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@bricktasticanimations4834

Жыл бұрын

Hey Psivewri! By shear coincidence the laptop that I am using to comment and watch your video now is a Dell Inspiron 9400 with an Intel Centrino Duo processor that came out sometime in 2006. I use it as a college laptop and it runs Windows 10. Do you think that I should consider running Linux on it instead? And if so, which would you recommend?

@andrive

Жыл бұрын

Hi

@ZacBobisKing

Жыл бұрын

HO

@Techlevel1534.

Жыл бұрын

Cool video

@paulwilliams4274

Жыл бұрын

One item to note is that the Pentium M CPU has 2 MB of L2 cache. That amount really helps these little CPUs hustle. Most contemporary Pentium M CPUs (from this time period) only came with 512KB or 1MB of L2 cache.

Hey Psivewri, i actually saved a Dell 700m from going to E-waste from my work.

@NatK2010

Жыл бұрын

Nice! What did you do to it?

@jayer898

Жыл бұрын

@@NatK2010 i still have it, i put new thermal paste and upgraded the drive to a sandisk extreme card

@NatK2010

Жыл бұрын

@@jayer898 Nice! Hope it stays alive for a while longer

@Zebra_Paw

Жыл бұрын

@@jayer898 specs? Should take win 10, make sure you install all the drivers though

@jayer898

Жыл бұрын

@@Zebra_Paw pentium M 1.8ghz, 2gb ram, 82855 gma graphics, 40gb IDE hard drive but will be used with a Sandisk extreme card.

Dell Tiny Laptop: (survived a bomb blast) Nokia 3310: "Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary"

Great vid! Try a Latitude D420. Those were solid and still have a few customers running them with Win10. Annoyingly they used a 1.8" ZIF IDE drive like what shipped in iPods so finding an appropriate mSATA adapter is fun.

@qui3041

Жыл бұрын

how is that working out for them? single-core amirite?

@tyttuut

Жыл бұрын

Nice!

@DistrosProjects

Жыл бұрын

An iFlash or dosdude1 SSD should work.

@siliconinsect

Жыл бұрын

@@qui3041 32-bit Core Duo. Works fine for the tasks of the elderly.

@theRayzz

Жыл бұрын

I have one here in my closet. Liked that little boy when I used it back in the days. Too bad they went with ZIF connector, I could get it to work with my ssd even with a caddy

I found your channel today. it is amazing .. and I used this Laptop back in 2007 in my job until I sold it in London UK in 2010 to buy my first MacBook. I will definitely watch all the videos of this channel. Thanks .. and best regards. a new Fan from Tripoli, Libya.

I have an old Dell laptop similar to this model, and it's great for 1990s games. VGA monitors are cheap and effective! I use several! Great video! I loved it.

@1.4M-ry8zx

6 ай бұрын

I still use a 17' crt

I have one of these and used it in my workshop for playing music / watching DIY videos until a few years ago. A relative of mine picked it up in the swap shop at his local dump and ended up with me after collecting dust at my parents house for a couple years. I recall not having any trouble doing basic things. The screen was really nice! Can't remember if it had XP or some kind of Linuix variant. In the time it lived in my workshop got some scratches, paint splatters, and I'm sure pulled in a lot of dust. I think one of the keys is missing. Sorry to say, I didn't take very good care of it, but it's around so maybe I'll tidy it up one day and give it another life.

@mikes78

11 ай бұрын

My wife came home one day from work and said she literally found it in a kerbside rubbish pile. It had a dead hard drive, however ddrescue salvaged the install and it's still working fine to this day (though not getting much use, like the D420 I mentioned elsewhere). I use it for playing older games because it's got a dvd drive and period correct cpu/performance wise.

First off, awesome video! And yes, I still use an old Dell Ultrasharp VGA monitor as my secondary monitor for Discord and other things. I love the 4:3 aspect ratio, as I often find two 16:9 monitors to be too much

Amazing review love your work true legend never forgot 🥰

MY FIRST LAPTOP EVER!!! WOOOOO YEAH BABYYY!!! TIME FOR MEMORIES!!! DAAAMN!!!

Great Video, thanks for sharing

What a throwback! My mom had one of these brand new and I loved it’s compactness of it at that time

A friend of mine once left me the same laptop for repairs! And to answer your question, well yes. My current setup is dual monitors which are both VGA but one of them is running through a DVI adapter.

The background music is always relaxating ♥

you could have used rufus to make the bootable drive, there is a version for windows xp

@Crashoverride1234

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think that works anymore. Please tell me I’m wrong

@vasya_cat

Жыл бұрын

@@Crashoverride1234 you are right, i was using a very outdated version. they stopped supporting xp after version 2.18

Oh damn! I have one of these thats mint and totally original; It even still works! Biggest issue is I have never been able to find all the drivers to make Windows XP work correctly

"Critics were tired of this design". I wonder what the critics would think about Apple laptops and the Mac Mini that basically have the same design from 20 years ago (not that it would be something wrong with it). Also SSDs are not really necessary for such an old computer,especially since it's only limited to IDE speeds

Cool little retro machine! To answer your question, I do actually use a couple of VGA displays here on my main PC, but with some adapters so I can use my 6650 XT. One of them is a Dell ultrasharp that I use as a vertical display. The other is a Packard Bell CRT that I use for retro games and such.

@atcatpl

Жыл бұрын

I use VGA with my GeForce4 pc and other older system

One of my first laptops was a dell as well that i got on a payment plan from my local cable provider! loved that machine!

I had one of these. The battery you’ve got there is the optional larger capacity unit. The normal battery sat flush with the laptop instead of sticking further back. Believe it cost around $1300 USD in 2005/6.

For direct die i strongly suggest MX-2, its the same price, but will resist thermal push out much longer, spreading will be needed, moreso on an IHS but it will create a good long lasting bond vs MX-4/6 that will push outwards and cause a central hotspot on an IHS, or on a direct die application pretty much ends up around the die. For finnicky laptops and consoles, its the best cheap option, though personally if i do care enough i'll use tape around any resistors and ICs around a die and use a graphite thermal sheet from innovative cooling instead, though vs paste that can see a lot more uses, i save it for very finnicky devices or phat 360s that much prefer the consistent surface cooling over the die, especially the earlier models. I imagine this would be great for modern laptops, or TG if you need better thermal transfer and keep the cooling consistent as long as dust is kept on top of, saves time so only partial disassembly is needed/less time cleaning up old paste since they are reusable.

i love your videos they are soooo entertaining!!!

Really cool computer. My first laptop, back in the day, was a 286 HP that cost $1,800 US. It drew a lot of attention when I used it at airports or other public places. No WIFI. Another great video. Thanks.

i kinda love these old computers , not for use but for collection

Dell guy here. We do have the best service guides! In the 90s there were VRML virtual versions of every system you could tear down and build on the web screw by screw! Now it's just boring PDFs!

saw one of these in a autoshop recently, they were playing mp3's with winamp, it was covered in oil and grime and honestly i was amazed it still worked.

I absolutely love my XLS M1210, very similar in size to this one. It’s awesome to se me this working still!!

8:20 I use Thermal Grizzly Aeronaut. Never had any problems and you can get it in sizes up to 26g / 10ml (I personally have it in 7.8g / 3ml) I would not recommend getting it in smaller size because the 7.8g is only a little bit more expensive than the 3.9g and the 1g version.

AFAIK your best bets for thermal paste rn are still MX-4 for bang-for-buck, and Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut for max performance. I've also heard Noctua's thermal paste is pretty good too.

I actually like it. I wish Dell made the same styled machines today. Simple yet rugged.

@remixedcat

4 ай бұрын

I dig it too

The successor to this machine had a Core 2 Duo, NVidia dedicated graphics, and a rotating webcam. Badass!

@themuffincat

7 ай бұрын

What's its successor?

@s8wc3

6 ай бұрын

@@themuffincat XPS M1210

VGA is still in use for industrial workloads and it is usable for lower resolutions (ok, higher resolutions are supported but noisy and are not needed at all for such applications).

Tô be fair, Dell (and Lenovo Thinkpads) still have service manuals available even for new devices

@DuneRunnerEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Yeap , that is so. Shame on you,Intel,for removing support for an old tech !!!

I've been using Noctua thermal paste for years. Great stuff it is.

Love your videos, personally working on a Toshiba NB-505 and gifting it to my children for a small retro power house I still use VGA ports (since most of my older laptops use it and some even use composite video out) and as for thermal compound that seems to work (in my builds at least) is some Protonix 30g get a good amount for really cheap and keeps my gaming laptops and desktop cool too

My first ever laptop was the Dell Inspiron 1525 in 2008, back when buying from Dell meant ordering from their website and getting it custom specced.. It served me well! I used to think it was so slim and portable and now when I look back it was massive in comparison to todays machines. I also remember the keyboard being the same easy removal since my keyboard went faulty on it and Dell sent me a new one and it was very easy to replace.

Jeez, what a cool story!

Definitely would've been curious to see what cpu upgrade options exist and how far it'd get you.

@Zebra_Paw

Жыл бұрын

nowhere unfortunately, no 64 bits or dual core possible

@tristansewell5986

Жыл бұрын

@Spatial Zebra yeah it looks like the max possible upgrade (cooling tdp notwithstanding) would be the 2.26GHz Pentium M 780. At least it has PAE support, which would enable modern 32 bit OSes.

@Zebra_Paw

Жыл бұрын

@@tristansewell5986 more basic ones also have PAE, however it needs to be forced.

systems then: i can survive rpg explosions, bullets, house fires and still work fine systems now: *fries charging ic, cracks hinges and swells batteries if you look at them funny

@PurblePink8678

10 ай бұрын

Linux then: Was a good choice for developers. Linux now: Used by woke activists for: egos, p%%%philia, porn and the most NARCISSISTIC kind of behavior online! EVEN MORE NARCISSISTIC THAN MAC USERS WHO FLAUNT THEIR MONEY!!!

eucalyptus oil, thats what im here for, great video mate, keep em coming

I guess for thermal paste, I've heard the MX-4's successor MX-5 isn't that bad, ThermalGrizzly's stuff also is pretty good

thermal grizzly kryonite. It's quite expensive but has the best thermal conductivity by quite a large margin. I buy it because a 1g tube can re-paste all the PC's in my house.

My family had one of these laptops. It was so nice at the time!

I still own a 700m! Unfortunately its display was suffering vinegar syndrome so it needs to be replaced. Was a fun laptop to mess around with until the display started failing 2 or 3 years ago.

Very good thermal paste choice best price to performance! Buy that again. I'd say an SSD is a bit of a waste for a such laptop, an HDD should provide sufficient speeds.

Dells newest Notebooks still have great service manuals! They were always a no-bullshit pc company tbh, tho modern problems like soldered ram are starting to reach them, and you can only be sure about build quality when getting a Latitude or OptiPlex, still better than other brands.

Meanwhile I opened my lid on my 2021 Dell Laptop and the hinge cracked the plastic fixings used to attach the hinge to the screen. Never been dropped, never been roughly handled rarely ever got used when not on a desk.

My cousin had an old Acer laptop that he got in 2006. He was given the laptop from a family member and the laptop lasted for 15 years, what happened to it was the display broke, hard drive failed and the charger for it short out. It’s still here but doesn’t have a hard drive or charger now and the display is broken. It has a VGA port

In terms of best Thermal Paste I use Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and Cooler Master CryoFuze both are priced above average but it's the best silicone based paste we can get that doesn't short anything if spilled. Great video Psivewri hope to see more of these vintage beauties show up my old Dell Latitude E4310 from 2011 still holding up well with Windows 10 and 8GB of RAM, SSD and Core i7 within. But does get quite hot even watching 1080p KZread videos.

@themuffincat

7 ай бұрын

What version of the i7 doe your laptop have? 1st gen?

yes to vga!! i have an old CRT i use once and a while, and for a while i used a vga to hdmi cable for a second monitor for my server

This was an awesome laptop! I used one for about a year in university, and remember playing Undying on it having a great time

yes i still use a VGA display 2 in fact, one has HDMI as well which I'm currently using to watch this video, and a 4:3 one for retro pc gaming which i pull out from time to time

I love your videos bro

thanks for the product key

I was wating for u r video take love from bangldesh

got 2 vga screens on my desk right now. they aren't my primary display, but good enough to have youtube or stream chat on.Ive always been a fan of Atric silver

My man with the eucalyptus spray stash lel

Dell surprisingly still has very comprehensive service manuals for their current laptops! Props to that

@remixedcat

4 ай бұрын

And awesome Linux support too like 98% of thier stuff is Ubuntu certified and you can update the bios from Linux on most of thier newer stuff too

While it is the exact opposite of your little 710m, I have an Inspiron 1720 that I have upgraded over the years until it became 'top of the line' - except it only has a VGA port. While it isn't digital, it can produce a very high resolution display to a good monitor. I have an old ViewSonic with a VGA input and you really can't tell it's not DVI or HDMI. Technically obsolete, sure, but not unusable.

Yes infact, i do use VGA. And not many small laptops had 2 ram slots. Good Job Dell!

my oldest laptop that i have is a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile V5535 and when I first got it well lets just say it was in really bad shape such as the motherboard had a broken CMOS battery clip (that I fixed), battery had to be replaced (could not hold any charge), display TFT film was cracking and peeling off (I fixed that with a brand new LCD), casing itself was dinged up and trim was broken in several places (this ultimately made me have to buy a gutted Laptop identical to the one to use as the donor to replace and repair all of the damage) finally I finished it up by giving it a nice inside and out clean and plenty of sweet sweet upgrades such as the weak 1ghz intel celeron is now an Intel Core 2 duo running at 2ghz, ram is from 512MB to now 3GB of DDR2 Memory (can take 4GB of RAM but takes forever to post) and it has a SATA 3 SSD plugged into a SATA 1 port (i know that's dumb but it is definitely far faster than the 12 year old mechanical HDD that was in there) also parts of the keyboard was broken so I even replaced that. I could've bought one of these in mint condition but I chose to revive it and I can't forget to mention that I added a PCIexpress card 32/54 Dual USB 3.0 that takes the total of usable usb ports from 3 all the way to a whopping 5 USB ports Do I kind of sound like Psivewri with how I explain these things. I know its not a bad thing but I surely do make sure to use a healthy dose of eucalyptus oil when cleaning my electronics! oh great I did it again!

I like restoring old pcs like this unfortionatly i havent seen many old laptops and most are expensive. I found a dell e5410 for $2 at a yard sale and i did everything to help it but the plastic was brittle and kept snapping even though the parts were superglued and then the hinge broke and when i replaced the thermal paste with some from best buy i used before it became super laggy for no reason

For thermal compound, Gelid GC Extreme or Phobya Nanogrease works amazingly well for laptops.

I still use VGA port at work for digital signaging because it can give higher resolutions without taxing the GPU as much (lower pixel clock time for same quality)

For thermal paste, Arctic MX-6 would be a good choice. They solved the issues with MX-5 and recommend people move onto the new MX-6 formula anyways.

@qazisnotapeopleperson7167

Жыл бұрын

I switched out Mx-4 with 6 and it seems to be working pretty well

@eduardoavila646

Жыл бұрын

Wich issues with mx5? Also how about mx4?

@XenonG

Жыл бұрын

@@eduardoavila646 MX-4 is still alright, MX-5 if I remember correctly was that pumpout happens more than vs MX-4 and thermal transfer performance drops off too rapidly as it ages vs MX-4. They fixed it with MX-6.

This laptop is older than most people watching KZread shorts. Let that sink in.

I used one white version for like 5 years. It was so good i exchange it for a 2nd hand silver version , and used it for another 5 years

I use noctua NT-H1. Seems to be good one (cannot remember which benchmark i saw. May be LTT). I have changed thermal paste for many laptops over past 3 years and the tube is still good. Cooling wise, general use cases it is best. For extreme gaming i had to change it 1.5 years as a precaution and general cleaning. The difference between original, 1st change and 2nd change in thermal paste the GPU temps were 10°C (4 years gap) , 3°C (1.5 years gap). Thermal paste was still wet and didn‘t go crusty like original. All my friends who got clean up and thermal paste changed are happy with the cooling as well. 10-15°C difference was seen in those cases.

I've collect lets say a few from this era and they are nice to tinker with never mind a real joy for retro gaming unlike most modern laptops that have so many issues like inflating batteries or poor thermals etc.

Hey @Psivewri Do you think you can get your hands on a Toshiba Portege R500? It's a super cool ultra portable laptop from 2007! Would love to see a video about it. I had one lying around at a PC repair shop I used to work at, but my collegue "stole" it.

I was using VGA untill the beginning of this year, was largely sufficient for me as I was mostly on office and web browsing tasks. I will miss that blue port forever...

you should do a bios update on all this old stuff.

That is nuts dude that laptop went to war and back my dad fought in the "Project Iraqi freedom" War.

I do have some 5:4 monitors with VGA and DVI - and with an IPS display. LG, Fujitsu and iiyama still sell such monitors as brand new.

I do still use VGA actually. I have a Dell 2007fp as a second monitor using both DVI and VGA. I also use a 1708fp as a third screen, though VGA is still open and available on it.

Also, I still have some Arctic MX4, as well as Arctic Silver 5. I'd still recommend Arctic MX4 as it is a good thermal compound.

7:00 I have an old XP laptop that I HAVE to use VGA on as the Backlight doesn't work and I have to use an External Monitor just to get a Picture

I still use VGA and DVI for old monitors that I could use as a second and 3rd screen, they never fail me :D

I actually still use a vga display myself, because hey, my old lcd monitor still works. but I did have to get an adapter to get it running

It looks like the 17 inch Inspiron took inspiration*** from the ti Power Book. :)

I stuck around for the sponsor segment and even after hearing it said, Psivewri isn't rolling off my tongue.

I still use a monitor with VGA at school. I connect it with a USB c hub from mokin, that has Ethernet, VGA, HDMI, USB a, and sd card reader.

I once had a Dell Inspiron 700m for sale. Getting Windows 7 to install on it was a hassle.

Hey Psivewri, I think the main reason Puppy Linux wasnt working the first time round is because you downloaded an image made for a 32 bit ARM Processor, seems to be the one made for the Pi haha, which is likely why you couldn't get past that black screen.

This laptop is DA BOMB 💣 🙌

Yes still use VGA thru a KVM switch for one older PC running Windows 2000 Pro Sp4. Also still use a Dell Precision 330 workstation with 2000 and SCSi HD's and VGA screen, this one for software that is reading out older diesel engines. For that reason there is a laptop with 2000 for the same software and VGA.

You should have installed Windows Thin PC on it. This is the official light version of Windows 7 just for such devices.

@PurblePink8678

10 ай бұрын

He should've put Windows Vista Home Basic 32-Bit with Service Pack 2.

I bought a 5€ 1400x900 75Hz VGA 19" monitor. It is an LG FLATRON W1942S and it uses VGA. The adapter for my system that im using (VGA to DP) costed me 6€ (so the monitor was cheaper than the adapter istelf)

7:00 I'm literally watching this on a Dell e773c CRT monitor. And yes, it's my main monitor lmfao

That takes me all the way back to the senior year of high school. lol.

bro is a true veteran 💀

I have a like new 9400 Inspiron. It's a mighty beast.

Well, it was nice and i have a suggestion for the next video, why not restoring the Ipex laptop

VGA is still popular in many places that have projectors

I use two CRTs on my main PC so I do indeed still use VGA, albeit through DisplayPort adapters. A 19" Dell M992 and a 19" LaCie electron19blue IV

VGA? yessir!

For future purchase of Thermal Paste you could get the Gelid Extreme (for high performance Computers) it has the same performance as the MX4 costing much less. Then you would have the GD900 (for Low Performance Computers) it has good performance and costs next to nothing. If you have doubts you can check these Thermal Pastes online.

maybe try some thermal grizzly paste ?as for vga monitors , still using one , but its for the house cctv and doubles as spare one for some old macs

I had 2 of these and managed to get Windows 7 fully functional even with the display drivers, had to do some crazy configuring but was so awesome until they killed 7 support

@sihamhamda47

Жыл бұрын

You can give it a second life by installing a lightweight Linux distro

@PurblePink8678

10 ай бұрын

@@sihamhamda47 Yeah, second life to be used for innapropriate activities online... Cuz that's normal in the Linux cult...

For the thermal paste, Artic silver 5!