As a former Goodwill employee let me share some fun facts!!!! So depending on the goodwill you go to the items will vary not just depending on the type of community but because of the managers (and staff slightly) as the managers tell the staff what items they want to sell, so if a goodwill has no games and only clothing thats the reason! Also YES staff hides the good stuff in the back! They will set aside things that they like and it wont make it to the floor! ANYTHING they think is worth alot WILL GO ONLINE not instore!!!! so any good jewelry or tech or games will go there!!! ANYTHING they didnt sort gets sent to a whole sale center!!! So if you think youll see that stuff you donated on the floor theres a low-medium chance (more on the low side) SO in short you want tech go online, you looking for specific types of items then go to a goodwill with that type of community and be careful what you donate as well!

Haters are wrong. The OG’s love these types of videos keep them coming.

Sometimes you have to tap the 360 repeatedly above the drive to get them to work. Those old 360's all have that issue. I've had two that worked like that. Just tap it a few times and the drive opens right up. They don't like standing up either. They are temperamental little beasts.

10:30 - yes, older LCDs didn't use LEDs for the backlight, they used CCFL that did, in fact, need some minutes to warm up and get into full brightness. Old laptops always booted up very dim but got bright after 5 minutes

Hey on the goodwill finds, mention that to look for console with disc drives that don't open even cheaper. $25 I paid for one with that and all I had to do was forcefully open by hitting the disc drive until it was opened clean the rubber on the button and now it works perfectly.

I feel so old. Up until last year when I finally bought a Nintendo Switch for my wife my latest consoles were PS2 and Dreamcast. Both purchased when they were at end of life. I guess I did get an Xbox 360 for a bit for my roommates in college. I also owned that EXACT Dell computer and had it upgraded like crazy to do video editing. It was my last PC before I switched to exclusively Mac’s for my professional work. Gave it to my nephew to play around with all the junk I had on it. Running XP of course… the last Windows OS I ever really used.

80GB PS3 had hybrid backwards compatibility in that it didn't have the "emotion" chip and instead emulated it but it has some hardware based emulation. Only the 20 and 60GB models were pure hardware emulation

I used to work in the e-commerce department for goodwill, I will say they don't test pretty much anything save for if it turn on. We also didn't clean anything at all, and actually got in trouble if we did start to clean some electronics because it took too long.

I bought a stereo system from the goodwill California ebay page a few years ago. Worked perfectly. I still have it. And they had it priced way cheaper than other ebay sellers and it was in perfect condition

Replacement lasers for the 360s were like $15 back in the day. I used to replace them when they'd go bad. If you're willing to spend an extra half hour working on your 360 you could easily fix it up

hell yeah! more goodwill tech!

Xbox 360 had a known problem resulting in RROD and you would have to send back to MSFT and they would fix and return (no charge). Had to do that with my Xbox 360 Platinum edition once owned.

Goodwill sometimes has deals in person too. I just got a Roomba S9 for $25 minus the dock but was perfectly clean as if it was never used. Bought the dock and it’s been working perfectly and cleaning up a lot of dirt.

The macbook at 9:59 is a certified austin evans classic

I have been binge watching your videos while I'm sick. Great content, thank you!

You should never be surprised by an old 360 disk drive not opening. Every single one I've come across has to be knocked on or lying flat to open. The rubber bands are 15+ years old.

Yay, another goodwill video!

I love these sorts of videos especially when it involves gaming stuff

I just discovered your channel yesterday. I've binge watched so much, you and the gang produce some high quality content. Thank you Austin!

Love the goodwill vids. I have been keeping an eye on them myself since I have seen your videos.

Mega Great Video Austin 👌🏻

Hey I remember that Mac display. Specifically, in college, our good Macs in the classroom (Power Mac G5) were using that display

I love Goodwill, they are keeping the tech out of landfills and the bubble wrap in!

Hey Austin, try that Xbox on a more modern display over HDMI. I distinctly recall having a similar issue getting my 360 to talk to my roommate's early projection LCD, but if I used a analog->digital converter box it would work over HDMI, but it would still force 480i up to 720P out the converter. Those early revision HDMI units were finicky.

lmao the way I had a handy boy with my Gameboy Back In The Day (TM) and (thankfully) the STD/handyboy innuendo went over my head (as it should have, as a 5-8 year old lmao)

Love your videos austin ❤❤

Austin struggling to open the MacBook reminds me of a Far Side comic where a kid is pushing on a door to open it but it's a pull to open door. Someone so tech savvy defeated by a simple piece of tape.

optical drive issues are very common and very cheaply and easily repaired on those old Xbox 360's. you had to smack the console to get the tray to open on ours, and it started not reading discs very well. replaced the optical drive and belt for the tray, works flawlessly now. i think it only cost like $20-30 or something

This Goodwill video is funny. I actually still own a working Xbox 360, with a good disc door. I use it for Lollipop Chainsaw, and Dead or Alive Xtreme 2, which never got the Backward Compatible treatment from Micrisoft. I also bought the HDMI connector, so it works on a modern TV

11:38 clever buying the domain and linking back lol

I Love Austin Evans Videos 💙

I recently got an XBOX 360 online (with controller, charger station and leads) in the UK for £35. The previous owner said they couldn't get it to update, but it turned out they'd been trying to connect to the internet without the network adapter lol! It's amazing how many people think older consoles had wifi built in. I ended up selling it for charity, so some good came out of it all lol.

Austin, Ken, i have an actual ipod touch 2nd gen 8gb model i got off ebay last year for $8. it works fine and is in a DAB/FM radio Speaker Dock on my bedside table loaded with old music from the 70's to the 2000's.

2:58 LOL I legit have that pc! I use specifically for old games as well!

AAAHHHHH! the nostalgia, that was my pc from back in the day!!!!

Aww man!!!! 🤩 I’ve been looking for 19 copies of Wii fit & Wii fit plus!!!! This is perfect lmao 😂

I was literally watching the other GoodWill video 😅

I love how nerdy this channel is👌👌👌

my friend had one of those handy boys growing up, but for the advance, and i was so jealous back in the day.

I got an 1 gen ipod touch. No wifi but 16 gigs and it works well

I built my first pc using parts from two of those dell's. Wow. Whata nostalgia trip.

Sick donut merch 🤘🏼

5:19 was austin playing command and conquer??? I just downloaded red alert on a ps1 emulator lol

OMG I remember the handy boy I had one back in the 1990s but hated the joystick part lol so I never used it just the screen and speakers

Damn austin you just blew up the spot for good. Thanks.

I am actually watching this Video on the Very Same Macbook Air that was featured in this Video. I got mine off the Shopping Channel in which it was Bundled with a cheap Carry bag, A cheap flimsy wireless mouse and basic Mousepad i paid $1100 CDN for it back 10 years ago.

I would go to CompUSA back in the day just to stare at the cinema display, it was the prettiest thing I had ever seen at that point in my life. It might still be.

I like how both of you guys got excited for the ipods!

I got a backup 360 for $25 at a thrift store and I'm so glad I did given how iffy the hardware is

OMG the 360 Disk drawer always jump scared me!! It opened when it wanted!!

That binder looks very similar to mine except a lot more software

omg, I had the handyboy, as a kid though I never thought about the name, lol.

i had a handy boy as a kid. was a fantastic addon

I remember buying a Handy Boy to play games on the car trips home. Between the light distracting the driver and the volume of the speakers, I was banned from using it in the car.

11:35 I love the fact, that you guys actually bought the domain

8:05 made me laugh so hard😂

I had that same samsung crt monitor during mu childhood in the 2000s, Such good memories

I had that same monitor with my first personal PC. To be fair, I also have hundreds of DVDs going back to the late 90s, DVD folders still full of some of them, and multiple things from the early 2000s that I know just makes people like me look really old now. I even still have my first 3D TV from LG. Combined with the PS3 I also still have, it's still one of the best ways to enjoy the several 3D Blu-rays I own.

That the better of the two Inspiron 530, it’s the quad core version. They have different motherboards and the dual core one can’t take quad cores.

Let me get one of those iPod touches. Lol. My new to me 2014 bike for some reason has a 30 pin connector. Lol.

I still have and use my white iPod touch 4G I bought for Christmas in high school.

0:56 "Dandy boy" Says *STD* on the pack, you really missed that one 😂

Hey, whats the watch that Austins wearing?

That XBox issue is just the track being slightly off. Easy fix. Needs taken apart for cleaning and new thermals anyway.

Yeah those cd keys still work for online download versions, I did it for StarCraft 2 I think.

Love these videos xD

I actually have the Handy Boy (with OG Gameboy) on my shelf.

Ngl I just looked to see if I could find gameboy SP with the brighter screen to modify my GBA I've had since my Kindergarten years. The prices are nice, but I didn't find the specific model sadly but definitely worth something to bookmark

14:03 the new nemesis of austin

You have to go to settings for the hdmi!

The 360 needs a new rubber band in the drive. it's an easy fix. also, the av port works because it's in that mode, you can switch to hdmi in the settings.

the funny thing is ; i recently got a ps3 last year and man, i'm in love with it :)

44 for those games is an absolute steal, nostalgia was having a moment in my brain.

1:36 i have that same case lmao

the sticky dualshock 3 thumbsticks is more common than you think. i might be wrong but i think the rubber is just degrading over time and the additives leach out

Another certified hood classic Austin Evans video noicee

Damn Austin you sell your soul oooo!

8:05 Bold of you to assume Sony's update servers will still work 20 years from now.

10:55 dude, it’s murciÉlago A Core 2 Quad? Nice!

thanks for all the free game codes!

Its 1AM here in Sydney and Im watching a New Austin Evans video instead of sleeping. Priorities 😌

I need a new PS3 like that one... my old one died some years ago and I still have a bunch of games for it... 250 usd is insane, especially untested, that's the price of a brand new Switch Oled

At least it's super easy to replace the HDD with a SSD in those phat PS3. I did it with mine took like 3 minutes.

Will a regular SSD work with the Dell Inspiron tower?

Bruh that binder of old pc games is legendary too

i love those logitech keyb stil use them

"Console is untested" sounds like something I would call my broken console if I wanted to get rid of it online

I hope we get more This is goodwill tech.

The original xbox 360's (white ones) are widely available here for as low as $15, do you think I should buy 80-100pcs to keep, do you think the price will go higher?

I wish I was the pillow Matt puts on his lap for these kind of videos

3 secs is crazy

I actually have that lambo mice, and it aint bad :))

Sunday tech!!!!

If you have a working original 360, you were blessed, with a failure rate of more than 50%, not from MS, they lie about it, from Game Informer, if you have a working console you were blessed. I personally repaired mine until it just wasn't worth it to keep repairing it. The problem is that the 360 was the first product from MS that was ROHS compliant, which means the solder is lead free... and lead free solder melts at a much higher temperature than lead based solder, and has to be held at heat longer to form a solid connection. Something that it appears MS learned after the 360.

Ha I actually had a "handy boy" while growing up. The light was ass. Was cool though

We bought my dad one of those road mice from the local Sam's club back in like 2012 for like $30 😂

only that Apple screen not worth it but thanks Austin ! it was fun to watch❤

You are showing the serial keys again!

i got some games like red alert 2 unreal to work on windows 10 and 11

Nice video 😁