I once worked for a medical company that used those exact HP tablet laptop PCs. Back when they came out, there weren't a lot of other options that had a touch pen and swivel screen. They had a high failure rate, and sometime in 2008 it started getting difficult to find parts for them.
I actually worked in a hospital system as a PC tech around 2014 or 2015. One administrator actually still wanted to use his old ball mouse instead of modern optical mouse. I've seen tons of tablet PCs before everything was upgraded. They were using Fujitsu laptops with the stylus. Thankfully the swivel action is built into the laptop but yeah parts were not easy to get, especially since they only got them through their contracts. No picking up discounted parts from eBay or any other provider here. Now were they reliable? It's been far too long since I was employed by the subcontractor and didn't work long enough. I was only contracted for 3 months. I miss those older laptops. They were so easy to service if they needed a new battery or something else.
I am over 60. My father purchased the Super Pong for my brother and I when I was 13, and he was 12. We played this thing until it eventually broke. It was the beginning of my lifelong love of Computer Games. And yes, it was 1976, I remember because it was during our very small cities bicentennial celebration.
13:45 Hi Austin what you said is right. Back in 2012 nothing ran on the Surface RT except for windows apps. But now in 2023 I found out that there is a team who cracked (somehow) windows to load windows 10 on it and with some several tweaks you can install a lot of windows 10 programs.
My local Goodwill recently had a Synology DS1019+ for $20. Bought it basically untested since it didn’t have the power supply, but went on Amazon, got a $30 power supply for it, and it works perfectly fine
You could pick up very similar RF switches at Radio Shack back in the day. Probably whoever had owned it just chucked it in the box. Maybe it was included originally but could just be a random one. I drooled over a lot of those early game consoles in the Sears Christmas catalog and studied the images of the games, I very clearly remember that Odyssy ad! The first console we got was Colecovision, which had the BEST baseball game for decades. Better control of all players, pitches, running speed, it was a dream come true, with the Super Action Controllers, and the graphics of games got a lot better, but it took a few generations of consoles to reach the level of control you had over all aspects of the game. (Well that was a tangent!)
i actually paid 3,200 for that hp tablet when i first bought it and yes this is paul the original owner of the tablet and it was stolen from a break in of my home years ago and i used it for when i was a IT at a company i used to work for that went out of business it is crazy to see it on your channel lol
For Super Pong, if you wanted to see if it would work, run the cable from the Pong unit directly into the yellow composite input on the TV, rather than through the RF modulator switchbox. Since the speaker is on the actual Super Pong unit, I suspect that the cable off of it only has composite video, and doesn't need to be converted to RF. The graphics would probably would look a bit better, or at least cleaner, if this works.
Man I had one of those TC-1100's and I LOVED it. I liked the keyboard and all but honestly using it as a tablet PC was fantastic. I used it during college for note taking and the handwriting recognition was surprisingly good, while my colleagues used laptops there was something much more natural about scribbling on the tablet and this was well before such form factor was commonplace. XP Tablet Edition was *rough* but it worked well enough that overall I had a positive experience. It was very easy for me to upgrade too and the bevy of ports allowed me to make a neat dock for it. There's no reason to use one now given how much more advanced things are these days but I admire that computer so much.
As an owner of Windows RT. i loved that little bugger and still have it today. it was way ahead of its time. the app support on it was so bad. it worked for me because it had what i needed at the time but boy was it useless for other things.
I can't remember the name of it but had a knockoff of the RT1 and really liked it - it was slow as it didn't have enough ram and a slower processor but was ahead of it's time for sure 💯
I might start checking out Goodwill‘s mainly to look around because in my local one in town when I was there for a job interview, I found a really good condition Bradleygames GTA vice city strategy guide and I got it for a buck.
You should update that HP tablet, put a 4GB stick in, a IDE to Sata adapter for a SSD. Also you might be able to upgrade the CPU, Centreno was used for a line of cpu's from PM up to Core2 Duos.... Centrino was more less codename for intel cpu with a intel wifi nic combo. Also you could try win10 or use Andriod OS for X86 or just put ubuntu with Gnome 3 which is tablet friendly. Also the surface you could install andriod on that as well.
going online without an offline install of a updated virus program is not very good, here it takes about 0.3 seconds and you have blaster virus automatically on your harddrive, ready to endless rebott your computer lol when ever I go online on ancient system like xp, win 7 etc....I always install security offline first....as I tried and tested it many times, complete wipe and new install and you get blaster worm before you download antivirus
Lol Verizon gave all the market Managers those surface laptops back when they came out. All I really remember was how shitty and slow they were just working with Excel not to mention how much worse it was using iur internal systems
I bought the original Surface RT tablet. It was a great piece of kit back then. I mostly used it as a laptop for school, and it did do everything I asked it to. Also it was the only tablet capable of running Office. Back then I also had a windows 8 computer and a Windows phone and all 3 of them used to work perfectly in sync of each other. App support wasn't great, but apps weren't really that big yet. Over the years the battery died and there is no way to replace it. Therefore I now only use it as a glorified digital picture frame running a loop of pictures in my gallery.
That's not a surface rt, it's a surface 2, which also had the arm processor and thus the rt version of windows 8.1. You can tell because it's the wrong color. I know because I bought a non functional one for the power supply and keyboard, which also work with the surface pro and pro 2 as well as the actual surface rt, that came with it. It was only $40 including shipping on ebay.
I was looking for this exact comment. I used to use the original RT for school work and YT and that was black, unlike the grey of the surface 2 RT. I still use it every now and then for the nostalgia.
I got a black xbox 360 slim not glossy with a Kinect and a controller with just cause 2 and disc 88# the one 2008 for just under 100$ All working from the display case not even from the website.
Mannnn seeing the Surface RT gave me nostalgia lmao I think I had the 2nd version? also on ARM and very limited but was awesome for school read so much manga on it, good times Edit: lmao I commented just before Austin mentioned he got it because of nostalgia
Those old windows xp tablet computers were mostly used in hospitals and ambulances for patients to be able to sign digital versions of forms. I know this because I was on the patient end a lot growing up (and even now) and recognized that second device shown immediately, lmfao. Apparently a perk of being chronically ill was being able to watch tech evolve on a practical standard, and, honestly, part of what got me into tech in the first place (the second part being my love of gaming since the age of 3, lol).
Remember being a kid. Loosing that switch box. And not being able to play those 70s/80s consoles. (I'm an 90s kid.) But loved the classics as a kid and still do.
That moment when someone is playing a game from your childhood and calls it really old...queue the Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence...oh wait that makes me old too 🤣
"Who donates this stuff to goodwill" as a former goodwill employee, most of the good stuff is kids cleaning out granparents house and such, and dont want to deal with sales, so they donate anything that looks good just to get rid of everything
I can guarantee you that DS was not put in there and then not touched till 2007 because they would still be dirt and grime in there someone that owned it cleaned it regularly probably
I hate that goodwill does this now. Years ago, I worked less than a block from goodwill. I went multiple times a day. In a span of a year, I had a massive retro video game collection. Consoles, games, you name it. I even had an extremely rare japanese black dreamcast. I had probably 200 dollars in a collection worth thousands. Thats how its supposed to be at a thrift store.
I like how Austin is always willing to take apart things and take a look inside them. Cool to see the insides of hardware and how dirty a old xbox can get.
Ngl, back in 2014 when XBOX ONE and the PS4 came out, and you had the new menus... they actually felt so refreshing. PS3 had its XMB (I was an PS3 guy), which is had since it started, and the XBOX360 changing its interface every year or so... what they both had was so refreshing and interesting. Nostalgia, while now they are all too busy and too much. :D Moved to PC in 2012 myself tho.
Matt: *every five seconds" pEoPlE r gUnNa giT mAD My reaction: uh, have you met the internet? People are going to get mad no matter what you do. Even if you simply breath you'll have people getting mad that you did
As someone who worked for Surface support and had to support the RT I can tell you for a fact that thing is not a piece of history, it's a POS. Those things were awful, they supported basically no apps, if the app store for it went down it was a paperweight. At customer support we couldn't even remote in to help people cause there were no apps for it! Screw that thing!
Ive given this video 1 like, as i couldn't give you all the likes as you, like me, are an OG Titanfall 1 Stan... we, sir, could be good friends and even better enemies on the battlefields of The Frontier... bravo my good man, bravo indeed
I have better luck with Goodwill than I have with Ebay. I like to buy broken consoles. I may pay a little more for GoodWill, but I've yet to be shipped a system that was in unfixable condition. Ebay on the other hand has sent me some nasty consoles.
I got a old fan from the 70's and when i plugged it in it started smoking 😂 the motor was fried lmao. Edit: i even found a Tfue monitor for 10 bucks. I was gonna buy it but it didn't turn on, bummer
That xbox isn't that bad i have seen worse from someone eles who ordered a backwards compatible PS3 from dkoldies & they opened it & said it was like a "desert" & every time they open any console that is dusty they say it's nowhere near as bad as the dusty 1
I go to goodwill frequently, i have so many hard drives from there... Please please remember to erase your data because goodwill and/or other thrift stores are not so careful with that, trust me...
You should do a video where you buy stuff from a real goodwill. Sometimes you go there and find an iPod dock typewriter combo and sometimes you go there and find a nuclear weapon.
i still have that HP tablet, i have windows 7 with 1gb of single sd sodimm ram, with 40gb hdd, sadly mine is in rough shape as they been used in the fire department and RCMP police back in early 2000's, mine is the Celeron 1.2ghz, i have 4 with WORKING batteries. and yes the unit gets very hot running youtube at 144p, 480p the unit overheats, it uses a REAL wacom tablet screen but its requires that special pen as its digitized threw it. i also have the FULL dock that mounts to a DVD player and separate second desktop HDD in the dock. sadly recently these machines really struggles with recent internet protocols and the wifi is terrible in those.
So... the first computer that Microsoft Sold to consumers was the Surface... nothing attached, but now referred to as the Surface Table. (Or Pixelsense apparently) You personally could have seen one at Disneyland, inside of Innoventions, it was a literal table, with a large 52 point multi touch display, designed for several people to work on at once, and ran at the low price of about $10,000 per unit. And yes, they did in fact actually sell them. edit* to add date... announced in 2007 and actually shipped in May of 2008, and sold through 2013.
Wife and I live in Iowa theres goodwills everywhere! I find some of the best tech, collectibles, videogames, dvds, vhs, blu ray all super cheap in great condition! More than half the time the employees have NOO idea what they're sitting on and I buy it up fo next to nothing:) I got a 200$ grogu for 5 bucks, The whole collection of Star Trek collecible plates easily worth over 1k for 10 bucks!
So I must correct you on the Surface, that is a Surface 2. The second generation of the Surface RT and I guess the third computer Microsoft sold, If you count the Surface Pro line. It is a minor upgrade over the Surface RT upgrading from a tegra 3 to a tegra 4 and a 720p screen to a 1080p screen, also it is lighter then the RT. I still use mine, thought with a goofy hack Windows 10 setup, mostly to watch youtube on sometimes, play games I have on it, amusingly not to browse the web at all because their is no good web browser thanks to microsoft locking it down.
The Surface 2 is still usable in 2023, it just doesn't work well for most things. I converted mine a couple years ago to be a portable media center; it has all the main streaming apps installed and I purchased a mini-hdmi to hdmi cord so it can be plugged directly into a TV rather than trying to cast it. I also added a 512gb microSD so I can load up personal media for when we go on trips where there won't be wifi. The only problem with it is that the keyboard just stopped functioning so now it is just relegated to being a dust cover; I'm not sure if this issue is with the connection port or the keyboard itself.
I own some of these Surfaces (granted free to me because most was tpm bootlocked or whatever and was deemed unssellable by my then boss), upgrade them to win ten. Yeah sure still sluggish and aint the greatest but usable. Infact, I do thank you Evan as I have found some more of the surfaces on goodwill. And i'll galdly buy em. Winten on these are still way better then their 8.1 version. And the only thing ill use zoom on because I want to punish zoom users, sadly it does well in those. >_>
old tech is kinda interesting .... I was super emberassed a few days ago when we got a new Monitor to test and the Camera could be either used by usb-c or by usb-b but not b3 but the old b and I was like "I have no idea what kind of new port this is, we don't have any cable for this" .... took me a while to remember that USB-B 1 and 2 were actually looking different from 3 and that it was actually one of those XD
actually austin thats not entirely true its usable just not windows 8.1/10 but win7 would be better for it but it run better as everyday day to day linux laptop even for 2023/24 since linux is a light weight os the best linux distros would linux mint/ubuntu LTS22/23 and that the same for that hp laptop u cant use for gaming but its still usable for school kids these days
WindowsXP **CRAPLET EDITION** those things may have been the worse tech ever, except for the Steve-Balmer-era "MoxiBox" cable set top box. Hmmmm ... they do have something in common 🤣🤣🤣
Even my OG Xbox One did this weird thing where when I bought a new disc, it just never did anything. But my old discs ran just fine. Even after exchanging the disc for another game, it again didn't do anything. At this point I got busy with other things in life and now in a different country and the Xbox has been collecting dust ever since back at home. I do power it on just to check if it does power on whenever I go home. Maybe this Xbox has gone through a similar situation. If anyone's gotten any idea on this, please don't hesitate to reply.
I once worked for a medical company that used those exact HP tablet laptop PCs. Back when they came out, there weren't a lot of other options that had a touch pen and swivel screen. They had a high failure rate, and sometime in 2008 it started getting difficult to find parts for them.
Makes me wonder if Surface tablets added to this headache or alleviated it
@@stephsnotfluffy headache cause battery would pillow up on surface
I actually worked in a hospital system as a PC tech around 2014 or 2015. One administrator actually still wanted to use his old ball mouse instead of modern optical mouse. I've seen tons of tablet PCs before everything was upgraded. They were using Fujitsu laptops with the stylus. Thankfully the swivel action is built into the laptop but yeah parts were not easy to get, especially since they only got them through their contracts. No picking up discounted parts from eBay or any other provider here. Now were they reliable? It's been far too long since I was employed by the subcontractor and didn't work long enough. I was only contracted for 3 months. I miss those older laptops. They were so easy to service if they needed a new battery or something else.
Thing is actually cheap when bought in bulks, however its really expensive when bought for only an individual
Like all the products at Goodwill, all of Austin's jokes have been used before
Ok?
@@Iynz1 it's a joke, since all the products he's buying are used, and his jokes haes using are also used.
@@Stingerhuayralol, thanks for the laugh. 😂
@@Stingerhuayra Making jokes in 2023? You know this generation is dumb and can't take a joke right?
@@teamofone1219 I keep forgetting how unintelligent the rest of my generation is
BROOOOOOOOOOOO you cannot leave us on a cliffhanger like this! I was invested man! great video, looking forward to part 2
I know I hate when that happens
PSA ;Goodwill is NOT a charity.
you can write your taxes off if you donate to it therefore charity
@@dk-ze6yyEver tried evading taxes, it's like a cheat code to life.
@@Special_Agent_Frank_Horrigan nah i gotta
@@dk-ze6yy it's not even illegal dude, the irs also doesn't exist, it's just another myth. You can trust me, a random guy on youtube.
We like to call it tax "avoidance" not tax evading 😂
I find it very amusing how happy Austin gets when he likes something.
it's for the cameras bruh..called acting.
It feels like ages since Austin has done wishtery tech.
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Wow… going to throw myself under the bus, but I had that Odyssey 300 as a kid, it was the first game console my sister and I had as children LOL
Sounds like you both had a fun time to me! My first console was a “mega drive” with 6 pre installed games 😂
I am over 60. My father purchased the Super Pong for my brother and I when I was 13, and he was 12. We played this thing until it eventually broke. It was the beginning of my lifelong love of Computer Games. And yes, it was 1976, I remember because it was during our very small cities bicentennial celebration.
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@@wbaba34 your mom an NPC 😂😂
I see nothing wrong with this
People finding iPads in 2203:
13:45 Hi Austin what you said is right. Back in 2012 nothing ran on the Surface RT except for windows apps. But now in 2023 I found out that there is a team who cracked (somehow) windows to load windows 10 on it and with some several tweaks you can install a lot of windows 10 programs.
So I've seen a super old build of Windows 10 that you can load on it but nothing vaguely modern?
you can only do the old build of Windows 10 or 8.1 i believe also it's ARM32 so there aren't many apps that can work. @@austinevans
@@austinevans You can run linux
I would give you links on how to do it but the comments wont let me.
@@austinevans also, currently i am helping Michael MJD get linux on the surface RT
@@austinevans Finally, Btw You have a surface 2 not an RT. The Real RT is Black and has a Tegra 3 chip
My local Goodwill recently had a Synology DS1019+ for $20. Bought it basically untested since it didn’t have the power supply, but went on Amazon, got a $30 power supply for it, and it works perfectly fine
That ending tho WTF I expect another video revealing what was in the box within 12 hours
My dad had one of those old laptop/tablet hybrids when I was younger. He got it from his work and it was so cool.
You could pick up very similar RF switches at Radio Shack back in the day. Probably whoever had owned it just chucked it in the box. Maybe it was included originally but could just be a random one.
I drooled over a lot of those early game consoles in the Sears Christmas catalog and studied the images of the games, I very clearly remember that Odyssy ad! The first console we got was Colecovision, which had the BEST baseball game for decades. Better control of all players, pitches, running speed, it was a dream come true, with the Super Action Controllers, and the graphics of games got a lot better, but it took a few generations of consoles to reach the level of control you had over all aspects of the game. (Well that was a tangent!)
i actually paid 3,200 for that hp tablet when i first bought it and yes this is paul the original owner of the tablet and it was stolen from a break in of my home years ago and i used it for when i was a IT at a company i used to work for that went out of business it is crazy to see it on your channel lol
For Super Pong, if you wanted to see if it would work, run the cable from the Pong unit directly into the yellow composite input on the TV, rather than through the RF modulator switchbox. Since the speaker is on the actual Super Pong unit, I suspect that the cable off of it only has composite video, and doesn't need to be converted to RF.
The graphics would probably would look a bit better, or at least cleaner, if this works.
first time Austin has done a tech video and left us on a cliff hanger and needed a part 2 for a tech review video ! that's pretty cool
Man I had one of those TC-1100's and I LOVED it. I liked the keyboard and all but honestly using it as a tablet PC was fantastic. I used it during college for note taking and the handwriting recognition was surprisingly good, while my colleagues used laptops there was something much more natural about scribbling on the tablet and this was well before such form factor was commonplace. XP Tablet Edition was *rough* but it worked well enough that overall I had a positive experience. It was very easy for me to upgrade too and the bevy of ports allowed me to make a neat dock for it.
There's no reason to use one now given how much more advanced things are these days but I admire that computer so much.
Why is the video playing in Spanish?
As an owner of Windows RT. i loved that little bugger and still have it today. it was way ahead of its time. the app support on it was so bad. it worked for me because it had what i needed at the time but boy was it useless for other things.
The Science Elf called, he wants his TC1100 back
lol, I bet he would be happy to have 2 of them in his collection. Also hi.
I can't remember the name of it but had a knockoff of the RT1 and really liked it - it was slow as it didn't have enough ram and a slower processor but was ahead of it's time for sure 💯
Goodwill? More like GoodDeal.
Watching this while on break from my shift at Goodwill rn
I love goodwill finds. You can find some great deals and stuff is very cheap on there
I remember picking up a a surface rt, thinking it would be a good laptop replacement, boy was i wrong and it got returned instantly 😂
If you patch it, it can go to Windows 10 Arm Beta. It seems like Surface RT was going to have Win10, until they scraped it.
I love Goodwill treasures! It's one of my favorite places to find tech and literary goodies!
I might start checking out Goodwill‘s mainly to look around because in my local one in town when I was there for a job interview, I found a really good condition Bradleygames GTA vice city strategy guide and I got it for a buck.
Not anymore. All the good stuff goes to their website. Also, the company is pretty evil
It depends، personally i never had issues with the company
@@JBBosttranslation: upset that you got beaten in a bidding war and blaming the company
You should update that HP tablet, put a 4GB stick in, a IDE to Sata adapter for a SSD. Also you might be able to upgrade the CPU, Centreno was used for a line of cpu's from PM up to Core2 Duos.... Centrino was more less codename for intel cpu with a intel wifi nic combo. Also you could try win10 or use Andriod OS for X86 or just put ubuntu with Gnome 3 which is tablet friendly.
Also the surface you could install andriod on that as well.
They have good stuff 😂😂😂 Im about to drop 500 on several consoles. I saw they have 5 ! Ps4vr headsets for 189.00! Lol
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going online without an offline install of a updated virus program is not very good, here it takes about 0.3 seconds and you have blaster virus automatically on your harddrive, ready to endless rebott your computer lol
when ever I go online on ancient system like xp, win 7 etc....I always install security offline first....as I tried and tested it many times, complete wipe and new install and you get blaster worm before you download antivirus
I loved my surface RT1 for high school/college. 720p screen but it's very vivid. Amazing build quality. Unfortunately it's junk now.
How satisfying would it be to clean that Xbox 😂
Lol Verizon gave all the market Managers those surface laptops back when they came out. All I really remember was how shitty and slow they were just working with Excel not to mention how much worse it was using iur internal systems
I bought the original Surface RT tablet. It was a great piece of kit back then. I mostly used it as a laptop for school, and it did do everything I asked it to. Also it was the only tablet capable of running Office. Back then I also had a windows 8 computer and a Windows phone and all 3 of them used to work perfectly in sync of each other.
App support wasn't great, but apps weren't really that big yet.
Over the years the battery died and there is no way to replace it. Therefore I now only use it as a glorified digital picture frame running a loop of pictures in my gallery.
I was hoping this was an actual go to Goodwill video and see what they have on the shelf and make the best of it. Maybe that can be another video.
goodwill sucks you will never find a another cool tech item or any thing that looks slightly expensive on the shelfs they all get sent in
They moved high priced items to online only back in April 2023
@@JeskidoYT it depends heavily on the location/region of the goodwill they operate with different rules, I've recently found some pretty cool stuff
i need to see a sleeper build made in that windows xp tablet
How YOUNG does he think my grandpa is?
My DAD was _4 years old_ when this thing came out!
That's not a surface rt, it's a surface 2, which also had the arm processor and thus the rt version of windows 8.1. You can tell because it's the wrong color. I know because I bought a non functional one for the power supply and keyboard, which also work with the surface pro and pro 2 as well as the actual surface rt, that came with it. It was only $40 including shipping on ebay.
I was looking for this exact comment. I used to use the original RT for school work and YT and that was black, unlike the grey of the surface 2 RT. I still use it every now and then for the nostalgia.
I got a black xbox 360 slim not glossy with a Kinect and a controller with just cause 2 and disc 88# the one 2008 for just under 100$ All working from the display case not even from the website.
That is solid!
That Super Pong looks remarkable good for 50 years old
Premium? High end? Im from the uk and I knew that isnt anywhere near goodwill.
Mannnn seeing the Surface RT gave me nostalgia lmao I think I had the 2nd version? also on ARM and very limited but was awesome for school
read so much manga on it, good times
Edit: lmao I commented just before Austin mentioned he got it because of nostalgia
he cant afford a compressor??? he use those worthless cans that create condensation fluids?
Those old windows xp tablet computers were mostly used in hospitals and ambulances for patients to be able to sign digital versions of forms. I know this because I was on the patient end a lot growing up (and even now) and recognized that second device shown immediately, lmfao. Apparently a perk of being chronically ill was being able to watch tech evolve on a practical standard, and, honestly, part of what got me into tech in the first place (the second part being my love of gaming since the age of 3, lol).
Remember being a kid. Loosing that switch box. And not being able to play those 70s/80s consoles. (I'm an 90s kid.) But loved the classics as a kid and still do.
That moment when someone is playing a game from your childhood and calls it really old...queue the Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence...oh wait that makes me old too 🤣
"Who donates this stuff to goodwill" as a former goodwill employee, most of the good stuff is kids cleaning out granparents house and such, and dont want to deal with sales, so they donate anything that looks good just to get rid of everything
I had the Surface Pro 5, the fanciest tech I'd had up to then. I know I recall having a huge issue getting a Toutube app, even as recently as 2018!
9:50 500 viruses form the early 2000's just got unleashed on the world 🤣
Sadly Project Spark is a dead online-only game and game creation tool. So the sealed copy is useless unless someone cloned the servers.
That gasp when the windows 7 startup sound came was legit 😂
I can guarantee you that DS was not put in there and then not touched till 2007 because they would still be dirt and grime in there someone that owned it cleaned it regularly probably
I once bought 2 PS1s for like $4 each
Why was that the craziest to be continued, got me hyped
11:09 I'm crying because 2004 doesn't feel like it should have been that long ago but it was 20 freaking years ago.
I like RC cars, so you better like my comment
I hate that goodwill does this now. Years ago, I worked less than a block from goodwill. I went multiple times a day. In a span of a year, I had a massive retro video game collection. Consoles, games, you name it. I even had an extremely rare japanese black dreamcast. I had probably 200 dollars in a collection worth thousands. Thats how its supposed to be at a thrift store.
After those two jokes, my lawyer will be contacting you for stealing my sense of humor. Good day, sir. 0:40
I actually have a magnavox 3000 and to get it to work, I had to splice the connection cable to a coax cable and plug it into a tv
I have this surface and use it today for online Google docs. I also put windows 11 on it and it's the stupid slow but I love it.
I like how Austin is always willing to take apart things and take a look inside them. Cool to see the insides of hardware and how dirty a old xbox can get.
my xbox gets really dusty too i have to clean it constantly
Ngl, back in 2014 when XBOX ONE and the PS4 came out, and you had the new menus... they actually felt so refreshing. PS3 had its XMB (I was an PS3 guy), which is had since it started, and the XBOX360 changing its interface every year or so... what they both had was so refreshing and interesting. Nostalgia, while now they are all too busy and too much. :D Moved to PC in 2012 myself tho.
Matt: *every five seconds" pEoPlE r gUnNa giT mAD
My reaction: uh, have you met the internet? People are going to get mad no matter what you do. Even if you simply breath you'll have people getting mad that you did
Project Spark would be fantastic just for the creation abilities, even if the servers are no longer up.
I like how he was trying to say that Super Pong was smooth while pointing at the left side, ignoring the right side flickering like a candle lol.
As someone who worked for Surface support and had to support the RT I can tell you for a fact that thing is not a piece of history, it's a POS. Those things were awful, they supported basically no apps, if the app store for it went down it was a paperweight. At customer support we couldn't even remote in to help people cause there were no apps for it! Screw that thing!
Ive given this video 1 like, as i couldn't give you all the likes as you, like me, are an OG Titanfall 1 Stan... we, sir, could be good friends and even better enemies on the battlefields of The Frontier... bravo my good man, bravo indeed
I have better luck with Goodwill than I have with Ebay. I like to buy broken consoles. I may pay a little more for GoodWill, but I've yet to be shipped a system that was in unfixable condition. Ebay on the other hand has sent me some nasty consoles.
I got a old fan from the 70's and when i plugged it in it started smoking 😂 the motor was fried lmao. Edit: i even found a Tfue monitor for 10 bucks. I was gonna buy it but it didn't turn on, bummer
That xbox isn't that bad i have seen worse from someone eles who ordered a backwards compatible PS3 from dkoldies & they opened it & said it was like a "desert" & every time they open any console that is dusty they say it's nowhere near as bad as the dusty 1
9:14 austin Evan’s canceled
Oh wait Nvm
That "Surface RT" is actually the Surface 2. The first gen surface was black. Surface 2 was Silver.
I go to goodwill frequently, i have so many hard drives from there... Please please remember to erase your data because goodwill and/or other thrift stores are not so careful with that, trust me...
Can i take out of your hands that dirty xbox?
I'd love to see that Tablet PC get mega-upgraded
You should do a video where you buy stuff from a real goodwill. Sometimes you go there and find an iPod dock typewriter combo and sometimes you go there and find a nuclear weapon.
Come on, Austin! Wear a full hazmat suit when you clean that XBOX. You should also get yourself a usb-c chargeable air blaster.
1 minute? wow
Now I should sell my Surface RT with Windows 10 Arm Beta and other things.. that I NEVER TOUCH anymore.
I can do one better: I found an Xbox One in a charity shop in my town for £25 with a HDMI and power cable but no controller.
That Xbox One is better than one I acquired a few months ago, which was literally filled with hundreds of dead cockroaches.
I just went on goodwillfinds and the first listing to hit me in the face is an untested as-is NES-001 for over $200?!
I remember finding a game boy with a rechargeable battery and a carrying case shaped like a Gameboy for around $25 at goodwill
i still have that HP tablet, i have windows 7 with 1gb of single sd sodimm ram, with 40gb hdd, sadly mine is in rough shape as they been used in the fire department and RCMP police back in early 2000's, mine is the Celeron 1.2ghz, i have 4 with WORKING batteries. and yes the unit gets very hot running youtube at 144p, 480p the unit overheats, it uses a REAL wacom tablet screen but its requires that special pen as its digitized threw it. i also have the FULL dock that mounts to a DVD player and separate second desktop HDD in the dock. sadly recently these machines really struggles with recent internet protocols and the wifi is terrible in those.
So... the first computer that Microsoft Sold to consumers was the Surface... nothing attached, but now referred to as the Surface Table. (Or Pixelsense apparently)
You personally could have seen one at Disneyland, inside of Innoventions, it was a literal table, with a large 52 point multi touch display, designed for several people to work on at once, and ran at the low price of about $10,000 per unit.
And yes, they did in fact actually sell them.
edit* to add date... announced in 2007 and actually shipped in May of 2008, and sold through 2013.
Wife and I live in Iowa theres goodwills everywhere! I find some of the best tech, collectibles, videogames, dvds, vhs, blu ray all super cheap in great condition! More than half the time the employees have NOO idea what they're sitting on and I buy it up fo next to nothing:) I got a 200$ grogu for 5 bucks, The whole collection of Star Trek collecible plates easily worth over 1k for 10 bucks!
So I must correct you on the Surface, that is a Surface 2. The second generation of the Surface RT and I guess the third computer Microsoft sold, If you count the Surface Pro line. It is a minor upgrade over the Surface RT upgrading from a tegra 3 to a tegra 4 and a 720p screen to a 1080p screen, also it is lighter then the RT. I still use mine, thought with a goofy hack Windows 10 setup, mostly to watch youtube on sometimes, play games I have on it, amusingly not to browse the web at all because their is no good web browser thanks to microsoft locking it down.
The Surface 2 is still usable in 2023, it just doesn't work well for most things. I converted mine a couple years ago to be a portable media center; it has all the main streaming apps installed and I purchased a mini-hdmi to hdmi cord so it can be plugged directly into a TV rather than trying to cast it. I also added a 512gb microSD so I can load up personal media for when we go on trips where there won't be wifi. The only problem with it is that the keyboard just stopped functioning so now it is just relegated to being a dust cover; I'm not sure if this issue is with the connection port or the keyboard itself.
I own some of these Surfaces (granted free to me because most was tpm bootlocked or whatever and was deemed unssellable by my then boss), upgrade them to win ten. Yeah sure still sluggish and aint the greatest but usable. Infact, I do thank you Evan as I have found some more of the surfaces on goodwill. And i'll galdly buy em. Winten on these are still way better then their 8.1 version. And the only thing ill use zoom on because I want to punish zoom users, sadly it does well in those. >_>
old tech is kinda interesting ....
I was super emberassed a few days ago when we got a new Monitor to test and the Camera could be either used by usb-c or by usb-b but not b3 but the old b and I was like "I have no idea what kind of new port this is, we don't have any cable for this" .... took me a while to remember that USB-B 1 and 2 were actually looking different from 3 and that it was actually one of those XD
lets go
actually austin thats not entirely true its usable just not windows 8.1/10 but win7 would be better for it but it run better as everyday day to day linux laptop even for 2023/24 since linux is a light weight os the best linux distros would linux mint/ubuntu LTS22/23 and that the same for that hp laptop u cant use for gaming but its still usable for school kids these days
WindowsXP **CRAPLET EDITION** those things may have been the worse tech ever, except for the Steve-Balmer-era "MoxiBox" cable set top box. Hmmmm ... they do have something in common 🤣🤣🤣
Even my OG Xbox One did this weird thing where when I bought a new disc, it just never did anything. But my old discs ran just fine. Even after exchanging the disc for another game, it again didn't do anything. At this point I got busy with other things in life and now in a different country and the Xbox has been collecting dust ever since back at home. I do power it on just to check if it does power on whenever I go home. Maybe this Xbox has gone through a similar situation. If anyone's gotten any idea on this, please don't hesitate to reply.
9:10 I wonder if someone owns this kind of laptop before and uses it mainly just to do digital drawings🤔
Do is better plug tech a scam?
Please make a video where you only buy from tech youtubers like Ltt, Ztt, and Toasty Bros