I just want to say thank you to the person that sent this in so that those of us that watch LGR could all enjoy.

@TheOnlyDamien

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah for real! It was an incredibly kind thing to do given the urge I would have had to experience that opening myself but instead they sent it in so LGR could enjoy it and so we all could as well! Thanks Matt!

@polymatt

3 жыл бұрын

Once I decided that I wanted to ejoy it rather than store it, it was a no brainer to ask Clint to unbox it. And yes... still a dificult decision, but let's be honest... the man knows how to unbox...

@sakadabara

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, @@polymatt ! You really made all of us happy !

@NortheastRacing

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, thanks to Matt!!!!

@arlandi

3 жыл бұрын

@@polymatt That is a very good decision. We need more people like you in the world!

I love how he's treating the laptop and everything with it with incredible respect, like a museum curator. His enthusiasm is obvious and really endearing.

@DaveHulick

3 жыл бұрын

I always appreciate how much respect LGR has for old tech. He's not quick to criticize retrospectively bad design, but instead, tries to look at it with the optimism that someone from the time-period might have had.

@ShadeSlayer1911

3 жыл бұрын

He's the Forgotten Weapons of electronics. Forgotten Thinkpads.

@squirlmy

3 жыл бұрын

And yet... editing. Adrianne Basement; I love him, but when he gives 15 minutes to candy sampling, that should just be a second channel. Entertaining in its own right, but not what I clicked for! 😖

@Featherogue

2 жыл бұрын

This is actually incredibly accurate. Now I want Ian and Clint to do a crossover lol

@ShadeSlayer1911

2 жыл бұрын

@@Featherogue It'll be the most ambitious crossover of the decade.

That guy kept this sealed on his shelf for 24 years and decided to send it to a youtuber to unbox. Bruh, what a legend!

@uiopuiop3472

2 жыл бұрын

yeaaaaaa! hua huah

@potterj09

2 жыл бұрын

Funny if it was Ted Kaczynski

@erroristmusic

Жыл бұрын

@@VioFax im not rich enough to buy stuff that im not gonna use 🤠

@halvardlund4782

Жыл бұрын

1,3 million views instead of just 1 unpacking. Thanks to the owner!

@fabiancillox1

Жыл бұрын

and please notice the typewitter like note thats with it

New old stock is definitely my fetish Something about seeing old products completely fresh and untouched is just magical

@nthgth

2 жыл бұрын

Consider yourself lucky - my equivalent would be like an indoor-preserved, never-registered '97 Toyota Avalon or Honda Accord. A bit harder to come by haha.

@tigervv6437

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I work at a Mercedes-Benz oldtimer specialist and search for New Old Stock parts. Finding crates full of untouched sealed boxes from several decades ago and getting to open them and see what rare part is inside, feels like christmas every single time.

@fuher1313

11 ай бұрын

virginity

@youMatterItDoesGetBetter

7 ай бұрын

Magic cards!

@bertikkazilek4886

5 ай бұрын

Oh a guy with the quake logo

I think Clint can easily identify computers, what brand of computer, the year they were made simply by smelling the computers themselves. A true computer Connoisseur.

@CaveyMoth

3 жыл бұрын

More like a Compu-smeller.

@vaderman212

3 жыл бұрын

A computer sommelier, if you will

@markg890

3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha, unsealing the plastic and wafting it like a fine wine.

@maighstir3003

3 жыл бұрын

With just a slight bit of training, he should be able to tell which factory it was made in. See XKCD 2458.

@KentishZombie

3 жыл бұрын

ahah agree

Hey clint, I just want to give a quick shoutout for your subtitles. They are entertaining, yes, but they also make it possible for hearing impaired people to enjoy your fantastic videos. I don‘t think you get enough credit for it!

@LGR

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, it's my pleasure to provide them!

@ahandsomefridge

3 жыл бұрын

Welp. Time to rewatch 11 years of content, this time **with** subs on

@gen_angry

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, thank you a ton for them. :) Just hopefully youtube finishes the big unboxing one you did recently soon. I went back and watched a huge part of your past videos with them on :D

@elimorozov4769

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!! I am partially deaf and still improving my English, and I love to be able to watch these videos with subs to follow along easier!

@starfakename9293

2 жыл бұрын

yessss you have some of the best captions of any channel!! i watch a lot of things with the captions on because i have auditory processing trouble (and a toddler so most of my Video Time is when he's asleep lmaooo), and youre incredibly good at translating your verbal tone into the written word!

Man I could only dream of having a beast like this back in '97, capable of playing doom on a portable device. Now that I have a tablet that can easily do it, I just use it to watch videos of people playing Doom on '97 hardware...

@sebastianslapek

2 жыл бұрын

Watching this on surface actually :D

@ondrejsedlak4935

2 жыл бұрын

@@sebastianslapek That thing could play 200 instances of doom, and still have enough RAM to open 3 tabs in Chrome. Or 400 Dooms and 2 tabs in Chrome.

@sebastianslapek

2 жыл бұрын

@@ondrejsedlak4935 haha, thats sad but true

@carinajuliet3148

2 жыл бұрын

@@ondrejsedlak4935 Imagine playing original fallouts on it

@catiloh6086

2 жыл бұрын

@@carinajuliet3148 Imagine going back in time and showing the og doom developers doom (2017) on the switch they’d give up on life on the spot 😂

It´s crazy to think that the last time this box was opened was back in 1997 before it got sealed just to be opened in 2021 ! The box literally traveled in time !

Laptop: *wakes from long slumber and realizes its 2021, that all of it's factory brethren are probably long gone by now*

@mohanrambassit3039

3 жыл бұрын

*insert sad Windows 95 noises here*

@millie9814

3 жыл бұрын

Sleeping Compeauty

@SlavicCelery

3 жыл бұрын

Dude is booting up the T-1000 in the era they should be dominating.

@squirlmy

3 жыл бұрын

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! Highlander: the Laptop Chronicles

@seble

3 жыл бұрын

dem poor brethren

The way Clint talks about the box before he even opens it is relationship goals

@FlickTheBrick

3 жыл бұрын

Weirdly accurate.

@kellypatrick5667

3 жыл бұрын

The way he opens the box so gently is relationship goals lolol

@ryanunderwood1798

3 жыл бұрын

@@kellypatrick5667 the way he sniffs those fresh ports is relationship goals

@FlickTheBrick

3 жыл бұрын

@@ryanunderwood1798 It sounds weird when you put it like that, but I totally do the same thing whenever I unbox new old stock hardware...

@frankderossi795

3 жыл бұрын

I never understood the concept of a guy having a woman's picture as his profile.

Dude. I was working at Geek Squad about eight years ago and a guy brought one of these in asking if we could fix it. Got to say that was one of the best days on the job. Amazingly, it still worked for the most part. He had been using this thing since it was new. I would love to find a non-functioning one of these just for the case though. Switch out the screen and put new parts in it. Make a gaming machine out of it and stun people when I take it out on a long train ride. XD

@Zer0Skateboard

10 ай бұрын

I think people really undersell just how resillient these devices are.

@CRACKBONE7317

8 ай бұрын

At least he got his money's worth.

Having been a PC gamer since the late 80's and an IT pro since 1997, this was very cool to see. Love it. Takes me back to a simpler time where everything was more exciting and magical in the IT world. So many types of OEMs to choose from, so many IT super stores to go to and the unbelievable exuberance of the emerging "information age." I rolled many of these (and many other) laptops out back in the day. Bravo a time capsule indeed. :)

The black rubber gloves, red cloth and subdued blue lighting give this a whole early 90s Adult Film vibe 😆

@jbizzle8491

3 жыл бұрын

The real question is, which scene to which you are referring.....🤔🤣...asking for a friend

@The8bitbeard

3 жыл бұрын

Plus the smooth jazz and Clint saying things like "Mmmm. Ooh. That's tight."

@Thaleios

3 жыл бұрын

I feel almost feel bad for the owner. It's like watching some sweaty palmed dude having his way with your new gf, while you look on with *mixed* emotions. :-)

@jonathankleinow2073

3 жыл бұрын

"Tonight, on the Red TrackPoint Diaries..."

@sarahblikre5674

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta have that mood lighting before you insert your battery

"An acrid, rubbery, pepper note that hits the back of your throat, hinting at what pleasure it could have been had it not suffered the deterioration....A 97 I think...." - Clint, sampling the rare IBM Thinkpad 380ED.

@DougGlendower

3 жыл бұрын

LGR, Computer Sommelier Edition.

@BradGryphonn

3 жыл бұрын

John Macnaughton, it seems it had been uncorked at some point in time.

@brucewrigleysgumchewz4667

3 жыл бұрын

Even I remember that smell. It's weird how I can still remember it. The plastics they use in todays electronics don't have the same smells. Obviously different plastics. I think some of the plastics of today seem more cheaply made. More fragile. Break more easily like potato chips..hah

@jemert96

2 жыл бұрын

"An excellent year."

What's interesting about this video is it shows how insanely fast tech was changing at the time. The 90s was the era that consumer dollars hit the computer realm, and you can see that in what just two years did to the performance. It wouldn't be until about 2004 or so that the sheer variety of tech began to standardize. And even then, not until about 2010 before the rate of improvement finally slowed down.

In 1997, playing realistic video on a PC was still fairly new and would have seemed really cool to a lot of new users when starting this thing up.

@rommix0

Жыл бұрын

Especially since that demo is in MPEG-1 format.

@redadamearth

Жыл бұрын

Oh, totally. At the time, playing video alone was almost impossible and took forever, with insanely low resolution. Even up to 1999, it was like that. You just didn't even bother, as it was so bad and took so long. This particular type of laptop was only for rich people, really, I didn't know a single person who had anything like this.

This was way more sensual than I expected

@t0ad

3 жыл бұрын

The sniffffffff

@JTManuel

3 жыл бұрын

😆

@ColynBowman

3 жыл бұрын

First day?

@SCU3A_S7EVE

3 жыл бұрын

Think of how many relationships have been consummated with canyon.mid playing in the background.

@DJl3iohazord

3 жыл бұрын

A classy office computer like that? You have to be sensual, you have to take her to a nice restaurant, get some top self wine, go to an opera, have some candles lit, some mood lights. You have to make it a moment too remember.

1:56 Subtitles: "Version 1.666. [chuckles in evil]" Brilliant.

@Thinker77

3 жыл бұрын

Even comes with Bonus Doom software!

@Norweeg

3 жыл бұрын

This channel and Technology Connections are always a must to watch with subtitles on. 😆

@DeaconTaylor

3 жыл бұрын

@@Norweeg i only noticed alec put commentary in his subs recently. funny stuff.

@dans6127

3 жыл бұрын

5:50 "Hoo-hoo! [laughs in new old stock]" that one got me 🤣

@adam1984pl

3 жыл бұрын

There should be pentagram on disk.

Just in the first 6 minutes, I appreciate your attention to the donors wishes; you cut around the stickers that you could. Awesome stuff, Clint. Matt definitely picked the right channel to send this piece of history to for an unboxing.

@benm3382

2 жыл бұрын

I love how he pays attention to these things. I used to watch videos by Ashens but then he did a video where he was invited to an archive and he totally disrespected the items as he handled them, never again did I watch him.

@lukienman

Жыл бұрын

@@benm3382 I get it, Ashens can be entertaining but his humor gets to a point where its like "dude shut the fuck up, you are just being crude and immature"

Very cool! My father's boss also had a ThinkPad in 1997 (I was 9), while the accountants had to be satisfied with ancient terminals and DOS. My father was a delivery driver for frozen food and the drivers were still working completely without computers at that time. One day on Saturday I was helping my dad with the inventory of his truck and we entered the company early in the morning and I heard the distinct sound of Doom coming from the boss's office. I shouted "Hey dad, your boss is playing on his computer!" and all I heard was the boss shouting through the closed door...... "No, I'm not!" 🤣I caught him, about entering inventory lists into the software and sending them to the head office, of course! 🤣Later, after the inventory, I played doom with the boss and showed him a few tricks and he gave me ice cream in return (it just so happened that there was a "damaged box" of ice cream sandwiches that had to be written off during the inventory), my father was amazed and didn't know that I was always playing on the neighbor's kid's computer 🤣Good old times!!

I almost forgot how many ads where crammed into PC boxes. I remember my parents saving all that paper work "Just in case they needed it" They never did.

@captaiawesome2260

3 жыл бұрын

I guess if I paid over $3,000 on a computer, I would keep everything too, even if some of it is useless.

@bitwize

3 жыл бұрын

Now they cram the ads into the PCs...

@doubtful_seer

3 жыл бұрын

They are wonderful for the nostalgia, though.

@MrClawt

3 жыл бұрын

@@captaiawesome2260 yeah! At that time none of knew anything about them. So it was scary to even delete a file.

@MrClawt

3 жыл бұрын

@@doubtful_seer I love old game catalogs!

This takes me back! That was my FIRST laptop, I bought it on ebay in 1999 for $350. I had no idea it was originally $4000!

@KedViper

2 жыл бұрын

It went down that much in two years? Jeez, I wish the PC gaming market was like that today. My graphics card from 5 years ago is still pretty valuable.

@Ps1ClassicGameplay

2 жыл бұрын

​@@KedViper reason for that is business laptop's tend to get liquidated pretty fast since they come out whit one pretty much every year. Meaning if you keep your eyes open you can snag some of these laptop's for real cheap. i've been buying used business laptop's for year's and still get 1k - 2k laptops for 300-500 used after few year's and this is in europe.

@marcusborderlands6177

2 жыл бұрын

@@KedViper also tech advanced really really fast, you could get this for 4k in 97, and in 1999 it was so obsolete that it couldn't run the newest windows, let alone newer games. This laptop is 150 ish mhz, and the pentium 3 of 1999 hit 1.4ghz

@Shelboooooo

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcusborderlands6177holy shit I had no idea.

@Sauceyjames

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I clicked on this video, I did not know these machines depreciated that much, it's a lot more than now. I think it might be due to the fact eBay isn't as big as it is & there wasn't that many tech-literate people out there as well.

The ThinkPad 380ED was the first computer that was in my house when I was just a child and it was the one that made me understand that computing was my thing, I squeezed it so much that I managed to make it work until Windows XP and after working so much one day It did not turn on again but I still have it saved as a souvenir.

You know you made it when a fan trusts you enough to lend you something amazing like this to do the first unboxing so the internet can see.

I love how that intro video is focused entirely on preventing buyer's remorse!

@Whipster-Old

3 жыл бұрын

I call it "post purchase justification disorder". Not going to lie, I'd buy this stinkpad. I love 'em.

@blearghhh

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's mostly as an attract and demo screen for use in stores. That would be why the password was available.

@MMGtheSERBIANqyqypoa

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaitlyn__L they're torturing refugees in ft hood texas

@Uncle_Smidge

3 жыл бұрын

@@MMGtheSERBIANqyqypoa To quote Nathan Rutherford, "Apples and oranges, Carla." Ease up, Comrade Bot-ovich.

@TunjungUtomo

3 жыл бұрын

only you DON'T have buyer's remorse for this piece of history

i love how Clint gushes over old tech, im so glad someone in this world has so much love for old computers

@HumanPerson_final

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same. It’s lovely someone in the community shared with him this rare treasure.

@basillicus3959

3 жыл бұрын

I totally get it though. I think I'm roughly the same age as Clint so this series of laptops was around when PC's were starting to get really interesting for us. I can totally imagine being 13 and starting this thing for the first time in 1997 and how cool it would have been. Also it would have been total fantasy since PC's (and especially laptops) were so expensive back in the day. The price of this thing would have been like a quarter or half of the income both my parents made after taxes in a year!

@guysmiley4830

3 жыл бұрын

He's making me regret all my old tech that THREW IN THE EFFING TRASH. /cry .... I kept most of it till around 2004ish but I felt like a hoarder and got rid of my tandy 1000 and my old 386 and my pentium 2 400mmx. I actually kept all of the floppy disks and CD roms until i had to move 2 years ago and just let it go in the trash.

@NickDalzell

3 жыл бұрын

I'm similar but more into retro smartphones and tablets circa ~2010-2013. Getting everything to work, every app to function on say an HTC Thunderbolt or Galaxy Note 2 is a neat challenge. I got quite a few via Amazon, some new in box. They're neat time capsules from a more interesting time, when phones were fun.

I love 1997. The best year of my life. Life actually felt good in that time. No heavy technology and no social media and net, it felt so chill and carefree back then!

@ayliniemi

2 жыл бұрын

It's definitely harder to be optimistic the older I get. But the world has always been bad. You have to choose to be happy in your circumstance unless you absolutely need a circumstance change.

@acreativename7999

2 жыл бұрын

Nostalgia and being younger back then will do that. The world has always been a bit crap though.

@olsonbryce777

Жыл бұрын

I was born In 1999 so I don't remember anything from then. But I think objectively the 90's were the peak of humanity. Shit has got worse

@tdestroyer4780

Жыл бұрын

@@olsonbryce777 People keep saying nostalgia, but society has degraded. Life has has ups and downs and were in the down period.

@yurt-the-silent-chief

Жыл бұрын

@T Destroyer Maybe since everything is politicised & force fed now? I guess when more people waken up then it should get better but then again.

I think I had this exact model when I was growing up. My uncle gave it to me after his work upgraded him, and I loved it so much. It couldn't really run anything apart from some old flight simulators and Diablo, as well as the demo for Delta Force which I played to death. By the time I reached high school, I primarily used it to make all sorts of non-RPGs in RPG Maker 2K3 and sold them for a bit of extra cash. The hardware always seemed to be faulty and my uncle replaced the motherboard twice, but I loved it up until it stopped working a third time and I finally got a proper, up-to-date desktop.

Forget imaging the disc, I want a rip of that promo video. Nothing says nineties like cartwheeling in your business suit against cool rock music

@stevethepocket

3 жыл бұрын

Same. I feel like it's just begging for people to mess around with, like I could see Regular Car Reviews inserting a KZread Poop of it right in the middle of one of their videos randomly or something.

@mades3

3 жыл бұрын

We should get together and create a 90s video, with the same image quality etc. For real. It would be awesome :D

@glaucorocha1281

3 жыл бұрын

absolutely

@honam1021

3 жыл бұрын

It's in the hard drive dump linked in the description: archive.org/download/thinkpad-380ed-hdd/380ED.zip/380ED%2FTPDEMO%2FMEDIA%2F1LOOP.MPG

@XiaOmegaX

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevethepocket "Regular Laptop Reviews"

Playing DOOM with black gloves is the next level of playing DOOM

@ITGuyinaction

3 жыл бұрын

🤘 However playing River Raid in tactical military gloves is something much better. You feel like a real fighter pilot. I know something about that! :🤘

@irrigamii

3 жыл бұрын

*plays doom with the entire doom guy outfit*

@ITGuyinaction

3 жыл бұрын

@@irrigamii Ha, you have such outfit?

13:01 "it doesn't smell as good as it would've completely brand new" - the kind of minutiae for which I love this channel.

This was such a time travel. I worked for IBM back then and had the Thinkpad 760 ELD, which was the top model. Great times.

"Don't use your laptop inside a volcano, don't throw it off the cliff." User guide was not totally boring it seems.

@pedrofelck

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda inaccurate for a ThinkPad, tbh, it can easily survive a fall of a cliff and a few hours of volcano usage.

@mikeey6804

3 жыл бұрын

I think that was just him ad-libbing. I paused and read it and I don't see any of that actually mentioned. It is, in-fact, rather boring, which I guess is appropriate for IBM.

@acat1605

3 жыл бұрын

I love it

@googleadministrator3994

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikeey6804 Kind of a woosh, but yes true.

@mikeey6804

3 жыл бұрын

@@googleadministrator3994 Eh maybe so, I guess it depends on one's inference of OPs original comment. Didn't occur to me at the time they might have been joking, I had actually missed that bit completely at first and rewound and checked cause I thought "Oh wow that sounds neat". ... So yeah you're right it was probably a woosh 😂

The Internet is full of epic moments, and I consider this to be one of them.

@taekwondotime

3 жыл бұрын

I had one of those back in the day. Went through a few ThinkPads in my life. Remember it like it was yesterday. :) (The TrackPoint is still superior to a TouchPad because you can type and use the mouse at the same time.)

Watching this thing install Doom is like inventing a time machine and going to the past to watch your grandparents learn to walk. So cute!

Oh man, that demo video gave me chills. I love the little promotional easter eggs that would come on computers prior to the early 2000s. The last time I saw a great promo video was actually from a 2004 AsRock motherboard. The motherboard utility disk came with a promo video that included a tour of the AsRock offices, and a was hosted by a woman in a silver outfit that looked like something from Space Channel 5.

Somebody needs to make a scented candle with a late-90's computer smell.

The fact that Canyon.mid was ready to go means it was fate that this computer would sit waiting in its box since 1997 just for LGR to unbox it in 2021.

Thank you for sharing such a joyful session. It kept me genuinely entertained, and some parts even excited. My boss sends you a message: "thank you for making this guy waste nearly an hour of his shift". It told him not a single second was a waste of time lol

1:57 [chuckles in evil] I just love your subtitles xD, keep the good work

And if you want to be sent a fresh vintage laptop for free (limited trial), all you have to do is produce computer related content about two times a week for ten years, learn extensive computing history, have an atomic personality, and leave offerings to a sacrificial stone.

I love how clint handles that thing and respects the wishes of the owner. THATS how you do it 😁👍👍👍

You really show respect for the items people entrust to you. I am sure thats why they send them in. Thanks for the review.

I love these new old stock unboxing. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks to the patreon for letting us all experience this together. Seriously! I also wonder if any IBM employees watch this, and what they think!

@polymatt

3 жыл бұрын

Had to share it. And I tweeted @ IBM to see if they'd give me an extended warranty :)

@josuelservin

3 жыл бұрын

@@polymatt Thank you so much for your generosity, it was a real treat!

@doubtful_seer

3 жыл бұрын

@@polymatt you might have more luck with your car’s extended warranty. lol

@Beany2007FTW

3 жыл бұрын

@@polymatt have you got it back from Clint yet? ;)

@BILLY-px3hw

3 жыл бұрын

@@polymatt Thanks Matt it was a good idea to archive this unboxing, people will enjoy the experience for years to come, also has a wealth of information on what these products actually came with from the factory. Very smart move

This thing had been sitting in that box since I was 20 and I’m now 43. I miss 1997.

@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731

3 жыл бұрын

I was 17 in 1997. I really wished I could've smelled the 90s coming off that when he opened the bags for the documents and laptop. I wouldn't mind going back to 97!

@fila1445

3 жыл бұрын

I was 3 in 1997 but i still wanna go there. In 1997 i would be able to afford A HOUSE ! I hate todays economy :/

@marcusborderlands6177

3 жыл бұрын

@@fila1445 hey, I hear Nicaragua is cheap this time of year :)

@guysmiley4830

3 жыл бұрын

@@umbrellacorporationwuhanfa3731 I bet it smelled like a freshly opened pack of Marvel Masterpiece

@nkt1

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a year older than you. In 1997 I lost my virginity, voted in my first General Election (and watched the Tories get kicked out of office after 18 years) and took my first aeroplane flight. Nowadays, my current dry spell has lasted 11 years, the Tories have been in power for 10 years and will probably stay there for another 10, and I haven't been abroad for 17 years. I also miss 1997.

I love how we've been using the same software for 30 years but just polished over time. They got it right back in 95.

Found your channel thru this video and I ain't leaving without subscribing. Your enthusiasm plus the feel-good BGM are immaculate!

20:00, lmao! “Hhmm, Y2K compatibility.” 😏 I was 11 years old when people freaked out about Y2K and still remember it like it was yesterday.

13:05 Clint has such a way with describing the odors of vintage electronics

Brilliant and how exciting this must be for you to do this for a living. I'd LOVE to have a channel like yours and to be able to experiment and play around with retro tech all the time. Never stop doing what you're doing, I love your work and material. I'm going to keep an eye out for something that you might find useful.

@chivalrous_chevy1163

Жыл бұрын

Find anything?

@guardiane

Жыл бұрын

@@chivalrous_chevy1163 I actually haven't gone and looked anywhere yet lol. Been so busy, but I honestly intend to check out our local thrift stores and see if I can find anything rare/unique.

My dad has used ThinkPads for work for as long as I can remember. They upgrade his machine through a program every few years or so and they are some of the first computers I've ever remembered or seen. Even now, they are still some of the coolest laptops I've ever seen, and they have such a cool and unique history both for notebook computers and for IBM.

@TrascyJaac

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, except now Lenovo make them and they have become poor quality, badly supported, pieces of junk. I wish IBM was still making them.

"Hey Flerbnerb, what time is it?" That got me laughing pretty good. Thank you, I needed that.

Not gonna lie, Clint's absolute joy at seeing, opening, and using these amazing things is just pure loveliness. It reminds me of the joy I get when I see something I really like. So, so good.

This was my first laptop model! Used to play AOE on the school bus, with it, circa 2003/2004.

I love how all these old stuff comes with a lot of boxes and paperworks, feels like really buying something, not like new stuff and pc components where they come with less to nothing of that

@djingo8253

2 жыл бұрын

all them trees tho

this may be the most gentle unboxing i have ever witnessed on youtube

33:24 the bluescreen cracked me up, ah good ol´ windows 95 :D

Now this was an amazing video seeing this old school ThinkPad still working and pretty much brand new and still in it's original box.

I had an early IBM Thinkpad 486 laptop in the 90s. It cost $8500 with all options. It was a great computer!

Clint huffing the ports and providing tasting notes is my favourite thing ever lmao

@thesehandsart

2 жыл бұрын

Yeeeessss! Describing the notes of pepper and acid as he inhales the fragrance like a 5 star chef LMAOOOOO ❤

@mangckyatmamon

2 жыл бұрын

smelling new/old books has the same dopamine boost

@nthgth

2 жыл бұрын

@@mangckyatmamon spot on, I never thought of that!

@n8loux

2 жыл бұрын

agreed

this win95 startup sound, i'm melted on my chair! oh god it's so good feeling!!!

@vipergx

2 жыл бұрын

I fully drowned into a rush of flashing memories from my childhood. Oh the feelings...

@mikemeengs5720

2 жыл бұрын

Lol! Right?

Thank you Matt, for sharing such an amazing experience!

Hey, Clint! I got one of these about 15 years ago. Shortly prior to that, I got a 380ZX for TEN BUCKS at Dallas Tx's monthly computer flea market First Saturday for TEN BUCKS. It has no HD, OK since I would want to upgrade ANYWAY, included a 56K Xjack PCMCIA modem that was worth over ten bucks in its own right, and worked immediately upon replacing the HD. Still have it and two more. One Windows 98. One Windows 2000. And one... ...Windows ME!? The ONLY ME machine I ever had. All need CMOS battery replacements currently, but still work. Such nice machines back in their day.

"Only one ED and that was a long time ago." Glad to hear things are looking up for you.

I love the dramatic contrast between your almost reverent level of respect for old hardware, and then naming your voice assistant "Flerbnerb".

@pukitaki

2 жыл бұрын

Naming it Flerbnerb keeps it from thinking you're talking to it during normal human to human conversations.

@iversonpuga5590

2 жыл бұрын

Yesj

@jmoralesv03

2 жыл бұрын

Minute 20:03 for those that would like to know the time mark.

@fridaycaliforniaa236

2 жыл бұрын

That killed me 😂😂

@FOREIGNWOLF

2 жыл бұрын

yes

Lol it's amazing to see how modern thinkpads have an eerily similar keyboard design.

@emil.soderholm

2 жыл бұрын

you know the old saying, if it ain't broke...

@fonesrphunny7242

2 жыл бұрын

You might be surprised by how often IBM used the same keyboards. Makes it relatively easy to find a replacement if needed.

My very first computer that I ever bought for myself was in May of 1997. It was an IBM aptiva the one with the fancy MMX as well as Windows 95 of course I recall sending away for the name plate that was mentioned in this video and I had it on the front case of that aptiva which must have weighed in excess of 30 lb! Wonderful memories reviewing all the form factor and stylistic choices that were inherent to that magical time of marketing and advertising for IBM home PCs!

That was amazing, Clint. It's a real treat to see a completely pristine machine that works right out of the box after 24 years! Thank you to the lender who allowed Clint to share this with the world!

12:47 Clint smelling hardware always makes my day :')

@Beany2007FTW

3 жыл бұрын

That genuinely had me going "oh for fucks sake Clint, that's how rumours start" - but it's always fun to see him enjoy himself with some good old nostalgia.

such a beautiful time-capsule!

Wow nearly 1 MILLION people have been witness to this unboxing. That's pretty incredible. Thanks for sharing the experience LGR.

36:36 "Everything will be gone. This place will be forgotten." "Not by me it won't." Perfect, definitely chuckled.

You're the best, Clint! I've never heard anyone else discuss a bouquet of aromas that an old computer gives off.

WOW that's awesome! bringing those old timers back to life. Thanks for the video

My dad worked for IBM for 25 or 30 years. We had a bunch of these. I'd always get his hand me down when they issued him the newest version.

Can’t be the only one smiling during the first boot. Such a nice feeling.

@user-is7xs1mr9y

3 жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, I almost cried.

@cheddar2648

3 жыл бұрын

Those subtle clunking noises as DooM is written from A: to C: ugh I almost cried.

"Uploaded 10 Minutes ago". Well... time to call it a week, get home and watch some LGR (it's 4:30pm where I live). Have a nice weekend, everyone!

@RyanGonTV

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

@jymfiskburk2256

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, miss those days when i could do that, purchase a hamburguer and enjoy the moment, now i work until 21:00

I opened this video on tab at the day you posted it, but watched this only now. a year and 3 months later.

the excitement you get when powering it on and when the video plays .

I bet with how much he cared for things in the box of this laptop that Clint will return it in excellent condition, the guy is just that kind of guy...caring and considerate.

@stevesstuff1450

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, you know he did.... he's awesome with this old gear! I bet there wasn't a single fingerprint of his on it when it went back! ;-)

@robsku1

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevesstuff1450 Even replaced the CMOS battery - he didn't really have to, but he is a nice guy :)

@wagonet

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Matt H for allowing Clint to open this on stream. So amaJnf

Watching this on my modern work-issued Thinkpad, and I'm fighting the urge to say to it: "look, it's your grandpa!" XD

@jesuschristiscallingyou953

3 жыл бұрын

That's too funny!

@atklm1

3 жыл бұрын

Your employer issues you ThinkPads? Damn I'm jelly. I work in a large multi-billion euro IT company and they issued us a second-hand 14" Dell Latitude :< Only time I got ThinkPad was when I briefly worked in IBM Onsite 15 years ago.

@Aoekin

3 жыл бұрын

working on it right now as we speak lol. too bad 480S sucks though.

@AlejandroKar98k

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, I have like 5 or 6 thinkpads but with Lenovo logo, my favorite is the P70

@TheChrisey

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlejandroKar98k I remember having a true IBM ThinkPad back in the early to mid 20s or so? Before it became Lenovo. It had a P4 at 1.7ish Ghz. A Whopping 16mb of VRAM and was it 386MB or 512MB of RAM? Can't quite remember. Too bad it suffered a severe booting issue. Had to try 10 or so times before it would POST everytime it rebooted.

im so glad i found your channel brother! keep up the goodwork!

My grandfather worked for IBM for 30 years from 1955-85. I would love to find some old IBM stuff from the time he worked for them.

I just love to see Clint treating that laptop with so much respect and care. I bet when the owner watches this video, it is the moment of his/her life.

Clint playing POD on two Thinkpads at the same time is peak LGR content

I worked for IBM in the early 90s when the first ThinkPad models were just being introduced to the market. It was instant love at first sight and I still have my 760XL running OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach working flawlessly to this day.

We had one of these as an ex government lease laptop, it was still chugging away in 2016. Such a great design. Love the vid!

18:55 "I swear I am not TRYING to sound dirty with this, it just happens!" I get that, I get that. This is the ultimatest computer porn if there ever was. 20:02 "Hey Flurbnerb, what time is it?" I thought for a second you had a strangely exotic wife speaking from another room...

@TheOnlyDamien

3 жыл бұрын

I died laughing at the Flurbnerb thing, it was so out of the blue.

@yaetu3252

3 жыл бұрын

What is it?

@spiff2268

3 жыл бұрын

@@yaetu3252 Probably what he calls his Alexa.

@spiff2268

3 жыл бұрын

@@naglejshij How to change Alexa's name Open the Amazon Alexa app on your Android or iOS device. Tap the three line menu button on the top left of the screen. Select Settings, then Device Settings. Tap on the Echo device you want to change. You can only change the wake word of one Echo speaker at a time. Scroll down and tap 'Wake Word.

@bobblum5973

3 жыл бұрын

If Clint has a girlfriend/wife, I'm sure he's already bought her a woodgrain-pattern swimsuit. 😉

I miss 90's design aesthetics. They were so fun and flashy while today's design interfaces are so minimalistic and boring

@ZX3000GT1

3 жыл бұрын

At least we still have gaming laptops.

Awesome video! Loved this old new stock! Props to the person who sent it in too!!

I have found someone who gets more excited than me with these Unboxings LOL. This brings back memories. I was a network administrator in 1997. Our state agency purchased 14 of these for our training room. We had 27 sites spread throughout the state. Once a month every new employee would come to the main office for a 4 day training using these laptops. We put Windows NT on these. Thank you to you and the owner for this fun unboxing.

I love how "hot sound" was considered a good thing in 1997.

@joylox

2 жыл бұрын

No joke, I got a new phone, a Nokia, and it sounds like they used 15 year old speakers on it. But the sound card is good with headphones. I know some people would consider that a dealbreaker. Then there's whatever Nintendo did with the 3DS having a worse sound card than the DSi....

@loganmacgyver2625

Жыл бұрын

Would you rather have your ear holes freeze from cold sounds?

LGR ON A LAZY FRIDAY MORNING, LET'S GET IT BABY!

@cagnazzo82

3 жыл бұрын

I love watching him on an extra screen while working from home. So relaxing for some reason 😊

@NotAboveAverage

3 жыл бұрын

@@cagnazzo82 Glad to know I'm not the only one watching at work haha

@ahandsomefridge

3 жыл бұрын

Also works on a lazy Friday afternoon after a busy day of work 8)

Loved the voice at 14:20 lol. I’m more into cars than computers but I know that feeling when you see something incredible like this

Excellent video! Thanks for nostalgic memory trip... (Thanks for subtitles by the way!)

“Geek hand juice” - I learned something new today!

@marcse7en

3 жыл бұрын

Given how excited he was, we're lucky it wasn't a different sort of "Geek Juice"? 😂😂😂

"I am not TRYING to sound dirty" Later: "The volume knobs are touching, OoOOo"

@trevorhansen1940

3 жыл бұрын

How about "Excited computer geek hand juice."??? That one had me laughing.

@foxdata

3 жыл бұрын

"Putting the disk in there for the first time, OoOOo"

@danijelujcic8644

3 жыл бұрын

Nipples, worth their weight in gold.

Wow, what awesome video. Those floppy and hard disk sounds, just wow.

14:28 The color of that cloth is glorious! Great video as always.