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This MacBook Pro Cost Only $10
My overview of a Late 2011 Macbook Pro 15-inch I picked up for only $10 last week.
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Installing Windows 11 on a 8 Year Old Dell XPS Laptop
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My overview of the Dell XPS 9360 from 2016 that I set up for my girlfriend to use for school. Music Used: SimCity 4 OST
$15 Dell Optiplex 9020M Mini PC Overview
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My overview of and thoughts on the Dell Optiplex 9020M, a micro form-factor PC from 2014 that I picked up from a surplus store.
Installing Windows XP on the $75 Dell Precision M4700 From 2012
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My attempt to install Windows XP Pro on the $75 Dell Precision M4700 from the last video and troubleshoot some inevitable issues that arose. M4700 Overview: ruclips.net/video/kSf3PHveJAs/видео.html Tools Used for Driver Troubleshooting: Legacy Update: legacyupdate.net/ Supermium Browser: github.com/win32ss/supermium
The $75 Workstation from 2012 - Dell Precision M4700
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My overview of a Dell Precision M4700 I picked up on eBay.
Is a $300 Workstation From 2013 a Good Choice for Cheap PC Gaming?
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My thoughts on the Dell Precision M4800 Workstation laptop and commentary on whether or not purchasing it is worth it for gaming. Music Used: Otis McDonald - Church of 8 Wheels (Benchmarks) Otis McDonald - Does it Float? (Intro) Software Used: Sony Vegas Pro 15 Open Broadcasting Software Adobe Photoshop
Man, just two days ago, I received in the mail, from my hometown of Dallas, TX, a rare, “dilapidated,” for-parts, thirteen-inch, 2012 MacBook Pro laptop that I paid FIVE dollars plus shippin costs. It has a cracked screen and some cover screws and a hard drive missin. Your video about your 2011 MacBook Pro resonates with me.
The screen will likely be the hardest to replace. You might be able to buy a whole display assembly to replace for pretty cheap though which is a lot easier to replace than the display by itself.
The SS logo next to the USB ports stands for superspeed, that means they're all usb 3. I was also confused when I bought my Dell precision 5520 in 2017 and all the USB ports were black. Also those T processors are really interesting, they are standard socketed desktop processors that fit in the same socket/motherboard as your regular non-T or K processors. Unfortunately they're usually only sold to large businesses, as the T stands for "tray". I've long thought about buying a second hand T processor like an i5 12600T to put in a home theater PC because they run more efficiently than a regular processor.
That Mac should have the ability to NetBoot, connect the Ethernet and press opt + cmd and R after power up and see if the question mark changes to a spinning globe. Worth a try :)
That did indeed work! It showed the globe and then restarted and went back to the flashing folder but I’m guessing that happened because there’s no drive in there. Nevertheless I’m assuming the fact it was able to even attempt the NetBoot is a good sign.
@ Yes, I guess a disk is needed for it to work, try if you have a 2,5” sata drive around Cool!
I have a drive coming in soon so I’ll have to try it then. I did some research though and it says a disk image needs to be setup on the network so I’m not sure it’ll be possible. The fact I was able to access the screen for it and didn’t have any apparent screen or keyboard issues is promising though.
No webcam in this laptop?
Most configurations I have seen since one, but not this one. Same with the keyboard backlight.
That thing under the heat sink should be the south bridge chip! It basically handles IO, USB, sata, pcie and other interfaces. It😅 works in tandem with a Northbridge chip.
it's a WI-FI antenna!!! You should broaden your BASIC IT knowledge if you want a future in streaming about IT,HARDWARE etc...unless you wanna rabble
I glanced at the spec sheet while making the comment my bad bro
i7 4785T is validated by Dell as it's 35W, the same as the 4590T. The 4790T is 45W so is not validated but theoretically should work. The cooler may not handle it though.
i used to daily a m4800 with the dual core i5, used it for the longest time, up until 2-3 years ago, when i bought a used xps 9510, but not too long ago, i found a better specced out m4800 (i7 4810mq, 1080p), and bought it for less than the cost of the 4810mq itself. still using that alongside my xps. love coding on it ngl.
Still a good machine as long your aren’t doing anything crazy. You could upgrade the CPU to a 4940mx but for the amount of money you’d have to spend I doubt it would be worth it.
This computer does have an expansion port on it. The black connector by the CMOS battery is a port expansion header. You can buy a selection of add on ports to give you more external IO, and the port is mounted to the knockout in the back of the case. I would personally buy the HDMI add on port and use it as a media computer for the TV. I have a Lenovo Think centre Tiny that I use just for this purpose and it works great.
I should’ve been more clear, I was talking about PCIe when I said “expansion slot”. Good information to know though.
Shift + F10 to bring up Command Prompt and then type: oobe\bypassnro would have gotten you past the login. Simple. Just restarts the setup.
Good to know. Don’t have much experience with Windows 11 but it’ll be useful in the future.
@ yea I don't like the forced login requirement.
SS on a USB port means "super speed" = USB 3 speeds!
I like to use these mini Dell PC's as media players (connected to my TV with a mini wireless keyboard with integrated touchpad)!!!!👍👍👍
20-30 watts at idle. No go for server.
annnnnnnnndd its all over my screen
Brother
I have 3 of those mini PCs, a Dell, a HP, a Lenovo all essentially very similar 7" sq PCs, they all run on a Skylake 6100T chip dual core 4 thread, and the Dell one lets me run Win7 on it with a Gigabyte USB3 patched installer. The other 2 have not allowed that so far so will have to run Win 10 or Linux. Mine cost about $100 or so from Microcenter. One of these days I will try Haiku OS and Hackintosh just because... After Skylake its damn impossible to get Win 7 running except in a VM. The machine you have is still well worth the $15 and could run Win 7 without hassle.
Please get a clue. Your so lost .
I am still using a Dell Inspiron bought in 2012 with Win 7. Except for a few scraches and dead pixels, everything still works great. I could do office tasks, watch movies, and play casual games fine. Dell laptops really have amazing durability.
In my experience anything that wasn't low end when it brand new and isn't made out of plastic will last a while. When I was in high school I was using a Vista era Latitude with a dual core and 4GB of ram and had very few issues. Would be a different story today but I was able to do it during the late 2010s.
Antenna is for the wifi it also takes a M2 SSD as well as the 2.5in drive. It has connection for HDMI connector up to 64mb ddr3 memory. Nice compact little machine.
Those were aimed at business, hence the DisplayPort rather than HDMI. Very common in retail, hospitality, restaurants, medical offices, hospitals, etc. These were often mounted on the back of the monitor or under the monitor shelf, where it's small size kept it out of the way, and unnoticed.
Makes sense. I assume these things were more popular before laptops took over most offices and tablets replaced a lot of POS systems.
No Windows 11 for you!
I bought two newer different ones second hand for about 100 euro each. Most Dell service contracts end after 5 years, so they dump them. This is an old model. They come in various different configurations. Mine have both HDMI and Displayports, besides one also having a VGA slot. The brass screw is for a small external WiFi antenna as the casing is metal. It requires a tiny Wifi card. They come with basic SSD's for like the OS. You can add an Nvme next to it. The newer models come with quad cores also, use really low power and are basically silent despite the fan. Great computers for all kinds of basic stuff running W11. They come with a service tag making it very easy to use Dell support for installing drivers and all.
Core 4th gen CPU PCs can do many things, especially if you stop think of it as needing a monitor for more than initial setup and upkeep. It is an overkill home assistant, if you are into home automation. Like others have said, it can be a great small NAS with the SATA M.2 and Sata drive connection. You have WiFi on it, as well as, and a network port, so you could turn it into a firewall/router/AP with IPfire, pfSense or OPNsense, but the 16GB RAM is way more than what is needed. You CAN upgrade the CPU, but you already have one of the better ones for the Micro form factor and any upgrade would create more heat to dissipate. I currently use this exact model in my kitchen for internet recipes and food videos (@720p).
150 to 200 euros in my country ...
Wow. What country? That seems excessively high for hardware this old.
r/MiniPC's: "am i a joke to you?" Intel nucs are even smaller. They even have PCs that are the size of fire sticks. minisforum makes them in a N100. Also 1. That is a wifi/ BT attenta. 2. The T in The CPU name is low wattage, but isn't laptop which usually has U at the end. 3. Lots of times the Wi-Fi chip can be pulled out and you can put an m.2 sata m key in.
I'll have to check that community out. I've heard of NUCs but I assume they don't have the same appeal or as large of a customer base as these ones which were intended for enterprise use cases. Could very well be wrong though, I don't know much about them. Also, the Wi-Fi chip is not in an M.2 slot, however there is one tucked away under the driver caddy that I missed in this video.
Intel NUCs are a it smaller, but a lot more expensive for the consumer. Even when people start selling their NUCs the secondary market will be small compared to these previous office machines.
@@ColinSlater33 two of the big mini PCs that aren't one of the big legacy brands are Minisforum and Beelink. Also Asus just bought out the NUC brand from Intel.
Put Linux on it
I might, depends on what I end up doing with it.
@@ColinSlater33 this would be a great Batocera machine. Or homelab. Or whatever doesn't require a GPU, as the processor is actually kind of good, and with 16GB of RAM you're golden. Haswell still holds up today for a lot of things. I'm still using a Haswell chip (2 actually, both i5-4590) and with an SSD it's quite tolerable, can even run Windows 11 on it (unofficially, but hey I got it to work, and it carried over my Windows 10 license key, so it's legal) and my main rig is running a rolling-release distro of Linux (specifically Garuda) so to say that it's outdated, while true, is not to say that it can't run current operating systems and be usable.
I run this exact same unit as my homemade server of sorts...with OpenMediaVault and a variety of personal services like Pihole, a BOOTP server, some old gameservers (Quake3, UnrealTournament etc). With a M.2 SSD for Debian and a 2TB drive for data. Runs absolutely great! and got it for like $15 haha.
Very good to know. My friends are talking me into using it to run a Minecraft server. I missed the M.2 slot when making the video and luckily people have been pointing it out.
@ColinSlater33 check out LinuxGSM, it makes setting up game servers so much easier!
@@ColinSlater33 check out LinuxGSM, it makes setting up gameservers so much easier!
That external antenna is for wifi,I believe.Being that this is a 4th Gen Intel,it cannot run Win11 legitimately ,so a Linux or Dual boot Win 10/Linux is in order to future proof it. Well worth your 15 bucks.
Certainly a good deal. Could definitely put Windows 11 on it if I really wanted too, it's not hard to get around the TPM requirement. I believe you may be right about the antenna, that's what I get for only working with laptops 90% of the time.
@@ColinSlater33 You can see the cable going from the antenna jack to the WiFi card...
Yep, definitely see it now. Did not see it originally.
Yes, it can run win 11 iot legitimately
These are definitely not rare, they sell in the millions for basic office use, especially to large corporations, universities and the like where there's a demand for small, easy to install yet still somewhat serviceable computers, where space savings is a benefit, and where performance requirements are moderate. They're still common today, despite laptops being far more of the default now than ten years ago. Also, 8GB of RAM has been insufficient for even a basic office worker's application load for... well, maybe not ten years, but not far off. Oh, and that antenna connector is for the WiFi, nothing more complicated than that. You can even see it's connected to the m.2 WiFi card inside the case.
Very interesting, I had assumed this were somewhat rare given the fact I've countless standard full towers and SFF PCs but had literally never seen one of these until a few days ago. The appeal makes sense though, pretty much everything I guessed they might be used for in the video appears to line up with the research you did and what you said. Not sure I agree with the 8GB of ram not being enough for office applications when this thing was likely to be in use though. I was using 8GB in an office setting as recent as two years ago and had no issue. There's obviously a lot of variation in the resource needs for office applications, but I'd be willing to guess the type of customer purchasing a PC in this form factor is not going to need it for intense office workloads.
@ColinSlater33 That likely means you've been more exposed to more performance sensitive operations (say, natural or computer science departments at universities, etc.), as regular desktops are essentially never bought for regular office use these days - without add-in-cards they're 90% empty air, bring no real benefits, consume more power (which starts to matter even for a few watts when you're running thousands of them) and unless you've got a need for compute or graphics acceleration or other accelerators, the PC will be using the iGPU and no other AICs. And the large size of a regular desktop is a poor fit for today's terrible working conditions, uhm, sorry, "flexible workspaces", where space saved means money saved - though they're still perfectly usable in a regular office setting too. At the university I work at this form factor or the marginally larger ones (with an integrated PSU but no PCIe slots) have been the default desktop option for more than a decade, though these days the vast majority of people use laptops. And you might have had an okay experience with 8GB, but most likely your computer is using a decent amount of swap space - I regularly run close to my 16gb with my regular workload of a couple of word docs, outlook, teams, some pdfs and a few Firefox windows loaded with tabs (less than a hundred total, but still a few), plus some background tasks and management software. Windows is pretty decent at dealing with this, especially with an ssd, but more ram will still make the system more responsive (though more than 16GB is overkill unless you use chrome and have far more tabs open than me).
Very good to know. In the office environments I've worked in I have pretty much seen only laptops, which makes sense given the trends towards remote work and "flexible workspaces" as you call them over the past few years. I could definitely see these things being more popular before laptops became the standard in offices but I don't see why they would be very popular these days outside of use cases where a company wants a computer to stay in one place for information security reasons while also having strict space requirements.
Nice score, but you missed the M.2 NVMe interface next to the SATA connector. You can turn these into a low-power file server or Multimedia server by adding a 2-4 TB SATA drive for the data and a small NVMe for the OS. 🤓
Looks like I did miss the m.2 slot. I am definitely leaning towards using it as a server as this point as I'm not quite sure what else to do with it.
I don't think this generation had NVMEs, they only had NGFF SATA. P
@@mrkdosmil2879 I had a Z97 motherboard which was 4th gen Intel and that had NVMe. It was only Gen 2x2 but yeah, NVMe was a thing, even back then.
SS means Super Speed so those are USB 3.0. I don't know why they aren't blue. Hmmm. I have been looking for a micro for some time but I want a specific one. Another great video! Keep it up!
Thank you for your feedback! I have to assume these things are pretty rare since I had literally never seen them before making this video despite the ubiquity of Dell office computers and their niche appeal. There's plenty online from what I've seen but I doubt you're likely to stumble upon one in the wild like with other Optiplexs.
For multiple years Dell was not coloring USB3.0 ports on business line machines. It's a little frustrating plugging things in needing to remember which ports are the 3.0 because where I put my tower I don't have good lighting to see the tiny labels. The blue would be easy to see.
Great video! You do the same stuff like me, I just dont upload it. lol. I have two old Dell Precision. M6400 with a Core2Extreme and a M4800. I actually got 3 Operating systems running on the M6400... XP, Vista, & Win7! It's great! They are great old machines. It was a task to get all three on but it was well worth it! For drivers, especially doing what you do, I found that SnappyDriver is a MUST! It finds all the drivers! Ive only ever come across maybe one or two that it doesn't have. If you do a complete download its almost 40Gigs but you will never have driver issues again. Especially with older machines like these! Keep it up! I was thinking of starting stuff like this! I just got my hands on HP's Premium HDX laptops, both 16 and 18"! They are awesome!
Triple booting operating systems sounds like a huge headache, must've been a pain to set up. I'll definitely need to look into those drivers since most manufacturers aren't the best with providing drivers for old hardware. Haven't worked on an HDX before but they look like interesting machines.
@ The BIOS settings were the pain. But once they are set everything went so smoothly. Vista and 7 on a partitioned SSD and XP on a mechanical drive! Then snappy driver and legacy update! And yes because of their ageost manufacturers are removing those downloads..
M4700 M6700 M4800 M6800 age like finewine. Im still regularly working on these for friend and customer and i still know people here still making money on them as work laptop and some entertainment too.
I agree. They're past the point of being able to play modern games and complete intense tasks, but their wide array of ports and high build quality makes them a pretty good option for day-to-day tasks and any legacy software.
@ColinSlater33 True. Pretty much most game right around 2018 and back can play on all of these if the laptop was maxed out soo m2200 mxm on 15in and 1080 mxm on 17in I think. Also ptm7950 and some undervolt goes a long way on these, the same applies all the way to 7750
the 17 inch variants definitely can handle the upgrades better. Better thermals to handle the CPU/GPU and more options for MXM upgrades. A maxed out M6800 is a still a very capable machine, however the opportunity cost of upgrading a 6800 to a 1080 and 4940mx is pretty high when you consider the fact that the money spent could put a pretty big dent in the amount needed to purchase a much more powerful modern laptop. Definitely something fun to do but probably not the best option for most people.
@@ColinSlater33 Yeah true. Still love them though. Most of the upgrade i did here just for people that REALLY REALLY like it.
Lol I had one of these 10 years ago!
They're definitely showing their age at this point but these machines still have some pretty decent uses and are good collectibles if you can find them for cheap.
@@ColinSlater33 my family in Mexico still uses this laptop that I gave to them in 2015 for facebook and old school runescape I made sure to give them the SSD and 16gb before sending it to them still a great value for low income families
haswell and ivy bridge have the exact same IMC so they both support ddr3l up to 2133
only thing good luck finding ddr3l 2133 , kingston made it and corsair did to but it is hard to find so 1866 is the best way to go
@@amdintelxsniperxVery good to know. Wasn’t even aware 2133Mhz DDR3L existed. Will have to look into it.
2024 - ordered one early this week for about 200 USD equiv. I used an older M6400 17" at work some years ago and was impressed. Only now I found a cheap Precision for myself. (I also have a heavy 17" Inspiron from 2008 that still works well) Some say Dell's laptops are junk these days. IDK, but the Precision line must be up there with ThinkPads IMO.
Does the keyboard has a backlight?
yes
This laptop is nice but super inconsistent for me it sometimes run great and other times it’s terrible might be because of mines battery health being 19% of its original life. Also ran terrible whenever it wasn’t plugged in even at a higher battery health just wish it could run guilty gear 😞
My old job gave me a bunch of these machines since they were going through a refresh. Best day ever, loaded up like 10 of them into my trunk juste before covid started. Would hand them out like candy to friends and family that needed them.
Been running this laptop for years. Great machine, and it's damn near indestructible. If I may offer some of my own 2 cents for those of you looking to get one: --Don't go above the 47W processors, stick with the 4910MQ and below to get the most performance. I have a 4930MX I bought for it just for the meme factor, and under a consistent load, it can barely even reach base clocks let alone boost clocks without thermal throttling. Trust me, you won't be overclocking this thing unless your room's ambient temperature is sub-freezing. --DDR3 1866MHz is not really worth it. You'd be better off sticking with 1600MHz, but going for a full 32GB. --You can use the Quadro M2200 MXM Type A card in it (which I think is from a 7th gen Precision?) but the GPU die will be a little bit wider than the heatsink. It will still be fine as-is, but what I did was put some very thin 1mm thick thermal pad slices (1.5mm will be fine too) on the ends of the GPU heatsink to make it contact the small slices of GPU die that hang over the edge. Then, after thermal paste on the copper part and reassembling the machine, it seems to work fine. The Quadro M2200's horsepower in benchmarks is approximately equivalent to a GTX 1050 Max Q. --Related to the point above, even if you're using a Quadro GPU, always get the nVidia Game Ready Drivers if you want to game on this machine. Quadro drivers seem to auto-throttle your card at around 50-55 Celsius, whereas with the Game Ready Drivers I've seen this thing go 75C+ (which also MASSIVELY boosted game performance). To install Game Ready drivers, run the driver setup and let the program extract its files. Then, before the installer closes, copy the C:\NVIDIA\ folder to another directory, and cancel the NVIDIA installer. You do this so the temp driver files aren't deleted upon installation failure. After that go into Device Manager and manually install the GPU driver via INF, using that copied-directory you made earlier. It should be in Display.Driver, you can use the first INF in that directory.
Does the keyboard had a backlight?
Iam about upgrade my dell precision m4700 to a 15.6 4k display and a nvidia gtx 980m 4gb gpu the 4k display is from a dell precision m4800 it fits the m4700 perfectly i just ordered the nvidia gtx 980m gpu off ebay
I have a used M4700 16GB ram 256 SSD intel i7 core - 3520M CPU@ 2.90GHz AMD FirePro M4000 Mobility WiFi ...??? Broadcom wireless driver issues and would appreciate some guidance I love this Machine looking to go 32gb and would appreciate some and vice as to how to truly and properly upgrade it . thanks I'm missing so much and again second hand it's unlocked but It won't let me download certain things advice Please Anyone???
If you’re having software issues I would just reinstall Windows as that should clear up any issues relating to restrictions or problems with the previous owners installation. As for upgrades I would recommend the CPU over the ram. The 3520M is a dual core and these days it’s becoming increasingly harder to get by with one.
@@ColinSlater33 A bit confused, because, I have Service Tag #, but no Asset Tag# it's blank and on the website it shows me and the previous owner above me and when he got rid of it in 2016. Yet theirs so many hidden restrictions and on the Official Dell website and through Windows update, theirs policy restriction, I've done some in-depth research,(to include: reaching out to Dell), and in regedit,( which, I don't like and nervous), I also see alot of restricted stuff. Sorry for the long response, and late, I appreciate your rapid feedback, also FYI, I have full access to the Bios and its been updated to the A19 Version via, Dell's website thanks
I have a dell precision m4700 it came with a 15.6 1080p display the cpu is an intel core i7 extreme edition 3940XM cpu the ram 32gb of ddr3 ram the hard drive is an 2tb ssd also has 256gb msata drive a dvdrw drive i put windows 11pro on it by following a RUclips video my question is can i upgrade the unit to a blu-ray drive and can i play games on this workstation notebook i have xbox game pass for pc for got the gpu is a NVIDIA Quadro K2000M with 2gb of on board ram and Microsoft HD 4000 graphics thanks i traded my hp 2000 windows 8.1 notebook for it i think it was a good deal from a family member who daughter needed a lighter notebook for school
I have two M4800s, both run like bats out of hell. Who cares how big they are? Build quality is great and you can remove and replace parts when needed. Best money I ever spent has always been on old equipment.
I Agree
I saw a M4700 on ebay is that good?
Pretty good performance
I've just bought an M6800 with i7-4810, NVIDIA Quadro K3100M, Intel HD4600, 16gb Ram, and 480gb SSD, and it won't play a 3D game at all smoothly. Downloaded a 3D Mark demo, and it just stutters. Should it play OK on this system ?
I have the same laptop but with a quadro m1000, the 1080 display can actually overlock to 80hz, felt amazing in minecraft and csgo.
Do you get those times when you think you shot someone,but it doesn't though? That is a problem with low Refresh rates
Pretty cool video, i bought a m4600 for 100 bucks off some crackhead and got this gpu on ebay for 50 bucks and I used it for about half a year and it worked fine.
I thought since it was from 2013 highest end it would perform like an xbox one or ps4 level
I picked up a 7520 for about 350 after taxes and shipping but it was sold as non working. I took the risk and I found out it just took about a min of holding the power button to get it to post. It also turns out it already had 16gb of ram and the i7 6820 and quadro m1200.
beautiful,
@@saadomar1101 I also was able to Swap in a MXM 1050ti and mod the drivers to make that work as well.
@@JamieTheEnby that's some cool upgrade as well for a solid machine like that one.
The M67/800 are better choices, and can do even better when fully upgraded.
That's for sure, but they are often more expensive so its a tradeoff people would need to consider.
The best cards to install in these machines is the NVIDIA Quattro M2200 with 4 GB GDDR5.
@@applepoop10 Who told you that? The M67/800 can use RTX A5000 cards(With custom heatsinks) and the M47/800 can use the Quadro T1000.