Would you pay $30 for one of these laptops?

@Mini-z1994

7 ай бұрын

Nope these are horribly slow. I've pulled a HP 8440P out of the junkyard & besides a charger (which i had laying around that works with it completely fine) A missing battery & putting in my own ssd i already had laying around at 60 gb along with 2x4 gb ddr3 (also pulled from the junkyard from other laptops.) it's perfectly usable still for webbrowsing. 1st gen I5 520m for the cpu & integrated intel hd graphics. And also my older brothers old laptop from ca 2013 id guess. A Samsung np355v5c AMD a8 4500m & hd 7670m also 2x4 gb ram, this time a 240 gb ssd that i had left over from pc upgrades. Runs half-life 2 great at high settings but not TF2 it's too much for the poor cpu to handle.

@lukedavis436

7 ай бұрын

I've paid money for broken ones even older than it...the Compaq Maybe purely down to it being a AMD System

@werewolf74

7 ай бұрын

I still had a single core amd and its slower but you can use it still for a media pc.... i guess.

@TheSpotify95

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I would pay $30 (£25) for each of these, so that someone else could use these as basic web browsing and office style machines. I'd also put 4GB RAM in each system, as well as an SSD for the Toshiba and a random HDD for the Compaq. After all, the single core CPU will bottleneck even a HDD.

@isaacwright2247

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I would. I actually downgrade them back to age appropriate operating systems, even if they are unsupported to circumvent the slow. That is a Toshiba Satellite L305 and a Compaq Presario CQ56. Both of which are kinda sentimental to me.

“Have we heard of these guys? Compaq?” Brooooother your age is showing lmao

@SmokinSilicon

7 ай бұрын

Yours is too… lol

@itismezed

7 ай бұрын

@@SmokinSilicon I mean, fair, lmao

@SmokinSilicon

7 ай бұрын

@@itismezed😂 how about gateway? I just remember their logo looking like a cow when I was a kid lol

@itismezed

7 ай бұрын

@@SmokinSilicon Gateway, Compaq, Packard Bell, all of em, haha

@InsanePickle24

7 ай бұрын

I had like 3 Compaqs back in the day.

I feel old just hearing someone never heard of Compaq before.

@kobuslab1

7 ай бұрын

Exactly what i thought when I heard it 😅

Compaq was actually the first company to make a PC clone. They reverse engineered the IBM PC BIOS and started the PC compatible market. They were one of the big players until they merged with HP in 2002. Since then, the name has been used as a brand or line of computers from HP, mostly in non-US markets. Though these computers would still be usable with the RAM maxed out, a decent 2.5 inch SSD (just a cheap 128 GB one perhaps), and a lightweight Linux distribution installed, they are not really worth $30 a piece. As far as gaming goes, you could do some emulation, and maybe some really low spec computer gaming (I'm pretty sure they could run _Half Life_ considering what I managed to run it on in 1999; just not under Windows 10).

@isaacwright2247

7 ай бұрын

Actually, they have ONLY used the Compaq name outside the U.S or Canada. Mostly developing markets.

@CFWhitman

7 ай бұрын

@@isaacwright2247 I believe that they have only used it as a brand name outside the US, but they have used it as part of a model name or line inside the US (that is, an HP Compaq something; for example an HP Compaq Elite 8300). They do seem to have dropped this practice in recent years, though.

@gt8200-0

6 ай бұрын

I think they used the Compaq brand until the early 2010s or something like that

Compaq was a company back in the day...my first desktop and laptop were both Compaqs. We're talking somewhere around 2003ish was when I got mine...not sure how long the company itself was around. I believe they were bought out by a bigger compeny somewhere down the line, but am unsure about that.

@TheSpotify95

7 ай бұрын

Compaq eventually got morphed into HP. That model of Compaq Presario was one of the last ones, as they got merged into the HP G6 series afterwards, followed by the HP 15 series that we all know today.

Both of those laptops bring some sort of nostalgia for me. I used to fix people's computers back in college from 2010-2014 and people often went out and bought that exact compaq model from the local walmart for 250$ because everyone was cheap or poor and I'd end up doing upgrades on those to make them usable for cheap. The Toshiba one was the exact one my sister had in 2008

@SmokinSilicon

7 ай бұрын

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing

@SmokinSilicon

7 ай бұрын

Any other specific laptop model you used to see a lot?

@FubarMike

7 ай бұрын

@@SmokinSilicon Asus eee PC. Little tiny underpowered for the time laptops that were good for nothing but internet browsing. Any "netbook" really

@CFWhitman

7 ай бұрын

@@FubarMike I was using one of those eee PCs as a print server and wireless access point in my office until last year or year before last when one of the dual 8 GB SSDs died. I had 32 bit Debian 11 on it. Even the later updates of Windows XP tended to take up too much space to fit comfortably within 8 GB (though you could shoehorn it in by moving the page file to the second drive, installing programs on the second drive, and deleting backup files as you installed new updates; this was not really worth it after XP support ended).

@gt8200-0

6 ай бұрын

My brother had a little Compaq netbook running XP in approx 2011. Don't remember when they stopped using it but it was 2014 at the latest.

My first laptop was a compaq in probably around 2011, it was already many years old as it was my dads. I ran massive minecraft mod packs at 10-15 fps for years, good times!

You know you're getting old when you're genuinely astonished when a bearded guy with a computer-tech-oriented KZread channel tells you that he's never heard of Compaq!

@ugh.idontwanna

7 ай бұрын

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that!

@So1

7 ай бұрын

ikr, my first pc i ever used was a Compaq Presario which ran windows xp media center 2005

Those computers would run fantastic with Windows XP

@SmokinSilicon

7 ай бұрын

That’s what we were thinking. No idea why the seller decided to put windows 10 on these old devices. Basically makes them useless

@TheSpotify95

7 ай бұрын

@@SmokinSilicon Yeah my thoughts as well. The single core Compaq was really underpowered and I'm surprised it even managed to get Windows 10 installed in the first place; heck even the factory Windows 7 would have been slow. The Toshiba was probably a Windows XP/Vista era laptop so XP would be the best OS to use on it, for retro gaming with titles that don't like running on newer OS'es.

Love this new channel, seeing both of yall do some different stuff makes this all look super professional

that flash storage probably came from a first gen chromebook

Ohhhhh man those Compaq laptops really were the finest cheap garbage PC's you could buy even when they were new. Compaq was a division of HP and they didn't last long. I wonder why lol

HP ( Hewlett-Packard ) purchased Compaq back in 2001. They were a huge OEM name in home pc's through the 90's. Like Dell.

That particular line of Compaq laptops were manufactured by HP as their budget line. I had a 2008 C700 laptop with similar design at that one with Windows Vista 64 and Pentium DualCore 1.73Ghz with 2GB RAM

the fact i'm literally able to find the EXACT laptops for $10 at a nearby flea market, often fully working, and probably with better specs, is crazy.

Compaq is a company of HP and was discontinued in 2013, the Persario series is a mix of the Older G & Pavilion Series

@TheSpotify95

7 ай бұрын

That one (presario cq56) was pretty much a HP G56 series laptop, with the Compaq logo on it instead of HP...

Those flash drive storage things are from thin clients

I have an even older Compaq an LTE from 1996, and two Toshiba's from 97/00 respectfully, I had a Compaq 610 with a core 2 but donated it to a friend... I even had a handful of Slightly newer Toshiba's these met their end in E-waste unfortunately.

I have also noticed on the first laptop, it has a Designed for Windows 7 sticker on it, so I knew it was pretty old. 😂

@TheSpotify95

7 ай бұрын

It was also single core which dates it quite early, single cores were gone by the early 2010s as even the Core 2 Duo would have been better.

wait til you bring some of these home and open them to find colonies of roaches living inside

I received a package from an eBay seller that was a flat rate box wrapped in a poly the box was “taped” with shipping labels from USPS😂

@SmokinSilicon

7 ай бұрын

That’s hilarious 😂 some eBay sellers will do anything to save a buck

You can get better laptops for free! Just write to the IT Departments of nearby large companies and ask if they've got any spare laptops you can have, with you mentioning any charity work you'll do on the laptop.

I remember that Toshiba laptop. It was the first laptop I ever owned. I bought it used 4 years after it came out so it wasn't the greatest, but with an smaller ssd it was good for general browsing at the time.

Was surprised this isnt the first video we get to see some smoke. Those machines are nasty! Glad to see Jif is still there too. Thanks guys!

how did you manage to find the laptop my grandpa had as a child being the Compaq one and the Toshiba one used to be a family laptop for us. How lol I never thought I'd see those laptops again this video was huge nostalgia for me

First laptop: Budget model circa 2009-2010. Was a decent entry-level lappy of that era with those Specs. Doubt it'll handle any SOURCE engine games much at all. May have a second life with Linux Mint MATE for lightweight useage, SATA SSD and an additional 2GB of DDR2. Second laptop: Appears to be a mid-range model from 2006-2008. Was a pretty good lappy for it's time, and likely gave many years of good service. I'd imagine SOURCE engine games may barely run, Would still make for a good Linux machine for general light desktop and internet useage with any modern Distro with a proper SSD and 4GB of DDR2. But those SATA Flash devices are a disgrace. I'd imagine even a 120GB 5400RPM Mechanical HDD would have been far better!

@gt8200-0

6 ай бұрын

Yeah I also tend to upgrade DDR2 computers to 4GB, works well for Linux distros that aren't too heavy (Linux Mint MATE, as you said, but I've also used Lubuntu for these older PCs)

@gt8200-0

6 ай бұрын

But I think laptop #2 is from around 2010. I had a similar looking laptop from 2010 with a Celeron 900, from a similar time to that Pentium.

@steventechno

6 ай бұрын

That celeron sounds rough! ​@@gt8200-0

Great video! Looking forward to more. You should buy untested laptops or desktops too!

@SmokinSilicon

7 ай бұрын

For sure 👍 we have some planned. Any specific type of untested laptop or desktop you want to see?

@bannankev

7 ай бұрын

Im not saying go out and buy any of them. But I have always wondered the desktops that are odd shapes. Like Alienware does one and I know a couple other companies. But they are shaped like triangles and such. Do they have good air flow still? How is the cooling on them? Are they even remotely worth the price? For me it seems the odd shaped wouldn’t be as good as the tried and true square or slightly rectangle shaped desktop cases. Again. Not saying buy any of them. But I’m just curious as the thoughts you had on the odd shaped computer desktop cases work.

@ballinn0430

7 ай бұрын

@@SmokinSilicon Idk, just computers from the 2000s. Those old HP Pavillions are nice as well.

@SmokinSilicon

7 ай бұрын

​@@bannankev We actually have an alienware PC video coming soon (probably this weekend). Bought an open box one from best buy... should be interesting. But yeah that's a good idea in general to check out the weird shaped desktops

those sata flash drives are incredibly cheap, they're technically not ssds, as they have no dram and the controller is super basic, plus the nand flash is very slow. these crappy laptop repair shops buy these in bulk for about 45 cents a pop, so they are a lot cheaper than a replacement hdd or ssd and they are slightly faster than a hdd, but not by much

@TheSpotify95

7 ай бұрын

Given that they're only 16GB, I'd rather have a mechanical hard drive... That NAND storage really can't be performing well, especially when full to the brim (Windows requires more than 16GB on later builds!) and the storage will quickly degrade.

I love this channel so far

Love these type of videos

got them post notifications on for Jacob R and Smokin Silicon 💯

The storage in the Compaq could be meant for Intel Octane. They could have just used a SSD not sure why that would only use 16 GB.

You won't really find a good general purpose laptop for $30, but one can get quite decent laptops for cheap for specific use cases like hobby projects. For example I recently got a Dell Latitude D420 for $10 including a power brick and docking station.

0:53 That brand is Compaq, which was morphed into HP at some point. You'll probably be able to tell it belongs to the HP family of laptops (from that era), from the design of the chassis (similar to a HP G6), the keyboard, and the battery model (look out for HP battery parts like the MU06 or anything beginning HSTNN). edit: Apparently it's a Compaq Presario CQ56, which is based off some sort of HP model. It uses the same charger as a HP model laptop...

I remember my Compaq Presario desktop as a kid, my dad worked construction and someone left it in a house he was demolishing in the early 2000's. Thing wasn't great but so many good memories on it.... Limewire and cereal box computer games like Tonka was the shit.

You will need to install ssd faster than hdd

it could be cocaine lol 😂

Yo is that the guy from Pawn Stars?!

9:23 as soon as I saw the dust I sneeze so hard

I had a Compaq 30 years a go.

I bought this first laptop in 2009 and it got slower with time, and that dumbass adapter to get a "hard drive" to work and yes Compaq was a big brand that got bought by HP

Bro, my compaq laptop has a core 2 duo with 2 cores, how is urs only 1 core

bruh how did they get windows 10 on a 16gb drive?

@masbuleinlondon

7 ай бұрын

I thought it was win7, but didn't pay much attention.

Ugh I bought a laptop from eBay for $35 and it didn’t come with the charger or any version of windows on it. I feel like an idiot. I did buy now. Maybe other people bid on these cheap laptops.

lookin' at diz and i'm awaiting a second hand Dell Precision M6800 to come in for me! hopefully it'll be better than my Sony Laptop i only paid $150 for it

@TheSpotify95

7 ай бұрын

The M6800s are a best IIRC, I've seen someone do a restoration on the M6600 in which you could put in a mSATA SSD, dual 2.5in SATA drives (HDD or SSD) and retain the optical disk drive. Oh, and quad RAM support as well for 32GB DDR3!

@blakedmc1989RaveHD

7 ай бұрын

@@TheSpotify95 yep and i was gunna go for a M6600 until i found out tha M6800 was slightly newer and still had an optical drive with extra storage spaces and i'm excited because i can still upgrade tha GPU as far as it'll go

The PCs were OK, but nothing special. I'd say they were worth $30 as working PCs to someone who just wants a basic laptop for web browsing and office tasks, under Linux (not Windows 10). The Compaq was a budget laptop back in the day with its glorious single core CPU, and was clearly from the Windows 7 days (from the COA). But I'd rather have XP on it, because I feel XP is more suited to single core CPUs... Its battery was probably draining so fast because the CPU was pegged at 100%. An upgrade to 4GB RAM/500GB HDD would do the trick. Don't bother SSD'ing a single core as the CPU will be the limiting factor even with a hard drive! The Toshiba was definitely older, it didn't have a webcam, it was DDR2 (and only 1GB!), might even have had a 802.11g wireless card (instead of 802.11n)... But at least it was dual core, and you could probably swap the Pentium for a better Core 2 Duo. I'd get 4GB RAM installed (the maximum you can go with DDR2, but beware, some systems will only take 2GB, so try 2GB as well!) and an inexpensive 128GB SSD. I'd also clean the fan whilst you were that far into it, otherwise the laptop will overheat and result in its demise. Lastly, what the hell were they thinking with those flash drive adapters?! Those 16GB flash drives would barely be enough to store Windows on, and would be slower than a HDD as far as a boot drive goes.

It’s a compaq laptop I have a cousin that had one just like that one

1:08 This note is probably to get buyers to leave 5 star feedback and a positive feedback rating - as far as we know, this might hint to the seller being at risk of becoming "below standard" - if they're not already "below standard" to begin with. All sellers are evaluated on the 20th of each month to see if they fall into Below Standard, Above Standard, or Top Rated Seller. There are benefits for being Top Rated, ad well as punishments for being Below Standard (and if you stay Below Standard for too long, you lose your selling privileges).

Either you are too young or I am too old to know Compaq 😂 I am pretty sure I owned this single core Sempron at one point. It's possible to upgrade to dual core athlon but of course for this day and age won't be a any good. But putting an actual hard drive both of the laptops should run first half life and some other old games.

It really sucks that eBay sellers like this make us full time ebay resellers that care about our business look bad. Their ebay feedback is 97.1% which means they are currently in bad standings with eBay. That explains the plea for good feedback.

Compaq as far as I know is just a manufacturer for cheap trash PCs. Toshiba was actually a sponsor for one of my favorite Ferrari race cars, the 333SP. Doesn't change, that they make similar garbage to Compaq. Also, that blue note is useless.

It could be a graphics or memory problem - the reason why you cannot install Steam (or play games). Not enough of each. It may be possible to boost them up a bit and get them working - at least a bit closer to being able to play games - but they will run s-l-o-w-l-y probably. LOL.

shady when they asked for a review

Dude, my MacBook cost 10 times more than that and I got it from eBay

Hp bought Compaq in 2002 so the laptop is 2002 or older

Damn, I wanna get same t-shirt as you 😮

compaq i think is a brand before HP bought them

people are missing out, gotta subscribe to this channel. i was the 74th like

I've never understood why ebay sellers don't clean their stuff. Especially when it's electronics or games. Like... do you not want me to buy it?

Those are 2 UNTESTED laptops some of them might be faulty

Not a tech guy, huh?

Love it!

Good laptop for the price ,you just don't know how to make them work right

your being funny right, you have never heard of compaq? a pc tech who's never heard of compaq? their still around, their a sub brand of HP now. dual core PLUS cpu's have only been really mainstream since between 2005-2007 (especially in laptops)

@TheSpotify95

7 ай бұрын

But that Compaq was a 2009/2010 model when the Core 2 Duo had been around for a while and the new Core i3/i5 was starting to be a thing... They could have slapped in something like a T5200 if they really wanted to save costs, 1.6GHz but at least it would have been dual core.

My bro.... if this was 2009, there were still single core laptops being built and sold.... My goodness. Your knowledge is whats sketch. You could use a little tact. js :/

Please throw away your PC/IT card. The fact that you DONT KNOW what Compaq is as a brand blows my freaking mind.

@skystoyhunts7225

2 ай бұрын

What's so bad about it?

@ItChannel420

Ай бұрын

Im 13 and ive had a few compaq computees... Honestly how did people forget about them

@TechLovingHuman

Ай бұрын

It's not that deep chill

@liamcoldrick8044

Ай бұрын

Compaq is owned by hp now

@bluequadrifoglio6057

20 күн бұрын

He only knows about crApple

my old computer could do better than that (i would buy the steam deck or rog ally if i didnt get an overpowered gaming laptop a couple years ago)

These laptops i would get just to install linux or Better. TempleOS. It looks like this Ebay Seller i won't trust. Looks like that laptop has been modified and going to go Boom!!

i love seeing these videos! but i give these laptops a big L

I like the first vid

Nice

Compaq

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This guy is not as entertaining as that other guy

@DannyTheEditor

7 ай бұрын

thanks guy 😭

yjose laptops should at most have a light linux distro on them

First!