This Laptop Breaks Your Back

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@Nova-Pixel-6 Ай бұрын

something i learned from Ebay; slap "rare" or "vintage" on something and people will just pay nearly whatever you want for it.

@one_step_sideways Ай бұрын

I would slap on "rare" or "vintage" on my Acer Veriton when I'll be selling it

@schvabek Ай бұрын

It’s crazy, because old IBMs in particular are something that I thought would never be collectible

@tibr Ай бұрын

Thinkpads are collectible, someone paid me nearly 600€ for a t23 😁

@Therealjon1337 Ай бұрын

people keep selling iBook g3s for over 150 bucks >=[

@cfqabtdhjvfy1035 Ай бұрын

ThinkPad IBM -> Великолепный дизайн!

@walterdog475 Ай бұрын

That’s not a notebook that’s an encyclopedia😭

@TheBrick517 Ай бұрын

That thinkpad is in insanely good condition! Usually old thinkpads are in really cruddy condition and covered in melting rubber.

@schvabek Ай бұрын

I don’t think this one has that “rubbery” coating, so it looks pretty good. The newer Lenovo ones already look and feel tacky.

@danielktdoranie Ай бұрын

My friend got a 380ED recently for $10 at a thrift store. He has maxed out the RAM (96MB IIRC). They sell a new battery for this ThinkPad, like $65

@schvabek Ай бұрын

That’s awesome. Yeah, I won’t be buying a new battery, just don’t need it.

@Pandakeerat Ай бұрын

im loving the thumbnail., this channel is going through the roof in quality, just wait for the subs to start rolling in

@baths4cars Ай бұрын

wow i have a similar hobby of collecting old / retro computers and my whole family wants me to get rid of it

@hamzaj1127 Ай бұрын

These things are so badass, it’s a cheaper hobby than collecting cars or something. They just don’t get what makes these special

@schvabek Ай бұрын

Start a KZbin channel, so that you can justify it 😂 that’s pretty much what I did lol

@91722854 Ай бұрын

being able to carry heavy laptops on my back is what I go to gym for, these lovely rectangles don't hate me and in return i take care of them, plus, I can legally have multiple and carry them all on my back simultaneously

@jwoody8815 Ай бұрын

I too have a thing for thinkpads myself, especially the ones made when they were an IBM product. they are super rugged, chances are no matter where it been kept, if its been kept dry and was treated well when it was being used and is intact chances are it will work. Owned several in the early 2000s they were easy to matinence, and as I said above extremely well built and thought out, other than the panasonic toughbooks were the proverbial tanks of the laptop world. Even used a few in the rain they handled it like it was just another day. Owned a 300x, a T30 a, T45, among others, all upgraded and used as everyday machines for general protable use, also used them at work to surf the web and watch even watch DVDs on lunchbreak.

@BrainDamageIV Ай бұрын

I remember seeing these in middle school being used by IT People, and always wondered “why is it so big”

@andrive Ай бұрын

thinkpad with a bbl

@Ishtynileboo Ай бұрын

That laptop looks like my first laptop but a few centimeters thinner

@angushughes5371 Ай бұрын

Looking at it is making me have an "idea". What if we make a modern laptop as thick as a ThinkPad?

@schvabek Ай бұрын

@@angushughes5371 you could probably fit a 4090 in the case the size of that.

@Destroyah5000 16 күн бұрын

Much thanks for cutting to the Win98 startup sound, one of the most critical parts of experiencing that OS.

@schvabek 16 күн бұрын

I always like leaving in startup sounds. They trigger core memories for me.

@Cecilthewormie Ай бұрын

at 8:02, i read "Mama" and i thought "is this a yo mama joke?"

@baddestmofoalive Ай бұрын

“Mom here I am listening to Mate Bulić” 🤔

@scaredcrower 4 күн бұрын

Watching this from China. I have an old 17 inch CRT sitting out in the hallway in a box. A lot of things have been stolen, my soldering iron, tools, but nobody would run away with that. Watching on my Thinkpad x230. Was going to play 1997 games on that CRT screen then lost all my money in 2020 and had to go teach English. Still paying off credit card loans.

@schvabek 4 күн бұрын

Oh man, sorry about your credit card trouble! I’ve always say: props to any thief who manages to haul all those 90’s boxes and monitors.

@Mr.QuantumC0re Ай бұрын

I used to own one of those vintage IBM thinkpads and they were very heavy!

@kleideconfusion Ай бұрын

The start-up straight up said "ps1"

@Profile-pictureX Ай бұрын

5:02

@thethriftyfawn Ай бұрын

Oh my goodness- one of my biological relatives had a MASSIVE laptop in the early 90s. The screen wasn't in color though- it was a monochrome palette, similar to the one of the original Game Boy. No idea if it was an IBM laptop or not... I would have been too little to understand branding, and I only saw the laptop once. I just remember it was MASSIVE, and I learned how to play Tetris for the first time on it... and very quickly! 😊 Google translate didn't help me AT ALL with the translation of that word document shown in this video btw! LOL

@schvabek Ай бұрын

Could’ve been a Compaq SLT or something. Very hard to come across these days, but yeah, computers like that could just barely play simple CGA games. The thing that I laughed about was like a simple sentence in Wordpad, it said something like: “Mom, here I am listening to Mate Bulić” (who is a famous Croatian folk singer), and it made me laugh 😂

@thethriftyfawn Ай бұрын

@schvabek Lol, oh ok- I did get that far with the translation but didn't know it was a person/folk singer... thought the end of it was "un-translated words" that Google couldn't even figure out LMAO!

@Marrianne415 Ай бұрын

I was in middle school in the early 2010s and my main computer was a Dell C600 running Win 2000, while my school had win 7 and it was definitely an interesting experience... But I think that is a big reason I like collecting computers today (I still have the laptop, but its begun to die and I have yet to fix it)

@heavenlyblue Ай бұрын

I use to work in the IBM call-center that provided customer support for ThinkPad computers - was there from 1993 to 1998, so a ThinkPad 380 must have come out after I left. The previous ThinkPads were much smaller physically than this 380 is - not sure why it would have been so big like yours is.

@Warbob11 Ай бұрын

People have different tastes, I recently picked up a IBM T42 Thinkpad. Thinkpads have always interested me over Macs for the fact that you could swap in and upgrade or hell downgrade the Thinkpads based on your use case. The one I picked up I found out is Win 98 2nd edition compatible and Windows XP. It came out as one of the last models IBM made before Lenovo took over. I want too start collecting certain ones, I collect computers that I remember from my childhood or ones I saw but of course could not afford as a child. I plan on eventually picking up certain Alienware Laptops but mainly now I'm focusing on Blu Ray Drives for PCs, GPUs & RAM.

@gentuxable Ай бұрын

The cheaper Thinkpads i.e. 300 series and the Rxx models had the hard plastic shell that was easy to clean, but the more expensive 600/700 and later T and X models had the soft touch shell that was way harder to clean.

@Whyalwaysreparingstuff Ай бұрын

Imagine having a password for security just for someone to click the esc button

@wacholder5690 Ай бұрын

That`s a pretty modern unit. I still have a pair of (non-functional - so far) IBM CL57SX in the basement. Plus one external "Communication Cartridge". These are bad, bulky, heavy, slow and have bad screens ... Thanks for sharing !

@hawkeye454 Ай бұрын

I have a ThinkPad 390E and while slightly newer, it's still a massive laptop

@austingrace1 Ай бұрын

I really like videos like this. Those older CD drives sound that way.

@austingrace1 Ай бұрын

But yes those drives are known for being very picky with the discs it reads. And it did sound like it was going. Thanks for the vids man!

@Rod-bp8ow Ай бұрын

Product has wonderful features that are a must have, most of it are built in such as the Operating system that comes along with the product for every purchase, specially the Windows O.S, some software and Hardware features are as reconcilable for the brand's P4 models processor. This is a must have for quality and features, while weight management is another feature that is a plus for the unit.. Tierage exception applies for the unit as well. Reason:Parts, Unit, and compo nents that are included are to be maintained and is/are protected by manufacturers warranty. See further instructions at the box included.******

@PhotoPunk79 Ай бұрын

Honestly, I miss thick plastic laptops.

@corey7219 Ай бұрын

I'm looking at my ibm thinkpad t42 eight now. Second owner. Still has the original plastics on the wifi icons

@Manhattanman52 20 күн бұрын

I found a 280ed ThinkPad, (type 2635) from 1997 in the trash several years ago. It looked and worked like new. This beast's MSRP was $4.200.00.

@Ktc99999-b Ай бұрын

thanks Billy Crystal for the narration.

@scaredcrower 4 күн бұрын

I went to a thrift shop in 2006 to buy a used flat screen monitor to build a computer to video call my grandma. They didn't have any flat panels. Only CRTs. So I built a wooden box with a CRT in it. Was going to code my own video chatting software based on the video encoding protocols coming out at the time, but then went with Skype. And then grandma died in 2022 in Ukraine.

@schvabek 4 күн бұрын

Wow, that’s a fascinating story. To think you‘be been thinking about writing your own video conferencing software. Sorry about your grandma, too.

@ebensmith731 Ай бұрын

Had a old dell latitude that I used for school work I called it the "Tank Computer" not much of a tank compared to these things tho

@goclunker Ай бұрын

Eugh that passive passive tft. I remember this beast from grade 9

@gentuxable Ай бұрын

Win9x passwords can't protect anything that can be physically accessed. It only works with FAT-Filesystem. Just hold ctrl at boot and undo whatever protection is in place under DOS. The password prompt was only useful for network shares and logon scripts. I guess if a PCMCIA network card was installed, it would have shown the other dialogue to log on to a domain or workgroup.

@hyoenmadan Ай бұрын

Exactly. That login screen is mostly only for network logon to a WinNT or Netware network (Some network clients like VINES replace it by their own login library, with a bit different dialog). Later Windows 98SE and Windows ME offered a rudimentary support for user profiles, but it mostly was for customizations of the different "family members" using the same machine, and it would not protect the documents or configurations at all , as the registry database was not encrypted and there was no provisions for FS encryption (yes, if for you the FS access list isn't enough, Windows NT, 2000, XP, 7, etc would offer you to encrypt your files in NTFS drives, which would not be decoded if you dared to reset the SAM database, but people wouldn't use it by fear to lost their data in case of losing the passwords or corruption in the SAM database).

@ilpoheikkila4773 Ай бұрын

Great video!

@no-one3795 Ай бұрын

The anti macbook 😆

@deepbrar1 Ай бұрын

5:57 ❤❤

@Setupthemabomb Ай бұрын

Funnily enough I still consider a 3,5 kg laptop a middle weight, Back in college my friend used to lug an Alienware M18x, that monster weight almost 12 pounds, modern gaming laptop weight less than 5 pounds

@schvabek Ай бұрын

But this is a 12” laptop. That one was probably quite a bit larger.

@Setupthemabomb Ай бұрын

@@schvabek Yes, an 18 inch dual VGA battlestation, i know it's incomparable with 12 inch Thiccpad from 90s i just pointing out that when buying for laptop i always choose a 3kg range for decades even though now a 3kg laptop is excessively heavy

@Halva_101 Ай бұрын

7:53 I did not expect that lmao

@jpedrothejo Ай бұрын

what does it say

@Halva_101 Ай бұрын

@@jpedrothejo "Mama here I am listening to Mate Bulić"

@eventuallyintelligent Ай бұрын

At 7:54 if you play the laughing at 2x speed, it sounds really concerning. Great video.

@sonicunleashedfan124 Ай бұрын

5:01 pressing “Cancel” also works

@kleinergaming2008 8 күн бұрын

The Compaq also has a suicidal monitor whose pixels turn forever black one by one and hinges that completely explode if you so much as look at it. I had to surgically amputate mine's monitor to prevent further damage.

@schvabek 8 күн бұрын

Oh yeah, broken hinges are a thing with old Compaqs. I have an Armada with broken hinges and a dead spot on the LCD. Still works fine though.

@kleinergaming2008 8 күн бұрын

@@schvabek my dead spots were just multiplying in real time and that pissed me off cause I had ordered a supposedly new replacement panel with the exact same issue

@schvabek 8 күн бұрын

@@kleinergaming2008 huh. Could’ve been an inverter board issue, rather than the panel itself (perhaps bad caps). Anyway, early laptop LCDs are not something I miss.

@yatapaws Ай бұрын

i have a few of these thickpads :3 some of my favorite laptops!!

@pidojaspdpaidipashdisao572 Ай бұрын

Vidi metra, ovaj je nas.

@schvabek Ай бұрын

Pevec 😂

@LinuxRenaissance Ай бұрын

Very nice. I like it!

@AlexDaDermahurr Ай бұрын

that thing is super cool

@stanstanstannnn Ай бұрын

16:22 i didnt know i was watching kermit the frog

@weirdstuffandthattogames6736 Ай бұрын

Compare the thick pad with the 12” MacBook

@mikestanley9176 Ай бұрын

My T 530 cost me nothing. All I need is a replacement keyboard. I have only put maybe $30.00 into it. An Ultrabay adapter with a 1TB HDD for my storage needs and $15 for a 128 GB SSD as a boot drive.

@lowstaar Ай бұрын

thiccpad

@andresbravo2003 Ай бұрын

It really is huge than my ASUS Laptop.

@kamathln Ай бұрын

Someone please find a afforable way to fit a mini PC or Raspberry Pi5 in that Thickpad! In the ones that have a dead motherboard.

@schvabek Ай бұрын

You could probably fit it in the battery cover lol

@kamathln Ай бұрын

@schvabek Lol, yes😅. I am more worried about compatibility-is there an inexpensive way to turn those laptops into a nexdock like thing? Like a board that would sit between the LCD screen, being an LVDS controller that could take input from hdmi and USB and route it to the screen and keyboard/touch pad?

@schvabek Ай бұрын

@ I don’t know, but I don’t really think this is a good candidate for that, as the screen on it is pretty awful. Perhaps something with a TFT panel, but those are also showing their age at this point and are not very good.

@kamathln Ай бұрын

@@schvabek Maybe Frankenstein it with some recently dead laptop - recent ones woll not have enough good space for a mini pc or RPi

@sandermsu Ай бұрын

my t530 don't like something stacked above it. It's lcd almost died when I placed a criminology book on it. maybe they are not made like they used to 🤧

@schvabek Ай бұрын

Never had anything like that happen, but I never store them like that, they are always stacked like books on a shelf.

@vetrixfx9264 Ай бұрын

Weird, I stack like 4-6 laptops on my W520 (which should have the same chassis), sometimes even some books on top of it and it still goes strong

@warrhythm3741 Ай бұрын

That aint laptop that is backtop

@Lgwasherfan5623 Ай бұрын

I have an old fat IBM ThinkPad and it gives an error and screams at me

@SchoolforHackers Ай бұрын

What’s the error?

@Lgwasherfan5623 Ай бұрын

@SchoolforHackers i have to boot it up again to see

@The_thz Ай бұрын

7:57 lol

@frankwong9486 Ай бұрын

3.5KG iirc but that way far from broke anyone back At those years that could broke many peoples bank before broke the back 😂

@hibikiholmes2867 Ай бұрын

*insert obligatory "You should put Linux on it" comment here*

@CosmicStellar1 Ай бұрын

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@HazzyHazeI 4 күн бұрын

its insane what people are charging for the IBM ones, a 21 year old computer shouldn't be $80 when you can get a much newer one for half the price (and a much more useful one)

@schvabek 4 күн бұрын

@HazzyHazeI the nineties thinkpads go for much more than that nowadays. It sucks, but it’s like that with any vintage gear people want to have all of a sudden, decades later.

@HazzyHazeI 4 күн бұрын

@@schvabek it'll probably go in waves, people will forget about the vintage ones and move on to the slightly newer ones, and the cycle repeats. currently the cheapest ones are the ones that are only like 10 years old

@pringlesfly715 Ай бұрын

It’s so horribly massive and thick yet I want my own one Edit these prices are insane lol People really do pay big to get the biggest

@gone8792 Ай бұрын

2:28 pause

@Anatoli-y Ай бұрын

Bought 380xd few months ago, for 2.5$ 😂

@usermanico Ай бұрын

THICC

@manishgautam2424 Ай бұрын

how many macs you have

@schvabek Ай бұрын

A lot

@ktuned342 Ай бұрын

guys im early! i love this guy !!

@Dr._Tin_can 26 күн бұрын

I like bigger laptops too

@Juancolon2003 Ай бұрын

IBM thinkpad > Lenovo Thinkpad

@edodeluca504 Ай бұрын

fun fact: all new Thinkpads are designed by the same people that have designed even the Thinkpad of this video because Lenovo didn't buy only the trademark, but all the parts of IBM that made computers for the consumer market, so actually all Lenovo Thinkpads can be considered IBM Thinkpads

@alosreal Ай бұрын

Atleast it has a dvd and ethernet unlike my new lenove laptop thats literally same as every lenovo like for gods sake change the design lenovo its been same for 5 years

@skorpysk Ай бұрын

idk man, if 3,5kg breaks your back, you should prolly go outside a bit at all, cuz when i was 8, i remember the books we carried to school alongside everything else, was 14kg in total

@bluein_ Ай бұрын

do u want a medal

@skorpysk Ай бұрын

@@bluein_ no, i more just want the claims that got us in this mess of a laptop era that is today to stop. Like obv it doesn't break your back. But claims like that, is why laptop manufactuers stopped focusing on quality, and went for "sleek and sexy" instead and i'm tired of people telling me 2kg is Way too much for a Computer

@bluein_ Ай бұрын

@@skorpysk The ideal is somewhere in between your opinion and mine. My Tab S8 Ultra and Thinkpad T480 can both help me develop my game and work my job. And yet one of them is 700g, and the other is 1.5kg. The reality is that, not everyone has your use case. I work on-field in esports, which means I have to walk from area to area with my backpack and laptop alongside a bunch of tools for general IT maintenance. In an environment like that, the less you have to carry, the better. I generally end up pretty tired lugging that thing around all day. It keeps you wishing you had a lighter device, especially when you know they exist. As for why not use a newer machine? The IO. It's so severely lacking in newer machines that I have to lug dongles around. Is it lighter? sure. Is it convenient? No. This is why we should support projects such as the Framework. It's heavier than price matched "premium" laptops, and yet the flexibility makes it so much better.

@skorpysk Ай бұрын

@@bluein_ for my job i also carry around heavy equipment, but the laptop i have (T440p), is the least of the weight, so much so, that the difference of it being there and it not, the 2kgs are practically unnoticable. Even when i still went to college, it being there or not was like not that noticable. I don't work in IT tho, so maybe the pack difference is enough, where you are just not used to it i guess? idk. If it was a handbag, i would notice for sure, but the backpack? nah.