What can you do with a $20 laptop?

I picked up an old ThinkPad 600X for $20 - now what to do with it? In this video I talk about fixing up and giving new life to old computer hardware - and yes, games are a big part of that (even on a ThinkPad!). I also install Linux to see if a modern OS can run on a Pentium III-450.
btw, I realize a lot of you guys are trying to help with the drivers, but please note that I am looking for *DOS* drivers for the CrystalSound Fusion CS4624, and *not* the driver "diskette" that IBM released. This is because that's only for systems with a floppy drive (which mine does not have) - you can't extract that without a floppy drive, nor can you do it under Windows 10 (which I at least have a USB floppy on). I already have the Windows 95/98 driver; I need the DOS driver, but I can't install it via a floppy, nor through Windows 3.1. I'm still looking for any possible solution to this, even more than a year (and dozens of comments with links that I've already seen) later. Thanks for your efforts, but I've already done the quick Google searches you guys are doing.
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[@ModernClassic]

A little while ago this video made it into KZbin recommendations, so welcome to all my new viewers! I hope you'll take a look at some of my other videos as well! This is a new channel and I'm still getting my sea legs, but I've got a lot more videos in the pipeline on various subjects, so stick around and subscribe if you like my stuff. Thanks! UPDATE: Please click "show more" and read the full video description. Thanks again!

[@websitemaker2634]

just to tell you , I came from youtube recommendation !

[@ModernClassic]

Finally - I've been hoping to get in there with something! I noticed a large spike in views to this particular video early this morning, was wondering where it came from.

[@Pfahli94]

Left you a sub for the good effort, keep up the good work!

[@whiteblaze34]

Also from a KZbin recommendation! Great stuff, subbed!

[@TheDavo10001]

Modern Classic I got here from a KZbin recommendation

[@tomormiston6592]

"what can I do with a $20 laptop?". Answer: Get -1.6 million views- -2.4 million views- *3 million views* !

[@jacks248]

Tom Ormiston *make almost 2000$*

[@tomormiston6592]

yeah ;)... Im more interested in why so many people are watching an obscure technerd video. I'm into Linux etc but Linuxy videos don't exactly going to attract now nearly 1.8M views.. I bet the creator didn't think he'd get that many too!

[@Sinderly]

Tom Ormiston well this got into youtubes recommended so that explains the views

[@TennebrumReloaded]

The real purpose of this video was to cash in on that youtube money so he could by something better.

[@tomormiston6592]

ah ok that explains it ;)

[@taylormartin4281]

This must've cost a fortune back then.

[@Pichipieify]

Al Bundy it is. my cousin got 1 back in the 90s and it costs 2000$ or more

[@taylormartin4281]

Genrey Lino Gonzales Lol now it's 20 bucks. I don't know but if there was that 3000 dollar laptop you've always wanted but couldn't afford it, wait 20 years.

[@bloodlizardinc.334]

dude when people are playing virtual realite or augmented reality games in the future, with their expensive as "computers" il buy one of those nasa computers for 50 bucks and play realistic looking games with my trusty hardware(keyboard and mouse ofc)

[@pickachublast8]

+Al Bundy That's if I live that long :P

[@taylormartin4281]

Kevin I don't know you but I hope you do! in fact, 80 more years!

[@RobotnikPlays]

If you have kids, then a good use for laptops like these is as a "bashtop" for younger kids to mess around with to get them used to computers. Messing with system settings, drawing in paint, and exploring the file system can be fun for them. Plus all those "old" games are "new" if they've never played them before!

[@MrZestyOnion]

That's an excellent idea! I remember when I was younger I'd click and right click on everything that I could see just to see what would do. Helped me learn the basics at a very young age.

[@coreyberg7823]

RobotnikPlays 3D SPACE CADET PINBALL WAS MY CHILDHOOD

[@mrspoopy3227]

Yeah good luck trying to get those little shits interested in anything other than fortnite

[@pwnmeisterage]

Also good for elderly computer-dinosaur grandparents. Old familiar tech for them can be better than learning/teaching new tech.

[@alissondamasceno2010]

I second this, I grew up exactly like this way and today I'm a happy software engineer :D

[@mridontclickbaitftw4366]

Remember when 512 MB ram computer cost 12 thousand dollars.

[@ArKa_47]

yep, this laptop was a very expensive one back in the 90s I just had a PC , 48 MB RAM, 200 MHz Pentium II CPU and awesome 2 MB Graphic Memory .. and a 1.9 GB HDD xD and I was so happy to get a 3dfx Voodoo accelerator card regards

[@ArKa_47]

@CStarz nope ;)

[@ArKa_47]

@CStarz Yep .. my first internet access was over AOL with a 28k MODEM (up to 2 kByte/s download; a JPG needed about 30 sec to download) I played Age of Empires and Motocross Madness etc. hey, got a CD-ROM drive with 32x speed... no burning thing no DVD and ofc no BlueRay regards

[@asv77]

@@ArKa_47 I had a Compaq Presario with a Pentium I @233MHZ and 48mb of RAM... Pentium II went from 233mhz to 450mhz, I think you got a typo there, buddy. Those were the days, you could change the clock speed with a simple jumper 😂 there was no KZbin, no online tutorials, NOTHING but your brains

[@ArKa_47]

@@asv77 I remember my 1st PC .. 12Mhz CPU and 24Mhz with the Power button , win 3.11 ;) (I was about 5yo^^) Okay.. Maybe it wasn't a Pentium II but I know it ran with a Pentium CPU @ 200Mhz (Win 95 and win 98se later .. at the end win xp.. it was so slow xD) 2 Megs of Graphic Memory and 48 Megs of RAM .. Ya could be right ;) I didn't do a typo but I thought it was a Pentium II .... so now I think I was wrong ;) it was the time around 1997 I think .. hehe .. good old memories excuse my bad grammar (if there r some mistakes .. I'm not an english native speaker^^) regards

[@Marsaeus]

Scary things.. I stumbled upon this video in the "recommended" list here on youtube, and clicked the link because I have that very laptop sitting on my "old tech pile" in my computer room. While watching the video, you played some of the very games I revived my Thinkpad to play myself. I was even reminded of the fact that I own several of your games on CD and plan to install them and play. Even more weird, when you showed your modern PC, I was shocked to see that I have the exact same case on my custom built gaming PC. Point being, you never really know what you will find when you click on a "recommended for you" video. Liked! Keep up the awesome vids!

[@ModernClassic]

Great minds think alike!

[@officialclownbusiness7788]

Marsaeus it's like something out of that old twilightey show about that zone...

[@saladhands1127]

Pat Eldridge the twilight zone?

[@wg00fakgplus58]

Marsaeus I guess KZbin knows you better than you think. Big brother is watching.

[@killswitchOW]

WG00 fakgplus ayyyy the 1984 reference

[@tuffxmuffin7213]

it's like a Nokia but a computer

[@ubernani6307]

And it runs smoothly like a kitten

[@wanbe2128]

When you ask your mom for a laptop and she gives you that.

[@sheriffaboubakar9720]

Just James I got a 20 yr old laptop for Christmas :(

[@DragonBuilds]

At least it's not a Mac

[@MEXUS.]

@@sheriffaboubakar9720 What was it?

[@ashflint23]

Rip your dreams and budget

[@PotatoPI]

That worked with me, but when i was like 4 years gaming on youtube wasn't popular. Now everyone have access to youtube (it's 13+) and want the more luxurious things. For example fortnite is 12+ but a lot of 6 yr old play it.

[@InnoVintage]

I love how lighthearted and fun these videos are, and look forward to seeing more of them.

[@TheTarrMan]

"It is now safe to turn off your computer". . . . . . . . Oh wait, that was Windows 95.

[@resneptacle]

TheTarrMan No, it's actually in Windows 98 if the power suppl, has no ACPI soft power off

[@Consolethinks]

It's even in Windows XP. I remember some computers from back in the day not having modern ATX power supplies, and even Windows XP would display that message on them.

[@swiftfox3461]

Don't be too surprised. I saw XP running on what I think was a ~300/400 MHz (Pentium II?) CPU with 96 MB or RAM attached. It was slow as a dog, but I couldn't believe my eyes when I checked the system information dialog. My mind was blown.

[@BilisNegra]

At first I wondered how people could have run XP on non-ACPI systems and get any kind of work done on them, since I believed last non-ACPI PCs were from the 1st generation Pentium era, but it seems there were still some with a PII or equivalent AMD model (somewhat too old for XP, ,but able to do very basic stuff if you max the RAM).

[@RandalLovelace]

That even carried into 98SE, and if you 'upgraded' from 98 to 98SE and then upgraded to Vista, it could carry over as well if no ACPI soft power off. (My wife's old Dell laptop had this, and those upgrades over time).

[@connerdotcom5140]

Schools: *HEAVY BREATHING*

[@zachiswack]

?

[@connerdotcom5140]

Because schools use really cheap crappy thinkpad laptops

[@karensacramento2797]

My school has ipads and Chrome books

[@Jimmy_MZ]

Karen Sacramento Castaneda same except i hate the chrome books...

[@nv9969]

My used computer stores are filled with them because all the schools in my area donated them. 4 high schools, 8 middle schools, and 14 elementary schools. I'm not sure what they upgraded too, but they cost normally $15+ in my area to buy since they have so many now.

[@ecmjr]

It's these types of videos where it just motivates me to go back to my old project to revive my old laptop and give it some life again! Great video!

[@kevindehinkelai7464]

Thanks for the look back into history with the thinkpad, brought back some memories!

[@peterzhong8622]

And yet this computer still runs games better than my $1300 macbook air

[@ModernClassic]

Well that made me laugh out loud.

[@raggedyexynos6826]

seriously you can barely game on a macbook

[@twe8k]

Adib Rifai seriously shut up.

[@iberiuspred4906]

You cannot run DOSBox on a Mac?!?

[@Adam-yo3bt]

Peter Zhong why did you buy a mac

[@iimmyyyy]

Sad thing is.... this $20 laptop runs faster then my $400 laptop 😫

[@DivineHyperion]

Get rid of bloatware. You'll be amazed by the jump in performance.

[@iimmyyyy]

Chuuni Chewer okay I'll try that thanks!!

[@fernandooyanedel6857]

how i do that?

[@Shoshii]

Chuuni Chewer What's bloayware

[@DivineHyperion]

useless apps that came with your computer that you don't use.

[@smartjunayd]

My first video on this channel, loved this so much, subscribed

[@AdobadoFantastico]

This is super neat, thanks for documenting this journey.

[@retrox684]

linux, somehow keeps 20 year old laptops up to date and gives them the ability to browse the modern web

[@cl3mb0t]

Yes! Well... Depending on video requirements. But YES!

[@neshobanakni]

I love Puppy Linux!

[@jessechen4971]

This channel will go places.

[@ModernClassic]

Thanks! Hope so.

[@hamable1995]

i just subbed

[@WellBeSerious12]

Jesse Chen: To the moon I hope.

[@mixedcomedy3120]

WellBeSerious12, let's do it!

[@johnlight-knight8060]

Indeed.

[@JM-iv3cv]

TLDW: You can play old games on it. There, I saved you 13 minutes.

[@ModernClassic]

Awesome. You should have your own KZbin channel!

[@JM-iv3cv]

Bad idea. I would have the only youtube channel with only 1 subscriber; Myself. Would probably write smartass comments on my own videos and unsubscribe after a week or so.

[@AgentXRifle]

he is right though, I watched the video and was all like "Hey this could be good, he even read all the same articles about making old PC's useful and also hated them, lets see his idea... old games... okay..." kinda wished I saw this comment first lol

[@Nestalgba92023]

Old PC Games, right?

[@someguystudios23]

Putt putt or doom? Putt putt or... PUTTDOOM! KILL ALL THE CARS

[@Blargthehandsome]

$20 body armor ... SWEET.

[@joseffliegl4167]

If you start a browser on it you can use it as fire place to

[@yegenek]

I love the look of these old ibm laptops, they are so slick and its no nonsense attitude.

[@JAllan-sp2xt]

Also you can hammer in a nail with one.

[@playprostudios712]

Yeah, very "military grade" -ish. Makes 'em look at other laptops like skinny civilians who would survive a day in a zombie apocalypse.

[@0xD1CE]

Yeah, I really like the industrial design. You can get a T-420/410 with an i7 and 8 GB of RAM under $300.

[@MatthewGallagher93]

"If you can, buy a Thinkpad" I'd say this applies to modern machines as well.

[@ModernClassic]

It does for the most part, but there are some differences - I actually made another video about it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXetoq15qZmbfqs if you're interested.

[@nicksander1522]

Modern Classic nice KZbin Chanel should be have more subs

[@jaykoerner]

Matthew Gallagher while I feel the same for ThinkPads, dells latitude line is also line same rugged built like a brick feel(depending on the model)

[@iberiuspred4906]

I don't know about that. The thinkpads are not what they used to be since Lenovo bought that out of IBM. Some models are good while others are crap. I think the x220 is still one of their "good" models but i might be wrong.

[@Moonwalker917]

xplus93 I own an HP Elitebook 840 G2: it feels really low quality for the price and I had to remplace the motherboard and hard drive in the few months after I bought it (a really nightmare to get them to fix it). Dells on the other hand are great, I had 2 lattitude series laptops, never failed on me and I still use them occasionnally for basic stuff despite their dead batteries. Dell Lattitude all the way!

[@user-yd7ug3jb4t]

Thanks for the tip about Reflect. I had never heard of that software before. I used other software before, but I will look into this!

[@italiansunrunner]

I had that same model IBM back in the day. I remember getting a dvd drive for it and it cost an arm and a leg back then. It ran games from that time period pretty well.

[@tcc5750]

Awesome video, and wow great camera work. Really great channel. :)

[@ModernClassic]

It's nice to hear someone compliment the camera work. I do make an effort at that but it's hard for me to judge how other people see it. And my equipment does have some limitations - it's not pro-level equipment. So I'm glad to hear when someone thinks my videos actually look good.

[@mixedcomedy3120]

Modern Classic, they do look good.

[@SoldererOfFortune]

I used to be a tech at a small IBM reseller and remember models way back to the 750CD days. Anyone looking to run modern stuff, have a look at the high-end late 2000's Thinkpads with dual core Intel. I own a W500 2.8GHz, upgraded with SSD, dual booting Win7.64 and Kali Linux and I use it every day for programming and CAD work. They are amazing machines that will take a beating and never give up. If you happen to find a W, T, X series, keep it and they will be collectables in the near future. Especially the weird tablet style transformers of the 2000's.

[@user-wk6vi9dy2k]

I have a t410 and a t420

[@jamesb1221222]

I agree, dual core IBM laptops work flawless when you throw in an SSD and max the RAM. On the T-series, the T61 model and up were dual cores, and I think the T43 was the last with the Pentium M (de-lidded and re-branded pentium 4) You can get even more modern stuff like T400-T420, T500-T520 models on ebay for cheap. Max the RAM and drop SSDs in one of the I5 variants and you'd probably be set for the next 10 years if you take care of it.

[@equaygaming229]

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[@SoldererOfFortune]

Exactly. Just not (modern) games and GPU heavy software. The bench scores for these machines are often better than low-end modern chineseium computers. The only downside is higher power consumption, so lower battery life. But I love the matte screens, quality keyboards, tons of expansion. Not to mention durability.

[@je6566]

know any books I could read for pen testing with kali/learning Linux/programming is general so I can understand it better I'm dual booting win 10 and kali 2.0

[@dashi-musashi351]

I like how actually serious this video is. I was expecting some shouting guy with dubstep background music.

[@xmirus79]

Ok so this video got to my recommendations and I dont regret watching it.Great video!You have a new subscriber.

[@Erick-dk5vr]

About 4 years ago, I found an eMachines desktop in a thrift store that was pristine clean. The RAM and HDD were missing, but the mfr label was still intact, detailing the machine's original spec's, including what RAM it needed. The mainboard, processor, power supply and DVD drive were still there and very clean. They wanted $20 for it. I took a chance and bought it. I bought some RAM and a GeForce GT 440 graphics card online. The GT 440 needed a more potent power supply, so I bought one locally. A friend gave me the HDD from her dead MacBook. Altogether, I put about another $120 into my $20 machine. I installed Linux Mint, reformatting the HDD. Along with DosBox and Wine, I have been running a wide variety of useful and satisfying software and games. It became my most graphics-capable machine. Works great with FlightGear. It's still my primary machine to this day.

[@Sanctifiers]

Then you aren't doing much gaming on it.

[@plisskentv6501]

you're so lucky for finding this. I'm seriously jelly....

[@ModernClassic]

It was in pretty good shape and complete for $20. But you can find very similar ThinkPads on Ebay for around that same price that are just missing the hard drive. You can get the same $8 hard drive I got, add an old copy of Windows you may even have lying around, and you're good to go for around the same amount I ended up spending when all was said and done.

[@sleeprene]

PlisskenTV my cousin had found the same on the side of the road, should i try to restore it ?

[@dapottis]

What flavour of Jelly? I bet salt

[@ashishgurung]

Pootis Spencer Shots Fired!

[@tom-pv7fv]

"Shots Fired" ""Shots Fired"" """Shots Fired""" """"Shots Fired"""" ewww shots fired = dead meme plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[@CaptainAnonymous]

I couldn't watch this video on a $20 laptop

[@ziahn5367]

I am....

[@AngeloGi]

@@ziahn5367 Therefore I think

[@Delphia]

You could with the right version of Linux installed, like Tiny Core.

[@ziahn5367]

@@Delphia I have lubuntu

[@retr0nus]

I am

[@NomadicDmitry]

Yep, those machines are great. I'm got an IBM T42 and I love it. Especially the aspect ratio is amazing! Great as a typewriter or simple programming machine.

[@shkeni]

Oh what memories! I had one of these in the early 2000s that my office was going to junk because it wouldn't even turn on. I fixed it and enjoyed it quite a bit for writing and internet surfing back in the day. Absolutely LOVED that keyboard and the classy rubber finish on the lid.

[@AdamosDad]

About six years ago I found 20 IBM Think Pads of this vintage sitting on my companies truck dock soaking wet from the rain, the truck driver asked if I could sign for them they were supposed to go to recycle (very green company ) I signed for them and asked the plant material manager what would happen to them, he said they pay a recycler $3 dollars each to get rid of computers, I said any reason I cant take them for free he thought a moment and wrote me a scrap ticket. I thought I might find a few pieces of hardware I could use, now they had been in pouring rain uncovered on a skid so the next day on my porch I opened them up took out all drives, batteries and such and literally poured water out of them. After they were somewhat dry I took them inside (my wife didn't care for that) I laid towels on the dining room floor and opened them setting them on the towels like a bunch of boy scout tents with 2 floor fans and a weeks drying I was ready to try them out, I only had a few power supplies so I worked with one at a time expecting to make a throw away pile and find a few that survived but every one worked even the one with a cracked screen. I sold them all except The best one and the broken one. The one I kept had 512 meg memory. I used it for cracking a bunch of local hot spots because it supported my old 16 bit PCMCIA Card with external antenna.

[@swiftfox3461]

I can relate to that. I once picked up a mobo from my school from a decomissioned PC that sat in the outside in the rain for literally about a month, or maybe more. I despaired that it didn't seem to work upon drying for 2 days. A couple months later I re-inspected it carefully and found that a jumper was missing. Upon attaching the jumper, it started to work. I was shocked that it worked. I was sure it wouldn't work, but I picked it up anyway as it was a fairly nicely specced mobo at the time, at least compared to other free pickups back then.

[@ff3nyx]

AdamosDad awesome story.

[@vdochev]

I was just looking for a portable old system for a few of my old games. But I'm now in love with X220T

[@laarshegdish6016]

Got one of these from a friend of mine who was cleaning out his home after his wife died. The battery is dead, but the PC boots up just fine in Windows 98. The CD ROM is great for playing my music CD's and with the Office97 suite that came with it, this makes a great word processor. As this is an old laptop, I am purposefully keeping it off the Internet. Really loved this video and it was great to get more ideas as to how I can use my ThinkPad! Thanks for your video!

[@Margatroid]

Word processing! I've thought for a long time about getting an old laptop like this to write on, and this video's making me seriously consider it. This particular ThinkPad is just so nice.

[@HybelFever]

The thumbnail reminds me of the 399$ chair

[@Lily-wo5wm]

Omg fuck me hi

[@xenon2235]

*BUT CAN YOU DO THIS*

[@oz_nola1992]

Bro i thought there was legit a bug on my phone for like 3 sec

[@hejhalla345]

Now 399***

[@renatocapelo]

Dont forget to spread the word of subbing to Pewds

[@thomas3768]

Awesome video! Keep up the good work!

[@NASIRUB1]

I'm rebuilding a computer from 2009 for my nephew, I ordered the new motherboard and memory. It currently is running Vista on it, but I'm going to put Linux on it and just add some office stuff and some games/emulators.

[@wilkcards]

I just threw together parts from 3 different old PCs all from 2005-2008 I had laying around that were all dead for different reasons and now I have frankensteined a dual core 2.5GHz running windows 10...only had to spend $7 on some thermal paste for swapping processor out...it could use more than the 2GB of RAM in it however

[@NASIRUB1]

I have been meaning to try some thing like that as well with some of the old laptops I have around my house. Does it matter if you have computers or laptop parts from different manufacturers like Toshiba and Hp?

[@chrispy9913]

NASIRUB1 Vista is best

[@NASIRUB1]

I didn't have much time with Vista really, maybe a year because by the time I shifted over to it, Windows 7 was coming out. One thing I remember about that OS was it's bugs and its built in driver support lacking for hardware. Today most hardware installed in to your computer can be recognized and installed by the OS with no worries.

[@bluesnow3661]

NASIRUB1 Buy a $13 Windows 10 Professional OEM key like me.

[@stewiegriffin6503]

sell it for 30$ ?

[@thegoldensealion9463]

But the other essential he needed was $58 total. So sell it for $90

[@mohamedade3449]

make a youtube video about it and make alot more than 20$

[@BaconSenpai]

Thinkpad fanboys will pay hundreds for old models like this, I flip old thinkpads on ebay all the time to these drones. Just label it "vintage" and retards shell out the cash.

[@iverson64_]

So what you're saying is "People who want to try an older model of a laptop they own are mentally retarded and infrereer to me!"

[@kyzodus9225]

Mohamed Ade LOL

[@richardadams4928]

I still have two 600X machines from back in the day. They were great in their time, ran XP like champs, and do indeed make terrific vintage gaming rigs.

[@antidecepticon]

I love it when you can hear the hdd sounds. it makes waiting so much more bareable if you at least can hear the thing clunking away whilst a game is loading. it also lets you know when you crashed. pure silence...

[@malcolmvanorder5453]

Thinkpads are awesome. Not only are they nearly indestructible but they tend to have hardware that's compatible with Linux. A note on Linux distros though... You mentioned it's hard to find one that works on that hardware. If you go back to any distro running the 2.6 kernel it shouldn't have problems with old hardware. Also Slackware, DSL, and Tiny Core Linux are 2 distros that will install from CD. Slackware will even install from a fat(or ext2/3/4) filesystem already on the hard drive as long as you have a grub boot disk to start the installer. As far as new distros running slow on old hardware, mainly this is because of the fully featured desktop environment. If you get a variation that uses XFCE, LXDE, MATE or some other lightweight desktop, it'll run perfectly fine. If your desired distro doesn't come out of the box with one of these desktop environments, you can usually install one of them from the package manager, sure it'll be sluggish and lag a lot while using Gnome 3 or KDE Plasma to install said desktop, but install, log out, log back in with the new desktop and you're good to go.

[@beenine5557]

@Malcolm: Good call on pointing out the desktop environments. That makes a huge difference. Also, I'd suggest making sure to download the 32-bit (aka "i386") rather than the 64-bit (aka "amd64") version for old computers. Even if your processor can handle 64-bits, if you've got less than 2GB of RAM, switching to 32-bit will save RAM and feel faster. I'm not sure the kernel version is a huge deal. Are there actual known regressions in later versions of the Linux kernel? I'm running 4.9 on my Pentium3 and it seems snappier and happier than when it was running 2.4. (I think 2.4 couldn't even wake from sleep properly).

[@gardiner_bryant]

This was cool! Great to see Linux being used in such a fun way!

[@deadly2881]

wut

[@adamtajhassam9188]

i really dont miss old hardware at all. or Diablo 1 .

[@HarmonicaMustang]

Where Windows falls short, Linux thrives.

[@greyishboy]

...Ok

[@joehdah5395]

Wow, great video! I keep coming back to this vid, its so good! Im watching this on a lenovo thinkpad t430 too

[@bardo1269]

PuppetGameReviews surprised you can run KZbin on a thinkpad

[@joehdah5395]

@@bardo1269 What are you talking about? It has a core I5 and 8gb of ram. Thats plenty powerful to run youtube

[@redriverscout4404]

Cool video. I spent $40 on a maxed out Thinkpad R51 which is about 15 years old now. It has a slightly newer Pentium M and the RAM maxes out at 2 GB. Mine also came with the DVD drive. I use it as a secondary or backup machine using Bodhi Linux which runs great on it and even has a bit of eye candy like a Modern OS but doesn't really slow it down. It is Ubuntu based so there is also a ton of software and hardware support.

[@paquitojhs]

You have some really good content. Subscribed!

[@resort-anthem]

Psychodelix Welcome

[@lovestruck3773]

I got a 40 dollar laptop. Was a thinkpad with 4gb ram, 80gb storage, windows 10, and a decent processor.

[@lovestruck3773]

"^" lucky me "^"

[@WZen0]

Lovestruck 80 Gigs lol i got 8 TB

[@lovestruck3773]

Creepershockwave Its good if you only play one or two games like me.

[@WZen0]

Lovestruck yeah u bet you have a social life and dont need videogames like me :D

[@Vinni-2K]

Lovestruck were can i find it i want that too which one is it exactly?

[@diegocincotta3571]

I love the style and the shape of the old laptops

[@julian7333]

IIRC, the 600X came with an external floppy enclosure, so it was possible to use the floppy and the internal CD/DVD driver at the same time. The connection is under the flap on the right hand side.

[@wandiloch]

I still have my Thinkpad 600 from 1999, it sort of works, but after a cup of coffee and a glass of coke got spilt on it, the screen flickers badly. Today I have a couple of Apple Macbook Pros, a Microsoft Surface Book and an HP Workstation laptop. The most practical is the HP, the Surface book is the coolest (Touchscreen and detachable tablet screen) and the Macbook is the sexiest but the old Thinkpad still has the best keyboard. I haven't tried the Lenovo Thinkpads. Having used a lot of high end laptops over the years, I would still rate the Thinkpad 600 as one of the greatest computers

[@aleksandar4756]

Screen flickering could be a symptom of a damaged flex cable. Just a guess, because my old smartphone had screen issues due to a damaged flex cable ribbon

[@m4t7eo]

I really miss this screen aspect ratio.

[@clammaster4]

4:3? you'll still get AWP'd on CS 1.6 if you try to compete with the people still playing

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

yeah, that's what I like about my X41.

[@danieldougan269]

It would be nice on my 2-in-1 tablet machine.

[@NathanChisholm041]

I still own a x220 i7 which is still my favorite designed laptop off all time and it runs great!!

[@howardsix9708]

Really fascinating. Well done, Howard, UK

[@eduardoavila646]

You could also use puppy linux 7.5 that is even more lightweight and you could run these same games in wine. Probably those 16 bit programs are the easier ones to run in wine.

[@BenvolioZF]

Not only that puppy really has included apps that are tooled around the lack of resources this machine has

[@MrRanfla92]

bodhi linux

[@MrRanfla92]

or slitaz are my options

[@lindhe]

Wine has 16-bit support??

[@ghungrooseth1946]

DSL MasterRace

[@isopodch.4599]

Download pics of corn. ;) Yes, I mean corn. If you're a farmer, you get kicks from it.

[@cyberp0et]

Fishan Chips You like watching corn :))

[@Storse]

I'll shuck my corn if you know what I mean

[@molojee]

CornHub

[@ImLunaUwU]

@@molojee guess I will join the club and smoke some wheat.

[@sagelioneldsouza8230]

I love to watch corn!

[@WagnersTechTalk]

Nice job! Enjoyed watching.

[@SeanCC]

There's something so satisfying about the engineering and industrial design of those ThinkPads

[@dpack710]

20 years old, AND 20 dollars! WHAT A FIND

[@VolcanicProtectorMan]

KoivuTheHab in 20 years museums will be in Vr and online

[@lain_]

5 years old, 5 dollars

[@millie649]

Increases $1 a year lol

[@AndreiAgpasa]

$1 for every birthday

[@RamLaska]

Install VLC. Copy the KZbin URL. Open VLC. Open network stream. Paste KZbin URL. Enjoy.

[@Tyler-fm4ix]

btfo pajeet Mpv & youtube-dl only way to go

[@rafaelromero6306]

Even nerdier: Install mpv Install mps-youtube from repository Install mps-youtube, update it with: pip3 install mps-youtube --upgrade pip3 install pafy --upgrade [Fix the pafy changing in ~/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/pafy/util.py qs['key'] = g.api_key to to qs['key'] = 'yourapikey']

[@verbosed]

@@rafaelromero6306 wtf do you need all that gobbledygook for, just do `mpv `

[@andrewludlam5686]

Absolutely heart warming. Thank you !!

[@beszt95]

I found a desktop from 1997 at a goodwill a few months ago. Just a little cleaning and dusting and playing around and it started working perfectly. Wish I could find an old laptop though.

[@stephnieukjones7052]

i had one of them IBMs .. was a brill machine in its day

[@FoxBlocksHere]

you have your taskbar on the side. *YOU MONSTER.*

[@cjthomp2005]

Mood

[@seamusmckeon9109]

I put mine on the top

[@YashodhanGoenka]

Great idea and video! Though I hoped you had showed some productivity applications as well

[@davesakievich9657]

I have an old VPR Matrix laptop computer hanging on my wall with Windows XP working as a 15 inch picture viewer. The original plastic case was broken so I built a wood frame to enclose it with a plexiglass face, I folded the display back on itself like you would a modern laptop so that the keyboard was on the back. I have over 700 pictures that I took changing every 10 seconds and displaying random pictures. The 20Gb hard drive crashed after a few weeks of continuous running so I bought an adapter so that I could replace the hard drive with a compact flash drive. 12 years later it still works. The compact flash card does not run fast enough to use the system as an actual computer but to display pictures it is great.

[@walldoo99]

I bought an HP DV8 from a college for $20. It had 16Gb of DDR3 ram but no hdd's and no charger. State surplus had the charger for $5 and I have a source for used hdd's at $14 ea for 320Gb in lots of 10. Had it up and running win 10 pro in a day with 2 320Gb hdd's and sold it cheap the next day for $250. $175 profit

[@pensive955]

walldoo99 can you sell me that 16GIGs of ddr3 ram 😂😂😂

[@mohammedsami7080]

The Ram is so worth it.

[@MrWhite-pn7ui]

IBM USED TO MAKE THE BEST COMPUTERS IN THE WORLD.

[@retrotechguy]

Like the vid! I’m using Linux Bionic Pup32 on a single core W98SE computer - super light weight.

[@countzero1136]

No idea why this video popped up in my recommendations after 6 years but I'm glad it did. I still run an old DEC HiNote Ultra 486DX with the proprietary LPT adapter that I use to run my old parallel port logic analyzer in Windows 95 :) Can't find a new batterty for it anywhere though, so I'm stuck using the original PSU with it's wierd square 3-pin plug...

[@nikims_]

"This is a 20$ laptop" no,this is the laptop i use for programming ;-;

[@nikims_]

yeah

[@edgyyoutuberuser5991]

yes you can program the @echo language .bat files

[@Deyas786]

This is the same laptop my dad gave me when I was young!good times running age of empires and runescape haha

[@mikefischer6724]

I bought an old laptop with a serial port to run VagCOM for running factory level diagnostics for VW/Audi vehicles. Works great.

[@martingeoghegan2788]

Very interesting lookback

[@Jaidyn_]

My school uses those laptops

[@taigaluv]

I understand u

[@xavalintm]

JaidynCutes ツ lol, mine uses 2,4ghz Celeron + 512mb RAM

[@derekconwaygd]

JaidynCutes ツ Same

[@Nandobandz]

JaidynCutes ツ BROKE

[@tarkang657]

my college in canada toronto too

[@paulcastillo1880]

Did he just say that laptop was.. *_BULLET PROOF_* ? That must be make out of Nokiaium, the hardest material known to man.

[@ComputerGarageLLC]

Oh the joys of the old IBM Thinkpad. I often told client you could throw down a hall. drop kick them into the next room, and they still would not break. The only thing better than the 'tankpads' were the toughbooks.

[@Bassocontinued]

as soon as i saw the thumbnail i knew it was an old lenovo. the greatest brand of laptops imo.... reliable and virtually indestructible. i remember my university was almost exclusively a "lenovo campus" due to the excellent support for engineering/cad cam software. theyre even the staple computer of nasa!! i subscribed!

[@FredandGooseman]

I managed to get an old portable DVD player converted into a PS3 with a few extra parts from my old PS3 it was an extremely annoying expedition but the satisfaction after it was completed was worth it

[@silentslayergaming8469]

Cocokid sean could you make a video or link a video showing how you did it.

[@FredandGooseman]

I don't have i video that i can link too seeing as though i did it without help i just grabbed the pieces out of the playstation such as the blue-ray disk drive, processor, hard-drive, motherboard etc, spliced them into the dvd player and after a while of fiddling with it it came to life. Sorry but i'm sure if you look around enough you will be able to find someone to tell you how to make it. Good luck

[@ssdrasistfs]

How about some pictures of it?

[@wilkcards]

lol yeah ok

Cocokid sean Why the fuck you lying bitch

[@Th3Pr0digalS0n]

Yes, i just got a simmilar one at a garage sale for $1. First thing I did was run my old video games.

[@mikesmith2905]

My old 600x was well used (the lettering wore off most of the keys) but with no battery installed it is still working as my elderly Mum's music centre with a USB stick full of old music and 1-by-1 the MP3 directory player feeding into a set of discarded speakers. Sadly the HDD on the Toshiba 1000 XE died, so no more playing some games from the 1980s. Currently using a T60p, the last Thinkpad with a full-height screen and good keyboard.

[@51diogenes]

Great video! I too love thrift store shopping. It's been good to me. What year was this model released? I ask because I have a suggestion that may be valuable to you. I have an old Toshiba Tecra 780 DVD which I moth balled about 14 yrs ago. Back then I had previously upgraded it to Win 98 but it ran very hot with '98. An friend who is a computer tech informed me that '98 was notorious for its inability to manage the cooling system and that I should switch to Win 2000 Professional, so I did. To say that the change was dramatic is a massive understatement! The Tecra went from space heater to AC unit, and stability overall and with many peripherals improved. I still use the Tecra today exclusively for writing music to MIDI so that I don't tie up another computer. Impressive what you've done with this IBM machine! The only thing I could add is that having a second functional computer, even an old one, can be a lifeboat in the event you have a catastrophic failure with main new machine. Use it as a recovery tool to get on line, burn a boot disc, run diagnostic tools on discs, format drives etc., These old computers are eminently capable MIDI controllers because MIDI not very demanding. It's a tool! Young kids don't know this computer is old, a game is a game. Kids will surprise you with how quickly they figure stuff out, and these older units are pretty bash proof!

[@cloroxbleach313]

What you can do with a 20$ laptop? Use it

[@hagaki1665]

OH YEAH YEAH

[@RajanPlaysGames]

Oh no no no

[@CEOofPhoneCo]

This

[@petelee2477]

2:48 wait $15 for the battery. You spent 90% as much on the battery as the laptop itself

[@vagishsivaramakrishnan4885]

isnt it like 75% idk dosent matter

[@kornknight6383]

20 x 5 = 100 15 x 5 = 75 75%

[@metrixhd2794]

@@kornknight6383 STOP IT!MATH SUX

[@kornknight6383]

Your Dad Math is lit wdym

[@metrixhd2794]

@@kornknight6383 please....have mercy

[@MIX400]

you narrations at the beginning is cute. as if the laptop is actually alive like an actual person or pet

[@silverian]

Thanks for Macrium Reflect tip!

[@chilledmadness9546]

I bet a 20 dollar computer can ever run roblox properly

[@nikims_]

Mystery Gamer nope.i have the same thing and i barely get 10fps

[@vladandjuric856]

nikims Wtf? My little brother has this laptop and can run CSS perfectly.

[@biscuitdingus]

Modern roblox, nah. Back in 2008 when I was a wee lad I was playing roblox on dual Pentium II Xeon system with a geforce 4, and it ran just fine on XP. Nowadays though, I think the bare minimum is core2duos and if you have a processor that old, the igp won't be enough.

[@sethmoneygetter7140]

nikims you actually use it?

[@Stephen5311]

10fps is playable for some people.

[@ajtritto3989]

do what techrax does: simply break it on video, buy another one, break it, and post them on YT.

[@Pleshie]

DjPandaMinecraft and then keep doing the same thing for a couple years

[@causeoflava]

People still watch him?

[@leosmithonbass]

great video and great comments too

[@derekwhidden9730]

I have an old Fujitsu, don't remember the model, but its a Pentium 3, has no internal I/O drives at all. It has a touch screen which is cool, and is the size of a netbook. The license on the bottom shows a Windows 2000 operating system but at some point before I got it someone installed XP on it. I got this about 12 years ago, snd used it as my window to the web, travelling to coffee houses and using their wi-fi. The machine worked flawlessly. Windows Paint was a lot of fun using a touch screen and stylus. It played DVDs effortlessly with an external usb drive and the powered speakers included in a fancy 3 ring binder that kept everything together like it was purpose built for it. And then one day windows prompted me to install service pack 3. So again travelling to the coffee house with the power supply and settled in for the 2 hour download. All did not go well. After the install the machine goes to reboot, then reset and reboot, then resrt and reboot ad infinum. There was no way to recover to a past point, it never gets to the point where you can start safe mode. The most I accomplished was a DOS prompt, but trying to restart windows went back to the boot loop. I finally gave ip and typed FORMAT C: but I suppose I never had the correct USB drive to get to boot from a ROM. I finally got a friend of mine to get it working again, with Ubuntu. Trouble is I know nothing about it and the touch screen does not work. I realize the internet has probably progressed past the point of what this machine will handle. But still it would be nice to have some kind of image rendering capability with the touchscreen. The digitizer was and still is far more accurate than any touchscreen I used since.

[@aretard7995]

Why Did you gave your IP adress?! (just kidding)

[@The6Master6Mind6]

What are the reasons for the dislikes? Hope it's not for the graphics or fps.

[@ModernClassic]

This video was on the homepage of YT for a lot of people for a while; got picked up by the algorithm I guess. But I suppose it wasn't what some people were expecting when they clicked on it. My channel is mostly about using old hardware either for its original purpose or some new purpose, but I think some people thought there was some new laptop out there that cost $20 and that you could run modern stuff on.

[@watsgoinonhere1]

Either that, or they thought you would dismantle it and use the hardware for other uses (That's what I was expecting, still liked the vid though).

[@yrly59e]

I go a Gateway FX gaming laptop with RAID hard drives at a thrift store for $4.99. I loaded it with Win 10. I take it when I go on vacation to hotels to stream movies on, if it gets stolen so be it.

[@vorname_6856]

yrly59e Specs?

[@camp0017]

I had a TP 700. It was also built like a tank. Then I had several later Ts (T28, T41 etc). After several years of usage the main problem was with the BIOS, which tended to die once the original backup battery couldn't hold the voltage any more. And the battery was rechargable, so replacing it with a standard 2032 did not work. What's more, even after replacement, the BIOS was often corrupt and impossible to restore.

[@HslSoulsick]

great video and as expected, the goal on this video was achieved... but I have two questions: can u run PSX games on it? the dvd tray was it also writer or just plain reader...? thanks for the video, makes me wonder the lot of uses I can do with my old broken machines collecting dust in my basement shelves...

[@coondogtheman]

I would use it for music playback on a stereo system. sort of like a touch tunes jukebox but just use winamp player and tons of MP3s.

[@resneptacle]

coondogtheman1234 Or MPD on an headless / CLI only Linux ^^

[@coondogtheman]

I don't have a clue what that is.

[@cldream]

coondogtheman1234 Basically dropping down to a music player that runs in a "command prompt" mode, or just without a monitor/keyboard/mouse.

[@coondogtheman]

Like DOS? Or a MP3 module board with MicroSD card. Sorry I guess I'm not nerdy enough lol. I know what Linux is. I have the Mattel Juicebox with can play MP3s and runs uCLinux. I put a picture of tux penguin and linux inside on the back lol.

[@cldream]

Nice.

[@ashalew106]

My school has these..... In 2017

[@rainbowarsenal7114]

Asha Lew your lucky my school thinks chromebooks are the best thing in the world and we have 2 carts of them

[@Jac0b22]

Storm that's his fault not the school, that's a basic English fundamental. He chose not to either listen or to care to properly put it that way

[@taigaluv]

Asha Lew I fully understand you...

[@noodlery7034]

We have A lenovo thinkpad (yoga e11) at our school, i got csgo running on it with 25-40fps xD

[@Dailyclippers]

we have like 700 cromebooks and in my school have 500peeps

[@morry1076]

Would luv a dedicated Diablo machine :D Nice vid, subbed.

[@nuckweise]

cool video man, you gained a subscription.