I bought a $10 Laptop...

[@thelazywanderer_jt]

4:43 Tonight: I drive a Vauxhall Agura through an office... Richard is hunted by a Mexican mafia boss And James runs Crysis

[@drankdrankdrankdrankdrank]

And I drive a car through los santos while evading taxes!

[@white_mage]

you made my day

[@drankdrankdrankdrankdrank]

@@white_mage :)

[@thienbaonguyen4597]

Warning: Show's budget does not exceed 23 yen.

[@bjorn-adilsamni9818]

i read this like jeremy would say it XD

[@zipzeolocke2]

Able to purchase a $10 Blu-ray player alone is rather surprising to me!

[@TheSpotify95]

Indeed, at least in the UK, the Blu-Ray player is worth more than the £7 for the entire laptop. Personally, I'd have sold the laptop as a multimedia machine, advertising the fact it has a Blu-Ray drive. That would sell for way more than the £7 purchase price.

[@BRUH2004FTW]

It’s surprising to be able to buy anything at that price point

[@sweatyhaggis4303]

Carboot sales are mostly full of junk but you do occasionally get steals. I got an NES with Mario, Duck hunt and the 2 guns for £5

[@nepdisc3722]

@@BRUH2004FTW to the person who was selling it, it was essentially a brick of useless plastic

[@BRUH2004FTW]

@@nepdisc3722 the person selling it was a goofy ahh dude

[@dunkeykung1162]

It's always fascinating to see old ass/cheap ass stuff in action, and your videos scratch that exact itch of mine. Thanks for starting to post again!

[@ericharrison619]

Or knowing that "cheap stuff" was at one time was at a price many of us were unwilling to pay.

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

The fact that this $10 laptop performs better than my $400 laptop is a pain Update: I sold it back in 2021 for $350 got an old Alienware thats way faster

[@vampy625]

One word.... SSD

[@MR_FIAT]

how?

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

@@MR_FIAT simple. Bad cpu and ram and slow hdd plus a terrible display

[@sebaschan-uwu]

What the hell is your laptop??

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

@@sebaschan-uwu idk the name. that's how bad it is that i even forgot it

[@daemonspudguy]

"You're just gonna benchmark Fable aren't you" turned out to be pretty accurate. Love your stuff Hamish!

[@i_am_terom4810]

the real option was "all of the above"

[@stale2665]

A friend of mine had this model, and I always thought the light bar design was really cool, in how it's a blue line going from where the power adapter is plugged in, into the power button, and then the status LEDs are a continuation of that same design line.

[@Rainbow__cookie]

old pc desings were better

[@AlexTenThousand]

Kinda reminds me of this Ferrari-branded laptop that Acer used to make, there's something oddly charming about the thicc laptops from a few years ago.

[@ChaseMC215]

Didn't LGR review a Ferrari Acer laptop?

[@gasrim]

@@ChaseMC215 yeah he did.

[@hackerx7329]

They were absolute pieces of failure prone trash. Some of the worst quality control I have ever seen. period. My family had 6 of them and 5 had critical hardware failures in a year or less. 2 power input circuit failures (would run from battery but couldn't charge or run just from being plugged it), a audio output failure that caused all audio to be shifted down in frequency (probably a clock multiplier failed), multiple failed hard drives, a failed optical drive, two dead displays, and other minor issues like the custom branded mice they shipped with having the left mouse button break with normal use.. And for the record, All Acer did for a failed hard drive was reimage it and send it back claiming it just had files in windows corrupted and just needed a fresh install. You could hear the drive clicking from across the room. Files were corrupted because of head crashes. By the time they finished doing noting useful and sent the machine back the one year warranty was expired. Those were $2000 laptops.

[@ApusApus]

@@hackerx7329 ...why did your family have 6 of them in the first place?

[@hackerx7329]

@@ApusApus Me, mom, dad, sister, brother, and an extra that was located after a year due to UPS not being able to locate the first one but then the insurance had paid out so the one that was located after a year they told us to just keep. My mom thought they would be great laptops (spec wise for the time on paper they were great) so she splurged on everybody that year.

[@n.stephan9848]

I love the modular design of this laptop. Frankly I wouldn't mind giving up 1-2 centimeters of thickness on new laptops for the same level of modularity. Also, could you alleviate the OS issues if you were to install an OS with another computer and than install the SSD in to the laptop? Although I suppose you may run into driver issues that way.

[@MCrex007]

I've done it a couple of times. The only problem I've encountered is if the donor system is UEFI, the disk will be GPT, and if the system that needs the SSD is BIOS, then it won't work. You'll have to find another system that only does BIOS, or there might be some formatting tool that can convert it.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

I actually tested this. Only Windows 2000 worked like this. But would black screen after login.

[@n.stephan9848]

​@@BudgetBuildsOfficial a shame that the issue couldn't be bypassed. Thanks for testing it though.

[@DemonStink]

Maybe check the device manager in windows 10 to see what devices it doesn't recognize. Search up the part IDs and work from there to find out what component is malfunctioning.

[@HearMeLearn]

@@DemonStink OP, check this comment and try this

[@mistknight2243]

A laptop that can play blu-rays and can do some light gaming and messing around on windows 10 for £7 sounds awesome. i mean i guess at that point it can work as a portable blu-ray player that can do a few extras.

[@bigbangbot-SuperSqank]

This looks exactly the same as my sister's old laptop (although that computer had worse specs).

[@holgerwikingsen713]

This is my dream laptop. I always wanted this model back in the day and I still do. The best thing is the "scroll pad" between the click buttons, they don't make those anymore.

[@ark9951]

That laptop looks so clean for $10 😯

[@dabombinablemi6188]

The Core 2 Duo T9400 I installed in my Grandmother's old laptop was far faster than the A8 4555M in my old laptop, and the original (faulty) Pentium T4200 wasn't much slower. So it's pretty much typical for at least the later Core 2 Duo to outperform AMD's A10 series. The A10 were only a slight upgrade from the A8, and not really worth the extra cost.

[@TheSpotify95]

And of course, even entry level Core 2 Duo's (like, for example, the T5200) would perform on par with really budget level AMD CPU's, like for example, the E2-1800. Personally anything that is worse than an i3 is a waste of time, and the AMD E series (E1s and E2s) are an even more collosal waste of time.

[@CCXRTrevita]

​@@TheSpotify95 i'm using a Celeron 847 right now, i wouldnt call waste some processors because they arent more powerful than one that is 5 years older witouth having Even the same tdp

[@Gadgetman1989]

There's something about MXM cards that just makes me love them, I have a Clevo P370EM that runs a 980m 8gb variant

[@greenbow7888]

Very nice. I have the 5920 laptop. The MXM II slot sent us wild trying to get an upgrade.

[@zUltra3D]

Makes sense why the PC bluescreened, it has a Vista sticker

[@klokateer4372]

*Oh , you were finished ! ,well allow me to retort* 1. Its one of the 3 brands that had the most issues with their laptops using Vista 2. Vista was released early by Microsoft to capitalize on the new core 2 duo chips i bet 2 years ahead of schedule(just a speculation but ill get back to it). 3. Most tried updating older pentium 4 laptops 4. The claim of upgradeability but only propriety branded ram and then just ditching the upgrading idea cause that wouldn't make them pre *2008 Recession* booku bucks. 5. The launch of the i5 specutivly was late due to the recession. 6. in 2007 *this nightmare OS you call Vista was updated and improved and was eventually renamed to* you favorite Windows 7 lmao 🤣. 7.Dell, Hp and Acer like to cut corners . 8. "This is my Swamp"

[@GuanGuanGhoo]

@@klokateer4372 damn i thought you have take it the joke seriously until i saw that this it was your swamp.

[@AltezzaLS]

@@klokateer4372 "only proprietary branded ram" wdym???? i have this exact same laptop irl, the previous owner handed it to me without any ram, i just ripped some 2gb ddr2 sticks from a hp pavilion dv7 and it works just fine

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

Meanwhile Vista on my inspiron 700m is rock solid. Insane.

[@JxTechy]

Very Nice. I used to have a similar model to this. Can't remember the exact model but it only had a DVD drive and some low end NVidia GPU. I pulled it out of the back of a computer repair shop that was being closed down along with another 2 laptops. Apparently they where unrepairable but I managed to get all 3 of them working with windows 10 (and this would have been around 2015 so was the original version) installed on them, but after around 6 months they just wouldn't power on anymore. When I opened them up it seemed like they had been water damaged in the past. But anyway they let me and my brother do our school work for a little while, and the acer was a very nice laptop at the time.

[@justyahya7194]

not gonna lie, but the price and the beauty of this laptop is definetly worth it, even though you got into some dodgy problems from the start but still, loved the video and also much love from Tunisia! :)

[@ericharrison619]

This channel is perfect for me. I hate throwing money at the latest and greatest yet love tech stuff. My entire gamming rig today is made from the best of the best...That 5 years ago offered. I enjoy fixing broken phones and laptops so I can check them out and use them for a while before flipping them for my next winter time project. When all goes well there is never buyers remorse or that "I should have waited" feeling. Thank you Budget-Builds for showing up on my recommended videos. Subscribed!!!

[@GamesCell]

I used to own this laptop wayyy back in 2015. I remember when I bought it for 100$ from a second-hand store in my country. It was good as it lasted, until it stopped working after a month. Very nice video!

[@Webserfer22]

Wow, this is wild to see. My very first proper pc was the non gaming version of this I got brand new in 2008, that thing served me well for many years (on vista mind you) and it's near to see someone messing with one again, a right treat :D

[@whitebeartigtig]

I always love seeing older laptops like these. I remember trying to guess the GPU over on Twitter a couple months ago, pretty sure I guessed HD 4670, not too far off though.

[@bigpierogi]

This is a certified hood classic

[@dunkeykung1162]

Agreed, I get a dopamine rush everytime I get budget's notification

[@Hairy_Lee]

I remember getting hands-on with a pre-production model of these just before they released and I remember being totally impressed by the whole thing. Also, the MXM graphics card was an awesome addition

[@danielsf94]

That was my first laptop that I'd ever bought and owned haha, except mine ran vista out the box. I loved that thing and lasted years.

[@HighPeakMapping]

I grew up with a very similar laptop, an Aspire 5720 with a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo without dedicated graphics and Windows Vista. It served us well from 2006 to 2017 and was the laptop I learned how to upgrade computers on. Holds a special place in my heart.

[@JoshuaCooperDerpyMcDerpy]

I keep looking at the benchmarks and I'm utterly blown away. I mean yeah they're old games, but they are running well. You can't get a PS3 or Xbox 360 for that price. What a good value.

[@TheSpotify95]

You can even play GTA 5 at 240p with the ultra low settings, and no shadows, but it'll work and be playable!

[@CosmoRiderDE]

I bought this Acer 5920G new in 2007 with a T7500 CPU and the GeForce 8600M GT, 250GB HDD and 2GB of RAM and: VISTA. I paid like 1300 Euros and upgraded it to T7700 and 4GB of RAM. I still have it and still the original battery works well. Back then it was a hell of a machine.

[@greenbow7888]

With BIOS update, you con installup to Intel T9300 CPU. (Also T8300 I think.) As long as the FSB of the CPU is 800MHz, and not 1033MHz.) The T8000 and T9000 were a later generation on smaller fabrication. Meant they ran cooler and used less power. There's also a BIOS modder made a BIOS that would allow the 5920G to run the Nvidia 9600M GT. Very easy to find the modded BIOS.

[@chevyrupleix]

You sound like the narrator of Discovery Channel's How It's Made. So calm and relaxing.

[@DigitalIP]

My automatic suspicion would have been the RAM. Would probably do well as an emulation laptop. Use Shutup10 or something similar and it may end up doing better.

[@JM00237]

What does that mean if you don’t mind me asking?

[@DigitalIP]

@@JM00237 Regarding Shutup10 or an Emulation laptop or what? need specifics lol

[@JM00237]

@@DigitalIP what’s an emulation laptop?

[@DigitalIP]

@@JM00237 Emulation Laptop meaning using it for emulator gaming such as PS1/PS2/GBA/Gamecube etc so on

[@JM00237]

@@DigitalIP oh ok thanks man

[@RicardoRamosRetrocomputacao]

The problem with this laptop is not the GPU, you should change some capacitors behind the ram slot. I had a 5920 with an intel GMA X3100 between 2008 and 2010, and even though I had the onboard crap graphics, I had fun with a lot of classic games. This machine has a subwoofer, which makes the sound quality a little better than regular laptops. This machine was designed under license from BMW, it is inspired by the design of BMW cars.

[@nawainrukalfank1703]

i know this is an old laptop but when you clean that laptop,seeing that gpu can be swapped,this laptop actually awesome and better than most modern laptop, it's upgradeable

[@SUCRA]

Nicely done. I always enjoy reviews of Lack luster PC parts that are neither here nor there. Finding utility for these things is a challenge that I think you resolve masterfully. Thanks for another video.

[@HappySlappyFace]

Frequent budget build uploads LETS GOOO

[@HarryGryffindor]

Talking from experience (IT graduate and worked in an IT repair shop for 3 years) : SSD's in older laptops tend to give these issues.. i can't explain why, but plain hard drives most of the time would reinstall windows 7 where an SSD would just crash. Maybe if you try a clean HDD windows XP and or 7 will work! But alas, Great video, i love this so much. something about old "discarded" tech being revived and used for something really tickles my fancy. Thank you for your hard work. Keep it up!

[@pattskatoey3139]

I found the same model laptop some time ago.It had a couple of extra graphics cards with it. The keyboard is nice to use. I like that it’s a full multimedia setup with FireWire ports etc. I had no problem installing windows 7 onto it.

[@crocodotochiste]

Budget builds uploads 4 times this month? A BLESSING FROM THE LORD

[@ihaveacoolhat1]

I had the emachines version of this, known as the E510. It was the laptop I first installed Linux on because Vista Home Basic CHUGGED on the Celeron and 2GB of RAM. Good machine and was built alright too.

[@TheSpotify95]

I'm not surprised that Vista performed horribly on a crappy Celeron and 2GB DDR2! An upgrade to 4GB DDR2, as well as getting the Celeron swapped for a Core 2 Duo, would have turned it from an XP only machine to a semi-competent Windows 7 machine.

[@ToniaGlitched]

it's kinda cool seeing how this laptop seems to perform better than mine on some older tittles, despite having less CPU power and only supporting up to directX10... the old games do were optimized to run on the hardware of the time, it seems (I have an i3 4005U btw, with no dedicated GPU, which might be the why)

[@MsBananasmel]

I had this laptop for years. Gave it to my brother and it still works.

[@spacefightertzz]

My roommate had got an old laptop for $16 USD yesterday (same day this video was posted). He is having me set it up for him. It is a dell inspiron 9300. It had winxp passwords to bypass and was part of a domain for some company. I'll setup some emulation gaming on it.

[@woohoo2491]

When you were saying MXM graphics, I didn't know you were referring to ANCIENT MXM graphics. Truthfully, laptops that are MXM 3.0 Type B (2013 and onward) can have up to an RTX 2060 stuffed in there, which isn't bad for gaming at all.

[@EbonySaints]

Well... that really depends on the OEM you're working with and how nice the BIOS plays with certain cards. I had a M6800 for the longest time and the best anybody could get it up to the last time I checked was a 1070 and that was with some next level BIOS hacking and other shenanigans. ThinkPads are also really touchy if you don't have an official Lenovo BIOS on the card. I heard people got a fair amount of cards to work on older Elitebooks, but then they start talking about taking a Dremel to the heatsink to make the VRAM fit and that's where it kind of gets ridiculous unless you're into machining too. That's not even counting the cards that are so power hungry that they need an extra adapter that is probably only in one specific Clevo model that you don't have because those are worth a pretty penny even secondhand and missing stuff. Then there's the trouble of flashing another BIOS where you either have another laptop floating around to do it, buy a $400+ PCIe adapter from Eurocom, buy some cheap PCIe adapter from Taobao and wait two to three months, or hail mary it and hope you don't do anything stupid to brick it. Then there's the price. A 980m is going to get you 1050 Ti-esque performance for about $300 and it's been floating around that number for a few years. A RTX 3060 just from a cursory eBay search seems to go for four times that. Granted MXM cards haven't been hit all that much pricewise from the GPU shortage, but paying ~$800 for a card vs ~$1400 for a cut down version that has really poor resale value was kind of a no brainer years ago and still is now even in this god-awful market. Don't get me wrong, it's fun as fuck to say you literally built your laptop (as untrue as it is) and the initial rush of installing the components and getting some extra OOMPH out of decent i7's is great, but it's a very expensive and time consuming hobby (taking all those screws out and dismantling a lappy takes a lot more time and care than slapping in a card and a few power connectors) if you don't want to make a fool of yourself. Plus, MXM went the way of SLI outside of Clevo. Kind of sad, but I can totally get it.

[@woohoo2491]

@@EbonySaints You needed to mod your M6800 BIOS to get other graphics cards working in it? I've got an M4800, and while my chinese 1050 Type A doesn't work because of the wrong display-out type for the built in LCD, it otherwise does work and is more or less 'detected' during POST (I have LVDS, it needed eDP, so nothing is displayed and the BIOS freezes after POST but the BIOS does indeed detect that a card is installed with the right amount of VRAM, etc). I always thought Dell was good with leaving things alone for people to mess with, especially around Haswell era. But, maybe I'm wrong. Do you remember the BIOS mod you needed, and if so can you point me to it? Perhaps this is what I need to get the damn thing working. I bought it under the pretense that it would indeed work, but I was NOT aware of the whole LVDS/eDP thing, if that even is the problem. At this point I just want to try anything I can, since I already dropped $175 on the MXM Type A 1050 with no one else willing to buy it off of me.

[@CptEdward]

This was my own first computer after my dad changed it. I really love it, it feels so nostalgic. I learned using a computer with this one, and the fact that you have to bake the GPU, it is terrific.

[@SPNG]

Great video! These old Core 2 Duo laptops still hold up surprisingly well given their age.

[@kez1619]

And if you’re lucky you could stick on windows 10 and such if you got a decent core 2 duo like a 6000s series or something

[@zesped1259]

They do, but if you have one with an intel GMA Graphics, you're screwed. Well that is my experience with my friend's older dell laptop. The thing sucked at even running minecraft, the best game I got running on it is og release of half life.

[@TheSpotify95]

and this one can even get over 30fps in GTA 5... if you use the 240p resolution with the lowest possible settings, and no shadows. Lol!

[@etiennebsm692]

I have a similar viao laptop from 2008. The vgn-fw11s. Its great I love it, it is esthetically amazing and has about the same specs as that asus : core 2 duo, 4g ddr2 ram and an ATI mobility radeon HD 3470 + ssd. I played gta 4 and cod WaW on lowest settings . They run fine but look not great. I love these old and yet mighty machines who don't give up the fight in gaming 🙂 Love your work man, especially old laptops. Keep it up!

[@kaytronika]

I used to have one of these, great laptop for it's time, cost me about £500 new I think. It met its end when the GPU cooked itself and started causing artifacting... A replacement GPU was prohibitively expensive at the time. I actually pulled the CPU out of it and put it in to a similar model with a Celeron and onboard graphics. Carried on using that for a couple of years too, albeit without the gaming grunt of the GPU.

[@thecryingsoul]

mxm cards are still ridiculously expensive on the 2nd hand market sadly, and the bioses of most laptops don't tend to be compatible with gpu upgrades either, which is a real shame

[@kami4542]

Nice to see another "family" laptop rescued :) I score about every week machines like that at the flea market, for less than 5€ each (most of the time I buy like 3-4 at once to get them for 2-3€ the unit). I'm always astonished by the profusion of these XP/Vista/early 7 machines with Pentium M, Pentium Dual Core and other Core 2 Duo and AMD equivalent (less frequently though) . Unfortunately the "good ones" (hence with a good CPU & GPU) don't work most of the time (or are arctifacting) because of their cursed Nvidia chips... though for sake of honesty ATI cards have problems too but I encoutered less problematic PCs equiped with them.

[@JardiHardi]

I am loving the new content, please keep it up!!!

[@sheepgti390]

i love these cheap laptop videos, i watch these since 2018 and has inspired me to do this myself

[@jamiecullen9075]

I had this exact laptop as a family laptop. It was top notch at the time. Replaced the drive with a WD black 500GB drive and added in 2GB RAM in 2013. Came with Windows Vista and I upgraded to Win7. Played the hell outta my very small steam library and it got me into Pc gaming. Even managed DayZ on minimum 😅

[@Lavitz2011]

I still have an Acer similar to this with a Core 2 Duo T8100 as a secondary laptop running windows 7. Currently using it to watch H264 1080p videos on youtube as its fairly decent and still capable but I can also use it as a document processor. Awesome video BTW, really makes us harken back to the times when Laptops had upgradability (That Laptop has a PGA478 socket which could take Core 2 Duos upto 800 or 1333mhz FSB speed -- I believe yours could go up to the T9500 and you could also upgrade the MXM GPU aswell.)

[@TigTex]

That laptop needs a thermal pad or copper shim on the GPU or else it will make poor to no contact at all with the heatsink and cause it to shut off. In fact, the problems that you had installing windows made me think of that immediately. I recommend you to check if the thermal paste is completely squished up when you remove the GPU from the heatsink because if it's not, you need a 0.5mm cooper shim. Check the GPU temperature sensor, if it has one

[@aleksazunjic9672]

I doubt this is the reason, because he gamed heavily in Win 10 without shutdown.

[@DemonStink]

My brother had one these but it had a 8600M GT in it. I eventually convinced him to go desktop. My experiences with gaming laptops during the 2000s has put me off them for life, and this was when you COULD replace the dead graphics, a luxury you don't get these days.

[@petermc7098]

Hello There, a decent video with fantastic ocmmentary throughout and the fact that it has a removable/ upgradeable Graphics card is still something that's quite rare on Laptops even these days, thank you for sharing your experiment, it's much appreciated. It seemed to be a good value laptop throughout Cheers Peter :) p.s. you should definitely do a video where you upgrade the RAM and possibly the Graphics Card and maybe the CPU and see how it performs in comparison.

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Yeap,I up to that !!!! Upgrade to the MAX !!!!

[@thesillyhatday]

So similar to mine. I have a 7720G from back in 2008 I think. Its still usable today for basic stuff and a nice experience too. Swapped in a T9300 CPU years ago and went from 3 to 4gb RAM. Still going.

[@ChasishOnYouTube]

I have an addiction to revitalizing thrift store PCs! My emulation laptop costed me like $13!

[@tetenc555]

This notebook seems to be from the same period as the one my cousin gave me after finding it while moving house, an Aspire 4520 with an AMD Atlhon X2 and a video card (also removable) NVIDIA GeForce 7000M that runs Windows Vista and some super apps well (not without lags) She thought it was broken, but there was only one problem that the Wi-Fi connected to the network and not the internet. I'm going to upgrade it to 4GB Ram (it came with 2GB, but it's already an upgrade from the original 1GB configuration), an SSD and a WiFi + Bluetooth card just for fun, your videos inspire me!

[@GeeFunk84]

I had almost the exact same laptop up until a few weeks ago when I finally gave it away, but up until that point that used to be my daily driver.

[@undeadmaster666]

when i heard you say "but can it run crysis" i smiled as i fondly remember those days. when even running crysis on medium settings required a beast of a pc.

[@finnbianga4189]

Imagine playing gta online and getting wrecked by the guy using a bootfair laptop lmao

[@KyleSoldani]

Worked in a PC shop for my high-school job, I remember we sold a few of these back in the day. What a throwback! I remember wanting this laptop pretty hardcore.

[@BittiPomo]

Bsel mod for that cpu might be game changer. I did the mod for different laptop with pentiumdualcore and it went nicely higher clockspeed from 1.6 to 2.4 ghz

[@BittiPomo]

+ overclocking the gpu could save more fps

[@tokisan3359]

I remember when i always heavy overclock my lg laptop with pentium t series and ATI radeon x1200, even the temp is max at 100c, soo i can play half life 2 at 50 fps

[@deoxys1331]

This video took me 15 years back. I was in first year of college and this was my first ever computer/laptop. I kept it like a child, used it for everything from coding to gaming (PES/Fifa) to movies. Sadly, one day it got stolen from the PG i was staying 😥. It broke my heart, and I didn't eat for 2 days. I've had a bunch of laptops since then including Macbooks and Zephyrus but none were able to fill the place in my heart I have for this laptop ❤️.

[@NSHG]

Ah yes, the 5920G. One of the swiss knives Acer made. Mine was a real powerhouse after replacing the dead 8600M GT it had with a Radeon HD4650 1GB. I need to restore it someday as I feel sad for leaving it "rot" away with a lot of other classics I have like the dv7-1000 and 3000, Aspire 5720 and 7720, two dv9000s - one AMD, one Intel (both with Geforce 8000 series) as well as a few more others (including a rare Aspire 6920 w/ Full HD screen.)

[@Johny40Se7en]

Love the the well aged Sims music during the clean up 😄 That Jingle All The Way thing near the end is bonkers 😅😂🤣 Cracking video as always. Nice one butt 👍

[@francisportugal5584]

Laptops like these are perfect Linux machines. Especially since Linux and GNU/Linux systems are more forgiving when it comes to hardware requirements.

[@strayiggytv]

Or if you want a "kinda like windows but not exactly experience" install chrome os.

[@kiki83607]

in some low spec few years old Celeron laptops actually Windows 10 is working better than for example Ubuntu, so it's not always Linux is a better choice

[@digi-world-gen4254]

I feel extremely bad when this 10 dollars laptop is better then my current laptop 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@junko4166]

I'm mad jealous of y'all living in countries with decent used markets. Degenerates here in my country wouldn't sell that same laptop for less than 200 dollars.

[@HGAMES69]

Same in Pakistan

[@catherineoliveira6102]

Can relate. Here in Brazil if it isn't ridiculously overpriced, then it's either broken or a scam.

[@mariotosic768]

Yep, same here in Serbia. Better get a new cheap ryzen 3, athlon laptop for 300e. Used market or any market for that matter is a huge ripoff here.

[@carlouis1]

The old Core 2 series mobile chips are a great set of CPUs for sure. I have an Acer Aspire 5732z that was a hand-me-down, with an Intel Pentium T4400 in it. The only upgrades I gave it are a 60GB SSD, 2 GB additional RAM (maxing out the laptop to 4GB total) and an HDD caddy with a 200GB disk in it for storage. That became my main machine for the last two years of my college days and I still have it. Used Windows 10 on it without much hiccups; I even got MATLAB on it.

[@komradkat1073]

After hearing "C2D Mobile" I expected for everything to be running like garbage, but it seems it's doing just fine! Well the GPU probably carried the whole system. Edit: Can you upgrade the processor to something a little better?

[@briccedman8597]

Always good to see old laptops being used again.

[@Javadamutt]

Theres something pretty cool looking about these older laptops. Out of interest, windows is a bloated mess, with linux gaming inproving, is it possible to use some flavour of Linux to get more out of an old laptop specifically for gaming?

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

I talk about this at the end of the video 😀

[@Javadamutt]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial went back and listened again...... I missed that passing comment lol.

[@SoulcatcherLucario]

that's a good question, actually. the answer is pretty complicated, but it boils down to: _it depends._ if the thing has up-to-date drivers (amdgpu), then it might game better than windows. but if you need to use wine in order to game, it'll run worse than windows, since the cpu has to both translate windows calls into linux calls, and have to use amdgpu at the same time.

[@yotoprules9361]

I couldn't get older nvidia proprietary drivers to work on the latest nvidia kernel, also, the nouveau drivers are completely unusable on the Nvidia 8 series GPUs (mine has the 8600m GT) as the performance is terrible and causes the system to lock up after a few minutes. Windows 10 works much better in my experience, everything works out of the box (except for maybe SD card reader drivers) and you can disable a lot of the background crap. Maybe take a look at Windows 10 Enterprise IoT 2021 which just came out, it has no bloatware on it and will be supported until 2031 (6 years longer than normal Windows 10). Although you will probably have to use suspicious methods to get a license for it.

[@halezy9681]

Had this machine in a cupboard for a number of years. For the sake of a project I've installed a 9600gtm and a 9300 cpu with a Broadcom mini-pcie video decoder. Plays titles from the era well and is a good retro machine. With the bios mod you can install a GT 240mxm or possibly GT 3XX series cards. I'm playing race driver grid on mine at the moment awesome machine. Later I plan on using a modified steamOS on a separate partition, it will be fun to see if I can use OS level FSR and see what that does.

[@thecastiel69]

How did you get that thing in only 10 bucks?

[@voast4602]

probably a VERY old one and in bad condition

[@thecastiel69]

@@voast4602 Even that lcd screen only costs a lot more than 10bucks

[@ericharrison619]

Supply and demand...Many would not consider using a device well past it's "Service life". Though this one looks to be a nice find. I see a lot of old gems on ebay going for peanuts with one of more things needing attention.

[@classic_jam]

Don't forget you could upgrade that video card to a more midrange option or a later midrange card and you'd gain a lot.

[@maanavtriestuff]

you and randomgaminginhd are my fav channels

[@xPLAYnOfficial]

I have a Dell Precision M6300 laptop from 2009 with a Core 2 Duo T7550 and Nvidia Quadro FX 1600M, and it's held up surprisingly well considering it's age. For all daily normal usage, it runs like a champ with an SSD. Even in gaming it did a surprising job. Core 2 Duos are still very useable for nonintensive tasks.

[@emanuele5799]

The moment you opened it I immediately recognized it! I used to play a lot with this laptop, I remember most nights of my holidays at the beach, when I was very young, wasted playing games on it at temperatures reaching the sun, games like F.E.A.R., APB reloaded at high settings

[@maxrs1708]

My grandma bought this exact laptop for me when i was 13. It was a beast.

[@-Tartarus-]

Loved this white in the inside, black in the outside design from Acer back in the day. It really set them apart from other laptops of that era.

[@PantusiaGaming]

World's Only Laptop With Blu-ray Support

[@Pyry300]

Love the music choices in the videos, especially the sims music!

[@S3Bayaya]

even before cleanin it still look brand new. I know old aspire where the white plastic bit has turned yellowish.

[@VanBourner]

this was my dream laptop back in like 2007. I really loved the design too. I would try a different storage just to test the black screen. It may be that your SSD (or that the SATA controller) needs some strange niche storage driver that only Win10 came with natively. I have seen this issue crop up even on modern servers when using some niche RAID controller etc.

[@btarg1]

Windows 7 or Linux and a cheap SSD might bring this thing back to life for regular web browser use and old retro games

[@edwardsmall3680]

I had this laptop in about 2007? I loved the shiny black lid and the multimedia buttons. It was able to run Medieval II Total War and Battlefield 2 better than I'd ever seen. I could actually put the draw distance up and see the road textures on Strike at Karkand, blew my mind. It even had a blu ray drive!

[@tbuk8350]

This brings me back! My first ever laptop as a kid was a core 2 duo-based Dell Latitude d620, that was acquired for free. That thing barely ran (and eventually stopped being able to run) Minecraft, could barely handle video playback, and could almost run some older titles. I fondly remember playing GMod on that, and my parent's Pentium 4 desktop at ~800x600 resolution, and at 25fps. Things change fast. Nowadays, I have a desktop with an i7-7700, 32GB of ram, and a 3060ti. My laptop has an i5-10300h, 16GB of ram, and a 3060 mobile. It's incredible how much power can fit into such small devices nowadays.

[@KeyJ_trbl]

I used to have a 5920G myself (well, in fact, I still have it, it's sitting right next to me, but I don't use it any longer). What a lovely machine for its time! Mine has a GeForce 8600M though, but just 2 GiB of RAM and DVD instead of Blu-ray. I bought it in 2007, when I needed a laptop with some decent GPU, not caring about any other specs. So I went to a local shop, looked around what they had, and bought it, as it was quite decent for the price. No regrets at all. It even ended up being my de-facto main machine for two years after my desktop machine's GPU died.

[@jameslangridge8849]

Another great video 👍. If you have another laptop with weird gremlins, try taking the battery out and running it only from the wall. Maybe i missed you trying that, but its solved so many weird problems for me in the past. I look forward to your next vid, they're always a lot of fun, and so upbeat 😄

[@NavyDood21]

Going back and watching a bunch of older videos across basically any channel I regularly watch. I have absolutely no real use for an old laptop, but I kinda want and older laptop. Like Windows XP at most to play some older titles from when I was right out of school. That, and watching DVDs while in bed. I know other services are far more convenient, but I miss physical media.

[@gianlucatestoni7401]

I had an Acer 4720z, with the same problem as you (installing the OS), but it also had a corrupted bios, so I gave it to my friend. I still have the Pentium T2390 and the 320gb Samsung hard drive from that Laptop

[@andresbravo2003]

Nice Sims music to my ears.

[@tiberiusstaicu7853]

thank you for reviewing this laptop , now i dont have to test my laptop to figure out its limitations because its the same kind!

[@BeeJay120]

I have one of these running Windows 10. The sound is incredible for a laptop and the performance holds up well for general use.

[@hypercube33]

Actually had the AMD sister to this device and it too was super easy to work on. I think its the peak of acer design. 1 screw to upgrade ram, or a hdd, or whatever. Loved it, great keyboard and performed well even with crappy Vista.

[@Bmovie5000]

Great find! I used to fix up and flip Acer laptops like that one over a decade ago. Lots of graphics card reflows. Paid for my rent then :),

[@skirnir393]

I had a similar model back in 2008 and gosh! i loved the keyboard. It think that old laptop keyboards are often better than those from modern laptops

[@Jahades]

I owned a 5920g back in the day, I gotta say that think wouldn't die whatsoever!

[@vine00]

MY COUSIN HAD ONE OF THESE this brings back some good memories of myspace and mid 2000s gaming (albeit badly)

[@amdintelxsniperx]

cpu upgardes and ram and gpu . it can take a t9500 it can take the rare hp 4gb modules bringing it up to 8 gb it can use up to an ati hd 4850

[@Treynath84]

Not surprised Shovel Knight runs well, the game works fine on a PS Vita.