So Ferrari Made A Laptop...

[@zacharg1732]

My dad bought one of these back when they came out so he could use it for work. It had come with a remote control F1 car and a cologne too! My older brother destroyed it by playing SilkRoad Online 24/7 on it and the poor thing couldn't keep up. Rest in piece overpriced Acer laptop. You won't be missed.

[@nil0ww598]

Whaat how did he break it lmao??

[@moogleking]

Lol silkroad online that game is a classic

[@alkan3191]

@@nil0ww598 probably by by killing the cpu or some part with heat or overworking something i guess?

[@MandoMTL]

@@nil0ww598 The game probably pegged the cpu & gpu at 100% and had the fans going 100% constantly.

[@darrenskjoelsvold]

But what do you really think? :) hehe..

[@RATTU5_]

Dawid vs Pre Windows 7 software has to be the most hilarious thing I have ever seen since the bright yellow koala case video

[@AnnaDoes]

Definitely 🤣

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Haha!! Yeah, it is not my favourite. 😅

[@rustler08]

Can we just applaud the packaging? That person truly wanted the thing to arrive safely, even if it was an odd assortment.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Haha!! That’s true.

[@zadtheinhaler]

"I'm gonna go start a family, and be back in a couple of years" Dude, this is bloody gold.

[@gamertrojan4038]

Poor Anna. Laptop frustration relief. And she gets a bun in the oven to deal with as well. Lol

[@blakeparry1983]

to be fair starting a family for me is normally a ~30 second experience

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Realistically, David is out of his league with older computers and OS- He does not how to do it, he uses Steam and than blames it on a laptop.

[@thealien_ali3382]

Lenodeeeeee Ur mom

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@blakeparry1983 Not meaning to brag, but 30 seconds seems a bit short. 😂

[@RoxGYT]

The fact that the screen is pretty dim is because CCFL lights degrade over time, which causes them to be dimmer, and the fact that the Steam installer didn't launch is because Vista blocked it, and you need to right click, properties, and unlock. LGR also made an in-depth video about this laptop.

[@raven4k998]

stop staring at the multiple glory holes please🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Damn, I should have watched his video. The steam trick would have saved me a lot of time. I tried to launch it as admin, and that was pretty much all the options I could think of. 😅

[@lejoshmont2093]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff given with how much you struggled to get steam installed it probably would have been easier to install steam on linux.

[@BenState]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff also an SSD bro :)

[@rinkyouma2320]

Making Dawid watch a bloatware being installed is like torture.

[@AnnaDoes]

It really is 😂

[@jokersinurface]

It was hilarious. Not only are we going to add bloatware we are going make Dawid watch and not be able for him to stop it.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I felt so helpless.

[@leehawk7068]

That sounds very familiar to an Acer laptop I got in 2006 first out kf the box turning it on and first thing it did when getting into windows all the crap started to install and if I remember rightly it took well over an hour to install Don't understand why these companies push all this crap onto new laptops / computers I now if I buy computers I go with a bank system and Install the OS myself at least I know I get a clean machine and only software installed is what I want I got an HP AIO that came pre installed with windows and a hell of a lot of crap from all the HP stuff and various other crap a USB stick with win 10 installer solved that problem

[@devindereski4912]

The laptop that broke dawid. I've never seen him do such limited benchmarking.

[@AnnaDoes]

It really broke him 😅 he came home night after night increasingly frustrated

[@exxor9108]

I don't think he did so much _any_ benchmarking at all. lol There weren't any, all there was, was a slideshow for a Mass Effect presentation, on Windows XP. lol

[@anonymousphoenix154]

@@exxor9108 I do not like the creator, he only "benchmark" the laptop by playing modern games on an old laptop at a the highest settings and res knowing that the FPS is bad without seeing the full the potential at older games when this laptop was made in. He only rants about how ancient it is most of the time.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

He does not know what he is doing. To bad some of the retro channels did not get this laptop for real testing.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I very much did not enjoy my time with this laptop. 😂

[@baroncalamityplus]

You might want to invest in some games from the GOG store. Virtually all of them have stand alone installers and no DRM. It doesn't make games magically work on vista, 7, 8, or XP but it skips the steam DRM barrier to entry on unsupported versions of Windows.

[@iliaslive7006]

So basically just piratebay them

[@RarestAce]

I love GOG. Much better than Steam in just about everyway.

[@Ajdin87]

GOG is shit, old games that you can't play on older computers. Only on modern operating systems.

[@RarestAce]

@@Ajdin87 yeah I don't have that issue at all I have zero problems playing 9x and Dos games on my retro gaming systems.

[@Ajdin87]

@@RarestAce how do you install gog games on Win 9x?

[@DemonStink]

Installing and setting up Vista on these old laptops brings back bad memories. Some things are best left in the past.

[@cruelcrow7367]

10:17 I love how you renamed the system ''Piece of shit'

[@diligaf1000]

I saw that too 😂

[@AnnaDoes]

Lol I didn’t even notice that 😂😂😂😂

[@robotuprising1711]

I'd be interested to see how it performs if you repasted all that dry thermal paste, threw an ssd in, and chucked a linux distro for steam gaming with proton support, or even just windows 7 for steam. Maybe a turn that Ferrari into a ricer lol

[@stevenmartell2289]

Exactly what I was thinking the entire video

[@CheapBastard1988]

Definitely! Most of the video seemed to be about how frustrating it is to use modern online software on old Windows versions that are no longer supported. Which is hardly the laptop's fault. The laptop looks great and with Linux it could still do something currently relevant. Especially with an SSD even though the Sata bus will hold it back.

[@Paladinleeds]

That blank error message Dawid got reminded me of when I tried to login to the Square Enix store a few days ago and got an error. The details of the error were, and I kid you not, just simply "Incident". Very helpful error messages all round.

[@Dariushellstrome]

The seller really packaged it well

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Haha!! Yeah, they made sure nothing would happen to it.

[@kamppaaa]

"so what model is your ferrari car?" "i didnt say its a car. its a laptop." "oh"

[@raven4k998]

it's what everyone wants in a laptop multiple glory holes on it

[@kyerie030]

I remember back in my High School days servicing some laptops like these. This was horrendous in terms of drivers and support. It didn't like Vista at all, ran better on Windows 7.

[@Gatorade69]

Nothing liked Vista.

[@ronkemperful]

Love your videos! When Vista 1st came out I bought a HP laptop with the Turd, I mean the AMD Turion processor. The laptop ran so hot that I couldn’t touch the top of the keyboard, and sounding like a hairdryer it put out a stream of hot air onto my lap (nice on a winter day though). With no SSD the boot and installations passed like continental drift. I kept that laptop just 6 months and burned by the experience I haven’t used one since!

[@insert_username_here]

"passed like continental drift" that is a great way to describe something being slow and I shall be stealing it.

[@bradleypariah]

I would've maxed out the RAM, put in an SSD, installed Kubuntu, then played Half Life 2 and a couple simple ARPGs. I'm sure the thing is capable of low-res gaming, browsing the internet, and sending emails. It would definitely be a conversation piece.

[@arthurssq]

Well I certainly remembered such experience for my 1st couple laptops. When I was a student, my parents would get me only the basic laptops to save money, so yeah I'm happy if I could play anything. Although speaking of Mass Effect, a buddy even had to help me edit some reg files to set the settings even lower than low else it won't even run lol. Granted I got my own stuff which didn't need to do such things once I started working as a young adult. And I did hv the rotating webcam on my 1st Asus laptop. Its good that you don't need to cover it, just turn it the other way if you don't want others to see you. Ah. Good times. Thx Dawid for the trip down memory lane.

[@Vocaloid-English]

For it's day, this was actually extremely impressive. I remember owning a (rather expensive) Toshiba Satellite laptop in 2012 and this blows it out of the water in terms of creature features.

[@Twonimesh]

Dawid, I love your sarcasm. It brings flare to your videos and that's why I like your videos so much. Your level of sarcasm is unmatched and I love it, keep it up bro.

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Actually,I had servicing my friends laptop, running Windows 10 on Turion CPU. Until he spill water on it... And,so I've sold him my C2D powered laptop, and it made him happy.

[@dj4aces]

I worked on many of those Acer laptops, including the "Ferrari" models... back in the mid-late 2000s. All I can say is, now you know my pain. :P

[@MKRCinema]

I mean to be fair. Back then, we were pretty used to computers like this. So we wouldn't even know we had it bad then

[@InfectedChris]

I remember seeing this for sale and laughing so hard at people who would shell out that much for a piece-o-crap laptop.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Haha!! Same here. That’s why I really wanted to check one out for a video.

[@K0nt4kt]

Its insane you got steam running on that OS - AND that its a laptop

[@Jemuzuu]

I was dying laughing the whole video! The icing on the cake was noticing you named the laptop "Piece of shit."

[@blakeparry1983]

Supplied one of these badboys to a client back in the day - he absolutley loved he f1 engine logon sound and showing off the badge on the back of the screen in board meetings

[@zetectic7968]

Hi Dawid - I was getting a migraine as I started the video. It cheered me up no end.. I remember when it took over 8 hours to get windows up an running. No sure why you didn't just instal a variety of Linus and run Steam there. I think the takeaway is don't buy an ancient laptop or even accept one for free, just accept it is e-waste or a museum piece. Thanks 😁 Your frustration brought me joy. See you next time

[@colddripgaming]

That’s a horrible take away, “ancient laptops” have a reason to exist and while you personally may see no reason for it to exist it doesn’t mean there is none. Be smart about your purchases and know what you’re getting into might be a better takeaway

[@martinbernath]

You know youre old when you remember really wanting one of these back when they came out.

[@itzzdivyansh]

Linode should Make Dawid his Brand Ambassdor

[@user-bj8ky4jt3r]

Back in ohhh '06 a buddy of mine had one of these, I was very very very jealous as I had a family Pavilion notebook at the time. After a bit of experimenting on the laptop I wasn't as jealous as when I saw the Acer Ferrari combo. It was a slow heat machine.

[@valkasolidor6727]

The update montage awakened Mustakrakish from beneath the surface of the lake of my subconscious memories of ancient installation and troubleshooting rites.

[@evancondron1210]

This is seriously the greatest video of all time, I haven't laughed that hard in a while. The real clincher is the last "I'm done, I don't even care" *ends video* LOL I'm so sorry for the pain you had to endure for this Dawid

[@khourinazir]

"It's making me watch as it's installing ACER bloatware on the laptop.." - this had me legit laughing so hard my chest hurt

[@SchoolforHackers]

Yeah, there’s an element of cuck to it....

[@T3ddyRuxp1n]

Dawid should be nominated for best advertiser. I don't need any LiiiinoooooooDe myself but its gonna be in my head awhile.

[@MrPnhartley]

Wow, this computer review brought back memories…long slow drawn out painful memories- old AMD CPU’s, DDR2, Vista…did I say painful memories?

[@elfedorausado]

10:35 that rotating webcam was standard feature in some of Acer's laptop lineup back in 2004-5. My first laptop was an Acer Aspire 1500-ish with that same feature

[@Pupp3tCl0wn]

Yup, we had a Acer TravelMate in our classroom to show presentations or play movies on the projector, and it has that rotating webcam too

[@intuitivemindfulness9002]

Hilarious Dawid, love the "THREE GLORY HOLES!" ha haha ha ha. Suffering for the cause, man. Well done brother.

[@hatsuhimeful]

I would be willing to bet money that at this point that the people at Linode have a good laugh at every version you put out of their sponsorship

[@harshlands]

Linode needs to do a TV commercial spot with Dawid, he deserves more cash for those promos.

[@QuestionBlockGaming]

It's hilarious to me that they put the ferrari laptop in that shell, because with only a couple of modifications it was identical to their baseline budget line. I had a laptop from them that came stock with Vista, 512MB of RAM and a cute little Celeron with Intel GMA 950 graphics. It was a nightmare to use, but at the very least it was upgradeable. I put (i believe) a core 2 duo in it and maxed out its ram at 4GB, and raided through the entirety of WoW Wrath of the Lich King on it. But seeing the *EXACT SAME SHELL* being used for what I can only assume was meant to be a premium laptop experience was a huge suprise. Plastic everywhere, barely functional heatsinks and fans, fiddly screws and hardware with poor driver support? Amazing.

[@mekacrab]

The irony of your system saying "time is precious", while also taking 10 business days and a half to setup.

[@jamesburchill7522]

Clint from LGR is laughing at you right now. Rookie moves Dawid. Good video man, despise the maddening processes involved.

[@janklas7079]

A usb to something cable. Exactly what I need!! I've been looking for that for ages!!

[@wilsonchin5619]

Ohh god that laptop is my very first. And i still have it wirh me after 10 plus year of owning it. Though, window 7 and 10 is a Trouble. But, SATA SSD which i upgraded, and migrated everything from spinny boy to flashy boy.

[@Xehemoth]

I actually bought an Acer laptop that had Vista on it. It was late 2006 if memory serves. During the 1st year, nearly everything on the laptop broke. The power cable receptacle, the headphone jack, serval buttons on the keyboard. This was technically my SECOND Acer laptop because the 1st one had a power interruption during setup and bricked the entire laptop so I had to take it back and get a replacement. The last words that laptop told me was "Starcraft.exe has stopped responding" before I slapped it into the floor and threw it away.

[@SilentForrest]

I remember my grandpa had a tiny Ferrari laptop in like 2009. I remember the boot sound being a car engine

[@AlextheguitarFreak]

you have no idea just how relatable this video was. Not the Ferrari part, the wasting hours and hours trying to get someone's old PC to just do a few simple things. In the end, it's always the same thing "well this was totally worth it!!!???"

[@TheMpsson]

Ha! I remember selling one of those back in 2006 when I worked part time at the local computer store. They were so hyped back then 😂

[@Sudarshanwadhwan3457]

So close to 400k. Congratulations.

[@zamhar]

my Missus had the 11.6in Red Ferrari Acer laptop with the AMD Turion X2, Radeon 3200 and 4GB DDR2 RAM back in 2009/2010. it was a good machine, actually. despite the bloatware, the 4GB RAM and processor provided enough resources to browse the web and do office work. it came with Windows 7 and was still usable for many years.

[@albertmorrison6568]

That laptop seemed like an absolute nightmare 😳 love your videos Dawid thanks 😊

[@MrPruske]

Defo needed some new thermal paste for proper testing XD

[@robert1975031]

I got one of these in pieces years ago, eventually I ended up scrapping it, there just wasn't much of it left to put together. my model actually had a slot loading optical drive.

[@technugget873]

I guess that guy that said dawid only accepts sponsorships from linode cause he likes the name was right!

[@blaux]

David's got the best, most comedic reviews on the tech journalism side of KZbin. I can't help but laugh through the whole video

[@marctutaan803]

9:46 Dawid: Omg there's another setup process happening. Also Dawid **Ferrari engine startup noises**

[@DavisMakesGames]

Through half life 2 is actually how I installed Steam on my XP machine.

[@charlesjmouse]

It's odd to think that the idea of plonking the badge of a car manufacturer on a laptop is a thing, especially when nobody would want a car 'proudly' wearing the badge of a laptop manufacturer. In the highly unlikely event I ever buy a Ferrari I think I might have it repainted 'Acer laptop white' and replace the car's badges with Acer ones. I miss laptops that have replaceable batteries and want to be upgraded. No doubt why I still have an Elitebook 8560w, and they hold their prices so well.

[@n8than26]

The frustration is channeling.. holy shit

[@sijedevos2376]

Next time use gog galaxy on your main pc to download some drm free games to a external drive

[@andrewk6008]

a fine video, some of the best coverage of luxury tech vehicles i've seen

[@jellyfish1433]

The Lenovo chromebooks at the high school I went to had the same webcam thing where it flips around. Most of them were broken, because you can trust high schoolers and there were only 36 chromebooks for all 500 students freshmen to senior, but they were still neat. I personally wouldn’t want one and would rather just have a little sliding cover, but my only experience was with the ~$100 chromebooks.

[@amnottabs]

I just realized the "Ferrari 5000" model, just in line with the Aspire 5150 with AMD Athlon 64 I had for a brief period of time until I "upgraded" to some TravelMate with a Intel Pentium Dual Core processor

[@CraigLondon]

I had a little red Acer 14"? netbook,it had little half tyres on the bottom and made a little ferrari engine noise on boot up.I took it backpacking to Asia about 15 years ago.Short story of it is,it used to overheat really quick if you dared try to play football manager so sold it on return to UK :D

[@kyleclifton1423]

Haha, you showed an laptop from 2010, love it.

[@whateveriam12]

3:00 The school chromebook I had a few years ago hat a similar swivel camera

[@FINNIUSORION]

S F on the logo is basically an Italian abbreviation for ferrari stables.

[@breakingaustin]

Dawid grew up Namibia? If I'm not mistaking the country outline.. That's a pretty cool fact ngl! How did you get interested in tech there Dawid?

[@IcebergTech]

I visited the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan a while back, and I remember thinking how the giant, gaudy, officially licensed Ferrari store really lowered the tone...

[@RedonkaBert]

When can we expect a follow up video on this amazing product? 🏎

[@C4nn15]

I had the normal Acer Travelmate version of this, it had a carbon fiber lid, it was a great laptop for 2006.

[@TheUnrivaledKING]

Dawid, i recommend you get a trey for those screws whenever you teardown a laptop or pc Thanks for the entertaining content

[@CaveyMoth]

Wow, this thing would be great for playing Quake 4.

[@CaveyMoth]

@@DJboutit2 Red Faction, System Shock 2, Command & Conquer Renegade, Black & White... I could go on all day.

[@thirdeev]

Well now I'm expecting a drag race between this and the Lamborghini laptop

[@stiffchris9720]

That box does indeed give me flashbacks to the "In The Crosshairs" GTA IV Ballad of Gay Tony mission.

[@imtilda]

If you haven't already, I think it would be wise to rip the recovery discs and upload the ISOs onto archive.org if you can - helping preserve that software for future people who could possibly buy this (without a recovery DVD for original software included) would be really cool

[@nightbirdds]

Oh yes, the Ferrari laptop. Just so you know Dawid, that model you had was one of the 'cheaper' ones they offered. They did have some Intel Core ones, as I recall. Of course back when I saw these come through the store, using Steam on them wasn't the issue it is for you now. You've raised a good point in showing this though. Even physical games that are tied to authentication servers won't work anymore. Isn't our new Digital Future great? If you need to mess with older hardware again, use offline GoG installers. You'll have better luck there. Not that I'm suggesting you revisit this. I think you've suffered enough.

[@SupremeDP]

When you opened that DVD box I actually got transported to like 2007.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

"But then there's the second half...." [points to part of the logo with the ass half of the horse] I see what you did there. Also, awarded by Dawid as being the most fun to say? Linode has made it, ladies and gents.

[@ivailok3376]

Dawid sailing the high seas while trying to get a game to run on this thing is not something I expected to see.

[@spytromics]

My old boss had one of these that we used for product demos. Every time you'd click the mouse or traverse to a web page, it made a very loud engine sound. It was quite embarrassing. At one demo, the customer became so annoyed that he demanded we disable the sound. My boss wouldn't do it as he loved it. We didn't get the sale.

[@AnnaDoes]

Your old boss sounds like quite the man. 😂 the fact that he doubled down is hilarious

[@paulomeneses2593]

Great job I went thru a similar experience recently I did not get as far as you did. Congrats Dawid!!! P.S. I just got rid of the old hardware. :)

[@giserson2]

The steam issue can be worked around by transferring game files from another computer (including the associated appmanifest file), I recently did this with an old XP machine. Another alternative is to dual boot an OS that can run steam like Windows 7 or Linux and then creating a custom library folder on a Windows partition and setting it as a library folder in XP as well and then downloading to it with 7/Linux, this is how I do it on another XP PC.

[@DJSekuHusky]

These old laptops had some serious CPU throttling issues with Vista...the power management for Vista was mostly to blame. One trick I used was to right click power settings and enable maximum performance. I've had programs lock up during install with it set to anything less. Edit: I had the non-Ferrari version of this laptop btw, it was fairly upgradeable for it's time, and was one of the first SSD-powered laptops I ever owned (went from a 250GB 5400RPM to a 128GB SSD). I remember it being a solid little machine after upgrading everything on it.

[@Rockport1911]

So mcuh packing, included recovery disk and a good condition: someone really loved this Ferrari :)

[@MrComputerGuy64]

Dawid Vista has an odd feature that blocks newer software from working you have to go in to properties of the installer by right clicking and then unblocking the software which will then allow it to run. Odd i know but that is how vista did it

[@BassRacerx]

I had this laptop ( the non ferrari version) fun fact the way they installed vista on this pc was to first install windows xp media center edition and then "upgrade" it to windows vista.

[@jackhole1979]

The one shot that was missing, IMO, is a shot of your hand, holding a hammer, while XP is installing.

[@NightMotorcyclist]

I trust a company like Falcon NW to do the Ferrari and Lamborghini names justice as they actually use high quality paint on their chassis and don't skimp out on the parts used in their desktop builds. I think they did try their hand at laptops back in the day but not much after.

[@Cody_MknZ33]

Of course Dawid is most excited about the many glory holes on the bottom. No joke though the Ferrari F40 is better than any glory hole filled laptop.

[@Hun13r]

feels like a laptop i will ask to be paid instead of paying

[@mattparker9726]

4:28 JAM to the 70s funk as Dawid caresses the glory holes!

[@RadOo]

That actually reminded me the review of similar laptop on LGR.

[@eTiMaGo]

I had the slightly lower-spec older version of this laptop (3000 series if I am not mistaken), and I loved it :D Mostly because at that time, most laptops came with 720p screens, and this one had a 1680x1050p screen which was glorious! The rest of the specs were quite high at the time too (which was of course reflected in the price tag), but I ended up using this one for quite a while. The top cover was also made from REAL carbon fiber, not a print :)

[@hollowjack7152]

for those wanting to use these kinds of devices in modern day: I suggest getting an SSD and slapping windows 10 LTSC on it, it will save you, SO MUCH trouble and have so much less bloat.

[@ThomasKrul]

"Wait, that's not right" FUCK, I love your videos, Dawid.

[@Budgetgadgets2]

I had one of these growing up. It was a beast in 2009

[@Daniel15au]

One of my friends had a Ferrari laptop when we were in high school... Maybe 2005 or so? It had average specs but he got it to show off the branding, lol

[@GabrielNeffke]

I used to have an Acer Ferrari F-22bid monitor. A great monitor that used for years and years.

[@Kevin-ir2cs]

Could you make some videos on laptops with weird/failed gimmicks? Like the revolving laptop, or hybrid laptops etc?