The Dumbest Laptop DELL Ever Made

The Dumbest Laptop DELL Ever Made - Dell XPS m2010

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There are many impractical laptops out there.. but at a whopping 21 pounds (9.5kg) the Dell XPS m2010 might be the most impractical laptop ever built.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:06 What is it?
3:17 The Price
5:16 Tour of the outside + cool formats
10:15 Using it
12:08 The Display
12:55 The webcam
13:57 Storage
14:20 The Graphics Card
16:09 Gaming + Speakers
17:30 The Blu-ray Works!
18:27 Teardown
21:35 Linus being Linus
21:45 The motherboard + CPU
24:44 Benchmarks
25:30 Can it run Crysis?
27:12 Outrro

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@4carhur1more Жыл бұрын

I have to say, I'm completely in favor of more videos like this that cover old hardware like this. With Linus' extensive knowledge of old tech and his regular propensity for dad jokes and dropping things, it's equally informative and entertaining.

@1999ATP Жыл бұрын

In combination with anthony would be nice, since he probably has experience with older tech too.

@Armada2010 Жыл бұрын

"extensive knowledge of old tech" kek. lol. )

@eljengibre6080 Жыл бұрын

Would be a lot better if he quit laughing at everything like he doesn't understand that tech evolves. Bahaha! Look how big the battery is! OMG! OMG! WOWW! Look at stupid daughterboard HEHE OMG!

@Drekel Жыл бұрын

-signed

@TechSowa Жыл бұрын

Agreed!!

@zeriah Жыл бұрын

This laptop was my dream computer back in high school. I ran through the Dell configurator and put together a sick setup that would have only cost a whopping $10k! Also, fun fact, this laptop was featured in Iron Man, when Pepper Potts was copying the files off of Obadiah Stane's Dell XPS m2010.

@rhodiumthunderbird Жыл бұрын

Damn, 15 years ago in movies feels super recent, while 15 years ago in tech feels like the ancient past.

@Jason-mo7xt Жыл бұрын

@@rhodiumthunderbird yeah,that's real

@hudsonsabal8695 Жыл бұрын

What would an updated one even look like? Lmao. With that much space and todays silicon it could literally have a threadripper and a 4090 if you wanted.

@ThisCanBePronounced Жыл бұрын

Just opened up the movie (happened to get to that scene with a single click, I might add, haha), and yup, there it is! Whole monitor shown, might be a bit of product placement lol. Best view is when he comes over and sees the screensaver. Thanks for sharing!

@Sup_D Жыл бұрын

@@hudsonsabal8695 There wouldn't really be a need to add a Disk Drive, and even if one is added, they are quite compact now. Also cooling solution would be a lot better as well with that amount of space saved from the disk drive. IO would be great as well, with possibility of inbuilt 4K capture cards. Weight would be reduced as well, because of lighter panel's.

@artgoat Жыл бұрын

I was working at Dell when these came out. They were hell in the lab, because the keyboards and mice would happily connect with ANY XPS in the lab in preference to the closest one. You'd try to set one up, and suddenly someone across the lab is typing on your screen. Fortunately you could hard-wire the keyboards and use a wired mouse, but it was a pain.

@sargera1 Жыл бұрын

BT multipair , even when it wasnt popular yet lol

@artgoat Жыл бұрын

@@sargera1 If ONLY! Them pairing to your machine would shut YOU out!

@stevethepocket 11 ай бұрын

I have similar issues with the wireless Logitech mice I got secondhand a few years ago. Both of them automatically pair with both dongles, with no obvious way to disable it. Maybe if I install the proprietary software I'll get some options, but that doesn't help me when one of the computers I want to use it with runs Linux.

@MusicVideoMakerPro 8 ай бұрын

how does one pait those though? i've got this weird "lap cinder block" and everything else is working quite fine but never got the keyboard to connect. referred manuals and forums but so far no avail.

@artgoat 8 ай бұрын

@@MusicVideoMakerPro In the Dell lab we used wired keyboards and mice on them. We didn't have the time to mess around with the highly sketchy pairing and we certainly didn't need our keyboards and mice going away in the middle of a testing cycle. It's likely that a 3rd-party BT keyboard/mouse might work better than stock, but I have no experience with that.

@potatodude5327 Жыл бұрын

I'd like to see you guys make this into a sleeper monster machine, i mean, imagine rolling up to an Esports tournament and walking in with this absolute unit.

@popanda3652 Жыл бұрын

I have a project going right now to make an eSports all in one for lans and travel and stuff. Laptop ergo is usually horrendous for me. I didn't realize Dell had already(kind of) made one lol

@lefteris.adamou.1 11 ай бұрын

It's not that bad to make in to a sleeper

@NaddlyC 8 ай бұрын

They would have to destroy it's original internals

@baoquoc3710 6 ай бұрын

@@NaddlyC i mean, why keeping same old aging innards when you can Jerryrigeverything with it?

@NaddlyC 6 ай бұрын

@@baoquoc3710 yeah I know, would be nice to give it some life but I think it wound be a crime to destroy it, it's a piece of history

@KevinElgan Жыл бұрын

I had this computer (fully-loaded) and it was a dream! It's not a laptop, it's a portable desktop with a real screen enabling massive productivity from anywhere... with a table. I'd buy this again without hesitation if there was a modern version of this...

@korovai672 Жыл бұрын

who is the dell employee with the gun to your head

@coconutstrawberry Жыл бұрын

Kinda funny you mention that, DIY Perks basically did a DIY version of this with a Framework motherboard recently: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l7t7o7xh1JvYfaM.html

@metalface8515 Жыл бұрын

@@korovai672 No, I'd totally buy one of these too. This is an incredible thing if you do content creation or especially music production.

@zodwraith5745 Жыл бұрын

@@korovai672 I'd buy a 20" laptop in a heartbeat. It's brainless to me that people compromise on a $2000 laptop because it doesn't fit in their $50 backpack. Just pack it with a backpack it does fit in.

@animeloveer97 Жыл бұрын

@@zodwraith5745 the hp envy line has 17in desktop replacement laptops and still has dvd drives too the battery is ass though

@excitedbox5705 Жыл бұрын

They were 17 years ahead of their time. I was literally talking about this yesterday. A desktop PC that is portable now that people are working from home and the office. It literally saves each employee needing 2 workstations.

@badlydrawncars6460 Жыл бұрын

I feel like it would work much better in the form of a PC case with an integrated display, keyboard, touchpad, etc kinda like a modern Compaq Portable

@famitory Жыл бұрын

my ideal would probably be sort of like two really thick AIOs that hinge in the middle as a dual monitor that folds together into a briefcase form factor. one half has the computer, the other has a compartment in the back with the mouse and keyboard and such.

@lexievv Жыл бұрын

@@badlydrawncars6460 small form factor pc case and displays at the office workplaces. Or.....a laptop. A lot of jobs don't need a lot more power than most modern laptops can offer and are nice for when working while on the go without having access to a desk.

@MeticulousTechTV Жыл бұрын

We just use laptops and provide monitors for both locations. Less than 1% of our employees need anything stronger than standard HP business grade gear, especially in a world where 4-8 core CPUs with solid onboard graphics are a dime a dozen. We’d have riots if we asked employees to lug a monstrosity like this back and forth.

@MeticulousTechTV Жыл бұрын

@@lexievv nailed it

@MarshallEvans 11 ай бұрын

There is a guy who has been using this DAILY at a coffee shop in Raleigh. He's STILL using it. He lugs it in and sits in the same chair every day. He recently started bringing a second 32" screen. He's a "writer" - and pretty crazy

@SkullAngel002 Жыл бұрын

Prior to buying Alienware in 2006, Dell's "XPS" was their gaming and premium PC line. Dell wanted to bridge the gap between laptop and desktop usage and this was born from their efforts. The goal was to provide the biggest gaming monitor possible along with desktop horsepower while still being portable enough to lug around like a laptop(-ish). Last time I saw this was in Iron Man (2008), when Pepper was going through Tony's computer.

@jc5512 10 ай бұрын

Holy shit good memory! Although I think it's obidiah's laptop

@Ziggyoz 3 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ... The first Iron Man movie is 16 years old...

@StevenWichers Жыл бұрын

I worked at Dell when these were released. The bluetooth was notorious for breaking. We were also strictly forbidden from referring to these as laptops so people wouldn't hurt themselves and then sue.

@AdamWolphe Жыл бұрын

I worked at Office Depot when this was released. I remember the endcap designed for this, and how it was specifically billed as a “Portable Workstation”.

@vardaan6704 Жыл бұрын

The fact that this was my first pc amaze everyone but it had a reason it was a gift given to me by my late uncle edit -I broke it in 2011 I guess and just gave it to someone for repair and no one could do it

@sargera1 Жыл бұрын

@@AdamWolphe when u only move it to work sites 1 x a week yes, deffo not a mobile laptop lol but the idea sticks on, hell even Razer eventually make a keyboard thick as this one ( like a micropc +keyboard)

@AnthonyGage 11 ай бұрын

I was on the REC team at the time. I can't count how many of these that I captured and repaired in-house due to the bluetooth pairing issues. But those JBL speakers were awesome!

@boburanus69 10 ай бұрын

@@vardaan6704 Dad's always give you the thing you want. Uncles always give you the thing you didn't ask for x10 - usually turns out to be low key amazing.

@BigColton Жыл бұрын

I'm not gonna lie. I really want an updated version

@mcborge1 Жыл бұрын

Same, and a modern version would be thinner and lighter, which would make it less of a pain to lug around even at that screen size.

@haphazard1342 Жыл бұрын

I want to see them upgrade every possible component on this thing to see what it's like.

@juliancantarelli Жыл бұрын

@@haphazard1342 Yes, this!! An ssd, some more ram, win 10.

@wiesshund-games Жыл бұрын

@@mcborge1 I would not exactly want it terribly thinner and lighter Prefer not to go flexing a 20" screen closing the lid etc. Instead of thinner and lighter, id rather put a sick modern tech lithium battery solution in it that is like 400,000wh which might be doable given the smaller size of a lot of modern components and the now lack of need for express card and 30 in 2 card readers, 2.5 inch HDD's, the fact no one uses optical drives much anymore and some other things. Could probably get one battery in the lid itself and one in the base? And a monster cooling setup Be neat to make one that is some insane intel/nvidia combo, with kinda no regard for battery life just to say you have a i9 24 core RTX 4090 gaming laptop that kills 400k wh in 2 hours or less :) And then do one based on AMD with a low watt cpu and some kind of mobile GPU based off the RX 6600 with reduced power draw, get a combined cpu and gpu draw of under 100 watts maybe Kind of go for a game as long as possible on the battery scenario. Walking into a LAN party, and setting down your laptop for everyone to feel the table go thud and the floor shake would be hilarious.

@mcborge1 Жыл бұрын

@@wiesshund-games Just shaving 10% off the thickness of the base and using newer screen tech and meterials would still make it lighter without sacrificing rigidity and you could easily get two modern thinner (and lighter), higher capacity batteries in a base of that size and still have room for a decent cooling system. It could still have the over engineered hinge system and you could easily add any extra io to the back of the screen lid so it's positioned underneath the screen when it's in the open position, that way you would keep most of the weight in or near the base making it less top heavy.

@onlygonzo Жыл бұрын

As a Dell field engineer around the time when this was released, when I first encountered this at a client site I experienced a significant medical event.

@poseidon9948 4 ай бұрын

did these like to spontaneously combust or something? sounds interesting

@theteenageengineer 3 ай бұрын

After Linus said 17 years later I now feel old. And I’m only 19. I can’t believe windows vista is that old

@o0o00000ooo0o Жыл бұрын

A modern version of this would be wild! You could fit so much battery, crazy sound and just epic parts in a formfactor like this today to make an actaully useful computer. Maybe nobody needs anything like that today since laptops are so good anyway but still. Just imagine how awesome a modern version of this could be.

@joelconolly5574 Жыл бұрын

Ikr.

@Lord_Reset Жыл бұрын

The closest analog imo is a foldable laptop, 16 to 17 inch foldable display that folds down into a 12 inch standard laptop or completely closed.

@marcusborderlands6177 Жыл бұрын

battery life wouldnt be that good sadly. laptop makers are limited on battery size by the FAA if they want them to be able to travel on a plane

@90seller Жыл бұрын

So…. A desktop lol

@Nderak Жыл бұрын

and it would weigh sooooo much less

@KeithOlson Жыл бұрын

I was a Dell tech back in the day, and my job was to GO TO YOUR HOUSE within 24 hours (4 for some businesses) and fix whatever problem you had. Yes, that's right; a Dell tech would repair your broken laptop screen at your kitchen table while you watched. (I worked on one of those transportables and it was just as awe-inspiring as you might think, *especially* considering I fixed it when it was just a year or two old.) When you worked on one, you had a definite sense that Michael Dell stood behind his engineers with a baseball bat, making sure that they were as easy and fast to repair as possible. (...and yes, *ANYONE* could access the complete instructions on how to replace any part in any(?) Dell computer. You could even skip having a tech pop by if you wanted. You would just put the broken part back in the box the new one came in and call UPS to pick it up.)

@YS420X Жыл бұрын

Was lucky enough to have one of these and had it serviced just as you described twice! I had nothing but good things to say about Dell in that era

@pilsplease7561 Жыл бұрын

They still do that, So does Lenovo I had a laptop where the wifi stopped working, tech came and took it apart at my kitchen table, said the slot for the wireless card had died and then took the laptop sent it to the company repair facility they put a entire new motherboard in it and replaced the shell and I basically got a brand new laptop and they reset the warranty to the 5 years I had on it. Hands down the best service I ever got in my life.

@pilsplease7561 Жыл бұрын

I had a gaming laptop that was only 1 year old from dell, bought it at start of last year and it had a 4 year warranty and died and dell wont take care of it even if its under warranty cause it caught fire due to a electrical short from poor quality manufacturing.

@pdraggy Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Dell monitors were the best! I even got service on a used one.

@TheRogueX Жыл бұрын

Hahaha, do you remember your DCSE number? I think I've forgotten mine. Do remember, though, that before the Alienware acquisition that Dells were horrendous; Michael Dell and his engineers didn't come up with those ideas themselves. Dell and HP for sure will still send techs out to your house to do repair work. Worldwide Tech Services still handles it, I think.

@Qwertyarse85 Жыл бұрын

Given how good the screen is and speaker setup, i'd be interested what internals they could put inside or outright replace to make a "modern take" on it. Use the chassis (with minor modifications), bang in a new Mobo, M.2, Li-on pack etc etc so make a sleeper PC.

@bcyrx Жыл бұрын

Built in dial up modem actually makes a ton of sense on this thing if it was really meant as a portable workstation that may be used out "in the field" alongside equipment using dialup for small data transfers.

@synaesthesiification3470 Жыл бұрын

I used to work for a recycling firm that handled pallets of dell returns. I managed to build an entire m2010 including the optional extras like Blu-ray drive. In 2007! Mostly all new parts too.

@ayaankhan5687 Жыл бұрын

nice for you

@JasonStPierre Жыл бұрын

You are my hero. I too have gained favor of the dump gods for many computing gems.

@360Fov Жыл бұрын

That explains the machined aluminium.

@jsnldn Жыл бұрын

you're talking to the only nerds alive who might be marginally entertained by that story.

@rravotti Жыл бұрын

Do you have an extra lcd panel laying around? I broke mine years ago and would like to make it fully functional again.

@ZaPpaul Жыл бұрын

We had these in the company I worked for in 2006. They were awesome at the time. They were basically desktop replacements and we used them for working from home and for working in the office. Which was on a 3/2 day home/office split. They were ridiculously heavy to lug around though.

@spicyluckster9125 Жыл бұрын

I think this is actually quite a revolutionary system for its time, it implements futuristic elements and ergonomics with handy features and sleek styling.

@davidoliverhorn Жыл бұрын

i had one and i loved working with it. i love big displays and i had a second 21“ screen attached at the office. also the keyboard was great to type on. i threw mine away last year … fully functional … oops! mainly because that fake leather finish turned into that sticky plastic over the years and it was gross to touch it. it also came with a custom fit laptop bag … with wheels and a retractable handle. a truly unique piece of tec … :)

@mndlessdrwer Жыл бұрын

Please keep making these retrospective videos! This is such an insane nostalgia hit for me right now. I vividly remember looking up articles and browsing Dell's website for this laptop back when I was in high school at the time it was released. You should see if you can find a listing somewhere for some of the old Voodoo PC laptops just so you can see why HP wanted to buy them out to turn them into their gaming laptop division before ultimately scrapping the name of the brand in favor of retaining the product line name instead. The Dell Adamo from around the same era was also an amazing example of a company trying to one-up Apple at their own game. Then they made the Adamo XPS and ruined everything in their endeavor to have the thinnest laptop.

@iowatheother4986 Жыл бұрын

ANYONE: IS THERE A WEBSITE OR ANYWHERE I CAN TYPE IN MY COMPUTER TYPE, THEN IT SEARCHES FOR ALL COMPATIBLE DRIVES SOFTWARW ETC LISTING ALL BRANDS IN ONE APP???? ex: I have a realtek hardware in my computer but I want intel software for wifi. I also have AMD but I want to see if my laptop is compatible with newer versions or other brands. THANKS IN ADVANCED.

@RJRC_105 Жыл бұрын

Crossover with LGR when.

@Emira_75 Жыл бұрын

I was gonna watch this video, but Linus said I might as well just read the comments.

@mndlessdrwer Жыл бұрын

@@Emira_75 It's still an interesting video in its own right. That laptop was just insane to a degree that you rarely see in production laptops these days.

@Hopgop1 Жыл бұрын

This is the coolest video you've done in a while, what an epic laptop! More obscure tech please! Also felt the perfect length and not a rushed shoot like some videos have felt recently.

@iowatheother4986 Жыл бұрын

@xtravagententertainment Жыл бұрын

Hey! It was sold as a concept. It came fully loaded with a crazy leather rolling travel case, and the tops presentation remote with built-in display so you could pick songs from your playlist. During the day I used it for business presentations and training new hires using the loud bass speakers and presentation remote, then during the night, I tore up my livingroom night after night, doubling as a DJ computer. I had to have it serviced and the Dell tech who came to service it didn't even know what it was. The first ever computer I financed too, I'm pretty sure I ended up paying 6k but I was perfectly happy. My favorite system ever. Sure, it had problems like the keyboard, and the DVD but the pro's far outweighed the cons. This was around when electronic music exploded thanks to Skrillex. So many people thought my system was absolute cray. Speaking about compensation Linus.. in all fairness, I think you should review a video you made 13 years ago compared to a current one without giggling. Other than this simple indiscretion, still love the show. Just had to comment on this video cuz I loved that system so much. Love the show guys. Just take it easy when reviewing tech from us older people's past lol.

@officialblimp Жыл бұрын

3:11 10/10 screensaver

@JaredJanhsen Жыл бұрын

The XPS M2010 was on Tony Stark's desk in the original Iron Man film. The second Mini PCIe slot is for an optional 3G Cellular card. Back then you had to pick your carrier and Dell didn't have cards available for every US carrier at the time. The top panel cover I'm pretty sure is a die-cast alloy part and not machined. Hence the rough appearance. I never got to work on one when I was a warranty tech for Dell, but I did have to go over the service manual and take their little certification test on it.

@iowatheother4986 Жыл бұрын

@natsukage3960 Жыл бұрын

@@iowatheother4986 You can only use software/drivers from the company that made the hardware. But you can physically change the wifi module usually for something else: ex. Atheros to a Intel Wifi 6 card.

@iowatheother4986 Жыл бұрын

@@natsukage3960 but doesn't the software itself send out a signal to pick up wifi?

@qellman Жыл бұрын

It was also in 2 and a Half Men in the background!

@natsukage3960 Жыл бұрын

@@iowatheother4986 Not really. The software/drivers sends activation signal yes, and then "translates" the data sent from the hardware itself, for windows. Without the correct driver, you cannot communicate correctly with the hardware.

@smokinjoe43 Жыл бұрын

I actually had one of these when I was in college, I took it to class sometimes as a joke. It had awful heat problems, I had to get the GPU replaced 2-3 times (all under warranty thankfully) and eventually they had to replace the entire thing because the motherboard died and they didn't have any replacements available. Was definitely a conversation starter for the 3 years I had it though. I also loved seeing it in Iron Man (it's on Tony Stark's desk). Lastly, one time when I called Dell to have it repaired the tech told me the only other person he'd ever known to have one worked for NASA, so that was cool. Anyway, that's my quick story about when I used to own one of these.

@Kepler_2258 Жыл бұрын

That casing actually might have been magnesium alloy, I’ve taken apart some older laptops from that era before and it looked the same, if you look on the exposed metal you should see a “Mg” symbol, that means it’s Magnesium, some of the laptops I had actually were dead so I burned small pieces of the magnesium casing and it creates a Blinding White/Greenish White light, if anyone wants to do this, make sure you have eye protection, because burning magnesium also emits UV Rays

@SpaceraverDK Жыл бұрын

Older Thinkpads used to have a magnesium frame, that was what made them so tough.

@Kepler_2258 Жыл бұрын

@@SpaceraverDK yea, i got most of mine from those Panasonic Toughbooks From the 2006-2010 era, I actually had a decent one from the parts of all of them that I put together, Had a Radeon HD5860 1GB card with a i5 1st gen, 8gb ram and a 500gb SSD, nice little system and it would play some low Demanding games really well

@pepperypeppers2755 Жыл бұрын

Mobile consumer electronics should not be made with magnesium, that's absurdly dangerous. If you had a battery fire you'd go blind long before discovering your home ABC fire extinguisher can't put out metal fires.

@walkingthedistance 6 ай бұрын

Could well be because my old Latitude had Magnesium Alloy bottom cover and it looks the same.

@Kepler_2258 6 ай бұрын

@@walkingthedistance yea, I had some broken pieces from my laptops, if you use a torch against a piece till it glows red hot then blow on it, it’ll start a reaction and burn a Very Very Intense White/Greenish color, just don’t look at the light though, it also emits UV Rays, and don’t get burned, it does react with water when it’s in the molten state lol

@richardbrown1553 7 ай бұрын

I loved this! I purchased the DEL M2010 new back in 2007 and ordered it with every option Dell offered including the remote and suitcase! If memory serves me correctly, I paid about $7000 back then for it. I used it for two years then put it on a shelf with other relics from my past. I still have it and it still works.

@ansonx10 Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the length and pacing of this video. It doesn't feel rushed like other videos sometimes do. Too often it feels like Linus is just trying to get done with the video as quickly as possible, without taking time to actually "have fun" with whatever thing they're doing. I've always watched LTT primarily because of the "fun" aspect.

@only9letters Жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more 👐 The Blu-ray attempt would've died after the first try normally, keyboard as well 👌

@raylopez99 Жыл бұрын

I play Linux at 2x speed always so I don't mind "rushed". Sounds better too at 1.5x or higher, IMO.

@TheZerok666 Жыл бұрын

@@raylopez99 touch some grass, mate Watching stuff sped up all the time isn't healthy. Your poor attention span...

@Emira_75 Жыл бұрын

I was gonna watch this video, but Linus said I might as well just read the comments.

@raylopez99 Жыл бұрын

@@TheZerok666 Say what?

@HullarsRedDust Жыл бұрын

I would love to see a video where Alex and team attempt to make this a modern sleeper while keeping as many core unique components as possible!

@JeewakaFernandoJefferdomd Жыл бұрын

Imagine this shell with framework PC components

@lchanceiv Жыл бұрын

Yesssssssssssssssss

@srijitmondal5242 Жыл бұрын

It would destroy this fantastic machine! Just keep it as it is!

@okaminekokami4930 Жыл бұрын

None of this is old or unusual to me. Does that make me old? My first laptop was a 386

@adrianvacaliuc Жыл бұрын

I *really* would love too see what a “money is no object” upgrade is possible with this machine. In it’s day, this was the pinnacle of upgradable laptops. It would be wonderful to see what the best MXM GPU is and try to replace it. Also neat to investigate if SSDs can be put in the internal slot or just run an optane 2.5 inch SSD. The more stupid, the more fun. I believe 1080 MXM GPUs exist. It would be cool AF to try to get that to work here.

@litlclutch Жыл бұрын

I almost bought one of these back in the day... decided I didn't want something THAT heavy, but man was I disappointed when I used one that a friends dad had got through his work. In the day and running ATI Black drivers, think that is what they were called could be wrong, the thing was AMAZING to play or watch things on. Between the awesome monitor & the sweet sound. It was the monitor that got me into Glossy laptop screens. This was a great video. LOVED IT!

@revtech2917 Жыл бұрын

You should have upgraded the ram with 8GB and placed the best CPU compatible for that socket/motherboard. Those old CPU's are SUPER CHEAP and sometime a huge upgrade depending on what's already installed. You could make this into one hell of an emulator PC.

@molitararbutus8438 Жыл бұрын

This thing was an awesome beast and very few that still run. Those who had it fought hard to have one repaired and not replaced but there was no parts available for it anymore. It was built for a show piece and got such a demand it was released publicly. I know this as I worked for Dell Hardware Support and we were told the entire story of it's creation. It was never meant to be sold to the public just a demo of what could be done but demand was so high it got released.

@igameidoresearchtoo6511 Жыл бұрын

That explains the machined aluminium.

@clapanse Жыл бұрын

@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 Dell XPS machines of the time (at least the big ones) had *absurd* build quality, with very little sacrificed for cost. I had an XPS M1710 (same era as this, but their 17" gaming machine), and the entire chassis was machined out of a single piece of magnesium alloy. It was ridiculous how rigid and strong it still felt even when you had it stripped down all the way (and you could access the RAM with one screw and tear the whole thing down with 15 or 20 screws - so much easier than modern machines).

@igameidoresearchtoo6511 Жыл бұрын

@@clapanse Yeah, but their prices were unfortunate to say the least however. Plastic is both a curse and a blessing.

@clapanse Жыл бұрын

@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 Yeah, they were not cheap machines. You could definitely get a faster gaming machine for the same price at the time, but not at that build quality and with even more bulk and atrocious battery life (not that the M1710 battery life was anything to write home about anyways).

@armelpeel Жыл бұрын

they dont really use computers, they just pose next to them and take pictures. Thats why they say everything is stupid except iphones, which they cant figure out either.

@SteveFarrOrg Жыл бұрын

The 2010 was my main machine for many years. Dell offered me money to let it finally die so they wouldn't need to keep sending engineers out to fix it. The RAID 1 configured dual drives save my life twice. My fondest memory was Friday night movies when I dragged this thing into my living room. Put it on the coffee table in front of the sofa, watching movies with my gals with popcorn, with the lights turned out. Proper cozy!

@mangotree1032 Жыл бұрын

Eyyy, sounds pretty nice!

@mattbrody3565 6 ай бұрын

2006 Dells are surprisingly survivable. I got a hand-me-down Inspiron 6000, still have it, still works to this day. I even used it for college a few years ago (still in college right now, btw). It ran really slow, like type a sentence in Word, go get a cup of water, and come back and see it just start to spell out your sentence letter-by-letter slow. One time, it even took a literal hour to open PowerPoint. So I opened it up, and found out *the factory never put thermal paste on the CPU* and it was still running! The die had burn marks! Little dab of thermal paste, and it ran like new. Old game consoles from that time also lacked thermal paste, so if you're repairing them, check on that.

@blackkat101 Жыл бұрын

I have a friend who lugs around his desktop to other's house when playing games with them instead of using a laptop. Something like this seems perfect as, like you said, it's essentially a portable desktop. It would be amazing if someone made a suitcase sized desktop, handle and all just like this, but with modern hardware to make it truly into a full gaming computer. Of course, it would probably have to be a custom build...., but having all those speakers, sub-woofer too would just be the icing on the cake when you show it off.

@katsuku Жыл бұрын

This looks like it would be pretty fun to try and upgrade since it seems like so many of the parts are replaceable. I wonder what the most ballin' version of this thing would look like.

@jensenraylight8011 Жыл бұрын

i don't mind using it too, in fact if they could jam a full PC experience into it, i'll be in heaven. basically you can bring your desktop pc everywhere

@Pseudoswede Жыл бұрын

Pimp my Dellcamino

@Radek3887 Жыл бұрын

I agree. Let's see an upgrade video.

@Tiaan90 Жыл бұрын

Would be fun! Try finding a 4K BR player, swap in a modern mainboard with an i7 or i9 and beefy cooling, follow it up with twin or triple modern batteries for hugely improved batterylife.

@serversC13nc3 Жыл бұрын

hmm... maybe fitting a minisforum ryzen base mini pc motherboard in there and if there was an available screen on 20" 4k resolution if possible... maybe?

@KRiley129 Жыл бұрын

I wanted this thing so much when it first came out. If they released an updated version of this I'd probably still be interested.

@PhilKnudson Жыл бұрын

I did as well, I just couldn't justify it as a laptop for school. so i bought an open box macbook pro, then returned it and got a more normal xps dell, then had some buyers remorse with the dell, ultimately returned it and got a newer macbook pro which I used all through university. now i'm a multi-os house. some mac, some windows, some ios, some android.

@WeiFinder Жыл бұрын

Basically you're looking for a Surface Studio 2

@tdata545 Жыл бұрын

DIYPerks on YT has made a lot of these, and they're kind of nice. Love his channel.

@Arxgxmi Жыл бұрын

@@PhilKnudson dell sucks i dont blame you for the buyers remorse, i experienced using them, about 3 or 4 laptops, experienced their pre builts in all schools jve been in, had a dell prebuilt opened it recently and it sucks just as bad as they do now. lenovo does everything better and im literally not touching anything dell/alienware until they do something revolutionary for themselves.

@MeatbrickProductions Жыл бұрын

@@PhilKnudson i think we all had a similar situation in some point of our lives

@shotgunfred6708 Жыл бұрын

Great video guys! Interesting to see Dells bold innovation back then. You totally read my mind replacing thermal paste and running Crysis! I remember in 2007 running Crysis under Vista using a Asus A8N-sli Athlon X2 4200+ 8800GTS. I had to manually disable all non essential Windows tasks in taskmanager to get tollarable performance! Vista had so many! In 2008 I added a second GPU and it killed my PSU! A new 700W PSU got me back up and running with pretty good performance for the time. It improved with each driver and patch updates. Microsoft made it so you had to upgrade to Vista to be able to play it using Directx10! It'll be interesting to see how Crysis runs under XP on that laptop using Directx 9 or with an XP DirectX 10 mod. Thanks again for another great video!

@henriknoree1526 Жыл бұрын

It would be interesting to see a video about upgrading this ‘laptop’ and installing windows 10 to see what it’s capable of when it’s maxed out. Although I understood from the video that finding parts for it is a problem. I still hope you make a follow up video though.

@Driftwood420 Жыл бұрын

How did Dell go from this level of repairability to where they're at now? This is incredible

@alexzhu1 Жыл бұрын

They lost repairability to get them as thin as Macbook because that's "what consumers wanted"

@kady5991 Жыл бұрын

The repairability of their mid 2000s latitudes were insane. Two screws, replace the sata drive. Want to hot swap the drive bay to a spare battery that fits in the drive slot? No problem. want to swap the main battery to a fresh one? Two tabs and drop a fresh one. Dell used to design for repairability in the IT department realm. Then the race to the bottom happened for thin and light designs and the fact that they could cheap out on manufacturing parallel to this was another plus. Edit: and I forgot about the monitor! The display was so easy to replace - flip up the tabs just above the keyboard to get at the display connector, undo the hinge mounts through two screws on each side (back and bottom) and away it comes

@eDoc2020 Жыл бұрын

@@kady5991 The D800 had the best one: two screws on the bottom to remove the fan. Compared to other laptops where you need to take the thing half apart to clean it's a huge improvement.

@JeskidoYT Жыл бұрын

thin and light to meet the needs of common businessman in their bags and students in their backpacks.

@Almarillion Жыл бұрын

Even cpus were replacable in old notebooks.

@TheBurningSeraphim5 Жыл бұрын

That thing is AWESOME!! Could you imagine what something like that could be nowadays with modern day parts. So cool. More videos of weird tech like this PLEASE!

@iknowiminsane1949 Жыл бұрын

Watch DIY perks latest video it's sick. He did what you said

@Outland9000 Жыл бұрын

Ultimate LAN rig?

@music_kun69420 2 ай бұрын

My friend's dad gave me a old Inspiron, which I ended up upgrading and putting an i7 620m, and the old dell service manuals are really well documented and detailed

@killershark90 Жыл бұрын

I used to have a compaq laptop and the upgrade batteries for it had capacity indicators on them because, among me and my peers anyway, having multiple batteries back then was pretty common and chargers that could charge your battery external to the laptop were a thing I remember a few of us having too lol. Treating your laptop like a power tool "yeah AFK I gotta change my battery" lmao

@xmikemillsx Жыл бұрын

Would love to see a recreation of this with modern specs

@tiobetio9501 Жыл бұрын

The DIY guy who looks like Theon Greyjoy built an awesome triple screen laptop like this.

@JaenEngineering Жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l7t7o7xh1JvYfaM.html

@KayJay01 Жыл бұрын

Yeah DIY perks literally made basically this with three screens yesterday, it even has a framework laptop inside it

@tyjuji Жыл бұрын

You could probably make it with an ITX motherboard and undervolted components. Would love to see Alex attempt something like that.

@ccelik97 Жыл бұрын

AR.

@DirtCheapFU 11 ай бұрын

This device takes me back. I remember seeing these back on Ft Gordon, around June/July '07, as work stations for the command team and for the few, I want to say 84D. The guys whose sole purpose and job was operating anything A/V. Powerpoint, video broadcasting, or whatever. They weren't technically signal guys, but theyre job training was done in Fort Eustis, VA. Last time I saw them, was piles of them shoved in the back of a connex of the 63rd/67th ESB motorpool across from the new netsec building. Same motorpool where someone stole 2 lines of copper grounding lol that r an the length of... I want to say, 16 M998(shelter carriers).

@andrewroberto7352 Жыл бұрын

I have the HP version of this! It's very similar in weight and size, but no detachable keyboard or dvd player, instead it has a built in TV tuner and detachable TV remote. Would love to see LTT do a comparison between the two.

@AdderoYuu Жыл бұрын

I really want a modern version of this. Even if it's just a concept idea, I want to see it

@zodwraith5745 Жыл бұрын

I just want to see a modern laptop where they don't put the speakers on the freaking bottom. These '00s laptops had such laughably better sound.

@NormanF62 Жыл бұрын

They’d have to shrink the screen down to make it portable… oh wait its called the ultrabook!

@DoctorNemmo Жыл бұрын

Check out the MSI GT Titan line, or the Acer Predator 21X.

@Redmanticore Жыл бұрын

@@NormanF62 who cares about portable, when you can have _transportable._ the history of over 20 inch laptops.. remember ASUS ROG Mothership, the 8000euro gaming tablet? it had 4 speakers in the front because of the tablet design. and unique thermal.

@Jokl92 Жыл бұрын

Linus should mod this and put all new hardware in it!

@RemyDMarquis Жыл бұрын

I used to see this laptop at a shop at an extremely high price. I loved how stupid it was I really wanted one. I even looked for it recently but didn't find it anywhere. I had no idea what the model number was and all I knew was it was from Dell. I'm glad there is an LTT video about it ❤

@iowatheother4986 Жыл бұрын

@oris2720 Жыл бұрын

@@iowatheother4986 You don't want to use all in one driver software. It's common for them to install incorrect drivers or misconfigure them, making stuff break and also have adware packaged with it. Not sure how to help just letting you know to be careful with those sites since that's what you're looking for. Maybe you're just misunderstanding how drivers work, if you have realtek hardware, you want realtek drivers. Anything else will break...

@dennisnystrom2910 Жыл бұрын

I remember this bad boy when it was released.. one of the benefits working tech support was that we got it before the rest. raid failure and gfx memory fails due to heat issiues.. so fun ;D

@mdav9609 Жыл бұрын

My friend got one of these and it was awesome. I got to borrow for a couple of weeks just to play around with it. It was super awesome not gonna lie. The one thing I hated was over time that rubber coating on the outside was super sticky. Regardless, I like to see outrageous tech like this and really enjoyed this one.

@aliffsuhaimi1466 Жыл бұрын

16:53 Those speakers are legit. No need for Harman Kardon or B&O tuning or anything, the speakers wiped the floor clean. Even the Macbook lost.

@snjert8406 Жыл бұрын

This. Was. Amazing. Did not feel like 27 minutes at all. More stuff like this please, I adored it

@SaiyanSatsuki Жыл бұрын

Same

@124thDragoon Жыл бұрын

dude I vividly remember killing time in the highschool computer lab one day back in 2006 and coming across this thing while surfing the web. It was the coolest piece of tech I'd ever seen, or so thought my 15 year old brain at the time.

@bradbeck753 10 ай бұрын

I enjoyed your video. It’s fun to see extreme computers like that. Keep up the good work guys.

@JerzyLasica Жыл бұрын

Have you ever considered some kind of interactive museum as part of LTT? You bought some weird tech (huge curved crt monitor...), some you could get as donations (wifi graphics card, passive cooling case...), some things you built (cooling with fire, watercoolled mac...). It would be great to come and try it out. edit: you could also have row of computers with each of the windows versions for people to try out (starting with DOS). same thing for mac os. you could also have different screen technologies side by side (IPS, LED, plasma, OLED, miniLED, CRT...) playing the same video.

@calebahill7 Жыл бұрын

The side-by-side thing would be especially cool at someplace like LTX.

@hockypockies Жыл бұрын

i think a lot of the rigs they have shown are reused, but they could probably pull this off by sinking enough money if they do this and charge a fee, it could probably give more traction to the company, let sale merch increase if it's on display, and maybe just make money on its own

@i_love_games110 Жыл бұрын

they would need to sink alot in security though

@GM-hh2hf Жыл бұрын

@@hockypockies that's bad business for a museum in tech. A guided tour of the exhibits would be much more profitable with a gift store for LTT merch. A portion of the space could also be booked out for small tech startups to host events or provide education in technology to those interested in learning. This freemium model would provide working services that induce a fear of missing out on experiences during visits, sentimental value over the experience with items from the gift shop serving as a source of promotion and profits, and a place to feature new businesses LTT and others can profit from. A museum requires a model of passive consumerism to stay afloat if they are to do this at a profit and not a loss.

@hockypockies Жыл бұрын

@@GM-hh2hf ahh i see, i'm not that experienced in that sorta thing, at best my idea was more of a concept. i respect your comment though and theres plenty of ideas to take into consideration!

@Just_a_commenter Жыл бұрын

2 years of effort? Worth it for that chungus.

@aaz1992 Жыл бұрын

Amongus

@owlstead Жыл бұрын

Well, I presume this wasn't working hours ;)

@NICK.... Жыл бұрын

what in god's green hell is that profile pic

@aaz1992 Жыл бұрын

@@NICK.... *amogus*

@jeaz Жыл бұрын

Wow, this brings back to much memories. I actually owned one of these back in the days. I was working for Dell at the time, and we got lease these through a employee purchase program. Anyhow, I really loved mine, even as a gaming machine. You say it was business focus, but you have to remember that this predates the days of Alienware being Dells gaming products, and XPS was still aimed primarily at gamers. It was as close as you'd could get to a Windows iMac AIO at the time.

@websurf90 Жыл бұрын

HP made a similar product to this way back when called the HP Pavilion HDX. It was more laptop-y and less AIO-y but still had a similar display mechanism situation.

@Jehayland Жыл бұрын

As someone who’s looking for a transportable workstation solution, this actually has some appealing features. I’m currently using a laptop and various peripherals and travel monitors, but I love how large the screen is on this thing.

@Reverae Жыл бұрын

Maybe try the AR tech by the Meta headset

@Jehayland Жыл бұрын

@@Reverae I’ve been looking into AR actually. It sounds like it’ll be the perfect solution in 10 years or so, but at the moment, there are a couple hang ups. The resolution isn’t great for reading lots of text and the pass through cameras aren’t great for actually seeing the letters on the keyboard. That, plus the form factor is a little bulky to keep on your head for long periods. Those are all things that will likely improve as the technology improves though, so I’m def looking forward to what AR is like a few years down the road.

@360Fov Жыл бұрын

That explains the machined aluminium.

@Dreron Жыл бұрын

As thin as monitors are nowdays... You could get a dual monitor mounstrosity packed on that format. Something to thinker about with the Framework guys, perhaps?

@spicyluckster9125 Жыл бұрын

good luck finding one

@christopherrichardd Жыл бұрын

Linus' historical knowledge of past computer parts is so impressive to me. All Alex had to say was "x1800" and Linus was able to remember the card in only a few seconds.

@blankname8553 Жыл бұрын

You didn't? I did lol but I also am Linus' age

@christopherrichardd Жыл бұрын

@@blankname8553 No I don't really have any desire or need to remember stuff like that

@blankname8553 Жыл бұрын

@@christopherrichardd That's fair. I deal with computer hardware on a daily basis and have a lot of older equipment so it's not information archived in the back with cobwebs 🤣

@aleksbalazic Жыл бұрын

Well, it’s his job…

@Gatorade69 Жыл бұрын

I was really into building computers around that time. I definitely recalled that card. I had a X800XT. That was around the time ATI was kicking Nvidia's ass, before AMD bought them.

@badenwatson3653 11 ай бұрын

You guys should make this into a modern laptop. It's a huge undertaking but a huge project that LTTT could probably do now. Been watching since 2010. Love your stuff guys. I miss scrapyard wars.

@jameshovells4117 Жыл бұрын

I had one of these bad boys at uni back in the late 2000s. It was perfect for me doing animation as I would tilt the screen flat, put paper on it and trace scenes. I remember seeing it cameo in the iron man film too. Every now and then it would fault on start up and the error beeps were like a fire alarm. It stopped working and ended up in the bin. I miss it and the amount of muscle mass it gave me lugging it about.

@garibaldidev8946 Жыл бұрын

I appreciate you guys for returning to a much slower editing and talking pace as opposed to the videos you released in Q4 last year. It gives me a room to breathe and mind to think.

@Emira_75 Жыл бұрын

I hate the tik-tok ADHD fast paced videos they release now

@allenqueen Жыл бұрын

Yes please. However, this style may be short lived as more and more tik tok viewers convert to youtube

@tgoodwin06 Жыл бұрын

I worked in a laptop repair role for awhile back in the day and this was probably one of my favorite devices to work on because it was so easy to disassemble lol Great video guys!

@samos82 Жыл бұрын

I had a tech break one that he couldn't find the release for the panels, we both laughed pretty hard when he figured it out.

@grn1 Жыл бұрын

I would have loved to have a machine like this back when I lived with my grandma, I would stay with my mom over the weekend and live at my grandmas place during the week (grandmas place was closer to work and I didn't have a car yet). The price and specs were definitely a no-go but I can see the potential. I almost never put my laptop actually on my lap, I'd always use a table and desk of some sort so weight wasn't an issue (in fact I killed my battery because I also always had it plugged in). I basically use my laptop as a portable desktop.

@mattmunn71 Жыл бұрын

I had one when I lived in Singapore, I think one of my family still has it as a display item here in the Philippines.

@redstefan6515 Жыл бұрын

I want to see them do a modern version of this, let's see what they can fit in there nowadays, and I imagine that there are many people (like me) who want the ability to just take their main computer with them if they need to but don't want to be stuck using a laptop

@icdeadpipol Жыл бұрын

With modern components it should weight a lot less or at least hold enough battery for extended usage. Would love bringing this to a Starbucks 🤣

@julieboruta Жыл бұрын

Agree.

@drcyb3r Жыл бұрын

6:31 That was a pretty common feature in business notebooks back then. The person using the notebook would have one or more spare batteries inside his bag and to see which one is full, it had a button.

@BelleVanSchijndel Жыл бұрын

Yeah, exactly. I remember my dad had a specific compartment in his laptop bag just for spare batteries. He worked sales and flew all across the US and Canada with, yes, a Dell notebook.

@zacharybinx7402 Жыл бұрын

Okay yeah when are you doing the video on Microdrives? Those look really cool and I have oddly never seen or heard of them. WTAF thats crazy, I need to see a video on those ASAP

@ralvarezrank Жыл бұрын

that model was known to have bluetooth pairing issues. when the keyboard somehow loosed its pairing, it was a headache trying to pair it back, or even the reinstallation of windows it was a headache

@LWonderchild Жыл бұрын

Hey linus, great vid! I bought one of these as a project when I was 11 for about $200, really glad to see them getting publicity. Id absolutely love to help you with the drivers and tell you a bit more about it if you like! I also have an acer 9800, the 2nd biggest laptop ever made (also 20 inches)

@yuxuanhuang3523 Жыл бұрын

They found the pair button on the computer. And Linus just paired the keyboard to his phone. AND Linus was gaming on the keyboard at the end of the vid. But I envy you for having these cool things. Now I am starting to want to make something similar myself (probably with ITX motherboard, bare IPS panel and a huge 12V UPS)

@LWonderchild Жыл бұрын

@@yuxuanhuang3523 sorry, didnt finish the vid. Thats goof to hear. There are a few things that I could help them with, like the drivers, that Id love to talk to them about as ive owned mine for 6 years now

@LWonderchild Жыл бұрын

@@yuxuanhuang3523 also dont envy me, this thing broke so many times and was an absolute nightmare to deal with. Still love it though

@connectionsst171 Жыл бұрын

@@LWonderchild Is it upgradeable? new gpu cpu?

@magnus1liljeqvist Жыл бұрын

@@connectionsst171 there are probably space inside to also fit a framework motherboard :P

@NormCantoral Жыл бұрын

the comparisons they kept making to modern laptops was astounding. probably the most interesting part of the video, IMO. but what kept sending me back through time was how linus kept remembering how someone else's display always looked better. I remember how this felt back in the early 2000's

@Axeiaa Жыл бұрын

Definitely in part due to glossy being king when it comes to display clarity! And in 2023 I still can't find a good glossy 27" 2560x1440 display to replace my old dying one. It's infuriating.

@ChaplainDMK Жыл бұрын

Note: comparing a 2023 laptop to this thing is like comparing this thing to a i486 computer. Hell, a laptop released in 1989/1990 didn't have fucking Windows

@firewolf11567 Жыл бұрын

@@ChaplainDMK Keep in mind the comparisons were not for it to be a race. I'm actually incredibly impressed with it's performance compared to the modern laptop. My PC from 2008 wouldn't keep up with it lol

@ShEsHy Жыл бұрын

I found the comparisons annoying, to be honest. It felt like they were stating the obvious by going "ohmahgawd, look how this old piece of tech is less powerful/efficient/capable/... than modern-day tech". No shit, Sherlock, of course it got its ass handed to it by modern tech, it's over 15 years old. The video content (the laptop, the hardware, the disassembly,...) was very interesting, but the comparisons just plain sucked. And that plastic talk, god damn... How middle-class can someone be to act so shocked at old matte plastic leaking glue and getting sticky?

@jdm3gee14 Жыл бұрын

Dude. This would be perfect in my line of work. Sometimes I'm in a lab van and want a large screen but can't have clutter.

@heavyd2062 9 ай бұрын

I wish I could get my hands on that old dell for some of my own testing purposes. I love old tech like that.

@marufbepary100 Жыл бұрын

17:01 - When the benchmark more modern laptops is completely destroyed by the old sleeper.

@oliverbrason545 Жыл бұрын

I remember picking one of these up in 2009 for like £180. Looking back now I wish I still had it!! They could do a rebuild with modern components inside it :D❤

@ShockingPikachu Жыл бұрын

OLED screen, 4K blu ray drive... Ryzen 7, RTX 4090... hell yes

@konzetsu6068 Жыл бұрын

You could probably build a desktop pc with the same form factor today... Almost tempting XD

@elbaby2001 Жыл бұрын

I miss that laptop, it was a great computer. The GPU on mine kept failing and Dell stop supporting it so I could not get replacement parts for it. The funniest time with it was when I would travel on planes with it. Security did not believe it was a real laptop. I would have to turn it on for them so they could see it boot up and a lot of them freaked out, some would even call other people telling check this thing out. A couple times they would wipe the under side of it where the battery was and tested it. Guess they were looking for something. I dont remember mine being able to play blu-ray disk. That 8 speaker sound system was awesome to listen to movies at the airports.

@osilvero168 8 күн бұрын

My God, the nostalgia is kicking in. I loved this device so much back then and took it everywhere to my friends' places to play WoW when I stayed over. I feel 18 years younger right now.

@NoDroidsHere Жыл бұрын

On the topic of laptop sound, you should try and get your hands on a Toshiba X205-S9349. It was marketed as a gaming laptop with it's 17" display and Harmon/Kardon speaker system (with subwoofer!). It would be interesting to see a comparison between the two as they are around about the same era when released.

@GameTimeWhy Жыл бұрын

@@TT-zh4oq why does the number of speakers mean the new Mac book has good sound? I'd be interested to hear it but I've never been impressed by their speakers so far.

@CutsfireYT Жыл бұрын

The microphone is a HUGE upgrade from your studio's microphones! You should use it more often! Keep it up guys can't wait for the next one!

@nexigram Жыл бұрын

That Dell keyboard is super nostalgic. My Dad had an employee discount plan at his work for Dell PC’s, so all my childhood computers were from them. Seems like every one of them had a keyboard that looked just like that (and boy was it terrible).

@triXsolarflare Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha, I have one of these !!! lol, its back in my storage somewhere, I used this back in the day to travel with, I was spending 3-6 months at a time in various countries, so the idea was just getting it to my destination set it up and then it never moved for 6 months until the next contract. You guys have inspired me to pull this beast out and see if I can get it working again

@Minifig666 Жыл бұрын

That top metal panel is probably injection moulded magnesium, or possibly aluminium. This was a common choice for the frame of laptops in ~2000, where the primary concern was being stiff enough whilst also providing enough space for the huge components.

@swrzesinski Жыл бұрын

Yep it's magnesium, as in other business notebooks from this era.

@deniahmetaj Жыл бұрын

Yeah my old Dell Studio 1537 has a similar inside chassis and it’s definitely metal, but not aluminum. Magnesium should be spot on

@benmorr Жыл бұрын

Definitely magnesium. A lot more brittle (and combustible) than aluminium, but very lightweight and Dell (and Alienware) were using it at the time. I have an Alienware M15x from 2010 (though the model launched in 2009) which is a Magnesium shell and frame.

@vladsinger Жыл бұрын

You can see the "Mg" magnesium recycling mark in the video close to where the stickers are. My 2009 Dell Precision M4400 was the same. Agreed also cast rather than being machined, so not all that expensive.

@Balrog132 Жыл бұрын

That's actually a really cool design. Throw in some modern hardware and this would be a cool LAN machine as well. Just look at other custom transportable diy projects for AiO PCs. There probably is more of a market for something like this today then there was back then.

@Platinum_Squid Жыл бұрын

Exactly. The same people (me) who want to buy a thick 17” desktop replacement laptop would absolute by something like this too. I basically want an all in one that is portable (or transportable as the video said).

@nelapsi. Жыл бұрын

People keep mentioning this LAN parties, but are those even actually a thing this days? When anyone last time been on one of those?

@Balrog132 Жыл бұрын

@@nelapsi. i am going to one in 3 weeks

@deathhimself1653 Жыл бұрын

I actually really like the formfactor for my laptop use cases personally

@raptorjesus5488 Жыл бұрын

LTX is coming up in a couple months

@JasonGoldstrikerTankCommander 11 ай бұрын

I knew a guy at a flea market who would build gaming pcs in the early 2000s that had one. It was the coolest thing ive ever seen in my life then and it still is close to one of the coolest now!

@wexmell Жыл бұрын

It made me incredibly happy that you played oblivion on that thing😂 reminds me of my old lenovo ThinkPad with windows Vista (upgraded to win 7 at the time) which I used to play HUNDREDS of hours of oblivion on

@theboldfuture2341 Жыл бұрын

I remember lusting after this machine after Maximum PC reviewed it in their honest-to-goodness paperback magazine oh so many years ago. Awesome to finally see it come to life through video, guys!

@Redbikemaster Жыл бұрын

Oh man I remember Maximum PC!

@omeysalvi Жыл бұрын

18:21: "Why don't we open it up?" *A new journey is about to begin* Perfect!

@winthropdc1 Жыл бұрын

The El Camino car would be called a Ute in Australia, short for Utility. Sadly, we are seeing more of the US style Pick up Trucks now (which are too big for our roads and carparks).

@mishell128 11 ай бұрын

11:52 The two Linus images very clearly visible in the Explorer window are absolutely killing me

@themanwithsauce Жыл бұрын

Oh, you gotta do the HP HDX Dragon next. It was even bigger, and packed a beefy GPU for the time (8800GTS) but was aimed to be a combination desktop replacement and entertainment center. It also had a build in remote control, and I don't mean that dinky little card remote - it had a full on remote control indent on the body to hold it. I may or may not own 3...

@dexvision10 Жыл бұрын

I have one too! Can't bring myself to toss it.

@LWonderchild Жыл бұрын

That is amazing! Id love one to complete my collection of the 3 big early 2000s 20 inch laptops - i have an M2010 and an acer 9800. Sidenote - the HDX wasnt even bigger, the M2010 was the largest and heaviest of the 3, while the HDX was the lightest. If you are ever selling me one let me know!

@BarstucksCoffee Жыл бұрын

What would it take for you to loan one and send it over to LMG 😂

@JasonArnold23 Жыл бұрын

I finally threw away my HDX Dragon about a year ago. It was very hard to get rid of, what an amazing machine.

@arnox4554 Жыл бұрын

How do you have three of them? lol

@ttvpsychedelictrashpanda8433 Жыл бұрын

Always been a huge fan but you guys gained even more of my respect when y'all replaced my buddies screw driver after he lost it in a house fire. That's some true customer care and values from you guys💯

@TheRealAdam23 Жыл бұрын

For $70 it better include some insurance! Jk but that is very nice of them 💯

@randomrazr Жыл бұрын

why did that do it

@Strohann501 Жыл бұрын

22:12 why is it that we nerds still know our devices we had back then, even 17 years later :D

@aslanbek.kamarov 5 ай бұрын

I have an ATI X1950 in my drawer. A few years ago I installed it on a Windows 10 PC and played HF2 from start to finish. It was not the smoothest experience in my life, but it worked.

@AllThingsBambu Жыл бұрын

I own and love this laptop and bought it brand new. I also bought it with the case and the windows media server RF remote control. When this came out you could get it with the windows media center edition version. This wasn't a laptop, it was definitely a portable desktop and the custom-made case the Dell produced was awesome for travel but no doubt, the whole thing wait a ton. The whole idea was that you could conduct business as well as sit in the hotel and have the screen on the far side of the room and the RF remote that ran the media center or the keyboard right next to you. It also shipped with the video capture device and other dongle based hardware. Everything had a place and pouch to store it and use when needed. I still consider it my favorite laptop I've ever owned I pull it out every now and then to run updates. My only complaint was having to replace the video card a few times which would be amazing to find one that doesn't fry.

@SqueakyNeb Жыл бұрын

Super cool to hear from OG owners of these sorts of unusual devices. It certainly seems like the sort of device that would be perfect for someone with just the right mix of unusual needs.

@austang8556 Жыл бұрын

This is by far the best video you guys have done on your main channel in a while imo. Something about when you guys review old tech brings me back to the old days!

@zilog1 Жыл бұрын

My dad had the newer HP pavilion HDX. Still has it. Told him to hold onto it.

@faasteercz9184 Жыл бұрын

I just love these old school videos. 👍 So many memories. 🤣

@mrburnz884 Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this on Dell's website back in the day when I was ordering my Inspiron 1525. I still think it looks cool lol. You guys should retro fit it with a Framework motherboard etc.

@MikolajMNK19 Жыл бұрын

These things are rare so retrofitting a fully working one is a bad idea. It would be cool if they find one that's internally damaged and retrofit that

@309electronics5 Жыл бұрын

well these are sooo rare everybody can copy the design but not the hardware better try on a beyond repair one

@Pseudoswede Жыл бұрын

Gotta cram a 4090 in it

@Happyfaceshock Жыл бұрын

I actually got to use one when I was about 10 years old! I went to a small film club mostly aimed at kids, and one day I go and they bring this bad boi out. I have to say I was EXTREMELY impressed haha to me it was the coolest thing ever, briefcase laptop

@ssnjr1299 Жыл бұрын

Watch the new diy perks video