Yeah RUclips works pretty well, one thing though (and I'm not sure if they fixed it or not, haven't used it in months now) is VoIP sites like Meet will not work, maybe it's a Windows XP limitation, not sure if it works for Windows Vista though.
7:31 MyPal, pretty decent, used it on Windows XP and most sites loaded and work well, including RUclips!, It's based off of Pale Moon, which itself, is based on Firefox (IIRC)
I tried MyPal on my old XP laptop....still sucked even though it has 2GB of ram...I tried a number of so called XP working browsers and none of them actually worked well enough to use..really dissapointed...The CPU is a Celeron 2.8.....it has Radeon 9000 graphics...not great but should work..yet it's so very very slow..to the point it's pretty unuseable.
@@Bodneyblue Has to do with graphics and stuff, RAM isnt the reason why. If your graphics card has more than 200 MB VRAM, MyPal would run good, Above 256 MB and it would run better.
Surprisingly modern looking laptop for its age. Only a few things really give it away aside from some stylistic things, obviously the serial port. The keyboard is of an older style but honestly kinda prefer it over the modern chiclet style. The bezel is surprisingly thin but most modern laptops have the display and bezel all behind a smooth glass or plastic surface rather than the visibly raised portion. Otherwise it's just a little on the thicker side, but otherwise it's kinda hard to spot that it's so old.
yeah worst part about my current and first high end laptop is the keyboard. i miss a lot of keystrokes in this dumb chiclet style, like i press the key and it doesn't register. ironically, both the trackpad AND the keyboard were best at my lowest end laptop from 2009. they were just perfect.
@@petemiller2598 you can occasionally still find serial ports on more industrial laptops. :P but honestly I kinda prefer the flexibility of USB when it's implemented well. A lot of those old ports were limited, and very fixed to specific system resources so literally only could have 1 or 2 or whatever of any of them before things become incompatible with most software.
6:21 Are you kidding? You cleaning and refurbing tech is the main reason why I subscribed to this channel :) There's just something so satisfying about seeing old hardware getting a good scrub and booting up...
I like that there is little to no intro, I love it when content creators do this, straight to the point, keeps it simple and entertaining at the same time. Love your work
I've always liked your videos , you always clean and make things look cool and brand new, damn after i cleaned my old laptop after years of use it looked brand new again thanks :)
You can still buy enterprise laptops like that, but be ready to pay a lot, but to be fair laptop like this old one in video was also very expensive new.
Seeing how easy it was to disassemble is insane. The battery, harddrive, disk drive, and ram were so easy to access, and even the cpu is upgradable? The fan held up great as well. Sad that nobody designs stuff with care like this anymore. I would much rather have a thicker laptop with modular design and lots of ports like this.
7:35 There are add on's for Firefox anyhow (think they support multiple browsers), RUclips redux, old RUclips are two, very good for older systems , also an add-on that makes RUclips use the graphics card more (long story on how).
I used to have a pile of these i brought out a hp repair guy in Victoria. pretty much all of it is gone now but i can put you in touch with the guy who picked up my old spares.
That "trackpad and trackpoint combo" is totally normal on workstation laptops even today. My 2017 Thinkpad had it and my 2020 Dell that I have now is also having it. Extremely powerful PC with an Intel Core i7 9750H, 32GB DDR4, 1TB Nvme SSD and of course a dedicated GPU (some AMD one, I don't know which one as this is not from a gaming series, some workstation card). It has a 180W "travel" power brick and 240W for home use... Totally crazy. However what I wanted to say is that such workstation devices that companies often give to their developers and so on always have this, this is nothing from the past at all.
Hell yeah, nice machine. My Dad used to have an old Compaq from ~2001 which was an absolute chungus. I used it to play Warcraft 3 all the time. Such memories...
Ah it has been a long time since the last budget XP eBay laptop. Its these videos that inspired me to save these old machines and give them a second chance :p
I am pretty sure this is what we will be getting from here out. An 8 minute video that costs him $15, with a 2-2.5 min ad built-in that more than pays for the video costs. Not a lot of new content here, just basic/cheap stuff getting refurbished. :(
@@garbage100 and yet some laptops don't even have enough USB ports. They have 2 USB C ports and call it a day. As a person who regularly needs other ports, this is stupid.
Mint is set up with compositing by default. Compositing requires modern drivers (and reasonably fast GPU) and this thing has equivalent of ATI Radeon 7500 (or 9600), first or second generation of them. In short - biggest problem - it is limited to OpenGL 1.4 (no shaders support), and that limits things and slows it. If you use IceWM or some other non-compositing WM - should be much snappier.
It won't, it's only a 32bit CPU. You would need a 32bit distro. I use Sparky Linux on old machines that can't run 64bit using the LXQT environment and it works rather well.
You may be able to revive that battery by putting it in the freezer. I have that exact same laptop and my battery was stone dead, chucked it in the freezer for a day and then plugged it into the laptop and let it charge? Works fine now, lasts an entire day.
I actually had this laptop, and used it for quite some time. Biggest issue when used with Linux was graphics (old ATI, which was no longer supported for any decent graphics acceleration, and thus it no longer run browser well, or decoded video from the web correctly. Surprisingly - adobe flash played youtube videos pretty decently, while it was still available. Keyboard was one of the better ones. And it was a tank. Had soldered in usb wifi to the connector on the lid.
I got a Dell inspiron e1505 from ebay. It was the cheapest one, and after plugging it in, the motherboard lasted 5 seconds before it put any power adapter into overcurrent shutdown.
When I saw that thumbnail I was like "is that a Compaq Evo N610C!?" Because I have one with a broken DC input charging port sitting dusty on my shelf. A great video and a good find for $15 good sir.
I still have an old laptop running XP. I use it to run software that would no longer run when Windows 7 came along. As far as I know, these pieces of software don't exist in more modern versions, so XP it is
I've had one of these since November 2013. I also got it from eBay. It's pretty much been my main Windows XP machine since then. It didn't come with a hard drive so I used one from another broken laptop I had. I also used the RAM from that laptop since my Evo N610c only came with 128MB of RAM. It looks like yours has the 1400 x 1050 screen, mine is only 1024 x 768. It came without the trackpad and pointer nub cabling, so they don't work. So it has to be used with an external mouse. I intended to fix this but never got around to it. The laptop still works great to this day and I still use it fairly often. I have tons of stuff on it since I've owned it for nearly 9 years. It's a great machine and one of my favorite machines in my collection.
You maxed out the RAM, though, why didn't you install an SSD at the same time? It would have greatly sped up the system. Also, this Compaq laptop would be a great candidate for a 32 bit version of a lightweight distribution. Great videos!
Ram alone fixed many performance related issues. Not really worth putting in an SSD in a laptop like this (although I've now got a few IDE to MSATA SSD drives)
The best Browser for Windows XP atm is Mypal version 68.12.5b (The latest version as I’m typing this comment) it’s based on Firefox Quantum and it runs surprisingly well, RUclips playback absolutely works on Mypal compared to Articfox
I suspect the Pentium 4 CPU in this laptop is 32-bit only whereas most modern Linux distros are now 64-bit only. It would probably run an older 32-bit version of Xubuntu though I'm not sure how useful that would be.
@@zoomosis BunsenLabs Linux might be a better choice. It is Debian based and has a 32bit version. I thought Xubuntu still released a 32bit version. My mistake.
@@thumbtak123 I think Ubuntu 18.04 (and variants) was the last 32-bit version. BunsenLabs Linux looks interesting. Years ago I ran Arch Linux on an old Toshiba Satellite 4000CDS (a Pentium 233 laptop from 1998) just using it as an audio recorder, without Xorg installed. These days there's now a separate 32-bit distro of Arch. That should run fine on a Pentium 4.
You can use Ubuntu 18.04 32-bit, I believe it will be far more usable than windows XP. At least youtube will work fine. Regarding yourube, I think 480p or even 360p will be max fluent resolution. On my nx6110 (pentium 2.1GHz, 2GB ram) it works flawlessly, especially if I reduce the screen resolution to 640x480 ;)
I own this laptop, best browser it can use is a version of opera that works with 32 bit, though even with the maximum gig of ram and an SSD it is sluggish to run it.
this was the first computer i ever had that i could 100% call mine. a family friend gave it to me when i was 13 and loaded it with reason 3 and taught me how to compose music with it. i used it a lot for that, as well as school and playing the sims 2. i attempted to play the sims 3 on it when that game came out but it struggled horribly to run it, it was unplayable! i never knew about the upgradable wifi addon, but i did buy a pcmcia wifi card that i got a ton of mileage out of. i had a lot of great times with this ol compaq laptop though, it very much was apart of who i became as a person today. 😊
I still got my Acer Travelmate 291 around from 2003. Upgraded it as far as it could but in the end it couldn't hack it. Since Raspberry Pi 4B now can run win 10 (well, with a few bugs) I've been thinking about putting an RPi in it. Should make for a fun little project
This is very similar to my Toshiba laptop that I remember buying from eBay for about $40, however it got some cosmetic damage in shipping but does still work so I let the seller know that and he refunded me the money and told me that I could keep the laptop so I got it for free, but it has a Pentium 4, 3.0ghz cpu with 1 gb of ram and a Geforce fx5200 go graphics card and Windows XP service pack 1. It seems to be from 2004. It also comes with Norton Antivirus 2004, however I'm not sure how well an antivirus software from 2004 would do in 2022.
$15 is a steal! Been reviving some old laptops my family has had lying around, but this exact laptop we sadly got rid of a long time ago. Would love to find one again and have a Windows XP laptop to play with. Looking at like $100 for one on Ebay tho, oof.
Great watch. For XP I've used Opera as a browser, their website offers a separate version for the browser for XP/Vista. I've also heard of others such as Chameleon.
Still running XP on my main machine, have the same issue with YT video’s not playing, Mozilla Firefox no longer supported and the last update of it wiped my ability to save YT videos. I wish there was a windows system that is up to date without all of the spyware Microslut has installed on 10 and 11. Basically they have locked you out of your computer files if something goes wrong.
i saw the thumbnail, this was the first computer i bought when i was a kid after delivering newspapers for a while I still remember going from 256mb ram -> 512mb -> 1gb across 2 years, I was poor growing up XD so much feel
Not sure on which browser will play videos on older computers, but I copy and paste links into the standalone SMPlayer which has settings to tweak things to run on slower hardware. The interface is highly customisable too, plus I think it works with the Broadcom video adapter that can be found for approx $15. SMPlayer has a separate linked RUclips browser SMTube but I never use it. I simply copy links into the playlist on SMPlayer.
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Cool I’ll give them a try!
Yeah RUclips works pretty well, one thing though (and I'm not sure if they fixed it or not, haven't used it in months now) is VoIP sites like Meet will not work, maybe it's a Windows XP limitation, not sure if it works for Windows Vista though.
The best browser for windows XP is Opera from what I have tried
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@@computinglemon Don't stop supporting youtubers promoting content in their videos
We need a Psivewri, Hugh Jeffreys, and DankPods collaboration. The greatest trio ever.
The aussie trio haha, I watch all 3 of them!
@@svgaming234 Same!
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That what be hard seeing as they are from different places across the world 😢
@@theeverythingman1060 all in aus tho
Eucalyptus oil time
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Truly the best moments in movie history
Always
@@KyuminChan movie?
Lather me up mates
7:31 MyPal, pretty decent, used it on Windows XP and most sites loaded and work well, including RUclips!, It's based off of Pale Moon, which itself, is based on Firefox (IIRC)
I'll have to give it a shot! Especially if it runs RUclips
there's a newer build of mypal that's based on firefox quantum 61 or 68 that runs on xp
@@psivewri i am kinda confused.
I own a xp and it was an ok speed (it took a billion years to load tho)
And the yt video was fine.
I tried MyPal on my old XP laptop....still sucked even though it has 2GB of ram...I tried a number of so called XP working browsers and none of them actually worked well enough to use..really dissapointed...The CPU is a Celeron 2.8.....it has Radeon 9000 graphics...not great but should work..yet it's so very very slow..to the point it's pretty unuseable.
@@Bodneyblue Has to do with graphics and stuff, RAM isnt the reason why.
If your graphics card has more than 200 MB VRAM, MyPal would run good, Above 256 MB and it would run better.
Surprisingly modern looking laptop for its age. Only a few things really give it away aside from some stylistic things, obviously the serial port. The keyboard is of an older style but honestly kinda prefer it over the modern chiclet style. The bezel is surprisingly thin but most modern laptops have the display and bezel all behind a smooth glass or plastic surface rather than the visibly raised portion. Otherwise it's just a little on the thicker side, but otherwise it's kinda hard to spot that it's so old.
yeah worst part about my current and first high end laptop is the keyboard. i miss a lot of keystrokes in this dumb chiclet style, like i press the key and it doesn't register. ironically, both the trackpad AND the keyboard were best at my lowest end laptop from 2009. they were just perfect.
While I don’t miss serial ports, I do miss the sheer amount of ports on old laptops.
@@petemiller2598 you can occasionally still find serial ports on more industrial laptops. :P but honestly I kinda prefer the flexibility of USB when it's implemented well. A lot of those old ports were limited, and very fixed to specific system resources so literally only could have 1 or 2 or whatever of any of them before things become incompatible with most software.
6:21 Are you kidding? You cleaning and refurbing tech is the main reason why I subscribed to this channel :)
There's just something so satisfying about seeing old hardware getting a good scrub and booting up...
I like that there is little to no intro, I love it when content creators do this, straight to the point, keeps it simple and entertaining at the same time. Love your work
I've got a 19-year-old XP desktop that's still able to run RUclips. Thanks to a browser called my pal, it still supports Windows XP to this day
I watch your videos since 2019 and you can really see how you improved over time!
Great vid btw.
I had one of these in 2008.
Barely usable even at that time.
The 512mb of ram and low rpm drives really held it back.
I used to have the evo N600c model, this video really bring me back to the good old days
1:08 ahh yes the good old days, simpler times
Love these videos! I’m so glad I’m not the only one who truly appreciate’s old tech.
I've always liked your videos , you always clean and make things look cool and brand new, damn after i cleaned my old laptop after years of use it looked brand new again thanks :)
The glorious days when laptops had such a huge variety of ports 😍 how I've missed them
You can still buy enterprise laptops like that, but be ready to pay a lot, but to be fair laptop like this old one in video was also very expensive new.
Dell latitude C840 was one of my fav's@@MJ-uk6lu
Seeing how easy it was to disassemble is insane. The battery, harddrive, disk drive, and ram were so easy to access, and even the cpu is upgradable? The fan held up great as well. Sad that nobody designs stuff with care like this anymore. I would much rather have a thicker laptop with modular design and lots of ports like this.
Looks like we both have the hobby of collecting and cleaning tech!
7:35 There are add on's for Firefox anyhow (think they support multiple browsers), RUclips redux, old RUclips are two, very good for older systems , also an add-on that makes RUclips use the graphics card more (long story on how).
4:02 is that a bug or a booger under the #2 key? 😂
I used to have a pile of these i brought out a hp repair guy in Victoria. pretty much all of it is gone now but i can put you in touch with the guy who picked up my old spares.
look at that accessibility and easy replacement of parts!!! nowadays everything is soldered to the board or almost impossible to reach.
i love how psivewri talks to us almost like were the ones supposed to be fixing the computer
second person?
That "trackpad and trackpoint combo" is totally normal on workstation laptops even today. My 2017 Thinkpad had it and my 2020 Dell that I have now is also having it. Extremely powerful PC with an Intel Core i7 9750H, 32GB DDR4, 1TB Nvme SSD and of course a dedicated GPU (some AMD one, I don't know which one as this is not from a gaming series, some workstation card). It has a 180W "travel" power brick and 240W for home use... Totally crazy. However what I wanted to say is that such workstation devices that companies often give to their developers and so on always have this, this is nothing from the past at all.
This. Although Dell dropped the trackpoint from their Precision 7* lineup starting with the 2020 redesign.
Bro your voice its soo satisfaying i really love your videos, keep up the good work!
Hi i like restoring old macs, can you make a video of the simplest way to create a mac os usb installer.btw love your videos.
Hi
Thanks very much
7:30, MyPal is a modern browser made for XP. It can play RUclips videos fine on my old Dell Latitude
Every listing I see is over 50 plus shipping☠️
Yesssss... New video!!! I love watching your videos
Hell yeah, nice machine. My Dad used to have an old Compaq from ~2001 which was an absolute chungus. I used it to play Warcraft 3 all the time. Such memories...
Ah it has been a long time since the last budget XP eBay laptop. Its these videos that inspired me to save these old machines and give them a second chance :p
We absolutely need a tour of the collection! :p
How many laptops have u fixed and sold so far??
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@@psivewri lol🤣🤣🤣
You don't get such good laptops these days. What happened to getting as much ports as possible, instead of as little?
I think we can blame Apple for that.
I am pretty sure this is what we will be getting from here out. An 8 minute video that costs him $15, with a 2-2.5 min ad built-in that more than pays for the video costs. Not a lot of new content here, just basic/cheap stuff getting refurbished. :(
that's why you get a gaming laptop and not those thin and lights.
Probably because most things these days all plug into USB, unlike before when every different device used a different type of socket
@@garbage100 and yet some laptops don't even have enough USB ports. They have 2 USB C ports and call it a day. As a person who regularly needs other ports, this is stupid.
I wonder how the laptop would run with Linux Mint.
I put a mint on this machine, man... it worked horribly on it
Antix will be better
mx linux 18 and 21 32 bit works great
Mint is set up with compositing by default. Compositing requires modern drivers (and reasonably fast GPU) and this thing has equivalent of ATI Radeon 7500 (or 9600), first or second generation of them. In short - biggest problem - it is limited to OpenGL 1.4 (no shaders support), and that limits things and slows it. If you use IceWM or some other non-compositing WM - should be much snappier.
It won't, it's only a 32bit CPU. You would need a 32bit distro. I use Sparky Linux on old machines that can't run 64bit using the LXQT environment and it works rather well.
I wonder, how the experience with linux would be.
You may be able to revive that battery by putting it in the freezer. I have that exact same laptop and my battery was stone dead, chucked it in the freezer for a day and then plugged it into the laptop and let it charge? Works fine now, lasts an entire day.
Making that ram cover door would be cool imo, at least to a tech enthusiast! Great video btw, as always!
I actually had this laptop, and used it for quite some time. Biggest issue when used with Linux was graphics (old ATI, which was no longer supported for any decent graphics acceleration, and thus it no longer run browser well, or decoded video from the web correctly. Surprisingly - adobe flash played youtube videos pretty decently, while it was still available.
Keyboard was one of the better ones. And it was a tank.
Had soldered in usb wifi to the connector on the lid.
I got a Dell inspiron e1505 from ebay. It was the cheapest one, and after plugging it in, the motherboard lasted 5 seconds before it put any power adapter into overcurrent shutdown.
When I saw that thumbnail I was like "is that a Compaq Evo N610C!?" Because I have one with a broken DC input charging port sitting dusty on my shelf. A great video and a good find for $15 good sir.
Had this computer brand new in 2003. It was the laptop of choice for my highschool's 'laptop program'
Great Video! got one of these little guys in my collection runs XP like a dream!
"The hard disk was loaded with religious music, church seminars and pirated movies" - Interesting combination 😅
That laptop is older than me!
I still have an old laptop running XP. I use it to run software that would no longer run when Windows 7 came along. As far as I know, these pieces of software don't exist in more modern versions, so XP it is
I've had one of these since November 2013. I also got it from eBay. It's pretty much been my main Windows XP machine since then. It didn't come with a hard drive so I used one from another broken laptop I had. I also used the RAM from that laptop since my Evo N610c only came with 128MB of RAM. It looks like yours has the 1400 x 1050 screen, mine is only 1024 x 768. It came without the trackpad and pointer nub cabling, so they don't work. So it has to be used with an external mouse. I intended to fix this but never got around to it. The laptop still works great to this day and I still use it fairly often. I have tons of stuff on it since I've owned it for nearly 9 years. It's a great machine and one of my favorite machines in my collection.
I used to use one of these in college, the first consumer laptop to offer a wifi module, it was practically alien tech at the time lol
You maxed out the RAM, though, why didn't you install an SSD at the same time? It would have greatly sped up the system. Also, this Compaq laptop would be a great candidate for a 32 bit version of a lightweight distribution. Great videos!
Ram alone fixed many performance related issues. Not really worth putting in an SSD in a laptop like this (although I've now got a few IDE to MSATA SSD drives)
Have you ever tried a lightweight linux distro like lubuntu or linux lite on a laptop like that? It can make it a lot faster!
I use mozilla firefox on old computers because of its low cpu and ram requirements.
Love your videos. Would have loved to have seen you involve a Linux distro on here.
good work king, love you
The best Browser for Windows XP atm is Mypal version 68.12.5b (The latest version as I’m typing this comment) it’s based on Firefox Quantum and it runs surprisingly well, RUclips playback absolutely works on Mypal compared to Articfox
A Pentium 4 laptop always needs a robust cooling solution. *Always!*
I also enjoy cleaning anything and even more so watching people cleaning stuffs.
Thumbs up for keeping an AU falcon running. Such an underrated car
Another laptop treatment video, you always doing the right job
The transition to the sponsor in this video was... Brilliant!!
Good choice. These laptops were very, very well built. Ones of the sturdiest laptops for sure.
And take this in yo note for some reason. If you clean the bezel atounf the screen with isopropaly it will remove the paint
This brings back memories of trying to do my job with an outdated brick of a laptop.
It's cool to see you restore new life into this old laptop!
Oh my good thats time capsule these laptops are legendary
How would this be for an OS like Xubuntu. Can this work as a modern machine, running a modern Linux?
I suspect the Pentium 4 CPU in this laptop is 32-bit only whereas most modern Linux distros are now 64-bit only.
It would probably run an older 32-bit version of Xubuntu though I'm not sure how useful that would be.
@@zoomosis BunsenLabs Linux might be a better choice. It is Debian based and has a 32bit version. I thought Xubuntu still released a 32bit version. My mistake.
@@thumbtak123 I think Ubuntu 18.04 (and variants) was the last 32-bit version.
BunsenLabs Linux looks interesting.
Years ago I ran Arch Linux on an old Toshiba Satellite 4000CDS (a Pentium 233 laptop from 1998) just using it as an audio recorder, without Xorg installed. These days there's now a separate 32-bit distro of Arch. That should run fine on a Pentium 4.
You can use Ubuntu 18.04 32-bit, I believe it will be far more usable than windows XP. At least youtube will work fine. Regarding yourube, I think 480p or even 360p will be max fluent resolution. On my nx6110 (pentium 2.1GHz, 2GB ram) it works flawlessly, especially if I reduce the screen resolution to 640x480 ;)
Your going to want to run LXQT on it. Minimal memory usage
This thing is so modular! Amazing
😊7:35 yes I do actually use mypal which is based on pale moon which is based on Firefox
Love your videos homie❤
That's built like a ThinkPad. Not in terms of durability necessarily, but in terms of design and how it comes apart.
Okay props on the sponsor segue! Also nice AU.
You'll see more of that car this weekend 👍
I got a $15 laptop 2 weeks ago.
Best damn laptop deal I ever got.
I own this laptop, best browser it can use is a version of opera that works with 32 bit, though even with the maximum gig of ram and an SSD it is sluggish to run it.
Wow a old Compaq heavy weight is like a tank the problem was the cooler in the left are good for winter heat nice
Great video as always!
For a Browser, use Sea Monkey for Windows XP, and make sure you have Windows XP SP3
I also bought a Pentium 4 laptop on eBay, it was a Toshiba for $40. It came with the original restore discs though, so that’s cool.
One of these days, ill be big enough to collaborate with you haha! Good video!
this was the first computer i ever had that i could 100% call mine. a family friend gave it to me when i was 13 and loaded it with reason 3 and taught me how to compose music with it. i used it a lot for that, as well as school and playing the sims 2. i attempted to play the sims 3 on it when that game came out but it struggled horribly to run it, it was unplayable! i never knew about the upgradable wifi addon, but i did buy a pcmcia wifi card that i got a ton of mileage out of. i had a lot of great times with this ol compaq laptop though, it very much was apart of who i became as a person today. 😊
Imagine raging on this laptop back in the day, you slam your fist in the corner of the laptop and the ram splits in half. 😂
0:32 Wrong. The N620c came out in 2003, the N610c came out in 2002.
The Browser I always use with XP is called MyPal its based of pale moon which is based of firefo
I still got my Acer Travelmate 291 around from 2003. Upgraded it as far as it could but in the end it couldn't hack it. Since Raspberry Pi 4B now can run win 10 (well, with a few bugs) I've been thinking about putting an RPi in it. Should make for a fun little project
This is very similar to my Toshiba laptop that I remember buying from eBay for about $40, however it got some cosmetic damage in shipping but does still work so I let the seller know that and he refunded me the money and told me that I could keep the laptop so I got it for free, but it has a Pentium 4, 3.0ghz cpu with 1 gb of ram and a Geforce fx5200 go graphics card and Windows XP service pack 1. It seems to be from 2004. It also comes with Norton Antivirus 2004, however I'm not sure how well an antivirus software from 2004 would do in 2022.
The screen bezels looks suprisingly modern!
Eucalyptus oil companies need to sponsor him.
$15 is a steal! Been reviving some old laptops my family has had lying around, but this exact laptop we sadly got rid of a long time ago. Would love to find one again and have a Windows XP laptop to play with. Looking at like $100 for one on Ebay tho, oof.
haha! chruch ceremonies and gospel songs... with pirated movies from limewire.... what a mix
15 bucks!😂 not a bad score. Good work.
gorgeous results!!!
Great watch. For XP I've used Opera as a browser, their website offers a separate version for the browser for XP/Vista.
I've also heard of others such as Chameleon.
Still running XP on my main machine, have the same issue with YT video’s not playing, Mozilla Firefox no longer supported and the last update of it wiped my ability to save YT videos. I wish there was a windows system that is up to date without all of the spyware Microslut has installed on 10 and 11. Basically they have locked you out of your computer files if something goes wrong.
i saw the thumbnail, this was the first computer i bought when i was a kid after delivering newspapers for a while
I still remember going from 256mb ram -> 512mb -> 1gb across 2 years, I was poor growing up XD
so much feel
You Have a Falcon AU! Props bro great cars!
Surprised you didn't swap the optical drive for a SSD. This was standard practice for me when I wanted to breathe new life in older laptops
Not sure on which browser will play videos on older computers, but I copy and paste links into the standalone SMPlayer which has settings to tweak things to run on slower hardware. The interface is highly customisable too, plus I think it works with the Broadcom video adapter that can be found for approx $15. SMPlayer has a separate linked RUclips browser SMTube but I never use it. I simply copy links into the playlist on SMPlayer.
The best windows xp browser I've found is the Maxthon MX5. It's still actively supported and can watch RUclips and do other task no problem
There is a youtube video with tutorial on using Windows XP after End of support back in April 8th 2014
7:32 Your best bet will be Firefox
i really love old laptops
i recently got an earlier model, i quite like it, runs nicely on XP
These narrow bezels are awesome for such an old machine similar to the PowerBook G4 family.