has 1366x768 panel

[@zenitpro]

Actually, a few lines above FHD, as the horizontal resolution on that screen is 1200, and FHD is 1080!

[@jamesdoe4515]

Technically it's WUXGA

[@Channel-mj2iv]

This guys voice, the simplicity of the video, how calming it is and my love for computers makes this guy perfect

[@kruegersix]

Eucalyptus Oil actually increases a laptop’s value by 100 percent.

[@GoogleUser-hr6xm]

True

[@SapphireTech1]

True

[@Lightning2011]

True

[@snack6837]

That’s hot

[@Lightning2011]

@@kekkodance I deleted it for ya

[@elcael]

There is something so pleasant in watching an old computer getting cleaned and brought back to its glory.

[@stargate1552]

yeah its just satisfying with him cleaning a computer and putting more life and value into it.

[@therandomytchannel4318]

I had an old Dell from 2004 and some buddies of mine and myself took it out to a farm far away from the city and we got some 30-06 rifles and 12 gauge shotgun slugs, well you know the rest, long story short, it faced the firing squad 😎👍

[@tradito]

even better if eucalyptus oil is involved.

[@jdo248]

Nathan: I'll clean it with a little bit of eucalyptus oil. Proceeds to completely pass it through the car wash. Nice! Great video. Keep up the good work.

[@meisdanoob]

Ha

[@rhaib]

Ho

[@KingZazaTheThird]

He

[@piment0_420]

Lol

[@ALTHENZ]

Back in 2013 my grandpa gave me one of these that had a virus lol

[@aardbeiwastaken]

Was it bought used? What kind of virus? Lol.

[@beanosdrhm7849]

@@aardbeiwastaken it's just virus he wont tell dont be bitchy

[@EliminationSquare]

@@aardbeiwastaken maybe memz or trojan

[@aardbeiwastaken]

I highly doubt someone got MEMZ in 2013

[@EliminationSquare]

@gamer 7 minutes

[@fVNzO]

That screen is absolutely incredible. 1080p didn't arrive on desktop until 2006 and the first full HD plasma tvs arrived in 2004 as well i believe. Off course there were crts capable of above 2K resolutions in the late 90's but this is an LCD.

[@KaedeAnimation]

Apple Cinema Display came with 1920x1200 in 2002 so Apple is the first to have that on their desktop

[@EWC897]

This was my very first laptop. I remember loving it for how easily upgradable it was. The only difference was that it ran on the Media Center edition of Windows Xp.

[@DanTDMJace]

Ahh, you had an Inspiron 6000, not an Inspiron 9200

[@tacticoolnukes849]

This laptop was legitimately my first ever laptop. Granted, i got it back in 2014 but the point stands

[@Diencuboy]

I'm proud to say that my grandpa used to own this one and I was one of a few kids who can experience IT early. Such a nice childhood memories

[@DanTDMJace]

My grandma had one of these... I miss XP.

[@flodavis1561]

I had that exact model growing up! This is childhood nostalgia for me oh my god

[@SharkVaderYT]

That thing has a higher resolution than my laptop

[@av28379]

Same

[@sriramx1]

Same, even some new laptops have a worse res

[@ckreestone]

me too

[@edgarsekis790]

Same but im using a 1080p monitor

[@SpaceSysZ]

@@edgarsekis790 same i have a 1366x768 dell inspiron

[@Sonen10]

It’s called Memory Stick. It was a proprietary memory card format from Sony that was popular during the 2000s. It seems as if you and the previous owner confused the two.

[@marufbepary100]

My NVMe SSD is literally 100 times faster than that HDD. Shows how far we've come in 16 years.

[@siddhoot]

Maruf Bepary i got an ssd drive not nvme. It’s still fast af tho :)

[@onometre]

And laptop screen resolutions are still largely lower

[@marufbepary100]

@@onometre To be fair, that resolution is considered to be the minimum now. We have 4K UHD which is around 4 times higher than that. You need to remember that at that time, screen resolution were 480p or something like that.

[@virtualtools_3021]

@@marufbepary100 1024x768 was pretty common on laptops then, its like 4:3 equivalent of 720p, then it was 1368x768 for the longest time

[@LiquidusSnakeX]

@lasest2 Yeah but 720p on a 15 inch or lower screen is really not THAT bad. But yeah there are a lot of laptops under 500 bucks that are in 720p. I'd personally never go under 1080p in this day and age. Prefer 1440p myself at the moment. 4k is just not here yet without sacrificing frame rate.

[@ScreaminUgmoE]

I would love to see how this laptop does with upgraded parts, maxed out RAM, and SSD stuff like thag

[@stargate1552]

Nah, i dont think you can just throw an rtx and maxed out ram into an 18 year old computer, but even without it that laptop is pretty good

I have a maxed out XPS m1710 which is from 2006 if I remember and it looks very similar to this one. I used it up until about 2016/2017 running windows 10 mostly for retro gaming. Now it is running Linux Mint and I boot it up every now and then cause it has a DVD burner and an SD card reader, which can come in handy. With linux mint it is still a pleasure to use it even in 2023. I have even replaced the battery and CMOS battery recently. I think it may still see some use on it's 20th birthday =)

[@colin5064]

How can you use win 10 on this laptop ,are all drivers and bios update needed? I have a 9300 with win xp on it would love to run Win 10 if possible. mine has 2gb ram installed plus Intel Pentium M 770 (2.13GHz/2M/533MHZ) CPU Processor@​

[@SurrealCubeOnly]

That aint no notebook, thats a THICCbook

[@komocomedy9086]

Underrated comment we got here

[@ondrejbrandejsky5592]

Atleast it has a personality, not like the new aluminium bricks

[@WantBadtime]

Nah, this is a *thicbook Pro* kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHy6c4ijh7xmh9E And I own this

[@kev1277]

Chungus book

[@universaleliteinc.6554]

textbook

[@nothingposted9056]

I remember getting one of these in 2008, it was my first laptop and survived my sheer teenage incompetence for years. It's actually so resilient that my parents are using it in 2020

[@somegx]

I literally have the exact same laptop. It was passed around the family, and ended up with us. Now it's on the floor of the dining room gathering dust.

[@danielOconahap]

keep it. like an end of the world last resort laptop

[@benzjiman6931]

Espurrrxd buy your own

[@rxgtv]

install windows 7

[@x5nash870]

install gentoo

[@FS--ew3se]

@Espurrrxd u can get a cheap older i5 or i7 Mac cheap instead lmao

[@kena006]

i like how he doesnt tell you to subscribe he tells you politely to consider to subscribe

[@laurensnieuwland4657]

1:20 A00? Damn, that thing is in dire need of a bios update!

[@kaverixp8562]

IKR!

[@slapshotjack9806]

It’s from 2004 what do you expect?

[@Joespart9010]

He just wanted to flex his computer knowledge. Nobody really cares

[@laurensnieuwland4657]

@@Joespart9010 didn't wanna flex. Just have never seen a Dell with such a low bios version before

[@llynellyn]

Actually you don't want to update the BIOS, Dell removed the manual fan controls from later BIOS which means you can't get it to stop throttling during heavy gaming sessions (former owner).

[@petabyte234]

That memory card is actually a psp memory stick duo

[@rxgtv]

lol i remember those, but i hacked the hell out of my vitas just to get sd2vita working

[@bigpierogi]

You should test wolfenstein: enemy territory on these old laptops.

[@devonkhosa1846]

RetroShack oh man. Gaia online

[@synthris2]

That is my childhood game

[@MakoNext]

@@synthris2 i still play it!!

[@synthris2]

@@MakoNext me too. Its really fun!

[@zacharynapoleon4428]

I used to have the XPS version of this thing, I'm pretty sure it was the first laptop to have RGB lighting on it

[@johnruschmeyer5769]

That would be the XPS M1710, I think. If you want a really massive laptop, try an XPS M1730 from a few years later.

[@zacksstuff]

"You could totally insulate a house with the stuff." Yeah but... Ew.

[@nena_nezali]

@@melvinharris7859 Yep. That's definitely smoker dust.

[@lilpeanut]

* inchulate

[@lilpeanut]

​@Xavior Joyce lol it was a joke about how he pronounced it in the video nbd

[@johncate9541]

I picked up a second-hand Inspiron 1764 not too long ago that would lock up under stress. Turned out it had the same problem. Probably hadn't been opened up and cleaned out since it left Dell in 2010.

[@MrMickey1987]

That XP boot up sound is so lovely ❤️

[@banglagaming5975]

until error sound appears xD

[@Mrwhosethesus]

Only here for Windows XP and eucalyptus oil :)

[@haseenabadshah5381]

69 likes lmao

[@dogocoton6698]

96

[@SeanWMODonnell]

Literally just got mine out. Time to go through and continue to update my classic game archive. 20+ years of hard drives, floppies, DVDs, flash drives, and sd cards to backup.

[@ghoulia8805]

When you realise this laptop your parents owned is in the shelf in the living room: ight ima go i got a computer to check out

[@jordan4929]

Why'd you write this in that format as if there was a setup for a joke genuinely what the fuck

[@FrosstKatt]

A full HD display in 2004 is insane

[@JorgeSanchezNL]

True.

[@random_person618]

Not even FHD, it's FHD+.

[@RodrigoFabretti]

I love your channel. It is incredibly satisfying to watch these laptops being cleaned.

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

This specific era of dell laptops are one of my favorites. They had just moved on from the early 2000’s grey and blue design languages that most of their Pentium 4 laptops had into their early Centrinos. This is one of the first examples of the “silver and white” design style getting implemented with the later Centrino tech, and eventually these machines would pioneer the rise of the Core 2 duo machines. My very first laptop ever was my family’s old PC, the Dell Inspiron e1405. A charming little small scale unit that still runs well today thanks to all the upgrades I’ve given it. This era of Dell took a bit to get to it as machines like this used IDE, but they eventually pioneered some of the first laptops to have sata! Also, these laptops are pretty easy to take apart, though as we saw it does take some time. I can get one of these machines down to its motherboard in around 5 minutes without any issues, which makes it super easy to upgrade the CPU’s in these machines.

[@RockRedGenesis]

That Lappy mush have been really nice back in 2004. XP looks gorgeous at higher resolutions!

[@rcuellarr]

I had an Inspiron 6000 that I purchased new in 2005. It was an excellent machine. Used it until 2011 when I crossed over into the Mac world. It stopped working due to a bad power connector. Your video inspired me to fix it and get it running againn

[@tonysmart6144]

When a laptop older than you has a better resolution then your current laptop

[@cmarting83]

I used to have a Dell inspiron 9300 with an nvidia gpu circa 2004, same chassis, screen, etc however I did upgrade the RAM a few years down the line. That was one of the best laptops I've ever owned, built like a tank and solid performance. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@MegaKirb]

omg i have this computer and you made my day teaching me how to kind of restore

[@_shadow_1]

I hope you also have a much newer pc that you use as your main driver

[@zachhutchins5431]

I have a dell inspiron 1501

[@kirbstomped361]

You have this? AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[@zachhutchins5431]

KIRB S T O M P E D yh i have one

[@MegaKirb]

@@_shadow_1 oh yeah i do lol

[@defyyourlogic487]

Tbh this thing was kinda a monster for 2004

[@pieterbikkel]

Waited for this one. Currently 00:30 am

[@Vuknovic_04]

Steven Poodle yes haha

[@Wolfiie]

Same lol

[@av28379]

02:05 am 4 me

[@SamuelBl4ck]

Same

[@ItsTrizzy262]

I remember I used to use Dell Inspiron 1501 which looked pretty much like that laptop except without the buttons on the front. It was a great laptop for the time and I still have it to this day.

[@Bawamode]

This laptop runs games better than my 2019 Macbook pro

[@azurekite3870]

Yea,cuz the macbook is not meant for gaming at all and can over really quickly.

[@Bawamode]

@@azurekite3870 ik was jus saying that sarcastically

[@FireFoxDestroyer]

@@azurekite3870still, the MacBook has so much more GPU power, so this is really embarrassing for Apple

[@pcdolendo7606]

Like it how old laptops have logical designs on their motherboard repair-ability. It has been a long time since i saw a laptop without soldered stuffs into the board with little to none user upgradable stuff. Even the battery nowadays are soldered if not hold by a tiny ribbon or flex cable.

[@tayokaiser859]

Faster then my 2019 HP 😭

[@SilentProti]

Don't buy brand new extra cheap electronics. I have an after leasing business hp laptop, it's got integrated graphics but you can still play games and watch KZbin in HD without issues.

[@dogocoton6698]

@Rafael Gaming wtf no u

[@agermancarguy6505]

hp is t r a s h

[@SweatySockGaming]

Dont buy new super cheap laptops, eg celeron cpu 4gb ram

[@FireFoxDestroyer]

Old good stuff lasts way longer than new cheap stuff, a 2009 dell Inspiron with an i5 and ssd can still totally kick compared to $100-$200 laptops

[@Ritermann]

I could start crying right now. This was the first Laptop I bought when I was young 🥺Brings back so many memories.

[@DebugMenu]

I have one of these with a GeForce 7950GTX in it, it’s an absolute beast. Perfect Windows XP era gaming machine.

[@Tipsythomas]

Same here got one back in Jan then a second as a spare parts unit. I really wanted to play scarface & other hard to run xp games.

[@ecarlevaro]

I watched this video using precisely that laptop. As a student in Australia, I bought it a year ago for AUD 50 to use it as a dinning-room TV. I had to get rid of WinXP and use Lubuntu instead, which worked out of the box. I can watch KZbin, Netflix, Stan, you name it. I'm extremely impressed.

[@sillygoose728]

Why not linux mint it's easy fun and cool

[@rarinth]

7:05 nostalgia

[@nicolascervanteslorenzothe5083]

Dell Inspiron 9200 Laptop it was the Release on December 23, 2004. Great Find Psivewri!

[@bryleedawn7341]

Fun fact: my grandma had this laptop still 8-9 years ago

[@julianwalker196]

I have two of these excellent laptops (built in Ireland), one of which I bought on eBay from a monk in a small monastery in the New Forest in Hampshire! Many thanks again for rescuing another great laptop.

[@mermaidgirl0075]

“Although it holds battery it only lasts for 10 mins” my mums old laptop from like 2013 can’t hold battery for a whole min 😂

[@TheCrow2269]

I still got mine. I have it upgraded to Windows 7 with a 500 gig hd. I've upgraded the memory to 16 gig. Still runs good. Batteries are a different issue

[@collrock1000]

Yep, that was paint. I have an inspiron that's a little bit older, and no matter what solvent I used, the paint came off.

[@icedt2592]

I had one of these! my first ever laptop. All i remember was whenever i had an issue dell would come over and replace the faulty part immediately. Dell's warranty was the best!

[@thetelephoneprankster4254]

That scaling should be set higher in Display Settings. Everything looks a little small and hard to read :)

[@Ricelord4]

I used to have that same laptop, except that it had an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 instead of the ATi Radeon 9700. Loved that thing! It got me through most of my undergraduate degree. I eventually sold it to a friend for $100. Now I kind of want another one for nostalgia purposes.

[@TheOgWalterMelon]

That laptop is more powerful than new budget laptops😑😑🤯

[@tabbycat406]

I have an Inspiron 9000. It took me a few days to get it working becuase the previous owner decided to put a 320GB hard drive in it while the bios is limited to 180GB or so, my solution was actually partitioning and dual booting with Windows 7 and Windows Vista, planning to do Windows XP on the last partition, I got mine for free from E-Waste, and I cleaned it up, and applied some new thermal paste on it, now it’s running quite smoothly.

[@razvanandrei3909]

I find his voice very calming.It's relaxing 😄

[@ototurmanidze5578]

omg even in 2004 gaming laptops existed

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

Try running Linux on it. Many times Linux distro's revive old tech like that laptop and it makes them usable again. Great video.

[@faizananimator1835]

As a windows user well I'm a windows user but I have to say this is actually true

[@Moskito844]

As a linux user well I'm not a windows user but I have to say this is actually true

[@faizananimator1835]

@@Moskito844 y u copy me m8

[@faizananimator1835]

Bruh i have a dead channel getting so much anxiety on this one reply

[@ninline2000]

It depends on the distro. Bloat is encroaching on the Linux world too.

[@realitybites4224]

I have the 9300 and 9400 and two Precision M6300's. They are all brilliant laptops and are very easy to upgrade, all have the max CPU and RAM that they support and one precision has the max 512mb Quadro video card. Cheers for the great vid.

[@2007excalibur2007]

8:46 "the game doesn't support widescreen" but... AoE II HD Edition....

[@LymanPhillips]

I had the 14-inch version of this. Or maybe it was 15 in. It was a solid machine. I eventually ended up sticking Linux on it, and my daughter used it for a couple of years for school. It was a beast. Weighed a ton. But it was a solid laptop to keep at home. Good memories. I kind of miss this laptop.

[@DarkGamerzOfficial]

No one Absolutely no one Psivewri: EuCaLyPtUs OiL

[@TheBrawl]

1920x1200 for a 2004 laptop and my monitor is only 1920x1080? dang my life is a mistake

[@dontgotomychannel5066]

next video: showering with eucalyptus oil

[@legendp2011]

I had the 15inch version from 2005. it held up pretty well, beating out all my friends budget laptops and netbooks up to around 2009. just found it in a closet the other day and hoped online interested

[@AryanSingh-up6wq]

Oh I have the same laptop ...... And it doesn't seem to me like a gaming laptop

[@syloui]

dedicated graphics = gaming laptop i guess though they did use this chassis for their XPS laptops as well

[@AryanSingh-up6wq]

The only game I play on this laptop is *NFS : MOST WANTED*

[@haseenabadshah5381]

BAB

[@GeneralChangFromDanang]

My 9300 is still alive and kicking. They are tough machines.

[@doritofan80]

I'll tell you the timestamp for eucalyptus oil in a reply EDIT: The System Explorer said it before me. Like his comment, not mine, please!

[@TheSystemExplorer]

6:25

[@doritofan80]

@@TheSystemExplorer yeah you got before me, oh well congratulations

[@slick99951]

Had a 9300 myself, cool stuff.

[@adibzouak6106]

I watch your videos for mostly ASMR purposes they are very calming to me for some reason . So thank you for this content. And good luck

[@symonsicuan6148]

Hello Psivewri. Your Vlogs about disassembling/assembling,cleaning and upgrading laptops are satisfying. I suggest on your next video, please include OS upgrade for example from xp to vista/7/10 😅😅😅

[@jackf1684]

Windows XP man, it brings back so many memories and the whole experience just makes me wanna live in the 2000's and have the authentic windows' experience.

[@chomskyan4life]

Damn! This brought back memories! I had this thing as an undergrad... it was actually pretty damn sweet at the time. Dell made some good laptops back in the day with the inspiron series! Great video! Keep up the good work!

[@fizzys26]

This is still the laptop I hold all laptops up against. It was big and heavy, but for the time you could do almost anything on it, and it had such a lovely large screen and keyboard.

[@DanTDMJace]

With Legacy Update and Mypal, this thing is unstoppable!

[@AdamSaeed]

This is my second video to watch on this channel and I think the eucalyptus oil will be a reoccurring item 😂

[@kaziadz]

I still have this laptop, my sister dropped it and smashed the screen but it’s still used today as a time capsule for songs and pictures from 15 years ago.

[@harisdarko]

you're so passionate about this old laptop cleaning stuff

[@TheRE4Channel]

I got this on my 12th birthday on May 1st, 2006, you uploaded this on my 26th Birthday!

[@endtimesprophecy1473]

I have three of these same laptops too that I have restored. I installed Windows Millennium on one of them, Windows 2000 on the second one and Windows XP on the third. They are very nostalgic indeed. I first watched your video last year before I tempted to take them apart myself and clean them.

[@BigDrewski1000]

Man, I always LOVE to see how repairable & upgradeable laptops used to be before computer companies hated their customers.

[@Viktor-14228]

does anyone feel like his voice is very satisfied

[@metromodernism]

There's something about the look of those old Dell laptops. They're just a classic!

[@wyterabitt2149]

Thermal pads were very common on laptops for a long time. Quite a few times I have seen videos of old laptops taken apart where the person says paste, but it is clearly the old common blue thermal pads used in laptops. Much easier for production, and easier to get away with until relatively recently. Changes in heat, and expectations of tiny sizes even in gaming laptops, have seen that practice vanish over the years.

[@mrpopo5285]

It's scary to think that this pc from 2004 with its impressive 1920x1200 screen has a better screen than most laptops on the market today, even high end ones

[@dangerousmythbuster]

My Dad used this model laptop all through my time in middle and high school. He had to have the screen replaced multiple times, but it was a good computer.

[@JoshPhantom]

Oh my god. I still use this as a daily helper at school. I have three laptops at any given time, and this is my xp/experimental computer I do stuff my newer ones just can't really anymore

[@canuck1234]

My dad used this when I was smaller. Still have it!

[@namesurname4666]

i like these restoring videos because unlike other youtubers you explain what you are doing so i can do it too

[@zeniktorres4320]

I wish new laptops would take some ideas from this: 16:10 screen, buttons on front, easily up-gradability, easy to take apart.

[@dotto87]

I had the 15 inch version of this back in the day. It was such a beast it could run as a server at a LAN party.

[@Finallybianca]

This was my first laptop, actually been thinking of getting one for nostalgia purposes

[@allenangelo813]

it's still useful for some documents right sir?

[@Finallybianca]

@@allenangelo813 sir its Ma’am but no no it wouldn’t be

[@foch3]

It would be perfect for windows 98. Far Cry would probably have been the best looking game you could have tried.

[@Summerzbtw]

My dad owned one of these when i was very young but its until now i realized that it was a really old gaming laptop!

[@freduah4253]

It's been a long time we haven't see a old tower restore :-)

[@stargate1552]

My dad used to have one of these but he mostly used it for work, still pretty cool laptop.

[@scattysafari7742]

I had a Dell 6400 that looked exactly like this, but the specs weren't so high. Loved it greatly except it had a known bug that the power cord wouldn't always charge the battery. One of my favourite machines i ever owned.

[@life_seeker6102]

Michael Dell has really been a legend