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Today we're going to be cleaning up and using a $10 Asus Eee PC netbook / laptop I bought off of eBay. The 1201PN was originally released in 2010, is it still usable here today? Let's find out :) #cheap #ebay #laptop
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Asus Eee PC Specifications:
Intel Atom N450 1.6GHz processor
2GB DDR2 666MHz Ram
320GB WD Blue 5,400RPM Hard Disk (before upgrade)
Nvidia Ion Graphics
12.1" 1366x768 Display
Music Used:
Reminiscent Changes (Simplified) - Nathan Sivewright (2015)

[@NGOTB]

Okay everyone, together now. "Eee Pee Cee"

[@swelcome3]

A dank pods fan in the wild

[@eggnorman]

Eee Pee Cee

[@aftertheelectrike1847]

Eee Pee Cee

[@lightinggaming5711]

I have an Eee Pee Cee

[@poopfart300]

Eee Pee Cee

[@uvalenzuela]

"and 8 gigabytes worth of... music" Thank fucking god

[@EgoShredder]

I wonder what codec they were done with as that has a huge bearing on the size? I have terrabytes of music but as FLAC or DSD / SACD etc, with a single album being 1GB or more in size at times.

[@DandamanV]

I was surprised tbh

[@EremittV]

@@EgoShredder My music library is about 79 GB and it's all high bitrate mp3. 8 GB is fairly small I'd say, but understandable for such a device. 79 GB is about 8500 songs. If you just listen to a few bands or just download whatever you like without collecting the entire discography then you should be fine with the roughly 800 songs 8 GB will allow you to have. That's a generous 10mb per song. That's good for an mp3 file.

[@EgoShredder]

@@EremittV I have to disclose my dislike for audio compression for serious listening, but for casual stuff and podcasts then it is acceptable. However if you preference for music is in electronic genres and general popular music, then MP3 will suffice just fine. Anything that features mostly acoustic instruments and anything with a complex harmonic structure, will sound REALLY awful with compression even at the highest and best settings. Not sure how many albums I have in my collection, but it was around 2000 a few years ago last time I checked. I upgraded my NAS in 2014 and got 12TB storage to put inside it. I'm going to need to increase that fairly soon, or delete stuff whichever.

[@EremittV]

@@EgoShredder I fully understand, but for most people high bitrate mp3's will suffice. Quality of sound also depends on the headphones, amps, etc. you're using and most people simply don't have the equipment to get the most out of FLAC. I have subscribed to Deezer for FLAC listening and my personal library is mainly for my iPod. If i want to listen to flac, I want to listen to it at my desk anyway. That's where my best equipment is. My library has files starting from 2006, so I chose consistency (all MP3) over lossless.

[@mattsparks3546]

If it's an eeepc, maybe there could be a dankpods crossover episode?

[@pierrosdragatis6820]

now I'd normally say "I see you're a man of culture as well" but he's almost reached 1m subs... so dank pods isn't our "little secret" anymore 😭 glad for him tho!

[@hiki_komori6285]

@@pierrosdragatis6820 Well at least here in italy no one knows who is dankpods and that’s bad

[@pierrosdragatis6820]

@@hiki_komori6285 yeah by "our" I didn't mean Australians... I'm not even an Aussie! tho I do have cousins in Australia, I am Greek! and yeah I doubt anyone knows him in Greece either! only KZbin and his channel analytics know for sure

[@hiki_komori6285]

@@pierrosdragatis6820 ohhh ok I wasn’t understanding, thanks

[@felix-cq9eq]

@@hiki_komori6285 ehm... Ciao? 😂

[@rjpointon8859]

1:47 from “psivewri drops the eucalyptus oil”

[@tsymeh]

should i make a compilation of "now it's time to give it a healthy dose of eucalyptus oil"?

[@rjpointon8859]

@@tsymeh yes lol

[@primewastaken]

@@tsymeh DEFINITELY

[@Junbra]

I actually used a very similiar laptop for school, i still remember how it was slow

[@julianstechsation]

Me 2 … I hated those Intel Atom things… My school used “at least” Windows XP… because they were THAT slow (I think they are still using them today)

[@s_aku]

@@julianstechsation never had a atom or used one but i do know that going from a core 2 duo laptop to a i5/i7 one , even if it's 1st/2nd gen is a blessing

[@felipegonzalez6127]

Lol

[@mrcyborg9216]

Is it a eeepc 900ha?

[@amzso]

I used the very same laptop, same color too. The display was nice, keyboard felt Ok, but yeah painfully slow back in 2009-ish.

[@rjpointon8859]

If his room doesn’t reek of eucalyptus oil… Edit: wow thanks for all the likes :)

[@DemeDemetre]

lol

[@joempoem478]

ITS THE EEEPEECEE!

[@TheCreepyGuyfzn]

Nice little dingus

[@LovelyAlanna]

it's got an nvidia ion, amazing, I've bought lots of netbooks and I've yet to find one with that

[@TheArchiisiom]

ikr?

[@waluigi3666]

“Slaps roof of netbook “ This boy can run a whole 2 chrome tabs

[@noway4040]

Hahahahaha, I am on the floor now!

[@jc-px8ox]

@@noway4040 still?

[@noway4040]

@@jc-px8ox Yep, been here for three days. My Rumba is about to assassinate me. :)

[@jc-px8ox]

@@noway4040 rip

[@nathan4114]

@@noway4040 still?

[@incongruous2358]

I love how he says exactly what they left on the computer lol

[@MinsideLetsplay]

Ok

[@fanofretrotechnology3802]

I love this video. Going into high school in september 7th 2020 and though i already have a computer good enough for homework purposes, this video made me very happy

[@furious_gaming14furious_ga91]

We need a tour of the collection! :D

[@TrentJordan3198]

I enjoy your old computer videos. Keep them coming, Nathan!

[@richardeadon6396]

The previous owner has good taste in television. Also nice FTO!

[@Connie_TinuityError]

I think Psivewri himself has the same taste, considering how his server is called "Flancrest"

[@neurobioboy]

I think this laptop would be awesome as a distraction-free typewriter machine with puppy Linux. Or as a jukebox for a collection of mp3/FLAC files, if plugged into a decent set of external speakers.

[@TDGalea]

Debian that just launches LibreOffice / GDocs / whatever. Yes indeedo.

[@glitchy_weasel]

I once an idea of a distraction-free typewriter: barebones Arch (don't even install the Wi-Fi drivers or a GUI) and set nano or vim or whatever you like as the login shell (yes, I'm serious). The interface will look ugly, but is quite literally 100% distraction free.

[@k.b.tidwell]

I've got a very similar setup for my early morning crack of dawn writing sessions, and such a machine is PERFECT for productive writing. You're not going to do six ways of research at the same time, but for putting the maximum amount of words on screen quickly and efficiently...it's the way to go. No slipping over into a quick gaming session (that turns into a couple hours) when the writing momentum wanes. And good writing machines like this are always cheap! I run Mint on mine with the XFCE4 desktop...minimum CPU requirements, maximum efficiency.

[@abhimaanmayadam5713]

A great laptop running tuning studio or something

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@k.b.tidwell I like Wordgrinder for that stuff. No worrying about WYSIWIG formatting. What program do you prefer?

[@StevenPeterson1]

We have a bunch of these we took out of service at my school district. Quite interesting to see them in use, although in recent years they were downgraded to just allowing people to clock in on the web based time clock

[@nelsonrojasnunez]

Hi Psivewri, what a great way to keep clean every laptop in your reviews!!! Best regards from Chile!!!

[@MuhammadRafikBakhtshiren]

Always waiting for awesome video, thanks!

[@dylanma462]

I love ur vids man! Keep up the amazing work :D

[@kerndama]

I love these videos! Keep doing what your doing 😄

[@Windows350]

could you test more thinkpads? im a bit addicted to thinkpads, love those reviews

[@doctahjonez]

thinkpads are hot

[@Irysuwu]

@@doctahjonez facts

[@giorgiotek-604]

@@Irysuwu im watching this on a t520 with a i7 2630qm and win7, with egpu i can play gtav maxxed out@ 40 to 60 fps

[@andrive]

Watch LGR

[@northern830]

I'm too poor to get thinkpads.

[@jonrutherford6852]

Always pleased to see you post another video. I know I'll enjoy a few moments of civilized company from across the world. Keep them coming!

[@davidg5898]

I was thinking of sending you my eee PC last year, but then I looked up shipping from the US to AU. Ten times more than the system is actually worth!

[@RCfromtheNYC]

I recently bought one of these at a local Goodwill, and upgrading it was dirt cheap. It has 8gb RAM (yes, it will handle that much) and I installed a spare SSD, and it's running AntiX Linux very smoothly.

[@arivald6677]

DDR2 didn't had memory sticks bigger than 2gb. Laptop presented in the video was terrible back in 2010 and never had any upgrade options planned.

[@whiteyuko]

​@@arivald6677 Probably he bought one of the latest Eee models, they were equipped with DDR3 so it's possible to try putting a 8Gb stick

[@frzfab]

These are 32bit machines that can only address 4 gigs of ram. You got lucky and bought a better laptop and didnt know it. Great Job!

[@whiteyuko]

@@frzfab Nope, older models were 32-bit but the latest ones had a 64-bit CPU. For example, the one in the video has an Atom N450 that is 64-bit, my 10-inch Asus Eee X101H (which I still have with Lubuntu installed) is equipped with a dual core Atom N570 that is 64-bit as well.

[@frzfab]

@@whiteyuko u guys got lucky, they are starting to become collectors items it seems. Ebay doesn't have em for less than $100.

[@amrh.maysara621]

I Cheacked the Notifications and Find out that you uploaded a Video! I am so Happy , Love You From Egypt 🇪🇬😍❤️

[@TsjuunTze]

I agree! Install a light Linux distro on it and it will run (kinda) smooth! I did the same with some thinclients.

[@user-uo8ny1kj4c]

I'd install a really old version of ubuntu or debian on one of those laptops

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

Is it just me but DOES EVERY AUSTRALIAN KZbin HAVE A 1990's SUPRA. Ngl though it's a cool car Edit: I'm not an expert in cars

[@TopGear25S]

Not every Australian youtuber, DankPods has a much better car than a Supra

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

@@TopGear25S what's the car?

[@jedrzej._]

Fiat 126p niki

[@jedrzej._]

It's from Poland, where i live

[@johnkitsi]

This car isn't a Toyota Supra it's a Mitsubishi fto .

[@BrambleStreet]

I really like that you tried linux on this. :-) Enjoyed the video heaps mate, keep it up.

[@Hex_x_Shirok0]

This is why I love this channel!

[@gab_v250]

As another aussie youtuber says, *EEE PEE CEE*

[@minty6206]

Nana selling on gumtree style..

[@ihadnogoodideasforanamelmao]

frank smells

[@everydaycarryDoctor]

Used this same laptop for a year, for watching youtube(I watched in 720p on invideous) and listening music on spotify, I had puppy linux on it, and somehow it has original good battery (that worked for like 2 hours off the charger), and I bought this laptop for only $20! Definitely would recommend it.

[@EleanorMcHugh]

I picked up a ul20a just before Christmas for £48 and have had a lot of fun playing with it. The physical design is very similar to this machine but it has an SU7300 dualcore processor and runs both Windows 10 and Linux Mint nicely. The SU7300 has Intel 4500 MHD graphics which are capable of running Minecraft and a number of XBox-era PC titles like Splinter Cell at reasonable frame rates. One of the big advantages over the Atom machines is being able to run 8GB dual-channel RAM and I’ve also convinced it to boot from a 4TB SSD just to see what’s possible. The wi-fi is mini-PCIE so upgradeable to modern 802.11ac cards. All in all these Asus machines are nicely built and with SSD and modern wi-fi feel a lot more responsive than they did back in the day.

[@WillOnSomething]

An Australian with an EEEPEECEE, where have I seen that before???? :p

[@aedan2003]

Definitely not from an Aussie drummer

[@hiki_komori6285]

D A N K M U S

[@minty6206]

@@hiki_komori6285 W E G O T B E E T S 😂

[@hiki_komori6285]

@@minty6206 S A M S O N the cheap version of simpsons

[@swelcome3]

D a n k p o d s

[@CariHere]

I always like to imagine what a modern netbook could look like, especially with arm processors becoming more common in laptops.

[@josephkowalczyk7459]

honestly modern macs are essentially netbooks: they're all battery with a tiny board alot of them being fanless

[@user-jm3ti1kg8n]

Great work ❤

[@starejhujer1764]

Hi from Europe! Thanks for your interesting videos!

[@WyrmLimion]

I have a similar Asus Netbook and I use it whenever I feel like using Linux. I use a low resource Linux distro which really helps the performance of the netbook.

[@latebloomer2]

I had one , the eepc 900 with celeron 630 Mhz, 1GB ddr2 , 4GB soldered + 8GB socket ssd, 8.9" 1024x600, win xp starter. The 4GB ssd dead within 2 years, xp running in the socketed 8GB ssd was much slower than traditional hdd. I use it for remote desktop to my desktop when working in factory site. Finally I gave it to family for his kid, after I had a real compact laptop.

[@x3mality160486]

Thank you for your inspiring videos!

[@x3mality160486]

And about Linux distros - for old and weak machines strongly recommend MX-Linux/Antix

[@TeriSneky]

Gotta love your content.

[@xPLAYnOfficial]

I've got Destiny 2 running on one of these. So much fun to tweak the setting on that haha.

[@albertdiehl1298]

2:59 “Well have to remove the warranty. Which is still valid.” 😂😂😂😂

[@fishmanloveslinux7978]

I have a 2007 Eee PC from ASUS and it works ok with Arch Linux on it. I use it for a portable word processor and music jukebox. But other than that I am on my HP Omen. Great video as always. Ciao!

[@acplguk]

I had one of these in 2012 - 2016. It was ok, but when I tried to upgrade it from Windows 7 to Windows 10, it didn't work. Now I have an Acer chromebook 314.

[@denzo3882]

That's a fancy Krambit 🤩

[@ardent.arch93]

We had that exact netbook before!

[@cooking4u354]

Keep up the good work

[@that_tanuka]

damn that Mitsubishi FTO during the FeiyuTech sponsor, looks sick af

[@fred-youtube]

5:30 Try the Xfce edition, the Cinnamon desktop is very heavy (The games ran well because they were full-screen)

[@zaf2774]

Psivewri uploads: good day

[@AD-2020]

I have a photo somewhere of the first Netbook I ever saw which was an ASUS Eee PC - And from memory it had 4GB of storage, was being sold at Grace Bros/Myer and was running a Linux Distro

[@theboldfuture2341]

A device like this is begging for the h264ify chrome extension for smooth playback. Nvidia ion doesn’t accelerate the codecs KZbin defaults to today, but does smoothly play back up to 1080p h264 video, which is why it was so valuable at the time.

[@waltberger7885]

I got a battery for my Dell that is similar to this for $15. Actually I just found one specifically for this model for $18. There are good deals on batteries for some of these netbooks out there.

[@Gamewrath1]

i love to do stuff like this restoring garage sale pxs and upgrading then selling them

[@ayoooooooo3828]

So excited!

[@amdintelxsniperx]

bionic pup is the way to go with these old units . i loved my eeepc 701 :)

[@AmericanMe]

Oh man I remember touring with one of these. I hated it but worked for slow usage hahaha

[@trollsthatlol1]

Ahh I had one of those. Neatest thing around the time it came out. Parents had gotten me one for school. Yeah that Intel atom was pathetic, and speakers were like birthday card speakers but it was the battery life and portability that was so great. Jump to 2014 when I was ticked off at Windows 8 and got a MacBook Air. That thing had decent specs and battery life!

[@derricknyakundi1985]

I love it when you run Linux distros!

[@Psychogustoasocial]

This was my first student laptop :D At the time, it was a very decent performance for such a small device. But I had two RAM modules - 2x2GB. I played CoD Modern Warfare in lectures :P

[@KingSpoonsThe5th]

Idk how this man can make short videos so entertaining

[@weewooo122]

Honestly my favorite video

[@silvinsooraj8812]

I used to have an Eee PC and it was okay with Windows 7/8.1 and Arch Linux seemed to work fine too... And it had the same problem, a failed battery. It was still in use until a week ago when the Charger broke.

[@rdyt0]

I used to own a Dell mini 9 back in 2010, at the height of netbook era. Performance is crap, but it boasted a fanless design which was quite rare back then.

[@zaamuro8408]

I had one just before it went to discrete graphics. Asia had a few models that looked really good, ultrabooks before ultrabooks. MacBook Air pretty much had no rivals at that point

[@BrandonLeeWisehart]

Enjoyed the video

[@colinhenry__]

First, the space shuttle. Second, the warranty. You got jokes man. Subtle! Just how I like it

[@SimSimsTECHcrunch]

My school used a very similar model for a couple of years. There is actually a dual-core variant of this laptop that will accept up to 4GB of RAM. I know this because these were the ones my school had.

[@Diabeetus.]

1:27 for anyone curious, the car is a Mitsubishi FTO.

[@steinbauge4591]

Great video on how to get mileage out of almost nothing! .. a better suited Linux might be MX-Linux

[@LevelUp_ErikJ]

The first laptop I could call my own was an open box EEE PEE CEE 1005HAB with Windows XP, a gift from my late grandfather. Unfortunately, the board stopped working. I'd love to get another one, since that model means quite a bit to me.

[@latebloomer2]

Long gone the demand of low spec small notebook... Chromebook : who am I?

[@AznKizashi]

Nice FTO! Don't see many of them around these days!

[@VazDraeStudios]

I was about to say, Id put a Linux distro on that! Good stuff!

[@richardclarke376]

Your videos are addictive. Could it be the eucalyptus oil fumes

[@frostedbutts4340]

I don't think the interest in small cheap things like this ended, they just evolved into Chromebooks

[@jakejat2]

They just downgraded since those chromebooks are dog shit bro

[@Mrlegoofficial]

I was on your channel page and thought wouldn’t it be nice if he uploaded and then about five minutes later you did😎

[@dennisleslie]

That thermal bubble wrap is what "Hello Fresh" and the like home delivery meals are shipped in.

[@arivald6677]

I probably would stick with windows 7 and then install super low requirment internet browser like palemoon, basilisk or something similar. Given that this is Nvidia brand gpu using linux is limiting this machine. If you use proper drivers and ssd drive this could handle 1080p/30 frames which is enough for movies playback altough given that youtube removed support for 30 frames and is currently forcing 60 frames its probably cant play youtube well. Good job on restoring it!

[@Dash64_png]

If you’re curious, Baker’s Delight is bakery in Downtown Minneapolis. Near a lake Calhoun? Idk, some sort of lake.

[@LondenTower]

It's time for the Eee Pee Cee!

[@yeetedthedevil]

The history of this, fucking hell its amazing.

[@pikachu5647]

Astonishing how things have changed, my core ryzen 5 4600hs runs in less then 10watts most of time in normal workloads like office and browsing which is comparable to tdp of this cpu.

[@bravelittleabacus]

the last place i expected a Mitsubishi FTO was this channel

[@DandamanV]

You should definitely consider putting Neverware Chrome OS on these kinds of netbooks. I think you'll find the experience to be pretty good.

[@anthonynorton666]

I have a 2007 laptop and had the microprocessor swapped out for a dual core processor running at 2.1 GHz, Mint xfce, DSD, and KZbin ran fine after that. I almost forgot: I used an Ethernet connection.

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

Nathan i did find a eee pc at a thrift store bought a charger and I Instaled Linux and it ran better than windows 10! Also it came with windows 7 starter originally and no external gpu!

[@gwnlars_8306]

Your MC Server is still online? Well done!

[@TL98]

just wanted to say two things: 1) if i had owned that, i would've shoehorned a copy of Zorin OS in it 2) that black FTO looks sick! is it yours?

[@budgieplays]

Nice vid I am still using my laptop that is from 2009 lol works fine ngl

[@tomguder]

i have such a eee-pc - now with an SSD good enough for kids to discover and play with

[@KurtWoloch]

I don't think the times of low-powered, tiny laptops are really over. You still can get them if you look for them... for instance, I saw another video for a $129 laptop which would be pretty much today's equivalent of the one you're reviewing here. I bought one 2 years ago for € 199 at the local Penny Markt... it has a quadcore Atom processor at 1.44 GHz, 32 GB of SSD, (I think) 4 GB of RAM and a 12" 1920x1048 display and runs Windows 10. It's fine if you just want to type up document or maintain databases on it, and it even runs KZbin smootly... just don't expect it to do really well at streaming over KZbin or at high performance games. It's actually so low powered that the power adapter is only 5V 2.4 A which means an average power bank can be a full substitute for it. And it only weighs a bit over 2 lbs, so it's very light to take along with you. And it's totally silent since it has no fans... it does have a speaker though, and even 2 built-in microphones to record in stereo!

[@sirc0o1alpha]

This is the most advanced calculator I've ever seen! 😱

[@anthonybf2]

I have three of these ION netbooks and they are awesome but the best one has been the HP Mini 311 as its the only one that has full XP driver support. Windows XP + an SSD results in a mini power house thst dominates any old game.

[@andrive]

Here is another video from my favorite eucalyptus addict

[@hiki_komori6285]

An Haitch Pea Eee Pee Cee. Beauty👍🏻

[@minty6206]

Sadly it’s not an XP eee pee cee

[@noobmaster-dm7tu]

i too have installed linux mint mate on an old p6200 laptop. i added 2gb ddr3 ram to make a total of 4gb and installed an SSD as well.

[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

I recycled a similar netboook with dual core atom and worst heat, battery and disk problems into a battocera system, even I disconnected the keyboard because have errors and put a fan on top. Batocera runs decent and I use joysticks.

[@p1eased0nteatme]

Largely unrelated to the video, but that FTO is sweet!

[@zxcvzxcv5060]

Linux Mint for sure runs faster than w7/8/10 on similar hardware but there are still some lower spec distros out there :) Puppy linux should working even better on that hw.