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I Restored My FIRST Laptop!
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- Опубликовано: 31 авг 2021
- This is a trip down memory lane. My FIRST laptop was a Dell XPS from 10 years ago and I wanted to give this old laptop an upgrade to see if its still usable in 2021. But the bigger question is can I first bring it back to life!? This old laptop might need some repairs and troubleshooting before its even useable though....
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In 2011, a laptop from 2001 would be unusable. In 2021, a laptop from 2011 is perfectly usable.
You are mostly correct about 2001 laptops. I was using IBM (not lenovo) ThinkPad X31 from around 2003 up until 2010. It was simply inadequate at the end.
Today I still have a working macbook with core 2 duo from 2010 and a year older Sony VAIO with first gen mobile core i3 processor. Both do everything except 4K video playback.
@@DmitriWeissman macbook pros from 2010 to 2011 is also quite usable too, but the graphics issue is pretty prominent on these and no big sur update but for the most part it definitely still fly
@@baoquoc3710 Since macOS version for such old macbooks is obsolete anyway, I'd recommend installing some Linux on it. Makes them very snappy.
I have a laptop from 2008, it's like my toy.
@@baoquoc3710 switch to Linux on those older MacBooks. You'll get an up to date os running on an older computer.
10:11 OK, so, you still have the button that says "view optional updates". That's going to install all the drivers you thought u had to manually look for. I'm always refurbishing 1st-4th gen intel laptops and desktops and with at least 6GB of ram and a quality SSD, these machines are more than enough for an average user to browse the web, do school work or run simple windows apps. I usually can get the fingerprint readers to work as well with Windows 10. Windows 10 is really good about finding drivers by itself.
Completely agree. Likewise I refurb older intel laptops and very rarely run into software/driver issues running windows 10. These older laptops are great options for basic use such as web browsing, emails, basic office and school work etc. One of the prime assets of laptops like Lenovo Thinkpads, Dell Latitudes, HP Elitebooks etc is their longevity. Add max ram and a good ssd - and you have a nice quick laptop for everyday use - Not everyone needs or wants the latest powerful workstation or gaming machine, and these are definitely a cost effective and environmentally friendly way to give you some basic computing power.
@@GlasgowLaptops1 Most definitely, the older HP elite book particularly has a special place in my heart as I discovered in high school they where less than $300 for an i7 with a GPU (that you could upgrade too) and sometimes even 16GB of RAM. I had a WD black2 dual drive back then (2015ish). Yeah they are heavy, especially with an extended battery but with the Business class features like expandability, build quality, fingerprint reader, backlit keyboard and 5-6 USB Ports on a laptop for $300!!! is unheard of these days. I edited so many school video projects in Vegas, make my own senior page for yearbook in Photoshop, and typed countless essays on the magnificent backlit keyboard all while being able to alt tab into CSGO when the teachers weren’t looking 😂.
I also have to complete agree
I am running personally an old dell laptop, with socketed i7-4800mq, 16gb of ram. And a large afternarket SSD. Althougth I am using it outside of its original use case, as my daily carry laptop, I have found really three problems
AMD drivers for the dedicated GPU are garbage, but that is sadly to be expeted
The battery life isn´t great with only 3-4H of off the grid usability. But luckily, at the moment of writing this, replacement batteries. Sadly, I could not find the secondary battery module, if there even was one for it. Althought it is mentioned both in windows and in dell's power utulity.
The dimetions. Again, as a full time student, the thickness and weight truly come to play. I have to carry the device without its battery, and that means an extra step, when needing to deploy the device every lesson, that really adds a extra step of finding that cell in my backpack.
Honestly thought, apart from the bad AMD drivers, most of these laptops would be great as a family laptop, normally just plugged into a wall. DDR3 sodimm's are still widely available, and 2,5 SATA ssd' s are still widely availlable. And in most cases, these laptops came with that 8GB of DDR3 ram, which is really most regular computer users really need.
Yep, that is the only issues I ever run into - drivers for AMD GPU's, on the dell precision models and the likes of the Dell Latitude E6540 if it has it installed. But that isn't down to intel, Windows or the laptop manufacturer - but AMD themselves. If I know or suspect that the machine has an AMD GPU - I try to avoid it lol.
@@GlasgowLaptops1 Or never expect to use it. I am using the E6540, but I have the dedicted radeon Hd8790m disabled on windows 10.
Honestly this laptop still looks super stylish on the outside even though it's a heccing chonker
dell's high end laptops are always premium looking, their prebuilt desktops however........
Still using mine regularly, still a beast. Also had to replace the battery twice, do a repaste, add RAM, switch to SSD. The best laptop I ever had.
please don't say hecking chonker 🙏
I repair laptops for a living and you did a great job on this. If anyone has an old laptop laying around that they want to breathe some new life into, if you add a ssd and as much ram as the motherboard supports, then it is a relatively cheap way to extend its life.
Is swapping SSD into older(like 10 year old) laptops an option...? Also, a decent m2 2242 recommendation, 256gb....?
@@capitaldd3693 I got an ssd in my sony and it is about 10 or 11 i put in a 480gb pny ssd a 120 or 240 cost very little if the size is fine for your use my laptop is used for web browsing youtube and netflix so its still fine for my use .
@@capitaldd3693 yes, I put an SSD in an old gateway laptop from 2009, runs just fine for office use. M2 is unlikely, SATA SSD should work.
@@paulb4uk thanks for the response..... I think that will be the way to go
@@Vile23 thanks. I believe I'll look into that option. It'll be quicker.
what a chonker 🤩
Imagine having 300k+ subscribers and getting no replies XD
@@priyanshugoyal7072 bruh just let me watch the videos, I don't give a heck if no one replies lol
@@JarrodsTech ignore it brother
Hey, my L502X is still going to this day. Upgraded the RAM, put in an SSD and a new battery. Might get another 10 years out of it. Still some of the best audio ever in a laptop.
Interesting video - love seeing older machines being restored. Only thing missing was repasting the CPU/GPU with new paste!
For this video I just pulled my dell xps17 of the same era out too. It's definitely a wild ride down the memory road and I didn't touch it in over 3 years. Definitely a very reliable laptop which served me for 7 years very well.
Thanks for this video today. 😊
this era of dell laptop keyboards is, in my opinion, the best ever
and speakers too
Absolutely agreed
@@TabalugaDragon Oh yep
They could be as good as the 16" MacBook Pros imo
Any chance of doing a repaste video too? :-)
Also as people already commented, give linux a try.
I personally reccomend Linux Mint or Zorin OS, both are very good and easy to use, and ZorinOS looks really good!
Dude, I have the same laptop. I used it for 10 years. I bought a new laptop this year. Now I use it as a HTPC in my living room
I like the idea of this video, but not a fan of the execution. Would have loved to see an upgraded GPU and/or RAM, maybe a deeper dive into the trackpad issue, a time lapsed physical deep clean or something similar. This was really just reinstalling an SSD and windows onto an old laptop across 13 minutes.
Before I realized there wasn't gonna be more to the vid, I even thought to myself that the pacing of some of the lines and edits felt sluggish.
Honesty a fine video, just thought there is some room for feedback, you guys put out so much great content, keep it up!
Agree. I felt like i kept watching for something that never appeared
I would suggest installing a lightweight linux distro, see how it compares in performance against windows 10
when his first laptop has better specs than my current laptop.
when your current laptop has better specs then my current laptop
@@DendiAli401 When your current laptop is better than my non-existent laptop.
This content was just so refreshing! Thank you for this Eber!
Good video, i think for old devices like that you should give a try for linux Distro, maybe have better compatibility of components and drivers, SSD and RAM is a way to upgrade laptops.
And you can even run them well off a USB stick.
Debian or Arch based would be good. Otherwise Ubuntu seems viable due to Nvidia compatibility
I actually Restored and Upgraded my Lenovo B570 Laptop a Few Years Ago.
Original Specs were an Intel Pentium B950 Dual-Core CPU, 3GB of DDR3-1333 RAM, 320GB WD Blue HDD, and Integrated Intel HD Graphics, and I bought it back in 2011 for $300.
Upgraded it around 2016 to have an Intel Core i7-2820QM ($70), 16GB of CORSAIR Vengeance DDR3-1600 RAM ($100), a 250GB Samsung PM830 mSATA SSD ($30), a 750GB WD Blue HDD ($50), and Integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 (No Dedicated GPU could be Installed).
It's not good in terms of E-Sports Gaming (For Example, it can barely run TF2 at 1080p low at 30 FPS), but it can do Emulation and Light Gaming, as an Everyday Laptop, It's Phenomenal.
I've heard of a Mini-PCIe or Express Card to PCI-E X16 Graphics Card Dock Called the EXP GDC that allows you to hook up a Dedicated GPU to your Laptop using the Respective Slot on your Laptop. Might be worth a try on that.
Great Video Nonetheless. Keep up the Great Work!
And I repaired last week my old 2015 HP Beats, which was overheating and shutting down after a few minutes. I changed the fan with the heat sink, applied thermal paste and installed Linux Mint, changed hard drive for ssd and it runs flawlessly. Videos like this motivates me to repair stuff on my own. 🙂
I have (and still use) pretty much the same laptop specs wise, although I upgraded mine to 16GB of RAM, i7 2860qm and replaced DVD drive with 1TB 7200 Barracuda and installed 860 EVO 250GB. 540m is really slow, but at least I can still play retro games easily.
With some software tinkering, I was able to configure OBS to stream on Twitch and play older games. Didn't expect it to work that well (quality is still meh, but I expected it not to work at all).
Me watching the video on my G74Sx with the same base specs except an as much outdated GTX560 🤪
Do you have Windows 10 installed? I'm thinking of using my old Laptop also for old games, but downgrading it to Windows 7 (if that is possible), because Windows 10 doesn't allow many old games on CD to be played
@@ashar8192 I use w10 because it's my daily PC and for super retro games I have a EEE PC with windows XP :)
@@ashar8192 Yes, I do have Windows 10 installed. But installing Windows 7 should be easy. I actually had W10 and W7 installed in parallel at some point, but eventually I got rid of 7.
Making me feel old, 10 years doesn't feel that far away to me.. Was given a base spec l502x a colleague who had trouble with how slow it was and upgraded, it was only a few years old at the time. Slowly upgraded with both used ebay and handmedown parts from my other laptops, from i3 to i7, 2gb to 8gb ram, 720p to 1080p screen, mech drive to 250gb ssd, and N to AC wifi minicard. Taken it apart more times than I can remember!
Its never been one of my main desktops/laptops, but has served as a great reliable spare, something I'm never fussed over loaning out to family or friend in a pinch if their own hardware crapped out, or that I can leave in my parked car somewhere without being devastated if it ever got stolen compared to my other laptops.
Crazy. I took my old Toshiba (and HP a while ago..) and brought it back to life by putting a new battery in it, SSD, memory, and CPU. All in all it was pretty cheap "upgrade" It runs great now and the experience is very smooth. These old Sandy/Ivy bridge laptops still have some kick to them with a little TLC.
Currently rocking a ThinkPad T520 with a intel core i5-2540m(which is only 2C4T, weaker than the i7 in the Dell shown in the video) as my daily driving laptop, since I don't play games at all(except for some occasional minesweeper since they still exist in Win7 for some reason), I'm actually happy with the performance of it.
This tank of a laptop handles all my basic school and office workflow just fine, has a ton of ports, a 1600x900 screen that is actually not that bad, exceptional 7 row keyboard, and about3~4hrs of battery life which is probably just enough for how I use it although more will definitely be better. The only main problem I have with it is the lack of a HDMI port, it has DP and VGA but my school only support HDMI for some reason, so I can't use it easily if I need to hook up a projector or whatever.
Loved this one!
I'd really love it if you guys make it as a series, take some of the best laptops in the past 10 years and see if it can hold up today!
I'm still using it and hopefully I'm gonna upgrade soon. She's a beaut tho, she's served me so well. It had some amazing speakers and gaming was amazing in 2012 but now not so much.
This was my first laptop ever! I eventually changed to a Lenovo Y50, but despite the performance boost, it always felt like an inferior laptop because the XPS was just too premium in built quality and screen.
True Word ❤️❤️🔥🔥
This is fun, thanks Eber. I think highlighting the display quality is a good thing. I recently acquired a 2008 Dell 30” 3008WFP, I had the 2707WFP back in the day on release, yet always listed after the 3008. Still, today it is an absolutely stunning display - wonderful colour rendition, 16:10 pixel ratio @ 2560x1600. It also has a built-in hardware image scaler so lower resolutions are crisp. Aside the exciting Ultra-Wide and high Hz market, the display market is otherwise bland as hell now.
I as well am pretty nostalgic and sentimental with laptops, the lenovo g580 I had that got me through college as well as early days of working from home (2013-2020) is here to stay with me for as long as I can. I can maybe frame the badboy in the future. I have since bought a newer acer nitro 5 and built my own custom PC but the lenovo will forever hold a piece of my heart.
That quad-core Sandy Bridge chip is still fast enough for basic tasks for sure. Great work!
I am using my L502x (i5-2430M) laptop since 2011. Battery is almost dead can give a backup of 10mins. Can play some old games like NFS MW, HL2, etc. with 540M. I am using it primarily for web browsing and media consumption and I am happy with the laptop. No plans of replacing it for another 2 years.
What a refreshing video to watch, fantastic job Eber!
So true ❤️❤️🔥
Funny I am restoring my 9 year old Fujitsu LH772 this week. Other than a faulty power button, it's still going strong! It actually boots much faster than the alienware R15 I was planning to replace. Considering I'm not planning to do much heavyweight lifting work for the next few month, I can postpone the new purchase till the end of the year.
I run Linux on everything. I don't really have driver issues even on older hardware. I run into so many hardware support/driver issues with windows, especially when it comes to older systems like this. I'd be curious to see, if you installed Ubuntu or Manjaro, how those performance tests scored.
I still daily drive a L702X for office work, checking emails, web browsing, and still love it. It is a 17 inch monster, 1080 display, two SSD's, Nvidia Discrete (was one of the first with steoroscopic graphics where you get the glasses to see in 3D). upgraded the memory the HDD to SSD, new battery, new charging brick, and still going strong for basic use. Loved the video!
I had a dell xps l702x, like the same thing but 17 inches, and it was great at look, but awfull at one thing. The palmrest under the wasd was really melting under any heavy use. Like if i had the cpu/gpu at 70 deg, witch wasn't even max temps it could hit, it was a pain for my hand, it was litteraly burning. But it had 4 ram slots, and 2 hdd slots, and i liked it for that upgradeability. Also sound was very good.
I've own my 2nd laptop for 9 years now. It was originally 2gb ram ddr3, 320gb HDD and i3 2350m which it still does have. Somewhere in the middle of it's life I dropped down a 2gb ram stick to make it 4gb, and just a month ago I replaced all the ram with 8gb 1600mhz which is the max it supports and a SATA SSD, installed pop OS recommended by Anthony LTT, and it works surprisingly good. This is my main computer, but I don't game or do heavy work, however I work with this and it's just fine. I want to extend its life for as long as I can mainly because I'm poor but I also worry about e-waste
I enjoy seeing old tech being restored.
You are not alone on this 🔥❤️❤️❤️
Bought it in 2011, I am still using it , just upgraded the hdd to ssd....and it's running smoothly...
That was my second laptop ever. I used it heavily for like 5-6 years and it was great, but eventually the GPU and the speakers died. I had it in storage until early this year when I recycle it. It brought back so many good memories playing Europa Universals and Age of Empires! ❤❤❤
I remember this laptop. One guy in my college had this and he was a pro gamer.
sounds like piro gamer to me lol
I'm still using my Dell XPS 17 L702x with GT555M , with RAM and SSD upgrades. Everything including the track pad, keyboard brightness, wifi, bluetooth works well. Using it as a smart tv though in clamshell mode (enables 4K resolution). Using MSI overclocking utility i can get this machine to play Warcraft 3/Frozen throne for Lan party, CSGO, Team Fortress 2, Age of Empires, Thief 1,2,3. On Development side run some Docker, Hyper V serves well so far. Only part which is causing the issue is the power cord, literally all the plastics around it is broken down like a powder, left with only wire now..
I have exact same laptop... I still use it with SSD and RAM update... GPU and CPU did not age well on this.. 1st gen i7... But i do remember gaming on this laptop while my collage days it was real fun.. And i do agree about screen.. Screen is still darn good.. Speakers are great.. get loud really loud can fill entire living room easily... Better than any current laptop speakers... mostly i used it for Media consumption and browsing...
I have the same laptop running two drives 16 gigs of RAM running my home server. My favorite laptop ever.
I have my trusty old alienware MX11 Ver. 2. I agree, I can't play such demanding games anymore, I can't use design programs or virtual machines like in the past, but I can keep playing old games like GTA Vice city, Mafia 2, Need for Speed MostWanted, watch videos and stream. the laptop is still amazing. Greetings from Mexico
Oh gosh. I bought the same laptop for college. Got stolen, but the few months I had it was gold. I still know some people using it as daily drivers today.
I have a lot of love for this particular laptop. I have a 15" L502x and 17" L702x model.
still using my xps in 2023. upgraded the disc to ssd, and added 8gb of ram, to a total of 10gb. runs great with windows 10.
What an awesome video! I still have my L502X that I bought in March 2011. I got it with the i7-2630QM, 6GB RAM (which I upgraded to 8 and later 16GB), NVIDIA 525M, and a 640GB HDD (which I later upgraded to 1TB and then 2TB). I also made sure to get the FHD upgrade. I loved this laptop. It was my primary workhorse and music player from 2011 until early 2020, when I finally bought a new laptop (an open-box MSI GL63). The XPS speakers are still amazing, and better than the ones on my newer laptops (I upgraded to an even newer laptop just a month ago, this time a lightly used Lenovo Legion 5 with the Ryzen 7 4800H, produced shortly before 5000-series refresh.)
I still keep my XPS around for nights when I'm doing a long-running CPU-intensive workload on my primary laptop. My XPS is running Windows 8.1, where it will likely remain. Did you get all drivers working properly under Windows 10? What about the Waves MaxxAudio? I heard drivers, especially for that, were not well-behaved on 10. I still might attempt a 10 upgrade in 2023 once 8.1 goes EOL, and if I'm still using the XPS.
I am literally watching this video on an i3 M370, which I got during the worst period of laptops shortage in 2020 because of Covid.
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Yes, I have had it with it! And, I do hate my life!
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And, yes, I am planning to upgrade very soon :D
For technology enthusiast RUclipsr, me expected laptop from those ancient time with dual core, 2GB RAM, 320GB, Windows XP 32-bit. This one, modern enough for the word "FIRST" laptop~
I'm personally still daily driving me laptop from 2012... It's been heavily upgraded and bashed-up and slightly overclocked and I wish I could have a new one, but it still runs great all things considered.
I have been on the lookout for a new laptop but I have not found a worthy replacement yet.
I still use my XPS of the same model. I even have to 1080p *upgraded* screen. I also replaced my WiFi card when I first got ten years ago. Never had an issue with the track pad. Only issue my fans run on full blast no matter what I do. I did upgrade a SSD last year. Only thing I did different. Is that I install windows XP (CD install), Seven Pro (CD Install) and upgrade to Ten Pro (USB Drive).
Have the same laptop, my first laptop I bought 2010.
Used for my gaming and work.
Revide it as well, changed to SSD and fixed the broken frame. The audio is broken so using external audio
My 6 yrs old son is using it now for his online class
I just hoped that you would do what I did to my wifes 5y old notebook. Upgraded RAM from 4GB to 8GB, replace 500GB HDD with 512GB SSD (I cloned data), replace paste and clean cooling and it is like she had new notebook. And made some measurments before and after.
I've been tempted to do this with my Dell Studio 15 that got me through college. Bit of a PITA with all the screws.
Wait you were already to 2000 series Core i7 in high school, I was on a Core 2 Duo in university, getting old lol
Yes, my daily machine is a Dell Inspiron 1564, i3 - 330M, 6GB RAM and 256GB HDD. It is running on windows 10 and it is 10 years old as well!
I have a Dell Latitude E6530 with an I7- 3720Q and 16gb of ram as my daily work driver, never had an issue with it. For the basic non editing/gaming tasks it works great.
Enjoyed this video! I currently use a 10 year old Sony Vaio laptop as my daily. In the process of upgrading to a proper desktop gaming PC, but I will still use the laptop for quick basic tasks.
I lived through my college years with this laptop my Dad gave me. Still runs well except for the freeze that occurs when pushed to the max (spits hot air, CPU above 100C) and the woofer is gone.
I'm watching in my 10 years old Dell Inspiron 15R (N5110) that uses basically the same screen as your XPS. In my case, every time I format the drive, I need to manually install the driver of the touchpad (at the time Dell used an ALPS touchpad with an specific driver), downloaded from the support page of my model on Dell site). The drivers from Windows 7 or 8 should work, and if they doesn't work, install them in the compatibility mode (the IDT Audio driver only works this way in my case).
Had a similar Project going on last week. Took our 7yrs old Laptop (i5 5200u + 840m) and switched the hdd for an ssd. The ssd ive tested it with I got from my New PC. Windows 11 was installed on it. To my surprise the Laptop worked pretty much fine with Windows 11 besides the fact that the New rounded edges on w11 were shown angled again. But other than that I could find any Problem with it.
Now I remember the XPS 17 L702x. It was pretty expensive for the time in UK, but it offered probably the most awesome of sound solutions to be integrated in a laptop, my brother was blown away by the capabilities of the laptop and used it most often for gaming and as his daily driver.
Sadly it ran extremely hot, being that it was armed with a Sandy Bridge based i7 which mostly stayed at high 90's, until the temperature creeped to about a 100c and over.
I think over-time, a temperature sensor or something else became defective and the laptop couldn't hold any stable clock speeds, thus rendering most gaming applications to stutter all the time. It couldn't cool itself properly even after maintenance. So we had to put the thing over an air ionizer, because it had a powerful fan, which was only a temporary solution to the problem that was slowly becoming worse.
One night I got a message that said the hot beast went to heaven after serving faithfully. And it did, we played lots of DayZ, RE5 and ran emulators for co-op on it. Good times.
Still have one of these, but only use it consume media. I remember at the time how good it was, having a 1080p display and a discrete GPU.
Loved the video Eber! It would be really cool if you could make a video on it every few months, with a possible upgrade and the performance increase for example. Keeping it alive in the today's world! :-)
I just upgraded my old laptop and passed over to my mom. Great for Web browsing, excel, word, docs....simple stuff it's fine. That's all she needs, rather than spending thousands getting a new laptop. Just add some ram and change the hdd to ssd.
I had this exact laptop in 2011. Loved it. Had the best speakers of any laptop that I've ever owned, including my current MBP 16.
I buy an old Dell Latitude D531 the other day for $20. It had Windows XP but I was unable to bypass the administrator password, so I installed Lubuntu, a light resource variation for Ubuntu. Got a new battery for it, upgrade the RAM to 4 Gb and waiting for an ssd to see how it runs.
When you remove the palmrest, probably disconnect the touchpad cable (yeah, I play with one 502x until today - i7 / full hd, blu-ray drive). This system nic works with the native w10 drivers, and windows update install the remaining ones.
if you are planning on buying a laptop more than 3 years old do yourself a favor and replace thermal paste. laptops usually run a lot closer to the max operating temp of 100 C than desktops do. the large amount of heat cycles that thermal paste in laptops have to go through drys thermal paste quicker.
I had a 17" Dell XPS Gen 2 from around 2003 that had a 1920x1200 screen. Yes, it had RGB that I turned off the first time I booted it, and yes, it was fairly chonky, if understated compared to many other gaming laptops released since. With regard to the screen tech, however, all they had to do was improve the colour gamut, response and refresh rates, but instead they went 16:9 and decreased the resolution to something that was barely usable if you left the Windows task bar at the bottom of the screen and kept poor response times viewing angles and refresh rates. It was then that we entered the laptop dark ages that lasted at least 10 years.
Whilst making a laptop pc work well requires lots of clever engineering and many compromises to get right, if the screen and keyboard are awful, it doesn't matter how good the internals are. It's great to see how much better the laptop market is today than it was back then. We're even getting gaming notebooks with no RGB for goodness sake! Miracles are happening!
I have a similar model. It's a Studio XPS. It still boots up, but it's slow. I'm sure an SSD would help greatly
I've actually been messing around with my old MacBook, a 2008 model when they first switched to the unibody aluminum build with the glass trackpads and the Nvidia 9400M. I repasted the CPU and GPU and I've got Ubuntu on it since there's no more support on Apple's end. Regardless, it can't really do anything besides consume media anymore but it's wild that a 13 year old system can still do anything at all. It's fun to see all the stuff Apple, and the industry at large, had done away with. Removable battery, upgradeable RAM, upgradeable hard drive, a whole host of ports, external LED, battery indicator, and great travel on the keyboard. It's still a wonderful modern looking piece of hardware, but the 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo definitely isn't doing it any favors 13 years later.
Core2 Duo can certainly play Half Life.
@@ark_knight I used to play Call of Duty 4 and Counter Strike/TF2 on it back in my high school/college days with it so it definitely can, it's just constantly crashing whenever I try to now. It's likely more a Linux thing than a hardware thing, but I can't run anything else on it besides Linux right now given there's no software support for anything else.
I still (sometimes) use my 13 year old Compaq laptop, (with AMD Athlon x2, 3 GB RAM and 256 MB nvidia gfx); mainly for listening to music, watching movies, and playing older titles(like HL2, NFS MW, Carbon, etc.) it still sounds looks much better than any of my newer laptops. My latest laptop is a Lenovo ideapad Gaming (with ryzen 5 4600h, 16 gigs RAM and 4 GB 1650); but that old laptop still sounds way better, even better than JBL Go BT speaker. and looks better as it has a 85% SRGB display.
Im still using a 3612qm powered laptop with 7670m as a backup. It still rocks and can play some old games. Believe it or not, i finished metal gear 5 on this. Keyboard is already nearing its end of life and needs replacement.
Perfect timing as I had been refreshing a few of my old laptops recently. One thing I would have like to see is cleaning up the fans and reapplying thermal paste because it's something that I haven't dare to do yet.
One of the XPS I was working on could no longer detect the only mSATA connection. Now it's running Ubuntu from a tiny USB thumb drive.
This laptop is in such amazing condition it makes it look like something from 2021, also I wish the still put as much work into the quality of devices these days
I really hope Dell can optimize the XPS lineup to make it very competitive with MacBook, although I use Mac a lot, but I really don't want to stuck in Apple Ecosystem too much, we need a good alternative.
I have the XPSL702X with a GT555M and It's still running but a very loud machine. Additionally the left part of the metal gets very hot when you are playing.
This video kinda hit me in the feels. I have a Dell XPS 15 1647 from 2009 that I still used semi-regularly for movies, netflix, facebook, etc., plus the occasional game. I used it mostly during downtime at work (I've got a much newer PC at home). However, it recently gave up the ghost and I'm quite upset. I've had to replace a few parts here and there over the years, but it still worke great for what I was still using it for. I've taken it apart and tried to troubleshoot the problem, but it just won't turn on. Feels bad man.
Repasting thermal paste of cpu and gpu works great
If there are no wifi drivers to access net just use a phone with wired connection and USB tethering. Let windows update pull all the drivers. Worked great for me lots of times.
OMG. Dell XPS 17 L702x was my last laptop I used before I built my first PC back in 2014. I had a 555M graphic card though. I installed Linux Ubuntu on it. But the JBL speakers didn't have the right Linux drivers and the sub woofer gets distorted terribly. But works well with external speakers.
My dad had the XPS 17 from that generation. It was huge and it lasted quite a while, last time I saw it switched on was 2019 I think. IMO they're still rather good looking devices, and you can see their DNA in the latest models.
Great laptops for the day. I have both an L502x with the 1920x1080 glossy panel (later upgraded to 16gb RAM , and added an HDTV tuner) and a few years ago inherited an L702x with a 1920x1080 matte panel which has a bluray drive and space for 2 drives. I stuck SSDs in both machines as well as Intel 7260ac Wifi cards in each which also adds 5Ghz and wireless n, ac and Bluetooth. Drivers weren't much of an issue for the most part and in the end, I did manage to find sound drivers with the Waves Max feature that work fully with Windows 10. I don't play games on them, and with a bootup time of around 6 seconds in Windows 10, they're very respectable for casual desktop usage.
SSD? In highschool? My first SSD was an 8MB USB thumb drive. My frist PC I bought was a Dell Dimension 8200 with a sad Pentium 4 and AGP graphics at a whopping 4x! Later replaced that with my first build, an AMD Atholn 64-2000+ with a Geforce 6800. I later upgraded that to an FX-60, then sold it to a friend to build a Intel Q9300 with a Geforce 9800GX2. I got out of gaming until recently when I bought an ASUS G15 5900HS/3070 and am currently test and tunning my new AMD 5600x/RTX3080. We'll see how it goes :D
Have a toshiba satellite a505 still usable. A few years ago I upgraded the cpu from and i3 330m to the i5 variant and added an ssd. Made it feel almost new. There was some issue with trackpad drivers but seems it’s soothed out. Still love the keyboard so much but has a cracked screen. Used mostly to browse and stream video. Does it well and on win10, of course needs more RAM though.
My now 12 year old Latitude with first gen i5 is running win11 today albeit with a sata ssd. Still plays videos and browsing just fine.
Install Windows 7 on it and make sure Windows defender is easily accessible, install a free VPN and you'll have a nice travel laptop for the Cafe when you are writing scripts. (Depending on local environment situations.)
I have a 9 year old HP Pavilion g6 with an Intel i5 3210m and AMD Radeon HD 7600m graphics.
Yes, most graphics drivers don't play well with Windows 10, I had to dual boot Windows 8.1 just to make it work, I can play Valorant 60-100fps and Rendering was comparatively fast than the integrated graphics. I upgraded it into an SSD and I also bought a caddy for a secondary hard drive. I also upgraded its Wifi card to support 5g AC and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. I was able to install Windows 11 by bypassing the hardware checks and it has been great so far.
PS. It is my daily driver, I'm poor.
It still looks new I'm quite surprised tbh hahaha
I occasionally still uses my Toshiba L650 bought in 2009. Apart from battery everything still works fine...
i have one, as far as i can say, this laptop has one of the last sockets for the CPU that Dell and intel made for laptops, it means it can be improved to a Intel i9 of that time, it use to be cheap, but these days i saw it at almost 250 dollars wich is like 3 times the price that i bought it a couple of years ago, anyway, also you can improve de Memory up to 16GB 1666Mhz and it makes a big change for ofimatic, mine has the keyboard issue not the mouse pad, mousepad is perfect, and after update the SDD and secondary HDD i left it just to video calls and ofimatic and light work, it works perfect for that, homework and light photo edition, just that.
My wife and I still have our laptops from 10 years ago. Both lenovos. I don't use mine anymore but she still uses her daily!
i'm still using this laptop at work daily and your cinebench R20 numbers are way low, i got the same CPU and my results is 915, i'm quessing you have not swaped out the thermal paste on that laptop, the factroy thermalpaste that came with it was quite bad and the cpu was thermal throtteling even when it was brand new hitting 100C with a paste swap it stays around like 95-96C . Secondly the reason your touchpad might not work is you kinda twisted the ribbon cables on it while dissasembling and might have pulled it out the socket.
Got it running windows 10 on my end and have not had issues with it running stuff, though on gaming department the 540m that it has in it realy kneecaps the system.
I've worked on this laptop. Brings back memories.
Always happy to see these older systems resurrected instead of tossed.
My 0.02 would be to run a Windows 10 decrapifier script. Removing appx bloat and (most importantly) disabling telemetry will give a noticeable performance increase. You should also disable windows defender if you are a cautious internet user. My upgraded latitude e6500 is still working well after 12 years, now with Windows 10 with these few tweaks.
Mine is still going strong despite:
*the HDD failing
*the SSD I cloned it to failing
*being dropped down the stairs
*the power cable exploding in my flat (there was actual fire)
*the battery giving up the ghost entirely
10 years on for the service its given, it's absolutely been worth its £100 per annum total cost in full :)
This inspires me to refresh my 8 year old lenovo ultrabook. An SSD and some new thermal paste should do wonders and keep running a bit longer
That helped me. Shame that the ultrabook died recently
I'm using Dell Latitude E6500 from 2008 as a retrospective laptop with Windows XP integral edition and if I needed it as a main laptop in any time I swap the HDD with my HP pavilion dv6 from 2008 on windows 8
Sandy Bridge laptop in high school. Thanks for making me feel old.
OMG the timing…up untill a couple weeks ago I was still using my xps 17 L702x, barely used it tbh since I used my desktop mainly. Think it has the same config but with the gtx 555m. Now I just upgraded to the g14 since I need a more powerfull and portable laptop, but my xps still works very well for day to day tasks
Love those old Dell XPS laptops. I had one from 2009 that I upgraded from Vista to 7, then 7 to 10, and upgraded the HDD to a SSD.
Try the EXP GDC dock mod with an external GPU if you want to game on this laptop, though that would make your laptop less portable.