My dad bought one of these back when they came out so he could use it for work. It had come with a remote control F1 car and a cologne too! My older brother destroyed it by playing SilkRoad Online 24/7 on it and the poor thing couldn't keep up. Rest in piece overpriced Acer laptop. You won't be missed.

"I'm gonna go start a family, and be back in a couple of years" Dude, this is bloody gold.

Dawid vs Pre Windows 7 software has to be the most hilarious thing I have ever seen since the bright yellow koala case video

Can we just applaud the packaging? That person truly wanted the thing to arrive safely, even if it was an odd assortment.

Making Dawid watch a bloatware being installed is like torture.

The fact that the screen is pretty dim is because CCFL lights degrade over time, which causes them to be dimmer, and the fact that the Steam installer didn't launch is because Vista blocked it, and you need to right click, properties, and unlock. LGR also made an in-depth video about this laptop.

The laptop that broke dawid. I've never seen him do such limited benchmarking.

10:17 I love how you renamed the system ''Piece of shit'

"so what model is your ferrari car?" "i didnt say its a car. its a laptop." "oh"

You might want to invest in some games from the GOG store. Virtually all of them have stand alone installers and no DRM. It doesn't make games magically work on vista, 7, 8, or XP but it skips the steam DRM barrier to entry on unsupported versions of Windows.

Installing and setting up Vista on these old laptops brings back bad memories. Some things are best left in the past.

I'd be interested to see how it performs if you repasted all that dry thermal paste, threw an ssd in, and chucked a linux distro for steam gaming with proton support, or even just windows 7 for steam. Maybe a turn that Ferrari into a ricer lol

Never has another being been this happy to play mass effect at 15 fps. Truly a once in a lifetime experience.

The seller really packaged it well

Vista probably had the same issue xp did when it comes to updates, problem is Microsoft ruined the update service Might have been better just to use 7 as it probably would have been inbetween xp and vista with performance

I was dying laughing the whole video! The icing on the cake was noticing you named the laptop "Piece of shit."

I would've maxed out the RAM, put in an SSD, installed Kubuntu, then played Half Life 2 and a couple simple ARPGs. I'm sure the thing is capable of low-res gaming, browsing the internet, and sending emails. It would definitely be a conversation piece.

I remember seeing this for sale and laughing so hard at people who would shell out that much for a piece-o-crap laptop.

"It's making me watch as it's installing ACER bloatware on the laptop.." - this had me legit laughing so hard my chest hurt

Well I certainly remembered such experience for my 1st couple laptops. When I was a student, my parents would get me only the basic laptops to save money, so yeah I'm happy if I could play anything. Although speaking of Mass Effect, a buddy even had to help me edit some reg files to set the settings even lower than low else it won't even run lol. Granted I got my own stuff which didn't need to do such things once I started working as a young adult. And I did hv the rotating webcam on my 1st Asus laptop. Its good that you don't need to cover it, just turn it the other way if you don't want others to see you. Ah. Good times. Thx Dawid for the trip down memory lane.

"It's terrible, runs like a potato." "Oh, you can't say that." "Why not?" "It's a Ferrari!" "It's a ****box! It bugs like crazy and the display is a disaster!" Rush - 2013

I remember back in my High School days servicing some laptops like these. This was horrendous in terms of drivers and support. It didn't like Vista at all, ran better on Windows 7.

Love your videos! When Vista 1st came out I bought a HP laptop with the Turd, I mean the AMD Turion processor. The laptop ran so hot that I couldn’t touch the top of the keyboard, and sounding like a hairdryer it put out a stream of hot air onto my lap (nice on a winter day though). With no SSD the boot and installations passed like continental drift. I kept that laptop just 6 months and burned by the experience I haven’t used one since!

Actually,I had servicing my friends laptop, running Windows 10 on Turion CPU. Until he spill water on it... And,so I've sold him my C2D powered laptop, and it made him happy.

Hilarious Dawid, love the "THREE GLORY HOLES!" ha haha ha ha. Suffering for the cause, man. Well done brother.

This is seriously the greatest video of all time, I haven't laughed that hard in a while. The real clincher is the last "I'm done, I don't even care" *ends video* LOL I'm so sorry for the pain you had to endure for this Dawid

Dawid, I love your sarcasm. It brings flare to your videos and that's why I like your videos so much. Your level of sarcasm is unmatched and I love it, keep it up bro.

I worked on many of those Acer laptops, including the "Ferrari" models... back in the mid-late 2000s. All I can say is, now you know my pain. :P

David's got the best, most comedic reviews on the tech journalism side of KZfaq. I can't help but laugh through the whole video

That laptop seemed like an absolute nightmare 😳 love your videos Dawid thanks 😊

So close to 400k. Congratulations.

Dawid sailing the high seas while trying to get a game to run on this thing is not something I expected to see.

I would be willing to bet money that at this point that the people at Linode have a good laugh at every version you put out of their sponsorship

That blank error message Dawid got reminded me of when I tried to login to the Square Enix store a few days ago and got an error. The details of the error were, and I kid you not, just simply "Incident". Very helpful error messages all round.

For it's day, this was actually extremely impressive. I remember owning a (rather expensive) Toshiba Satellite laptop in 2012 and this blows it out of the water in terms of creature features.

The update montage awakened Mustakrakish from beneath the surface of the lake of my subconscious memories of ancient installation and troubleshooting rites.

Clint from LGR is laughing at you right now. Rookie moves Dawid. Good video man, despise the maddening processes involved.

Your new benchmarking metric should be "Dawid's blood pressure" 🤣 Great video, as usual 😁

Supplied one of these badboys to a client back in the day - he absolutley loved he f1 engine logon sound and showing off the badge on the back of the screen in board meetings

You know youre old when you remember really wanting one of these back when they came out.

Back in ohhh '06 a buddy of mine had one of these, I was very very very jealous as I had a family Pavilion notebook at the time. After a bit of experimenting on the laptop I wasn't as jealous as when I saw the Acer Ferrari combo. It was a slow heat machine.

Wow, this computer review brought back memories…long slow drawn out painful memories- old AMD CPU’s, DDR2, Vista…did I say painful memories?

a fine video, some of the best coverage of luxury tech vehicles i've seen

9:30 No wonder Dawid is so into PCs it takes him 2 years to convince Anna to do anything. 🤣🤣

9:46 Dawid: Omg there's another setup process happening. Also Dawid **Ferrari engine startup noises**

Well now I'm expecting a drag race between this and the Lamborghini laptop

10:35 that rotating webcam was standard feature in some of Acer's laptop lineup back in 2004-5. My first laptop was an Acer Aspire 1500-ish with that same feature

When can we expect a follow up video on this amazing product? 🏎

Dawid should be nominated for best advertiser. I don't need any LiiiinoooooooDe myself but its gonna be in my head awhile.

If you haven't already, I think it would be wise to rip the recovery discs and upload the ISOs onto archive.org if you can - helping preserve that software for future people who could possibly buy this (without a recovery DVD for original software included) would be really cool

I got one of these in pieces years ago, eventually I ended up scrapping it, there just wasn't much of it left to put together. my model actually had a slot loading optical drive.

Hi Dawid - I was getting a migraine as I started the video. It cheered me up no end.. I remember when it took over 8 hours to get windows up an running. No sure why you didn't just instal a variety of Linus and run Steam there. I think the takeaway is don't buy an ancient laptop or even accept one for free, just accept it is e-waste or a museum piece. Thanks 😁 Your frustration brought me joy. See you next time

Linode needs to do a TV commercial spot with Dawid, he deserves more cash for those promos.

Not gonna lie, this video made me laugh - a lot! 😂 "While this is updating, I'm gonna go start a family, be back in a couple of years". 😂😂

Dawid the guy who does great videos. so uh famous car manufacturers are now racing to make laptops

Wow, this thing would be great for playing Quake 4.

This is the first time he took a linode ad seriously lol

Bros opening a cristhmas calendar

Acer basically rebranded their absolutely amazing laptops into a Ferrari. Insanely innovative Sheesh 15 likes, the most I’ve gotten :)

"But then there's the second half...." [points to part of the logo with the ass half of the horse] I see what you did there. Also, awarded by Dawid as being the most fun to say? Linode has made it, ladies and gents.

Ohh god that laptop is my very first. And i still have it wirh me after 10 plus year of owning it. Though, window 7 and 10 is a Trouble. But, SATA SSD which i upgraded, and migrated everything from spinny boy to flashy boy.

Watching a Dawid video and having 🤞that the sponsor will be LInode just so you can hear him say Liiiiinnnnnnoooooodddddeeeeee 🤣

The one shot that was missing, IMO, is a shot of your hand, holding a hammer, while XP is installing.

A usb to something cable. Exactly what I need!! I've been looking for that for ages!!

I just realized the "Ferrari 5000" model, just in line with the Aspire 5150 with AMD Athlon 64 I had for a brief period of time until I "upgraded" to some TravelMate with a Intel Pentium Dual Core processor

This laptop belongs in an ancient history museum

Dawid, i recommend you get a trey for those screws whenever you teardown a laptop or pc Thanks for the entertaining content

my Missus had the 11.6in Red Ferrari Acer laptop with the AMD Turion X2, Radeon 3200 and 4GB DDR2 RAM back in 2009/2010. it was a good machine, actually. despite the bloatware, the 4GB RAM and processor provided enough resources to browse the web and do office work. it came with Windows 7 and was still usable for many years.

As soon as I saw that VGA port I was like "Ah shit, here we go again."

S F on the logo is basically an Italian abbreviation for ferrari stables.

SO this video was about seeing Dawid suffering with an old laptop

*this* is the Dawid content I love

getting it done just got more fun

I remember my grandpa had a tiny Ferrari laptop in like 2009. I remember the boot sound being a car engine

It's hilarious to me that they put the ferrari laptop in that shell, because with only a couple of modifications it was identical to their baseline budget line. I had a laptop from them that came stock with Vista, 512MB of RAM and a cute little Celeron with Intel GMA 950 graphics. It was a nightmare to use, but at the very least it was upgradeable. I put (i believe) a core 2 duo in it and maxed out its ram at 4GB, and raided through the entirety of WoW Wrath of the Lich King on it. But seeing the *EXACT SAME SHELL* being used for what I can only assume was meant to be a premium laptop experience was a huge suprise. Plastic everywhere, barely functional heatsinks and fans, fiddly screws and hardware with poor driver support? Amazing.

Getting it done just got more fun

The frustration is channeling.. holy shit

Ha! I remember selling one of those back in 2006 when I worked part time at the local computer store. They were so hyped back then 😂

I can guarantee its 1000x better experience after fresh paste and ssd. Any possibility seeing new videon on this? :D

Haha, you showed an laptop from 2010, love it.

The other half is the toaster that drove around in F1 for late 2019 till 2022

The steam issue can be worked around by transferring game files from another computer (including the associated appmanifest file), I recently did this with an old XP machine. Another alternative is to dual boot an OS that can run steam like Windows 7 or Linux and then creating a custom library folder on a Windows partition and setting it as a library folder in XP as well and then downloading to it with 7/Linux, this is how I do it on another XP PC.

Getting flashbacks to my old Acer I used from ‘06 to ‘08. How dare you Dawid. Lol

Its insane you got steam running on that OS - AND that its a laptop

Great job I went thru a similar experience recently I did not get as far as you did. Congrats Dawid!!! P.S. I just got rid of the old hardware. :)

i was hoping to see this in one million pieces

Can't have a DDTS video without some casual time travel.

feels like a laptop i will ask to be paid instead of paying

These videos are always so hilarious. Keep up the good work!

I had a little red Acer 14"? netbook,it had little half tyres on the bottom and made a little ferrari engine noise on boot up.I took it backpacking to Asia about 15 years ago.Short story of it is,it used to overheat really quick if you dared try to play football manager so sold it on return to UK :D

Seing the packaging, I would have unpacked the thing outside to prevent any uninvited visitors. Once I would have opened the laptop, it would have gone directly into the trashcan.

I had one of these growing up. It was a beast in 2009

I actually bought an Acer laptop that had Vista on it. It was late 2006 if memory serves. During the 1st year, nearly everything on the laptop broke. The power cable receptacle, the headphone jack, serval buttons on the keyboard. This was technically my SECOND Acer laptop because the 1st one had a power interruption during setup and bricked the entire laptop so I had to take it back and get a replacement. The last words that laptop told me was "Starcraft.exe has stopped responding" before I slapped it into the floor and threw it away.

hey dawid your the best funny tech channel out there were at 400k halfway towards 1mil

That box does indeed give me flashbacks to the "In The Crosshairs" GTA IV Ballad of Gay Tony mission.

you have no idea just how relatable this video was. Not the Ferrari part, the wasting hours and hours trying to get someone's old PC to just do a few simple things. In the end, it's always the same thing "well this was totally worth it!!!???"

I had this laptop ( the non ferrari version) fun fact the way they installed vista on this pc was to first install windows xp media center edition and then "upgrade" it to windows vista.

Dawid Vista has an odd feature that blocks newer software from working you have to go in to properties of the installer by right clicking and then unblocking the software which will then allow it to run. Odd i know but that is how vista did it

Defo needed some new thermal paste for proper testing XD

Honestly I'm surprised you didn't swap in a cheap SSD to make the (re)install process a lot less painful.