The Tablet For When You're Dying

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[@jacobmckenna8661]

You can pry my tablet from my cold, dead hands! Wait...

[@Headcr4bz]

He already did

[@DangerousDac]

It's amazing how much James sounded like Wade when he was furious at Bing Bar.

[@bigbry1994]

That's what I was gonna say. Seems like wade is slowly corrupting him lmao

[@BROACHCOACH]

The hand injury collection is coming along nicely I see.

[@AfferbeckBeats]

Sometimes the angle grinder grinds back

[@jagenigma]

Mr. Dank keeps james busy on garbage time

[@tomclanys]

Did he lose the tip of the finger on the left?...

[@d34thby1337]

Goober injuries

[@GeneralMonty]

That USB cut was CLEAN

[@TDGalea]

Holy shit that USB hole was a GORGEOUS cut.

[@thatbonnguy]

Since I don't see anyone else mentioning it. I'm betting the usb port was added so it could be troubleshot easier, but covered by the case to prevent patients from being able to plug anything into it if they were handed it to fill in a form for example. Makes sense for the amount of information security that the healthcare system needs.

[@Stunbunny]

This free 16-and-some minute video was infinitely more entertaining than my last paid year of Netflix. Thank you.

[@Tamay.]

Need more of you purchasing random industrial equipment and messing with it. Literally the best.

[@NetAnon]

That USB hole looks OEM. For not taking any measurements you did pretty damn well.

[@lowenevvan8619]

The pen technology is what modern drawing tablets and now Samsung/Apple tablets use too. Being able to hover the cursor over the screen gives you feedback the same way that moving around a mouse does. It's basically a requirement for screenless drawing tablets.

[@hexelnov7D9]

Yaeh, I'm surprised he doesn't know that or mentioned it considering it's pretty common tech

[@MichaelM.94]

i read the "your privacy is our priority" as 'your privacy is our property" at first glance ...

[@hellohaveagoodday]

Well you're not wrong

[@averin5193]

Pretty sure that’s the more accurate version anyway

[@IRBork]

So basically it's a Wacom drawing tablet with a screen. Drawing tablets also use magnetic sensors to track the pen and will not respond to hands (which is good!).

[@YokiDokiPanic]

So THAT'S how those screens work! My XPpen drawing tablet works exactly the same! The little diamond instead of a normal mouse cursor means it's missing a specific driver.

[@hellohaveagoodday]

OH THAT'S WHY MY XP PEN WAS ACTING WEIRD

[@YokiDokiPanic]

@@hellohaveagoodday Oh yeah, whenever you see the little diamond cursor, just reinstall it. Takes about 2 minutes and all works perfect again. I've got the installer pinned to my start screen now so I don't have to go look for it anymore. And don't worry, reinstalling does not get rid of your screen calibrations, it just resets the express buttons, but that's an easy fix too.

[@Suzumi-kun]

That usb hole looks so clean, wow!

[@OneWithLogic]

Wacom logo spotted As James went over this i knew instantly that it was a Wacom implementation

[@LanceThumping]

Making me wonder if he just scored an unusually cheap drawing tablet that'd actually work for art.

[@KaraxJigen]

Give this to Bringus Studio

[@VirulentPest]

He would turn it into a ps4 somehow

[@DanTDMJace]

⁠@@VirulentPestSteam Deck*

[@Super_Bros.]

He’d just game on it like James already did.

[@TheGameboyNerd23]

THATS WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY

[@Greendawn-di3dl]

I thought this was a bringus video at first

[@stevenlee3661]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="95">1:35</a> 😂 relatable I did the same with the laptops in my high school library😂 Still got a few product keys left from then.

[@AfferbeckBeats]

Never been so excited to see a USB port! The CPU was probably only hitting 50% because it's a dual core CPU but was only able to use one.

[@soremuss]

Damn man, good job on that USB hole. Looks proper.

[@islef]

The pen technology is very similar to the Wacom drawing tablets. no battery needed!

[@musicbyimpulse]

Samsung tablets do the same thing

[@StrangelyIronic]

@@musicbyimpulse Probably because Samsung uses Wacom's Digital Pen tech.

[@TheUberdude14]

you can see a wacom sticker on the back of the display at about 11 minutes in the video

[@oxymoron02]

And Microsoft's Surface tablets. I'm surprised James is surprised by the tech.

[@tvandbeermakehomergo]

My guess is the smartcard slot is for Healthcare system login authentication, possibly for something like Lorenzo, which I know is used in Austrailia.

[@dragonbeastx]

Holy crap that USB port cutout looks factory

[@Super_Bros.]

Skills

[@Furko08]

3 bandaids this time and a tablet from a hospital... hmmm

[@ozmium6990]

When the PS3 was being worked on Sony released a new controller to replace the DualShock and it's a sight to behold. l'd like to see James turn a DualShock 3 into the boomerang controller that was ultimately canned because i heard that it was actually super comfortable.

[@anonony9081]

I had a laptop/tablet hybrid back in 2004 that had a screen like this where it could sense the stylus from a distance. It actually worked quite well and playing games like star craft with it worked pretty well too.

[@panagiotispappas1001]

Chames Jannel

[@paranoia2021]

Chames Jannel

[@dabois012]

Chames Jannel

[@Unexpectedstuff]

Jannel no5

[@Techmej]

Dames Pannel

[@YokiDokiPanic]

Games Gannel

[@NickNickNickNickeIodeon]

Rip James 🪦🕊️

[@maricthehedgehog]

This is not a title I expected to see today...

[@Akouryo-]

All the stuff with the pen not needing batteries and all the other lil neat features are pretty common with most drawing tablets!

[@Furko08]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="320">5:20</a> 2 sets of James hands caught me off guard somehow

[@mailos1772]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="230">3:50</a> early S pens worked the same way! The one I've used is the S4 it also has the cursor thing when brought near the screen and has a button on the side The S4 pen came with the galaxy tab s4 and it's really cool to use

[@TyCrawford]

That USB hole is wildly impressive, truly the mark of a master craftsman.

[@70astralaxe]

I love how GTA IV struggles with gigachad level gaming rigs and you're making this poor lad go through it lol

[@theInfiniteEgg-z8i]

Damn what a blast from the past. Unrelated but you have nicely maintained nails.

[@theInfiniteEgg-z8i]

goddamn that before and after of the USB Port cutting was impressive, nice filing.

[@rwall514]

Holy shit that's got a Wacom in it.

[@LtdResources]

I was genuinely happy when you found what you found. Don't want to add a spoiler for anyone who hasn't watched yet. Awesome video, great job mate

[@Midori_Ringo]

I can imagine Dr James wandering around the ward. He's about to operate on the Goober and checking his notes on this thing

[@Jumi985]

wow that USB cutout looks really good actually

[@gorfelbt]

My dad works in a place where this sort of stuff happens. He found some 4K hospital monitors in storage that were unused, and so he took them into his office, and now uses them as server spec / network traffic displays. Places will just buy things that they might need, then never use them I guess.

[@LanceThumping]

It's almost shocking that the system couldn't handle Project64 since I'm pretty sure I remember playing against people on school computers older than that tablet.

[@bunnybreaker]

Magnets are in fact magic. My ancient Wacom has the same pen tech; no battery, can detect the position before touching and has buttons. Not sure when it was invented, but my Wacom is about 23 years old.

[@CrashFan03]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="171">2:51</a> my drawing tablet works like that except without a screen. i think most drawing tablets do

[@Semikami]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="788">13:08</a> Wow, that’s exactly how I made holes in a GBA cartridge shell for using it as the enclosure for a cart reader - I feel like a professional!

[@Semikami]

15:05 If I remember my old Intel laptops correctly, the integrated graphics could only use a small part of the RAM as video memory. Also, I’m guessing that the percentages are about total RAM and the system is swapping to disk quite a bit.

[@shrippie-4214]

You know James must eventually will run out of space for these things

[@jocking3b510]

I see James picked up woodworking (judging by the large amount of band-aids)

[@DaxtonAnderson]

The unpopulated mPCIE slot is for the optional 3G modem! Similar to Thinkpads from the early 2010s they all have a SIM slot, but when you option for the 3G they include the card and antennas.

[@nachonachitoelcadete]

I'm an animator and a cartoonist. But I use the mouse because I don't have enough money to afford a Drawing tablet. If only I knew this thing existed before, It can be very useful for me.

[@deformemvita]

I had one of these about 8 years ago and I used it as an art tablet for my first graphic design job, and later got a Motion Computing LE1700.

[@_Quixoticz]

A tablet a day keeps the doctor away...!

[@pongopea]

that usb hole was almost as clean as the cup holder install in wade's car

[@Janakaq0]

Every video he has one more band aid on one of his fingers

[@TAGMedia7]

For older hardware ZSNES is a great choice for SNES emulation. It's coded entirely in x86 assembly, has a high level of compatibility and will play even on the lowest-end potato. Other games that would be great for this tablet would be point and click adventure games like Monkey Island and King's Quest

[@mrfavus]

The Wacom pen is probably worth more than what you paid for the whole thing

[@necostyle]

I used to have a tablet pc back in the day. The handwriting recognition works better if you rest your hand on the screen and write as if you were actually writing with a pen on paper. One more thing about the pen: it's pressure sensitive

[@naman2000]

More tech needs handles!

[@drillkanu]

this feels like a bringus studio video

[@VectorLog]

James Chanel: JC Jesus Christ: JC Coincidence? Nope

[@MintyVoid]

what a neat little thing, early windows tablets are so cool. not surprising with the screen pen tech, the screen literally has the wacom logo on it- so it's definitely using wacoms emr. which many have stated has been the standard for drawing tablets both screen and not for like a decade or more lol

[@Sohryu-Asuka-Langley]

Splash resistant? This is the tablet Shinji needed at the hospital. Ugh.

[@mahohiyajo3137]

that pen is probably the same ones used in the MS Surface Tablets that were pretty powerful for what they were. it also means the pen will break very easily

[@WyvernDotRed]

The Aero styling of that Windows 7 OS is gorgeous, sadly KDE Plasma doesn't emulate it as beautifully. The pen did not really impress me, but that's as I use drawing tablets for note-taking. It's even a Wacom, like the tablet at my desktop, but the eraser side of the pen gives that away. I can even operate the laptop entirely with the pen for navigating webpages, using a similar on screen keyboard. The screen actually looks surprisingly good, I wouldn't mind writing notes on it even. But I prefer screen-less tablets, where I can look ahead while writing.

[@JamesTheManiac]

It's soo odd seeing a MUCH more successful channel also named James, haha. Good stuff. I should've expected that being such a common name tho

[@I_AM_ERR0R]

i actually recognise those, in the uk those kinds of touch screens, i think they are called smart boards and they are massive and get used in schools all the time

[@LandenIsReal]

I love these Windows Tablets before Windows 8. They’re always just so interesting since these OS’s were never meant for a touch screen. Also, the touchscreen on the device works on the computer like a cheap drawling tablet (You know, like the ones without a display). I know this because I’ve tried a drawling tablet on Windows 7 and it uses the same techniques for it to work.

[@aortaplatinum]

"That's just how corporations work sometimes" I work for an IT depot and I'm SHOCKED how many laptops we send to EoL not because of hardware failure, but because the current image we use is incompatible with its motherboard. Like homie just authorize us to update the fucking image.

[@gamerboyofficalyt]

It looks like an Ipad with that one sterotypical case

[@The_G_YT]

It's definitely faster without vsync, essentially vsync locks the framerate to that of your display to reduce screen tearing, but it adds extra input latency and is generally a bad idea if you just want performance. The texture filtering options are for smoothing out textures in-game so they look better, but I'm don't know much more than that. Finally, the resource meter in GTA IV is showing your VRAM, which in the case of the tablet/iGPU is most likely shared with the system memory, it'l just reserve a chunk for itself. There was a bug in GTA IV with that calcuation where it would break on modern GPUs with a lot of VRAM, and prevent the game from running as it thought you had 0mb of VRAM, when in-fact you had 8+GB

[@Programmerman]

Ah the old Windows 7 pen tablet experience. Almost cromulent enough to function as an input method, but nowhere near able to function as the only input method. It's better on all the later Windows versions but you'd still be hard pressed to go pen-only. Especially frustrating in Windows 7 where the handwriting recognition was "attempted." That Wacom technology was pretty solid though - this thing likely cost at least two sacks of money (💰💰+) in its day. Wacom displays were expensive and to attach a whole PC to them even more so

[@glassowlie]

Intel Health!? I've never heard of that before...

[@Jude_515]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="163">2:43</a> Ah yes, LibraryCreating a DoodleAbout

[@nightw4tchman]

I'm liking the hand injuries...

[@WarySword]

Wacom are used for art on computers (and osu) and use a similar pen design with alternate nibs for different brush styles

[@TheKevinFanClub526]

The pen (tracking, eraser, side button) setup looks a lot like surface tablet setup with a surface pen. I suspect there is a battery in the pen, either wireless rechargeable or a AAA. Surface pen before 2017 uses a AAAA battery that lasts about a year. Looking at the size of the pen, if they uses a AAA, I bet the battery can last two years or more without replacement.

[@aKuBiKu]

Doesn't use any kind of battery. It's a passive Wacom pen.

[@Pixelated_Chicken]

James jamesing is so fun to watch.

[@christiangomez2496]

Looked up the model, and it has an i5 from the Ivy bridge era. Only issue aside from the slow clocks is the fact it's a BGA chip, so NO upgrades

[@scottbogfoot]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="214">3:34</a> ah dude, look up the Samsung Galaxy Tab s3, which im currently watching you on. Its pen works or at least interacts with the screen the same way, but much much better. so much so that I'd say the same people did the tech for both. my Galaxy Tab s3 is 2017 newer than that tablet, i would assume?..

[@beto-em5kn]

Watching on a Samsung Galaxy tab s6 lite, it's less than a year old, but the pen still works the same way.

[@Goon-124]

Similar pens are on wacom and other art tablets

[@Brian-qg2qw]

This nugget would be a perfect Plants vs zombies machine

[@Cart1416]

the pen works like an s pen

[@Funboringness]

Damn, wonder whats making that pc not run rull with n64, wad just screwing with PJ64 on a core 2 laptop and it ran laps around this i3 gen1. Prolly thermal throttled.

[@Code7Unltd]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="303">5:03</a> >Didn't write "Beat up Martin" Wade's gonna be disappointed.

[@firecat5279]

Couldn’t think of anything creative good video

[@nazauwu6431]

oh the way the pen works is actually suuuper similar to most display tablets like xp pen or huion!

[@EthanTheWerewolf]

That pen reminds me of my drawing tablets! I have two of them, one can use my phone and the orher works with my (currently dead) laptop. Both of them are those ones that dont have screens, i dont remember what they are called lmao

[@AndrewSmart32]

I used to work for intel and have collected a ridiculous amount of intel stickers. I WANT

[@daecatt]

I'm guessing the SNES emulation mostly benefited from dual channel RAM rather than just having more, that is to say it might just run just as well on 2x1GB sticks.

[@Lemintoon]

Decided to check it and it's an uSATA port that was designed for small drives, you can that drive in other devidec trough adapter

[@Tamay.]

Consider a Zebra barcode scanner next (especially MC18 and PS20)

[@kurtczp]

Surprised you've never used a wacom tablet before

[@CH3R.N0BY1]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="210">3:30</a> the $100~ wacom tablets have similar pens, but that's not on a screen, it's just like a plastic slate

[@Themadpatter520]

Ah yes keyboard my favorite peripheral

[@FredKunM2024]

James channel fr on a tablet Dankpods on manky old devices 🤝 go hand in hand

[@Lowmandavis]

this same kind of pen technology makes my drawing tablet work :3

[@RADSPEON]

i own a cheap HUION drawing tablet, and the pen for that is a very similar mechanism! its quite surprising actually because that thing feels like its made out of pure plastic and air LOL

[@wafflesyem]

Is that electromagnet thing the same that the Wacom tablets use for their pens?

[@HeyItsJoeB]

One of these needs to find its way to Bringus Studios

[@Super_Bros.]

Nobody cares about Bringus Studios, he had a few fun videos but that’s it. Sorry but it’s honesty.

[@Exponaut_R-01]

And we’ll never see another Intel Health sticker again...

[@Dukefazon]

It looks cool, now I want one!

[@cool_bug_facts]

they made a tablet for me

[@oxymoron02]

Wow, James really doesn't know much about computers, I now realise. The 512MB in GTAIV was graphics memory, not system memory.