Windows Vista Laptop... In 2020! Ft. Austin Evans

Today we're going to be taking a look at a Windows Vista Laptop I was sent all the way from Canada! Is this Acer Aspire 3680 from 2007 still usable in 2020? Let's find out :)
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[@psivewri]

Hope y'all enjoy! Austin's video will be out tomorrow, so stay tuned for that on his channel 🙂 Can't wait to get more videos out to everyone soon. PS: I did end up securing the SSD when I reassembled the laptop, I just forgot to add that footage 😅 ► Gear I Use (Affiliate Links): Dell G7 15 Laptop: amzn.to/32VOSux Keychron K2 Keyboard: amzn.to/2F51NCh Logitech G502 Mouse: amzn.to/351iae1 Benq 144Hz Screen: amzn.to/3jJk1YW Fujifilm Camera Bodies: amzn.to/2EXdPxL Fujifilm Lenses: amzn.to/3jY8xB9 Rode NTG3 Microphone: amzn.to/3jKWeHZ Rode Videomicro Microphone: amzn.to/3hXoua4 Rode Wireless Go Microphone: amzn.to/3bsVaWr Audio Interface: amzn.to/31XXVvV Manfrotto Tripod: amzn.to/356r7Tq RGB LED Light: amzn.to/3i2eNqL Godox SL-60w Video Light: amzn.to/31Vtsyl Apple iPad Pro: amzn.to/3h0i20H

[@shami7819]

Send it to me! I live in Turkey.

[@gocman3]

How did you got Austin to collab?

[@psivewri]

@@gocman3 He saw a post I was made on Twitter about this Laptop and thought it was a good opportunity to colab 🙂

[@TechDude99]

I miss Vista

[@gocman3]

Psivewri I tried to contact him in order to give some tips for my channel, but he did not respond (kzbin.info/door/UucBt3tvCiGZ7wRbRmFa1w) on Twitter, if you would give me some tips or shared my channel, it would be awesome

[@austinevans]

Dude this laptop is legendary

[@Trixerdox]

Hi

[@imanotatro6yearsago75]

2 of my favorite KZbinrs lol

[@mannyhink1481]

Hi I'm a fan I always watch your videos

[@mcdaz06]

I had this laptop when it came out I had windows vista home premium on mine

[@Schnitzeldawg]

Wtf does broke vs pro gaming even mean

[@user-yh4sp2hn7n]

“Could be windows 8” 😳 imagine using a windows 8 laptop, could be me....

[@yoann_m491]

Like using an os made for touchscreens on non touchscreen laptop 😂

[@voteDC]

@@yoann_m491 The start screen was obviously made for touchscreens but who actually used it? I used Classic Shell to give me a proper start menu and rarely had to see the start screen.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

@@f1ameyy I had a Windows 8 tablet which I really liked. I loved the idea you can go from a classic desktop environment to a tablet environment. Then it forced me to upgrade - for free of course - to Windows 10 and the damn thing never worked again. #neverwindows10

[@MatlawtheGeek]

Windows 8 is really underrated. Such stable and quick OS compared to Vista/7. I also love the tiled start screen that allows for much more shortcuts.

[@yousefabdulrhman858]

omg we share the same dream

[@bennybouken]

I still like the design of windows vista overall.

[@karwan6385]

Same.

[@LBSiUK]

I spent like 3 hours making my copy of windows 10 look like vista

[@LBSiUK]

@Ard4x kzbin.info/www/bejne/laG7l4p3dtmogs0

[@LBSiUK]

@Ard4x I also used a startup sound changer to change the startup sound to the login sound of vista

[@mylesgray3470]

I think most of the hate on Windows Vista was regarding software compatibility issues. I had it for a few years back in the day and I liked it.

[@jamiekramer4694]

CONGRATS With a collaboration with Austin! ;D

[@philipsmith221]

kevin?

[@XXently]

Kevin lol

[@av28379]

Kevin!!!!!!

[@MetroGaming75]

Kevin 😂

[@noahhasty6368]

5:27 my childhood

[@aviationloverexpert7435]

If you enable the startup sound on Win 10, the one introduced for Vista was kept as that was the last new start up sound for Windows going forward

[@mickyleR]

Nobody: Austin: “Hello man... so the Acer Aspire 3680...”

[@Struwex]

omg this is a great start of 2020

[@uchihasasuke7436]

you had to jinx it for all of us lmaooo

[@tomwhiteley6051]

trust me it doesn't last

[@dailycricdose3249]

That didn't last to long

[@carlrazon9886]

Are you serious? Ahahaha

[@karm5802]

you really gotta jinx us like that

[@SombreroKnight]

An epic start to 2020 with a collab with Austin great video man.

[@robotomo4249]

Congrats on collabing with Austin! Your channel will surely grow to be massive! I can't wait to see what will be happening with your channel next year, let alone the next 10 years!

[@diegoramirez4844]

This was my first laptop, you brought great nostalgia when you opened it up and I remember the name Sunon on the heatsink. I think I was about 8 years old when I had it and it was a challenge taking it apart. I thought I killed it once when I put a paperclip in the VGA port and it shut off for 4 straight days then suddenly it booted overnight. It was a robust computer for sure, and I also had the half gigabyte of RAM. It was soooooooooo slow but I didn't know it cause it was also my first computer. I actually made a ton of KZbin videos with it too using Windows Movie Maker showing you how to fix little things on your computer. Yes, I used notepad and insert the song "Trance - 009 Sound System Dreamscape". Maybe if I had continued learning I would have made a hit KZbin channel, I was really into reviewing flipphones when I got a webcam. Thanks for bringing me back- a decade and some.

[@abyssgamingyt]

Windows Aero alone brings me nostalgia

[@hassaneldessouki]

I still have my old Vista PC and use it sometimes.

[@Parappadarappa2]

My dad still has a vista pc with a crt monitor it doesn’t have any internet hooked up and a copy of power dvd installed

[@hassaneldessouki]

nice to hear!

[@afloridian9758]

Psiverwi: talking calmly and seriously while saying that a webcam’s quality is that of a *P O T A T O*

[@Pixel-127q]

Lol

[@RichRacc]

Sounds like a newscaster saying something hilarious with a stone cold expression.

[@untrustedinstaller]

I couldn’t stop laughing for a smooth five minuets

[@mygeneralchannel9616]

ugly scp tato

[@lolozeeee]

Wow its like my early 2020 mac book air webcam quality

[@ImInSpainWithoutTheS]

Plot twist: ‘alexander’ is actually Linus

[@IntoTheMindlessAbyss]

Liquid Linus

[@ImInSpainWithoutTheS]

@Samuel Chertoff no fucking shit sherlock, the joke went right over your head

[@rarinth]

@Samuel Chertoff r/wooooosh

[@rogensonkriscoilan7812]

hahahaha

[@PhyuckYew]

9:38 YES!!! The eucalyptus oil

[@waelkwaikable]

Phew you finally posted, it’s been a year since you posted and I was so worried if you quit or something

[@LightTheUnicorn]

Quite amazing that a good few channels probably started off with hardware like this! I got a very similar model for free many years ago that had a dead display, I took the motherboard and mounted it to a projector. It was slow and looked a complete mess, but did a fine job playing DVDs!

[@JoeVGaming]

I remember having windows vista in 2009. It wasn’t that bad. I upgraded to Windows 7 in 2011.

[@ollie1444]

This is the best video you have ever made. It goes into so much detail. Keep going for 2020 👍

[@Sciesdraspsp]

jesus christ how was your birthday?

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Congratulations on your collaboration efforts. I’m excited for Austin’s video as well. (:

[@windowsvista1559]

Hey that’s me!

[@xxcronomaxx7986]

Fuck off vista.your a nightmare

[@arrivedknight7632]

Hey give vista some credit, without it. We would never know how to make windows 7.

[@allianceofvengeance]

I enjoyed this video a lot. Windows vista was the primary OS as a teenager. The keyboard on that laptop looks pleasant to type on. That front audio jacks are nice. The webcam pivot is great. I would have loved to see some OSRS played on this just for nostalgia! The computer that I used as a teenager was the HP Pavilion Slimline s3307c. If you ever find one of those computers, I would like to see it on this channel! Thanks again, peace!

[@springbok4015]

I remember having one of these in high school ~2007. This brings back memories even though it wasn’t that long ago.

[@jsking306]

Your trip down memory lane with Austin Evans was terrific. My first laptop was a boxy DOS 286 machine. I traveled on business a lot and it drew a crowd when I used it at an airport or hotel. No WiFi. Dial up modem. Best wishes for the new year. Oh, and my first cell phone was a portable "bag" phone.

[@nexus8350]

I KNEW THIS COLLAB WAS COMINNGGGG!!!!

[@richardadams4928]

I actually have FOUR of these. One running Windows XP, one on Vista, another with Windows 7, and the last sporting Fedora Linux. They were really pretty decent machines for the price, and the Fedora machine was my main laptop for a good little while. The build quality isn't half bad, the keyboard and screen are fairly nice, and the overall appearance is ressonably sleek. I was pretty happy with mine back in the day.

[@ablueberrya10]

Does all of of your laptops still worked?

[@richardadams4928]

@@ablueberrya10 Last I checked, that was only 6-8 months ago.

[@JoysonplayzYT]

Mine is windows 7

[@richardadams4928]

@@JoysonplayzYT Windows 7 ran surprisingly well on mine, although the specs would indicate it to be a bit underpowered.

[@JoysonplayzYT]

@@richardadams4928 what is ur model?

[@montmn]

Another laid back, informative video. Thanks mate.

[@cheesythegamer9771]

Happy 100k! Nice work am I’m looking towards your new vintage Mac repair! 100k sure is a milestone and I hope you enjoy!

[@howtobebasic2122]

i'm watching this video on the EXACT same laptop!!!!

[@StefanST]

Legend

[@joeplumley3238]

Hello you absolute legend!

[@mygeneralchannel9616]

It's a laptopception

[@FS--ew3se]

F

[@kooldudeno-lastname]

Him: all the way from Canada Me: I live there

[@mickyleR]

Me: this comment is retarded

[@JustA.Person]

@@mickyleR Me: u right

[@kooldudeno-lastname]

U guys suck

[@rajann44]

So lucky

[@malikfaisal416]

@@JustA.Person also me : Couldn't agree more

[@alexkadzhaya6424]

Maaan, I have been waiting for a new video for so long, keep up the good work💪🏻

[@TechFusions]

A blast from the past- it is amazing to see how much technology has come on since 2007!

[@realcartoongirl]

imagine taking this out at school or starbucks instead of a macbook

[@SilverSonic1992]

From my experience, bringing something like this will actually get you more attention than a Macbook. I brought an old ThinkPad (complete with XP!) and everyone asked about it and thought that it was a gaming laptop!

[@adwaitagnome]

@@SilverSonic1992 would agree. Macbooks are so common nowadays that it seems all too easy to ignore. Had a Toshiba C-50A for a while that got some of the same responses.

[@Renopus]

I would gladly bring a gem like this on a daily. For 3 years i had Vista with SP1 there were never issues i experienced with it.

[@windestruct]

Sadly I have desktop

[@windestruct]

@@CombatHD3 macbooks*

[@TheSektorz]

Congrats on this collab, dude. I assume you joined the MCN he's in?

[@psivewri]

I'm not apart of any MCN 🙂

[@dxsr]

Good

[@TheSektorz]

@@psivewri Great! Then this is the first genuine collab I've seen in a while, lol. Double-congrats! I hope tomorrow you get a massive sub boost, you deserve it.

[@LowBudgetKiwi]

Great video. I love when KZbinrs get together whether their channels are similar or nothing even remotely anything similar (And I don't mean the big guys just colabing for likes). I like genuine hookups like this.

[@swissbrony23ch72]

Bro, that Laptop brings me so much memories from my Childhood! Totaly enjoyed that content!

[@mdrumt]

Ooooh I see that CPU is socketed, I see room for an upgrade. Perhaps a Core 2 Duo!?

[@welshtechie6832]

I suspect TDP issues unless you could modify the heatsink would make this a no goer! no brainer is to use a light variant of linux!

[@mdrumt]

@@welshtechie6832 yes I thought that too, I didn't research which chip the lappy currently has. Perhaps an older 65nm celery? If so a more efficient 45nm core 2 and making sure its tdp is the same, or lower.

[@springbok4015]

Doubt it could handle a duo

[@uofm49426]

Pentium dual core has a tdp of 31 watts from 2007 the t2350 is 1.87 GHz dual core Linux still has support for Intel 9gpu run like lubuntu on it or xubuntu

[@johncate9541]

That was my thought. Pick up a T7400 for about $5 on the bay, put it in there, and install Linux and that old machine will be completely useful for everyday tasks.

[@Mrwhosethesus]

Happy New Year.. I already said that on Twitter.

[@ollie1444]

Nice

[@Filippoupolitis]

Finally. I freaking love your videos!!

[@wadeisfit5121]

So close to 100k! CANNOT WAIT.

[@RichardJobity]

Came to enjoy the video. Heard eucalyptus oil mention near the end. Leaving satisfied. Happy 2020.

[@SummonerArthur]

Why not upgrade its processor?

[@megakarlach2]

yeah, that processor is very old and even it cannot run Windows 10, and that Processor only works with Vista Home Basic.

[@TechDude99]

Happy New Year Psivewri and Austin Evans

[@onenamethatsit.6105]

Finally a NEW VIDEO!!! I WATCHED EVERY VIDEO YOU POSTED IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS! AND ALMOST EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE LAST YEAR!!!!!

[@Halterung01]

1,6GHz Celeron, my god.

[@lefteris.adamou.1]

9:02 you forgot to put thermal paste to the gpu

[@psivewri]

It actually used a rather tall thermal pad (Which seemed to be in good condition still). If I went ahead and just used thermal paste it wouldn't have even made contact with the heatsink.

[@PressThatButton]

If you go to 8:50 you can see there is an old thermal pad or paste stuck on the heatsink. I am guessing he did not remove it. The same goes for the mosfets right beside the CPU.

[@thtechnician]

Collab between my two of my favorite KZbinrs! Both of you guys are on my recommended channel list😄😄

[@michaelduffek2866]

Waiting for this channel subscribers to blow up with the AE collaboration! Well deserved!

[@MeDicen_Rocha]

Laptops like this are the reason why people hated Vista so much. Underpowered for everything over XP.

[@yotoprules9361]

i have a laptop with a Celeron M 380 (One in the video has a 370) and it came with XP, even has a "designed for XP" sticker. Also, the graphics have no official drivers for vista. The laptop OEM must have force installed the XP drivers (it does work, just without aero)

[@Attiliron]

Him: Is a Vista machine still usable today? Me: It was not even usable back then.

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

Worked fine for me

[@Attiliron]

girlsdrinkfeck To be honest, Vista was an unusable mess. Installing Vista turned reasonable fast computers of its time into slow mailing machines. Would be interesting to benchmark Vista against Win7 on the same machine.

[@AaBb-mc9sp]

actually people thought windows vista was bad because they had installed it on their old computers from like 2001 and couldn't get drivers for their old printers that the printer manufactuer never made new drivers for

[@megakarlach2]

​@@AaBb-mc9sp That Laptop showing in the video showing that it can only run Vista Home Basic (if you look at the stickers at the laptop). Windows Vista will run fast if you have Service Pack 2 and Platform Update (and Platform Update Supplement) installed on Vista. Only the RTM version was horrible.

[@Attiliron]

Aa Bb That’s not true. I had to manage a bunch of Thinkpad T61 notebooks which where very decent for it‘s time. Some of my clients wanted Vista, some stuck to Windows XP. Core2Duo 120GB SSD 2GB RAM Using Windows XP, the machines just ran fine. Installing Windows Vista on them made them terribly slow. The machines where swapping all the time, even with no applications running. Using Widgets made it even worse. Even maxing our the RAM to 4GB did not make it better. Installing Windows 7 helped.

[@famousfighter2310]

Always waited for this

[@syncopala]

Exactly one year from 2020 RN. Wow, its 2021

[@ignistrum]

Vista wasnt that bad

[@SortofGoodwithTech]

Depends some versions are super buggy

[@ignistrum]

@@SortofGoodwithTech sp3 w/ extended kernel is good tho imo

[@SortofGoodwithTech]

@@ignistrum my win vista laptop doesn’t have that it can’t even handle the calculator for a while it just divides numbers as soon as you put them in and settings quits if certain settings are changed

[@Pixel-127q]

I never got a like 🙁☹️

[@AlexJeffreyKain]

Great video! Brings back memories

[@shlonq]

I'm a huge fan of your channel. Your videos are great!

[@TheSilentjoker666]

Happy to see the collab congrats brother 👍

[@ross-carlson]

Hope you get a big bump in subs for this colab with Austin, hopefully it'll push you over the magic 100k subs mark. As a fellow creator (not this account) I wish you all the best in reaching that milestone, I'm not quite half way there myself.

[@genesiskun02]

This was the laptop I had when I was first experiencing the internet, we didn't even have wifi yet, all we had was dial-up.

[@chickenleg274]

Congrats on 100k!

[@alphaarchive5262]

Legendary collaboration, excelent video

[@ivanuremovic1199]

Great video, and congratulations for collaboration with Austin. I also got old HP Probook 4525S for free, but unfortunately motherboard was dead on that one. I managed to find a replacement one for like 50$, and it works without a single problem now. It's running Windows 7 and it has dual core AMD Phenom CPU. I upgraded RAM from 2GB to 4GB, and there is 320GB HDD inside. It's a cool laptop to mess around with, but unfortunately limiting factor is GPU which is not too good. It's some old ATI chip, and I tried running Mafia 2 on it, but it struggles even on low settings. But yeah, it was basically free, so I don't mind it.

[@thatgingerman1895]

finally, someone from Adelaide getting noticed on youtube!

[@nikolaszisoudis8408]

Happy new year,happy new decade!!!

[@nickp0834]

How can you not enjoy this man's videos, he is so polite. Thank you for the great content I've learned a lot watching your videos. Cheers mate from Wisconsin USA I've been to Sydney beautiful city and Melbourne also awesome city.

[@t0li0s]

i love how he used a music sheet stand as a tablet stand

[@ajfromca]

I had one of these back in the day also, all the memories. It looks like the CPU was socketed, may want to revisit this in the future and try to put a core 2 duo in to it to see if that gets anywhere with minecraft. I would bet a CPU from an early MacMini would work in it though I have not looked in to that.

[@at0mkutz222]

Psivewri was in 2020 hours before the USA! No wonder he was able to give us a video so quick 🤪. Happy new year, I thoroughly enjoyed this video.

[@ML-gx9rp]

Just subscribed to Austin Evans..like the look of his channel content 😀 Have a great 2020

[@kirachouinard3490]

omg the older XP version of this laptop was literally what my dad had when i was little. pretty sure it was the first computer i ever used

[@mattrichardson4351]

This is awesome.. I so so hope this gets more views

[@fishmanloveslinux7978]

Great video! I wonder how MX Linux would run on the 3680? Or even anTix? Maybe one day you can install one of these and see.

[@chakotayjaneway24]

Nice work as usual 😊 I still have my Acer Aspire 3690 running Ubuntu 12.04.5 😊

[@TyTystick]

I remember that boot chime even though I’m not that old. Brings back memories from in school, when all the computers had windows seven

[@trollsthatlol1]

Lol, I still run Windows 7!

[@neverstopz9045]

jumped over from Austin. You got yourself a new sub!

[@user-jm3ti1kg8n]

Love old tech great work true legendary man never forgot ❤

[@alexander.dc09]

Good luck with your 100k subs

[@masonghostz5316]

My brother sent you this laptop! He said thanks for reviewing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gamrroyale5928]

I have hp Compaq 6910p I love it never saw the windows Vista sticker always thought it was win 7 computer now it has win 10 love your videos

[@aiapaimei]

Love your vids!

[@leangxd]

Right now I'm watching this video on my 2007 Acer Aspire 4930 with Windows Vista Home Premium on it and with the same macbook wallpaper that is soo strange and heartwarming for me

[@kristoffseisler2163]

Thanks for the video Scarce

[@cristianflores1588]

The first laptop i've ever used was when my parents rented one. I believe it was a Gateaway Laptop runned by Windows Xp. Pretty much had like a week to use that since Laptops back in the day was somewhat expensive for my Parents use.

[@stephenravikumar7475]

Thank you so much for this Video

[@abdulrahaman0157]

I remember making my videos on a pc that would taunt while rendering. Good times..... I still love my old tech

[@melvis007]

Great Video! Always enjoy looking at old hardware and how it performs many years later. I have a old Compaq Laptop from around 2008 if you would like to do a video on it? im an Aussie ;)

[@LeonTichy]

This was my first laptop back in the day

[@Mboy556]

Drevo has amazingly looking good keyboards :D

[@gunny6517]

Great video and I noticed your Fitbit Ionic watch. How are you liking it and how long have you been wearing it? Cheers!!!

[@ThatDudeArvai]

I would love to see a challenge series. People would send in their laptops and you should see if you can repair it or get it running! I have a Powerbook G4 that I cannot for the life of me get an OS installed on. That could be your first challenge!

[@Piquliar]

I'm glad I learned about the Eucalyptus oil application that's gonna come in handy. I remember Vista and also remember liking XP a lot more back in the day, until windows 7 showed up that is :-)

[@kevinmahoney1995]

"hello guys and welcome to the first video of 2020" man, it's so funny seeing footage of people who had no clue what was ahead lol

[@astrocosma]

My father just brought me his old Windows Vista laptop to fix all the way from 2007, i’m trying to update it to Windows 10 here in 2020 and somehow I got recommended this video now

[@memepro9953]

This is one of my best laptops I have ever had I had exactly the same model

[@keenancooper9071]

Happy New year to you psivewri

[@bvanleeuwen254]

We bought almost the exact same model, since we still needed the modem, but after 6 months we installed XP Home, which made the performance so much better and upgraded the system to 2gb ram

[@ArtisticTrex54]

2020 was such a good year!

[@radicalraccoon]

I had a couple ancient laptops running Windows 98 and 95 (an IBM Thinkpad and Toshiba Satellite with a grayscale display, respectively) prior to this one, but the Acer Aspire 3680, without the webcam, was the first "modern" laptop I'd ever used at the time and I used it for a long time, even after the display got snapped off in an accident lol.

[@JD-tl7ld]

It's funny you bring this up today. I have a Toshiba dual core Vista laptop, that came new with a screaming 1gb of ram. It worked, but did everything super slow. I had to update the ram to make it usable. The OS was quite usable with with the ram upgrade, but Vista was still a resource hog.

[@nicholashoi3155]

Happy 100k subscribers