Actually had a friend who had one of these, he was just in love with the idea of a mini pocketable laptop, he could afford it because he spent his tax return on it. The following year he even spent his return on upgrades (you can upgrade the SSD in it I believe, but I know he put a 256 GB SSD in it) he actually used it as a daily driver with the extended battery. I remember thinking it was neat but nowhere near worth the cost. But hey, it wasn't mine, it was his and he seemed happy with it, he was always looking for a reason to show it off to people (esp ladies at the coffee shop and such)
I thought, “2010? Wasn’t all that obsolete.” Then I realized it was 14 years ago, and reviewing it now is like reviewing my first PC from 2003 in 2017.
I mean yeah kinda but the early half of the 2010s didn't see much happening in tech except for SSDs becoming mainstream and affordable, 2003 to 2017 was much more of a jump in processing power than 2010 to 2024 is. :)
oh my god the realization hit me like a BRICK. 2003-2017 does NOT feel like its the same time as 2010-2024 yet here we are being a child really does warp our perception of time doesn't it?
@@ValentinaDiNapoli-bh7dsprobably not actually, my desktop from around that time had a hard time with later DS games. Especially Gen V Pokemon, that was playable with frame skip set to max
I like that now you're covering old tech that was contemporary to the start of your channel. Although this thing was a odd gimmick that was probably obsolete the moment it came out, let alone even like 2-3 years later.
the part that's fascinating to me, is that if dual-touch screens became popular, if there was a "killer app" for them; all the wonkiness would easily be fixed. If it went viral and profitable to make, we'd probably have perfectly good dual touchscreens now! The technical problems were minor, it's just that people didn't like it enough to put up with the glitches. In a parallel universe somewhere, dual touchscreens dominate the 2020s! lol
@@squirlmy it was more that ultra portable stuff back then was barely usable for contemporary applications and websites. Not that we still don't shovel out barely usable slop, but they're rarely as imaginative.
in 2010 that was very bad move but these days bing is honesty on par or slightly better than google but that is mostly because google got worse but there are more alternatives
Yooo Bing is very Snappy- On-Point & Powerful Search engine.. As a longtime XBOX guy I originally switched over so i could take advantage of the free buckets full of Microsoft Points but after a few days it quickly becomes my go-to main browser.
@@belstar1128 Bing's great! I honestly can't remember the last time I used Google to search. I really like the Give option in the Bing Rewards. I just search things like normal, & do short quizzes, & it donates money to the charity (or animal shelter in my case) of my choosing!
My favorite LGR term for underpowered hardware is "A wet roll of toilet paper for a GPU" when mentioning either underpowered video cards, or just integrated graphics.
When describing dial up internet back in the day, when someone asked me what speed I got, I said, "My internet is as slow as a slug and a snail on a sidwalk." Thankfully the internet grew up and technology with it, so now I get 450mbps down. Still not gigabit no, but far faster then 30kbBps down. lol
It's great that even in the 2010s tech companies were still making overly expensive, overly ambitious products doomed to fail by being ahead of their time. "But your kids are gonna love it."
I have one of these in my lounge room. I use an online interactive TV guide over both screens. Sliding up and down shows me all of the channels. And left/right lets me scroll through the time of day. For this alone, it's excellent.
How is it better than a tablet though? Seems bulkier and clunkier than an iPad or android or even a windows tablet without any upside in that specific use case.
@@JaredConnell The true way of the tinkerer is to make niche and bizarre gadgets do mundane things that would be more easily accomplished on common devices. So I'd say this Libretto is an ideal TV guide.
@@JaredConnell : For that use-case, the clunkiness seems almost identical. The real inconvenience would be getting the device and setting it up, not it's differences from a tablet.
@@JaredConnell did you miss the part about dual touchscreens? I guess if you can get split screen on an Android tablet, maybe there's an app for doing that specifically? Considering it never leaves the room, it just has to be in range of sight of the TV; bulk and clunkiness isn't a problem. If you are so lazy you can't pick up something the size and weight of a paperback book to bring to your chair, I guess a tablet would be better?
That webcam gave me flashbacks to watching the news in 2004 during moments where they'd make a video call with some random expert at home haha. What a wild device. Love it.
I love the tech from this period. It was a time where the iPhone was a few years old, people knew that touchscreens were The Future, but we still weren’t able to figure out how to design for them without using older mental models of existing tech (laptops, for example). It’s fascinating from a cultural and user experience point of view!
oliver im not sure where you’re at but for me touchscreens are getting to the point where theyre inescapable, enough to drive at least me crazy. car infotainment systems, POS’s, self checkouts, abms, service kiosks, thermostats, the list goes on, and is ever expanding. Theyre cheaper than custom buttons and physical ux, definitely the present and future for better or worse…
@@oliverdurgen5953 Buddy, 2010 smartphones were relatively a new thing, not widespred yet, many still used "dumbphones". Same for tablets. So yeah touchscreen tech was the future. Have in mind many, many people don't even have/bother with, a computer, all they know is their cellphone touchscreen, specially z gens.
@@Ordlnary_Gamer : Eh, depends on use-case. Touch screens are mostly not a desktop thing, and often not a laptop thing. On tablets and phones they're almost universal, but on more "conventional" desk-like use cases separate interfaces like touch pads & mice are genuinely superior. This isn't even new either, as it had been determined from tests back before the 90s that "face forward" was the ideal case for screens, and "arms low and horizontal" was the ideal case for input, rendering touch screens ill-advised.
Hello, Clint. I just wanted to say that I feel really happy for you and your success on this platform. I am so glad that you are interested in things like this, because then I wouldn't be interested in it, and there wouldn't be an inspiration for me and so many other tech enthusiasts. You sure are a true inspiration to me and so many others that I cannot express enough how much I look up to you as a rando in high school (rotfl). Hope to see you at VCF sometime!
Wait, i missed a video from you about the first Dune game?! Time and time again i am amazed by the goodness that your channel splurts out onto my screen!
Awesome video! Quick tip for anyone with a W100/W105, take the battery out before you store this machine. I got mine out the other day and the battery had bulged badly. Was lucky that it had not damaged the bottom screen but it was very close to catastrophe. Will be doing a repair of this in a future video.
I remember sitting at my desk in the support department at work on my lunch break and seeing that and wondering if I could sell an organ quickly enough to get one. Seeing this I still admire the machine, but in retrospect I'm glad I kept my kidney lol
I liked Winamp enough that on one of the Mac minis I've had over the years I used either Wine or Crossover to get it working under macOS. All those keyboard shortcuts, and I prefer the simple clean way it does library and plstlist management to anything else, even now.
Look two Garys replied to your comment! Also love winamp. They came back a few years ago but now it looks like they're focusing more on the streaming aspect.
That EeeBook part made me think of EeePC. Yea, I actually said, "It's time to bring out the EEEPC!" of DankPods fame. The EeePC was a netbook from around that time.
That got a chuckle out of me as a DankPods viewer as DankPods used to have an EeePC he used for when he needed windows on a video and he always pronounced the "Eee" in a very similar way to this
My dad used to bring a libretto home from work and I'd play Warcraft 2 on it in my room. I've been trying to figure out what computer it was for years now, I just remembered it being very small and having the mouse buttons on the screen. The intro to this video finally helped me figure it out, thank you!
Looking for one of these online and wow are they expensive. At around $700.00 but tbh I may end up buying one sometime. I love tech, its part of the reason why I love your channel
Neat piece of tech history.. My "PC" around this time was a 10" dell netbook but for lack of any home internet, I was using my palm centro for most stuff. Smartphones would remain as my primary computer for the next 6 years, lol.
I had numerous PDAs in middle and highschool but this second hand palm centro was my first connected one/ smartphone. It was capable enough to be my main internet for about a year. Was kind of in between WAP and real internet but for the time, this ability and it's other capabilities were fantastic. Solid little device with a good keyboard too. Palm also had a pretty well developed app library. @@ProbablyAnAmateur
Yes, Linux Mint is able to drive 2 Touchscreens at the same time. apt-get install x11-touchscreen-calibrator xinput-calibrator -y on the console is needed. (sometimes libts0 or libts-bin is needed too...) Best regards from Germany and keep up the good work !
5:04 - Ha, Clint _would_ have been one to buy the Duke Nukem 3D Level Design Handbook back in the day! Could you scan it and upload it to the Internet Archive? They've only got the companion CD, not the book itself.
Honestly never knew about this one. First thought for me was wondering if an Android version would work on it Maybe 7 or 8. Great vid, I love looking back at things I missed back in the day. Thanks.
that pop-up keyboard is just the on-screen keyboard built into Windows (although for 7 I can't remember if it's in the normal installation or you have to download it from MS). But as for Linux, we had Android in 2010, although those early versions had limited hardware support, and there were some Linux UI made for specific industrial purposes - like ATM and machine operation. I don't recall any Linux at the time with a window manager optimized for touch screens, and not even sure there is one now. But even if the OS is touch optimized, everything you run on it also has to be, and that's not really the case for normal desktop applications. Even the mobile "optimized" productivity apps we have now are all very limited because there's no simple way to make a very complex program work with only touch input. You'd end up with the same annoyance as console-optimized UI where you have to flip through page after page of options to find the one you want - in that sense the "personalized" menus MS made for their 2003 products would work so much better on mobile, since they keep the stuff you use in front and bury everything else
I'm a European living in Canada (never had to learn US measurements) and I can't tell you how grateful I am that you showed the weight of the laptop in both US and metric!
And with these W100's, good luck getting a battery for them. Tried getting a battery for mine twice, both times didn't work out. Either way, an interesting little machine i'll say.
I've been there. My first W100 didn't come with a battery, I checked every random battery seller listing generic batteries, and the couple that said they had them didn't actually. Radwell seems to specialize in obsolete tech said they had them, but don't. There was an eBay seller that had NOS batteries, but was overseas and it ended up getting confiscated because eBay international shipping doesn't allow loose lipo batteries not in a device. You kind of need a battery since it's part of the base and keeps it from tipping over. I ended up buying a bad puffed pack (so much that couldn't even plug into the machine) and just opened it up and removed the cells and added some equivalent tire weights. Later I picked up a Japanese spec model that a little life in the battery. I've upgraded the storage in mine, and uploaded disc/drive images to the internet archive
Argh, tell me about it. I've been seeking and failing to find a good battery _that's actually in stock_ for years now. Thanks for uploading that stuff, @jasonnovak2121! It came in handy here since mine was missing a couple of programs.
I loved the Surface Duo phone. It can now also be hacked to run Windows 11. It's be good for LGR to cover the Duo. It's a very under appreciated device that Microsoft sadly gave up on too soon. This was a great video, thanks LGR.
Around 2014 I bought Dell Venue 8 Pro Windows 8 8" tablet with anemic quad core Intel Atom Z3740D with passive cooling at 2W TDP and still have a category in Steam library for games that run nicely with touchscreen support: Magicka: Wizards of the Square Tablet Sproggiwood Guild of Dungeoneering Deep Dungeons of Doom
They released another Venue 8 Pro to follow that, with a Cherry Trail Atom x5 Z8500 instead. Except Dell apparently didn't realize the increased thermals of that chip, so the thing would start throttling on even the slightest workload. Your Z3740D actually had better sustained performance, certainly for gaming. And so that pretty much killed Dell's 8" Windows tablet aspirations. Kind of a shame.
I was gifted one in 2011. I very quickly realised why the person giving it to me wasn't to sad to see it go. It's a great novelty machine, but as much as I tried to make use of it, it just wasn't worth the hassle. The worst thing about it is the teeny tiny speaker that barely made any sound and once the fans kick in you can forget about hearing anything. Found a forum back in the day where someone managed to get windows 8 running on it, I assume since it was more touch screen "friendly", but the drivers was not doing a great job at making it all work so after trying it a few times myself I also gave up on the idea and reinstalled Win7. It's really cool and I still have it (on a shelf) in my living room. Every now and then I'll take it out and just mess around with it for a couple a minutes.
As a collector, that would be a cool addition to my Toshiba Libretto 70CT. But all these Libretto things are failing in terms of usability. And this W100 takes the cake. The idea is very cool tbh.
1:58 It's worth noting that there's now a surprisingly usable ARM Windows port for the Surface Duo. It's actually the primary way I use my Duo these days.
I miss little tiny laptops. I was a staunch desktop user when they were still popular and thought they were so pedestrian. Now I think they're absolutely charming, and we actually have the technology for them now, but they're nowhere to be found.
Every company discontinued Netbooks when tablets and smartphones became popular. It's funny. They are "competitors" but make the same syncronized moves.
@@karlimo4034Smartphones killed the market for limited function PCs like netbooks because they're just better at being limited function PCs. People only bought netbooks because smartphones were too primitive and expensive to take over that market yet.
There were a few netbooks that were halfway decent back then as long as you avoided the ones with the 1024x600 displays. I had an Asus Eee PC 1215N and it was actually a really decent little computer. As long as you stuck with older titles it would run quite a few games pretty well. I was impressed when I got Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory running on it at the highest settings at 1366x768, and it ran really well. It was a 6-7 year old game at the time but running it on such a tiny laptop was cool.
@@2Plus2isChicken2013 I agree with you. I have a Sony Vaio PCG-4V1L / VPCW121AX netbook and it has a nice 1366x768 display, and that's about the only thing nice about it. It's a total snail when running Windows 7 Starter (and runs the fan all the time under normal operation). I managed to install HaikuOS on it for the heck of it, just to see if it runs any better, and even that manages to start every other bootup. :(
That laptop case is like something from the 1960's. It's the kind of leatherette case you would get a reel to reel recorder inside. The entire thing looks so antiquated; the fact this came out at the same time as the iPad and yet looks like a 2005 netbook is just so bizarre.
This Toshiba branded software is so nostalgic, man. I still has my first laptop that I bought myself, for my own money, and it was a Toshiba Satelitte LS540 (I think?), quite a beast with first gen i5 and midrange Radeon graphics card (5165? it is a weird card). 2009 and I needed university computer that can do CAD. Battery is shot, display failed years ago, keyboard cable broke but it still works.
Back in the early 2000s when I was in middle school I wanted one so bad. My history teacher had one. He was one of the only teachers that I knew of to build a computer lab in classroom with his own money. He was a great teacher.
the one thing that I like with old hardware is that it is very durable. Works after 10 or 15 years. My 2 year old macbook (bought for a few thousand dollars) has dying screen and battery. I have a 15 year old laptop and it just works and I think it will work for another 10 years or more.
It would be possible that someone with it tried to out Ubuntu Touch on it in 2014. Or a little later postmarketos in 2017. I don't think there was anything concurrent with it.
no matter the year, i look at a small laptop gadget and my brain goes "i want that......"
always loved seeing them back in the day.... Boy did reality kick in when we got an eee PC...
Same, I think the Nintendo DS left a permanent imprint on my brain
@@thomasxl200
Da-ding-di-dling.
Same. The netbook era really imprinted on my mind. I miss 12" laptop😢
Me too, if it wasn't such garbage.
Actually had a friend who had one of these, he was just in love with the idea of a mini pocketable laptop, he could afford it because he spent his tax return on it. The following year he even spent his return on upgrades (you can upgrade the SSD in it I believe, but I know he put a 256 GB SSD in it) he actually used it as a daily driver with the extended battery. I remember thinking it was neat but nowhere near worth the cost. But hey, it wasn't mine, it was his and he seemed happy with it, he was always looking for a reason to show it off to people (esp ladies at the coffee shop and such)
does it work with ladies? Asking for a friend
“Check this out, ladies: it’s twice as large as it appears.”
My daily driver is an iPad, with my phone and my gaming PC covering everything else. It’s a great setup.
I thought, “2010? Wasn’t all that obsolete.” Then I realized it was 14 years ago, and reviewing it now is like reviewing my first PC from 2003 in 2017.
I mean yeah kinda but the early half of the 2010s didn't see much happening in tech except for SSDs becoming mainstream and affordable, 2003 to 2017 was much more of a jump in processing power than 2010 to 2024 is. :)
Desktop pc's from 2010 are still good for something, but this crap, naah. It was slow even then.
Nokia was still putting out phones with Symbian OS in 2010.
oh my god the realization hit me like a BRICK. 2003-2017 does NOT feel like its the same time as 2010-2024 yet here we are
being a child really does warp our perception of time doesn't it?
sometimes I still think the year 2000 is not that long ago..
Wow, a Toshiba DS!
Dang, you beat me to it.
Great for ds emulation, I guess
@@ValentinaDiNapoli-bh7dsprobably not actually, my desktop from around that time had a hard time with later DS games. Especially Gen V Pokemon, that was playable with frame skip set to max
Nintendo 4DS
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I like that now you're covering old tech that was contemporary to the start of your channel. Although this thing was a odd gimmick that was probably obsolete the moment it came out, let alone even like 2-3 years later.
the part that's fascinating to me, is that if dual-touch screens became popular, if there was a "killer app" for them; all the wonkiness would easily be fixed. If it went viral and profitable to make, we'd probably have perfectly good dual touchscreens now! The technical problems were minor, it's just that people didn't like it enough to put up with the glitches. In a parallel universe somewhere, dual touchscreens dominate the 2020s! lol
@@squirlmy it was more that ultra portable stuff back then was barely usable for contemporary applications and websites. Not that we still don't shovel out barely usable slop, but they're rarely as imaginative.
This comment hurt down deep lmao.
When a product advertises Bing on the front of the box, you know you're in for a good time lmao.
I hear it's Zune compatible.
I want to take Windows home for the weekend 😭
in 2010 that was very bad move but these days bing is honesty on par or slightly better than google but that is mostly because google got worse but there are more alternatives
Yooo
Bing is very Snappy-
On-Point & Powerful Search engine..
As a longtime XBOX guy I originally switched over so i could take advantage of the free buckets full of Microsoft Points but after a few days it quickly becomes my go-to
main browser.
@@belstar1128 Bing's great! I honestly can't remember the last time I used Google to search.
I really like the Give option in the Bing Rewards.
I just search things like normal, & do short quizzes, & it donates money to the charity (or animal shelter in my case) of my choosing!
Things from 2010 are already considered retro, time is going so fast.
14 years ago. 14 *years ago*. god, that 2010 was 14 years ago.
I still think 20 years ago is 1980
Still compatible, quirky tech is getting dirt cheap, right before getting unreasonably expensive and retro.
If you really want to feel old, that first laptop shown was released 14 years before that one.
Time appears to get faster every single year.
"A sluggish ballsack" is my new favorite description, for old, slow tech 🤣
My favorite LGR term for underpowered hardware is "A wet roll of toilet paper for a GPU" when mentioning either underpowered video cards, or just integrated graphics.
When describing dial up internet back in the day, when someone asked me what speed I got, I said, "My internet is as slow as a slug and a snail on a sidwalk." Thankfully the internet grew up and technology with it, so now I get 450mbps down. Still not gigabit no, but far faster then 30kbBps down. lol
@@stellarproductions8888 LOL. When a PC was unreasonably slow, I used to say it was slower than a snail on tranquilizers!
That was my highschool nickname!
It's great that even in the 2010s tech companies were still making overly expensive, overly ambitious products doomed to fail by being ahead of their time.
"But your kids are gonna love it."
Me: see cute little laptop
My brain: *Neuron activation*
Just wanted to say thank you for implementing captions in your videos :) Love all your content!
I have one of these in my lounge room. I use an online interactive TV guide over both screens. Sliding up and down shows me all of the channels. And left/right lets me scroll through the time of day.
For this alone, it's excellent.
Ooh yeah I can see that! Simple little tasks are ideal for this thing.
How is it better than a tablet though? Seems bulkier and clunkier than an iPad or android or even a windows tablet without any upside in that specific use case.
@@JaredConnell The true way of the tinkerer is to make niche and bizarre gadgets do mundane things that would be more easily accomplished on common devices. So I'd say this Libretto is an ideal TV guide.
@@JaredConnell : For that use-case, the clunkiness seems almost identical. The real inconvenience would be getting the device and setting it up, not it's differences from a tablet.
@@JaredConnell did you miss the part about dual touchscreens? I guess if you can get split screen on an Android tablet, maybe there's an app for doing that specifically? Considering it never leaves the room, it just has to be in range of sight of the TV; bulk and clunkiness isn't a problem. If you are so lazy you can't pick up something the size and weight of a paperback book to bring to your chair, I guess a tablet would be better?
I am REALLY digging the velour interior of that case. Extravagance I can get behind.
That webcam gave me flashbacks to watching the news in 2004 during moments where they'd make a video call with some random expert at home haha. What a wild device. Love it.
I’m glad someone else hears it! 😂
I can't tell how often I see documentaries were the "experts" still seem to have such webcams :D
"Just because we can means we absolutely must", someone at Toshiba, probably
hearing that this came out around the same time as the iPad was a heart dropping experience
I'm so OLD AAAAAA
Steve Jobs said that the iPhone was originally supposed to be a tablet (which Apple had a history of with the Newton).
@Myth1221 thank god youre still hot
I lost it @5:03 when LGR said, "but hey, you can store it on a shelf, like a weirdo, so THAT'S something" 🤣
I mean if you are concerned about security, nobody would ever find it.
@@MrWolfSnack LMFAO 😂😂😂😂
Read this exactly as he was saying it. 😂
@@LethargicSquirrel LMFAO, this is great. I love it when that happens
21:38 the sign of a true old school enthusiast. Cuts on hand possibly from metal pc cases 🤣
YUP. Darned razor-edged 3.5" hard drive cages.
@@LGR LGR ... The news of Denis Nikolaev birthday has come to you ❤❤☺☺😄😄😃😃
I love the tech from this period. It was a time where the iPhone was a few years old, people knew that touchscreens were The Future, but we still weren’t able to figure out how to design for them without using older mental models of existing tech (laptops, for example). It’s fascinating from a cultural and user experience point of view!
@@oliverdurgen5953omg, you are so wrong and it’s so sad
@oliverdurgen5953 you answered your own question. Dumb ass
oliver im not sure where you’re at but for me touchscreens are getting to the point where theyre inescapable, enough to drive at least me crazy. car infotainment systems, POS’s, self checkouts, abms, service kiosks, thermostats, the list goes on, and is ever expanding. Theyre cheaper than custom buttons and physical ux, definitely the present and future for better or worse…
@@oliverdurgen5953 Buddy, 2010 smartphones were relatively a new thing, not widespred yet, many still used "dumbphones". Same for tablets. So yeah touchscreen tech was the future. Have in mind many, many people don't even have/bother with, a computer, all they know is their cellphone touchscreen, specially z gens.
@@Ordlnary_Gamer : Eh, depends on use-case. Touch screens are mostly not a desktop thing, and often not a laptop thing. On tablets and phones they're almost universal, but on more "conventional" desk-like use cases separate interfaces like touch pads & mice are genuinely superior. This isn't even new either, as it had been determined from tests back before the 90s that "face forward" was the ideal case for screens, and "arms low and horizontal" was the ideal case for input, rendering touch screens ill-advised.
Hello, Clint.
I just wanted to say that I feel really happy for you and your success on this platform. I am so glad that you are interested in things like this, because then I wouldn't be interested in it, and there wouldn't be an inspiration for me and so many other tech enthusiasts. You sure are a true inspiration to me and so many others that I cannot express enough how much I look up to you as a rando in high school (rotfl). Hope to see you at VCF sometime!
Watching LGR laying back and relaxing, it's like Christmas
Yes uwu
@@SnowBunneh :3 XD
The galaxy fold and surface duo prove that this kind of "laptop" is just super cool.
and mostly useless...
Wait, i missed a video from you about the first Dune game?! Time and time again i am amazed by the goodness that your channel splurts out onto my screen!
Pause
This is like a cross between the Nintendo DS and a NetBook on Windows 7. I love it! That device is something unique.
5:51 much appreciated, units i understand 😅
Awesome video! Quick tip for anyone with a W100/W105, take the battery out before you store this machine. I got mine out the other day and the battery had bulged badly. Was lucky that it had not damaged the bottom screen but it was very close to catastrophe. Will be doing a repair of this in a future video.
I remember sitting at my desk in the support department at work on my lunch break and seeing that and wondering if I could sell an organ quickly enough to get one. Seeing this I still admire the machine, but in retrospect I'm glad I kept my kidney lol
Finally! After a rough week a new LGR video is lotion for the soul.
As a fan of micro sized things, this laptop speaks to me lol
8:10 Thats the first time I've seen WinAmp in many many years...so much nostalgia...
I liked Winamp enough that on one of the Mac minis I've had over the years I used either Wine or Crossover to get it working under macOS. All those keyboard shortcuts, and I prefer the simple clean way it does library and plstlist management to anything else, even now.
Look two Garys replied to your comment! Also love winamp. They came back a few years ago but now it looks like they're focusing more on the streaming aspect.
@@garydiamondguitaristThere was a macOS native version of Winamp for a while.
@@AnxiousGary Two Garys eh? Couple more and it'll be a Fallout 3 reference.
I usually just listen to music on RUclips now, but it really doesn't whip the llama's ass ...
My Love for the netbook form factor is why i became a Linux convert.
Always nice to find a new LGR pop up in my feed after making breakfast and hoping on my pc.
As a Zenbook Duo owner I'm just glad to see it get a shout, had two and they're both really neat laptops.
Amazon Kindle if jeff actually made it look like a book
Kindle isn't supposed to be cool, it's supposed to be cheap.
@@harryshuman9637neither it's designed to make you pay for a book you dont actually own (if your gonna correct me let's get it right) 😂
@@BaileyMagikzExcept you can read epub and pdf files on a Kindle. Try again.
@@BaileyMagikz That's why you acquire the books for free and sideload them.
No one wants to hold a big, foldable tablet like a book. I want to agree, but that kind of e-reader sounds impractical.
I’m sick so today (7/16/24) I’m going to be spending it binging LGR Oddware. I love Clint’s content.
Nothing better than some good old oddware with the most relaxing voice I know 😊
i got a zfold 5 and im actually really happy with it the multi tasking is insane.
I remember having one of those. I sold it for twice as much lol.
That Ayaneo flip DS Looks so cool
Oh man, I remember reading about this in the news and wanting it real bad.
That EeeBook part made me think of EeePC. Yea, I actually said, "It's time to bring out the EEEPC!" of DankPods fame. The EeePC was a netbook from around that time.
I loved the eeePC, it was cutely small.
I got a Dell mini 9 net book though, I still have it.
The way Clint said "EeeReader" had me belly laughing
It's either that or a high-pitched scream. Eeeeeeeee!
That got a chuckle out of me as a DankPods viewer as DankPods used to have an EeePC he used for when he needed windows on a video and he always pronounced the "Eee" in a very similar way to this
Eeepeecee
I see him putting dankpods reference there.
I like the featured Libretto piano app designed specifically for playing chopsticks.
My dad used to bring a libretto home from work and I'd play Warcraft 2 on it in my room. I've been trying to figure out what computer it was for years now, I just remembered it being very small and having the mouse buttons on the screen. The intro to this video finally helped me figure it out, thank you!
5:12 I'm glad to see you're still rocking that shirt from Marshall Fields, Clint. It's a rad design.
It's honestly one of my favorites at this point.
Looking for one of these online and wow are they expensive. At around $700.00 but tbh I may end up buying one sometime. I love tech, its part of the reason why I love your channel
The alignment face on the facial recognition app is so funny.
Neat piece of tech history.. My "PC" around this time was a 10" dell netbook but for lack of any home internet, I was using my palm centro for most stuff. Smartphones would remain as my primary computer for the next 6 years, lol.
palm centro?? i wanted one of those :(
I had numerous PDAs in middle and highschool but this second hand palm centro was my first connected one/ smartphone. It was capable enough to be my main internet for about a year. Was kind of in between WAP and real internet but for the time, this ability and it's other capabilities were fantastic. Solid little device with a good keyboard too. Palm also had a pretty well developed app library. @@ProbablyAnAmateur
I love the little netbooks, handhelds and lunchbox pc's. Not always best price or performance but always interesting.
Some, like the Sony VGN-T250P were very desirable back in the day. They were also more expensive than full size laptops.
Yes, Linux Mint is able to drive 2 Touchscreens at the same time.
apt-get install x11-touchscreen-calibrator xinput-calibrator -y
on the console is needed. (sometimes libts0 or libts-bin is needed too...)
Best regards from Germany and keep up the good work !
This thing had a removable battery. There is no excuse for modern companies.
this is not so bad. cool concept. i say this as a mini pc admirer
Clint's cat got him.
9:19 you can actually SEE heat coming out, wow
There were a few contemporary mobile-aimed linux distros, like Moblin for example. Might be worth trying out
Absolutely awesome video my man. I love the videos that you put out. I've been watching your channel a lot lately
The W100 is truly a fascinating and quirky machine - I really should try and dig mine out and check it still behaves.
Really enjoyed you covering this little oddity. Also appreciate the PlayBook shoutout; that device would be a good one to cover, too!
Odd device to be sure. I am a bit fascinated by the split keyboard options, regardless.
16:26 Oh my...
5:04 - Ha, Clint _would_ have been one to buy the Duke Nukem 3D Level Design Handbook back in the day!
Could you scan it and upload it to the Internet Archive? They've only got the companion CD, not the book itself.
LGR with coffee on a Friday morning. Perfect.
They also brought it back in 2005, the u100. It was arguably the best libretto after the ct series
Honestly never knew about this one. First thought for me was wondering if an Android version would work on it Maybe 7 or 8. Great vid, I love looking back at things I missed back in the day. Thanks.
Android X86 probably
that pop-up keyboard is just the on-screen keyboard built into Windows (although for 7 I can't remember if it's in the normal installation or you have to download it from MS). But as for Linux, we had Android in 2010, although those early versions had limited hardware support, and there were some Linux UI made for specific industrial purposes - like ATM and machine operation. I don't recall any Linux at the time with a window manager optimized for touch screens, and not even sure there is one now. But even if the OS is touch optimized, everything you run on it also has to be, and that's not really the case for normal desktop applications. Even the mobile "optimized" productivity apps we have now are all very limited because there's no simple way to make a very complex program work with only touch input. You'd end up with the same annoyance as console-optimized UI where you have to flip through page after page of options to find the one you want - in that sense the "personalized" menus MS made for their 2003 products would work so much better on mobile, since they keep the stuff you use in front and bury everything else
My wife walked in at 16:26 🙈 that was fun to explain
Good god, I feel even older now. I remember lusting after this gadget 14 years ago... I came very, very close to buying one.
I'm a European living in Canada (never had to learn US measurements) and I can't tell you how grateful I am that you showed the weight of the laptop in both US and metric!
Perfect video to watch with my morning tea
The fingers part bro!🤣🤣🤣
Gives me vibes of a character from one of my favorite DS games- they have a tablet that looks a lot like this.
And with these W100's, good luck getting a battery for them. Tried getting a battery for mine twice, both times didn't work out. Either way, an interesting little machine i'll say.
I've been there. My first W100 didn't come with a battery, I checked every random battery seller listing generic batteries, and the couple that said they had them didn't actually. Radwell seems to specialize in obsolete tech said they had them, but don't. There was an eBay seller that had NOS batteries, but was overseas and it ended up getting confiscated because eBay international shipping doesn't allow loose lipo batteries not in a device. You kind of need a battery since it's part of the base and keeps it from tipping over. I ended up buying a bad puffed pack (so much that couldn't even plug into the machine) and just opened it up and removed the cells and added some equivalent tire weights. Later I picked up a Japanese spec model that a little life in the battery. I've upgraded the storage in mine, and uploaded disc/drive images to the internet archive
Argh, tell me about it. I've been seeking and failing to find a good battery _that's actually in stock_ for years now.
Thanks for uploading that stuff, @jasonnovak2121! It came in handy here since mine was missing a couple of programs.
I loved the Surface Duo phone. It can now also be hacked to run Windows 11.
It's be good for LGR to cover the Duo. It's a very under appreciated device that Microsoft sadly gave up on too soon.
This was a great video, thanks LGR.
Around 2014 I bought Dell Venue 8 Pro Windows 8 8" tablet with anemic quad core Intel Atom Z3740D with passive cooling at 2W TDP and still have a category in Steam library for games that run nicely with touchscreen support:
Magicka: Wizards of the Square Tablet
Sproggiwood
Guild of Dungeoneering
Deep Dungeons of Doom
They released another Venue 8 Pro to follow that, with a Cherry Trail Atom x5 Z8500 instead. Except Dell apparently didn't realize the increased thermals of that chip, so the thing would start throttling on even the slightest workload. Your Z3740D actually had better sustained performance, certainly for gaming. And so that pretty much killed Dell's 8" Windows tablet aspirations. Kind of a shame.
I was gifted one in 2011. I very quickly realised why the person giving it to me wasn't to sad to see it go. It's a great novelty machine, but as much as I tried to make use of it, it just wasn't worth the hassle. The worst thing about it is the teeny tiny speaker that barely made any sound and once the fans kick in you can forget about hearing anything. Found a forum back in the day where someone managed to get windows 8 running on it, I assume since it was more touch screen "friendly", but the drivers was not doing a great job at making it all work so after trying it a few times myself I also gave up on the idea and reinstalled Win7.
It's really cool and I still have it (on a shelf) in my living room. Every now and then I'll take it out and just mess around with it for a couple a minutes.
I honestly did not expect to hear someone even mention the blackberry playbook
Was give one as a gift and it... worked I guess
God, stuff from 2010 already looks and feels ancient.
As a collector, that would be a cool addition to my Toshiba Libretto 70CT. But all these Libretto things are failing in terms of usability. And this W100 takes the cake. The idea is very cool tbh.
That microphone transition "this is what it sounds like" caught me off guard and I spit out my soda lol What a truly terrible sound.
Libretto is a well fitting name for that. I think Libretto means a small book.
Yes indeed
Another item for the "I want a modern version of this" list.
LGR in the morning, with coffee. What a life.
It's afternoon right now. And I wont drink second coffee
Yup sure is.
Amen. My coffee comes with a side order of Welsh cakes 🏴🍥
@@ens8502Second coffee promotes productivity. Third is pushing it. Fourth and your stomach might make weird noises.
@@garydiamondguitaristwhat happens with fifth
Thanks for mentioning that the Blackberry Playbook existed ❤
Holy hell those fans
1:58 It's worth noting that there's now a surprisingly usable ARM Windows port for the Surface Duo. It's actually the primary way I use my Duo these days.
Love these things and always wanted one.
I miss little tiny laptops. I was a staunch desktop user when they were still popular and thought they were so pedestrian. Now I think they're absolutely charming, and we actually have the technology for them now, but they're nowhere to be found.
Every company discontinued Netbooks when tablets and smartphones became popular. It's funny. They are "competitors" but make the same syncronized moves.
@@karlimo4034 That's because once they see a product become wildly successful they want to jump on the bandwagon. #BecauseMoney
@@karlimo4034Smartphones killed the market for limited function PCs like netbooks because they're just better at being limited function PCs. People only bought netbooks because smartphones were too primitive and expensive to take over that market yet.
There were a few netbooks that were halfway decent back then as long as you avoided the ones with the 1024x600 displays. I had an Asus Eee PC 1215N and it was actually a really decent little computer. As long as you stuck with older titles it would run quite a few games pretty well. I was impressed when I got Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory running on it at the highest settings at 1366x768, and it ran really well. It was a 6-7 year old game at the time but running it on such a tiny laptop was cool.
@@2Plus2isChicken2013 I agree with you. I have a Sony Vaio PCG-4V1L / VPCW121AX netbook and it has a nice 1366x768 display, and that's about the only thing nice about it. It's a total snail when running Windows 7 Starter (and runs the fan all the time under normal operation). I managed to install HaikuOS on it for the heck of it, just to see if it runs any better, and even that manages to start every other bootup. :(
yeah I also had a DSi XL, can't see the wonder
That laptop case is like something from the 1960's. It's the kind of leatherette case you would get a reel to reel recorder inside.
The entire thing looks so antiquated; the fact this came out at the same time as the iPad and yet looks like a 2005 netbook is just so bizarre.
Back when tech was fun. I remember really wanting one of these.
I kinda want one to try and stick a modern CPU in.
When I first saw this I thought Toshiba had made a handheld "libretro" emulator system.
This Toshiba branded software is so nostalgic, man. I still has my first laptop that I bought myself, for my own money, and it was a Toshiba Satelitte LS540 (I think?), quite a beast with first gen i5 and midrange Radeon graphics card (5165? it is a weird card). 2009 and I needed university computer that can do CAD. Battery is shot, display failed years ago, keyboard cable broke but it still works.
"Compromised little package", I'll let you know that in many places that's an compromised _average_ package.
It's amazing that such a product ever made it to sale. So many issues.
Immediate first thought.
Someone make a DS Emulator that uses both screens.
You can stretch the window to span both screens in any emu.
Drastic emulator on a Surface Duo or Surface Duo 2 with a controller-grip. Best gaming emulation experience you can get for DS games.
@@BrandonFrisbyor you could just buy a 3ds
You will have gaming controls nor performance. Despite the cool form factor it is sadly not suitable for DS emulation.
Back in the early 2000s when I was in middle school I wanted one so bad. My history teacher had one. He was one of the only teachers that I knew of to build a computer lab in classroom with his own money. He was a great teacher.
These things still go for $600. They are rare.
So beautiful … so odd … love it ♡
Ahhh 2010, when things were “futuristic” but obsolete. Even how we thought the future would be was obsolete 😅
I want one of these, perhaps a more powerful version. They look super cool and perhaps improve on the functionality!
the one thing that I like with old hardware is that it is very durable. Works after 10 or 15 years. My 2 year old macbook (bought for a few thousand dollars) has dying screen and battery. I have a 15 year old laptop and it just works and I think it will work for another 10 years or more.
It would be possible that someone with it tried to out Ubuntu Touch on it in 2014. Or a little later postmarketos in 2017. I don't think there was anything concurrent with it.