eBay Finds: $25 Dell Latitude 2120 Unboxing, Teardown, Overview, and Test
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- For the past few weeks I have been searching around for a small but usable laptop / netbook to replace my Dell Inspiron 15. The Inspiron 15 is a good little laptop but I desired something smaller, lighter, and more rugged. My budget for a used laptop was $50 and my budget for a new machine was $250. I preferred a used laptop to keep costs down. After searching eBay and craigslist for about a couple weeks I came across this Dell Latitude 2120, it was within my price range and the specs looked good so I pulled the trigger.
First impressions during the unboxing were excellent. To my surprise the laptop was in near perfect condition, there were only two minor scuffs that caught my eye. The length and with of the system was exactly what I was looking for bu the extended battery makes the laptop about .5" to thick for my tastes.
After tearing the system apart and installing a 16GB Kingspec SSD I demoed the system's performance which was actually pretty decent. Boot time was only around 40 seconds, system applications were very responsive, office programs opened quickly, my IDE worked great, and with only one or two tabs open internet browsing was pleasant. The system did start to come to a slow with multiple tabs opened and would not play 720p video back smoothly.
Considering that this system only has a single core Atom 455 inside I am for the most part satisfied with the overall performance, it was actually a little bit above my expectations. I am not 100% sure yet if I am going to keep this laptop or not. I am going to play around with it for a week or two more. I will keep you guys updated!
System Specs: Intel Aton N455 @ 1.66GHz, 2GB DDR3 SD RAM, 16GB KingSpec SSD, Intel GMA 3150, 1204 X 600 Display, Xubuntu 15.10
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Don't put a SIM card into the internal slot. I did once, and someone from a three-letter agency called saying he wanted the netbook back.
Thats definitely a sim card slot. Netbooks used to have sim cards during the craze back in '06
+Big Mountain Bob Thanks the confirmation!
+Big Mountain Bob Funnily enough I only realized that my old laptop use to have a sim card slot just before I sold it off on eBay.
Yep, that other slot there is for a WWAN card that the SIM would be attached to to let the laptop online.
Not just netbooks. I had a "full sized" Latitude D830 (15.4 inch screen) laptop with a SIM slot - Used with AT&T 3g at the time.
mine t400 got sim slots too
I used those Latitude 2120s in school when I was in 4th grade, oh my how the times have changed.
I do not know if you still have the 2120 anymore but you could order it with a handle. The handle attached to it by the Kensington lock, that is why it had a lock on both sides. You can push the keyboard out through the screw hole on the back so you don't have to use screwdrivers to pry it up.
Who else was hoping this dude was gonna open the box and find a bunch of apple sauce?
ME! lol
The all new Dell apple sauce🤔😂
Me so sad he didn't
(dell)Hey! how about we make the dell apple sauce that you can eat apple sauce that comes out of the fan
(employee) what?
Wow thats a nifty little laptop. I love videos like this on old little laptops. Even thought you cant do much at all with it, its always fun seeing what it has and taking it apart.
I got three of these for free today my school was gonna trash a bunch but i got to take some
I was just given a dell inspiron 700m
The main grip i have is the cpu is 32bit only
That Atom CPU is worse than a 3ghz Pentium 4 by a long way.
xXDahChubChubXx yeah..im the user intel atom n455 1gb ram.its so slow..cs 1.6 just get around 40fps..and gta vc have a little bit lag..and for watching movie is good but when i watching youtube on high quality that laptop lag asf
But needs less ventilation and consumes less power by a long way.
i used to use one of these in elementary school in art class. we connected drawing tablets to them and learned how to animate. always thought they looked pretty slick esp w the texture and light on the top cover
That laptop looks like an educational laptop that schools would buy. The wifi light was so teachers could tell when a kid was browsing the net or so I heard. I would personally (and probably will at some point) buy a lenovo thinkpad x230 they are pretty cheap now with 3rd gen core i5 processors and 4 or 8gb ram. for 25$ that's a pretty decent deal
+FubarMike Yup, I am pretty sure it was considered an EDU laptop. I have gotten a few reccomendations of the X230, looks like a pretty good machine!
Dual lock slots are for dells carry strap. It attaches by kens locks. Very strong.
removed serial number sticker is a bad sign, id assume its stolen tbh
minor0confusion srsly who cares?
Even if it's stolen the chance of it going to back to it's owner is too little to bother.
Your reviews are always good. I owned that unit and I dual booted with Windows and Linux. Worked fine even with the 2gb of ram and Atom processor. Its not a powerhouse but then I paid $40.00. The 128 SSD was $30.00.
If you're looking for a small netbook/laptop than this Latitude 2120, I'd either get the Latitude 2120 that has the Atom N550 (2 cores, 4 threads) processor, which is noticeably faster than the N455 (1 core, 2 threads), or for a lot more performance, you could try to pick up a Lenovo x130e laptop with a Core i3 CPU in it.
ZUBUNTU is based on UBUNTU but the people who develop UBUNTU are starting to use the FreeBSD core which will make for a nice stable OS but I think that some of the UBUNTU software might make the OS slightly unstable so I think that they use the software manager called PORTS so that it will be more stable.
This has two Kensington lock slots because they can be used to mount a carrying strap for slinging the device around your neck or hanging from your shoulder.
What a beautiful computer, I totally love the size and design. Much better than the Dell Mini netbooks. Only issue is that Intel atom processor, atoms are my least favorite processor, they just have zero grunt and get overloaded very easily. My old Dell mini 9 actually had no fan or heat sink, just a bare processor.
Love the eBay finds videos!!
3 Seconds is a long time to boot a page? WoW. Thats what I call impatient.
If you want a cheap laptop like the 2120 with an i5 checkout the lenovo x201
I did just that. and i had the former as my linux teaching machine/ guinea pig
Why is this guy constantly talking like a news reporter whilst shouting?
Because you need to turn the volume down on your speakers. He's now shouting your volume is set too high.
I think he is trying to sound Clear and Concise like a news reporter... .Maybe. Im just guessing.
7:02 there are 2 lock slots because these came with straps. I saw one on an old ad
I just bought one of these at a yard sale here in NY so I checked You tube the person must have upgraded or cause it's running windows ten its ok I paid thirty five dollars
$25 including shipping? Where do you find these deals on ebay? I always find ebay way over priced compared to my local craigs (Vanc,cdn)
Just look for auctions. Not "Buy Now" items, and sort your search by Cheapest first.
Well Techie Pocket answered you already, but keep in mind these are usually old computers- for linux operating systems however (like Xubuntu showed in the video) it's more then enough :-)
Typing from my Dell D430 with Ubuntu 17.04 (6:35 Dell does have sweet sweet built quality, don't they?)
matt jump you can choose the price to what you want and it will list tons of items within that range
You answered your own question. You're in Vancouver,
eBay.ca has a much smaller selection then .com does and alot of them are coming from the US which means higher delivery rates AND we get hit with import fees... Also take into account the difference in CDN to USD
You’ve never seen Marktplaats.nl yet. Overpricinguselesscrap.nl
Nice video and very good channel, it's very interesting to see someone who recovers older hardware and finds the way to use it for his needs.
I would like to ask if you cut/edit videos on linux and if so what software you use.
4 years later, it's still $25. I just bought one myself - going to load Ubuntu on it
I spent 35 bucks and got a dell latitude d630 with 3gb of ram and a core 2 duo t7500. just installed linux mint on it and I can say the laptop is great ! people should go on letgo and find some of these great deals
I had one of these years ago, it was good back in the day, the biggest mistake I made was upgrading from Windows 8 to Windows 10. The laptop was good on windows 8 because of the touchscreen and the rapid 20 second boot times. PS Windows 10 took around 20 minutes to boot on 1GB RAM.
i swear those packing peanuts look like unflavored cheese puffs....
Where the WWAN Card is, you could probably look at putting an MSATA SSD in there if you don't use the mobile network over there.
+John SMith Hmmm, maybe! Thanks for the suggestion!
+AA Computers and Technology I have a Lenovo Thinkpad as my daily use laptop and that had a WWAN card aswell until we swapped it for an SSD. Works perfectly
It is a simcard slot but it needs a 3g mini pci card to work
Who else had there's at their school?
Yup and in the exact same cart that's in the manual
oh god they were so fucking slow with all the LANschool spyware used in my shool
Best of both worlds pitch jamkla mine jiol
The version my middle school had were touchscreen ones :3
Never tried a laptop with an atom processor but i'd assume it's the bare minimum for what you'd want, productivity wise. Especially it being only a single core multitasking might not be the best.
Poptart McJelly for daily uses on linux i don't know, but you need to get at least i3 for running windows 10 smoothly. lowest end is still ok, just not cherry trail, i guarantee it will lag after quite some installation of apps
kenny ricardo windows 10 can browse the web on an atom, and a Celeron or Pentium should be good enough for older games. It really depends on the professor
Maybe the apple sauce stickers were put there to mislead opportunist thieves?
Nice vid man
+Kelli Bollow Thanks!
now dats T H I C C
Many latitude series comes with sim slots for 3G and 4G wireless. The single core Atom cpu based netbooks just kinda stink for multitasking. The good news is linux will run much better than Windows 7 starter anyday. Even the dual core Atoms struggle so, your really not missing much. But having ddr3 is a bonus for the bandwidth restricted cpu. One of the better netbooks of it's day.
Yes, the port you found was an sd memory card slot. My Dell Laptop has one, too.
Nice little netbook. Have you ever thought of using a tablet with a blue tooth keyboard and mouse? I have been doing that and it works really great.
+Anthrit That has crossed my mind a few times! I was actually considering pre-ordering the Ubuntu tablet that is coming out but I felt it was just too risky. A tablet + keyboard could be a pretty good alternative. Thanks for the suggestion and thanks for watching!
if the scrape is paint, a little WD 40 should get it off.
That's pretty neat. You are always surprised by a weaker machines ability. Recommendation though. Try maxing out its ram and see if you can allocate more to the v-ram. It WILL NOT make gaming even close to possible. Unless you're talking like real old games. But it will definitely help with 1. tabs in chromium and 2. youtube playback and 3. "graphically intensive" website.
speaking of that battery I have a PowerBook G4 from 2001-2002 and I got it for £60 off of eBay and the battery still holds a steady 3 hr charge which I thought is brilliant for a 2001-2002 laptop 😉
Almost at 34k!
Congrats
yes this is sim card slot and that wwan card is for 3g( for sim card)
yup, its a sim card slot..... My dell latitude E6410 also has this slot.
+Atif Munir Okay, that's what I thought. Thanks for the confirmation!
I have a 2120 and it is INCREDIBABLY slow. It has the same specs as your computer and is running Lubuntu. Any suggestions on how to speed it up?
Hello. Did you end up keeping this laptop? Currently eyeing one out as a portable machine for text writing/Microsoft teams and light engineering software.
dat cut at 2gbs of ram do..
i have a lenovo thinkpad with a sim card slot... but i don't think it was able to be activated in the US... but i didn't try so i don't know. either way good video!
I have a Thinkpad t500 with a verison sim card. they are out there.
Something more portable.
*buys a laptop ticker than both hands*
Might try Linux on mine, ive got an 11.6" Asus E200HA with the Quad core Atom 1.84GHz and 2GB of ram, its fantastic at under 1kg with 13 odd hours battery life but I find with windows 10 its just too slow for me.
HOWEVER these old netbooks are ideal for remote desktop onto your main machine and couch surfing in the house!
I can't use any laptop without a DVD multidrive, below 15.6in screen, below 4gb of RAM.(besides legacy laptops such as core 2 duo back). I also have a 1st Generation i3 laptop that probably uses similar architecture as the Atom. It a Core i3 370M. its a pretty good performer for its age, runs Windows 10 perfectly. the laptop is a Toshiba Satellite l655-S5106.
CreeperGuy 555 I don't like external drives, I like the optical drive to always be there when I need it.
4:40. 2GB of am. Nice editing you did there...
Nice job. Thanks. Been thinking of one of these.
This would be perfect for my writing. That's all I need. I don't get how you bought an SSD with the operating system installed. Where can I get that??
Just bought a 2120. For college. Horray.
Love your videos!!
+TruckSimz I appreciate that! Thanks for watching!
I have one.......What is the best Windows for it? 7? My hardrive crashed..the laptop guy installed Windows 10..i dont like the settings and it's too slow...what should i do?
Nice video.... 👍👍
And I was also looking for a cheap eBay laptops under $100... And I like mini laptops.. My reason for buying is for educational purpose especially I'm learning Linux (kali)....
And I liked Dell latitude 2120 a lot...
Should I go for it..?
Or any other recommendations?
What exactly do you use a netbook for, and why would a x200 not do the job?
I have one running Windows 10 it's passable to mess aroun with but I did replace the hd with a ssd drive.
I just found an ad for 2 (20 inch) Dell monitors that look exactly like the ones you have in the background. Both for $40. Is that a good buy?
Certainly is
The elementary school I went to used these laptops.
basically seeking information and input dell latitude c840 no power cord, have older games such as doom and such was thinking about just having it to play around for grandkids any thoughts on slight mods to improve or something cool think lat has win 2000
My HP Mini 110-3500 netbook had the same specs as this but mine has 1GB of RAM. UGH, 1GB of RAM is not enough that will make some netbooks ran slow as a snail. Anyhow, I'll upgrade my HP netbook to 2GB of RAM and an SSD in the future!
Good video! Hello from Italy!
+NewTabris96 Thanks!
Thinkpads for the last 6 years at least have all had WAN compatibility and SIM cards. Also, why do you prefer Ubuntu over Arch and Mint?
Spoiler alert: Mint is Ubuntu based.
Jonathan Saunders ubuntu is to demanding for snappy performance and as the above coment states the mint distro is baced on stock ubuntu modded for looks
we use it at school and to me it is fine
why do i watch reviews on laptops i already have
Is this laptop model good?
great video as always!, as u said if it isn't to speedy for ur needs I would recommend seeing if u can replace the CPU and maybe add 1 stick of 2gb ram if u can. I'm not sure if that atom is soldered on the mobo though. I'm very surprised it's that response my first laptop had a AMD sempron si-42 2gb ram and a AMD HD GPU it cant even load windows 7 uless u end up pulling your hair out for waiting ages for it to work. also in the bios i saw a video setting so u could possibly get more vram as it said u had 8mb :/. keep up the great video's dude!
+The_Magic_Potato Oh wow, was the VRAM really set to 8MB, I need to fix that :p. Thanks!
+AA Computers and Technology yep, at 8:48 Intel GMA 3150 graphics for you :p hope it helps u out and gives u a boost in performance!
+The_Magic_Potato Dell did not make dedicated VRAM allocation manipulable in the BIOS. Ahhh, bummer :\
+AA Computers and Technology ahhh :(, some of the dells do support an option for increased Vram. that's a bummer 8mb isn't a hole lot for using the web as its more resource hungry :/ u could try and find a modded driver for it that's what I did for my Hd1000 was at 64m now at 128 it also made the MHz higher as Max was 766 then when to 800 due to the modded driver. it will help a lot if u are able to find one. IL try look for one if you are interested?
That's okay. It would probably be nearly impossible to track down a driver that would work with Linux. Thanks for offering though.
I also have this same laptop and same colour
its not bad its the worst..
do you just attack boxes with open scissors often? really stupid. You could have damaged the laptop
test windows 7, see if it is more optimized for that and if it will run better
Wish I had a camera guy
Great vid :)
Hello can u download dj software to it do it has hdmi port usb port
great video!
Build next Aros os amiga from old computer parts and also Aros laptop.
watching this on the same laptop
What happens when it doesn't stay? Do you resell it?
Put linux or cloudready on it.
Why no ipad 1?
Can I hook my condenser mic up to it & record audio?
Would be cool if someone turned one of those into a hacking machine
KINGSPEC SSD WORTH SOMETHING?
If you get a box covered in motts applesauce logos taped to it,
Chances are youre buying from a serial killer
Is this better than the latitude 2100
Well, you gotta admit for a potato for a cpu and gpu it does pretty darn well. but of course that is this laptop's biggest flaw. Even the modern Atoms aka Pentium silver are not that great for performance. That of course was never the intent anyway. Cheap, well for the cpu, this netbook wasn't cheap. But most at the time were. Cheap to make, cheap to buy.
I always see really cheap laptops on craigslist near my area.. i just saw an Acer Aspire 5515 series for $25 .. Just missing the charger Lol.
no charger is a sign it's stolen
+Awesomeness Gameing I didn't even think about that :o
O god my ears started paining!
How did u put on the backlight
Pls vlog about blender video editing in Dell netbook
we use those shitty latitude 2120 laptops for school and the tech guys decided it would be a great idea to install windows 10 on them! windows 10 cant be ran that well on these piles. i had my laptop re imaged back to windows 7 and then later crashed. dont buy these they are horrible.
Joseph Dinielli I would install win xp on it just to play old games
I had that Dell Inspiron 15
what mouse do you use on a regular basis
did you update all your drivers?
How do you find these deals?
this laptop can go on and off when you are booting it