Installing Windows Vista on the Samsung Q1 Ultra

[@100PercentJake]

Thank you for uploading those recovery disks! My Q1U happens to have a functional battery so once I get XP loaded back into it it may actually find use again!

[@whovianmusic]

Thank you Michael for doing what you do, because you and LGR are the two best retro/vintage PC KZbinrs I've come across, this is a great video even though I've barely started to watch it lol

[@catgirl_eva]

It was the Q1 Ultra Premium that shipped with Vista. Those models had a Core Solo vs whatever Intel chip was in the regular Q1 Ultra. The Premium was also thicker and came with a bigger battery, though the thinner battery from the non-Premium fit. There was also a docking station available for the Q1 Ultra series with a spacer that could be put in to make the non-Premium model fit properly.

[@MichaelMJD]

The original Q1 Ultra models did ship with Vista. The model I showed was the only launch model that shipped with XP instead.

[@WindowsVistaGrowtopia]

@@MichaelMJD HAHAHAHAHA My real name Is Vista Amelia Sooo... I Am The Creator Of Windows Vista And Microsoft Never Owns Windows Vista Only Me TRIGGERED BOY!

[@WindowsVistaGrowtopia]

YOU TO CAT GIRL noob

[@eduardoroth8207]

these old portable computers are so interesting and cool, i wish i had one to play around with

[@stuffbymax]

Same

[@TechnologyNToys]

Gotta love those 2.5 hour driver refresh sessions

[@nlaumeyer]

I really enjoy these Videos. It really gets me to think what else things can windows be installed on and like you said what can it be installed on. Keep up the great work MJD on videos for the education, entertainment and for bringing nostalgia to us. Appreciate your hard work and dedication.

[@L2Real]

membr

[@MissionSuccessfulDetroit]

youtube is drunk

[@billybobjankens12]

​@@MissionSuccessfulDetroit ok

[@virusui671]

Michael, thank you very much for leaving links to the drivers in the description, because I have the same Samsung Q1 Ultra and I wanted to install Windows Vista!

[@eugiblisscast]

It (the pc) tried his best

[@rockpie.iso.tar.bz2]

*he tried his best/it tried its best

[@iiTsFaded_]

he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit

[@okay_dude_whattheflip]

Your message is confusing, but I got what you trying to say.

[@lucymorrison]

They (the commenter) posted a comment (I added “(the commenter)” in brackets so you could tell what my comment was about much like how you added brackets to indicate what you were talking about despite the fact it was the sole focus of the video and it would be exceedingly easy to infer what you were talking about without the brackets; in a video about installing Windows®️Vista on a Samsung®️Q1 Ultra tablet computer, “it tried its best” as a comment under the video is easy to understand as “it” referring to the Samsung®️Q1 tablet computer and therefore descriptorty brackets are not necessary and come off as patronising to the reader.)

[@manhvu4988]

@@rockpie.iso.tar.bz2 ok grammar Nazi

[@starman2985]

I really love how Michael takes his time to do unexpected stuff with his collection!

[@darnoldie]

A previous employer provided me with one of these units to use as part of a utility inspection program. It came preloaded with Vista and ran beautifully. It even passed the drop test a few times and survived. Eventually it became outed due to Vista and was replaced with a laptop. It worked well for the purpose I used it for.

[@edwardwilliams5460]

Right on!!! I was hoping you were going to do this, thank you Michael, your quality of content never fails to entertain!

[@WagTsX]

you should try to upgrade it to every version of Windows up to the most recent one by one, to know where's the limit. Will make a great series of videos.

[@mat08267]

Michael’s humor is subtle but supperrr funny lmao. Keep up the good work brother, always great content 😂👍

[@Ametisti]

The Q1 reminds me so much of the WiiU's gamepad, I think both being a glossy black helps

[@zilchfox]

Dang, I love this thing. This is so good, great job! Makes me want one, now.

[@kyleleroux110]

I'm curious to see what windows 7 would do on this. Windows 7 was faster than Vista in many ways. Also if you try upgrading from Windows XP to Vista Business it would be faster too as it doesn't have the Windows Media Center bloat which made low end PCs faster.

[@hgbugalou]

Win7 won't run without sse2 cpu support AFAIK which this won't have.

[@betweenthewater]

@@hgbugalou It will run but some updates require SSE2.

[@Walter-uf9pz]

This is my go-to channel to sleep. Thanks mr MJD for being my comfort channel

[@The92Waffles]

Windows Vista was the first OS I had when I got my own PC back in the day (coming from family XP PC). being a teen at the time I didnt fully understand why everyone hated Vista. But for my needs as a WoW addict back then it was a nice OS. Second favorite OS only behind Windows 7

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

compared to windows 98 and 95 and later OS like windows 7, Windows vista was a bloated snail.

[@iamboredfor2months]

windows vista has a cool ui, it makes me feel very cozy

[@eduardoroth8207]

agreed. too bad it came out buggy and was a bit too demanding for most computers of the time

[@arnox4554]

Windows Aero is beautiful and incredible. Ditching it for MetroUI was a huge mistake.

[@iamboredfor2months]

@@arnox4554 i really like the ui of windows 7 and vista, but the vista sidebar makes me feel in a weird way, same way i feel with ubumtu

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

Vista is a christmas tree for no purpose but to satisfy they eyes of the user.. it drag the system down and lower the performance to make it look "pretty and nice" .. the animations was a bit over the edge as well

[@arnox4554]

@@lokelaufeyson9931 If you really didn't like it, you could still use the Classic theme just fine. That's how things worked for a long while. The main theme looked really gorgeous, but would be heavier on resources, while the Classic theme would look a lot more plain but would perform better. Sometimes much better depending on how low-spec the machine was. Then, starting with Windows 8, Microsoft, in a brilliant genius move, got rid of that system entirely and forced users to use the main heavier theme only.

[@FightingTable]

I love your videos, they're always so interesting. Haven't watched this one yet, but I'm sure it'll be great!

[@ZayanZeed]

True

[@camerontinker1948]

These machines are great Windows XP devices! I have two of them now and one has Windows XP installed and the other has Debian 12 with LXDE. Debian 12 is one of the few modern Linux distros that still runs on 32 bit machines.

[@gydo1942]

I really wanna see Linux on that thing! How does it run?

[@camerontinker1948]

@@gydo1942 for the most part, it is useable, but web browsing is very difficult and slow. At best, it could be used for a little Linux terminal and some light apps.

[@miro007ist]

I’m really enjoying the wooden table, relaxing jazz music and great video quality.

[@MichaelMJD]

Thanks so much!!

[@novatiberium]

Hey Michael, excellent work as always for your channel! I have a suggestion: I'm starting a virtualization/archival project of the AWE Learning computers (Early Literacy Station), and I was wondering if you would be interested in doing a video on AWE? I'm only archiving versions that were based off of old releases like Windows XP or Windows Embedded 7 and I've started a Discord dedicated to the efforts. I know someone on Reddit was supposed to contribute but I don't know if it's going to happen or not. If anyone is interested and have a AWE unit to make a hard disk image out of, let me know! It would be nice to see more tech KZbinrs review this interesting piece of software that is known to remove the Windows logo on startup.

[@krzbrew]

I have tested many times these types of devices. The error in the Windows assessment in these types of devices happens due to the fact that the display size of the panel is smaller than the largest video test file. In theory that should just skip the test but due to INCREDIBLY STUPID Intel driver that just crashes the video decoder when the image is larger than the rendering area. You can dig that from the logs once you dig deep enough. Also the touch screen driver - the best version is usually the one it was bundled with. Newer version might have bugs. Also the same driver from the other UMPC devices - either newer or older might not be suitable for the specific UMPC device.

[@WarriorKiller1098]

There's a Windows XP sticker on this device. So people think it would be Windows XP but it's just Windows Vista.

[@Stiky_Piston]

We needed this! I am so lucky I here 22min after vid launch! Was just watching ur ClassiCube vid!

[@johnDingoFoxVelocity]

So Michael, I can easily help you with what is going on on the Q1. What you need to do is you need to go in to control panel and uninstall and disable. Net meeting, you also need to uninstall and disable outlook. Let me explain why. Net meeting and outlook both cause the operating system to lag like a son of a gun. Because they are actually both on and running in the background. 24/7 in Windows Vista. Which consumes Ram and processor usage. If you disable those and turn off the windows widgets on the side of the screen and turn off arrow, you will actually get way better performance out of that little hand held

[@uniteder9309]

seeing an old tablet with Windows XP that is being ugraded to Windows Vista is the best cool video

[@robertrotman7730]

Your intro never gets old

[@etz80808yy]

i was waiting for this! and oh isn't windows so wonderful, don't we all love spending hours uninstalling and reinstalling drivers

[@simonupton-millard]

I remember rearly wanting one of these back in the day had a HP tablet PC I used but this looked so cool

[@anon_y_mousse]

I don't know if it's new or something they've been doing for a while and I didn't notice before, but when you mentioned giving the video a thumbs up the widget lit up. As if I need help finding it, but it was kind of cool anyway.

[@luis-ranma]

I love Windows Vista.

[@appel2112]

Michael please do more videos on the MSNTV if u got the 1st gen or if you found a way to connect it onine, I love your videos keep it up!!!!

[@rodneydawn4134]

always nice to see vista getting some love. THe aesthetic is better than 7 even, which grew from vista. It was ahead of its time and a lot of the hate comes from hardware being behind software and only the unobtanium systems of the time having enough 'smash' to run vista properly. anyone thats tried vista on a phenom II or FX8350 with a good gpu can tell you how well it runs on beefy hardware.

[@salmonsoup15]

Thats a quality smasnugget right there

[@RallyElite]

woahhhh, never thought about this, even if they were coming with them installed

[@RetroGamerOG_]

I like how this worked as a small computer

[@hoteny]

Finally, the true potential of this netlet!!!

[@Big-Chungus21]

It would be really cool to see a video on the Toshiba W100, if you can find one for cheap. It was a dual screen Windows tablet made in 2010.

[@matticolo]

So this is basically a fancier version of the Wii U Gamepad

[@konaDuvall]

I love your videos i just have to say... you sound like my 7th grade math teacher

[@ВиториоКлиментов]

Vista is beatiful Windows.

[@wagnerwolf]

Next step: Installing Hannah Montana Linux or Uwuntu into this thing. Amazing video as always!

[@will0499]

Your videos are always so amazing and I love them so much

[@ste666666666]

I have a boxed copy of windows Vista and just want to put it on an old system but it loves failing to authenicate the copy as support has ended and also i swear there is a wormhole in my house as my copy of XP vanished along with a copy of Command & Conquer for the PS1!. My copy of XP is a copied version though but it does work and just wish i could find it for two old systems i have just collecting dust in my attic!. Great videos btw and thank you & Happy Hollllydays one and all!!! ⛄🎄

[@Sheikh_Speare]

Neat, you actually made the upgrade video. 😊 Now Win7, 8, 10 and 11 next. 😁

[@dumbfloppa]

Hello thanks for uploading again!

[@williamnessanbaum7464]

Put 32Bit Ubuntu MATE on it. It will run like a champ for the next 25 years.

[@Ricar2002YT]

Let's gooo, Windows Vista time

[@Nas_Allie]

The way you did the disk drive open and close was pure boss

[@treepowo]

Smasnug actually did a great job back then

[@zibidiparro]

I am very sad to see that such devices are no longer produced.

[@zibidiparro]

@@alexanderbaker4900 the world is a very strange place. People are trying to go back. Right now, the Internet is the same way. This is exemplified by Frugiter Aero becoming popular again.

[@arnox4554]

You must be new here. :)

[@sarapayne3520]

Can’t wait to see something go wrong in the installation, it is an MJD video lol

[@joshuamichael1232]

I miss mine, it was a portable sims machine, I stayed in a shitty job with a crap boss to keep the thing in my life 😅

[@arthurmartinsgoncalves6468]

woah! i wasn't expecting Aero to work on this thing! also, could you PLEASE install Windows Longhorn on the 98 PC?

[@denizbey8945]

This channel need 3.4 million subs

[@LouiesWorkshop]

You have to take it a step further and try to upgrade to Windows 7! maybe even try to mod the windows 10 installer and upgrade to that too!

[@T-Waldo]

As if LGR and Ben Stein had a baby somehow gave us you, lol love your video. Also cl_showfps 1 is then console command to show fps in HL1. I know you didn't install it in this video just something to keep in mind for next time

[@Seliom55]

I've been waiting for this video!

[@povilasstaniulis9484]

I would also try upgrading this to Windows 7.

[@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli]

I remember back in the day, way back in 2006 when I was a college freshman, that Vista was kinda chuggy on even 1GB of RAM, and that a lot of tech articles/forums seemed to suggest shooting for 2GB minimum, 4GB to comfortably run it. lmfao. But then it's amazing how nowadays, Chrome uses more than a gigabyte per tab, and I would be antsy running Windows on 4GB of RAM, or even 8.

[@Cart1416]

vista yayyyy!!!

[@Sjetton85]

Ya going to need that second service pack

[@generatorzabawy9156]

excellent video as always

[@bhasitl]

Finally! I really wanted this video!

[@administrator8203]

Can you install Windows 7 on the Samsung Q1 Ultra

[@beer_goggler]

Clean install of vista and then always install the chipset driver first.

[@StevenFail_Kuyashii]

finally the video i want

[@roblox123admet]

Keep going this those videos 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@mustasheolll2020]

Crazy that it can run aero being that small and being released in 2007.

[@resolvanlemmy]

Lesson learned: if your computer runs slow on Vista, don't blame the OS, blane your computer.

[@arnox4554]

*Protip:* Vista is buggy as HELL without Service Pack 1. You will need it. In fact, it's almost mandatory for the OS. Never use Vista RTM if you can help it.

[@Nik-jy6sl]

I really miss Windows Vista concept and visual style

[@UltraCenterHQ]

The fact that a program instantly crashed the moment it logged in, is the true Vista Experience

[@WindowsVistaGrowtopia]

you got done... ofcouse GIVE THAT TO ME TRIGGERED BOY!

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

If I remember right I had 4gb of ram at the time and Vista ran great, and I believe my parents had 1gb ram and it ran fine also. I think the large amount of hate Vista got was due to OEM selling PCs with Vista that barely got past the system minimum requirements. If you had a decent pc Vista ran absolutely fine.

[@malcontender6319]

1:19 What a flashy disk!

That glass theme is fuckin hilarious...

[@ThatWindowsGuy488]

surprised aero was even working

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

windows vista was installed on any device or computer that they wanted to sell, requirement didnt matter. There was some nasty "not vista compatible" computers that was sold with vista. It was a bad time to be alive.. Windows Vista in general did have some "OS 2 Warp" issues as well, slow and sluggish due to bad code" and not really direct response when you click anything. Animations was running, background bloat was loaded and it was a mess.

[@WinPC99]

Not sure if my first comment went through…but I have the vista driver CD for this. The Q1 Ultra it came with doesn’t have the cameras or the fingerprint reader…but it should have most, if not all of the drivers including the Origami experience pack. Let me know if you’re interested!

[@SaM64pes]

Finally the micheal mjd video

[@LynnGrantzAnimate]

This is really amazing

[@Filipcreate]

Perfect machine to play the Age of Empires on ❤️

[@AlyxxTheRat]

"Using the device controls will give a more authentic experience" Michael, my bro, ANYONE would DEFINITELY have plugged in some kind of keyboard and mouse even back in the day rather than dealing with that nightmare of a control scheme lol

[@masonthecoyote]

11:44 "the assessment or other operation did not complete _succesfully_ 🤔🤔

[@Flaretale52]

10:00 OMG You actually skipped it? I was hoping for a quick timelapse!

[@fusionsub]

Still runs better than my Vista laptop! And that's even with that tablet using aero and my laptop not!

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

yea, the Vista laptops was victims of the cooperate "make everything look nice even if it kill performance" attitude.. the main trick was to uninstall vista and install XP instead and you got all the performance back like magic.

[@ZeroWalker26]

Honestly if I had a such old tablet pc like that with 800mhz and like 1gb of ram I would run like Win ME or 2000 pro on it for best performance. Anyway awesome and great video as always.

[@sem5263]

Not sure if you'd be able to find the drivers for such a device :/

[@HristoVidinov]

I laughed so hard he just backspaced the 1 and is now q 😂

[@IamEmirhan]

Mjd I love your videos

[@JoshuaDoesTech]

I would just love to see the latest version of Linux Mint Cinnamon running on this thing, see what a desktop that's been maintained for years for maturity does on it without sacrificing functionality

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

mint require 2 Gb ram .. and cinnamon really require it.. its a bit more to load at boot than XFCE. Install XFCE and change the size a little and you have a minimal interface win98 looking and not in the way at all.. no big puffy start menu or anything useless. I think XFCE would have a better chance on that device. Less ram and cpu requirement and less load on the system. Cinnamon is ugly in my opinion.. didnt move to linux to get the same screen covering that windows covered up by default. That start menu? give me a axe and i can cut it down in size quick. It need to size down a bit.

[@JoshuaDoesTech]

@@lokelaufeyson9931 We all know how those silly memory minimums are :P When I run the Cinnamon desktop with no features disabled (in fact, extra features enabled) I'm always shy of 450MB of RAM, about half of what this tablet would give for usage to the OS after the BIOS But you're absolutely right anyhow, XFCE4 would run miles better than Cinnamon would, purely because it's way less intensive and has way less features to keep ticking the CPU I'd argue it would be worth just installing the Cinnamon edition from the start, then installing the XFCE4 packages manually on top so that both DEs can be properly tested (using the login switcher)

[@OllyWindows2014]

💾 MJD Video 💾

[@adrenaliner91]

Oh boy, it just met the requirements to Vista Basic afaik, not even Home Premium, Ultimate will kill it xD

[@jjay350]

The Q1 I have had this installed on it from the factory. Personally I think you're crazy for doing this, the performance was always awful and I wished it had XP on it instead.

[@chrislinuxtutorials5283]

Am I the only one who loves edging to the Windows Vista UI?

[@phr3dmcc0y]

ok. We knew XP would be better. We knew upgrading to vista would suck. But here is what we do not know. 1. can it take a faster drive? 2. can it run better if you did a clean install of Vista? 3. can it run windows 7 x32? 4. can it run Windows 10 x32? I'd love to know how high it can go.

[@FoxyAnimater]

how far can you upgrade it? and what modern linux distros do you think will run? (I think Peppermint x86 and debian are your best bet...)

[@camerontinker1948]

I was able to get Debian 12 working! Pretty much all hardware works with a little tweaking.

[@majoryoshi]

Well I have to ask, can you throw 7 on it? 32 bit minimum requirements are 1GB ram and 1GHz CPU, but the 98 PC has a slower CPU than the Q1 Ultra