So There's A Lamborghini Gaming Laptop...

[@AbtaheeIAahir]

If Lamborghini has one thing consistent in their products, its the price

[@LilTachanka]

oh and litteraly staying with the same design

[@marklichem]

Their tractors aren't very expensiv though ^^

[@arokh72]

@@marklichem Lamborghini has tractors? What madness is that?

[@rozzleshnozzle9793]

@@arokh72 they made tractors before cars.

[@arokh72]

@@rozzleshnozzle9793 wow, never knew that, but of course AFAIK they never sold their tractors in Australia.

[@DilpreetSingh-sw3ei]

The fact that it's so difficult to reassemble this laptop, qualifies is to be a great Italian designed laptop.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

It really is a surprisingly Lambo product. 😂

[@kiki83607]

typical design for that era of gaming laptops

[@clarencewong9254]

what if i told u it has 5-6 different types of screws size. Italian spirit intensifies.

[@ChengTeoh]

I felt an overwhelming urge to wear gloves just watching this video.

[@Princess_Kenny]

Vileda must be happy to sponsor Dawid 😂

[@gregvanpaassen]

Latex, or driving?

[@ACOnetwork]

@@gregvanpaassen or nitrile or winter or... 😁

[@The_Curious_Cat]

Vileeeeeeda to the rescue.

[@tanwijaya5910]

@ALL HANDS ON STEAM DECK ok kid

[@Ghoulishblade]

Dawid to laptop: "you're not doing as well as I hoped." Laptop: "When you look this good you don't have to do anything."

[@raven4k998]

Dawid: takes a hammer and smashes laptop. now you do

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

It's sexy and it knows it.

[@yawr3593]

Lol wtf comments like this now and then are life of youtube.

[@stare4539]

LoOol

[@lucutes2936]

Gay

[@matthieuzglurg6015]

this laptop assembly really screams the mid 2000s, early 2010s. I had a similar experience going though my MSI laptop of the time The CPU in it (an i5 4200M) was also socketed, so granted I could find a mobile chip with the same socket, I could potentially upgrade it to an i7 or something. Thing I won't do even for the fun of it, it was already throttling with its 2 hyperthreaded cores

[@harryshuman9637]

All Intel mobile CPUs before 5th generation were socketed, with the exception of extremely low-power models used in netbooks.

[@virtualtools_3021]

try cleanign the dust and thermal paste

[@griefyou1]

Pretty much correct, I actually owned a Lamborghini laptop in 2008, I was young and didn't know any better... 😅

[@abm5119]

@@griefyou1 And had a goodly amount of disposable income lol

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I like the modularity, but it does make the disassembly a pain.

[@spytromics]

My boss had one of these. He always ran the sounds at 100%, which was quite awkward during on-site sales demos when he'd be goofing off and he'd be checking his investments when the Ferrari would just start screaming those sounds! In retrospect, it was rather funny at how it annoyed everyone.

[@Haydunk]

I own the Ferrari 4000 laptop, it has an amazing carbon fibre shell with beautiful red accents & a custom boot animation. Super neat for an old laptop.

[@praetorianle1988]

Those revving sounds. Takes me back to a time when I made custom themes with crazy sounds for my PC.

[@mrducky179]

reminds me of that crazy predator laptop (just looked it up its called the predator 21x) with a mechanical keyboard, probably the last one of its kind

[@fabiandimaspratamathesecond]

Reminds me the time when I customized my Windows XP to Windows Vista or Alienware custom themes and later Windows 7 to looks like Windows 8.

[@jdo248]

Dawid: Good luck wooing a member of the opposite sex. He's just rubbing in the fact he's happily married. Gather the villagers and pitchforks. We have a Dawid to cook today.

[@fetus2280]

I dont recall him ever saying he was "Happy" .. but youre correct though, he is married .

[@PashaGamingYT]

@@TheFalseShepphard you keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means.

[@Derek_The_Magnificent_Bastard]

@@PashaGamingYT INCONCEIVABLE!

[@DTG4844]

@@PashaGamingYT are you gatekeeping the word gatekeeping?

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Damn! I clearly pushed my luck too far this time. 😂

[@nightbirdds]

You might be aware, but Asus wasn't the only company to go with a supercar theme. Acer had a Ferrari line of laptops, too. I worked at a computer store a good while back and we sold a few of each. Between the two, I kinda liked the Ferrari one better. Oh, and Acer also had a ridiculous 20" laptop.

[@puredigital101]

yeah I had two of those first one liked the best as they seemed to cheap out on the newer model I remember it came with it's own mouse and mouse pad and cleaning cloth I got told that parts of it were also made out of recycled racing tires, the screen was only 14inch if I remember right.

[@mexicanoaao]

Doesn’t acer also have a Porsche laptop as well? I swear another brand has a Porsche laptop

[@lillexus5589]

@@mexicanoaao that's Huawei X Porsche Design

[@frizzlefry1921]

Hp pavilion had a 24” “laptop”.

[@tyleyden8695]

That gpu was trying to tap out within seconds of starting skyrim 🤣

[@raven4k998]

it was probably thermal throttling is my guess shame he didn't show the gpu temps it would be hilarious to watch it hit tjmax and slow down

[@martinturner5484]

Love to see how it runs after you cleaned out the Beaver damn from the heat sink fins.

[@HELLACRY]

We need to see a before and after performance teardown (new thermal paste), especially with temps while gaming. Nonetheless great content Dawid! Never knew this laptop even existed! Lol.

[@valkasolidor6727]

Also what I am hoping for. Not only the new paste, but clearly the heatsinks must be venting better now with so much dust and grime removed.

[@someitguy2175]

Yes, I was let down by this as well.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Oh yeah! I did the test, the GPU temps dropped by 20c.

[@ufoisback5088]

you mean, you actually managed to re-assemble it?

[@cheeriosaregood920]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Wow that is quite an improvement! What paste did you use?

[@Betamaxx1]

I remember seeing these in person at Harvey Norman in Australia when I was about 15. I remember it being significantly more expensive than other laptops with better specs.

[@A7XstefanA7X]

I would love to see you upgrading it with the best available mxm gpu and see how the sandy bridge i7 holds up

[@TheShadow3x]

There's an idea for a new video, how about cleaning laptop vents, replacing thermal paste and thermal pads and mabye upgrading it as much as it's "resonable" and then try running the same games on it and checking the difference and is it worth using it and talking about it in todays standards. Take care :)

[@zgoaty9235]

So given that this laptop is already running an i7, the only real upgrade that could be made on the CPU side is going with one of the Extreme processors (i7-2920 or 2960XM) but on the GPU side assuming that all MXM sockets are identical, he could in theory go all the way up to Pascal I believe (though the bottlenecks would be bad with high-end mobile GPUs, maybe something like a 1050Ti or 1060 mobile would work). Not sure how much max RAM is supported.

[@mysketchbook3402]

"Good luck attracting a member of the opposite sex" 😆 BRUH

[@Probly]

I could tell just from looking at it 😔

[@memenation5105]

@@Probly Lol🤣😂😥😭

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Flexing the fact he has Anna.

[@michaelthompson9798]

Might have better luck attracting the same sex ….. 🤯🤫

[@Probly]

@@michaelthompson9798 oh fr?? Might give it a go

[@Roxxie0Ruin]

I always love seeing people review older gaming laptops because they were what I always admired when I was a kid.

[@mruczyslaw50]

11:38 Actually the issues with artifacts on character models in Shadow of the Tomb Raider is an issue with all Fermi-based NVIDIA GPUs as well as all Terascale-based AMD GPUs

[@jjjacer]

@6:05 that is not soldered down (and has nothing to do with connecting the display to the vga port, as the LCD will connect with a digital lvds connector which is seen at 5:44 above the chipset to the left of the top right fan), it is the wireless antennas that connect to the wifi card at the other side, and can be unclipped

[@WiFiBERnet]

I was looking for this comment. There was no way in hell that was a VGA cable. That is the WiFi Antennas cable that go into the monitor...

[@CrashForce]

1:54 It actually looks more like the rear end of a Reventon ;)

[@maximetremblay9759]

Agreed

[@CrashForce]

@Hirochi SBR4 S3 TT (DCT) I'm everywhere ;)

[@soysaucecars7880]

Was gonna say that lol

[@samzimmerman2621]

Reventon and aventador was what this was based on, the back of the display is an aventador hood lines

[@stare4539]

Loool

[@RaijinRacer011]

This is a Lamborghini Gallardo-themed laptop with the performance of a Lamborghini Spark 215 Tractor. Fact: Lamborghini first sold Tractors before creating it's car division in 1963. Currently, both divisions are under different owners. The Tractor Division is owned by SDF Group, while it's Car Division is owned by Volkswagen Group

[@beaniedoesgames7119]

needed a scarf, driving gloves and oversized sun glasses to get the full immersive experience

[@carswnova]

I think a re do with some optimization. The thing doesn't seem to be hitting its limits

[@I_am_Allan]

It was a big, heavy laptop, that didn't catch the attention of people as you'd expect. Most just mocked you because it weighed over 8 pounds. Yeah, I had one. I also had the G73JH and G53SW.

[@tilburg8683]

That's right we have one.

[@Slamdoxicalz]

There, there, it'll be ok.

[@adriancoleman2876]

I had a similar laptop in 2011. I could play skyrim for about 10 minutes before it thermal throttled down to sub 25fps. I had to underclock my laptop to keep it at 30fps. Which sounds counter-productive but was the only way to handle the heat.

[@peterlincoln5617]

If you hate yourself and do not value your time, check out the 11 inch Acer Ferrari laptop zoom zoom! It is about as fast and as furious as a Fiat Panda. I had the misfortune of upgrading one a few years back - it was a waste of a good SSD! EDIT - It was 11 inches not 10 - even my memory wants it to fade away!

[@PolecanePC]

I remember that Acer was working with Ferrari and Porsche, but thing that might be most interesting for you would be Koenigsegg Razer Blade.

[@spacedoutbeard5033]

Those wires were just the antennas for wifi and easily removed, hopefully the next laptop teardown isn't as surprising as this one was, almost all laptops have more screws than they really need and are a pain to tear down. Wait until you have to work on a dell laptop haha.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Oh yeah! I forgot that when I flipped the mobo the wires were connected to the WiFi card. 😅 I can imagine that a Dell laptop is a nightmare.

[@spacedoutbeard5033]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff the dell stuff from around the age of this laptop is so stupid that you have to remove the motherboard to access the 2.5" drives 😂

[@micksterminator3]

I recently upgraded a Dell Inspiron from the same generation. I had to disassemble completely just as you did just to swap out the i3 to an i5 2540m. I'm impressed I didn't break anything or lose any screws. Be thankful you have the mid tier gpu. The onboard intel hd 3000 graphics struggle on something like Half Life 2 at 720p with shadows on low.

[@im_a_tamato631]

"It really doesn't like Lara's clothing for some reason" I think we all can agree with the laptop

[@apachelives]

Have repaired a few of those in the past, use a razor blade (blade only) width ways to pop those style of keyboards easily, the touchpad part has one screw and a slider to remove, THEN the base off - zero damage required.

[@ChryslerLeBaro]

The case design is pretty damn cool. I had a good bit of fun comparing my RTX3080 Mobile laptop against it. HOLY SHIT, 11 years really make a difference. My god!

[@SoftCocoa12]

how does your laptop run? i'm getting a laptop with the same gpu this christmas so it'd be nice to know from you how it handles more expensive things, maybe like a bit of ray tracing n stuff.

[@ChryslerLeBaro]

@@SoftCocoa12 Runs like butter. CP2077 On High settings W RTX and no DLSS, 75fps. I'm currently playing Vanguard on Ultra settings WQHD 21:9 external monitor, over 100fps. It's a very pleasing experience all around. I've been very happy with the purchase since I got it.

[@scottyotty2hotty]

I think that will perform much better with a clean heatsink and fresh thermal paste.

[@DrMuFFinMan]

" You know what before I ship this beast out, I'm going to eat a sub sandwich while watching a video " Laptop arrives with parts of sub sandwich included.

[@r1y_a]

I love how Dawid interacts with his subscribers and people who generally watch his videos, nowadays most KZbinrs don’t even notice or try to talk to their viewers

[@kajurn791]

I love how a modern Vega IGP completely obliterates this in gaming, it's being held back so hard by that 560. MXM was a cool idea but poorly executed. No normal person will disassemble enough of the laptop to have access to the module and swap it.

[@amdintelxsniperx]

you can mod these to support gtx 970ms

[@mikeymaiku]

@@amdintelxsniperx there are 10 series variants. But i beleive theres a cutoff on mxm compatibility based on gen.

[@amdintelxsniperx]

@@mikeymaiku you can get gtx 1080s p5200s but you have to modify the heatsink

[@DangNguyen-xx3zi]

I remember seeing this in a catalogue when I was 13 back then, and thought it was the coolest thing possible, like this is it this is the pinnacle of laptops.

[@jf-zq2qz]

I already love it and haven't even watched it yet

[@lolcat]

I'm saving this for dinner

[@nickschneider6386]

my thought exactly

[@thinhnonyt]

I remember a relative of mine had one of these. The revving seemed so cool to me.

[@stelgeo]

I bought a Dell Inspiron with these exact specs in 2011 and I remember it ran CoD: Black ops 2 and Max Payne 3 really well with many of the graphical details enabled. My screen resolution was only 1366×768 though. Did you download Geforce Experience and use the optimised settings for any of the games? I am sure it would have faired better than it did while running Skyrim and CS:GO.

[@jarynn8156]

I love how much the teardown of this laptop reminds me of my old ASUS gaming laptop. My laptop was like a year or two newer and shares a lot of the same frustrations in tearing it down.

[@mekacrab]

I like how the "Lamborghini" keyboard looks like regular ewaste. The classic plain white and blue you see on every office keyboard since 2005

[@miweneia]

12:08 that's actually the exact same problem I encountered recently with my first ever laptop - power limit throttling; basically the system limits the cpu to like a third of its TDP and undervolts it greatly in order to cool it down, sad to see it was a thing 10 years ago and is still a thing nowadays... (for reference my laptop is the asus vivobook s15 with the i5-1135g7)

[@xxi7052]

I had a yellow one and it was and still is one of the best looking laptops I had. Was great for games I used to play back then

[@smallguy10000]

This looks very much like the G53 internally which i had back then, re-heatpasting that thing was an absolute nightmare as you can see from the teardown in this xD

[@watercannonscollaboration2281]

That disassembly procedure feels like the same thing on a XPS 17 L702x, but more nerve wracking

[@Stefan.Stefanov]

I like the old laptops because you can upgrade almost all components like cpu, gpu, ram, wifi+bluetooth card, ssd/hdd, swap the cd-rom to 2nd hdd caddy, battery.

[@jeremyteti914]

Man this really brings back memories, I owned probably world's first gaming Laptop that was Asus G50V... Using it in my highschool years really makes me feels the coolest kid in the world.. the orange look is really a head turner. This VX laptop was really the dream laptop to have tho.

[@EllaBananas]

I've worked repairs and refurbs for laptops, and there is nothing worse than checking the in pile and finding a laptop from this time period. Nothing like having to do a mb swap on a mid 2000's laptop filled with months old soda spill, crumbs, etc.

[@Herbertti3]

Issue is not 1080p but the gpu thermal throttling. Needs new paste.

[@carlosk8103]

I'm impressed with how well it held up it's second gen intel so it's like 2012/2013 ish...and after a bit of cleaning it looks almost like new... Condition doesn't surprise me from box it came in looks like it came from a laptop recycler..... meaning it was considered trash as some point.....

[@MrSimoc1969]

I think you may need to go to the support page and download drives to get the lights to work

[@absolutmauser]

I had one of Asus giant stealth fighter looking gaming laptops a long time ago. Weighed like 10 lbs and had about four minutes of battery life but it played games pretty well in 2003!

[@clarencewong9254]

I actually have the same model a generation later in 2011. Running on the GTX 660M (OC +20% easily). These things are build like a beast back them. Ran mine up to 2020 before joining the PCMR race. 9 yrs and still going strong. They dont build stuff like this anymore these days. And yes, disassembling it was a pain in the butt.

[@zeekmx1970]

I can understand the attraction. For me it would need to be pure AMD ROG Strix Ryzen 9 5950x + RDNA2 + 64GB DDR 4 + 2TB M.2 + AIO water cooling. Smaller side bezel.

[@mattparker9726]

please do an insane amount of work and fit in as many modern laptop parts as inhumanly possible. Your money is not an object for my amusement. Thanks! But seriously Dawid, all jokes aside, this would be one of the few laptops I have seen that you could actually upgrade fairly easily, not only do you have a non socketed chip, but also 150 watts to mess around with. Imagine what a more modern GPU could do in this machine.

[@professionalbluebiker]

6:03 Uh Dawid, I have the exact same laptop and went through the same painful process of disassembly and assembly twice and I simply just unplugged those cables which actually lead to the wifi card and I pulled them through the hole. I'm not sure if it was different for you but thats what I did when taking apart my laptop.

[@2048Megabytes.]

These Windows XP to Windows 7 era laptops that are branded with car logos are so cool in my opinion

[@Winston-1984]

I had this Asus gaming laptop years & years ago, I got a Lambo branded laptop bag with it too. Mine was in orange, its long gone now, I loved that thing, its power connector was very unreliable though.

[@EvolvedAngelic]

12:13 something like that happened with my other old laptop where the fps drops massively for a few seconds then back to normal then happens again, i also noticed the cpu clock speed went insanely low then back up again this only ever happened if i was playing a game the laptop could handle and push out more fps which resulted in using more power, i had this issue because my battery was dying so the laptop didn't like receiving only power from the brick, but the moment i replaced the battery those issues went away so i think thats whats happening with that laptop

[@salmonsoup15]

my phone has almost 3x the battery capacity of this chunky ass laptop how

[@mekacrab]

"Here's my garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here"

[@janektrol8327]

Those black and white wires aren't actually soldered VGA port cables. Those are wireless card antennas ending with little U.FL connector.

[@Natepwnsu]

Porsche has been branding laptops and gaming laptops for some time now. I've never got hands on experience with one , but I've seen a bunch of different models over the years. of course they want a premium that isn't worth paying however, cuz it's not a car . Its a computer with a car brand printed on the shell lmao.

[@BeefPanda85]

Would be awesome to watch you upgrade this laptop.

[@xstar1602]

Did you know that you can easy remove the Cables from the WLAN Card?

[@rozzleshnozzle9793]

For shots and giggles, you should totally pimp it out! See how far you can upgrade the cpu AND gpu, ram, get those mad tail lights working and see if you can find the original Lamborghini skin for windows (or maybe not that part, running windows 7 or 8 doesn't sound as fun). Cool find though.

[@benedeklippai0203]

Maybe you could try to clean it out, repaste, and overclock it

[@DougBachlott]

That disassembly reminds me so much of the Dell laptops we use at work. Have to pull the keyboard and trackpad off of them just to get to very much. On the bright side at lease dell didn't solder the monitor to the motherboard.

[@becksy539]

Only way you can get access to the laptop without smashing it to pieces is to use the teleporter from the 1986 film the fly and teleport the laptop minus the back cover

[@simplybadcontent9772]

Might I suggest a small magnetic tool tray. They can be had for a few bucks at any hardware store. Great for keeping all your small screws contained while working. Keep up the great work, love your content!

[@LinkStorm13]

Man, those older high-end laptops are such a pain to open up and maintain. Considering that, I'm kinda glad, that we don't have socketable laptop GPUs anymore, because those seemed to pla a big role in making the Laptop hard to disassemble.

[@plasmawarper5837]

Wrong. Have a look at the alienware of that era suxh as the m17x and m15x. They were very easy to disaemble and upgrade

[@LogicFreedom]

I'd be interested in seeing if upgrading it would help the performance much.

[@mattybbg6850]

Clean it.... clean it, 3:38, thankyou Dawid.

[@mattd1466]

the way you just left all those screws just haphazardly laying around on the table is making me anxious lol

[@kumori0ookami]

That laptop really reminds me of my old asus G73jh, back then I loved the socketted cpu and gpu because with some bios modifications I was able to upgrade my system and keep it relatively viable for a while. Nowadays I've just learned to expect less of laptops and stick with my desktop

[@MisterFribble]

It was based on the G53SW, so it is quite similar. Hopefully Framework manages to succeed in their goal of bringing back repairability.

[@aether6098]

would definitely like to see hardware upgrade of the laptop in the future

[@MatteoPascolini]

You should have rechecked the performance after cleaning the inside...

[@_Devil]

i still want to know which 5 star Gordon Ramsey restaurant the previous owner went to in order to have such an exquisite Keyboard Meal.

[@vaggelisbasoukas7928]

PLZ make a video upgrading this !!!

[@Tech-Savvy-Fox]

What if the original drive that came pre-installed in the laptop included software utilities to activate the rear tail lights on the back of the laptop and such, especially with the laptops webcam, I can imagine the rear break lights lighting up fully whenever you were in a dark room and flashing whenever you were playing games

[@bearskorner9790]

absolutely beautiful laptop I always loved that design personally I have a g74sx

[@powerlabtechnologies]

6:01 not VGA cable, and not soldered. The black and white cables are the antenna cables.

[@thecorn2299]

Used to have a slightly older model of this laptop, the g53. Less than fond memories of having to open it up to replace the SSD when it died.

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

The thing probably sounds like a Lamborghini at 3AM

[@Dave5281968]

Just an FYI: Laptops (until about 2014) always came with socketed CPU's unless it was a VERY cheap laptop, more likely a netbook or chromebook. The separate video card was a higher end feature at the time, though, as manufacturers were moving toward just soldering the GPU directly to the motherboard. You slowdown in performance may have something to do with the 95C GPU temperatures that were showing, too.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Well, that puts context to the "My Other Laptop Is a Lambo" shirt I saw someone wearing once.

[@blobbydigital5610]

5:10 And I thought getting my MSI laptop was a pain in the ass to open up. Asus takes it to another level of rage inducing craftsmanship.

[@smokeajeff]

Vga on laptops is still an industrial need. I can connect a forklift and read adjust systematics

[@googlewolly]

"That's a bit stupid, but pretty cool." Pretty fair assessment.

[@B9scrambler]

This reminds me of the teardown required to clean dust out of the fans of my old Asus G73. Absolute insanity...

[@theo1430]

Love it! Upgrade the laptop on eBay, you can probably still get the parts

[@lnfinyx]

I literally found out about this laptop a couple days ago, and now here are you reviewing it, WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!?!?!

[@turle8645]

You should upgrade this to the max

[@hardrivethrutown]

I wish standardised laptop cases and motherboards existed, like build your own laptop, Mobile ATX and mobile GPUs and CPUs again

[@TheImmortuary]

The tail lights were likely sorftware driven, so when it had a fresh windows 10 install, that was wiped out.

[@Aka.Aka.]

Do a full MXM GPU and CPU upgrade plus new thermal paste on this thing! I wanna see it at FULL POWER

[@TheGameBench]

Yeah, socketing was the norm back then for higher end laptops. For your typical consumer laptops, they were BGA. That looked like a PITA, but not the worst I've seen.

[@huttonberries768]

holy shit i wouldn't use that laptop for free