I switched to Windows XP in 2023...
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Chapter TItles:
0:00 The Legacy of XP
0:47 Mini Laptop, Big Love
1:51 Austin's Happy Place
2:45 Avoid the Internet, Stay Sane
3:41 A Webcam for Ants
4:44 Goodbye Cave, Hello Web
6:11 I'm Ticked Off (The Clock)
7:15 Upgrading to 2023-ish
9:03 That Hard Drive Looks Floppy
9:45 The Little Laptop That Could...?
11:32 Firefox Saves The Day
12:49 Who Needs an Entire Keyboard
13:25 I Just Want to Play StarCraft
14:56 Windows XP in 2023 - Věda a technologie
Swapping out your HDDs for SSDs is one of the most transformative things you can do, just mind blowing load speeds on these old systems
Yep. I bought an IBM Thinkpad a few years ago from around 2001. I upgraded the old 40 GB IDE drive to an M.SATA SSD with an IDE adapter caddy. Definitely improved performance.
Problem is however old OS doesnt support TRIM and despite that they say SSD isnt doint great job garbage collection without TRIM (and newer models is actually maybe even worse).
I'd say it's not worth the high price. Here's a scenario: you buy the SSD, and you put it in the computer. You play with it for a little bit, and you realize that the speed increase is only a small step up from what it was beforehand.
@@CoasterMan13Official SSD nowadays isnt that much "high" price. HDD is cheaper per GB, but its mostly for cold storage now honestly. In old PC there isnt need of fancy high-end SSD anyway, just get decent SATS SSD, they all now perform at SATA limit. If you dont want to get crap just stick to TLC with DRAM cache and you will be fine.
@@CoasterMan13Official What do you consider high price? The MSATA SSD I bought for my old ThinkPad was about $40 for a 120 GB drive. I hardly consider that a "high price".
Before 2013, virtually all PCs (and Macs!) had modular, replaceable, fairly-easy-to-remove parts (at least the memory, SSD, and battery, which all - always - should be replaceable/upgradeable).
I'd give my left kidney if this would return!!
hp laptops have been getting aloot better with replacable parts
@@diamondarrow4567 I would rather have my kidney stolen than buy an HP
My aunt has a midrange Acer AMD laptop where I easily replaced the screen because it somehow browe, upgraded to an SSD and upped the RAM. Works much better
You might love the Framework then
Another reason why 2013 is the worst year ever.
I switched to the best OS in 2023*
True, also first i think this will get popular
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Windows 98 is the best
2000s laptop webcams are like old black and white cameras of the 1920s, they're so antiquated they're basically an aesthetic now.
Even the desktop webcams from that era are downright atrocious
There is a hidden power mode for these that makes them quite a bit more useable… I think for most versions you need to update the bios to enable it. Ran that as a daily until 2015! Without the bios update it would have been useless- it makes quite a difference. ETA - you know the power mode is on, it turns the power LED from blue to red(!)
2gb of ram is insane for XP🤣🤣🤣
what is the hidden power mode tho
Where would you find that power mode?
I'm a network engineer and I was just talking to one of my seniors and we were bitching about windows 11 in corporate laptops and how it was super rushed.
She was emotional when the conversation drifted to windows XP. She has been a network engineer since 1995 and XP takes the crown out of all the flavors ( within windows of course. The best OS for us Netengs is Linux )
I love Linux, and this netbook would be perfect for a Q4OS Trinity 32bit Linux install with their Trinity DE based off oldschool KDE.
trans senior network engineer
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
This isn't a try on a copypasta, by the way.
@@CommodoreFan64 Sorry, know this is super late, but have you tried AntiX Linux? If so, what's your opinion of it?
@@arnox4554 it's been a few years, so I can't comment on the latest version, but it does seem they still have a 32bit version with both SysVinit, and runit, so give it shot, and see if it works for ya if you truly can't run a 64bit OS, as there are much better 64bit options with more common SystemD, like Manjaro Gnome on Wayland, or Solus Budgie still on X but slowly working to move to Wayland.
They are really playing with us now. How can a 15-20 year old laptop be so small and have so many ports and a removable battery, while in 2023 this is not possible with even bigger laptops?
Kinda obvious answer here….They do this because they don’t want you to fix it and prolong the lifespan of devices. They want to squeeze out as much money as you can.
Search for the Sony VAIO TX series of laptops. The smallest most complete laptop ever, with a gorgeous screen, all the ports and removable things you could need, and even a DVD burner. Some models even had a cellular antenna for Internet access anywhere. It was a marvel of the mid to late 2000s and makes you wonder if we're already living in the future or if we peaked sometime in the past 20 years.
Framework laptops solve for this.
Because we live in the era when less is more for the manufacturers. Less manufacturing costs and more money for them when you have them repair it.
They are really playing with us now. How can a 15-20 year old laptop be so small and have so many ports and a removable battery, while in 2023 that is not possible with even bigger laptops?
I would be impressed if you had to use it for a month and showed through videos what that experience would be like for you.
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The next ltt challenge
It wouldn't be that hard
With enough upscaling and color correcting ANYTHING will look good
Ngl i thought that that was the video
Windows xp is the staple of my childhood.. I still miss the ease and absolute pleasure of using xp to this day.
general malware doesn't target XP anymore, partially because it's a headache to make _any_ software that targets XP nowadays, and partially because the only targets on XP that are worth the time to make malware for are highly specific targets such as specific organizations known to still use XP
the most dangerous place is the safest place, as written in a book of war in china dated back 3000 year ago, why? For example the terrorist will attack the most crowded place, they not going to attack in a quite place. The virus will attack window 10 more than xp. The purpose of the attack is not for fun but for money in order to steal someone credit card bank numbers.
Assuming the XP install is patched against Eternal Blue anyway.
The mic and webcam are surprisingly decent for what the machine is and even compared to todays laptops!
Might be its only saving grace, as a matter of fact...
I’m pretty sure the webcam was only decent because it was in studio lighting conditions
@@axethepenguin has nothing to do with it the camera had pretty good color as well. most modern webcams in laptops are an afterthought so they just throw a cheap terrible one in lol
@@animeloveer97 true actually
The mic and webcam are surprisingly decent for what the machine is and even compared to todays laptops!
Seeing office 07 in action really brings memories back to me. At that time people around me were all using office 03 and being the first to install 07 and see that gorgeous Aero UI made me feel so weirdly proud
that poor poor computers going like I think I can I think I can nope I can't sorry dude your out of luck🤣🤣🤣
I think Office 2003 looked better on XP
@@grxgghxrpxr The real original version of Office that was around when Windows XP released was Office XP, which matched the UI of Windows 2000, ME, and 98 and hence looked outdated on Windows XP yet it was the latest Office version throughout 2001, 2002, and most of 2003.
Seeing office 07 in action really brings memories back to me. At that time people around me were all using office 03 and being the first to install 07 and see that gorgeous Aero UI made me feel so weirdly proud
Sorry but office 03 was better and still is
I used this laptop for high school. It was around the time that normal laptops were just really big and quite expensive. I even used it for gaming as it was my only computer. World of warcraft was running around 10-20 fps and i was even raiding with this. Fps during 25 man raid was 0, which made things somewhat difficult, but good enough to be tanking something :D
World of Warcraft slide show edition
@@TheTyisawesome Slideshows are usually a bit faster
One of the things that made these netbooks decent is that as low-powered as the hardware was in 2011, Windows XP was ten years old at that point. As long as you didn't get the Vista versions (which were universally disasters, largely due to the hardware requirements leaping drastically from XP), they really were ok.
Netbooks normally didn't have Vista, they had Windows 7 Starter. I'm glad mine came with Windows XP which ran really well
@@Pasi123 Even on Windows 7 Starter, you can see parts of the Windows Explorer interface render piece by piece on an Atom CPU.
Netbooks were bad buys when they were new. They had terrible build quality, terrible reliability, and extremely slow performance. A used 3 year old Lenovo would have been a much better value. The lenovo had a better upgrade path so even though it would not have been brand new, it would still have lasted longer than the netbook.
@@Piketom1 My Compaq Mini 110c had good build quality, reliability and was fast on XP.
The main thing about netbooks was the small size and long battery life. A bit like UMPCs but much cheaper and with a more usable size keyboard
In 2013 I upgraded to an old Lenovo ThinkPad T60 which was obviously more powerful but also had a lot shorter battery life and wasn't as portable
@@Piketom1 The combination of low price and high portability actually made them pretty attractive at a time when most laptops were either bulky or expensive and underpowered. Mine lived in my backpack through most of university. It was perfect for accessing the internet or typing up assignments around campus. For heavier tasks I would use my encyclopedia-sized laptop at home.
Yes, it's old OS and not up to correct standard but to be honest it actually has some better feature than current windows :
1. It's simple and not too bloating. It's so basic, so it's light and feels fast.
2. Not force you to online and automatically share your data to others.
3. Not much happened behind. If you ctr-alt-del current OS, You will see so many program works behind, even if you don't want to
I cried when my XP system gave up the ghost long after Microsoft said it would end XP support. So seeing this gave my ticker Happy flutters. My time of playing Diablo (but not Diablo 2 because I didn't want to lose my character) just came flooding back and made me smile.
he underestimates the computers capability's🤣
While I'm just hearing the sound the Warcraft 3 World Editor plays when you start it up...
Diablo will run on Windows 10.
I remember having to support these devices back when I was working for the Geek Squad at Best Buy in 2007-2010. They were quite painful to work and support since their early Atom processors and low RAM amounts and HDDs. It's nice that fast forward to today that you can toss in a cheap SSD and just like that, it's a "usable machine".
Thanks for the trip down memory lane Austin!
Up until something like 2019 the NHS (National Health Service) in the UK was using Windows XP, which saw them hacked multiple times. I believe they then moved to Win 7/8 and are still migrating systems to Win 10
A lot of ATM's are still using Windows NT!
Make that 2023, I caught one in the wild while working for my local trust in 2022 a user was actually trying to use it to print labels then my colleague found another in a server room in 2023 - I think the network guys probably grabbed the first machine they could find with a RS232 serial port.
@@0zzyp0zzyThere’s a photo print service at a mall near me and they are still using XP complete with using a CRT monitor.
@mrknighttheitguy8434 Some are still using OS/2 from IBM (from the 90's)
Up until something like 2019 the NHS (National Health Service) in the UK was using Windows XP, which saw them hacked multiple times. I believe they then moved to Win 7/8 and are still migrating systems to Win 10
Something like that would be used for industrial factories. To program machines that are on closed networks. Industry does not like to upgrade until it has to.
Why was Austin surprised that he could boot up StarCraft that easily? The game came out in 1998, many years before this laptop lol
netbooks are great for old games and emulators (up to like the ps1 mabey)
you'd know if you had used an intel atom processor
Why was Austin surprised that he could boot up StarCraft that easily? The game came out in 1998, many years before this laptop lol
The Legacy Update project is great for these old OS installs that no longer work with the official update servers.
The Legacy Update project is great for these old OS installs that no longer work with the offical update servers.
I have Windows XP installed on a Toshiba Tecra A8-EZ8313 and HP Compaq 6005 Pro (the latter would've originally shipped with Windows Vista Business, but it performed poorly on that computer so I put Windows Vista Ultimate on a Lenovo ThinkCentre A70 of mine), both of which are rather frequently used with recording videos, although it's more often the HP Compaq, because it makes for a really awesome Windows XP experience, with stuff like Microsoft Office 2003, Adobe Creative Suite 2, Winamp, Macromedia Flash MX 2004, Netscape Navigator 9 and AOL Instant Messenger (among other programs) installed. Nice to see I'm not the only one who still uses Windows XP every so often!
This video came out 14 hours ago, and 14 hours ago i was working on formating this exact same notebook to test windows 7 on it and boy was it fun ... ngl, cool coincidence, love those netbooks, pretty much a relic of the past now but always fun to see one every now and then.
Try something light instead. puppy linux maybe. :-)
@@math211 It was for someone who isnt that tech savvy unfortunately, so it had to be windows, if it was mine i would have installed linux on it on no time
I had one for a pretty long time, and even though it served me well for years tinkering with linux distros and random stuff i still can't forget how frustrating it was to try and use it as a regular pc, i even played league of legends wayy back in the day at 5fps and it took ages to load, minecraft somehow was able to load in superflat worlds. Truly a little warrior that struggled through everything i threw at it, driving me crazy in the process as well tho
This video came out 14 hours ago, and 14 hours ago i was working on formating this exact same notebook to test windows 7 on it and boy was it fun … ngl, cool coincidence, love those netbooks, pretty much a relic of the past now but always fun to see one every now and then.
This video made go back in time. I've graduated in economics with one of those. Used to make al the graphics in paint brush and copy and past to word with my class notes. What a wonderful experience!
This video made go back in time. I've graduated in economics with one of those. Used to make al the graphics in paint brush and copy and past to word with my class notes. What a wonderful experience!
Wow. That webcam is really good especially given the age, and sadly there are brand new modern computers with WORSE webcams than that.
Wow. That webcam is really good especially given the age, and sadly there are brand new modern computers with WORSE webcams than that.
I miss the simplicity of XP and how everything did not have a shortcut which meant less clutter for you to look at all the time it made it look sleek and simple which it was. Truly was remarkable.
you know you can just drag shortcuts to the recycle bin right?? the programs dont get deleted lol
I miss the simplicity of XP and how everything did not have a shortcut which meant less clutter for you to look at all the time it made it look sleek and simple which it was. Truly was remarkable.
I got one of these in 2010 when I was in college and couldn't afford anything else. I did upgrade the ram and put in a bigger battery. It lasted 6-8 hours on a single charge
Back in the mid 2000's, I went to South Africa, to represent schools in the UK, and we took a few EEE PC's from Asus so that we could video conference with schools in Durban. It became the defacto method used by UK schools to stay in communication with schools in remote locations overseas. I loved the little netbooks!
Once again Austin Evans giving us content nobody asked for, but yet everyone loved and enjoyed, keep the luaghs coming and keep the loveable old tech videos coming.
Once again Austin Evans giving us content nobody asked for, but yet everyone loved and enjoyed, keep the luaghs coming and keep the loveable old tech videos coming.
Oh, in the case you weren't aware; there's workarounds for getting newer programs to work on XP, as well as communities taking open-source programs and modifying them so they work on XP when they normally wouldnt.
(KernelEx/4GB RAM patches for 9x, extended kernels for 2000, scattered communities for XP)
I myself personally know of an MSN forum area dedicated to getting Chrome/Chromium to work on XP; so far i've seen up to 70ish
, and i've tested maybe about 8-12 months ago last.
To be fair, netbooks suffered when they put Windows Vista and 7 on them, but those were such a leap from XP that it’s essentially trivial for it to run.
Netbooks were great during their time. Chromebooks basically displaced them when they first appeared. While very underpowered, the netbooks were quite nice utility devices thanks to being so cheap. They were great for photographers for being able to copy off their media cards when they got full and be able to view the images. You wouldn't be doing much photoshopping on it due to the Atom cpu. But for the niche they filled they did so pretty well. Most had media card readers built-in (at least mine did). Based on the timeframe...I'm going to guess 320 or 500 GB was the largest 2.5" drive available during that time. Definitely not 1 TB in that form factor before they went away.
I miss Windows 2000. Back when Windows was just an operating system without a hundred things running in the background.
Yesterday I literally busted out my old asus windows xp netbook I bought back in 2009 and got so excited I was using windows xp again. I'm surprised everything still looks modern and usable, I also LOVE the Luna theme! I tried to make my windows 10 custom gaming desktop look like windows xp but every third party software that claims to make windows 10 look like xp just looks horrible
You're not alone, dude! )) I'm using my Asus EeePC 900AX in 2023 and it has virtually the same features as your Emachines. I mainly use it as a gaming PC ( for retro games ) but watching youtube and web browsing is possible too, despite only few web browsers actually work fine with current internet. I found an Opera version that is running better than Cameleon browser. I did't upgrade it with SSD yet and RAM upgrade would be too difficult in my case because Asus decided to make it embedded into the motherboard, so I'm stucked with 1Gig of RAM only...
Xp still works fine for most jobs. The only downside is the browser... you need to find browsers that supports current technology, esp when now online tasks are essential. I love XP -- in fact, for such an old OS it works just great by current standards.
There's actually a few community maintained modern browsers that are designed for Windows XP; K-Meleon (more light on resources), and RT Free Soft's Serpent browser (more fully featured Basilisk/Firefox fork) both work pretty well.
K-Meleon & MyPal are the best XP browser. And that’s not a misstatement - they’re both Goanna, similar to Pale Moon.
@@seshpenguin You can still use the latest version of Chrome if you use one-core
That webcam is roughly the same quality as what dell put on their current xps models
I have such fond memories of my hp netbook with Windows XP on it. Thanks for taking me back with this vid.
This really tickles my fancy! Intel Atom was my initial foray into the Mini-ITX form factor which I still subscribe to today, and was extremely functional as a server. For laptops, it might have been power-efficient as well.
The battery on this thing is actually really good because the low wattage of the atom
Should have had a go legacy update, it replaces the standard windows update and allows for all updatedls to be downloaded and installed as if they came from microsoft themselves. Works from windows 2000 onwards
how i can updates palemoon and k-meleon browser ? i have windows xp with browserr k-meleon to run on youtube and facebook but the navigator web k-meleon stopped working to enter in youtube and facebook i don't know how for apply update my browser k-meleon
I have a printer that only prints with XP and this looks like it would make printing on it much faster. It takes forever to print with what I have currently.
bruh just get a new printer...
@@animeloveer97 Its a rimage prism cd/dvd thermal printer. i only print up a few copies from time to time. theres no need to buy a new $1000 printer
This brought so many memories back from windows 2000 to Windows xp was such a huge step up, thanks austin for the memory lane. You remember that car racing game that came with it? Was so clunky lol
I am rocking a retro gaming tower PC with in XP x86... It is an offline machine, but has a i7 2600k, a GTX 960, 3 1TB drives and 1 256GB drive for boot, Sound Blaster X-Fi Champion Fatality Sound card all packed in a Cooler Master HAF X case. Runs all these great x86 Programs and software flawlessly. Run butter smooth and cool temps! XP gaming FTW!
Good vid Austin!
The worst thing about XP was how slow it was for updates, especially on slower pcs, you could literally wait hours just for it to search for updates.
Word bro
i feel the pain of waiting just thinking about it ugh
I thought XP was fine with updates. Windows 7 had it the worst! The updater would not only take a really long time to download updates, but also max out CPU usage and thrash the hard disk, so your computer was basically unusable while it was updating. The updater in Windows 10 is significantly faster. One of the few improvements in later versions.
If only there were security updates, I would stick with XP.
Speaking of Firefox - it cant skip releases, because situation when you update from version 40 to version like 80 is RARE, you can just install fresh one over from full installer. Also, firefox profile format is slightly changes sometimes and newer version have code to upgrade old format to new, but after some time migration code is dropped, so profile from very-very old installation may not work with modern build.
We sold our EeePCs two years ago. Doubled the RAM, installed SSD, and Chrome x86. Worked fantastic.
I wish there was a brilliant team of people willing to reverse engineer old operating systems and port them to work on newer hardware
the problem isnt the os, its drivers on newer pcs dont exist so xp dsoesnt know how to use stuff like wifi and display
I wish there was a brilliant team of people willing to reverse engineer new drivers and port them to work on older operating systems
Well, there is a brilliant team of people reverse engineering old Windows versions developing the ReactOS. It currently supports Server 2003 software, but as another person said, newer hardware does not have proper drivers. If ReactOS ever goes out of Alpha I would like to see modern Linux drivers (which support most of the current hardware) being ported to ReactOS so that we can use pretty much an XP/Server 2003 clone on modern machines with little to no issues. Maybe they support contemporary hardware currently but I am not that sure.
still has more ports than a brand new macbook
Netbooks still exist, they're just small laptops now.
I got a lot of use out of my Atom N450 netbook. They sold massive replaceable batteries that made it run forever. A lot of functionality in a small package. Mine had Windows 7 Starter which was pretty good. It upgraded to Windows 10 for free. It's been retired. Cool video.
much love to you , awesome content
I would be interested to see what a Linux OS would be like on this machine.
It would be great. I mean linux works great with these old machines. You can run basically a modern lightweight distro with no struggles. You could dual boot windows xp or run linux off of usb etc. This old tech is still completely usable if you don't need all the latest and greatest tech (high resolution youtube, newest 3d games etc.)
I have the exact same specs of an hp net book, it came pre installed with Windows 7 starter, as expected it ran absolutely terrible so I downgraded it to xp and it runs much faster and also upgraded it's ram to 2gb
My HP Compaq Mini 110c thankfully came with WinXP from the factory. It ran really well on it even with many browser tabs open
I had a netbook back in the day I used for college. I loved that thing. I still have it sitting around I think.
Man, I have a 1002HA (originally XP Home Edition, followed by Windows 7 Home Basic and then Professional,, nowadays) and it is still up and running!
And speaking of the camera, it looks rather decent for 2010 standards.
My favourite OS is actually windows xp!
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@@bakerrr925 at like the first minute there were lots but they are gone now
The edit of this video is one of the most fun that’s I’ve seen on your channel all the added effects were chef kiss 🤌🏼😙, more of this please I makes the video fun throughout the video. Much respect to the editor ✍️ maybe a raise 🎉
You can actually restore windows xp windows update to working order with legacy update, not only it will let you find besides the windows os updates but also driver updates and optional features also.
I've been using a Samsung NC10 as my main (and only) computer for about 4 years.First with XP and after a little while I've moved to Linux. I've sold it about a year ago for £30. It was still working fine
So you basically were getting by using just your phone except maybe to write longer texts?
I use XP at work everyday… in 2023.
Windows XP > Windows 11
Honesty I agree
i have installed recently windows xp on a pc with inytel core i3 41340, 8 gb ram and a gt 710. it runs very well and the most compatible browser on windows xp is maxton 5.38
My first laptop was an Acer Netbook Aspire One. The charging port broke early on so Microcenter gave me credit then I got a full sized Acer Aspire with the burning hot AMD V140 processor. That thing lasted me until I built my first desktop and I remember playing maple story on it in middle school. Sadly years later I tried taking it apart and destroyed some ribbon cables. RIP.
Great funny video, Austin. Thank you. Can’t believe xp could run youtube!
there is an xp in teamOS forum that the creator has done so much in customizing installation with all latest softwares available at 2016-2019 to install if user checked that . remarkable & best ready prepared xp for novice or pro user.
I have a similar netbook (Toshiba NB-520). With an SSD and 4GB of RAM and using Debian 12 (32-bit) XFCE it is surprisingly usable. CZcams is a horrible experience with laggy 144p, but light web browsing works just fine. But apart from that, modern software can run on it.
I still have my netbook from when i was in highschool during 2011, Pico branded with the exact same spec, just that i upgraded the ram to 2gb, which was huge during that time, and responded better than my peer's same netbook, running windows 7 professional ( not the brightest idea), but now its kinda out of juice (problematic battery,and the display just blacked out even though the machine is running ( i can hear the fan spinning from inside), it just stayed as relic of the past in my storage for now, still remembered playing modded version of dota 1 (reskin dota 2 heroes) and starcraft 2 at low setting ( it was horrible nonetheless), diablo 1, command and conquer generals & red alert as well as cs source & 1.6
what a time was that.
As someone who's first computer was a Acer Netbook in 2012 i was surprised that it can run some of the games that i had like Tactical Ops and Even The Warhammer Dawn Of war Series if my brother didnt break it i'd still have it to enjoy those games although i had to have a external Disk Drive that took up 2 USB slots which was a chore but when i had it working just seeing this video made me think back how i earned a laptop from my school and had to fight them into paying up what i earned I still wish i could go back to windows XP just for the pure nostalgia.
Not even kidding: there are still some print shops in India which have Windows XP systems, running Photoshop CS6 and surprisingly, quite a few modern Photo printers still ship with drivers for Windows XP.
Although things like AI generative automatic fill and other newer tools have made photo editing much more easy and intutive on the latest Adobe Photoshop versions, the people who are well versed in CS6 still manage to accomplish quite a lot with the tools available.
Those computers are strictly off the internet, I believe, and serve a few specific tasks: Photo editing and Photo printing and in the right hands, still done quite proficiently.
why does this webcam and mic better than the ones in some modern laptopos...
I'm watching this video on a laptop made in 2008. You can still use the old machines as long as they have a proper operating system that supports them. I'm on Linux, the problem is the small ram and the slow video card. Scrolling through the Facebook feed fills the RAM quickly. High-resolution video processing is impossible, but 720p is in most cases enough to understand what the video is about.
Browsing modern websites must be an absolute pain with all of the scripts, ads, and other junk.
11:10 It seems like it would have been unplayable but remember that CZcams used to run off of flash which was much lighter for netbooks and computers in general to stand, It is possible that the netbook could have been able to play CZcams just fine in 2010, as long as it played only in 480p or 720p. I used to watch CZcams on a netbook back in the day and it loaded just fine and played just fine. You probably know all this stuff but if not then...
i remember getting an extension on chrome that turned it from html5 to flash back when they did both still lol
I just got a little old Netbook that I did the same too, ssd and ram, and I put AntiX Linux on it and it runs great, and the browsers are fully up to date. fun little things.
Also another interesting info, there are 2 chipsets for netbook with Intel Arom, Intel and nVidia, the Intel chipset can only support up to 2GB of memory while the nVidia ION chipset support up to 4GB of DDR2 or DDR3 memory and of course offer better graphics processing than Intel iGPU (and because of that, netbook with nVidia ION chipset can run Full HD (1080p) video without stutter and of course some game ran better on it as well
I run Windows XP Home a few times per week to play the wma copies of my CDs and LPs with WoW and TrueBass effects. I installed and activated it in a Virtualbox VM in March 2010 and it survived 2 VBox owners; 3 desktops and 4 CPUs.
By the way I run it in 768 MB :)
recently i built a powerful Windows XP for retro gaming and you can have A TON of fun with it. Also i had a netbook for years, was my best friend writing and studyng on the go :)
The XP era Windows Update connection server was shut down by Microsoft to get the remaining updates you need legacy update installed.
It's so surreal to realize that XP was launched when I was 18 and a senior in high school ...22 years ago. It'd be really nice if time could slow the heck down!!! 😖
The worst part about windows XP, that I complete forgot about, HAS to be the start menu. That thing is just bad. That massive, ux nightmare is just nuts. I'd rather navigate my /bin folder everytime I want to run a program than have to go back to that start menu design.
Nostalgia means nothing to me....
But I really miss that internet explorer design. Wow. Those tabs are so pretty.
I'd like to point out that computer though it was 2009... but the HDD in it was made in 2010.
Might I suggest installing a light Linux distro and turning it into a print server?
I have a netbook that I got when I went back to college in 2007. It had 7 on it not xp but I loved that thing. It was my main machine for almost 10 years. It still runs Ubuntu Mate to today.
I would try something a bit lighter than Ubuntu MATE. I have an eMachines E525 laptop from 2010 with an Intel Celeron 900 CPU, an SSD and 4GB of RAM (upgraded from only 2GB when new), it runs Xubuntu 22.04.2 passably (actually just a bit sticky) although CZcams glitches when going to full screen at times. I prefer my newer computers for daily use but even after 13 years it is usable. It takes five minutes to boot up, though. Windows 7 was a bit slow right before the HDD failed while Windows 10 ran horribly slow even on an SSD. I would definitely NOT want to run a full Ubuntu, Budgie or MATE on it. I think when it comes time to upgrade to Xubuntu 24.04 at the end of 22.04 support in April 2025 that will be the end of the line for this computer running anything close to mainstream.
I bought of these for my 5 year old niece. It's her first laptop. She's got a bunch of old kids games that I installed and the entire back-up of wikipedia for when she gets older because it's not connected to the internet.
The DB in Germany are still using Win XP in the Ticket Vending Machines. You‘ll see the the Splashscreen, when it reboots at about 3am
There were definitely some forks of Firefox that supported Windows XP longer than that, and they mostly had roots in version 52.9. I even heard someone managed to get Rust working on XP well enough to compile a Firefox 60 version. There are some crazy people out there...
In 2009/2010 I used one of these on tour. It worked great for what I needed at the time
Where did you buy it from? I have been looking for a computer that can run the Sims 2 without weird graphics (my nvidia card puts weird black rectangles under my siims’ feet). I have the Sims 4, but I miss TS2’s gameplay options.
8:55 let's gooo Austin saw my comment saying edited with capcut😂
4:24 how it felt to open that game after getting the sound driver to work when i was a kid.
SSD's make all the difference.. I just can't use platter drives anymore, upgraded all my old PC's and revived them though I use RefreshOS 1.23 developed by eGoTech currently and love it!
I still have my Asus eee pc with an intel atom n550 and nvidia ion gpu. One day i decided to upgrade it with 2gb of ram, a 128gb ssd and overclock the crap out of the cpu and gpu (cuz you can do it), using windows 7 starter it is amazingly snappy.
That thing even managed to run skyrim consistently at 25-30fps! Most of source games ran okay aswell...
edit: I entered the teofis command in skyrim to make the game less intensive.
It's always interesting to see how far it's possible to push the hardware of what is essentially ewaste today.
We need a new @Gamestop Gear video!!!
Maybe review some of their newer ‘in-house’ items?! They’ve got some ‘airpods’ and lots of other LED accessories
I have a laptop of the same specs (ideapad s100). Bought it used in 2019. First thing I did was replace the HDD with a 120GB SSD (ironically the SSD was more expensive than the laptop).
What I have done with it is that I have dual booted it with windows XP and xubuntu linux.
Xubuntu works well with such hardware, so you can use it for basic tasks and miscellaneous linux tasks.
XP is amazing for playing childhood games. Yes for DOS or older consoles, its better and easier to get a raspberry pi and boot with retropie, but for windows 3.1, 95, 98 and early XP games this laptop this works amazing. And if you have a VGA to HDMI dongle (if you don't have native HDMI port), set it up with a TV and with a wireless keyboard/mouse combo you can do couch nostalgia gaming.
In terms of drivers, the lenovo support site still had the XP drivers for this laptop so that didn't take long. And since I do connect it to the internet every now and then (I don't have anything critical in storage), you can keep avast antivirus as its the only one I found that still updates its virus definitions.
Dont know if this netbook also is underclocked, but i know the eeepc's from asus where. And you could use eeectl to get them to the normal clockspeeds.
Maby also an item to check.
Mine was a Dell Netbook Mini 10v that i hackinthosed with Snow Leopard, that little thing work as good as a macbook with only missing a DVD drive
the web cam is up there with some laptops today
I still have an XP machine, occasionally on the internet/network, I use it for some old software that wont run in a VM.
Nevermind I should have watch later into the video before I drop the comment about Firefox longtime service release. What you've actually got right there even before the hard drive upgrade and the ram upgrade was actually a stellar audio gamer. To learn more look up audio games archive. I would recommend PB games and lworks and destino games.
That could actually probably run crazy party.
I loved my lil Acer netbook it served me well for ages and even to this day I prefer that style of product