My engineering school did a project for ford where they were asked to shave 25c off of connecting rods, the team of students instead found that another 15c of material would give it a massive boost to longevity but when they presented this, ford instead asked where was their 25c of saved material.
let's be honest - completely silent until you loaded anything from the floppy. I still have my Commie64 and 1541, and love that era (Wizball, Mail Order Monsters, Impossible Mission, and Archon for the win!) but everybody in the house knew when you used that floppy drive, especially if you were formatting a floppy. :P
This is a real story, My dad had a Nokia. One day, he accidentally dropped it on the road and before he could pick it up it got ran over by a van. It was smashed into several pieces. However, when he picked up the bits, he pieces them together and after a couple of tries was able to make a call!
My dad's flip phone used to explode into pieces if it fell more than about 6 inches into something hard. The parts would always fit back together and it would work like new
My first ever mobile phone (with Cingular) was those generic grey flip phone, it literally sat in a puddle of water for 8 hours till i got off work and found it... Still worked, the sound died for a while, i couldnt hear anything, but after like an hour it came back like nothing even happened
That's why any company with a removable back phone (Nokia, some sansungs) is less likely to break as when you drop it the force is spread through the main components and screen, the battery and the back.
my dad had a nokia that fell into a lake, when he noticed 5 minuted later, he reached in over the dock and pulled it out, it was still fucking on. he shut it off dried it out and used it for another 3 years
My Atari ST ran circles around every Mac of that time running a Mac emulator. It was even faster when not being restricted by their slowish GUI, I remember especially the MacOS font system to really suck.
nah, apple: pay too much for unreliable products that gather your personal data and send it forward, now with horrible specs only for the price of an used car! display glass cracked? no worries just visit our repair workshops and pay 2000 dollars for we wipe your images and everything you liked in the phone, we also make you wait 2 months for the replacement that takes 10 minutes to replace! not only that but our official repair parts are even cheaper knock offs from our originals! now with even more limitations and spying.
@@baileymcmanus1816 "Butchered Americanization". Alumium, Aluminum, and Aluminium were all words invented by the British, in that order. Aluminum predates Aluminium as a word by roughly 5 years.
@@baileymcmanus1816 in an even more ironic twist the person who found Aluminum originally recorded it under the name Aluminum and pronounced it as such. So you have played into the trap of people thinking just because Engish comes from them that they say everything how it's supposed to be said and Americans butcher everything.
From the end bit -- the 360's died so often (something like 40-50% of all units or more) for the same reason as the Apple III: Poor cooling design that MS very well knew about. When people called in to MS or otherwise tried to return/replace the systems, MS told that the users had them on carpets, or were using them wrong, etc. I worked at a game store at the time, and it was just plain hell dealing with all of the (understandably) angry customers (MS fed us the same line about it not being their fault). It was the only system where we tried as hard as possible to get people to buy the 1-year warranties on the blasted things, as chances are, you were gonna NEED them!
@@khhnator I can vouch for that. I worked an *ahem* gamestore during the launch. We had SOOOO many of the damn things brought back in the first few weeks alone! Took MS forever to even comment on it that they even had us believing that it was all user error for a while, until the truth began to sloooowly drizzle out.
I worked as a customer service agent for a gaming company a year ago. We helped players with all devices, but everyone agreed that the Xbox had the worst issues. Let me stress, THIS WAS A YEAR AGO, so Xbox is still the crappier console even in today's market.
Steve Jobs sabotaged every Apple product that was not a MacIntosh, because the mac was his child while everything else (the stuff that was actually good) was Steve's Wozniak's creations
Good quality older stuff was not trapped to fail and make us buy new hardware. Nowadays that doesn't even matter, they'll slowly kill any device with update "mistakes".
Foniks Monkee except they don't no one does that it's not a thing on windows chromebooks Android ect apple is the only one does this is apple and that's because they are making massive design flaws such as no fans on a laptop or over clocking a phone processor
As a professional maintenance technician I can assert that percussive maintenance is a real thing. Ever since telephone books were done away with, we've had to invest in new tools 🙁
At work we have shop gas pumps to fuel the vehicles and fill all the gas cans for the gas powered equipment. About 2 and a half years ago I got tired of the damn thing not working consistently, went into the shop, grabbed an old rubber mallet, hit it to start it, then left the mallet with the supplies for the pump. It is still there, and is used quite often.
The 360 didn't have 'too many parts' - cheap disk trays with no knock over protection caused the disk eating issues. The 'red ring of death' was mainly due to bad soldering combined with poor airflow in the case. In short the 360 was designed badly and manufactured cheaply.
It wasn't bad soldering and cheap manufacturing. It was the RoHS mandated switch to lead free solder. The new solders are prone to growing tin whiskers which cause short circuits. Also they aren't flexible and crack from repeated thermal cycles.
@@9HighFlyer9 leadless solder has never been a good thing. 98.5-02 dodge trucks with the Cummins have issues with the computer on the injection pump failing due to leadless solder not being able to handle the heat. The pump and computer have to be extremely precisely calibrated together due to controlling fuel injection so you can't just replace the computer if it fails, you have to replace the whole $1000 pump or have it rebuilt at a shop that has the proper equipment to do it, which the most important part of is a $250k calibration bench, and probably won't be any cheaper due to that. All due to the leadless solder bullshit
My favorite durability test is either Nintendo's 3DS Stair Test (they literally chuck the thing down a flight of stairs) or the Tonka Test (they run the toy truck over with a real one of the same type).
I dropped an old Nokia off the coast of Hawaii. Came back two years later and out of curiosity went to look for it. When I found it I pulled it out of the water and it TURNED ON! at that exact moment I decided to ditch my broken iPhone (had only owned it for 3 weeks.) Then promptly went and bought a new Nokia. Aesthetic appeal is definitely not the money maker for me.
Nicholas Mills modern macs have ingenious cooling solutions to be so quiet. For example they make the fan blades be unevenly spaced to make the noise produced be spread over a wider variety of frequencies.
Idk. My 07 mbp lasted a decade. So 5 years longer than any Windows laptop I've owned. And the cheese grater towers are just phenomenally designed machines, especially with cooling
I have never seen a iphone that didn't die from being a bit cold, and every Samsung I have may lose a few % of battery power, and have sluggish screens when its really cold, but have always worked when cold. Company issued brand new iphone would go from 100% charge to 3% when it got below 0 C. So I refused to use it and used my own Samsung, and it never quit on me. Recently got my brothers 2 year old LG phone, and it won't die on me either, where as other people at work have complained about their iphones during the winter more then once. Brother had a S6 phone, that he has dropped it so many times, and not a single crack on the screen. Case is nicked, and some scratches on the screen here and there, but otherwise fine. Can't say the same for my Aunts new iphone, she only dropped it once :/. Oh I am sure there are iphones out there better quality then what I have experienced, but from what I have experienced, I won't ever see them because I stay away from them for good now.
2:50 Classic Jobs. Like when he was consulting for Sony, walked into their PS4 Pro returns center, let off a bug bomb and cockroaches were crawling everywhere.
I'm an apple certified technician and I can honestly say that we are still taught to lift a device off the desk the drop to reseat any loose components. Oh wow apple.
They haven't changed, their response to the iPhone 5s starting on fire in peoples pockets was to get RETAILERS to tell the customer that they shouldn't carry them in their pocket. And when the iPhones started fires while being charged under people's pillows they said that the customer was charging them wrong. When this happened with Samsung they recalled the affected device and fixed the problem and that is one reason I switched from Apple to Samsung.
Tbh tho you probably shouldn't sleep with your phone under your pillow for multiple reasons. It could fall off the bed and break and of course it could overheat and literally catch fire. I never keep any tec under my pillow because I know its VERY possible for it to catch fire. But to say not to keep your phone in your pocket...That's just not right like something is wrong with Apple's cooling system
I went through 4 ps2's, kept having to have them replaced because random things kept burning out. I stopped at 4, not because it finally started working, but because the store refused to believe that we would be that unlucky, and thought we were intentionally breaking them.
25% of all smartphone owners have a cracked screen. I'm the proud owner of a Galaxy Note 10+ where the screen isn't cracked, but the back of the phone is. FML.
I remember one time I had an old iPhone 5s, the screen had a tiny chip in it (a small bit of the screen was gone but it was still only a tiny amount), it survived many other drops, but the way the screen actually got destroyed was when I left a car. I went from a 15-degree atmosphere in the car, to -5 (celsius by the way), and the entire screen shattered.
I have Pokemon Saphire that still works, every form of gameboy, a dsi (not that old but still), a ps2, the original xbox, and a sega genesis thats lost among the attic.
When I was in high school, we had Apple IIIc's. Years later, I worked for Apple and their revolutionary Apple Cinema display had an issue where the stabilization wires would stick together, causing a horizontal line somewhere on the screen. My scripted response was to get users to hit it with a mallet, but if they felt uncomfortable doing it themselves, they could take it to a service center where they did exactly the same thing.
My 1st phone was a Nokia 3310 and my ringtone was Nokia sticks. And now imagine playing paintball in the woods when that sound goes off as I'm hunting you.
Speaking of indestructible tech I was just playing my Game Boy SP yesterday. Thing has fallen down at least a collective of 15 flights of stairs and it still works. Now that's a beast of a system.
The bit about Nokia tests reminds me of some of the tests AT&T used to do with some of their Bell System telephone models from the 1950s to the 1980s. There's even footage of some of the tests, such as battering rams, wear and tear longevity, and temperature tests. Complete with showing them being used in places like a foundry to go, "This is why we test our stuff to these crazy levels, because our customers may need them to be in crazy places and work every time". Small wonder many of the devices have lasted as long as they have and are still in use today. The TV Tropes page for "Tonka Tough" is a great read, as well.
When I were a lad, my mother would buy fancy can openers, can openers with handles, electric can openers.. I dunno how many she got through. When I got my first job out of school I bought a proper victorinox swiss army knife and even before I moved out I would open cans with that because it was just always handy and nothing ever went wrong with it. Twenty odd years later, the blades have been reground so many times that the knife is useless but it still lives in the kitchen drawer and its still my day to day can opener.
My Super Nintendo is 24 years old and still works great along with all my games, even one of my games that got smashed by an old tv while it was being played. The whole cartridge that was above the insert port was smashed and the computer chip inside has been exposed for 23 years and it still works. I wish we had more durability like that these days.
thecosmichobo it wasn’t actually a poor spell checker. We (Britain) actually initially called it by both the American spelling and the one we currently use now, the American spelling being the original name given to it by the British guy who discovered it. However the scientific community in large decided to standardise it with other elements that end in “ium”, hence us and a lot of the rest of the world spelling it Aluminium. On the other hand, America stuck with the spelling they had (correctly) taken over there from English and decided not to conform with the standardisation. The old spelling eventually fell out of use here, but it’s still the one Used in America, and both are considered equally valid in the scientific community.
Percussive Maintenance is absolutely a great thing. I have used it several times. Helped a couple of college students when their car wouldn't start at a gas station a few months ago. They were at least a few hours away from their home in the middle of fucking nowhere at a little country store. I listened and noticed that I wasn't hearing the starter solenoid click when they tried to turn the key, so I grabbed my hammer... tapped the starter... cranked right up. I did suggest that they get where they were going before turning the car off again, because I couldn't guarantee that it'd start again. Also that they should replace the starter.
The only Apple product I use is my IPhone 6s. It still works and performs perfectly. I’m probably not gonna get a newer one though, I like my headphones too much.
If you like audio quality, I might recommend the LG V-series phones. I know the V20 has a headphone jack, not sure about the V30, but they all have quad-dacs with amazing sound quality.
Electronics engineer here, percussive maintance is a very real thing. Old electronics, especially the glass valve ones, have quite a big temperature difference between being on and off. This causes everything in the device to expand and contract. And because the valves were soldered in, but rather sat in sockets they could lose contact with the socket. A bang on the device would move the valves in the socket and often they would make contact again. The apple 3 had more of less the same problem, all the chips in it sat in sockets and the computer got hot. So a 6 inch drop would reseat the chips into their sockets
9:04 My first ever laptop. It took a beating like only a laptop specifically designed to be rugged could.... Except it was just generic consumer laptop. The kind that shouldn't be able to take the same beating as a rugged laptop... and yet it did.
Once while shoveling snow off of my driveway my 3310 fell out of my pocket without me noticing, and then i promptly drove over it with my car.. The top left button under the screen popped out, and the whole thing was covered in muddy snow.. Popped the button back with a tweezer, and done. The phone is still in working order, and would be usable if i could get a battery for it!
My dad's an old technophobe that hates smartphones. He only uses old flip phones and swears they are the greatest phones you can own. He had one once that would explode if he ever dripped it into 5 or 6 peices and he could put them back together and it would work like new
The discussion at the end reminds me of the video that they made about Nintendium way back. Like how the Gamecube was lit on fire, and not only did it still work, but the framerate went up
The only apple I have is my iPad. And I won it. So I technically have never boughten an apple product. My friends would have apple laptops and computers and they stop working all the time. While my windows tablet laptop from the year 2000 was still trucking a long just fine..so I’ve never wanted to buy apple products coz they aren’t made to last. They are shit in that perspective. I didn’t even purposely enter the drawing to win the iPad, it was just included with doing the surveys for a college and I happen to win.lol. I do like my iPad for its convenience, but I doubt it’ll last forever coz...you know...it’s apple.
Aluminum founder named it Alumium and later added the n to make it easier to pronounce o3o it was British editors who changed it to aluminium as it bother them it didn't fit with the names of other elements that ended with -ium. So basically this whole name battle was caused by British being OCD XD Edit: maybe you guys could talk about that, maybe also how soccer was the slang for the football game still played today (as there was multiple games in the football category back in the day, which is why American football is called that as rugby is a football game)
@@vickymc9695 Whoever taught you that was wrong. Aluminium and aluminum are just two different words for the same element. (Note: not variant spellings. Different words.) Both go back to pretty much the discovery of the element and there is a reasonable case to be made for either name. It looks like the professional bodies in North America are slowly settling on "aluminium" as the official name so we'll probably see a shift toward that over the next century or so in common usage in North America. Personally, I think alumium is better, too. Which pretty much guarantees it won't take over the world.
My dad worked on computers back when just a hard drive was bigger than the whole Apple III. Sometimes the heads would stick, and he joked that there were 3 fixes. The drop 6" fix, the drop 12" fix, and the 2 story out the window to the dumpster fix. The magnets in those things were so big we tied a rope to one and used it to pick up nails from the yard after having the roof done on the house.
Percussive maintenance or the concussive force method was best demonstrated in Armageddon when one astronaut says, "This is how we fix things in Russia!" Right as he starts whaling on something with a giant wrench.
Various modern phones I’ve had: break or stop working within 2 years A used gameboy I got for my 6th birthday: still works perfectly over 15 years later
I have an Amiga 600 that still runs perfectly fine. The only thing that's worn out on it is the clip inside the monitor power button, which occasionally releases so the screen turns off. Bit of tape fixes that though.
My wife's NES from 1987 still works, though only a couple of the games she has still do. My PS2 and Wii still work. That's actually the last 2 consoles I ever bought. Still play them once in awhile. Also the VCR/DVD player combo from like 2000 that I still own does work, though I use it maybe once a year. I mostly keep it so I can watch the original Star Wars trilogy from before Lucas butchered it in the late 90's if I really want to. Those VHS tapes from the early 90's still work too, though they've seen better days.
i have a toshiba sattelite laptop, its 10 years old, still plays FONV with 60 fps on ultra settings, its been through two car wrecks, (one was a broadside impact, the other was going 106 feet through a ditch and 14 trees ending with an airborne impact to a tree with a 14" radius) and it still lives
My Windows 98 desktop was still chugging along when Vista was being launched, my GBA is still playing Fire Red, and my original XBox died a few years ago
Speaking of the PS2 being a workhorse: TL;DR: Someone dropped my PS2, and broke it. It sat in nasty conditions for over a year, and seemingly magically fixed itself, and now works great. I'm baffled but grateful. I bought mine used, from a friend of mine, who was not known for being especially diligent concerning their care for the things they owned. It was one of the slim models, originally purchased by them at or near the launch of the redesign. I got my hands on it in roughly 2005. Years later, c. 2010, it stopped working (wouldn't power on) after a friend of a friend dropped it onto a concrete floor from, IDK, close to four feet up, as it was pulled off the top of a TV. It was then left for over a year in a very damp and (what would be unbelievably, except this is the internet, and we've all seen horrid images of the most extreme circumstances) dirty basement garage. I collected it when I moved into a new home, and figured "Fuck it, before I throw this out let's see. I did spend $80 on it" so I tried to power it on. To my absolute shock, it worked flawlessly. No one ever fixed it. No one did ANYTHING to even attempt to repair or even diagnose what went wrong originally. As far as I can figure, the fall busted it, and it "thought" to itself: "No way this is how I go out. Fuck that, I'm better than this." and just willed itself back into life after a bit of time to rest and recover. It's still going strong under regular use. -wild shrugging- The fucker's quite the trooper.
Funny you mention PS2, I'm on my 4th since it came out. The original brick and 3 slims. Disc read error on the brick, bad modem in the 2nd, the connection to the TV failed on the 3rd. Still have my original N64 and 2nd gen SNES from 97. I also cannot use a regular SNES controller because they are too small. I've had a pair of the same 3rd party controllers that are bit bigger for probably 25-26 years now, and it's the only ones I can play on. As far as phones go, they're all pretty much expensive junk now. That's why the laws in here in Canada had to change. Phone carriers can no long offer 3 year contracts because phones weren't lasting more than 2 years most of the time.
Speaking of old consoles, this summer, I was in a near fatal car wreck. My SNES was in the back seat and got WEDGED under the passenger's side seat. After we got it out, at least 1/8-1/4 of the plastic was destroyed, and you could clearly see the circuit boards and all that. The thing still turns on and plays. Nintendo is invincible.
I have had my tablet, an Asus Zenpad, for about 3 or 4 years now, and I am a very accident prone person. It is a tank! It has survived falls from head height onto concrete more times than I can count. It survived being tossed across the room a few times. The only reason that the screen cracked is because I accidentally spiked it into tile while trying to catch it. And it still works as well as it ever has! I mean the screen is cracked, but the display beneath isn't warped at all. It's great.
My PS2, which I got 2nd hand last year - still works great. The only thing it won't do is play DVDs anymore (It plays them for a time then the disc will start skipping - and when the same disc is played in a usual dvd player, it works fine)
I have a Heavy Duty Patton Air Circulator, which is basically a small industrial fan, that has lasted me nearly 20 years. This is made even more impressive by the fact that I mainly use it while I sleep. So I literally run it for hours every single day.
few years later, the Macbook Air tried the same thing. Built almost entirely out of aluminium with zero fans or vents. No overheating problems per se, only that the processing power and speed is incredibly reduced 10 minutes after turning it on. put a single vent in it, it'd be the fastest, most powerful machine of its size. but no, Steve Jobs says it has to look nice, so we make a piece of art that's supposed to work.
My dad got his car to work for about 3 months using 'percussive maintenance'. Some solder had come loose from an electrical part so the engine would cut out randomly.
I'm proud to say the only Apple product I have ever owned is an iPod Classic and I only own that because finding a speaker/dock for other brands of MP3 player was difficult at the time and the Classic held an awful lot of music, it is still working but to be fair I don't use it much, I have another MP3 player for taking out and about (much smaller, lighter, cheaper and it takes Micro SD cards so holds just as much music) and these days a lot of dock/radio/speaker combos take Aux inputs and given the fact the iPod Classic is no longer being made I can't see I will ever own another Apple product.
SNES's and the carts are practically indestructible, it's beautiful. Because of this, even though SNES systems are a hot retro item now you can still find them for a decent price since they all still work.
My LG V40 has a great screen, the only thing that left any effect on it was when it accidentally brushed up against the opening of a stone hot water bottle, where the glaze is thin and the stone is rough. There's a nick and couple of scratches to show for that, but those hot water bottles are ancient and rough at the opening, I'm not that surprised.
I'd rather have 1-2 extra millimeters of glass than a cracked screen
But muh innovation
Yea but cracked screens are more profitable
Too bad you can’t wrench money out of a intact screen! It’s called design choice, same reason why Apple charging cables and headphones always break.
My engineering school did a project for ford where they were asked to shave 25c off of connecting rods, the team of students instead found that another 15c of material would give it a massive boost to longevity but when they presented this, ford instead asked where was their 25c of saved material.
Just dont crack it idiot you're using it wrong
"No fans or vents, completely silent."
*laughs in Commodore 64*
I guess the massive holes for the user port and cartridge port gave it good air flow
Apple III is a much powerful machine than C64, that's why it will failed without fan or vent.
let's be honest - completely silent until you loaded anything from the floppy. I still have my Commie64 and 1541, and love that era (Wizball, Mail Order Monsters, Impossible Mission, and Archon for the win!) but everybody in the house knew when you used that floppy drive, especially if you were formatting a floppy. :P
@@chouseification Ballblazer!
This is a real story,
My dad had a Nokia. One day, he accidentally dropped it on the road and before he could pick it up it got ran over by a van. It was smashed into several pieces. However, when he picked up the bits, he pieces them together and after a couple of tries was able to make a call!
My dad's flip phone used to explode into pieces if it fell more than about 6 inches into something hard. The parts would always fit back together and it would work like new
lizard ledgend that’s a Nokia for you, even after being broke, you can still make a dying call
My first ever mobile phone (with Cingular) was those generic grey flip phone, it literally sat in a puddle of water for 8 hours till i got off work and found it... Still worked, the sound died for a while, i couldnt hear anything, but after like an hour it came back like nothing even happened
That's why any company with a removable back phone (Nokia, some sansungs) is less likely to break as when you drop it the force is spread through the main components and screen, the battery and the back.
my dad had a nokia that fell into a lake, when he noticed 5 minuted later, he reached in over the dock and pulled it out, it was still fucking on. he shut it off dried it out and used it for another 3 years
Early Macs were so terrible that a Commodore Amiga available new around the same time could run Mac OS faster than the actual Mac.
My Atari ST ran circles around every Mac of that time running a Mac emulator. It was even faster when not being restricted by their slowish GUI, I remember especially the MacOS font system to really suck.
Every Mac then runs Mac worse than direct competition
New rumors are surfacing that the new M1 MacBooks can run Windows ARM faster than Microsoft's own Surface Pro X
Apple III. 100% failure guarantee, or your money back
Ain't nobody getting their money back
Shut up and take my money
nah,
apple: pay too much for unreliable products that gather your personal data and send it forward, now with horrible specs only for the price of an used car!
display glass cracked? no worries just visit our repair workshops and pay 2000 dollars for we wipe your images and everything you liked in the phone, we also make you wait 2 months for the replacement that takes 10 minutes to replace! not only that but our official repair parts are even cheaper knock offs from our originals!
now with even more limitations and spying.
@@coomercommander2554 Man, seriously!? Fuck Apple!
"This computer fails 100% of the time!"
Finally, a device I can relate to.
Percussive maintenance is still a go-to solution for problems with apple products today, no joke, ive done it to my tablet 10 times
I just hit it Directly with my Fist
@@Vgamer311 no, you're just holding it wrong
"Alu-moon-nieum" You tried Karl, you tried and that's all that matters
@@baileymcmanus1816 "Butchered Americanization". Alumium, Aluminum, and Aluminium were all words invented by the British, in that order. Aluminum predates Aluminium as a word by roughly 5 years.
@@baileymcmanus1816 No?! Really?!!
he knows. He's just taking the piss.
@@baileymcmanus1816 in an even more ironic twist the person who found Aluminum originally recorded it under the name Aluminum and pronounced it as such. So you have played into the trap of people thinking just because Engish comes from them that they say everything how it's supposed to be said and Americans butcher everything.
I live in America, but Karl is the first person I've heard say "ali-moo-nium".
I think Karl's making it up.
From the end bit -- the 360's died so often (something like 40-50% of all units or more) for the same reason as the Apple III: Poor cooling design that MS very well knew about. When people called in to MS or otherwise tried to return/replace the systems, MS told that the users had them on carpets, or were using them wrong, etc. I worked at a game store at the time, and it was just plain hell dealing with all of the (understandably) angry customers (MS fed us the same line about it not being their fault). It was the only system where we tried as hard as possible to get people to buy the 1-year warranties on the blasted things, as chances are, you were gonna NEED them!
@@khhnator
I can vouch for that. I worked an *ahem* gamestore during the launch. We had SOOOO many of the damn things brought back in the first few weeks alone! Took MS forever to even comment on it that they even had us believing that it was all user error for a while, until the truth began to sloooowly drizzle out.
I worked as a customer service agent for a gaming company a year ago. We helped players with all devices, but everyone agreed that the Xbox had the worst issues. Let me stress, THIS WAS A YEAR AGO, so Xbox is still the crappier console even in today's market.
@@skorpius752 wait.... The Xbox 360 was $750 dollars?
@@cheeseisgud7311 it WHAT
Steve Jobs sabotaged every Apple product that was not a MacIntosh, because the mac was his child while everything else (the stuff that was actually good) was Steve's Wozniak's creations
the fucking narcissist
@@philrod1 I work I.T. at a university. We refer to old iMacs as grills because the back panels get so hot.
Kinda like Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla...
The IIGS, with proper support, could have competed remarkably well with the IBM PC.
@@ThetaReactor The IIGS was Wozniaks child andJobs sabotaged it too
Good quality older stuff was not trapped to fail and make us buy new hardware.
Nowadays that doesn't even matter, they'll slowly kill any device with update "mistakes".
Pedro that's just apple man
@@darknes4150 I was referring to all of them, not just apple (but I do hate apple xD)
Pedro except apples the only one who actively does that
@@darknes4150 except when android manufacturers do it too...
Foniks Monkee except they don't no one does that it's not a thing on windows chromebooks Android ect apple is the only one does this is apple and that's because they are making massive design flaws such as no fans on a laptop or over clocking a phone processor
As a professional maintenance technician I can assert that percussive maintenance is a real thing. Ever since telephone books were done away with, we've had to invest in new tools 🙁
Mark Stedmond percussive maintenance ftw.
At work we have shop gas pumps to fuel the vehicles and fill all the gas cans for the gas powered equipment. About 2 and a half years ago I got tired of the damn thing not working consistently, went into the shop, grabbed an old rubber mallet, hit it to start it, then left the mallet with the supplies for the pump. It is still there, and is used quite often.
The 360 didn't have 'too many parts' - cheap disk trays with no knock over protection caused the disk eating issues. The 'red ring of death' was mainly due to bad soldering combined with poor airflow in the case. In short the 360 was designed badly and manufactured cheaply.
It wasn't bad soldering and cheap manufacturing. It was the RoHS mandated switch to lead free solder. The new solders are prone to growing tin whiskers which cause short circuits. Also they aren't flexible and crack from repeated thermal cycles.
The metal casing on the 360 was engineered really well. The metal casing is crazy strong. It's hard to smash a 360.
Depends on the model, the issue was more of a thing with older versions of the 360
it was the new soldering without lead that make the x360 prone to fail, they solder better and dint have any problem
@@9HighFlyer9 leadless solder has never been a good thing. 98.5-02 dodge trucks with the Cummins have issues with the computer on the injection pump failing due to leadless solder not being able to handle the heat. The pump and computer have to be extremely precisely calibrated together due to controlling fuel injection so you can't just replace the computer if it fails, you have to replace the whole $1000 pump or have it rebuilt at a shop that has the proper equipment to do it, which the most important part of is a $250k calibration bench, and probably won't be any cheaper due to that. All due to the leadless solder bullshit
Did you know that a gameboy survived a bombing during a war
Yes he does its mentioned in a Nintendo video he did
@@markfeuer4904 which video is it. Whats the title.
Ahmed Shamil yes, it was shown in Nintendo Power and it was on display on the demo screen of Tetris at the Nintendo NYC store.
and original gameboy to and it still works and its 32 years old.
My favorite durability test is either Nintendo's 3DS Stair Test (they literally chuck the thing down a flight of stairs) or the Tonka Test (they run the toy truck over with a real one of the same type).
I once dropped a Nokia 3310 onto the concrete and the concrete cracked.
bruh
peepee poopoo
I dropped an old Nokia off the coast of Hawaii. Came back two years later and out of curiosity went to look for it. When I found it I pulled it out of the water and it TURNED ON! at that exact moment I decided to ditch my broken iPhone (had only owned it for 3 weeks.) Then promptly went and bought a new Nokia. Aesthetic appeal is definitely not the money maker for me.
Once shot a Nokia and it was like the eye scene from Superman Returns.
I have a galaxy s 10 I have done the same the phone did not break
The left handed thing pisses me of as I’m left handed
Isn't that every mac?
Nicholas Mills modern macs have ingenious cooling solutions to be so quiet. For example they make the fan blades be unevenly spaced to make the noise produced be spread over a wider variety of frequencies.
They all run too hot as the fans don't come on until well over 80c
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Idk. My 07 mbp lasted a decade. So 5 years longer than any Windows laptop I've owned. And the cheese grater towers are just phenomenally designed machines, especially with cooling
Nicholas Mills my MBP is going on 8 years...
Ps1's are going to out survive the data degradation rate of cds.
I turn down the thermostat when I turn on my computer. It puts out enough to heat the room when I game on it.
I honestly never understood why people would buy apple products ... they were NOT better overall than everything else out there.
I have never seen a iphone that didn't die from being a bit cold, and every Samsung I have may lose a few % of battery power, and have sluggish screens when its really cold, but have always worked when cold. Company issued brand new iphone would go from 100% charge to 3% when it got below 0 C. So I refused to use it and used my own Samsung, and it never quit on me. Recently got my brothers 2 year old LG phone, and it won't die on me either, where as other people at work have complained about their iphones during the winter more then once. Brother had a S6 phone, that he has dropped it so many times, and not a single crack on the screen. Case is nicked, and some scratches on the screen here and there, but otherwise fine. Can't say the same for my Aunts new iphone, she only dropped it once :/.
Oh I am sure there are iphones out there better quality then what I have experienced, but from what I have experienced, I won't ever see them because I stay away from them for good now.
Al-uh-moon-ee-um?
Americans say uh-loo-min-um
Mah nuh mah nuh
Do doo de do-do
R/woooosh
Aluh-min-yim
I was about to have a mental breakdown but then you uploaded a video and saved my day, I love ya keep doing what you are doing❤️❤️
Shut the fuck up
@@dankdungeon5104 no u
DankDungeon yes
2:50 Classic Jobs.
Like when he was consulting for Sony, walked into their PS4 Pro returns center, let off a bug bomb and cockroaches were crawling everywhere.
Karl is the epitome of the dictioanry word "cucumbered pickle"
No, he's the definition of "British"
@@kylemagaro231 You never used a dictio-anry before?
@@kylemagaro231 that is correct spelling.
I hope that, one day, a super villain will be introduced by crushing a Nokia phone with his bare hand. That would be fucking awesome.
Steve Jobs, the PT Bernum of technology
I'm an apple certified technician and I can honestly say that we are still taught to lift a device off the desk the drop to reseat any loose components. Oh wow apple.
They haven't changed, their response to the iPhone 5s starting on fire in peoples pockets was to get RETAILERS to tell the customer that they shouldn't carry them in their pocket. And when the iPhones started fires while being charged under people's pillows they said that the customer was charging them wrong. When this happened with Samsung they recalled the affected device and fixed the problem and that is one reason I switched from Apple to Samsung.
Tbh tho you probably shouldn't sleep with your phone under your pillow for multiple reasons. It could fall off the bed and break and of course it could overheat and literally catch fire. I never keep any tec under my pillow because I know its VERY possible for it to catch fire. But to say not to keep your phone in your pocket...That's just not right like something is wrong with Apple's cooling system
I went through 4 ps2's, kept having to have them replaced because random things kept burning out. I stopped at 4, not because it finally started working, but because the store refused to believe that we would be that unlucky, and thought we were intentionally breaking them.
Al-oo-min-um Aluminum
I don't make the Canadian rules.
25% of all smartphone owners have a cracked screen. I'm the proud owner of a Galaxy Note 10+ where the screen isn't cracked, but the back of the phone is. FML.
My brother dS is literally missing it’s top half
It still works fine
I remember one time I had an old iPhone 5s, the screen had a tiny chip in it (a small bit of the screen was gone but it was still only a tiny amount), it survived many other drops, but the way the screen actually got destroyed was when I left a car. I went from a 15-degree atmosphere in the car, to -5 (celsius by the way), and the entire screen shattered.
My ps2 died my ps1 still lives.
Me too!
My PS2 still lives, I don't know what happened to my PS1 though.
I have Pokemon Saphire that still works, every form of gameboy, a dsi (not that old but still), a ps2, the original xbox, and a sega genesis thats lost among the attic.
I love getting some “Aloo-loom-inum” at the store for my food.
When I was in high school, we had Apple IIIc's. Years later, I worked for Apple and their revolutionary Apple Cinema display had an issue where the stabilization wires would stick together, causing a horizontal line somewhere on the screen. My scripted response was to get users to hit it with a mallet, but if they felt uncomfortable doing it themselves, they could take it to a service center where they did exactly the same thing.
My 1st phone was a Nokia 3310 and my ringtone was Nokia sticks. And now imagine playing paintball in the woods when that sound goes off as I'm hunting you.
Speaking of indestructible tech I was just playing my Game Boy SP yesterday. Thing has fallen down at least a collective of 15 flights of stairs and it still works. Now that's a beast of a system.
"KAAARL!"
-Llamas with hats
That kills people Karl.
The bit about Nokia tests reminds me of some of the tests AT&T used to do with some of their Bell System telephone models from the 1950s to the 1980s. There's even footage of some of the tests, such as battering rams, wear and tear longevity, and temperature tests. Complete with showing them being used in places like a foundry to go, "This is why we test our stuff to these crazy levels, because our customers may need them to be in crazy places and work every time".
Small wonder many of the devices have lasted as long as they have and are still in use today. The TV Tropes page for "Tonka Tough" is a great read, as well.
Nokia is legendary for being invincible
When I were a lad, my mother would buy fancy can openers, can openers with handles, electric can openers.. I dunno how many she got through. When I got my first job out of school I bought a proper victorinox swiss army knife and even before I moved out I would open cans with that because it was just always handy and nothing ever went wrong with it. Twenty odd years later, the blades have been reground so many times that the knife is useless but it still lives in the kitchen drawer and its still my day to day can opener.
you guys always brighten my day
My Super Nintendo is 24 years old and still works great along with all my games, even one of my games that got smashed by an old tv while it was being played. The whole cartridge that was above the insert port was smashed and the computer chip inside has been exposed for 23 years and it still works. I wish we had more durability like that these days.
Love your chanell keep it going
Dropping your mac to make it work sounds like one of those 4chan pranks
American:
say after me: A-lu-mi-num
British: a-lu-millenial-ne-ne-ne-min-i-mum
That guy you know it’s aLL you min ee um
@thecosmichobo why use lot letter when small letter do trick
thecosmichobo it wasn’t actually a poor spell checker. We (Britain) actually initially called it by both the American spelling and the one we currently use now, the American spelling being the original name given to it by the British guy who discovered it. However the scientific community in large decided to standardise it with other elements that end in “ium”, hence us and a lot of the rest of the world spelling it Aluminium. On the other hand, America stuck with the spelling they had (correctly) taken over there from English and decided not to conform with the standardisation.
The old spelling eventually fell out of use here, but it’s still the one Used in America, and both are considered equally valid in the scientific community.
British:
Say after me: school
American: firing range
Percussive Maintenance is absolutely a great thing. I have used it several times. Helped a couple of college students when their car wouldn't start at a gas station a few months ago. They were at least a few hours away from their home in the middle of fucking nowhere at a little country store. I listened and noticed that I wasn't hearing the starter solenoid click when they tried to turn the key, so I grabbed my hammer... tapped the starter... cranked right up. I did suggest that they get where they were going before turning the car off again, because I couldn't guarantee that it'd start again. Also that they should replace the starter.
The only Apple product I use is my IPhone 6s. It still works and performs perfectly. I’m probably not gonna get a newer one though, I like my headphones too much.
I have an iPhone 6. It's a super good phone even with it being this old for a phone. :3
@@AdrianOkay eww
@@TheGuyWithOpinions galaxy s8 mate
If you like audio quality, I might recommend the LG V-series phones. I know the V20 has a headphone jack, not sure about the V30, but they all have quad-dacs with amazing sound quality.
beat kids, I’m only a couple months away from an upgrade, I’ll check them out.
*>Drops CRT TV on an Xbox 360*
_>Oh yeesh, is the Xbox okay?_
*>Drops CRT TV on an N64*
_>Oh crap! Is the TV okay?_
Karl should tattoo his un-tatted arm the exact same colour as the green screen from top to bottom.
Electronics engineer here, percussive maintance is a very real thing. Old electronics, especially the glass valve ones, have quite a big temperature difference between being on and off. This causes everything in the device to expand and contract. And because the valves were soldered in, but rather sat in sockets they could lose contact with the socket. A bang on the device would move the valves in the socket and often they would make contact again.
The apple 3 had more of less the same problem, all the chips in it sat in sockets and the computer got hot. So a 6 inch drop would reseat the chips into their sockets
Alamoonium... Close but no dice
ffs he knows. It was a joke. He was making fun of the American pronunciation.
9:04
My first ever laptop.
It took a beating like only a laptop specifically designed to be rugged could....
Except it was just generic consumer laptop.
The kind that shouldn't be able to take the same beating as a rugged laptop... and yet it did.
Obligatory perkele for the sake of Nokia.
Lähteeks joku torille?
Ei kiitos
@@GigawingsVideo from what I heard/remember, some Finnish company owns the license (might be wrong)
Apparently the new phones are quite good too.
Once while shoveling snow off of my driveway my 3310 fell out of my pocket without me noticing, and then i promptly drove over it with my car.. The top left button under the screen popped out, and the whole thing was covered in muddy snow.. Popped the button back with a tweezer, and done. The phone is still in working order, and would be usable if i could get a battery for it!
My dad's an old technophobe that hates smartphones. He only uses old flip phones and swears they are the greatest phones you can own. He had one once that would explode if he ever dripped it into 5 or 6 peices and he could put them back together and it would work like new
The early ipods had hard drives in them. They spin, there is pressure differential. There will be air.
"I Like old Technology" Throws the calculator away
We actually pronounce aluminum the way that it’s spelled and don’t add in an extra syllable for shits and giggles. Love the show!
in every place that isn't north america it's spelt "aluminium"
"Or Alummoonium to you Americans"
The discussion at the end reminds me of the video that they made about Nintendium way back. Like how the Gamecube was lit on fire, and not only did it still work, but the framerate went up
The only apple I have is my iPad. And I won it. So I technically have never boughten an apple product. My friends would have apple laptops and computers and they stop working all the time. While my windows tablet laptop from the year 2000 was still trucking a long just fine..so I’ve never wanted to buy apple products coz they aren’t made to last. They are shit in that perspective. I didn’t even purposely enter the drawing to win the iPad, it was just included with doing the surveys for a college and I happen to win.lol. I do like my iPad for its convenience, but I doubt it’ll last forever coz...you know...it’s apple.
Please never use "boughten" as a word again. Bought would be past tense. Even better choice would be "purchased."
Aluminum founder named it Alumium and later added the n to make it easier to pronounce o3o it was British editors who changed it to aluminium as it bother them it didn't fit with the names of other elements that ended with -ium. So basically this whole name battle was caused by British being OCD XD
Edit: maybe you guys could talk about that, maybe also how soccer was the slang for the football game still played today (as there was multiple games in the football category back in the day, which is why American football is called that as rugby is a football game)
We should all agree to just go back to calling it Alumium. I think it's the easier to say than aluminium, and sounds less stupid than aluminum.
Yes, I like Alumium; it also happens to be a perfect compromise by being shorter than Aluminium but still ending in -ium.
I was also taught by my chemistry teacher that aluminium was the element, and aluminum was the oxide. It's what taught in the UK anyway. 🙂
@@vickymc9695 Whoever taught you that was wrong. Aluminium and aluminum are just two different words for the same element. (Note: not variant spellings. Different words.) Both go back to pretty much the discovery of the element and there is a reasonable case to be made for either name. It looks like the professional bodies in North America are slowly settling on "aluminium" as the official name so we'll probably see a shift toward that over the next century or so in common usage in North America.
Personally, I think alumium is better, too. Which pretty much guarantees it won't take over the world.
My dad worked on computers back when just a hard drive was bigger than the whole Apple III. Sometimes the heads would stick, and he joked that there were 3 fixes. The drop 6" fix, the drop 12" fix, and the 2 story out the window to the dumpster fix. The magnets in those things were so big we tied a rope to one and used it to pick up nails from the yard after having the roof done on the house.
The way this guy stands pisses me off
How unfortunate for you.
Graham Crichton thank you, may I have another
Percussive maintenance or the concussive force method was best demonstrated in Armageddon when one astronaut says, "This is how we fix things in Russia!" Right as he starts whaling on something with a giant wrench.
Love ya mate
Various modern phones I’ve had: break or stop working within 2 years
A used gameboy I got for my 6th birthday: still works perfectly over 15 years later
Pizza Time!
I have an Amiga 600 that still runs perfectly fine. The only thing that's worn out on it is the clip inside the monitor power button, which occasionally releases so the screen turns off. Bit of tape fixes that though.
Shit
OMG total thumbs up in like of this video for the use of percussive maintenance, good one Karl 🤘🤘
Ngl my dads iPad 2 that he still uses to this day, the screen would be distorted or go black and the only way of fixing it was by slapping the back
All the earbuds I have gotten from Apple with my phones have all broken
alu-mu-nium --I haven't laughed so hard in days. 4 syllables, dear, not 5. a-lu-mi-num
Aluminium and aluminum both have four syllables
Thanks for making all of these videos it really makes my day a lot better
We always called percussive maintenance the "Impact Stress Analysis Test". It made it sound fancier than it should of.
My wife's NES from 1987 still works, though only a couple of the games she has still do. My PS2 and Wii still work. That's actually the last 2 consoles I ever bought. Still play them once in awhile.
Also the VCR/DVD player combo from like 2000 that I still own does work, though I use it maybe once a year. I mostly keep it so I can watch the original Star Wars trilogy from before Lucas butchered it in the late 90's if I really want to. Those VHS tapes from the early 90's still work too, though they've seen better days.
i have a toshiba sattelite laptop, its 10 years old, still plays FONV with 60 fps on ultra settings, its been through two car wrecks, (one was a broadside impact, the other was going 106 feet through a ditch and 14 trees ending with an airborne impact to a tree with a 14" radius) and it still lives
My Windows 98 desktop was still chugging along when Vista was being launched, my GBA is still playing Fire Red, and my original XBox died a few years ago
Speaking of the PS2 being a workhorse:
TL;DR: Someone dropped my PS2, and broke it. It sat in nasty conditions for over a year, and seemingly magically fixed itself, and now works great. I'm baffled but grateful.
I bought mine used, from a friend of mine, who was not known for being especially diligent concerning their care for the things they owned. It was one of the slim models, originally purchased by them at or near the launch of the redesign. I got my hands on it in roughly 2005. Years later, c. 2010, it stopped working (wouldn't power on) after a friend of a friend dropped it onto a concrete floor from, IDK, close to four feet up, as it was pulled off the top of a TV. It was then left for over a year in a very damp and (what would be unbelievably, except this is the internet, and we've all seen horrid images of the most extreme circumstances) dirty basement garage. I collected it when I moved into a new home, and figured "Fuck it, before I throw this out let's see. I did spend $80 on it" so I tried to power it on. To my absolute shock, it worked flawlessly. No one ever fixed it. No one did ANYTHING to even attempt to repair or even diagnose what went wrong originally. As far as I can figure, the fall busted it, and it "thought" to itself: "No way this is how I go out. Fuck that, I'm better than this." and just willed itself back into life after a bit of time to rest and recover. It's still going strong under regular use. -wild shrugging- The fucker's quite the trooper.
Funny you mention PS2, I'm on my 4th since it came out. The original brick and 3 slims. Disc read error on the brick, bad modem in the 2nd, the connection to the TV failed on the 3rd. Still have my original N64 and 2nd gen SNES from 97. I also cannot use a regular SNES controller because they are too small. I've had a pair of the same 3rd party controllers that are bit bigger for probably 25-26 years now, and it's the only ones I can play on.
As far as phones go, they're all pretty much expensive junk now. That's why the laws in here in Canada had to change. Phone carriers can no long offer 3 year contracts because phones weren't lasting more than 2 years most of the time.
Speaking of old consoles, this summer, I was in a near fatal car wreck. My SNES was in the back seat and got WEDGED under the passenger's side seat. After we got it out, at least 1/8-1/4 of the plastic was destroyed, and you could clearly see the circuit boards and all that. The thing still turns on and plays. Nintendo is invincible.
This channel is great for reasons literally no one can explain
I have had my tablet, an Asus Zenpad, for about 3 or 4 years now, and I am a very accident prone person. It is a tank! It has survived falls from head height onto concrete more times than I can count. It survived being tossed across the room a few times. The only reason that the screen cracked is because I accidentally spiked it into tile while trying to catch it. And it still works as well as it ever has! I mean the screen is cracked, but the display beneath isn't warped at all. It's great.
iPad 2 when you get green or red screen you can drop iPad on its edge to reconnect the screen connection
I used one through college with a daisy wheel printer. It was 100% reliable and the spreadsheet and editing programs were solid.
Love the mention of Juiced at the end of the video. It needs a re-release asap
My PS2, which I got 2nd hand last year - still works great. The only thing it won't do is play DVDs anymore (It plays them for a time then the disc will start skipping - and when the same disc is played in a usual dvd player, it works fine)
I have a Heavy Duty Patton Air Circulator, which is basically a small industrial fan, that has lasted me nearly 20 years. This is made even more impressive by the fact that I mainly use it while I sleep. So I literally run it for hours every single day.
My PS2 sat halfway submerged in a puddle of rain water all night and it still works to this day.
few years later, the Macbook Air tried the same thing. Built almost entirely out of aluminium with zero fans or vents. No overheating problems per se, only that the processing power and speed is incredibly reduced 10 minutes after turning it on. put a single vent in it, it'd be the fastest, most powerful machine of its size. but no, Steve Jobs says it has to look nice, so we make a piece of art that's supposed to work.
My dad got his car to work for about 3 months using 'percussive maintenance'. Some solder had come loose from an electrical part so the engine would cut out randomly.
I'm proud to say the only Apple product I have ever owned is an iPod Classic and I only own that because finding a speaker/dock for other brands of MP3 player was difficult at the time and the Classic held an awful lot of music, it is still working but to be fair I don't use it much, I have another MP3 player for taking out and about (much smaller, lighter, cheaper and it takes Micro SD cards so holds just as much music) and these days a lot of dock/radio/speaker combos take Aux inputs and given the fact the iPod Classic is no longer being made I can't see I will ever own another Apple product.
SNES's and the carts are practically indestructible, it's beautiful.
Because of this, even though SNES systems are a hot retro item now you can still find them for a decent price since they all still work.
"Percussive Maintenance" for super old TV's made sense though, as it broke the static build up that would cause interference
My LG V40 has a great screen, the only thing that left any effect on it was when it accidentally brushed up against the opening of a stone hot water bottle, where the glaze is thin and the stone is rough.
There's a nick and couple of scratches to show for that, but those hot water bottles are ancient and rough at the opening, I'm not that surprised.