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!
@websitemaker26347 жыл бұрын
just to tell you , I came from youtube recommendation !
@ModernClassic7 жыл бұрын
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.
@Pfahli947 жыл бұрын
Left you a sub for the good effort, keep up the good work!
@whiteblaze347 жыл бұрын
Also from a KZbin recommendation! Great stuff, subbed!
@TheDavo100017 жыл бұрын
Modern Classic I got here from a KZbin recommendation
@tomormiston65927 жыл бұрын
"what can I do with a $20 laptop?". Answer: Get -1.6 million views- -2.4 million views- *3 million views* !
@jacks2487 жыл бұрын
Tom Ormiston *make almost 2000$*
@tomormiston65927 жыл бұрын
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!
@Sinderly7 жыл бұрын
Tom Ormiston well this got into youtubes recommended so that explains the views
@TennebrumReloaded7 жыл бұрын
The real purpose of this video was to cash in on that youtube money so he could by something better.
@tomormiston65927 жыл бұрын
ah ok that explains it ;)
@RobotnikPlays6 жыл бұрын
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!
@MrZestyOnion6 жыл бұрын
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.
@coreyberg78236 жыл бұрын
RobotnikPlays 3D SPACE CADET PINBALL WAS MY CHILDHOOD
@mrspoopy32276 жыл бұрын
Yeah good luck trying to get those little shits interested in anything other than fortnite
@pwnmeisterage6 жыл бұрын
Also good for elderly computer-dinosaur grandparents. Old familiar tech for them can be better than learning/teaching new tech.
@alissondamasceno20106 жыл бұрын
I second this, I grew up exactly like this way and today I'm a happy software engineer :D
@taylormartin42817 жыл бұрын
This must've cost a fortune back then.
@Pichipieify7 жыл бұрын
Al Bundy it is. my cousin got 1 back in the 90s and it costs 2000$ or more
@taylormartin42817 жыл бұрын
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.3347 жыл бұрын
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)
@pickachublast87 жыл бұрын
+Al Bundy That's if I live that long :P
@taylormartin42817 жыл бұрын
Kevin I don't know you but I hope you do! in fact, 80 more years!
@mridontclickbaitftw43665 жыл бұрын
Remember when 512 MB ram computer cost 12 thousand dollars.
@ArKa_475 жыл бұрын
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_475 жыл бұрын
@CStarz nope ;)
@ArKa_475 жыл бұрын
@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
@asv775 жыл бұрын
@@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_475 жыл бұрын
@@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
@Marsaeus7 жыл бұрын
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!
@ModernClassic7 жыл бұрын
Great minds think alike!
@officialclownbusiness77887 жыл бұрын
Marsaeus it's like something out of that old twilightey show about that zone...
@saladhands11277 жыл бұрын
Pat Eldridge the twilight zone?
@wg00fakgplus587 жыл бұрын
Marsaeus I guess KZbin knows you better than you think. Big brother is watching.
@killswitchOW7 жыл бұрын
WG00 fakgplus ayyyy the 1984 reference
@yegenek7 жыл бұрын
I love the look of these old ibm laptops, they are so slick and its no nonsense attitude.
@JAllan-sp2xt7 жыл бұрын
Also you can hammer in a nail with one.
@playprostudios7127 жыл бұрын
Yeah, very "military grade" -ish. Makes 'em look at other laptops like skinny civilians who would survive a day in a zombie apocalypse.
@0x1EGEN6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I really like the industrial design. You can get a T-420/410 with an i7 and 8 GB of RAM under $300.
@tuffxmuffin72137 жыл бұрын
it's like a Nokia but a computer
@ubernani63075 жыл бұрын
And it runs smoothly like a kitten
@wanbe21286 жыл бұрын
When you ask your mom for a laptop and she gives you that.
@sheriffaboubakar97206 жыл бұрын
Just James I got a 20 yr old laptop for Christmas :(
@DragonBuilds6 жыл бұрын
At least it's not a Mac
@MEXUS.6 жыл бұрын
@@sheriffaboubakar9720 What was it?
@ashflint236 жыл бұрын
Rip your dreams and budget
@PotatoPI5 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheTarrMan7 жыл бұрын
"It is now safe to turn off your computer". . . . . . . . Oh wait, that was Windows 95.
@resneptacle7 жыл бұрын
TheTarrMan No, it's actually in Windows 98 if the power suppl, has no ACPI soft power off
@Consolethinks7 жыл бұрын
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.
@swiftfox34617 жыл бұрын
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.
@BilisNegra7 жыл бұрын
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).
@RandalLovelace6 жыл бұрын
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).
@jessechen49717 жыл бұрын
This channel will go places.
@ModernClassic7 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Hope so.
@hamable19957 жыл бұрын
i just subbed
@WellBeSerious127 жыл бұрын
Jesse Chen: To the moon I hope.
@mixedcomedy31207 жыл бұрын
WellBeSerious12, let's do it!
@johnlight-knight80607 жыл бұрын
Indeed.
@dashi-musashi3515 жыл бұрын
I like how actually serious this video is. I was expecting some shouting guy with dubstep background music.
@retrox6847 жыл бұрын
linux, somehow keeps 20 year old laptops up to date and gives them the ability to browse the modern web
@cl3mb0t6 жыл бұрын
Yes! Well... Depending on video requirements. But YES!
@neshobanakni6 жыл бұрын
I love Puppy Linux!
@peterzhong86227 жыл бұрын
And yet this computer still runs games better than my $1300 macbook air
@ModernClassic7 жыл бұрын
Well that made me laugh out loud.
@raggedyexynos68267 жыл бұрын
seriously you can barely game on a macbook
@twe8k7 жыл бұрын
Adib Rifai seriously shut up.
@iberiuspred49067 жыл бұрын
You cannot run DOSBox on a Mac?!?
@Adam-yo3bt7 жыл бұрын
Peter Zhong why did you buy a mac
@stewiegriffin65037 жыл бұрын
sell it for 30$ ?
@thegoldensealion94636 жыл бұрын
But the other essential he needed was $58 total. So sell it for $90
@mohamedade34496 жыл бұрын
make a youtube video about it and make alot more than 20$
@BaconSenpai6 жыл бұрын
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_6 жыл бұрын
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!"
@kyzodus92256 жыл бұрын
Mohamed Ade LOL
@RamLaska5 жыл бұрын
Install VLC. Copy the KZbin URL. Open VLC. Open network stream. Paste KZbin URL. Enjoy.
@Tyler-fm4ix5 жыл бұрын
btfo pajeet Mpv & youtube-dl only way to go
@rafaelromero63064 жыл бұрын
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']
@verbosed3 жыл бұрын
@@rafaelromero6306 wtf do you need all that gobbledygook for, just do `mpv `
@iimmyyyy7 жыл бұрын
Sad thing is.... this $20 laptop runs faster then my $400 laptop 😫
@DivineHyperion7 жыл бұрын
Get rid of bloatware. You'll be amazed by the jump in performance.
@iimmyyyy7 жыл бұрын
Chuuni Chewer okay I'll try that thanks!!
@fernandooyanedel68577 жыл бұрын
how i do that?
@Shoshii7 жыл бұрын
Chuuni Chewer What's bloayware
@DivineHyperion7 жыл бұрын
useless apps that came with your computer that you don't use.
@SoldererOfFortune7 жыл бұрын
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-wk6vi9dy2k7 жыл бұрын
I have a t410 and a t420
@jamesb12212227 жыл бұрын
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.
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.
@je65667 жыл бұрын
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
@tcc57507 жыл бұрын
Awesome video, and wow great camera work. Really great channel. :)
@ModernClassic7 жыл бұрын
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.
@mixedcomedy31207 жыл бұрын
Modern Classic, they do look good.
@CaptainAnonymous5 жыл бұрын
I couldn't watch this video on a $20 laptop
@ziahn53675 жыл бұрын
I am....
@AngeloGi5 жыл бұрын
@@ziahn5367 Therefore I think
@Delphia5 жыл бұрын
You could with the right version of Linux installed, like Tiny Core.
@ziahn53675 жыл бұрын
@@Delphia I have lubuntu
@retr0nus5 жыл бұрын
I am
@connerdotcom51407 жыл бұрын
Schools: *HEAVY BREATHING*
@zachiswack7 жыл бұрын
?
@connerdotcom51407 жыл бұрын
Because schools use really cheap crappy thinkpad laptops
@karensacramento27977 жыл бұрын
My school has ipads and Chrome books
@Jimmy_MZ7 жыл бұрын
Karen Sacramento Castaneda same except i hate the chrome books...
@nv99697 жыл бұрын
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.
@gardiner_bryant7 жыл бұрын
This was cool! Great to see Linux being used in such a fun way!
@deadly28816 жыл бұрын
wut
@adamtajhassam91886 жыл бұрын
i really dont miss old hardware at all. or Diablo 1 .
@HarmonicaMustang6 жыл бұрын
Where Windows falls short, Linux thrives.
@greyishboy6 жыл бұрын
...Ok
@malcolmvanorder54537 жыл бұрын
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.
@beenine55577 жыл бұрын
@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).
@TheSpiffingSangheili6 жыл бұрын
$20 body armor ... SWEET.
@joseffliegl41675 жыл бұрын
If you start a browser on it you can use it as fire place to
@Erick-dk5vr7 жыл бұрын
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.
@Sanctifires7 жыл бұрын
Then you aren't doing much gaming on it.
@eduardoavila6466 жыл бұрын
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.
@BenvolioZF6 жыл бұрын
Not only that puppy really has included apps that are tooled around the lack of resources this machine has
@MrRanfla926 жыл бұрын
bodhi linux
@MrRanfla926 жыл бұрын
or slitaz are my options
@lindhe6 жыл бұрын
Wine has 16-bit support??
@ghungrooseth19466 жыл бұрын
DSL MasterRace
@walldoo997 жыл бұрын
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
@pensive9557 жыл бұрын
walldoo99 can you sell me that 16GIGs of ddr3 ram 😂😂😂
@mohammedsami70806 жыл бұрын
The Ram is so worth it.
@JM-iv3cv6 жыл бұрын
TLDW: You can play old games on it. There, I saved you 13 minutes.
@ModernClassic6 жыл бұрын
Awesome. You should have your own KZbin channel!
@JM-iv3cv6 жыл бұрын
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.
@AgentXRifle6 жыл бұрын
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
@Nestalgba920236 жыл бұрын
Old PC Games, right?
@someguystudios236 жыл бұрын
Putt putt or doom? Putt putt or... PUTTDOOM! KILL ALL THE CARS
@plisskentv65017 жыл бұрын
you're so lucky for finding this. I'm seriously jelly....
@ModernClassic7 жыл бұрын
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.
@sleeprene7 жыл бұрын
PlisskenTV my cousin had found the same on the side of the road, should i try to restore it ?
"If you can, buy a Thinkpad" I'd say this applies to modern machines as well.
@ModernClassic7 жыл бұрын
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.
@nicksander15227 жыл бұрын
Modern Classic nice KZbin Chanel should be have more subs
@jaykoerner7 жыл бұрын
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)
@iberiuspred49067 жыл бұрын
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.
@Moonwalker9177 жыл бұрын
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!
@TubeHeader4 жыл бұрын
I love how lighthearted and fun these videos are, and look forward to seeing more of them.
@NASIRUB17 жыл бұрын
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.
@wilkcards7 жыл бұрын
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
@NASIRUB17 жыл бұрын
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?
@chrispy99137 жыл бұрын
NASIRUB1 Vista is best
@NASIRUB17 жыл бұрын
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.
@bluesnow36617 жыл бұрын
NASIRUB1 Buy a $13 Windows 10 Professional OEM key like me.
@italiansunrunner5 жыл бұрын
I had that same model IBM back in the day. I remember getting a dvd drive for it and it cost an arm and a leg back then. It ran games from that time period pretty well.
@HybelFever6 жыл бұрын
The thumbnail reminds me of the 399$ chair
@Lily-wo5wm6 жыл бұрын
Omg fuck me hi
@oz_nola19925 жыл бұрын
Bro i thought there was legit a bug on my phone for like 3 sec
@hejhalla3455 жыл бұрын
Now 399***
@renatocapelo5 жыл бұрын
Dont forget to spread the word of subbing to Pewds
@sadmetsfan76605 жыл бұрын
@@oz_nola1992 omg same i got so scared that there was one inside my computer screen
@redriverscout44045 жыл бұрын
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.
@AdamosDad7 жыл бұрын
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.
@swiftfox34617 жыл бұрын
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.
@ff3nyx7 жыл бұрын
AdamosDad awesome story.
@m4t7eo7 жыл бұрын
I really miss this screen aspect ratio.
@clammaster47 жыл бұрын
4:3? you'll still get AWP'd on CS 1.6 if you try to compete with the people still playing
@Bigbadwhitecracker7 жыл бұрын
yeah, that's what I like about my X41.
@danieldougan2697 жыл бұрын
It would be nice on my 2-in-1 tablet machine.
@dpack7107 жыл бұрын
20 years old, AND 20 dollars! WHAT A FIND
@VolcanicProtectorMan6 жыл бұрын
KoivuTheHab in 20 years museums will be in Vr and online
@lain_6 жыл бұрын
5 years old, 5 dollars
@millie6496 жыл бұрын
Increases $1 a year lol
@AndreiAgpasa5 жыл бұрын
$1 for every birthday
@FoxBlocksHere5 жыл бұрын
you have your taskbar on the side. *YOU MONSTER.*
@cjthomp20055 жыл бұрын
Mood
@seamusmckeon91094 жыл бұрын
I put mine on the top
@wandiloch7 жыл бұрын
I still have my Thinkpad 600 from 1999, it sort of works, but after a cup of coffee and a glass of coke got spilt on it, the screen flickers badly. Today I have a couple of Apple Macbook Pros, a Microsoft Surface Book and an HP Workstation laptop. The most practical is the HP, the Surface book is the coolest (Touchscreen and detachable tablet screen) and the Macbook is the sexiest but the old Thinkpad still has the best keyboard. I haven't tried the Lenovo Thinkpads. Having used a lot of high end laptops over the years, I would still rate the Thinkpad 600 as one of the greatest computers
@aleksandar47567 жыл бұрын
Screen flickering could be a symptom of a damaged flex cable. Just a guess, because my old smartphone had screen issues due to a damaged flex cable ribbon
@paquitojhs7 жыл бұрын
You have some really good content. Subscribed!
@resort-anthem7 жыл бұрын
Psychodelix Welcome
@thecastiel695 жыл бұрын
I have used Windows XP SP1 on 128mb of RAM.
@SilverSpoon_4 жыл бұрын
can really get the job done, keepin the essential services, and using the classic Redmond theme, it's pretty decent. hell I even found a shitty SSD on Aliexpress, like 25$ for 64 gigs, that should be decent on it.
@CFWhitman3 жыл бұрын
It seems to me that this was the figure that Microsoft gave as the minimum RAM for XP (and XP with SP1), though they recommended 256MB. As I recall, the XP with 128MB of RAM experience was one that prompted contemplation of suicide (or more likely computercide). It seems to me, though, that even with Service Pack 3 it would run with 256MB of RAM, but you were better off with 512MB or more.
@ecmjr6 жыл бұрын
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!
@isopodch.45997 жыл бұрын
Download pics of corn. ;) Yes, I mean corn. If you're a farmer, you get kicks from it.
@cyberp0et6 жыл бұрын
Fishan Chips You like watching corn :))
@Storse6 жыл бұрын
I'll shuck my corn if you know what I mean
@molojee6 жыл бұрын
CornHub
@ImLunaUwU6 жыл бұрын
@@molojee guess I will join the club and smoke some wheat.
@sagelioneldsouza82306 жыл бұрын
I love to watch corn!
@cloroxbleach3136 жыл бұрын
What you can do with a 20$ laptop? Use it
@hagaki16655 жыл бұрын
OH YEAH YEAH
@RajanPlaysGames5 жыл бұрын
Oh no no no
@CEOofPhoneCo4 жыл бұрын
This
@The6Master6Mind67 жыл бұрын
What are the reasons for the dislikes? Hope it's not for the graphics or fps.
@ModernClassic7 жыл бұрын
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.
@watsgoinonhere17 жыл бұрын
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).
@laarshegdish60166 жыл бұрын
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!
@yrly59e7 жыл бұрын
I go a Gateway FX gaming laptop with RAID hard drives at a thrift store for $4.99. I loaded it with Win 10. I take it when I go on vacation to hotels to stream movies on, if it gets stolen so be it.
@Biggest_subhuman6 жыл бұрын
yrly59e Specs?
@nikims_7 жыл бұрын
"This is a 20$ laptop" no,this is the laptop i use for programming ;-;
@nikims_7 жыл бұрын
yeah
@edgyyoutuberuser59917 жыл бұрын
yes you can program the @echo language .bat files
@petelee24775 жыл бұрын
2:48 wait $15 for the battery. You spent 90% as much on the battery as the laptop itself
@vagishsivaramakrishnan48855 жыл бұрын
isnt it like 75% idk dosent matter
@kornknight63835 жыл бұрын
20 x 5 = 100 15 x 5 = 75 75%
@metrixhd27945 жыл бұрын
@@kornknight6383 STOP IT!MATH SUX
@kornknight63835 жыл бұрын
Your Dad Math is lit wdym
@metrixhd27945 жыл бұрын
@@kornknight6383 please....have mercy
@AdobadoFantastico5 жыл бұрын
This is super neat, thanks for documenting this journey.
@lovestruck37737 жыл бұрын
I got a 40 dollar laptop. Was a thinkpad with 4gb ram, 80gb storage, windows 10, and a decent processor.
@lovestruck37737 жыл бұрын
"^" lucky me "^"
@WZen07 жыл бұрын
Lovestruck 80 Gigs lol i got 8 TB
@lovestruck37737 жыл бұрын
Creepershockwave Its good if you only play one or two games like me.
@WZen07 жыл бұрын
Lovestruck yeah u bet you have a social life and dont need videogames like me :D
@Vinni-2K7 жыл бұрын
Lovestruck were can i find it i want that too which one is it exactly?
@paulcastillo18805 жыл бұрын
Did he just say that laptop was.. *_BULLET PROOF_* ? That must be make out of Nokiaium, the hardest material known to man.
@Deyas7865 жыл бұрын
This is the same laptop my dad gave me when I was young!good times running age of empires and runescape haha
@gnpar6 жыл бұрын
This was my first laptop. I bought it used for ~$183 in 2006. That was a whole month's income for me back then, and it was already a very old computer. It rocked Damn Small Linux and a pcmcia Ethernet adapter 😁
@salguodrolyat25942 жыл бұрын
In 2005 I bought the top of the line(billed) newest model video editing laptop for my first computer. It had a pcmcia ethernet adapter too 😁
@Th3Pr0digalS0n5 жыл бұрын
Yes, i just got a simmilar one at a garage sale for $1. First thing I did was run my old video games.
@_adibon6 жыл бұрын
thumnail should be *BUT CAN YOU DO THISSS*
@XMoCookie6 жыл бұрын
😂
@fuyu22126 жыл бұрын
Omg thats what i read when i saw this
@nasgun6 жыл бұрын
$39.9
@user-dz2jv4in5z6 жыл бұрын
dib *THUMBNAIL!*
@johnapple66466 жыл бұрын
3.99
@FredandGooseman7 жыл бұрын
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
@silentslayergaming84697 жыл бұрын
Cocokid sean could you make a video or link a video showing how you did it.
@FredandGooseman7 жыл бұрын
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
@ssdrasistfs7 жыл бұрын
How about some pictures of it?
@wilkcards7 жыл бұрын
lol yeah ok
7 жыл бұрын
Cocokid sean Why the fuck you lying bitch
@SeanCC Жыл бұрын
There's something so satisfying about the engineering and industrial design of those ThinkPads
@KidCe.7 жыл бұрын
here from KZbin recommenations ^^
@kawaiibtx44306 жыл бұрын
Destroy it and get hate comments from Plainrock124 fans
@nicktheepicepicgamer9676 жыл бұрын
Bluzure Roblox lmao
@gasrim6 жыл бұрын
Bra look at dis dude **sees Roblox** AHHH Lot at his username AHHHH!
@kawaiibtx44306 жыл бұрын
Gasrim4003 i want to change it..
@stoopiosproductions31306 жыл бұрын
Gasrim4003 and you made some Minecraft videos. Your both bad. But your just a tiny bit better.
welcome to another episode of.. whats in my recommendations!
@rob55805 жыл бұрын
Oh, shut up
@diegocincotta35714 жыл бұрын
I love the style and the shape of the old laptops
@zerozone58485 жыл бұрын
3:39 sure you can run minecraft with 100 fps on shaders, *_BUT CAN YOU DO THIS???_*
@sofa60965 жыл бұрын
*yes. I can*
@coondogtheman7 жыл бұрын
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.
@resneptacle7 жыл бұрын
coondogtheman1234 Or MPD on an headless / CLI only Linux ^^
@coondogtheman7 жыл бұрын
I don't have a clue what that is.
@cldream7 жыл бұрын
coondogtheman1234 Basically dropping down to a music player that runs in a "command prompt" mode, or just without a monitor/keyboard/mouse.
@coondogtheman7 жыл бұрын
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.
@cldream7 жыл бұрын
Nice.
@stephnieukjones70527 жыл бұрын
i had one of them IBMs .. was a brill machine in its day
@kevindehinkelai74646 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the look back into history with the thinkpad, brought back some memories!
@skatersomething7yearsago4575 жыл бұрын
A computer under 50 dollars is a good deal under any condition
@bleechulho5 жыл бұрын
theaccountwitha really long name Lol what if it doesn’t even boot up. It’s a worthless piece of garbage.
@skatersomething7yearsago4575 жыл бұрын
@@bleechulho well u can still sell it for more money than its worth
@ajtritto39897 жыл бұрын
do what techrax does: simply break it on video, buy another one, break it, and post them on YT.
@Pleshie7 жыл бұрын
DjPandaMinecraft and then keep doing the same thing for a couple years
@causeoflava7 жыл бұрын
People still watch him?
@Bungle5 жыл бұрын
You can use mice on laptops too, you know. My nostalgia for the little red nubbin would wear off in about 30 seconds.
@ModernClassic5 жыл бұрын
It's not nostalgia - modern ThinkPads still have it and it's one of the big reasons I still buy them.
@umedavk20116 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your video. As you can tell from my name, I'm a retiree. My hobby is computing. I buy used parts via eBay, build desktops and donate them to charity as complete systems (case, monitor, KB & mouse, speakers, wifi , the lot). More recently, I've moved into laptops : Over the last 8 months, I have bought laptops (of all makes) which are typically 10-15 YO. I refurbish them : they usually need more RAM, a HDD (usually IDE types - which tells you their age), a general cleanup and, believe it or not, they are all running well on Windows 7 or Windows 10 (depending on their hardware, BIOS, CPU etc. Some even run 64 bit versions of WIN 7 or 10. Theyv are perfect for ordinary everyday computing or as a schoolkid's first PC. I'm not a gamer (I'm still struggling with Pacman) so I cannot comment on how well they support games but I daresay they would be able to play low-to-medium level games. All these laptops go to needy people. OLD LAPTOPS ARE GOOD !!! Don't throw them away - give them to someone like me who lives in your part of the world. A lot of poor people will be grateful : single Moms, refugees, families with only one PC in the home etc etc etc. BTW : I'm working on 2 IBM Thinkpads T43 right now as I write. They are very good machines. Also, the laptops I buy are typically $20 each plus postage. I buy Windows products keys because I live on a retirment income. I've refurbished 50 so far.
This machine should run HAIKU quite well, I suppose. I have managed to install it natively on old Asus eeePC.
@EnchantedSmellyWolf7 жыл бұрын
Okay but why need aDOSbox when ti can play old PC games like Elder Scrolls ARENA?
@EnchantedSmellyWolf7 жыл бұрын
***** Are you sure. I'm pretty sure Windows 98 can deal with it. If not how about Windows 95?
@robertbaker44386 жыл бұрын
If you are on a budget and need a cheap, reliable laptop that really screams, buy a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 on ebay for about $125 or $150 (Get the one with 8G RAM, not 4) and run Linux. I prefer Ubuntu, currently 18.04. You will be amazed at how fast it is, no need to spend additional money for a more current machine. Also, for lower powered machines consider a light weight Ubuntu variant like Lubuntu or Xbuntu (Lxde or Xfce Desktop). For most people, anything more that $150 is a waste of money (except for gamers.... that's a different story).
@gladwinyt30155 жыл бұрын
*What can you do with a $20 laptop* Everything we had to suffer through in highschool
@TwoDollarGararge5 жыл бұрын
My highschool has Chromebooks and i7 7700 32gb ddr4 machines
@i0nlz4 жыл бұрын
@@TwoDollarGararge 32gb is ALOT for a laptop
@davidjimerson85757 жыл бұрын
Hey. If you still have that laptop and have time - try installing kalibry OS on it. Let's see how it works on that old IBM machine. If it will at all.
@swiftfox34617 жыл бұрын
David Jimerson *KolibriOS (sorry to correct you)
@davidjimerson85757 жыл бұрын
Hey, no problem. My mistake. Thanks
@swiftfox34617 жыл бұрын
David Jimerson Thanks. I didn't expect a reply :)
@__Accordion__7 жыл бұрын
Is this the guy from Regular Cars?
@Iboo306 жыл бұрын
Now that you say it, they do sound similar, but I don´t think so.
@richardadams492811 ай бұрын
I still have two 600X machines from back in the day. They were great in their time, ran XP like champs, and do indeed make terrific vintage gaming rigs.
@ImNotADeeJay5 жыл бұрын
4:16 actually, you are more likely to find an optical drive on an old laptop than on a brand new one.
@verbosed3 жыл бұрын
He means it surprisingly has a DVD drive despite being almost too old to have one. This comment just shows you’re a zoomer lol
6 жыл бұрын
3. my school have NO LAPTOPS!!! And in Germany the LAPTOPS are 10 years old!!! And in Germany we have 19% Tax off all!!! And the tax goes to projects like Airport BER "Flughafen Berlin - Brandenburg" Old internet, LTE Flat = 150$. 2. But can it run GTA at high settings?
@Biggest_subhuman6 жыл бұрын
100 Abos ohne Video challange/Der Wissenschaftler Wir haben nur alte Fujitsu PCs in der Schule
@therealb8885 жыл бұрын
250 Abos ohne Video it can run gta 5 at 8k hdr ultra high 240fps VR!
@juvan67445 жыл бұрын
When your mouse pad costs more then a laptop...
@NathanChisholm0415 жыл бұрын
I still own a x220 i7 which is still my favorite designed laptop off all time and it runs great!!
@mihaim35877 жыл бұрын
If you format a malwared HDD, do you get rid of viruses ?
@ModernClassic7 жыл бұрын
If they're just viruses, then yes. But some malware is more insidious. It is possible for a rootkit to install itself in the firmware of a drive. It's not common, but it's possible. I didn't have anything like that, though. The viruses on this drive were all taken care of with a basic virus scan. (I checked using multiple different apps, both commercial and open source.)
@mihaim35877 жыл бұрын
Modern Classic Thanks and happy new year !
@chrismc4106 жыл бұрын
Mihai M for the most part, yes. As stated, there is malware out there that can infect the firmware of the drive, BIOS or UEFI. You could theoretically reflash it but any malware coder worth his salt will have countermeasures to prevent exactly that. The best way to handle that scenario is hardware replacement. Hard drives, unless it's an SSD, aren't expensive, laptop motherboards can be expensive to the point of coming close to the cost of a brand new laptop. In that scenario, you'd be better off buying a new one. Fortunately, such malware is rare and well beyond the capabilities of your average malware programmer
@mihaim35876 жыл бұрын
chrismc410 So if the malware infects the BIOS, and then the HDD, the os and everything it finds. If you change the HDD, the BIOS isn't still installed and infected on the motherboard ?
@chrismc4106 жыл бұрын
Mihai M if it's that virulent to infect all that, you might as well replace the laptop altogether since the other choice would be replacing the HDD, DIMMs, and motherboard. The cost of all those parts, plus the time to put it in and reload the OS wouldn't be worth it.
@anactualmotherbear6 жыл бұрын
I love the crap out of this laptop and wish I had it again for myself. You don't know how funny it was for a girl to use that clit track ball, especially if it was in my lap. I always joked about it with my friends, some of which were disgusted with me ha ha
@cyberp0et6 жыл бұрын
Anne-Marie Rose Clit :))
@houghwhite4116 жыл бұрын
Lol, what the hell...
@blissfu_lee85226 жыл бұрын
uuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@MOON-yn8ec6 жыл бұрын
🤬
@tacokoneko7 жыл бұрын
im always so confused when i see people spend so much time trying to clean installations with virus software (discussing non-sensitive-use machines ofc), i always just erase the hard drive and install the os, settings and drivers if its older than windows xp then licensing doesnt matter period so you can save all the files u need to keep and copy them
@ModernClassic7 жыл бұрын
Explained in the video.
@nathang90347 жыл бұрын
๖ۣۜ♥๖̶tacokitten๖̶ he doesn't have a hard copy of windows 98 to reinstall, so he'll be pretty much stuck if he just wiped the hard drive...
@antidecepticon6 жыл бұрын
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...
@hotlightning94967 жыл бұрын
idk what you meant but i watched and liked. you like hypnotized me.
@Ace-dh9hn6 жыл бұрын
3:40 That's great and all but can you do *THIS*
@Lumens17 жыл бұрын
Worms Armageddon!!!
@smartjunayd6 жыл бұрын
My first video on this channel, loved this so much, subscribed
@marcofreire6 жыл бұрын
OMG. I almost cried when I saw the config.sys file. It looked like the one I created on my 1st computer. It was a 386 22Mhz ,4 Mb RAM and 20 Mb HDD. Good old memories.
@azrielaurelio83427 жыл бұрын
Your username is a nice paradox
@BigDaddyJoe6617 жыл бұрын
AzzyLazy It's an oxymoron
@twe8k7 жыл бұрын
Flowintlct you're both morons.
@azrielaurelio83427 жыл бұрын
oxymoron is a figure of speech. It's one word
@Invokearticlepetitions7 жыл бұрын
+Tanner Kendrick How are they morons ? Fool.
@CodeMerk7 жыл бұрын
AzzyLazy A classic is something that has reached the age of 25 right? So wouldn't a "Modern Classic" just be a classic that is more modern then something say 30 or 40 years ago?
@danamurray7356 жыл бұрын
Why not just use a very lightweight Linux distro for the operating system and be done with it? Of course, you would need to max out the capacity of RAM and get the largest hard drive that the motherboard will support. But to continue to run an old version of Microsoft Windows is just insane!
@stevecam16 жыл бұрын
I have fallen in love with x2go for a thin PC, a cheap SSD and wifi and you can achieve a lot
@chilledmadness95467 жыл бұрын
I bet a 20 dollar computer can ever run roblox properly
@nikims_7 жыл бұрын
Mystery Gamer nope.i have the same thing and i barely get 10fps
@vladandjuric8567 жыл бұрын
nikims Wtf? My little brother has this laptop and can run CSS perfectly.
@biscuitdingus7 жыл бұрын
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.
@sethmoneygetter7 жыл бұрын
nikims you actually use it?
@Stephen53117 жыл бұрын
10fps is playable for some people.
@zSkelCell6 жыл бұрын
The question is what can't you do with a $20 laptop?
@andresb.80817 жыл бұрын
You can put an ssd on it
@resneptacle7 жыл бұрын
Andrés Blanco R. But i'd be pricey and useless
@swiftfox34617 жыл бұрын
JonasLue Or an IDE -> SD card / CF card adapter. It's not too expensive, and it future proofs you a bit. You can transfer files to and from your modern machine more easily, and you avoid the risk of the mechanical parts of the drive getting worn out and the dice failing.
@vdochev5 жыл бұрын
I was just looking for a portable old system for a few of my old games. But I'm now in love with X220T