I Bought This $15 Laptop From eBay...

[@psivewri]

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[@computinglemon]

Cool I’ll give them a try!

[@raine_tay]

Yeah KZbin works pretty well, one thing though (and I'm not sure if they fixed it or not, haven't used it in months now) is VoIP sites like Meet will not work, maybe it's a Windows XP limitation, not sure if it works for Windows Vista though.

[@davidsalmons80]

The best browser for windows XP is Opera from what I have tried

[@andrive]

Nice

[@chandlerbing7570]

@@computinglemon Don't stop supporting youtubers promoting content in their videos

[@jamesdriver0317]

We need a Psivewri, Hugh Jeffreys, and DankPods collaboration. The greatest trio ever.

[@svgaming234]

The aussie trio haha, I watch all 3 of them!

[@AmirRazan]

@@svgaming234 Same!

[@lm_dccxl4078]

no

[@theeverythingman1060]

That what be hard seeing as they are from different places across the world 😢

[@butterfox863]

@@theeverythingman1060 all in aus tho

[@playgroundsinc]

Eucalyptus oil time

[@Qwerty-uiop]

Yeah

[@KyuminChan]

Truly the best moments in movie history

[@greypatch8855]

Always

[@andrive]

@@KyuminChan movie?

[@samholdsworth420]

Lather me up mates

[@raine_tay]

7:31 MyPal, pretty decent, used it on Windows XP and most sites loaded and work well, including KZbin!, It's based off of Pale Moon, which itself, is based on Firefox (IIRC)

[@psivewri]

I'll have to give it a shot! Especially if it runs KZbin

[@grkb]

there's a newer build of mypal that's based on firefox quantum 61 or 68 that runs on xp

[@SilverBirb]

@@psivewri i am kinda confused. I own a xp and it was an ok speed (it took a billion years to load tho) And the yt video was fine.

[@Bodneyblue]

I tried MyPal on my old XP laptop....still sucked even though it has 2GB of ram...I tried a number of so called XP working browsers and none of them actually worked well enough to use..really dissapointed...The CPU is a Celeron 2.8.....it has Radeon 9000 graphics...not great but should work..yet it's so very very slow..to the point it's pretty unuseable.

[@Aeduo]

Surprisingly modern looking laptop for its age. Only a few things really give it away aside from some stylistic things, obviously the serial port. The keyboard is of an older style but honestly kinda prefer it over the modern chiclet style. The bezel is surprisingly thin but most modern laptops have the display and bezel all behind a smooth glass or plastic surface rather than the visibly raised portion. Otherwise it's just a little on the thicker side, but otherwise it's kinda hard to spot that it's so old.

[@GraveUypo]

yeah worst part about my current and first high end laptop is the keyboard. i miss a lot of keystrokes in this dumb chiclet style, like i press the key and it doesn't register. ironically, both the trackpad AND the keyboard were best at my lowest end laptop from 2009. they were just perfect.

[@petemiller2598]

While I don’t miss serial ports, I do miss the sheer amount of ports on old laptops.

[@Aeduo]

@@petemiller2598 you can occasionally still find serial ports on more industrial laptops. :P but honestly I kinda prefer the flexibility of USB when it's implemented well. A lot of those old ports were limited, and very fixed to specific system resources so literally only could have 1 or 2 or whatever of any of them before things become incompatible with most software.

[@telengardforever7783]

Hey, us embedded software developers still use serial ports! They are critical, in fact! A good serial port is too rare.

[@kashifpetkar5806]

I like that there is little to no intro, I love it when content creators do this, straight to the point, keeps it simple and entertaining at the same time. Love your work

[@ErikZarth]

I had one of these in 2008. Barely usable even at that time. The 512mb of ram and low rpm drives really held it back.

[@GFourGadget]

The glorious days when laptops had such a huge variety of ports 😍 how I've missed them

[@MJ-uk6lu]

You can still buy enterprise laptops like that, but be ready to pay a lot, but to be fair laptop like this old one in video was also very expensive new.

[@ColtenGarrett-ic7rz]

Dell latitude C840 was one of my fav's@@MJ-uk6lu

[@wwllsswtrustong]

I used to have the evo N600c model, this video really bring me back to the good old days

[@vgteso3385]

I watch your videos since 2019 and you can really see how you improved over time! Great vid btw.

[@christianmellenthin7975]

Looks like we both have the hobby of collecting and cleaning tech!

[@dlschuller53]

6:21 Are you kidding? You cleaning and refurbing tech is the main reason why I subscribed to this channel :) There's just something so satisfying about seeing old hardware getting a good scrub and booting up...

[@AndrewsRepairShop]

I've got a 19-year-old XP desktop that's still able to run KZbin. Thanks to a browser called my pal, it still supports Windows XP to this day

[@Glockmog2007]

Seeing how easy it was to disassemble is insane. The battery, harddrive, disk drive, and ram were so easy to access, and even the cpu is upgradable? The fan held up great as well. Sad that nobody designs stuff with care like this anymore. I would much rather have a thicker laptop with modular design and lots of ports like this.

[@computinglemon]

Love these videos! I’m so glad I’m not the only one who truly appreciate’s old tech.

[@fatimapalacios2292]

look at that accessibility and easy replacement of parts!!! nowadays everything is soldered to the board or almost impossible to reach.

[@tobylifers3390]

Hell yeah, nice machine. My Dad used to have an old Compaq from ~2001 which was an absolute chungus. I used it to play Warcraft 3 all the time. Such memories...

[@Defy_Convention]

1:08 ahh yes the good old days, simpler times

[@meowdacat]

I used to have a pile of these i brought out a hp repair guy in Victoria. pretty much all of it is gone now but i can put you in touch with the guy who picked up my old spares.

[@rice.cookers]

i love how psivewri talks to us almost like were the ones supposed to be fixing the computer

[@cirkulx]

second person?

[@aid0nex]

That "trackpad and trackpoint combo" is totally normal on workstation laptops even today. My 2017 Thinkpad had it and my 2020 Dell that I have now is also having it. Extremely powerful PC with an Intel Core i7 9750H, 32GB DDR4, 1TB Nvme SSD and of course a dedicated GPU (some AMD one, I don't know which one as this is not from a gaming series, some workstation card). It has a 180W "travel" power brick and 240W for home use... Totally crazy. However what I wanted to say is that such workstation devices that companies often give to their developers and so on always have this, this is nothing from the past at all.

[@justsomeguy5103]

This. Although Dell dropped the trackpoint from their Precision 7* lineup starting with the 2020 redesign.

[@furious_gaming14furious_ga91]

Ah it has been a long time since the last budget XP eBay laptop. Its these videos that inspired me to save these old machines and give them a second chance :p

[@r4n85]

Thumbs up for keeping an AU falcon running. Such an underrated car

[@dsickles1]

Had this computer brand new in 2003. It was the laptop of choice for my highschool's 'laptop program'

[@furious_gaming14furious_ga91]

We absolutely need a tour of the collection! :p

[@fhunter1test]

I actually had this laptop, and used it for quite some time. Biggest issue when used with Linux was graphics (old ATI, which was no longer supported for any decent graphics acceleration, and thus it no longer run browser well, or decoded video from the web correctly. Surprisingly - adobe flash played youtube videos pretty decently, while it was still available. Keyboard was one of the better ones. And it was a tank. Had soldered in usb wifi to the connector on the lid.

[@brandsonic]

I've had one of these since November 2013. I also got it from eBay. It's pretty much been my main Windows XP machine since then. It didn't come with a hard drive so I used one from another broken laptop I had. I also used the RAM from that laptop since my Evo N610c only came with 128MB of RAM. It looks like yours has the 1400 x 1050 screen, mine is only 1024 x 768. It came without the trackpad and pointer nub cabling, so they don't work. So it has to be used with an external mouse. I intended to fix this but never got around to it. The laptop still works great to this day and I still use it fairly often. I have tons of stuff on it since I've owned it for nearly 9 years. It's a great machine and one of my favorite machines in my collection.

[@okonvick]

Good choice. These laptops were very, very well built. Ones of the sturdiest laptops for sure.

[@llynellyn]

I used to use one of these in college, the first consumer laptop to offer a wifi module, it was practically alien tech at the time lol

[@scpwritten]

And take this in yo note for some reason. If you clean the bezel atounf the screen with isopropaly it will remove the paint

[@OmegaWolf]

Every listing I see is over 50 plus shipping☠️

[@bullethelldemon]

this was the first computer i ever had that i could 100% call mine. a family friend gave it to me when i was 13 and loaded it with reason 3 and taught me how to compose music with it. i used it a lot for that, as well as school and playing the sims 2. i attempted to play the sims 3 on it when that game came out but it struggled horribly to run it, it was unplayable! i never knew about the upgradable wifi addon, but i did buy a pcmcia wifi card that i got a ton of mileage out of. i had a lot of great times with this ol compaq laptop though, it very much was apart of who i became as a person today. 😊

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

I also bought a Pentium 4 laptop on eBay, it was a Toshiba for $40. It came with the original restore discs though, so that’s cool.

[@robinjacks4906]

When I saw that thumbnail I was like "is that a Compaq Evo N610C!?" Because I have one with a broken DC input charging port sitting dusty on my shelf. A great video and a good find for $15 good sir.

[@blakebechtel5192]

I got a Dell inspiron e1505 from ebay. It was the cheapest one, and after plugging it in, the motherboard lasted 5 seconds before it put any power adapter into overcurrent shutdown.

[@tharuhnsuppiah9497]

Hi i like restoring old macs, can you make a video of the simplest way to create a mac os usb installer.btw love your videos.

[@tharuhnsuppiah9497]

Hi Thanks very much

[@dev0xr1]

Making that ram cover door would be cool imo, at least to a tech enthusiast! Great video btw, as always!

[@swacomiro5117]

Bro your voice its soo satisfaying i really love your videos, keep up the good work!

[@ezquimal]

Wow a old Compaq heavy weight is like a tank the problem was the cooler in the left are good for winter heat nice

[@Kruton1122]

You may be able to revive that battery by putting it in the freezer. I have that exact same laptop and my battery was stone dead, chucked it in the freezer for a day and then plugged it into the laptop and let it charge? Works fine now, lasts an entire day.

[@MaiElizabeth]

I also enjoy cleaning anything and even more so watching people cleaning stuffs.

[@arturosann7016]

4:02 is that a bug or a booger under the #2 key? 😂

[@AlexStroiescu]

For a Browser, use Sea Monkey for Windows XP, and make sure you have Windows XP SP3

[@Crylhound]

Makes me realise how much I miss my old P4 2,8GHz Toshiba Satellite 😥

[@CraigRodmellMusic]

I still have an old laptop running XP. I use it to run software that would no longer run when Windows 7 came along. As far as I know, these pieces of software don't exist in more modern versions, so XP it is

[@felipegonzalez2110]

The best Browser for Windows XP atm is Mypal version 68.12.5b (The latest version as I’m typing this comment) it’s based on Firefox Quantum and it runs surprisingly well, KZbin playback absolutely works on Mypal compared to Articfox

[@user-cp5rs4vt8t]

haha! chruch ceremonies and gospel songs... with pirated movies from limewire.... what a mix

[@paulwilliams4274]

You maxed out the RAM, though, why didn't you install an SSD at the same time? It would have greatly sped up the system. Also, this Compaq laptop would be a great candidate for a 32 bit version of a lightweight distribution. Great videos!

[@psivewri]

Ram alone fixed many performance related issues. Not really worth putting in an SSD in a laptop like this (although I've now got a few IDE to MSATA SSD drives)

[@Kruton1122]

I own this laptop, best browser it can use is a version of opera that works with 32 bit, though even with the maximum gig of ram and an SSD it is sluggish to run it.

[@Geert365]

7:35 There are add on's for Firefox anyhow (think they support multiple browsers), KZbin redux, old KZbin are two, very good for older systems , also an add-on that makes KZbin use the graphics card more (long story on how).

[@nerdyaviator732]

The best windows xp browser I've found is the Maxthon MX5. It's still actively supported and can watch KZbin and do other task no problem

[@defme]

7:30, MyPal is a modern browser made for XP. It can play KZbin videos fine on my old Dell Latitude

[@kuchenblechmafiagmbh1381]

These narrow bezels are awesome for such an old machine similar to the PowerBook G4 family.

[@maxtornogood]

A Pentium 4 laptop always needs a robust cooling solution. *Always!*

[@real_mfiel577]

Yesssss... New video!!! I love watching your videos

[@danielwallace8980]

i saw the thumbnail, this was the first computer i bought when i was a kid after delivering newspapers for a while I still remember going from 256mb ram -> 512mb -> 1gb across 2 years, I was poor growing up XD so much feel

[@matsgustavsson665]

I still got my Acer Travelmate 291 around from 2003. Upgraded it as far as it could but in the end it couldn't hack it. Since Raspberry Pi 4B now can run win 10 (well, with a few bugs) I've been thinking about putting an RPi in it. Should make for a fun little project

[@DamionHamilton1277]

Love your videos. Would have loved to have seen you involve a Linux distro on here.

[@diwaalejandrogalvez796]

The transition to the sponsor in this video was... Brilliant!!

[@K9arcade]

Great watch. For XP I've used Opera as a browser, their website offers a separate version for the browser for XP/Vista. I've also heard of others such as Chameleon.

[@foss_sound]

I wonder, how the experience with linux would be.

[@WeSRT4]

This brings back memories of trying to do my job with an outdated brick of a laptop.

[@kittencouch7736]

Have you ever tried a lightweight linux distro like lubuntu or linux lite on a laptop like that? It can make it a lot faster!

[@damiennoir1301]

I own a Thinkpad R60 for Dosbox and Windows 95 to XP games. If I browse the internet I use Firefox ESR, ot works without any problems!

[@EnchantFortnite]

Oh my good thats time capsule these laptops are legendary

[@brony4life1982]

Oh wow, I used to own that exact model laptop back in like 2005

[@blaketomlinson3915]

Great Video! got one of these little guys in my collection runs XP like a dream!

[@ArgonByte]

$15 is a steal! Been reviving some old laptops my family has had lying around, but this exact laptop we sadly got rid of a long time ago. Would love to find one again and have a Windows XP laptop to play with. Looking at like $100 for one on Ebay tho, oof.

[@Leon-ts1nl]

The Browser I always use with XP is called MyPal its based of pale moon which is based of firefo

[@kakakiri2601]

Another laptop treatment video, you always doing the right job

[@zarbongreat8622]

How many laptops have u fixed and sold so far??

[@peterossk5318]

YES

[@gabigamer7442]

press f for respect

[@Qwerty-uiop]

F

[@psivewri]

Yes

[@besihodja393]

@@psivewri lol🤣🤣🤣

[@electronicstv5884]

This thing is so modular! Amazing

[@FSM_Reviews]

That's built like a ThinkPad. Not in terms of durability necessarily, but in terms of design and how it comes apart.

[@olimpather]

The screen bezels looks suprisingly modern!

[@Pandakeerat]

😊7:35 yes I do actually use mypal which is based on pale moon which is based on Firefox

[@TimonSuricata]

I use the exact same model to program my twoway radios (as you have to use old computers for that purpose) Great machine!

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

I use Firefox 52 ESR, it’s decently quick and still supports KZbin.

[@TheBasementChannel]

15 bucks!😂 not a bad score. Good work.

[@CoolGorillaGoAnimate7000]

I got a $15 laptop 2 weeks ago. Best damn laptop deal I ever got.

[@telengardforever7783]

20 years doesn't seem like 20 years anymore when it comes to old tech. I mean, the VIC-20 I got in 1980 was TOTALLY unusable by 2000. No amount of upgrades would ever change that. But the Dell E5570 (2016 model) I got on eBay (with a few upgrades of my own), is one hell of a good travel/camping laptop for cheap. I'm sure the E5570 will STILL be good for basic usage by 2026.

[@sburton015]

This is very similar to my Toshiba laptop that I remember buying from eBay for about $40, however it got some cosmetic damage in shipping but does still work so I let the seller know that and he refunded me the money and told me that I could keep the laptop so I got it for free, but it has a Pentium 4, 3.0ghz cpu with 1 gb of ram and a Geforce fx5200 go graphics card and Windows XP service pack 1. It seems to be from 2004. It also comes with Norton Antivirus 2004, however I'm not sure how well an antivirus software from 2004 would do in 2022.

[@devisals]

I used to have this laptop when I was younger. It couldn't run Windows Vista very well and when I was younger I really liked the look of Vista. So I remember I had windows XP with a Vista transformation pack, ViStart, and True transparency. Man those were the times 😂

[@FennecTECH]

Best browser for XP is going to be K-Meleon genoa. It has a fully modern rendering engine and modern SSL. Your going to want to update the SSL Certificate store.

[@goodnefario1059]

That laptop is older than me!

[@luke27luis]

"The hard disk was loaded with religious music, church seminars and pirated movies" - Interesting combination 😅

[@itsdeonlol]

It's cool to see you restore new life into this old laptop!

[@damolin77]

I wonder how the laptop would run with Linux Mint.

[@MendicantPriest]

I put a mint on this machine, man... it worked horribly on it

[@angelborislavov9192]

Antix will be better

[@SuperOldrocker]

mx linux 18 and 21 32 bit works great

[@fhunter1test]

Mint is set up with compositing by default. Compositing requires modern drivers (and reasonably fast GPU) and this thing has equivalent of ATI Radeon 7500 (or 9600), first or second generation of them. In short - biggest problem - it is limited to OpenGL 1.4 (no shaders support), and that limits things and slows it. If you use IceWM or some other non-compositing WM - should be much snappier.

[@yotoprules9361]

It won't, it's only a 32bit CPU. You would need a 32bit distro. I use Sparky Linux on old machines that can't run 64bit using the LXQT environment and it works rather well.

[@litemint09]

i hope Eucalyptus oil is available in the philippines, anyhow, Linux would run on that old machine and deserves its purpose, shout out to you Psivewri.

[@Zelda-Tech-Plus]

I use mozilla firefox on old computers because of its low cpu and ram requirements.

[@PaulXPZ]

Surprised you didn't swap the optical drive for a SSD. This was standard practice for me when I wanted to breathe new life in older laptops

[@jaredjerome9668]

omfg I was not ready for that monster truck madness 2 i just went thru a time worm hole that brought me back the instant i saw it I used to play that everyday when i was like 7

[@Subdubbin]

Okay props on the sponsor segue! Also nice AU.

[@psivewri]

You'll see more of that car this weekend 👍

[@MistyWatersss]

You don't get such good laptops these days. What happened to getting as much ports as possible, instead of as little?

[@jackkraken3888]

I think we can blame Apple for that.

[@dustinschings7042]

I am pretty sure this is what we will be getting from here out. An 8 minute video that costs him $15, with a 2-2.5 min ad built-in that more than pays for the video costs. Not a lot of new content here, just basic/cheap stuff getting refurbished. :(

[@lolcat]

that's why you get a gaming laptop and not those thin and lights.

[@garbage100]

Probably because most things these days all plug into USB, unlike before when every different device used a different type of socket

[@MistyWatersss]

@@garbage100 and yet some laptops don't even have enough USB ports. They have 2 USB C ports and call it a day. As a person who regularly needs other ports, this is stupid.

[@SleepyMechanic]

One of these days, ill be big enough to collaborate with you haha! Good video!

[@RuruFIN]

I had probably the same model back in the day, at least P4-M and Radeon 7500M rings bells.

[@TheSpotify95]

Nice salvage and resurrection of a great Windows XP era laptop! Not surprised that the battery wouldn't hold a charge! As for Windows XP web browsers, there really isn't much of a choice nowadays. I always try MyPal (based off Pale Moon/Firefox) whenever testing a Windows XP era system.

[@brendang673]

Those are surprisingly thin bezels for the early 2000s.

[@DreyNv03]

My old XP powered pc uses latest Mozilla Firefox that's available for windows xp, and it can still play youtube videos without any problems. But when it comes to security, i really wont recommend using the browser on a computer without an antivirus.

[@mysticaxolotl8215]

I wish I had more space for retro desktops. I have a Dimension 8200 that runs XP, but I want older machines so badly 😭

[@mysticaxolotl8215]

How did this get commented here, I was on a short :(

[@The-Future-Is-The-Past-]

i recently got an earlier model, i quite like it, runs nicely on XP