My dad bought one of these back when they came out so he could use it for work. It had come with a remote control F1 car and a cologne too! My older brother destroyed it by playing SilkRoad Online 24/7 on it and the poor thing couldn't keep up. Rest in piece overpriced Acer laptop. You won't be missed.

@nil0ww598

2 жыл бұрын

Whaat how did he break it lmao??

@moogleking

2 жыл бұрын

Lol silkroad online that game is a classic

@alkan3191

2 жыл бұрын

@@nil0ww598 probably by by killing the cpu or some part with heat or overworking something i guess?

@MandoMTL

2 жыл бұрын

@@nil0ww598 The game probably pegged the cpu & gpu at 100% and had the fans going 100% constantly.

@darrenskjoelsvold

2 жыл бұрын

But what do you really think? :) hehe..

Dawid vs Pre Windows 7 software has to be the most hilarious thing I have ever seen since the bright yellow koala case video

@AnnaDoes

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely 🤣

@DawidDoesTechStuff

2 жыл бұрын

Haha!! Yeah, it is not my favourite. 😅

"I'm gonna go start a family, and be back in a couple of years" Dude, this is bloody gold.

@gamertrojan4038

2 жыл бұрын

Poor Anna. Laptop frustration relief. And she gets a bun in the oven to deal with as well. Lol

@blakeparry1983

2 жыл бұрын

to be fair starting a family for me is normally a ~30 second experience

@aleksazunjic9672

2 жыл бұрын

Realistically, David is out of his league with older computers and OS- He does not how to do it, he uses Steam and than blames it on a laptop.

@thealien_ali3382

2 жыл бұрын

Lenodeeeeee Ur mom

@DawidDoesTechStuff

2 жыл бұрын

@@blakeparry1983 Not meaning to brag, but 30 seconds seems a bit short. 😂

Can we just applaud the packaging? That person truly wanted the thing to arrive safely, even if it was an odd assortment.

@DawidDoesTechStuff

2 жыл бұрын

Haha!! That’s true.

The fact that the screen is pretty dim is because CCFL lights degrade over time, which causes them to be dimmer, and the fact that the Steam installer didn't launch is because Vista blocked it, and you need to right click, properties, and unlock. LGR also made an in-depth video about this laptop.

@raven4k998

2 жыл бұрын

stop staring at the multiple glory holes please🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@DawidDoesTechStuff

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, I should have watched his video. The steam trick would have saved me a lot of time. I tried to launch it as admin, and that was pretty much all the options I could think of. 😅

@lejoshmont2093

2 жыл бұрын

@@DawidDoesTechStuff given with how much you struggled to get steam installed it probably would have been easier to install steam on linux.

@BenState

Жыл бұрын

@@DawidDoesTechStuff also an SSD bro :)

Making Dawid watch a bloatware being installed is like torture.

@AnnaDoes

2 жыл бұрын

It really is 😂

@jokersinurface

2 жыл бұрын

It was hilarious. Not only are we going to add bloatware we are going make Dawid watch and not be able for him to stop it.

@DawidDoesTechStuff

2 жыл бұрын

I felt so helpless.

@leehawk7068

9 ай бұрын

That sounds very familiar to an Acer laptop I got in 2006 first out kf the box turning it on and first thing it did when getting into windows all the crap started to install and if I remember rightly it took well over an hour to install Don't understand why these companies push all this crap onto new laptops / computers I now if I buy computers I go with a bank system and Install the OS myself at least I know I get a clean machine and only software installed is what I want I got an HP AIO that came pre installed with windows and a hell of a lot of crap from all the HP stuff and various other crap a USB stick with win 10 installer solved that problem

10:17 I love how you renamed the system ''Piece of shit'

@diligaf1000

2 жыл бұрын

I saw that too 😂

@AnnaDoes

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I didn’t even notice that 😂😂😂😂

The laptop that broke dawid. I've never seen him do such limited benchmarking.

@AnnaDoes

2 жыл бұрын

It really broke him 😅 he came home night after night increasingly frustrated

@exxor9108

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think he did so much _any_ benchmarking at all. lol There weren't any, all there was, was a slideshow for a Mass Effect presentation, on Windows XP. lol

@anonymousphoenix154

2 жыл бұрын

@@exxor9108 I do not like the creator, he only "benchmark" the laptop by playing modern games on an old laptop at a the highest settings and res knowing that the FPS is bad without seeing the full the potential at older games when this laptop was made in. He only rants about how ancient it is most of the time.

@aleksazunjic9672

2 жыл бұрын

He does not know what he is doing. To bad some of the retro channels did not get this laptop for real testing.

@DawidDoesTechStuff

2 жыл бұрын

I very much did not enjoy my time with this laptop. 😂

You might want to invest in some games from the GOG store. Virtually all of them have stand alone installers and no DRM. It doesn't make games magically work on vista, 7, 8, or XP but it skips the steam DRM barrier to entry on unsupported versions of Windows.

@iliaslive7006

2 жыл бұрын

So basically just piratebay them

@RarestAce

2 жыл бұрын

I love GOG. Much better than Steam in just about everyway.

@Ajdin87

2 жыл бұрын

GOG is shit, old games that you can't play on older computers. Only on modern operating systems.

@RarestAce

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ajdin87 yeah I don't have that issue at all I have zero problems playing 9x and Dos games on my retro gaming systems.

@Ajdin87

2 жыл бұрын

@@RarestAce how do you install gog games on Win 9x?

"so what model is your ferrari car?" "i didnt say its a car. its a laptop." "oh"

@raven4k998

Жыл бұрын

it's what everyone wants in a laptop multiple glory holes on it

I'd be interested to see how it performs if you repasted all that dry thermal paste, threw an ssd in, and chucked a linux distro for steam gaming with proton support, or even just windows 7 for steam. Maybe a turn that Ferrari into a ricer lol

@stevenmartell2289

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking the entire video

@CheapBastard1988

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely! Most of the video seemed to be about how frustrating it is to use modern online software on old Windows versions that are no longer supported. Which is hardly the laptop's fault. The laptop looks great and with Linux it could still do something currently relevant. Especially with an SSD even though the Sata bus will hold it back.

Installing and setting up Vista on these old laptops brings back bad memories. Some things are best left in the past.

The seller really packaged it well

@DawidDoesTechStuff

2 жыл бұрын

Haha!! Yeah, they made sure nothing would happen to it.

Never has another being been this happy to play mass effect at 15 fps. Truly a once in a lifetime experience.

Vista probably had the same issue xp did when it comes to updates, problem is Microsoft ruined the update service Might have been better just to use 7 as it probably would have been inbetween xp and vista with performance

@o-hogameplay185

2 жыл бұрын

Is win 7 updating? I tried to install it on an onld laptop, but could not do windows update on it. So nonupdates, and even i could not set a different language, and the people i wanted to give it dont speak english

@neurokinetik64ES

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I had a desktop from around the same era of hardware (Athlon 64x2 4400+ and a 7950GT GPU) that worked well enough under Windows 7. It would certainly improve the software compatibility, and probably had ok drivers to use as well.

@larrybreavman4864

2 жыл бұрын

@@o-hogameplay185 If you google "error update windows 7" or similar you'll find a tool to solve that error. I recently tried it in two machines and worked properly. The name of that tool is "Update fix Windows7"

@NepgearGM6.1

2 жыл бұрын

@@o-hogameplay185 yes it updates

@azheral-nabi6737

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s

I would've maxed out the RAM, put in an SSD, installed Kubuntu, then played Half Life 2 and a couple simple ARPGs. I'm sure the thing is capable of low-res gaming, browsing the internet, and sending emails. It would definitely be a conversation piece.

I remember back in my High School days servicing some laptops like these. This was horrendous in terms of drivers and support. It didn't like Vista at all, ran better on Windows 7.

@Gatorade69

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing liked Vista.

Well I certainly remembered such experience for my 1st couple laptops. When I was a student, my parents would get me only the basic laptops to save money, so yeah I'm happy if I could play anything. Although speaking of Mass Effect, a buddy even had to help me edit some reg files to set the settings even lower than low else it won't even run lol. Granted I got my own stuff which didn't need to do such things once I started working as a young adult. And I did hv the rotating webcam on my 1st Asus laptop. Its good that you don't need to cover it, just turn it the other way if you don't want others to see you. Ah. Good times. Thx Dawid for the trip down memory lane.

Love your videos! When Vista 1st came out I bought a HP laptop with the Turd, I mean the AMD Turion processor. The laptop ran so hot that I couldn’t touch the top of the keyboard, and sounding like a hairdryer it put out a stream of hot air onto my lap (nice on a winter day though). With no SSD the boot and installations passed like continental drift. I kept that laptop just 6 months and burned by the experience I haven’t used one since!

@insert_username_here

2 жыл бұрын

"passed like continental drift" that is a great way to describe something being slow and I shall be stealing it.

"It's terrible, runs like a potato." "Oh, you can't say that." "Why not?" "It's a Ferrari!" "It's a ****box! It bugs like crazy and the display is a disaster!" Rush - 2013

@dannym1882

2 жыл бұрын

"It's amazing, all these facilities and you come up with a piece of crap like this."

I remember seeing this for sale and laughing so hard at people who would shell out that much for a piece-o-crap laptop.

@DawidDoesTechStuff

2 жыл бұрын

Haha!! Same here. That’s why I really wanted to check one out for a video.

I was dying laughing the whole video! The icing on the cake was noticing you named the laptop "Piece of shit."

Actually,I had servicing my friends laptop, running Windows 10 on Turion CPU. Until he spill water on it... And,so I've sold him my C2D powered laptop, and it made him happy.

"It's making me watch as it's installing ACER bloatware on the laptop.." - this had me legit laughing so hard my chest hurt

@SchoolforHackers

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there’s an element of cuck to it....

I worked on many of those Acer laptops, including the "Ferrari" models... back in the mid-late 2000s. All I can say is, now you know my pain. :P

@MKRCinema

2 жыл бұрын

I mean to be fair. Back then, we were pretty used to computers like this. So we wouldn't even know we had it bad then

So close to 400k. Congratulations.

This is seriously the greatest video of all time, I haven't laughed that hard in a while. The real clincher is the last "I'm done, I don't even care" *ends video* LOL I'm so sorry for the pain you had to endure for this Dawid

10:35 that rotating webcam was standard feature in some of Acer's laptop lineup back in 2004-5. My first laptop was an Acer Aspire 1500-ish with that same feature

@Pupp3tCl0wn

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, we had a Acer TravelMate in our classroom to show presentations or play movies on the projector, and it has that rotating webcam too

Dawid, I love your sarcasm. It brings flare to your videos and that's why I like your videos so much. Your level of sarcasm is unmatched and I love it, keep it up bro.

Hi Dawid - I was getting a migraine as I started the video. It cheered me up no end.. I remember when it took over 8 hours to get windows up an running. No sure why you didn't just instal a variety of Linus and run Steam there. I think the takeaway is don't buy an ancient laptop or even accept one for free, just accept it is e-waste or a museum piece. Thanks 😁 Your frustration brought me joy. See you next time

@colddripgaming

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a horrible take away, “ancient laptops” have a reason to exist and while you personally may see no reason for it to exist it doesn’t mean there is none. Be smart about your purchases and know what you’re getting into might be a better takeaway

a fine video, some of the best coverage of luxury tech vehicles i've seen

Back in ohhh '06 a buddy of mine had one of these, I was very very very jealous as I had a family Pavilion notebook at the time. After a bit of experimenting on the laptop I wasn't as jealous as when I saw the Acer Ferrari combo. It was a slow heat machine.

That blank error message Dawid got reminded me of when I tried to login to the Square Enix store a few days ago and got an error. The details of the error were, and I kid you not, just simply "Incident". Very helpful error messages all round.

Hilarious Dawid, love the "THREE GLORY HOLES!" ha haha ha ha. Suffering for the cause, man. Well done brother.

That laptop seemed like an absolute nightmare 😳 love your videos Dawid thanks 😊

For it's day, this was actually extremely impressive. I remember owning a (rather expensive) Toshiba Satellite laptop in 2012 and this blows it out of the water in terms of creature features.

I got one of these in pieces years ago, eventually I ended up scrapping it, there just wasn't much of it left to put together. my model actually had a slot loading optical drive.

David's got the best, most comedic reviews on the tech journalism side of KZread. I can't help but laugh through the whole video

If you haven't already, I think it would be wise to rip the recovery discs and upload the ISOs onto archive.org if you can - helping preserve that software for future people who could possibly buy this (without a recovery DVD for original software included) would be really cool

Supplied one of these badboys to a client back in the day - he absolutley loved he f1 engine logon sound and showing off the badge on the back of the screen in board meetings

Acer basically rebranded their absolutely amazing laptops into a Ferrari. Insanely innovative Sheesh 15 likes, the most I’ve gotten :)

@rinkyouma2320

2 жыл бұрын

@Anna ♪ you forgot the "yes" or "fax"

@coolpianostuff

2 жыл бұрын

@@rinkyouma2320 Lmao ikr so many spammers

@tm86rs

2 жыл бұрын

Rebranding acer predator would be fine that is good laptop.

@rinkyouma2320

2 жыл бұрын

@@coolpianostuff they're like a plague bro.

@coolpianostuff

2 жыл бұрын

@@rinkyouma2320 ikr

Clint from LGR is laughing at you right now. Rookie moves Dawid. Good video man, despise the maddening processes involved.

Ohh god that laptop is my very first. And i still have it wirh me after 10 plus year of owning it. Though, window 7 and 10 is a Trouble. But, SATA SSD which i upgraded, and migrated everything from spinny boy to flashy boy.

The steam issue can be worked around by transferring game files from another computer (including the associated appmanifest file), I recently did this with an old XP machine. Another alternative is to dual boot an OS that can run steam like Windows 7 or Linux and then creating a custom library folder on a Windows partition and setting it as a library folder in XP as well and then downloading to it with 7/Linux, this is how I do it on another XP PC.

I actually bought an Acer laptop that had Vista on it. It was late 2006 if memory serves. During the 1st year, nearly everything on the laptop broke. The power cable receptacle, the headphone jack, serval buttons on the keyboard. This was technically my SECOND Acer laptop because the 1st one had a power interruption during setup and bricked the entire laptop so I had to take it back and get a replacement. The last words that laptop told me was "Starcraft.exe has stopped responding" before I slapped it into the floor and threw it away.

You know youre old when you remember really wanting one of these back when they came out.

Ha! I remember selling one of those back in 2006 when I worked part time at the local computer store. They were so hyped back then 😂

Wow, this computer review brought back memories…long slow drawn out painful memories- old AMD CPU’s, DDR2, Vista…did I say painful memories?

I just realized the "Ferrari 5000" model, just in line with the Aspire 5150 with AMD Athlon 64 I had for a brief period of time until I "upgraded" to some TravelMate with a Intel Pentium Dual Core processor

Great job I went thru a similar experience recently I did not get as far as you did. Congrats Dawid!!! P.S. I just got rid of the old hardware. :)

The Lenovo chromebooks at the high school I went to had the same webcam thing where it flips around. Most of them were broken, because you can trust high schoolers and there were only 36 chromebooks for all 500 students freshmen to senior, but they were still neat. I personally wouldn’t want one and would rather just have a little sliding cover, but my only experience was with the ~$100 chromebooks.

It's hilarious to me that they put the ferrari laptop in that shell, because with only a couple of modifications it was identical to their baseline budget line. I had a laptop from them that came stock with Vista, 512MB of RAM and a cute little Celeron with Intel GMA 950 graphics. It was a nightmare to use, but at the very least it was upgradeable. I put (i believe) a core 2 duo in it and maxed out its ram at 4GB, and raided through the entirety of WoW Wrath of the Lich King on it. But seeing the *EXACT SAME SHELL* being used for what I can only assume was meant to be a premium laptop experience was a huge suprise. Plastic everywhere, barely functional heatsinks and fans, fiddly screws and hardware with poor driver support? Amazing.

Dawid, i recommend you get a trey for those screws whenever you teardown a laptop or pc Thanks for the entertaining content

my Missus had the 11.6in Red Ferrari Acer laptop with the AMD Turion X2, Radeon 3200 and 4GB DDR2 RAM back in 2009/2010. it was a good machine, actually. despite the bloatware, the 4GB RAM and processor provided enough resources to browse the web and do office work. it came with Windows 7 and was still usable for many years.

I had a little red Acer 14"? netbook,it had little half tyres on the bottom and made a little ferrari engine noise on boot up.I took it backpacking to Asia about 15 years ago.Short story of it is,it used to overheat really quick if you dared try to play football manager so sold it on return to UK :D

3:00 The school chromebook I had a few years ago hat a similar swivel camera

When can we expect a follow up video on this amazing product? 🏎

These videos are always so hilarious. Keep up the good work!

you have no idea just how relatable this video was. Not the Ferrari part, the wasting hours and hours trying to get someone's old PC to just do a few simple things. In the end, it's always the same thing "well this was totally worth it!!!???"

Dawid Vista has an odd feature that blocks newer software from working you have to go in to properties of the installer by right clicking and then unblocking the software which will then allow it to run. Odd i know but that is how vista did it

I had the normal Acer Travelmate version of this, it had a carbon fiber lid, it was a great laptop for 2006.

I dissasembled one of these a while ago. I still got the components. The socketed laptop cpu surprised me the most.

The update montage awakened Mustakrakish from beneath the surface of the lake of my subconscious memories of ancient installation and troubleshooting rites.

That actually reminded me the review of similar laptop on LGR.

A usb to something cable. Exactly what I need!! I've been looking for that for ages!!

Fun Fact: Acer is the only tech company that is credited by the FiA as an engine supplier to an F1 team. Back in 2000 the Prost F1 team needed a new engine deal after their previous supplier peugeot told them in no uncertain terms "do please fuck off" so they turned to ferrari who agreed to a non-works (giving them year old engines) deal with a minor catch: They were required too rebadge them as "Acer O1A V-10" because there was a co-branding clause in the contract so for the remaining two seasons that prost was in F1 they had to suffer the embarrassment of faking an engine supplier because their actual supplier didn't want the world to know that they were "helping" out.

Dawid should be nominated for best advertiser. I don't need any LiiiinoooooooDe myself but its gonna be in my head awhile.

I had the slightly lower-spec older version of this laptop (3000 series if I am not mistaken), and I loved it :D Mostly because at that time, most laptops came with 720p screens, and this one had a 1680x1050p screen which was glorious! The rest of the specs were quite high at the time too (which was of course reflected in the price tag), but I ended up using this one for quite a while. The top cover was also made from REAL carbon fiber, not a print :)

Getting it done just got more fun

hey dawid your the best funny tech channel out there were at 400k halfway towards 1mil

getting it done just got more fun

I used to have an Acer Ferrari F-22bid monitor. A great monitor that used for years and years.

Wow, this thing would be great for playing Quake 4.

@CaveyMoth

2 жыл бұрын

@@DJboutit2 Red Faction, System Shock 2, Command & Conquer Renegade, Black & White... I could go on all day.

My old boss had one of these that we used for product demos. Every time you'd click the mouse or traverse to a web page, it made a very loud engine sound. It was quite embarrassing. At one demo, the customer became so annoyed that he demanded we disable the sound. My boss wouldn't do it as he loved it. We didn't get the sale.

@AnnaDoes

2 жыл бұрын

Your old boss sounds like quite the man. 😂 the fact that he doubled down is hilarious

These old laptops had some serious CPU throttling issues with Vista...the power management for Vista was mostly to blame. One trick I used was to right click power settings and enable maximum performance. I've had programs lock up during install with it set to anything less. Edit: I had the non-Ferrari version of this laptop btw, it was fairly upgradeable for it's time, and was one of the first SSD-powered laptops I ever owned (went from a 250GB 5400RPM to a 128GB SSD). I remember it being a solid little machine after upgrading everything on it.

*this* is the Dawid content I love

Your new benchmarking metric should be "Dawid's blood pressure" 🤣 Great video, as usual 😁

I had this laptop ( the non ferrari version) fun fact the way they installed vista on this pc was to first install windows xp media center edition and then "upgrade" it to windows vista.

The frustration is channeling.. holy shit

I would be willing to bet money that at this point that the people at Linode have a good laugh at every version you put out of their sponsorship

It's odd to think that the idea of plonking the badge of a car manufacturer on a laptop is a thing, especially when nobody would want a car 'proudly' wearing the badge of a laptop manufacturer. In the highly unlikely event I ever buy a Ferrari I think I might have it repainted 'Acer laptop white' and replace the car's badges with Acer ones. I miss laptops that have replaceable batteries and want to be upgraded. No doubt why I still have an Elitebook 8560w, and they hold their prices so well.

9:46 Dawid: Omg there's another setup process happening. Also Dawid **Ferrari engine startup noises**

Its insane you got steam running on that OS - AND that its a laptop

There is a Lamborghini laptop as well out there by Asus. Bit newer then this Acer laptop with either a gtx 560m or 460m. Also most likely Windows Vista's User Account Control that was preventing you from running the steam installer or UAC in the settings of windows. It broke so many installers already back in the day, but once you turn it off it's not too bad running vista sp1.

@londonprods.f

2 жыл бұрын

He has a video on it

Could you make some videos on laptops with weird/failed gimmicks? Like the revolving laptop, or hybrid laptops etc?

S F on the logo is basically an Italian abbreviation for ferrari stables.

Linode needs to do a TV commercial spot with Dawid, he deserves more cash for those promos.

Haha, you showed an laptop from 2010, love it.

Of course Dawid is most excited about the many glory holes on the bottom. No joke though the Ferrari F40 is better than any glory hole filled laptop.

You connection issues were likely due to XP/Vista out of the box doesn't support TLS, where as most hosts these days require a min TLS 1.1/1.2 for security reasons.

Try W7, I put that on an old Dell Inspiron E1505, and it ran surprisingly well. Like, I was watching your videos on 1GB RAM, a mobile Pentium, and GMA 950 XD

Sooooo close to 400K Dawid........

Linode should Make Dawid his Brand Ambassdor

So close to 400k! Any day now!

I can guarantee its 1000x better experience after fresh paste and ssd. Any possibility seeing new videon on this? :D

I trust a company like Falcon NW to do the Ferrari and Lamborghini names justice as they actually use high quality paint on their chassis and don't skimp out on the parts used in their desktop builds. I think they did try their hand at laptops back in the day but not much after.

i was hoping to see this in one million pieces

I remember my grandpa had a tiny Ferrari laptop in like 2009. I remember the boot sound being a car engine

Seing the packaging, I would have unpacked the thing outside to prevent any uninvited visitors. Once I would have opened the laptop, it would have gone directly into the trashcan.

Almost 400k!