LIKE IF YOUR'RE WATCHING BUDGET OFFICAIL BIULDS ON 2019!!!!!!

Fun fact, the Intel n450 doesn't support speculative execution, thus isn't vulnerable to Spectre...

“Let’s see how it hold up in 2019” > 1GB DDR2

He's back! I believe I had an Acer netbook with that CPU. It was actually reasonably useful with using Office and browsing the Internet. But I must have gotten frustrated with it, because I bought a proper laptop shortly after :)

My dad still uses one of these and blames the fact that pages take 5 mins to load on our WiFi...still it's cool you can run windows on such a low voltage

The fact that you included a Linux option earns you a thumbs up

N450 eh.. I played an old version of ePSXe with dx3D 6 petes plugin.. I love it. The only problem with the N450 is that... you'll have trouble running anything past 2002.

”Epic streaming pc for free” Would be nice clickbait hamish

Really like that The Sims music in the background tho

Came for the curiosity of the video, stay for The Sims background music.

nooo not the n450 *vietnam flashback*

My mom bought one of these netbooks in early 2010 with a similar atom. I remember it being a decent little thing. It was powerful enough to play RuneScape with my brother even at 4 or 5 years old.

Now the real test: will an actual potato perform better?

I got my first computer when I was 2, a Dell Inspiron Mini laptop with an Intel Atom. It still runs to this day on Ubuntu instead of Windows XP.

finally a new video, got back to rewatching some of your content lately, loving it man, keep up the great work! the Atoms were always really interesting to me because of the extremely low TDP, like some newer ones (x7-z8750), with 4cores and 4 threads, has a TDP of 2W. and it actually ran stuff better than I thought it would. and fuck, your voice is sexy, i missed it. BTW I'm Kakoka, this is my second channel. Also my main rig with the HD4670 died 2 days ago, PSU blew up(I put in a x3470 to replace the i3-550, which has a TDP of 95W compared to 71W, it lasted for 3 weeks but the poor 250W PSU couldn't handle it), I'm gonna test the system with some other PSU someday

I think we had that Atom in a Packard bell back in the day and damn was it slow. I have such bad memories with it since we had to survive with it for over a year due to how our family desktop died and we had to wait until we could get a new one..

Wowww this takes me back I remember being stuck with an Atom N270 based netbook for a couple of years, I'm pretty sure that any of todays budget machines are an absolute dream compared to what I was stuck with back in 2009. It's always fun to see how much you can do when stuck with an insanely slow CPU though and watching this definitely gave me some flashbacks. :P

I wanted to make a joke about Crysis but I was worried you won`t see it on that netbook. It won`t load 2:35 :D

This channel is just amazing. Every video is very interesting and has a unique touch to it

I use MSI U90 on antix/xubuntu nowadays as main driver. It has 2GB of ram, and N270 overclocked to 2GHz. Also I used GMABooster to take the GPU to 400MHz. It can run 720p videos in SMPlayer with ease, as well as in Kodi whilst streaming. With CoreAVC plugin on Win7, it uses about 60% of CPU to run 1080p videos. Also, Quake III works quite well. I simply cannot bring myself to buy new PC as long as I don't get to do serious programming in Uni, since CodeBlocks and a bit of Eclipse for java works just fine on this one...

This gave me unbearable flashbacks and muscle contractions Nah but fr great job man, glad to see your back, and with ads this time

Use mini pci-e adapter for the laptop and add your AMD Fury That would be pretty coool

As it is my first laptop in my entire life, I hold it dear to me because up until now, I still have it beside me. I remember when I was still 14 years old that I create/edit youtube videos in it so I could try the feeling of being a KZfaq content creator. But, of course. The specs isn't enough. I remembered the old days when I read throughout every system requirements just to be able to fully run a game without any hiccups. The old days. Those were golden memories... Also, try using Osu! as a benchmark for low spec pc cause the game can run on a potato and the game is also fun to play!

I transformed one of those things into a non-stop running HTPC for my parent's fitness room. It plays an infinite loop of downloaded Ramones clips into the TV from a thumb drive. Father is a great singer.

Great little chip. Everything's going towards the phone processors now. I mean, look how far they've come in such a small amount of time. You can have a quad core ARM chip which does the same as an Atom, and uses even less power, and is even smaller. Bonkers. Love the sims music in the background. Gorgeous 👍😊

Glad to see you're back, top quality video as always, keep em coming.

I recently found my old Toshiba NB200, uses the N280 Atom. I put a 2Gb stick of ram, and a 120Gb SSD in it and it runs Linux Mint XFCE fairly well. It's proving to be a very usable device.

Glad to see the official budget builder is back! When you mentioned how to get it for free, I chuckled since about 2 months back, I picked a Dell netbook with an Atom N455 out of the recycling. Could barely get it to run Lubuntu let alone game. Also, browsing was exactly as bad as you suggested (240p was only way to get good enough frames to watch).

glad you started testing lightweight linux distros for older hardware. I have an old atom based HP mini and I love it to bits for a "dumb terminal" (linux without graphics server and only text based stuff for remote management, chat, etc. With such small power draw and a beefy extended battery I can easily get 8 hours of screen on time!

Aah yes, I remember this well. Nice video. This reminds me very much of the Acer Aspire One ZG5 that you tested previously (N270/GMA950) as well as the HP Mini 110 that I recently sold online for a friend (again, N270/GMA950). And performance was basically not much different. I still reckon that GTA Vice City would have been better on a Playstation 2 console. I also reckon CS1.6 would have been better than CS Source as the former would at least be playable, instead of looking like a PowerPoint. This also confirms that Windows 7 (whatever version it was) was the wrong OS to use on the ZG5 and that Windows XP was the best Windows OS to use on low end hardware like this. And regarding security, well, Windows 7 (any version) has less than 1 year of support left, so it will soon be in the same boat as Windows XP. Maybe Lubuntu Linux was the best OS for casual stuff like web browsing (what these things were designed for), Windows 7 Starter was the best for anything "modern" and Windows XP was the best overall choice, including gaming (not that this thing will game anyway, as from the benchmarks you demonstrated on both netbook reviews). I struggled to get even 360p KZfaq (without h264ify) so congrats on getting that working! Overall? Don't get one of these. A modern Atom might be ok, but my phone likely has more power than any Atom based system, as well as a higher resolution screen and a better battery life and usability.

puppy linux runs really well on these pcs get the modded drivers for the gma 3150 and games will run better on windows

I had a Toshiba NB 200 for almost 10 years - little thing literally travelled around the world with me and been to about 10 countries. During that time, it went down from an 8hr battery life to a 5hr one, and only needed a display ribbon cable replaced, and a keyboard (which was my fault - smashie smashie). One of the first things I did to it was upgrade the RAM to 2GB, which helped a lot, and then I put a 250 gb disk up from a 120 or something. This thing was a tank - it took everything I threw at it, was highly portable, and very durable. It's currently in Cuba, as I traded it away for a private day-package tour instead of paying 160 CUC (which is about what I paid for the netbook in 2006) to a teacher moonlighting as a tour guide with a cab. He loved it. I also gave him a bunch of DDR RAM, an extra 2.5 inch hard disk and some USB keys. AFAIK it's still down there, being lovingly used with Ubuntu Mint, and will likely still be used for some time. It's good to see it continues to be used for teaching :D

Love these videos man, keep it up. Excited for future stuff!

What's scary is that this is a big step up over the Atom N270 in the first-gen Lenovo S10 I owned. That thing's super-low 1024x600 screen resolution meant that some games wouldn't even install. It was slooooooooooow. They were a noble idea, but netbooks weren't anything but painful until the Asus X205 and HP Stream 11 came along. I would use Steam's in-home streaming to play Metro 2033 at maxed out settings on my X205, which was kind of surreal.

2:57 **looks at the another monitor** LV. 600 BOSS

This is literally the first thing you’ve posted this year, it been 4 months well done for actually coming back I thought you left KZfaq.

Loved that you used Build 1 from the Sims as the background music.

you help me learn more about computers thanks!

Notice how different result in running games on Linux NATIVELY and in Wine - this is exact reason why linux community demands for actual port and native build and not another "lets wrap stuff in wine" answers. KZfaq on Linux with Firefox? Say WHAT? You should use Smplayer with MPV, i guess it would allow higher resolution and maybe even hardware acceleration if there any. Also, about setup linux on Atom, well, you missed most fun it has before. At ti,e when netbooks was fresh, its was hardly possible to run stock kernel on such machines. For example i had one of eeePC with Atom and i had to use special kernel made by fans to get stuff (bluetooth, Wifi) actually working. Needless to say, years after that, when i tried to revive device with just Lubuntu everything worked fine from the box, since needed drivers and patches found their way in stock distro kernel.

Man, I'm glad you are back. It was boring without you. I watched all of your old videos all over again. Can you make a video about a Duron processors? :)

I miss my little netbook. I used to play early Minecraft on it while deployed, and its battery lasted longer than everyone else’s laptop, and it came with a camera for Skype. It eventually died when I spilled a drink on it.

Wow who is this Budget builds, his videos are awesome.

These little computers were great for learning programming languages, since almost all computer languages in 2010 would run on this, paired with a lightweight text editor, you had a decent python/php/java/c++ machine.

... I didn’t look at what channel had uploaded it as this popped up in my recommendations. Just the title, not thumbnail or anything else either... I thought it was going to be a weird thing about physics... Now I wish there was a video about old atoms dying out and some sort of new magic atoms taking over... But this was fun to watch too

That's The Sims 1 music in the background... now? :O The memories rush in. Haven't played it in like 10 years but that music is burnt into my mind.

Intel Atom: I'm a bad potato processor Intel Celeron: *mashed potatoes sounds*

And I thought my Celeron was slow...

Glad your back :) hope you had a lovely break.

The Atoms were delightful. My Dell Mini 10v had the older N270 with GMA950 graphics, and while that too was drastically underpowered, it ran Mac OS X Snow Leopard beautifully (that's mostly why I bought it). I even tried to edit some 720p video in iMovie on there, and despite the chip almost giving me third degree burns on my lap, it did work! Nowadays though even with a lightweight Linux distro it's really really showing it's age.

I have this processor, upgraded to 2gb of ram and tried an underclocked RX 460 (Power brick limitations). It actually did great in Left For Dead 2, something like 40-90fps.

Some of them like the hp mini 110 had a optional crystal decoder for video, but i never found one specimen of this rare bizarre thing

I have three netbooks, one of them was a halftop with N280, other one was HP with N455 and a good o' Lenovo that used to be my relatives' machine with N470. The Lenovo one was a sentimental value to me and had a very long story about it.

I still have my old Dell Inspiron 1010. I used it all throughout high school because it was super portable. Now, it sits as a Volumio machine on my home stereo because that's pretty much all it can handle in modern world applications.

They are certain not worth it! lol I have an Atom laptop I've been thinking of playing with eventually.

I thought you died. Edit: Great video as always Budget.

Oooh!! I missed your smooth voice!! My brother got the same netbook and I remember how he got really mad when he played KZfaq.

I have a Lenovo S10 with such cpu but upgraded to 2GB since early days. In 2016 it has been upgraded to Win7 with SSD. It serves well as a Citrix client, for RDP and running putty. In its early life, it was even running a VMware player with a work image so that I can use corporate domain and vpn software on a personal machine. As a infrastructure person, it has been brought overseas for 2 critically important business trip in 2017 and 2018. It can still run chrome reasonally well and can help me to book flights and hotel, doing online check-ins ...etc. Setting up switches and firewalls using putty, brought up servers from ilo, rdp into them and setup clusters and brought up VMs for a site. The good thing is that it has a proper Lan port. I think this piece of hardware had really over archieved. Of course, browsing google map is now slow and youtube can only barely play at viewable framerates at 360p. But if any vendor can bring a machine with modern processing power with the same form factor, i think I will buy another one and have it serving for another 10 years.

I'd prefer an AMD APU for a netbook.

Damn, much slower than my Atom Z3745D. lmfao.

I had a similar model with the same cpu all those years ago, it was good for reading pdfs, note pad, word pad and basic light surfing whilst listening to mp3 music with win amp, at the time it has handy whilst travelling around whilst I was doing my PhD. It was easy to carry and had some uses.it came bundled free with the use 3g dongles.

This was interesting. Can't wait for the next one!

Watching on my tablet that has a Z3580 quad core 2.33ghz atom

Now im interested i seeing one of those dual core atom n330 netbooks with a nvidia ion chipset like the asus eeepc 1201n and see how far you can push that.

Wow. I want one of these to run DOS on it. Sweet, sweet raw performance

These are actually perfect little machines for things like diagnostics in cars or machinery. I even use one to run my cnc router. They're also pretty sturdy which makes them even more suited for workplace tasks.

I have an Acer Aspire One D270 with an Intel atom n2600, I'm running Windows 10 32 bit with 2 gb of RAM, and it still struggles to keep up

Nice one, try install gentoo on the atom! ~Roger

Glad to see you back after a short while :)

Hey gotta say u make the best vids, my favourite is the 775 build vid

maybe he'll be able to run minesweeper on windows xp? edit: 1gb ddr2🤣 I thought my 4gb ddr3 was bad

What a coincidence, I was looking for similar typewriter-tier device a few weeks ago, and for the same price it was either this model or Aspire One 522 with AMD C-60. With whopping 1MB of l2 cache and 2 (overclockable!) cores it's pretty snappy and it even supports 4gig DDR3 sticks. God, I miss the times when such small devices had removable storage and RAM, that SSD did wonders to it. Pretty handy daily driver, and integrated HD6290 even handles Portal on minimals. I hope you'll get a chance to review one from the red side, they are pretty interesting.

I had a high end Atom laptop made around the same date as those. I couldn't have been happier with its performance. It ran contemporary games fine. Low graphics but still max resolution and decent framerate, certainly more than playable. Windows 7 Home, 4GB of RAM, and frankly it was more powerful (minus the GPU) than my old Core2Duo gaming laptop just a few years earlier. The complete low end netbooks of the day might have performed about as well as you could expect, but for a high end Atom computer I was delighted, 11 inches, 10 hours of battery, and able to run all of the hobby-like games perfectly, able to play youtube videos without issue. It all but replaced my gaming laptop, with the vast majority of my time split between my Atom laptop and my desktop.

Love these super low end videos. Just wish you could expand your library of test games.

I got an Asus EEE PC 1001PX a few years ago second hand, which has this little N450 in, and it's definitely no gaming machine, but it definitely has its uses still. I upgrade to 2gb of RAM and added a small SSD in it and that gave it a little more speed for what I need, running Windows 7 64bit. Things like popping out to fix a router setup, doing work in Word, basic internet stuff, and when I spent 3 weeks in hospital it was there with me youtubing no problem. It's small, light, doesn't overheat, runs well for what it's for... I have other beefier machines, but for something to just slip in my handbag even and just take to do something, it's great, especially as my main form of transport is a motorbike. I need to get a new battery for it, and I will get one because I do get my use out of it

My life's shit but at least I don't have one of these notebooks as a daily driver. Thanks for uploading, hope to see more.

Excellent video! See you in 2 months!

Now we have the N100, which is the spiritual successor to the Atoms, it's based on Alder Lake, has 4 E cores, and Quick Sync video decoding, all for 6W

Was starting to worry about you. Great video, sir. As always.

I've got mine that has N570 on it! It was a 1015PX model from ASUS n forever I am grateful cause that laptop has teached me to be VERY PATIENT. Going strong 7 years till now =)

I was wondering what happened to you but I didn't see this video in my sub box for some odd reason. I'm a week late but still, good to see you back

Ayy great to see back!! :D

A few years back, I picked up for £40, what I regard as, one of the very last old skool netbooks - the Packard Bell EasyNote ME69BMP form 2014. These were basically the cheapest laptops on sale in PC World up until the likes of those HP Stream laptops (and its various rivals) came about with their stupidly small 32GB eMMC hard drives. There was a sense when using this netbook that they had finally become decent with usable performance compared with the early netbooks of the N200/N400 series Atoms, and even N2600/2800 Atom era. This had one of the very early Baytrail Celerons, specifically the N2805, with 2 GB RAM, Windows 8 and a 320GB hard drive. It also had a touchscreen which worked fairly well. And overall it was a perfectly decent machine with decent battery life (for the time) and was properly usable. KZfaq playback at 720p was also no issue, and so was 1080p (provided it wasn't a 1080p 60 video). With an upgrade to 4GB RAM (its maximum) and an SSD, it even ran Windows 10 smoothly.

I used to take my netbook to transfer music to people's phone at work. Worked great for that!

I still use a N450 netbook as my daily carry. The LCD ribbon cable is pretty trashed and the left mouse button died forever ago! But it still works really quite nicely for what I need it to do (light coding, light web browsing, network admin, 3D printer maintainance (not slicing or design) & etc). Would I change it if I could afford to? Yes, almost immediately. But I still quite like it. My main irritation is how buttons disappear off the bottom of the screen due to the shocking vertical resolution, but I used xrandr to give me more pixels!!! Hasee branded machine, unknown model (wore off) N450 2GB RAM 320GB HDD with LUKS full disc encryption (would like to swap out for SSD) Debian 9.5 (LXDE)

As a N450 owner i recommend running Linux Mint XFCE or Bunsenlabs Linux Helium if you want something a bit more snappy. In both cases try to get a 2GB ram stick and install ZRAM and activate it as a swap space.

The first time I saw a net book o believe the eeepc I was BLOWN AWAY. I never had a laptop and the fact that you could have a tiny laptop for 150 was insane to me

So glad you're back man

okay it's wild you're playing Sims build mode music WHILE i'm playing Sims 1

I had Asus EEE PC 1005pe netbook in 2010 and I really loved it, it had Atom N450. Upgraded it with 2gb of ram and played World of Warcraft with ~25fps, as long as I stayed out of the larger cities. Battle for Wesnoth, C&C Renegade, Battlefield 1942, Starcraft etc. old games. Battery life was amazing, 12 hours with the screen on. I was conscripted to finnish military and I could put torrents on for the night or fall asleep with the laptop on bed. Typing was great and the machine fit on my pocket.

I worked on a bunch of these things (Acer Aspire laptops) along with AMD C-50 laptops around Oct 2018, having to make them usable for our school board's math department. Not a pleasant experience but I was somewhat surprised. For anyone still needing a Atom N450 or AMD C-50 to do anything should consider Tiny7.

i loved my netbook. it was _incredibly_ slow, but it always got there eventually.

I took that exact netbook with me, when I was deployed to Afghanistan, in 200/11. It waa great for email and video chatting on Skype. I played movies and music on it too, while I typed emails, documents and downloaded stuff. It wasnt half bad atmultitasking, considering its limitations. It also held up amazingly to the harsh environment. I loved it, for what it was.

Funny I stumbled on your video the day after I gave a new lease of life to my EeePC 900a (atom N270, even less powerful than yours) by installing the linux antiX distribution on it. For all you said here which is right on the money, let me point out that if you're not a gamer, the wimpy eeepc 900a runs libreoffice without breaking a sweat. In ten years I used it countless of times to correct on the fly some jobs I was paid to do. In the train, in cars, in planes, on vacations, anywhere. Each time I've charged my client more than the price I bought this machine new back in 2008 ; so in 10 years, this machine probably paid for itself a couple dozen times. Not bad. Today it's semi-retired, but I have a 7yo son that's not yet ready for AAA action, and Ltris, xgalaga and a couple of other 2d or puzzle games will keep him occupied while this machine itself is ideally rugged to handle his temper, but light enough he can haul it everywhere like a handheld game console. So depending on your needs, such a computer can be in fact an ideal budget solution for some use cases.

At 2015, I was looking for a cheap netbook, just for my university studies (I could not afford anything over $100 at that time), for just as running linux for programing, have something for taking notes in classes, and watch mkv videos at spare time. There was a huge variety of used netbooks with intel atom n450, but slightly over $100 (yeah, in Hungary, used electronics prices are kind a ridiculous), but then I saw an Asus Eeepc 1015BX, with AMD Apu. The main reason I bought that (around for $85, in perfect condition, slightly used) was, that it had a hdmi output. And as I read after, for a reason. 1080p mkv was played outputed just as from any new video card. That AMD mobil apu was a muscle pc compared to anything with the n450. Also it did run win7 and win10 smoothly. Hmmm, good old days...

Finally bro you’ve started to post again! We’re glad you’re back at the vids😀

I've got two old netbooks running MicrowattOS. Upgrading with SSD and a second GB of RAM totally changed the game with them. And the best part is you can get them for around $40 a piece on ebay, so you can afford to tinker and modify.

I have a ThinkPad x120e with an AMD E240 that I still use for class today. It takes a minute to load Google but as long as I stayed in the terminal, it is very responsive and I cannot be happier to have that quality of a keyboard. For $30 and the processing power of a raspberry pi, it has a display, keyboard and track point with battery.

Good to see a new video from you! Will you do celerons / other family next? I would love to see a Celeron N4000 review against a 2º gen i3 to see the improvements over the years.

I used a PC very similar to yours as a file server with a Linux install. Worked well.

Budget Builds: "Kept ya waiting, huh?" *uploads new video*