The Tim Hortons Computer

[@sarah1390]

Ok I can shed a little more light on the Platinum Awards. I was previously A Tim Horton's Employee from 2006-2017, whose location received this Platinum Award 3 separate years. You had to be within the top 10% of stores with both sales and also we would have the store graded every so often by a regional manager but the grading by the regional manager factored more heavily than the actual sales. I Received and actually still have the DVD player from 2007 though I think something died on the player if I remember correctly so it's non-functional. I also received an MP3 Player which I believe was from either 2006 or 2008 and a Coat but I can't remember what year that was for from the Platinum Awards. Yes everyone at the location received the reward but I believe the store owner decided how long you had to be at the store before you were eligible in receiving the platinum award gift.

[@erinmagill1702]

Always Fresh 2007 champ here too. Also won the DVD player.

[@drueckglueck9918]

Nice try liar

[@TechNetworkUK]

This is definitely turning into a series of logo slapped laptops

[@lpphoenix131]

It's like Dankpods lmao. Companies slap their logo on the crappiest mp3 players 😂.

[@MrNueman]

true

[@KaiserAllen]

@@lpphoenix131 I actually thought this was a Dankpods video when I saw the thumbnail!

[@ricksandstorm]

And it is exactly what we want

[@MaximNightFury]

@@KaiserAllen Imagine if Wade got his mitts on the Disney Eee PC...

[@Tepiloxtl]

To be fair, when you said "Imagine the biggest bezel", Ive imagined like those toy laptops for kids with the monochrome liquid crystal and ABC learning thing and thought surely it can't be this absurd. It was this absurd lmao🤣

[@Blue2x2x]

Same here, I pictured like those hot wheels/Barbie "laptops" you find at a Christmas toy magazines. And I don't mind bezels. But damn, that's absurdly large. It's a freaking crime of wasted space.

[@BrightSpark]

Same, I was imagining something akin to the little VTech thingy I used to have as a child.

[@kfitch42]

Yo dawg, I heard you like bezels, so we put a bezel on your bezel.

[@RisingRevengeance]

I actually like bezels on my laptops but this is just hilarious. It really is as bad as an old fisher-price toy.

[@KarltheBarl]

Giant mp3 dankpods

[@gymnasiast90]

That WiFi Power application is really the bee’s knees of "will this do?" programming. They didn’t ever bother giving it its own icon.

[@Emil215p]

that UI took exactly 30 seconds to make

[@OG_MrRubberDucky]

this netbook screams "we need to reward our employees without spending too much on it" 😄 great video like always michael!

[@Aeduo]

Probably even just went to like, some store managers as some like christmas bonus or something to make it seem like they're getting more value rather than paying a cash bonus. :p

[@MrJ0mmy]

i had one of these not branded tim hortons you can install android 2.2 on this runs better

[@patrickschannelyt]

I think I'd quit my job if this was my "reward"

[@poetryflynn3712]

@@patrickschannelyt You'd be surprised. Practically every company in the mid-2000 did this. Instead of raising wages, they'd rather give you branded options.

[@DJShocker]

@@MrJ0mmy omg now Michael needs to do this!

[@Plainapple287]

I couldn’t imagine how ripped off you’d feel even getting this for free, like wow free computer! And then getting it and seeing those bezels, reminds me of one of those toy laptops

[@StrangelyIronic]

I mean it's a netbook from 2010 (the badge says 2010), have you never seen an EeePC 701? All of the original netbooks had either bezels almost the same or smaller shells around the same size screen to have a smaller bezel but much worse battery life due to capacity and a keyboard too small for any reasonable use. I had an EeePC 701 at launch, the original that shipped with Linux, and a 1215N that would have been great if nvidia ION wasn't an utter joke that never worked correctly.

[@dh2032]

now they'd be more useful

[@MaChAlSAM]

@@StrangelyIronic Its the EE PEE CEEE.

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

Netbooks always have had thick bezels, even the more expensive one. In 2012, i bought an HP 2170p Elite netbook, which is a high-end netbook (which i sometimes still use) and even it has thick bezels.

[@Aeduo]

@@StrangelyIronic Those EEE PCs would've been more useful than this thing. They were at least x86. I have to imagine this is not, and the OS might even be burned in to a ROM or something and completely unchangeable. There's no excuse for how bad this thing is, and even if "it's all someone had", it's simply not functional or useful enough to justify even that.

[@johnathin0061892]

The bezel reminds me of those VTech educational toy laptop computers from the late 1980s/early 1990s. Probably about as powerful too.

[@sihamhamda47]

Also there were portable e-dictionary products in about the same time, and it had a little monochrome screen surrounded by very large bezels

[@sourgrapekate1003]

I had one of those as a kid and can confirm they were as fun to use as this netbook.

[@Hadisabetghadam]

maybe VTech maded the laptop😂😂

[@jjco665]

I don`t know... those VTech toy laptops probably had more games and taught you more things than this one lol.

[@obroni]

The bezel has a bezel of its own. Very meta.

[@thegoodgamer872]

yes

[@chrisjamesr77]

Yo dawg, I heard you liked bezels, so I put a bezel in your bezel!

[@HuntergamerbenOfficial]

@@chrisjamesr77 yo dawg i heared you liked bezels over bezels so i added a bezel over a bezel over a bezel over a bezel

[@chrisjamesr77]

@@HuntergamerbenOfficial Bezels, dawg.

[@HuntergamerbenOfficial]

@@chrisjamesr77 the screen is so tiny that i think the company just slapped the screen of the worlds smallest cellphone on it

[@hecdavid11]

This netbook made me remember back in 2010 when I was only 13 years old and I entered a country-wide drawing contest where the 1st prize was a netbook. I actually won, and the netbook was a Compaq CQ10-120LA, boasting a crazy 1 GB DDR2 RAM, 160 GB HDD, Atom N270 (1.6 GHz). As a kid, I was obsessed with Vista's UI so I was bummed when I powered it up and it had WinXP. But boy, I had a great time with that netbook!

[@CotyRiddle]

there were ways to get vista styles and transperency's on xp.

[@hecdavid11]

@@CotyRiddle You bet. I already had all of that in our desktop PC, but I wanted the real experience in the laptop 😂

[@biggusdickus8992]

Thats actually pretty cool dude, congrats on winning that contest all those years ago!

[@pankoza2]

@@CotyRiddle and, like actually install vista on that thing

[@EmberBlitz]

That cwispy dedotated wam.

[@philash824]

The line about reserving the right to change anything in the manual, is in most manuals, it’s just in the small print at the end, not at the front

[@EmperorSquidysChannel]

God, I love these corporate computers that have nothing to do with the company itself other than the name on the front.

[@GravityRaider]

That bezel reveal felt like a jumpscare. Like, I knew you said imagine the smallest bezel ever before you opened it, but I was not ready for THAT.

[@Haffmatthew]

Imagine everytine you toggle airplane mode on your tech device it freezes from the sheer digital oomph and raw processing power such settings require. I love it

[@thedungeondelver]

This is very similar to the Sylvania Netbook sold at CVS back around this same time period. CPU is a VIA 8505, 128mb RAM, 2gb flash storage (500mb for Win CE and a partition of 1.5gb for local storage, if this thing follows suit). I think the Sylvania actually had a much larger screen.

[@juanignacioaschura9437]

VWestlife did a review of that Netbook. I remember how appalling it was.

[@thedungeondelver]

@@juanignacioaschura9437 Yeah it was pretty awful.

[@kbhasi]

It was actually a WonderMedia WM8505, but a lot of supplies confused WM for VIA.

[@thedungeondelver]

@@kbhasi Thank you for that info. The review I found out there specifically mentioned VIA but they too might have been mistaken.

[@lrc3847]

In the VIA processor you can install Windows. Is a x86 processor. is a Wondermedia one.

[@zebby]

Man, the screen is so tiny, even the bezel has a bezel!

[@marcberm]

Way back in 1999 I had something called the "IBM WorkPad z50." It seemed like a very new, innovative and inexpensive alternative to a full-blown laptop computer at the time. It ran one of the earliest versions of Windows CE and despite borrowing heavily from the IBM (and later Lenovo) ThinkPad design language, the build quality wasn't super and I always found it rather frustrating to use. In it's day, it was at least impressive looking to other people. I used it to take notes in college and got a lot of "mr fancy with a laptop computer over here" looks from others loll.

[@justinbuckley]

The keyboard being bowed like that is likely from the internal battery expanding due to age.

[@hhjpegg]

☠️

[@undefinedCat]

it's spicy pillow time

[@CZpersi]

The bezel reminds me the first Asus EEE Pc, which used to have a 7 inch display inside a 10 inch body. WIth a bit of an effort, you could install Arm distribution of Debian onto it and make it somewhat useful. Surprising range of Linux apps and games have been re-compiled for the ARM architecture thanks to the popularity of Raspberry Pi.

[@GammaMAXXdotcom]

If you want to include the earliest portables computers from the laptop-type era (Excluding luggables) the largest bezel that comes to my mind is the NEC ProSpeed CSX. That laptop seemed to be a perfect case of "We can only include a screen _this_ big, but we need the body to fit a full size keyboard. Just put _something_ in to pad it out".

[@goldibollocks]

The bezels are insane. Like one of those kids play laptops that just have a sticker for a screen.

[@notloki3140]

You also have to remember that back then there weren't really any android tablets, and phone screens and storage was shite. Therefore, if you wanted to watch films on the go, your only option in terms of cheapo devices was one of these or a portable DVD player.

[@typingcat]

Yeah, but at this era, I had a Dell Mini 10v netbook that ran Windows XP. I think I bought a used one for about $300. A lot more useful than this junk.

[@notloki3140]

@@typingcat also more expensive. And please stop comparing used with new. Makes no sense.

[@MrMangarillo]

Fun Fact: This is how all Canadians currently access the internet, there are no other computers in Canada.

[@RustyAviation]

How else would I be typing this comment?

[@iraitsjffskts]

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[@rainmannoodles]

Years ago I had a Dell Axim running Windows Mobile, and TCPMP (The Core Pocket Media Player) was basically the mobile equivalent of VLC. It would play anything you threw at it. Good times. Things are so much easier today, but the nostalgia factor is legit.

[@GoodGooseThingit]

This is taking “the bezels are bigger than the screen” to the next level.

[@coolbunny]

You know u brought a good quality laptop when the manual even teaches you how to force shutdown.

[@thatevlcanadian]

This thing looks PAINFUL to use regularly

[@MrJ0mmy]

i had one of these not branded tim hortons you can install android 2.2 on this runs better

[@ColaTai]

​@@MrJ0mmyhow is that better

[@MrJ0mmy]

@@ColaTai its no good these days back back then it was i used to to play emulators and some early dos game and angry birds

[@novatiberium]

As a Albertan this is too funny, but I only heard of this 2 sec ago from you, bruh. So underrated. Always fresh, always anti-virus, always Windows Hortons.

[@Syreyup]

as also an albertan i love how we got a beautiful surprise when waking up, known as, yknow, a ton of fucking snow lmao

[@messoremvitae]

I'm from Saskatchewan and this is the funniest thing ever. I've never seen these before. Now that I have I need one. Lol

[@InfinityR319]

As an Ontarian this is literally the first time that I‘m aware of it despite spending years drinking Timmies.

[@KevinJhonson]

@@Syreyup as an albertan, this is very relatable

[@PFMediaServices]

@@Syreyup **cries in winter** 🥶🍍

[@quayzar1]

It looks like they gave it a large bezel, discovered the screen was going to be even smaller and gave it another bezel.

[@NoahClevinger]

Just when I think that Michael has done a video on everything, he surprises us with this.

[@AmstradExin]

Windows CE Powered smartphones actually had alot of software. I think for this notebook its kinda a slim choice. I like my Aldi Netbook. It has USB 3.0, Ethernet and it works great with Windows 7.

[@Angultra]

That bezel, looking more like a VTech than a netbook

[@snowsnowthesnowman]

I had a Tim Hortons tv through my mom, dinky little thing that carried me through my teen years. used it for game consoles.

[@AndreiNeacsu]

Since it was not mentioned in the video, here it is. Specs: E700 Wince Series Microsoft Windows CE Processor: VIA, ARM-VT8500 256MB Nandflash 128MB Ram 7" WVGA Screen 802.11 B/G Wireless Ports: 2 USB, Card Reader, Headphone,Microphone

[@daddygroudon]

so... technically it can run WinXP 🤔 or Linux, but its under question, though UPD: also thanks for info, was wondering what specs was in this netbook :D

[@eyeflaps]

My little sisters first "laptop" was something like this. It was identical to this except it was green and didn't have the tim Hortons logo. Didn't do much of anything useful but she was like 10 at the time so she didn't care too much.

[@mrgrumpy888]

I would totally take this to Starbucks

[@typingcat]

The employees might give you a free cup of coffee out of pity.

[@marccaselle8108]

Slavebucks

[@cyber_pirate]

*tim horton’s

[@dafl00]

I like how they stick with the default MFC icon

[@NathanNitz]

This totally reminds me of those Sylvania branded WinCE netbooks from the late 2000s/early 2010s. I wanted one out of curiosity, but didn't end up bothering. I was more into tinkering with Pocket PCs. I even ran that TCPMP app on a couple of them. It worked better than the mobile version of Windows Media Player for sure.

[@jimdayton8837]

I bought one last year. It's fun to play around with, but you can't really do much with it. Oh, and I had to re-flash the OS before I could even use it.

[@makuIa]

you warned me about the bezels & I still wasn’t prepared. I howled laughing

[@gonzalezman4011]

What also came out in 2010 was my childhood laptop from TOSHIBA, it wasn't the best but I loved that thing, it's what got me into computers and even that would be better than this!

[@JK-qk8rh]

I love how there are huge bezels around the already big bezels around this tiny screen

[@carlysmarlyson]

hilarious video! loved it! nearly screamed when I saw that bezel lol.

[@TREVMASTER]

Finally! An MJD video where everything doesn't actually go wrong! 1000/10!! Keep up the great work Michael!!

[@batstick8571]

As a Canadian I find this very interesting never knew about this until now

[@Mitzi-chan224]

Same

[@wolfgangfrost8043]

The manual reserving the right to change information about the computer is like when they used to put Arcade / Amiga / Atari ST level screenshots on the back of early DOS, C64 & ZX Spectrum ported games with an asterisk... *(Your hardware may vary).

[@Blackjack214]

Gotta love the translation fails... "HOLE down the power button..." lol

[@toshineon]

It's funny that you mentioned those portable DVD players, because those are still a thing here in Sweden. Almost every supermarket and electronics store carries them. It seems like mainly families with small children buy them, when going camping in remote areas where they expect to have very poor or no reception.

[@fylumi7143]

I would love to see a teardown on that laptop

[@khaotix64]

"OH how do we force power it off dang it I need to get the manual!!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@PainweedingPills]

2:56 Why yes, i love Hole-ing down buttons.

[@elliottsimmons9024]

😂

[@MonosShenanigans]

I got a Packard bell Dot-S. It's literally my childhood laptop, and upgrading it from 1 to 4 GB ram was a nice refresh of my childhood. Ittsss sooooo smol!

[@pearism]

You should do a video on the Windows CE series and how it differs from version to version. I used to have a low-end netbook just like this, but obviously without the branding.

[@NickEter]

This thing would be hella interesting considering it runs WinCE... basically a PPC that looks like an actual PC

[@JOELwindows7]

No way!!! Another WM8505 Windows CE netbook editions!!! We had: - OG - Tablet - Sylvania - (This) Tim Hortons Wow!! How many collections have been already?!😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@masonlivingston9705]

The keyboard bending is actually the battery expanding and pushing out on the hardware

[@UltraPoyoColt]

Ahh, all the different laptops that exist with logos slapped on them. Thanks for covering this! (I’m actually Canadian, and Tim hortons donuts are awesome.)

[@mysteriousghost4852]

omg it's exactly like the Zune HD, just with a keyboard, mouse, and usb ports.. Mine was running Windows CE 5.0 so it didn't even have the Luna theme lol....

[@LovelyAlanna]

I’m pretty sure that’s a wondermedia WM8650 laptop, back when we had the ipad 1 those started spawning like the plague, my first tablet was am ipad knockoff using that same chipset, I also bought the same laptop you’re using, there was a decent community optimizing the heck out of android to make those usable, I wonder ir the install files still exist somewhere

[@ryanreedgibson]

Oh, that's where it's from. I always liked Fuds N Suds. Which is not what you think and I believe they are only in Vancouver.

[@epoggg3672]

I had a vtech basic kids laptop as a child and the bezels were so big the screen was about the size of a phone. For an actual laptop though those bezels are MASSIVE.

[@f937r]

I was thinking of a bezel to match those 80s laptop displays. And yea... this one may still be larger than those.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

This sounds like the kind of employee reward that shows the wisdom of not putting in any more effort than you need to get by at work.

[@Kaceydotme]

I just so happened to playing Ford Racing 3 for the GBA while watching this and you mentioned Tim Follin, who did the soundtrack for Ford Racing 3... Fun coincidences :)

[@meligarcia]

You knew the computer industry was booming when a freakin' COFFEESHOP made a computer! Reminds me of those Ferrari and Lamborghini laptops. Seems like every company imaginable had a computer...

[@MLGKid420]

The difference is that the Ferrari and Lamborghini laptops were high end. To represent the cars themselves

[@piratebear3126]

The Washington Commanders (then Redskins) had a team branded PC for sale back in the early 2000s, complete with a burgundy and gold XP theme installed by default. Wish I could find the theme honestly, weird piece of computer history there

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Wasn't there a ferrari phone too?

[@An1meGeek]

@@My_Old_YT_Account actually it's Lamborghini who made phones not Ferrari

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

@@An1meGeek apparently both made phones but the one I was thinking of is the lambo one yeah

[@edmundo096]

Nice and interesting video. Also, great captions. Props to the captions author!

[@RGamer2009]

Time to upgrade the OS and see what this netbook can really do!

[@MrJ0mmy]

i had one of these not branded tim hortons you can install android 2.2 on this runs better its using an arm cpu

[@EngineerOfChaos]

Lmao, I've been busy trying to solve boot issues with a bunch of embedded Windows CE 6.0 touch computers at work today and I come home to relax with a Michael MJD video to see that HE is messing around with an embedded Windows CE 6.0 computer.

[@katbryce]

If you got a MacBook Pro or a PC Laptop in a similar price point from around that time, it is still a very usable computer. You definitely wouldn't want to play games or do video editing on it, and Teams/Zoom/etc calls won't be that great an experience, but for web browsing, word processing, spreadsheets, emails, etc; it is absolutely fine, and probably better than the cheapest laptops you can buy new in the shops today. That gives you an idea of how rubbish that was, even at the time.

[@HeyItsMaher]

I worked at Tim’s and one of the managers had this laptop and I remember I wanted it more than the DVD player. This was the coolest swag imho

[@MaskedGEEK]

This is amazing. Where do you find these obscure machines? I never thought a Windows CE powered Netbook existed. I'm begining to think there'll be a computer themed and/or sponsored by Earl the dinosaur from that old TV show Dinosaurs.

[@dglcomputers1498]

There were a few of them back in the day before android became mainstream, saw a few advertised on shopping channels with a built in cellular link so you could buy just the machine and be online (terrible way of doing it, like the shopping channels cared as they like their overpriced junk). Windows CE was used on a lot of stuff (so probably plenty of reference designs out there) and was probably fairly cheap to licence. Plus it's minimum system requirements and ARM processor compatibility would be perfect for something like this.

[@pooyab01]

Tim Hortons employees: We need laptops Tim Hortons: We have laptop at home The laptop:

[@mezura4]

Everybody’s gangster until the instruction booklet starts changing information without notifying you

[@eliyafreeman]

Honestly I love how the windows open and close animation thingy, really noice

[@vwestlife]

If it was a Pentium 4, it could serve double duty as a coffee cup warmer.

[@MrJ0mmy]

i had one of these not branded tim hortons you can install android 2.2 on this runs better it uses an arm cpu

[@TatsuZZmage]

9 watt power brick

[@generallyunimportant]

@@MrJ0mmy why are you replying this everywhere in this comment section also, hi checkmark

[@AlexandruLipan]

After a couple minutes of googling, here the specs of the Menq EasyPC e700: - CPU: Samsung S3C2440, that is basically a 400 Mhz single core ARM9 - RAM: 64 MB - HDD: none, uses a 128 MB memory - Screen, 480x234 pixel, 65k colors, probably recycled from a portable DVD player The ethernet adapter is a 10 BASE-T. The most advanced thing on that PC is probably the USB controller.

[@Scitch87]

That bezel looks like the Unit was actually meant to house a slightly bigger display but for whatever reason (cost? availability?) they put in a smaller display and just filled up the free space with more bezel.......damn.

[@alastor--radiodemon7556]

4:48 pretty similar to what i had imagined, a cars lighting mcqueen laptop ,looking math learning device with a super super tiny black and white display

[@FubarMike]

I think there was a version of this in a clear case that inmates could buy in prison in like 2015. I didn't go to prison or anything I just remember seeing it online somewhere.

[@lapielazoolie]

Stumbled across a post that said these were freely given out to employees at select stores for reaching past their projected sales goal

[@adews7204]

I’d love to see a video installing and using Windows CE software on this!

[@oxfamshop]

It comes with a magic self editing book . A treat for a start😀😂

[@tyaty]

Core player was a good stuff. You could actually play SD MPEG4 videos on a 200mhz ARM9 based processor(OMAP 850).

[@DKFT]

i have one of these from my grandma who worked at tim hortons for 50 years

[@stephanieiwaniuk6088]

As a Canadian this is amazing! Lol

[@iDeviceishPro]

Love the Letterkenny description lol

[@Scratch_Fakemon]

that bezel has its own bezel

[@Scratch_Fakemon]

bezel bezel

[@lawnside82]

Double double bezel

[@serv3534]

as someone born and living in quebec rn with a tim hortons near our house,i guess i can agree its really strange for them to have their own netbooks

[@Mirra2003-f9s]

lol i remember i had a car GPS that ran Windows CE many years ago....i guess this thing is seriously underpowered

[@buzdi_dop]

i have windows ce 6 gps and this netbook just diffrent brand i can tell you that the gps runs windows ce muuuch faster and smoother, i did a little test in tcpmp netbook can only do 240p while gps can do 480p this netbook is crap

[@johnnyhellfire6]

Hey!? I have that USB to ether net adapter lol Gotta love corporate: can afford new cars every year but can't even give as a thank you to employees something that could be lapped by a smart phone lol

[@chaomac]

Windows XP French Vanilla

[@fawkewe]

2:38 this is how you know this dude is American. Tims are so common out here they can come out saying they were committing genocide in a thrid world country and they would still be huge.

[@morganrussman]

When I hear of Tim Hortons, I think of the 'if X commercial was honest' or 'if X was honest' over on the cracked KZbin channel. I saw someone mentioning about cracking this open and looking at the hardware, it is honestly a bit of a disappointment that you didn't try to figure out the hardware, like cpu or ram.

[@insainllama]

That would have been cool to see the system properties menu.

[@morganrussman]

@@insainllama Mmmm, yeah, might have been something I would have done pretty quickly.

[@chrisjamesr77]

This thing makes that HP Stream laptop I bought from Walmart in 2015 or so for $200 look like an utter powerhouse.

[@MrFreddy123]

Watching this while eating Tim Horton's😂

[@trailersic]

I thought you'd at least see how well it plays Doom and Quake :D

[@JimOkurku_]

Imagine needing a manual to force shut down a computer 😂

[@madden8021]

Guess it's for people who aren't Tech Savy and need to call Tech Support every time on what to do.

[@JimOkurku_]

@@madden8021 if you never used a computer, you would most definitely use a phone of any kind, and they work the same way.

[@NicolARark]

I didn't know that MJD likes Tim Follin!

[@Dope_Stories]

I was honestly and truly amazed by the bezel haha ... I figured it was gonna be big but that is straight up like one of those fake laptop kids toys.

[@ericshannon261]

I love that you must 'hole' the power button to do the emergency shutdown.

[@Nikkel144]

its not even xp lol its windows ce

[@elliottsimmons9024]

He knows.

[@aasfi109]

MichaelMJD fr my favorite KZbinr. Influenced me to do some cool stuff on my own. Thanks man :)