Donkey kong country runs slow... Something is not right...
@SevenCompleted20 күн бұрын
50 hz PAL snes
@KorisnikKorisnik-wd8ks18 күн бұрын
@@SevenCompleted im using pal region, thats not right speed for the pal donkey...
@Diggy2222 күн бұрын
Upgrade to an SSD, install a good Linux distro, and that T420 will be a workhorse.
@HaelstormGaming24 күн бұрын
Have one in 2024, its really good, just get an ssd an 8 gig of dual channel ram. fast enough to run basic tasks and old school gaming, my only complaint with t420 is its weight, its very bulky and it also throttles without the battery for some reason.
@jmgs25 күн бұрын
I am using one of them in 2024. i5, 12Gb RAM and 256 SSD. W10 as SO. It works fine for all the task I need to do.
@MrSeankoeАй бұрын
Can it save load state?
@BluFlame3712Ай бұрын
Love your music in this video -- very retro. And thanks for all the included links in the description.
@woodygranger2126Ай бұрын
Im running Linux Mint OS. I just upgraded my T420 to a 1 TB ssd, and I was playing 8 videos in 8 browser tabs simultaneously with no lag in the system! I stopped there and checked the ram and cpu core usage. 4gb of ram and about .25 or less of each core. I bought a Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-inch 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal SSD It's the best upgrade I have done.
@billgates3699Ай бұрын
‼️Memories of 2011. We had a bunch of these donated to us and after having a Quake III LAN party we each carried two of them up to the pedestrian crossing over the highway and hurled them at cars below 😂 eight eMacs just raining from the sky. Imagine telling that story to your insurance or your wife when you got home 🤣
@samuelstyles503117 күн бұрын
you should be in jail
@Windowsfan100Ай бұрын
In regards to adding storage: The secondary network card slot (next to the bottom RAM slot) also takes mSATA SSDs, so if you want extra storage without giving up the DVD drive you can use that for SSD storage and leave the 2.5" bay for spinning rust.
@GeorgeZimmermen2 ай бұрын
Chinese Wuhan garbage
@akanumbers2 ай бұрын
no IM dan
@kynkai3 ай бұрын
It's got 420 in its name so it's automatically dope
@wael40703 ай бұрын
Msata sdd fits too
@T_Faded3 ай бұрын
it's suitable even in 2024
@isabear4784 ай бұрын
Do you have to install the operating system or was that just your laptop because I see one that says it's on windows 10
@crystalclearchaos53874 ай бұрын
Wait the red dot is a palm rest ?? Who is resting there hands on the middle of the keyboard
@blow0me6 ай бұрын
Yes, it's a great laptop. Although USB3 would be nice. I've two of them, one for use, one for a spare. Never use games. Express USB3 cards just do not fit, far far too tight in the machine
@wonderbreadmodelsandhistor15666 ай бұрын
Great vid...that was and still is a great machine. As much as I love new tech and buying the latest greatest...that machine could do everything I actually do on a computer and I use one daily for work...both home office and in the field. Email...videos...conference calls...MS office...shopping...research...and a bunch of cloud based crap...no problem on that machine. As I type on a 2k Mac :/
@dineshsingh-gb6un7 ай бұрын
Ye sahi he pur agar IBM ke me window 10 chul to use acha kuch nahi
@nabeelahmed98927 ай бұрын
What's the specs of your t420 gpu dedicated or integrated? I upgraded mine to i7 2670QM here in Pakistan i found this processor for 7$ also i found that integrated intel hd 3000 doesn't work on windows 10 buts runs flawless on windows 8.1
@stephenhall35158 ай бұрын
You have the patience of a saint but do wear surgical gloves on education machines in case of the wrong sort of "culture" emanating therefrom. Note the resemblance between the body shape and the JBL Creature speaker system. Fabulous website.
@stephenhall35158 ай бұрын
The speaker output was unfortunately proprietary and the internal sound was nearly as good. However, audio out to good quality powered speakers can give excellent results because the audio DAC chip OUT was superb at the design stage by Sir Jonathan Ive and when Apple lost interest in audio excellence along with other manufacturers Ive worked with HK and others as a side project. He likes music and was brought up among Welsh choral societies.
@stephenhall35158 ай бұрын
I have just discovered your site and look forward to viewing other content. My T420 has 8GB RAM, a good quality 480GB SSD and boots to fully ready in 9 seconds. I modded it with ease after rebuilding a T400 and T500, so I was quite competent when tackling the T420 and repair/upgrade neighbours' laptops as a useful pension boost. Most of the client machines are far younger than my T-team but far less well made and do not beat the speeds in standard tasks of my T420 with Intel I5 and Nvidia switchable graphics. Needless to say, the newer stuff (even at fancy prices) have tiring and tiresome keyboards and get rather warm because of the slim fad and, in the case of HPs, downright poor internals and cheap capacitors as well as lousy access. At least the better makes still allow RAM expansion and we are now past the ultra-slim, minimal port phase in performance laptops by Dell Group, ASUS, Acer and some new Fijitsus. Apple is also getting the message in its bigger screen machines, even allowing RAM increase. Sadly, Lenovo now makes too wide a range and lack direction but if they made something like the T420 with the option of a 'retro' keyboard, modern ports and optical/ultra-bay swappable the education market worldwide would order millions of them. Optical (especially high density) is by no means obsolete in education and medical use and why do you say "INFAMOUS" ThinkLight? Backlit keyboards do not illuminate the whole working area while a slightly modified ThinkLight does.
@onkelhiphop9 ай бұрын
This is really nice it’s a little annoying that you have to turn off the console every time, could be nice if it was like a combo of pressing start and select at the same time that would be nice great video keep it up🤘😎
@trismegistus28819 ай бұрын
It would have helped you a lot to use FireWire Target Disk Mode, so you don't have to take everything apart.
@rubyciide55429 ай бұрын
The laptops that screams "I use arch btw"
@RobertJohnson-lb3qz9 ай бұрын
Nice vid. Can the cpu be upgraded?
@RDMillen4 ай бұрын
It can. You can add a i7 of the same generation to give four threads instead of two. If you go as far as installing a custom BIOS you can go up to an Ivybridge i7.
@RobertJohnson-lb3qz4 ай бұрын
@@RDMillen Nice, I was thinking, as a project, of trying coreboot if the current updated bios doesn’t work. I don’t know what generation cpu is in at present (i5 2520M)...
@benjamd87019 ай бұрын
I've been using my T420 as my daily since 2016 when i bought it used. Still runs fine, recently upgraded to 16 GB Ram. Next is i7 and SSD
@Sardihan9 ай бұрын
i had to use this in high school in 2009-2013 and these were the worst computers in school
@alubaldini9 ай бұрын
Some site for downloads or at least backups ?
@RavenMadd910 ай бұрын
Was there a video on how to start one up?
@sebastienlopezmassoni810710 ай бұрын
Thanks for this video
@williambaldwin948711 ай бұрын
I just bought a 2002 eMac myself recently! I've been meaning to burn an install disc to wipe it, but haven't gotten around to it yet. I love to see more people enjoying the education machines from yesteryear
@emteiks11 ай бұрын
I have T420 with 16GB RAM, and 2 SSDs with total 1.5TB. Total beast. The only bottleneck is the 2nd gen Intel CPU. Which can be tweaked into gen 3 i7 when installing Coreboot BIOS. I wish they would produce laptops as upgradeable as T420 these days.
@keto678911 ай бұрын
I'd use Linux not Windows 10!
@shenanigans123411 ай бұрын
I use a t420 as my daily driver, corebooted it, put in an SSD, new battery, and linux. Battery ACTUALLY LASTS ALL DAY, boots up crazy fast, and secure as can be :) I'll be upgrading the CPU soon too.
@loodakris592811 ай бұрын
How did you get the battery to last all day?
@shenanigans123411 ай бұрын
@@loodakris5928 I bought the extended battery, and kept the brightness at a reasonable level per environment (indoors with dim light turn brightness down, outside with blazing sun, turn it up). I also use Linux on it, which on laptops can either hurt or boost battery, in this case, it boosted.
@stevethea525011 ай бұрын
THIS IS MY DREAM LAPTOP
@loodakris592811 ай бұрын
Haha your dream should be attainable. Its a decent machine which gets the job done for basic tasks.
@Sharpshooter99100 Жыл бұрын
T420 is a great laptop which lasted me 10yrs of good service. Then started getting really really slow and lagging, then crashing. I finally had to buy a new laptop. Its a great laptop workhorse, i upgraded mine to 16gb ram & ssd. But not good enough now for 2023. Get something else
@2DarkHorizon Жыл бұрын
Lenovo t420 arn't a bargain anymore people should be aiming for a t480 or a lenovo laptop with a ryzen 5 with 6 cores.
@zzz-cb3xe10 ай бұрын
It has the best keyboard
@user-lh4in4rx1f Жыл бұрын
Don't waste your money to upgrade t420/t430 in 2023. It's usually cheaper to buy t480 which already comes with fullhd ips, 16gb ram, nvme drive(3-4 times faster sata ssd), more powerful and less power consuming quad core processor (more battery lifetime).
@mattcrouch8984 Жыл бұрын
hah holy crap. you said 40 pound.. i was thinking.. how heavy?
@aqibbhatti3843 Жыл бұрын
Is dell n5040 useable in 2022? Thinking of buying this one used.
@swardmusic Жыл бұрын
Wega pronounced 'Vega'
@swardmusic Жыл бұрын
Anyone having issues with files getting lost?
@tricycloplots212 ай бұрын
That generally means you have a bad SD card - replace the SD and you should be good
@maidenaholic Жыл бұрын
If you can't save then that's not good
@SevenCompleted20 күн бұрын
it has regular sram saves just no save states
@bigboyking7551 Жыл бұрын
I still have the computer and I play super smash bros brawl on low setting and configuration on the machine. Not the best but good enough for this new era
@Heenfio Жыл бұрын
Can I use this for college or myself
@DoctorAlex1 Жыл бұрын
My main workhorse is a T420 with the HD screen, a quad core i7 (2760QM) (A cheap upgrade), 16GB ram and a 2TB SSD. Renders all my videos quickly, does everything fast really, cannot see myself ever shifting to a "new" laptop until all T420s finally vanish ;) Oh, and yes, I use Linux Mint 18 ;) :D :D
@frankalbaro90 Жыл бұрын
So i have that laptop lenovo Thinkpad t420 and is it Support for stream console gaming if i make it Upgrade to the laptop ?
Пікірлер
does it still work?
Donkey kong country runs slow... Something is not right...
50 hz PAL snes
@@SevenCompleted im using pal region, thats not right speed for the pal donkey...
Upgrade to an SSD, install a good Linux distro, and that T420 will be a workhorse.
Have one in 2024, its really good, just get an ssd an 8 gig of dual channel ram. fast enough to run basic tasks and old school gaming, my only complaint with t420 is its weight, its very bulky and it also throttles without the battery for some reason.
I am using one of them in 2024. i5, 12Gb RAM and 256 SSD. W10 as SO. It works fine for all the task I need to do.
Can it save load state?
Love your music in this video -- very retro. And thanks for all the included links in the description.
Im running Linux Mint OS. I just upgraded my T420 to a 1 TB ssd, and I was playing 8 videos in 8 browser tabs simultaneously with no lag in the system! I stopped there and checked the ram and cpu core usage. 4gb of ram and about .25 or less of each core. I bought a Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-inch 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal SSD It's the best upgrade I have done.
‼️Memories of 2011. We had a bunch of these donated to us and after having a Quake III LAN party we each carried two of them up to the pedestrian crossing over the highway and hurled them at cars below 😂 eight eMacs just raining from the sky. Imagine telling that story to your insurance or your wife when you got home 🤣
you should be in jail
In regards to adding storage: The secondary network card slot (next to the bottom RAM slot) also takes mSATA SSDs, so if you want extra storage without giving up the DVD drive you can use that for SSD storage and leave the 2.5" bay for spinning rust.
Chinese Wuhan garbage
no IM dan
It's got 420 in its name so it's automatically dope
Msata sdd fits too
it's suitable even in 2024
Do you have to install the operating system or was that just your laptop because I see one that says it's on windows 10
Wait the red dot is a palm rest ?? Who is resting there hands on the middle of the keyboard
Yes, it's a great laptop. Although USB3 would be nice. I've two of them, one for use, one for a spare. Never use games. Express USB3 cards just do not fit, far far too tight in the machine
Great vid...that was and still is a great machine. As much as I love new tech and buying the latest greatest...that machine could do everything I actually do on a computer and I use one daily for work...both home office and in the field. Email...videos...conference calls...MS office...shopping...research...and a bunch of cloud based crap...no problem on that machine. As I type on a 2k Mac :/
Ye sahi he pur agar IBM ke me window 10 chul to use acha kuch nahi
What's the specs of your t420 gpu dedicated or integrated? I upgraded mine to i7 2670QM here in Pakistan i found this processor for 7$ also i found that integrated intel hd 3000 doesn't work on windows 10 buts runs flawless on windows 8.1
You have the patience of a saint but do wear surgical gloves on education machines in case of the wrong sort of "culture" emanating therefrom. Note the resemblance between the body shape and the JBL Creature speaker system. Fabulous website.
The speaker output was unfortunately proprietary and the internal sound was nearly as good. However, audio out to good quality powered speakers can give excellent results because the audio DAC chip OUT was superb at the design stage by Sir Jonathan Ive and when Apple lost interest in audio excellence along with other manufacturers Ive worked with HK and others as a side project. He likes music and was brought up among Welsh choral societies.
I have just discovered your site and look forward to viewing other content. My T420 has 8GB RAM, a good quality 480GB SSD and boots to fully ready in 9 seconds. I modded it with ease after rebuilding a T400 and T500, so I was quite competent when tackling the T420 and repair/upgrade neighbours' laptops as a useful pension boost. Most of the client machines are far younger than my T-team but far less well made and do not beat the speeds in standard tasks of my T420 with Intel I5 and Nvidia switchable graphics. Needless to say, the newer stuff (even at fancy prices) have tiring and tiresome keyboards and get rather warm because of the slim fad and, in the case of HPs, downright poor internals and cheap capacitors as well as lousy access. At least the better makes still allow RAM expansion and we are now past the ultra-slim, minimal port phase in performance laptops by Dell Group, ASUS, Acer and some new Fijitsus. Apple is also getting the message in its bigger screen machines, even allowing RAM increase. Sadly, Lenovo now makes too wide a range and lack direction but if they made something like the T420 with the option of a 'retro' keyboard, modern ports and optical/ultra-bay swappable the education market worldwide would order millions of them. Optical (especially high density) is by no means obsolete in education and medical use and why do you say "INFAMOUS" ThinkLight? Backlit keyboards do not illuminate the whole working area while a slightly modified ThinkLight does.
This is really nice it’s a little annoying that you have to turn off the console every time, could be nice if it was like a combo of pressing start and select at the same time that would be nice great video keep it up🤘😎
It would have helped you a lot to use FireWire Target Disk Mode, so you don't have to take everything apart.
The laptops that screams "I use arch btw"
Nice vid. Can the cpu be upgraded?
It can. You can add a i7 of the same generation to give four threads instead of two. If you go as far as installing a custom BIOS you can go up to an Ivybridge i7.
@@RDMillen Nice, I was thinking, as a project, of trying coreboot if the current updated bios doesn’t work. I don’t know what generation cpu is in at present (i5 2520M)...
I've been using my T420 as my daily since 2016 when i bought it used. Still runs fine, recently upgraded to 16 GB Ram. Next is i7 and SSD
i had to use this in high school in 2009-2013 and these were the worst computers in school
Some site for downloads or at least backups ?
Was there a video on how to start one up?
Thanks for this video
I just bought a 2002 eMac myself recently! I've been meaning to burn an install disc to wipe it, but haven't gotten around to it yet. I love to see more people enjoying the education machines from yesteryear
I have T420 with 16GB RAM, and 2 SSDs with total 1.5TB. Total beast. The only bottleneck is the 2nd gen Intel CPU. Which can be tweaked into gen 3 i7 when installing Coreboot BIOS. I wish they would produce laptops as upgradeable as T420 these days.
I'd use Linux not Windows 10!
I use a t420 as my daily driver, corebooted it, put in an SSD, new battery, and linux. Battery ACTUALLY LASTS ALL DAY, boots up crazy fast, and secure as can be :) I'll be upgrading the CPU soon too.
How did you get the battery to last all day?
@@loodakris5928 I bought the extended battery, and kept the brightness at a reasonable level per environment (indoors with dim light turn brightness down, outside with blazing sun, turn it up). I also use Linux on it, which on laptops can either hurt or boost battery, in this case, it boosted.
THIS IS MY DREAM LAPTOP
Haha your dream should be attainable. Its a decent machine which gets the job done for basic tasks.
T420 is a great laptop which lasted me 10yrs of good service. Then started getting really really slow and lagging, then crashing. I finally had to buy a new laptop. Its a great laptop workhorse, i upgraded mine to 16gb ram & ssd. But not good enough now for 2023. Get something else
Lenovo t420 arn't a bargain anymore people should be aiming for a t480 or a lenovo laptop with a ryzen 5 with 6 cores.
It has the best keyboard
Don't waste your money to upgrade t420/t430 in 2023. It's usually cheaper to buy t480 which already comes with fullhd ips, 16gb ram, nvme drive(3-4 times faster sata ssd), more powerful and less power consuming quad core processor (more battery lifetime).
hah holy crap. you said 40 pound.. i was thinking.. how heavy?
Is dell n5040 useable in 2022? Thinking of buying this one used.
Wega pronounced 'Vega'
Anyone having issues with files getting lost?
That generally means you have a bad SD card - replace the SD and you should be good
If you can't save then that's not good
it has regular sram saves just no save states
I still have the computer and I play super smash bros brawl on low setting and configuration on the machine. Not the best but good enough for this new era
Can I use this for college or myself
My main workhorse is a T420 with the HD screen, a quad core i7 (2760QM) (A cheap upgrade), 16GB ram and a 2TB SSD. Renders all my videos quickly, does everything fast really, cannot see myself ever shifting to a "new" laptop until all T420s finally vanish ;) Oh, and yes, I use Linux Mint 18 ;) :D :D
So i have that laptop lenovo Thinkpad t420 and is it Support for stream console gaming if i make it Upgrade to the laptop ?