The WonderMedia WM8850 Android Laptop from 2013 is likely one of the cheapest laptops to exist...

Timestamps are integrated into the video now showing each segment dedicated to this device.
I was aiming for about 40 minutes but I ran a bit overtime, so that's why there's timestamps so you can skip to wherever you need to be. No harm in doing so! If you are here to see the teardown, you can skip to that. If you are here just for the specs, you can skip to that - there's no problems in doing so. I thank you for even clicking on this video!
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Greetings and welcome to another In-Depth Cheapo Review of...a LAPTOP! FINALLY!
It's been a while since I've covered cheapo Laptops on the channel and SO many people have asked for me to do a review on one and...almost 3 years later. Here we are!
I also figured let's try emulation on this because Android 4.1 is so limited nowadays and I had to show the performance of this somehow. I'm happy to do more emulation in videos on older devices just for the fun of it.
Well, you sat through me looking at a cheapo Tablet, now get ready for likely one of the most cheapest laptops to be manufactured. This certainly will be a fun one so get yourself comfy and enjoy the ride!
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Applications:
CPU System Info: bit.ly/3BYfdaZ
Device Info HW: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
CPU-Z: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Geekbench 5: play.google.com/store/apps/de...
QuickShortcutMaker: bit.ly/3wAC6jm
INTERNET ARCHIVE for all the dumps of WELCOME System Files: archive.org/details/@smoorez
TIMESTAMPS:
Introduction, Timestamps & Disclaimers: 0:00
Kind of the same one on AliExpress: 1:23
Around the Laptop, Ports & Rambling: 2:52
Quality Control & Keyboard etc: 4:59
Power On, Initial Performance, UI & Wallpapers: 7:30
Display Quality, Installed Apps, Ethernet & Connections: 9:25
Settings - Sounds, Display, Storage & Battery: 11:06
Settings - System App List, Shortcuts & Screen Damage: 12:20
Settings - Security, Input & Google Account: 13:42
Settings - Accessibility, About Device & Silly Setup: 14:51
More Quality Control & Rambly Browser Test: 16:41
The Performance at it's finest & Camera: 19:16
CAMERA TEST SOUNDS HORRIBLE SORRY: 20:18
Camera Quality & How this laptop handles a Word Document: 21:16
RIP MSN & Speaker Test: 23:21
Microphone Test is horrific, Play Store & KZbin Fail: 25:47
Task Manager, CTRL ALT DEL FUN & Video Test: 27:00
POWERHOUSE & Apps I've Installed to test: 28:29
Gaming Test - Grand Theft Auto III: 29:24
Gaming Test - NES Emulation: 32:19
Gaming Test - SNES Emulation: 33:20
Gaming Test - GBA Emulation: 34:34
Gaming Test - PS1 Emulation: 35:42
Checking the Specs & QuickShortcutMaker: 37:10
Incoherent Conclusion & Do I review the other one?: 39:23
Teardown: 41:56
Does it live on & Full Specifications: 44:50
Has anyone used this thing? Timestamp stuff & What's Next: 45:52
Outro: 47:03
Be good people!
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SOCIAL:
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Email: [e-mail]
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Music/Video:
Outro:
Mick Gordon - Cultist Base (Doom Eternal Soundtrack)
Speaker Tests:
Mick Gordon - BFG Division (DOOM 2016 Soundtrack)
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*All images used in the video belong to their rightful owners but are used under fair use/demonstration.
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#Laptop #Android #Review

[@SMOOREZ]

Welcome to another Cheapo In-Depth Review thingo! Here's the laptop I promised to show :) *looks water damaged inside so likely why Ethernet didn't work* If you have used one of these in the past AND if you know how to maybe dump the system files off this, feel free to let me know down below. I do hope you enjoy this one, next up is a cheapo camera and then a phone that was sent to me (now that's something...) TIMESTAMPS: Introduction, Timestamps & Disclaimers: 0:00 Kind of the same one on AliExpress: 1:23 Around the Laptop, Ports & Rambling: 2:52 Quality Control & Keyboard etc: 4:59 Power On, Initial Performance, UI & Wallpapers: 7:30 Display Quality, Installed Apps, Ethernet & Connections: 9:25 Settings - Sounds, Display, Storage & Battery: 11:06 Settings - System App List, Shortcuts & Screen Damage: 12:20 Settings - Security, Input & Google Account: 13:42 Settings - Accessibility, About Device & Silly Setup: 14:51 More Quality Control & Rambly Browser Test: 16:41 The Performance at it's finest & Camera: 19:16 CAMERA TEST SOUNDS HORRIBLE SORRY: 20:18 Camera Quality & How this laptop handles a Word Document: 21:16 RIP MSN & Speaker Test: 23:21 Microphone Test is horrific, Play Store & KZbin Fail: 25:47 Task Manager, CTRL ALT DEL FUN & Video Test: 27:00 POWERHOUSE & Apps I've Installed to test: 28:29 Gaming Test - Grand Theft Auto III: 29:24 Gaming Test - NES Emulation: 32:19 Gaming Test - SNES Emulation: 33:20 Gaming Test - GBA Emulation: 34:34 Gaming Test - PS1 Emulation: 35:42 Checking the Specs & QuickShortcutMaker: 37:10 Incoherent Conclusion & Do I review the other one?: 39:23 Teardown: 41:56 Does it live on & Full Specifications: 44:50 Has anyone used this thing? Timestamp stuff & What's Next: 45:52 Outro: 47:03 CPU & System Apps are in the description above! Be good people!

[@tajemniczepulchnecos2074]

You don't have to check myboy performance. It works on anything.

[@Karim-uknwmg702]

this is the ugliest machine 😂 check out dell old gaming laptops

[@gameoverwehaveeverypixelco1258]

You'll find with older or slower àndroid devices you have to manually stop background apps running to help make it run faster. I go thru list and stop as many running as possible.

[@BG101UK]

I'd agree with @windowsvista6002 above about this originally having Windows on it, likely 7 Starter by the time this came out. I'd be rather tempted to try a lightweight Linux distro on it.

[@C3S6Films3D]

THE BOOTSCREEN. Haven’t seen that in at least 10 years. Here in the US we had these Craig laptops that ran Android. They sold them until late 2015 and they were sold at drugstores. My family always bought them in the early 2010s. I remember a Craig laptop from 2012 that ran Ice Cream Sandwich. It had a bootscreen of the Ice Cream Sandwich logo as a blue outline, then it “colors in” from the bottom, and the image ripples. Then they got an Android Jellybean laptop. Had the same vents on the bottom and same casing like the one in the video although it was in black. It also has the same bootscreen as the one in this video. I’m sure they both (the jellybean one I had in 2013 and the one in the video) have the same board inside. None of the Craig ones had a Windows key. Instead, it was replaced with “Zzz” printed in washed-out dark orange or blue instead. And I remember Christmas of 2015. That was the last time I ever got and saw a Craig laptop - it ran KitKat. I don’t even remember the bootscreen on it. Was probably the Craig logo or the Android kitkat icon maybe? I had it for quite a short time and I have quite vague memories of it although my memory is very good. Too good even. Although they broke a lot, Craig’s cheap Android laptops were a part of my childhood and I’m quite fond of them. Thanks for the nostalgia! 💚

[@the_mariocrafter]

They will dump the system files

[@thecoolrandoms]

Craig. Bro u reminded me of dankpods

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Was it usable for some mundane task, like writing a text file or reading mail ?

[@RuruFIN]

@@thecoolrandoms Like an old mate

[@C3S6Films3D]

@@thecoolrandoms “can’t you believe no one bought this?”

[@kvasovstan]

Truly one of the laptops ever made

[@Boogie_the_cat]

That jelly bean chomping animation is the best splash screen I've seen on any cheapo android. 10/10

[@trentonking5508]

@jesusdavidrestrepovaldes50 how was it scary

[@SW73_TWBFDIC]

Better than just "welcome"

[@aftertheelectrike1847]

Just a fun fact, that is actually a VIA laptop. It isn't branded because WonderMedia was a subsidiary of VIA.

[@SMOOREZ]

Yeah I cut out a bit where I explained it, but I spliced a little note in somewhere in the video.

[@aftertheelectrike1847]

@@SMOOREZ Thanks for the reply! Also, fair enough, I'm just a huge nerd for everything VIA ever did... From the C3, to the C7, the Nanos, WonderMedia, and everything in between. Load of old trash, but it's interesting to behold. A lot of these WM8850s can and do run Debian Linux instead of Android, and some people use them for robotics.

[@SMOOREZ]

My first PC I had used a Via Nehemiah C3 in it on a Gigabyte Mini ITX board with 512MB RAM. Branded as a "MERCURY" computer here in Australia. Could play Runescape on that at like 3FPS in 2005 lmao

[@aftertheelectrike1847]

@@SMOOREZ that's actually pretty cool! Mine was a bit more boring, a Pentium M 1.73 My first experience with VIA as a company was with an HP Mini 2133, which I actually killed in 2021 with a run of CineBench R11.5, where it scored a whopping **0.00 points.** This was a VIA C7 @ 1.6 GHz, and 2 GB RAM. The benchmark took 57 hours, 12 minutes, and 29 seconds to complete.

[@SummonerArthur]

Jesus, I got flashbacks of myself trying to run need for speed underground on a VIA chrome 9 after failing to do so on a sis mirage graphics WITHOUT the mirage graphics blue screening the whole thing. It made the chrome 9 look like a powerhouse. Still have fond memories... of one of those igps LOL

[@Mike-77-YT]

fun fact: These laptops can also have Windows CE installed on them! Certain models of this laptop or netbook have specific keys for opening up certain programs, such as pocket internet explorer

[@Stefan_38]

Its soo nostalgic to see jely bean again

[@DarkLatexKing]

jely bean👁️👄👁️??

[@Stefan_38]

@@DarkLatexKing i remebre havin a samsung galaxy core with jely bean it was my firts android phone and it was a good phone not gona lie

[@DarkLatexKing]

@@Stefan_38 my first phone was android 2 gingerbread..

[@someoneyouneverknow7529]

​@@Stefan_38 TouchWiz OS was nightmare though. Although I kinda grow with it

[@adwaitagnome]

Same! Reminds me of the very first smartphone I ever used: Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

[@DopinSmoke]

I remember these things made me eternally grateful for my first personal "laptop" that I owned and didn't have to share with anyone. It was an Acer Aspire One netbook with Win7 Starter edition and 1gb of RAM. At the time I was annoyed that I could really only play Runescape and SimCity but these things showed me it could be so much worse.

[@VintageSG]

I bought a 'laptop' similar to that sometime around 2010 Single core CPU, 256MB RAM, a teeny-tiny amount of storage and the same ports. It ran Windows CE I think I paid £25 for it, new, from Amazon. WinCE wasn't so bad, but with help from the Internet, and the reason I bought it, I got a flavour of Linux running. More as an exercise than anything else. I was stuck at home. It was cheap and I was bored... I ran an SNMP daemon on it. I was bored. Even at £25, I was underwhelmed.

[@commonlibrary2]

Ah, good old Windows CE. I had a very old navigator that running Windows CE too, but It's gone for a long time now and I don't remember the name of it though.

[@toxxythetrash]

these android devices slow down so badly because of you signing into a google account, causing the play store to update the apps, thus causing google play services to update and obliterate the performance by filling up the ram and cpu. my suggestion is to save google stuff for later or not add a google account at all. when i used to have bad android 4 phones, i always had to fight with google play services by removing updates, clearing data and disabling it entirely just to have the phone "usable".

[@paranoiia8]

Back in 2013 I needed small pc for basic work and I was THIS close buy android tablet like that.... but I saved few bucks, and spend 300 on 10 inch netbook Asus EeePC with Intel atom/win7(with custom cpu drivers that boost graphic) and I was able to run quake 4 in 20-25fps and it was amazing for those 2 years I used it, and with dual boot I was able to use opera on linux for 14 hours straight, it was mind blowing back then.... Now I just imagine my "mind blow" if I would buy Android "laptop" instead of that Asus EeePC... Police would need to scrap that mind from the wall after I blow it after first hour of usage...

[@tylern6420]

The EeePeeCee™

[@bubgamingandvlogs3870]

99% of all people : The EeePC dankpods viewers: EeePeeCee

[@kioroglogd]

tHe EeEpEeCeE

[@2ManyGoats]

I haven't even watched this yet and you made my day by posting it. I currently have a stack of 9 laptops next to me I am working on. Quality viewing!

[@alexandercummins3527]

first youtuber that recomends an adblock. i love it.

[@jseden]

Several years back, I bought a 10” rca tablet with detachable keyboard for $80 from Walmart.. it was about this crappy but it was alright for browsing and KZbin. I mostly used it as a tor machine for a while before giving it to a neighbor who I’d always see using an even worse tablet.

[@torokadam8112]

tip:when the android device does not have any usb device with you can dump files there is an alternative (i think) total commander is a program can extract system files :D

[@nolanmales]

I want to see either another video or a KZbin short of seeing if the 3G capabilities work on this thing, because I think it would be pretty cool.

[@garbageee.mp3]

I would love to see a review on your first laptop!

[@Lightning2011]

SMOOREZ is uploading at a rate I can't keep up! This laptop just makes me wanna cry haha, also I would love to see a review video of your old EeeEEEepPeeECeEEEeeEE :)

[@ZombieBitesAgain]

good job and funny at same time lol 😊

[@ItsTickingTime]

I like how in the second microphone test you were going on a tangent about how you were yelling into the thing and that you'd probably have to scale down the volume gain in editing, turns out it was still quiet and editing you had to bump it up again.

[@y-toolsgames8771]

16:14 You should use usb a to usb a cable or mini hdmi to mini hdmi cable. And yes I would like to see your first laptop.

[@SMOOREZ]

I thought of type a to type a. May have to give that a go!

[@lord_hormiga]

I have searched for that animated background of the leaves in water and I have not found it to download, it is very nostalgic

[@caralynx]

I think it's just one of the stock Android live wallpapers. If you can find a copy of older AOSP you might be able to compile a copy.

[@rhydianable]

I would love to see you put a raspberry pi zero with WiFi in there,it looks like it could take it, take out that motherboard and use the pie zero,that would be a great video

[@Engiduck]

the zero 2 would work so much better

[@mwbgaming28]

The reason the battery meter is jumping around is because it uses a voltage reference to calculate the state of charge Increasing the CPU load or screen brightness puts a heavier load on the battery, which pulls the voltage down, which causes the percentage to go down, then when the load on the battery is reduced, the voltage goes back up, and the percentage goes up with it The battery percentage on new devices is calculated using energy as a reference, it counts the mah in vs the mah out and uses a known capacity as a reference to calculate the percentage The issue with the second one is that you can get into a situation where you might have a worn out battery, and even though it says 30% left, if you do something power intensive, it could simply just die because the battery voltage was pulled down below the safety cutoff threshold

[@alexga23113]

I had one of the earlier version of this android laptop when I was a kid. A day or two after I got it, the adapter exploded and the laptop wouldn't turn on. It was a really strange experience for me.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

You were saved from childhood trauma :D

[@alexga23113]

@@aleksazunjic9672 yeah something like that. When I was a kid, I used to open everything and see how it worked. If it exploded when I opened it, I would probably stay away from technological devices for a long time.

[@blindlyunstoppable]

Did it scare you whenever the adapter exploded

[@alexga23113]

@@blindlyunstoppable Yes, of course it scared me. Even the socket became unusable. My father and I had to replace it. I used to get scared when I plugged something in, but now I don't have that problem.

[@dmo848]

I found that way 2 funny😂

[@JDCarnin]

I had one of those things back in the Day. It was a Meteorit NB-7. There was a male to male USB A Cable to flash Roms and Stuff. An believe me, you’d had to do this at least twice a week. Mine had Android 2.2 on it and it was a mess. Mostly because many Apps didn’t supported Landscape back then. Also it factory resetted itself once a week. Needed a Laptop for school and my parents bought this. Got a beaten up Win 98 Laptop from my Uncle, it served me better. Edit: At least the released an Update, that applied an Overclock from 800mhz to 1Ghz. Also there are TV Commercials, but only in German. They’re hilarious, because they try to make this piece of garbage the best thing in the World

[@nsp6590]

"Also it factory resettted itself once a week." That was a lot funnier to me than it had any right to be lmao.

[@theplayer12312]

'Got a beaten up Win 98 Laptop from my Uncle, it served me better.' damn thats a low bar, but imagine how hip you'd be walking around with a beaten up 98 laptop nowadays

[@dmo848]

I would have loved to see that video. I regret not grabbing 1 back then. They were so cheap

[@joao_13_08]

Oh shit a youtuber telling me to use Yt Vanced is something ive never seen, good shit man

[@SMOOREZ]

I like to keep it minimal but KZbin auto adds advertisments in and it gets a bit disjointed so it's an option for folks on mobile.

[@Jdbye]

On dumping the system files: Because the Android version is so old, you might be able to root it easily with app based root methods, then you should be able to use wireless ADB to dump the system files or simply plug in a USB flash drive and use a file explorer to dump the files to that. If you're lucky, the ROM is already rooted and you can simply run "adb root" from a PC connected with wireless ADB.

[@PongWithBreakout]

iirc app based rooting was possible only on Mediatek SoCs, MT6582s I'm pretty sure all could be rooted with KingRoot or such.

[@Jdbye]

@@PongWithBreakout Isn't KingoRoot app based? That was one I was specifically thinking of, but I've no idea what other options exist.

[@PongWithBreakout]

@@Jdbye The other option is to flash some root scripts, or flash custom firmware. This method was model depended and not always available. It is now replaced with Magisk anyway. And yes, KingoRoot is app based, that's what I said. But the point was that it was only possible on Mediatek SoC, which I was actually wrong about, oops. So yeah, maybe it's worth trying to root this tablet with an app. Also KingRoot and KingoRoot are different apps, haha, the more you know.

[@kevinwong_2016]

Wireless ADB didn't expect until android 11💀

[@zenny1884]

Its pretty rare to see a content creator suggest to enable an adblock or skip the video. Just because of that im gonna subscribe and disable the adblock. 👀

[@cbhlde]

Your channels deserves lots of certificates! Even if they are fake! ;)

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

I'd love to see Avelog's Mouse Simulator get added in the tests.

[@neurobioboy]

I thinks the best quality of this laptop is that... you were able to make a video about it. I am curious about the "UPGRADED" version XD

[@mikuohatsune78]

I will like to see the new one to se how much they improve

[@exooooo9122]

There has also like this one but with Windows CE .. Will be very good review of you find like this one

[@sixtyinsix]

I remember back in the day you could buy one of these scaled down to a 7" screen for about $50 American. A few years after they came out some Indian fella managed to get Arch linux running on it in a KZbin video. That seemed a lot more useful.

[@dmo848]

Glad I ran into you. Your into the same stuff I am😅

[@andreeabrutaru4480]

I so miss MSN :((

[@adamk9652]

Honestly this thing reminds me alot of android x86 a android Virtual machine port for x86 based processors A few semesters back I installed said Virtual machine port onto my 2in1 laptop for a reasearch paper explaining the dangers of sideloading sketchy apps from shady third party sources and how said malware affected my system OS. It was a fun project but unfortunately I could never get the vm environment's touchscreen to calibrate to my 4k touchscreen display so I would have to use a mouse to interact with it (like you did here) Overall the novelty of having android OS (at least in a VM setting) running on a laptop was fun but the functionality (for a CS Student) makes it impractical as a primary device.

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Where can I download that?

[@adamk9652]

@@My_Old_YT_Account I installed it from the Android-x86 website. I used a virtualbox based x64 ISO

[@kevinwong_2016]

There are many safe apps that can't be on google play because they violate policy 💀

[@adamk9652]

@@kevinwong_2016 100%. As long as you download reputable apps from trusted third party sources your all good (and they add so much functionality to your device)

[@blue_jm]

Yes, buy and review the new one. Would be inyteresting to see if it can be updated so that web browsing works.

[@burnutec3]

Also wondermedia is owned by via technologies, so it's a via cpu technically. I remember the wm8650 , it was horribe, android 2.3 and resistive touch screen 800x480, it struggled to play youtube 360p

[@callexx]

first love the vids keep it up

[@kennethpaulcalangi4122]

The android laptop looks retro in some ways. sad to see the RAM is unupgradable. seeing that it's being charged with 5 volts 2 amps, it can be modded to use USB type c for charging the laptop and use any regular smartphone charger. and the battery (with a lot of space available insde) can be upgraded to a higher capacity... and maybe install a laptop fan iinside would help.maybe the heating up of the board's what causes it to slow down. I would like to get my hands on one of that laptop and tinker with it... LoL... looking forward for more CHEAPO videos SMOOREZ..

[@andrasszabo7386]

USB A to USB A cable does help. Had the same device, but with 1GB RAM. I had to modify the system with Teamwin Recovery and a custom ROM as my system was FULL of malware and viruses, and randomly installing/uninstalling unknown apps. I got my laptop on a flea market for 10 bucks,also.

[@Delta6500ThisIsAURL]

I could've seen this being used especially in 2009 to 2013. Light web browsing & maybe KZbin at the time too

[@jindrasmutny4181]

What a cool thing, I would love to buy this one as well to be honest 😁

[@DarkDragonEWA]

I used that same floating leaf wallpaper back when I had my first smart phone running Android 2 XD

[@Lagib28]

Laptops with similar form factors to this one were very common it the US in the early 2010s, but most had Windows CE 5.0 on them. I had a few and they were fun to play with, but not for any serious applications.

[@BeeDotEee]

Hey I've got those same towels. Nice.

[@jerseyforlife]

not sure if you know this but if you dont have a charger/power supply for something, you can use anything that has the same voltage and is equal to or exceeds the amperage rating. like you can use a 5v 20a power supply for this.

[@rodentartmouse]

Some of those wallpapers esp the water drop with leaves was on a Sony Ericsson phone I had in 2014

[@myrmeko]

27:20 Fun fact: "ctrl + alt + del" restarts any Android device.

[@Kyle-xv5kv]

Be cool to see this thing modded with active cooling and an updated ROM

[@NNAAWWTT]

The line that got me rolling "its ok" "i got life support"

[@VSigma725]

I had a different version of this, very similar hardware but different outer casing. Was neon green and silver with Android 4.something.

[@coondogtheman]

Curious if this thing is good enough to be a photo frame or even an MP3 jukebox. I have a small samsung ZTE smartphone and it's cheap and slow but it's just good enough to stream music from internet radio to my stereo. The problem is I have to sideload music apps and the number of them is getting slimmer.

[@mjetektman9313]

About the file dumping: it probably has a USB OTG port, like TV Boxes, maybe you can use it to connect to a PC and dump files? Edit: forgot to explain that the USB OTG cable is actually a USB-A to USB-A cable, you can make one from spare USB cables

[@sebastianwilmer9181]

When your Home Office are under the Niagara Falls 21:00 😂 greetings from Germany.

[@bw4593]

Honestly in 2013 I would have really loved this.

[@mikailulum2540]

Yes generally press the Ctrl Alt and Del both was actually a hard reset. I tried that four years ago at supermarket price checker and it run MS-DOS(nowadays still that OS). I just press that three keys to see is there a task manager but it’s not.

[@xlibun]

welcome email address coming up at 14:47 is just hilarious

[@SMOOREZ]

Someone had to claim it :)

[@Emulleator]

the balance of the laptop is so that the vent on the bottom gets air. its a feature not a bug! (its totally not bad quality at all) this thing would have been e-waste in ~2010, years before it was made. I'm watching this on a thinkpad from 2012, a way more expensive laptop when it was made but at least I can still use it for my daily stuff 10 years later

[@domfromaustralia99]

Smoorez my main man, what the hell is an E-waste!! Never heard of it cause I live in a town so if you could get back to me in the comments, I'll be happy bro

[@SMOOREZ]

Electronic Waste. Where electronics get thrown out to be recycled. A lot of places have this since tech is everywhere and it's always getting replaced etc. Just got to ask around as to who can sell it :)

[@MarkusNemesis]

EeePC 901 ftw! I still have mine.

[@Defensive_Wounds]

The laptop I am watching this video on and am typing this comment on plus edit, mix and master my band's music on is a 2013 Windows 8.1 ASUS laptop I bought for $417 from The Good Guys as an old display model. Lasts longer than dozens of Apple Macs/macbooks these days - but those are crap by design.

[@zmateneslunicko3928]

Have an Android 5 version, same specs, can handle Half-Life 1 via XasH engine. Also, I would recommend root and enabled swapping to overcome low ram issues to some extent. Link2SD solves small internal memory. And for PSX, I would use FPSXe, as it is one of the more effective emulator on older devices. :)

[@chrisjamesr77]

I bought a HP Stream laptop back in 2017 for $200 from Walmart, and while I kinda hated it, this thing makes it look like a great laptop in comparison, lol.

[@Robert67010]

I bought one of these back on 2009 for my wife. I think it was in ebay and I had to wait about 3 weeks for it. It was running Windows CE and was mostly useless. The reason I got it was the fact that it had remote desktop client and could connect to the desktop Windows PC. This made it much more useful but it was still a pain because it was so cheap.

[@isellstolenchainsaws]

Oh man this sent me back in time. Netbook craze was so irritating. At the time this might have had more use than those Windows CE CVS Sylvania netbooks being sold.

[@adews7204]

I recommend installing an older version of Opera for a better web browsing test. I know Opera 50 works on Android 4.2.2.

[@antoniopanlilio5502]

Upgrade the battery. I'm sure there's space in the chassis.

[@blakksheep736]

Pfffffffffffffft

[@Rossbrian1]

It needs way more then a battery lol😂

[@ivan_tty]

@@Rossbrian1 Imagine putting a Raspberry Pi (or any other SBC) into this laptop. I bet even a Pi Zero would make a huge difference.

[@ivan_tty]

deffo not the first Pi Zero, it would be more or less as weak as the hardware in that ''laptop".

[@slightlyaboveaveragebutaverage]

In the states Micro Center was selling something called the evolve 3 laptop. "Retail" was like 80 USD and open box, as they often were, was about 42 USD. It had windows 10 and could actually run it and serve as a crappy little netbook. The feature set was kind of impressive for the price, but we live in a day where any used device for $50 is more than good enough for most tasks.

[@dmo848]

So dang true, it's jus a matter of how long 1 wants to sit n wait for whatever y'all to be done.

[@PlushiiMono]

That looks like a windows XP/Vista Era DELL laptop keyboard, but in white!

[@farmanguliyev]

I was wondering to have this kind of android laptop at 2013 too

[@mikuohatsune78]

I used to have one of those laptop from school in Puerto Rico

[@user-dw6fj1py1o]

Cool!👍

[@gregalss]

Great Video show first laptop please

[@SonicBoone56]

Not gonna lie, I absolutely adore cheapo devices like this. I'd hate to have this as my ONLY machine, but it'd be hilarious to just have to fuck around with the awful specs.

[@LovelyAlanna]

I had that laptop model, in black, it was decent to watch youtuve hooked to the tv like a smart stick, I traded it for some other nonsense

[@bigMax1337]

there is usb a to usb a cable that came with some laptops like that which connected to the pimary usb a port allows for adb

[@LatteWiiU]

Still trying to find the exact Android laptop I had with a bootscreen where the android mascot was spinning on a UFO or something

[@yakadoodledongywongy8718]

There are desktop launchers for Android which would make this thing feel more like an actual laptop instead of stock android with the wrong hardware. I Can't for the life of me think why you'd want a laptop running android with these specs though. Maybe as a pdf reader?

[@dbranconnier1977]

It might be useful for basic word processing with TextMaker and basic spreadsheets with PlanMaker?

[@supahfly_uk]

Hahaha the inside had me laughing way too much xD

[@bakary_gassama]

@SMOOREZ My goodness, the 1st ever laptop I ever got. Mine was the WM8880 variant, running android 4.4.2 Kitkat, but these pieces of garbage were ABSOLUTELY UNUSABLE ON ANDROID!! Windows CE was better, especially on the WM8850 due to it having more ram and a good cpu clock for it, but the problem is that most of the stuff was obsolete. I can giva ya the Wndows ce firmware for the WM8850 if you want.

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

37:16 it's 1024x600 (probably just using actual netbook screens from eeePCs and the like of the era), but android excludes the status bar from its resolution calculation since it's always visible and not considered usable space for apps (except for fullscreen games that is). It's quite dumb but.. 🤷‍♂

[@CommodoreFan64]

I had an earlier version of one of these running Android 4.1 with a green lid back in early 2013 I snagged off eBay for $70 USD in a bidding war after my Acer laptop broke, and I needed something cheap while I saved up for another system to carry to, and from work, it had the speakers on the side of the screen with an 800x600 screen(decent colors is the best I can say about it), and man was it big mistake, as it took nearly 3 minus to boot to a usable state, and if you tried to do more than one thing at a time it was a sluggish mess, even running something like streaming radio would cause it to stutter, and crash, Wifi range was like what's that, and if I got 2 hours of battery that was a good day, Needless to say after 6 months when I finally got another laptop, it ended up going to one of my nephews to play offline music, and videos while they were in the car plugged into the cig port, and for that it was alright for that.

[@rayphoenix7296]

I think my 2012 Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 ran Jellybean Android 4.1 at one point. It runs Android 4.2 now. I tried using it a few months ago. It is slow as hell and most things don't work on it anymore. I was still using this 2012 tablet in 2019 and it still got updates and I was still able to download new apps on it. I was even still using it for music in 2022. It also reminds me of a Chinese Android gaming tablet that my father bought me in 2014. It had physical controls on the system itself and it was designed to be used for emulation gaming. I wanted to make a video of this gaming tablet but it got to a point where the startup screen runs in an infinite loop and it never boots into the OS.

[@tutacat]

You can use touchpads on android and it works like a touch. Talkback is built into android (screen reader)

[@AngryBirdsfan9000]

This video was made on my birthday

[@Ichwillkeinenaliascheisyoutube]

I would buy it , if i COULD ! This Netbook with is "extreme" simplicity is EXACTLY what i need for my work if i am on a journey ..... !!! 😁 WHERE can i get a simple Laptop like this these days ??

[@richardcutts196]

You are better off with a used chromebook.

[@K_240YT]

This reminds me of the good old XO's

[@fp-1ballsack339]

A nice addition to this channel would be Smoorez unsolder and solder chips from different devices and see how it turns out... Would they blow up?

[@BaileyMagikz]

i've seen this being sold brand new for about £40 so they put the price up on them over the years aswell 🤣

[@gavinisdie]

Nice, a Proto Chromebook

[@the_mariocrafter]

Can you upload the dump for this on the archive? You forgot to upload it.

[@tchanel8277]

The EeEeEPeecee (Dankpods reference) What do you think about Dankpods? Do you know him or something. He lives in Adelaide Australia.

[@thewhizard]

no battery temp sensor? was there a switch on bottom corner of mother board?

[@give_me_my_nick_back]

I'm kinda hunting for windows CE version of this device, I remember people being tricked to buy these laptops a lot at the begining of AliExpress, they also had windows CE version and I think that might be the last laptop to ever run windows ce. No it was never good, day one the processor was underperforming.

[@dismalbreadmaps]

You can root it using something like Kingroot and dump it or ude USB a to a

[@FG-gu9rn]

You should try to upgrade this monster by installing some parts from a broken tablet PC into its case, it will be interesting to see an 10 yr old android device being upgraded to the newest specs😂

[@ShapdCrusadr]

Just fairly recently bought a slightly used 14" HP Laptop for $50 US dollars which only seen about a month of use until I bought it. The factory specs is a Ryzen 3 3300U with Vega 6 GPU , 4GB DDR4 , 1TB 5400rpm HDD, Windows 10 Home The laptop in question was released back in later half of 2020 and brand new costs little over $300 US dollars. Reason I got it for dirt cheap is the previous owner disliked how darn slow it was running. Reason for that was it only had 4GB of RAM installed from the factory what was HP thinking.. Just sitting at the desktop the OS was using around 3.7 GB out of the 4GB it had installed from the factory. I ended up spending $25 dollars on a 32GB DDR4 kit and installed that in the laptop. At that point while inside the laptop I replaced the 1TB HDD with a SSD I all ready had laying around. Now the laptop boots up in 12 seconds and quick at launching software now. In the end I got a nice 14" laptop with a total investment of $75 US dollars. The laptop even supports Windows 11 which it's currently running no problem at all.