This Laptop Breaks Your Back

[@KOSMOS1701A]

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]

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

[@schvabek]

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

[@pureblackbishop]

Yeah, like how the trashcan Mac is tanking in this department

[@tibr]

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

[@TheBrick517]

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

[@schvabek]

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

[@walterdog475]

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

[@baths4cars]

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

[@hamzaj1127]

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]

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

[@Pandakeerat]

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

[@danielktdoranie]

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]

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

[@Marrianne415]

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)

[@andrive]

thinkpad with a bbl

[@Warbob11]

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.

[@thethriftyfawn]

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]

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]

@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!

[@kleideconfusion]

The start-up straight up said "ps1"

[@skorpysk]

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

[@Rod-bp8ow]

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.******

[@Mr.QuantumC0re]

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

[@gentuxable]

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.

[@91722854]

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

[@Whyalwaysreparingstuff]

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

[@goclunker]

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

[@BrainDamageIV]

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

[@hawkeye454]

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

[@gentuxable]

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.

[@corey7219]

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

[@austingrace1]

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

[@austingrace1]

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!

[@no-one3795]

The anti macbook 😆

[@Cecilthewormie]

at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="482">8:02</a>, i read "Mama" and i thought "is this a yo mama joke?"

[@baddestmofoalive]

“Mom here I am listening to Mate Bulić” 🤔

[@angushughes5371]

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

[@schvabek]

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

[@ilpoheikkila4773]

Great video!

[@ebensmith731]

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

[@sandermsu]

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]

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

[@Halva_101]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="473">7:53</a> I did not expect that lmao

[@Ktc99999-b]

thanks Billy Crystal for the narration.

[@Lgwasherfan5623]

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

[@eventuallyintelligent]

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="474">7:54</a> if you play the laughing at 2x speed, it sounds really concerning. Great video.

[@CosmicStellar1]

vidim da koristis patreon cuo sam da je ko-fi bolji jer ne uzima postotak novca koja osoba da nego odredenu kolicinu tocno sam zaboravio i ostatak koji bi inace isao patreonu ide tebi

[@kamathln]

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]

You could probably fit it in the battery cover lol

[@kamathln]

@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]

@ 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]

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

[@yatapaws]

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

[@Setupthemabomb]

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]

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

[@Setupthemabomb]

@@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

[@pidojaspdpaidipashdisao572]

Vidi metra, ovaj je nas.

[@schvabek]

Pevec 😂

[@manishgautam2424]

how many macs you have

[@schvabek]

A lot

[@andresbravo2003]

It really is huge than my ASUS Laptop.

[@gone8792]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="148">2:28</a> pause

[@Anatoli-y]

Bought 380xd few months ago, for 2.5$ 😂

[@stanstanstannnn]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="982">16:22</a> i didnt know i was watching kermit the frog

[@frankwong9486]

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

[@deepbrar1]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="357">5:57</a> ❤❤

[@Juancolon2003]

IBM thinkpad > Lenovo Thinkpad

[@edodeluca504]

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

[@hibikiholmes2867]

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

[@warrhythm3741]

That aint laptop that is backtop

[@aliensarecool123]

Install windows xp/vista/7/8.1 please

[@schvabek]

Nope, doesn’t meet the requirements as it is. And why would I do that? You’d lose the DOS compatibility and it would probably run like crap.

[@ktuned342]

guys im early! i love this guy !!

[@breadnworld5580]

А ты конечно хорош.

[@The_thz]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="477">7:57</a> lol

[@KhayriZaki]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3000">50:00</a>

[@KhayriZaki]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3599">59:59</a>

[@KhayriZaki]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="23">0:23</a>

[@KhayriZaki]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3546">59:6</a>0

[@OB5_DEV-tj9nm]

Cool! Now install Linux