The Nickelodeon Netbook
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Disney and Tim Hortons can't have all the fun! Turns out Nickelodeon also got into the logo-slapped laptop game. Today we're exploring the special edition Nick-themed Dell netbook. 2009 was a crazy time.
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The iCarly one probably was too hard to produce due to the mandatory in-universe requirement of it having to be a pear shape.
And kids would think it’s fake because it says Dell instead of the pear
The laptops in iCarly were not pear shaped.
@@dumbpup You're right, but every single person who clicked the thumbs up on that dude knew what he was talkin' about, us included.
@@bixbabble3935 In a perfect world, kids being retarded and everything being manufactured to cost would be the first things to go.
Funny thing is they did produced as I got one i can post video if your interested enough (they didn't make it a pear shape they made it look like the laptop they used in the studio only the phones are pear 🍐 shaped not the laptops....
The fact this laptop is probably better quality than most modern Nickelodeon shows
Honestly, I'd argue most of the new cartoon shows non-spin-off shows they produce are alright. The problem is that they cut it short if it's not ludicrously popular immediately. Then they push the show and property to death afterward.
true dud
Middlemost post is shit
@@williamtopping they are just stuck to their tablets and phones nowadays.....
@@williamtopping kp
This exact laptop was my very first "personal" computer ever! I used it to death until the OS died on it and the battery literally refused to function without it being plugged in constantly. Absolutely abused the shit out of it and yet I loved it to pieces.
Replace the battery and install a new OS
DUDDEEE I HAD THIS TOO I WAS LIKE 6 BUT IT WAS THE MOST FUN IVE HAD IN MY LIFE
That battery is just 6x 1865 3.7V batteries not even lithium ion - replacment battery is expensive but if you do it yourself it's cheaper but they are very unreable and heavy
get a replacement battery and put a lightweight linux distro on it xD
@@cliyes
This triggered a memory for me. In 1993 when I was in 6th grade we had to write a fictional complaint letter as a writing assignment. I wrote mine to Dell (I really wanted a new Dell 486 at the time), and complained that green slime was oozing out of the the 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives. Weird.
lol
oh lol
prophetic
😊
I had one of these and it was the coolest thing to my 8 year old brain. My own personal laptop with a theme of a channel I would constantly watch! The windows theme is something I still think is super cool and makes me miss the days when theming and having unique versions of product were more common.
Imagine buying an Xbox or a Switch that are branded, and the entire theme is centered around that brand like these were. Borders around game tiles themed after a show, custom backgrounds, special animations and all
Now all we need is a Cartoon Network computer and the holy trinity is complete
Checkerboard pattern EVERYWHERE.
This reminds me of the late 90s/early 2000s thing of everyone having their own-branded MP3 player - here everyone has 'their' own netbook.
Damn I remember these. It's my first ever "computer". My dad got this in a raffle and gave it to me as a birthday gift.
This got me through high school and first couple years of college. It was chock full of anime and mp3 and it was my first lesson in backing up your data when the hard drive failed and the whole thing went kaput
Danggg how old r u
@@Abby-rl4st old enough to become a father
@@Abby-rl4st bro probably is touching 70
@@TerryKay.fowl 😭
I mean the software side was kinda lacking, but I’ll be honest, that slimed green white base dell looks frustratingly clean. It actually feels like it has character beyond the Tim Hortons Theme of Depression and the Disney’s violent sparkle that you wouldn’t really associate with Disney if their brand name wasn’t slapped on there
Then you must only know modern Disney
This was my first computer ever! My parents got me this as a kid, and I accidentally shattered the whole screen.. So cool to see this again!
That old Nick logo is so nostalgic.
There's a new one? Missed that!
I’m getting old if that’s the “old” one
@@DaXande135 MJD used the classic Splat logo in most spots, but since this was 2009....
It was the year of the logo swap from the Splat to the one currently used today
Thanks Michael for this trilogy of weird netbooks!
Thank you for the super thanks!
how u do that donation??
Whatever you do, Do Not buy the Rick & Morty notebook ! ( It's got Rick chips in it, you might end up in a different multiverse ! ;-P )
@@Unknown-64209 Click the thanks button near share button, and choose the options of donation.
@@MichaelMJD I had the original Dell mini that looked similar to the Nickelodeon one
The Dell Mini 10v was the best Netbook for Mac OS X Leopard Hackintoshing. I bought this thing in 2009 just to finally have a "good" Mac laptop.
I'm kinda surprised because IIRC Apple had Unibody Macbooks back then and the performance was likely also superior. I could personally see price as an important factor though.
God. This video gives me so much nostalgia for someone so young. The "Whyville" icon, the "new"(at least not updated since 2009) AND old Nick logos that I've lived through spotted all throughout the video is giving me an existential crisis.
Well this makes a lot of sense because I had the non-Nick version of this netbook and some of the Nickelodeon customisations were available on the driver download page for it which I found confusing at the time 😅
A Dell a day keeps the IT guy away
I can relate
I had this - and loved it. I installed Mac OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows 7 on it a tri-boot machine. The Dell Mini 10v was the premier netbook for hackintosh enthusiasts back in the day. Thanks for the memories!
i actually had this netbook back in the day. i used to play so much dynasty warriors online and FATE with this and i used to watch so much youtube on here.i love this. what an unexpected burst of nostalgia. thank you bro genuinely
I knew it was coming! I had the Nickelodeon netbook back in 2011, it's basically a kid themed inspiron Mini 10. Mine had an Atom N270, 1GB of RAM (yes, 1gb) and a 160gb hdd, with XP Pro, which oddly enough, it came stock and didn't have some kind of fancy theme.
XP Pro on kid pc?
Some of the netbooks with those very same specs came with Window 7 'Starter' too - they were nightmares. I remember the one I had just gummed up trying to do the updates all day long - it wasn't a decent machine until I put Ubuntu on it.
@@MattExzy
Aaahhhhh! Ubuntu Netbook! Oh, the memories of when I used that on my LG X120! I forgot about that! (Also Kubuntu which had Plasma 4 with its own netbook shell)
@@kbhasi Do you remember Jolicloud (later renamed Joli OS)? I had Jolicloud 0.9 pre-final installed on a 4GB USB flash drive to use on my Compaq Mini 110c
@@Pasi123
Oh my. I did mess with it for a while, but that was in Chrome, not as a dedicated OS. I forgot about it until you replied!
I have to be honest this has got to be one of my favorite Laptop designs personally the whole Nickelodeon slime just gives me so much nostalgia
This is so cool, I used to have a Nickelodeon Alarm clock I won in a contest, loved that thing so much.
The slime design on the back is really cute. I feel nostalgic for that era of Nickelodeon.
I remember seeing one of these on display at Walmart late 2009? I remember I had recently bought the Acer D250 and I thought it would have been cooler to get this one because it looked one of a kind. And I remember thinking the animation was neat! Strange at the time seeing new machines with XP even though the N270 handled windows 7 very well.
That was a nice hit of nostalgia. Thanks for that!
cant imagine 7 working well (if at all) with only 1gb
@@googaagoogaa12345678 fortunately, most (if not all) of these netbooks with the N270 can be upgraded to 2gb of ddr2-400 ram.
I still use mine. An Acer D250. Pretty confortable for reading car workshop manuals on-site.
I'm glad my Compaq Mini 110c came with Windows XP. I think most of the hate for netbooks came from having Win7 with 1GB RAM and slow HDD
The atom series did not handle win 7 very well
maybe when brand new, but once you use it for a while, it's painfull. I "downgraded" my HP mini to XP and it ran miles better.
N270 handled Windows 7 with no service pack well. If you try installing Windows 7 SP1 with all the windows updates until the point of its End of Life support, it becomes extremely frustrating to use.
Source: I was recently requested to help in making two old N270 netbooks fast again. After trying numerous Windows versions and Linux distros, I settled for Windows 7 with no service pack, and told my friend to not dream of surfing the web with them because of all the potential security flaws. In case my friend still tries to use the internet, I got them Pale Moon, Qihoo360 and TinyWall installed, and I locked them out of the admin account.
This triggers so much nostalgia of my first netbook my dad got me when I was like 8 y/o or so. Had it in use till I was 13 and then installed linux server on it to use it as a minecraft server to play together with my friends on my new laptop. Great times, loved it
I had the normal black one. It made a great Hackingtosh machine ! Loved it
Since Windows 7 didn't come out until 2009, those papers were put in the box by mistake. Of course by the late 2010s, netbooks started too lose popularity
Netbooks couldn’t run 7 well from what I recall at first?
@Jesskha CE wasn't even designed for netbooks, lmao. It was just cheap and convenient for manufacturers to build shitty ARM based 'netbooks' with a custom WinCE on it configured to look and act like XP. CE was meant for embedded devices, as well as some early PDA's
I remember this era. It probably launched just before Windows 7 debuted. It was common practice to include upgrade media when they knew there was an imminent OS release. It's a lot easier to throw a disk and card in the box than it is to unpack all of the machines and upgrade them once it goes RTM. My guess is they intended for you to install Windows 7 clean install, hence the disk.
I had a Sony Vaio Pen-top in 2000 that shipped with Win 98 SE and came with the ME upgrade in the box IIRC. You might have had to send away for it.
Problem was these laptops didn't have a DVD drive and those upgrades came in discs
So you either had to go to the library and make a bootable flash drive or buy an external drive
Yeah, my dad has this same laptop without the Nickelodeon branding and it came with Windows 7 Starter out of the box
Lots of memories resurfaced warching this. That laptop was my first computer and a gift from my mum.
That netbook looks okay
That netbook looks dumb
Thats actually a super cool theme, this is definitely the most effort put in for the branded laptop series
and the best thing in the theme is that, someone archived it and its publically downloadable for windows xp computers
I actually picked one of these up months ago. Had no idea it was a Nickelodeon edition. I’m glad you archived the recovery media as mine came with windows 7 starter.
I got one of these, in regular white edition, back in the days with Tiscali, an italian provider, as a bonus as my family was one of the first on italian soil to subscribe with them.
The provider sucked ass, but the netbook was surprisingly snappy for the time.
I think I remember it having a 15gb SSD so that would make it pretty fast for the time.
@@bixbabble3935 oh no mine came standard with an HDD, can't remember but I think it was one of those old 30GB ones.
Do you think you could upload the Nickelodeon theme to archive?! That ooze is so cool lol
Already have! Link is in the description
@@MichaelMJD Thank you my good sir! Next time I'll learn to read first 🤦♂
I wasn't expecting to see my childhood laptop on here! What a great start to the day!!
This is technically better than the food place one
I loved 11.6" minibooks back then and still I do! Stardock program were my favorite skin applier! I still own the version which were popular in those early 2010s era.
I remember having a Dell Inspiron 10v when I was a kid, such good memories :)
I had a 1545
I’ve got one of these. Ordered new direct from Dell with the upgrade 6cell battery. I stripped all the Nick software immediately, added a Ghostbusters logo sticker, maxed the RAM, and got a silicone keyboard mat to protest the high gloss screen. It’s had Windows XP, 7 starter, 7 Pro and 10 on it. It’s been a Hackintosh, and I still use it now with a lightweight Linux as my home network administration tool. I still have the box and the receipt. It’s a very low spec toy now, but I love mine and will run it until it’s totally useless.
🤣 Ghostbusters though! Probably the closest thing when you can't afford a 59 Cadillac hearse
Wow, that hard drive was all over the place!
The green “no installation media” slip actually says “January 2010” in the lower right corner at 4:47 - giving credence to the fact that it’s from another machine :D
Even more so being as the installation DVDs say Sept 2009 at 5:05
Yeah. Because of the new logo debuting in September of 2009.
this was my very first computer and it literally changed my life this thing put in OVERTIME
I loved this Netbook craze of 2008-2010. I wanted one when I was a freshman in college for work but never got one. I wish they would make a comeback. They just seem so quaint.
i think one could call it the "NickBook" and i actually like how it looks
I had one of those! My mom got me one as a Birthday or Christmas present sometime between 2008 and 2012. And it also ran a special Nickelodeon-themed version of Windows XP.
I think that little slime detail on the inside of the laptop is so cute! As a dyed in the wool stickerer and tech customiser, I totally wanna do that to my machine.
i was just about to ask about an iso dump then i saw the description tysm!
I did not grow up with the Nick netbook, but those desktop things brought me memories. Had one time my sister installed one theme on the family computer and was scolded by my father for making the computer look so weird lol
Your father just doesn't have great taste lol that's his issue
I would have loved this as a kid. I think I'd probably still love it, to be honest.
I actually really wanted this Netbook when I was younger, because I loved the whole slime design and grew up on Nickelodeon so I just loved the whole aesthetic of it
It was rather common for netbooks to include Microsoft Works instead of Word, back when Works was a thing. The netbook that I used during high school was one of those. Bold of Dell to include a disclaimer IN ALL CAPS on the box that it is not Microsoft Word, though.
I know that after Microsoft Works was discontinued this was replaced with Microsoft Office Starter 2010, which was just a barebones version of Word and Excel. Hey, for most people that was enough, you probably didn't need PowerPoint anyway. And it was completely free, no subscription needed.
The version of Works they were shipping in 2003-5 actually included Word 2002. Presumably that is what the disclaimer is referencing because the newer Works versions no longer included Word.
Yeah, you're looking for Microsoft Word when you're supposed to be looking for the Microsoft Works Word Processor.
@@rcmero I just looked it up and Dell used to ship _Works Suite_ which bundled Works with Word, Picture-It and a few other programs.
Finally a tech CZcamsr who doesn’t rip the device in half as soon as they open it
love your videos kept me happy in time of depresion,keep up the good work bud..
i cant believe i had this bad boy back in the day lmaooo... even as a kid i hated how limited it was but i still loved it.
Here in Germany i bought a similar Netbook with the same Specs, a Dell Mini 10v. In those days it was my hackintosh (Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard). In the meantime it got a SSD, max RAM (2GB) and a battery replacement. Today it's running MX Linux Fluxbox Edition - CZcams is possible, but only 144p.
Love the initial startup and first message on the lower right corner says ''Your computer might be at risk''
Props to them using the Dell Mini 10v. I've had and used many laptops over the years, but the Mini 10v was my favourite to use. Used it for work, tripple booted with Windows 7, Linux and Mac OS. Best workhorse I've ever owned.
I had the normal non-Nickelodeon one back in the day. Despite the fact that it was pretty underpowered (Atom blows even worse than Celeron does), it was still a pretty capable and cheap machine for the time. I managed to install Windows 7 on it and it wasn't half-bad. The thing that killed it for me was when I had a shitty job that wouldn't give me a computer and I had to bring it there, and Visual Studio 2010 took 3 whole minutes to compile, when on my home PC it took just a couple of seconds, so I can't stress enough how awful Atom is.
Thankfully they finally gave me a computer after a couple of weeks on that job, but really it wasn't worth my while and I quit after 5 months. The little Dell went to my youngest niece who back then was like 8 years old and of course wrecked it.
This thing feels like memory from very past. But I feel grateful and content with my current device after seeing this device.
I remember always using the Moon theme because it looked so good! Memories!!
I actually got the Nick Mini 10 when it came out, for my birthday. Still works pretty well and everything.
I always forget these sorts of laptops even exist! Including this Nick one. Wow.
I had one of these as a kid, my parents got it for me for Christmas. Loved this thing and used it until it had hardware failure like 4 years later and wouldn’t boot past the POST.
I loved the XP Boot screen so much
I remember seeing these at walmart. I loved the green slime and thought it reminded me of Nickelodeon but i had no idea that it was actually a Nickelodeon product since the one they had on display was just a standard install of Windows XP. Sadly, it was around $300-$450 so i couldn't afford it at the time.
I wish I had a laptop like this to relive good ol days.
The way i would've loved to have this laptop as a kid, and honestly don't think I'd ever get rid of it
honestly the nickelodeon theme for the desktop looks really good with the slime on the start menu
I had a HP notebook with that cpu. I upgraded the ram to 2gb (It unofficially supported it).
The reason I kept using it was the 250gb hard drive which was a decent size for it's time.
tbh those netbooks are still useable with a lightweight Linux distro, and they're more upgradable than "modern" netbooks which use soldered on EMMC.
@@Nurse_Xochitl i use an emachines e720 and i can confirm it is still mildly usable
Netbooks were bloody fantatastic. Sure, they were underpoered AF but just imagine the possibilities with modern hardware.
yeah what's happened to them? Why is this kind of machines vanished? Because of the tablets ?
@@Orsuss and chromebooks
@@axilleas Unfortunately I never saw somebody with such a book so I can't judge. But If you say so.. damn! What a bummer 😕
Thank you Michael for another wonderful video!!🎉🎉😁😁
the nostalgia hit hard.. this was my first laptop. first computer that was mine and not the familys
Great video! That is definitely one cool themed laptop! I miss Microsoft Works. It was a simplified version of Microsoft Office, and I know that I wrote at least one college paper on the word processor in Works.
I have a recommendation: how about reviewing Sumikko Gurashi (San-X license) laptop made by Sega? They also make the unlicensed one that is dinosaur-themed. What amazes me is that the toy laptop isn't like regular toy laptops which doesn't have full-colored screen and a fully functioning custom OS that boots fast and supports keyboard and mouse (the mouse is unremovable). Unfortunately, there's a few videos about it and they're all comments disabled, thus disallow me to express my amazement. I knew this laptop from a news about a Japanese father had the laptop swapped to a toy laptop by his daughters
I would like someone to review the details about this cute laptop because of unfamiliar features not normally found in toy laptops, including the details of the OS (if possible)
i used to be pretty active on whyville back in 2013ish!! wow this brings back memories
My sister actually had this model back in the day, I wanna say around 2009 or so and we got it essentially as a freebie with my dad's Dell XPS M1530.
It got unbearably slow after like 4 months and the storage couldn't really hold anything other than firefox and 2 CD quality albums. I still remembeer borrowing it to watch CZcams videos though lol
I still have my Nick Netbook!
It came with that slick windows theme and I remember being so shocked that the slime under the keyboard wasn't a sticker. It was the computer that got me started and I'll always keep it around
Looked up Stardock and they're still around and seem to have a program for customizing the Windows 11 desktop. It looks really powerful. ^_^
It's like $40 tho, so certainly something I'd like to save up for because I've been wanting more customization for my pc for a while now. I miss how customizable Windows was from Windows 95 to XP. Desktop design was like a wild west in those days and I loved it.
They're also makers of the famous Offworld Trading Company video game.
used to have one of these as a kid and it was gorgeous
The aesthetic oozes mid-2000's nostalgia.
Hearing that this had a year of LoJack protection definitely hurts right now. I had mine for probably 6 months as a kid when someone broke in and stole all of our electronics. My iPod, my laptop, and my Wii. I was a heartbroken kid.
(2:14) Never had I seen a laptop that came WITH a Computrace subscription included.
(7:25) I remember it now! MyColors was interesting to me as all of the themes were paid stuff and I didn't have any way to pay electronically back then! HP also used the same software on the HP Mini designer editions and it was able to change the desktop background on Windows 7 Starter!
(7:57) The themes were all paid themes! There were no free themes, I checked back in the day.
Wow. You did a video on ASUS Disney laptops, and there was also a Dell Nickelodeon laptop?!?!?!?! Wow. I've a feeling that like with Acer Ferrari and ASUS Lamborghini (going by when I saw promos and listings in shops back in the day), the Disney laptops probably came out first and then Dell's consumer PC division probably wanted a -slice- slime of the action, so they went and collaborated with Nickelodeon. I won't be surprised if they had tried to collaborate with Cartoon Network but got turned down.
I still use this laptop to this day running crisis 3, half life 3, and GTA 6 all on max graphics
That Dell mini was actually compatible with Mac OSX Snow Leopard, you could even run iMovie with graphic acceleration enabled, the intel atom performance was amazing, everything worked fine, the ports, even the VGA output,
Awesome video, Michael!
I had this when I was a kid it was amazing I might buy another one for nostalgia.
I had one of these Dell Inspiron minis. It was the first computer I ever owned, and the keyboard was pretty good for a netbook.
I played so much Couterstrike 1.6 on an Inspiron Mini in highschool. It sucked, but I loved that thing.
Beautiful. I had an Inspiron mini 1010, it worked fine for about 10 years 👌
Never thought I'd hear Michael asking if anyone had an iCarly themed netbook
I actually owned this one (as mini 10v) and it had that operating system disk with Windows XP SP3 and Microsoft Works included. Anyway, it was a fun device and I did lots of stuff with it including video editing (for HOURS of rendering) and even installed Mac OS X Snow Leopard on it. I switched to a MacBook Air after 5 years.
This was my first computer! I used it mainly for Napster and CZcams. I do remember it not coming with Word being an issue when I needed to do homework. Pretty sure it had some kind of word processor on it though. I also listened to so much music that I broke the headphone jack. Now I need to see if I can find that old laptop.
Sad that they dont do these anymore, its quite a cool theme
Some of those Dell netbooks wouldn't even get past a year of use because some of them had fanless heatsinks and they would cook themselves to death.
Love this type of videos
Could you make a video on microsoft works in general ?
this lower end version of office was never rly covered on video, would be intresting
A wholesome child playing Twinkle Twinkle and saving it with their Nick netbook Webcam. 🥺
This is a piece of art
i had a Mini 9 for years and i loved that thing. Once XP was no longer supported, i ran Ubuntu on it and kept it alive for even longer. at one point, i think i was booting Ubuntu off a thumb drive after the internal hard drive failed. That lil Dell was a great workhouse and i used it up until i replaced it with a better laptop and sold my old Mini 9 on ebay. I hope is still out there somewhere, still chugging along
I remember Whyville had apparently installed a virus to teach about virus removal I believe. Had never used but must’ve accidentally clicked on it. It would kill a windows process that would give a countdown timer until shutdown.
Source?
I never really got the reason why do these branded laptops even exist, except for making more money from consumers! Anyways, keep up with the awesome work MJD!
For anyone who played Whyville as a kid, the ads for the Nickelodeon laptop were everywhere. I wanted one so bad when I was 8.
I wish stuff like this was still made honestly
Furry, please leave
9:59
That is the context menu from Internet Explorer, when you were trying to refresh the Widget it was likely just refreshing it’s offline page because you weren’t connected to a Network when it started up.
Also, when you closed the Widget it actually minimised to the Taskbar, the Widget might of worked if you ended it using Task Manager and opened it back up though.