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i found a old Dell oem in a trash pile the other day and am currently trying to turn it into a Minecraft server

Dude the only thing decent about that IO is the microSD card slot lol. This is how low the standards are now for ports on laptops.. :( Anyway cool short video! Things have probably shifted since I last looked into lightweight but friendly Linux distros but I'd suggest a look at Puppy Linux, or maybe possibly Debian.

On devices with less than 8GB of RAM and slow storage (e.g. HDD) you should disable swap and use zram. It compresses the data sent to RAM to pack more GB into the same sticks in exchange for some CPU usage. As for what Linux distro is fastest: there isn't really any difference between the common ones in speed.

The freaking resellers in my country, Vietnam they will dissect this PC into components and sell each of them for more than 5 usd

I'm a Linux enthusiast, I already used almost everything even Gentoo. And Mint for me is the best linux distro, I never had bugs with it and it's easy to use. Mint just works it's the best distro for everything, even gaming. I use Arch it's good too but you lose a lot of time configurating things. You can just stick with Mint, and Xfce is the best light-weight interface.

Asus used to have quite reasonable laptops before but I won't anymore

the crazy thing is that this thing could technically run windows 11. The N4000 is surprisingly on the supported CPU list, somehow... Can't imagine it'd be very good though.

Can't handle hard drives? Sad...

I have a nostalgia for these older computers that ran Windows XP/Vista/7 that I just can't explain. Nice video btw.

I once used a Lenovo 120S-11IAP laptop, and trust me, that was abysmal too. Celery processor, 4GB DDR3 (I think? - oh, soldered) and 32GB eMMC. They really would have been better just putting in a SATA slot and a regular 2.5in HDD. Yeah, these devices are trash and to be honest one would be better just going onto the used market. For £200 (in the UK) you could have got a trashbook brand new. Or you could have got a used 15.6in laptop with proper upgradeable RAM and storage (oh and a DVD drive too) and anything up to a 4th gen Intel i5. The difference was night and day.

Anything with eMMC storage (pretty much cell phone storage) and an Intel Celeron on a PC should be considered E-Waste at this point :D

I like the pun in the thumbnail

The website says it goes up to wifi 3 ( that is g) which came out in 2003. If you are considering an adapter seriusly, first make sure the model supports the standard you want (7 is newest which is be, but most places are at WiFi 6 or ax. Check the Wikipedia entry for WiFi to see all versions). You have to make sure your current home router and wherever you go does support the new versions though, you can check by googling router models or by going to the settings of your capable device. Task manager makes it easy. Next is portability v strength. Having a lot of big antennas should help with performance but for a laptop it is not as practical. All that is subjective. Alternatively get a WiFi card in your pc. Laptops have small removable ones too, but some models don't. I would suggest intel for ease of finding drivers. Speaking of which make sure to wondload drivers using ethernet (dongle if no ports on laptop) or another device. This is usually cheaper, takes up less space etc so it is what I would personally do (and did with my laptop)

Very weak art+ 80% of the laptop is a bettery. There would be people who are well served by something like this if it was made well. If they make something like this with a core ultra, removable ssd and good keyboard, teackpad, screen and sell it for 500 dollars it will decimate the market. But they wont. 1000 dollars or gtfo

thats one of the vacuums ever!!!

$200 in 2018 could have purchased something pretty decent I would think. I spent $150 at MicroCenter in 2015 or so for a new Celeron Acer laptop (N3450, 4GB/32GB, 14 inch) and to be honest I haven't bought any other Windows laptops since. I haven't NEEDED one. That little guy lives in my workshop now and provides all the TH-cam fix-it videos needed when I'm neck deep in fixing the wife's car. It doesn't even have a working HDMI port (it HAS one, there's just nothing connected to it inside the computer, so it does nothing). No USB-C, but it has one USB 3.0 port and several 2.0 ports. No SD card reader, not even Ethernet. But it does connect to the Wifi on my phone so I can do the few things I need it to do and that's good enough.

Games to try (I imagine most of these would work and run well): - Falcon 4 Allied Force (find it on myabandonware) - Arma Cold War Assault (Steam/GOG) - Battlefield 2 (find it on "lost soldiers" forum) - Tom Clancy Ghost Recon 1 (GOG) - Rainbow Six 3 Gold Edition (Steam) - Call Of Duty Warchest (Steam) - Flatout 1 & 2 (Steam/GOG) - Older Valve Games (Portal/Portal 2, Half Life/Half Life 2, CS 1.6, Left 4 Dead 2, etc.) - DOOM 1 & 2 (DOOM 3 might work or might be too demanding, but all are available on Steam) - Quake 1,2, and 3 (Also on Steam) - Combat Master (This runs even on an old Late 2008 13" MacBook, I imagine it could probably run here also) - SWAT 3 & 4 (GOG) Try running these in Linux. Most of these are old classics that are easy to run. You can use Heroic Games Launcher for GOG games. Lutris, Bottles, etc. may be able to be used with other games using installers (.ISO, .EXE, .MSI, etc.).

stop with the bs title...who would go into the trouble of selling a pc with 5 dollars? come on..next

Bro Asus is good just come here to India Kerala a shopkeeper will upgrade that so easily he upgraded an Compaq but not mine unupgradable laptop he will charge high plus if you go to his forever he will scam you

Hey bro i owned almost all the laptop brands like Apple 2019 macbook I had,Dell Vostro my grandpas ,HP My cousin sisters, Toshiba Satellite Dynabook ,Asus Vivobook, Lenovo Thinkpad my mom uses , Again a mac with m2 chip my dads , Samsung Book my Moms Lil bros Acer old one Sony Vaio my dads sis laptop In my opinion Apple for that price its not worth Dell Vostro Slow but good and reliable Toshiba Dynabook Upgradable Good and Reliable Asus Vivobook editor Worth for the price and gaming and editing then my school work same for toshiba Thinkpad reliable but so so so slow boot time 5 minutes warning for AMD fan boys its having an AMD A8 with 8 or 6gb ram with hdd Samsung dont buy it so trash Within 2 months it got broke HP Having problems and always in repair Acer not reliable and not so good looking Sony Vaio Not worth for the price but reliable good looking but slow

Those guts looking like a whole budget Android phone... 🤣🤣🤣

Some months ago , i found a similiar deal and turned out to be a really good computer . I just upgraded the RAM (from 8 to 16GB) ,CPU and GPU. Then replaced the old HDD with a SSD And as for the GPU i upgraded to an RTX 2080 TI.

I had this exact laptop and downloaded Linux mint 2 years ago, it was decent but recently updating from 21 to 22 broke the os and the laptop is softlocked... :0/...

I want to change may laptop with the model from the window. I have n4020

try something like antiex or linux lite or puppy linux. you might have better luck. The fact you can not upgrade ram or the drive is just mind numbing.

I just save a laptop like this one for my workplace. My poor colleague using this machine under windows 11, it can't even start up properly. With edge, it uses the processor like a 100%. I dual boot the machine with Lubuntu 24.10, it was usable after that. For the bare minimum, browsing the internet is possible.

The celeron is a really fast cpu actually. It gets from 0 to 100% almost instantly after turning the laptop on. 😂

I have this exact model of laptop but with 2 gigs of ram. It might be a big meme but I actually think it's a pretty reasonable device solely for moonlight/sunshine as I get around 4 hours of battery life and just treat it like a thin client. For that purpose, It's serviceable and gets the job done for my classwork and most of whatever I need to hook into my desktop for as long as it holds a decent internet connection.

I used to have one of these things, but I have a different model than yours. Mine is an E200HA, and the specs are worse than yours. Intel Atom at 1.8Ghz, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. I swore by that machine through the use of Debian running the i3 window manager, which is a heck of a lot slimmer than Linux Mint or Ubuntu. That machine is such a piece of junk but I like its portability and how well it runs Linux, even if the battery lasts only two hours and I can't have more than 4 tabs open in Firefox. These days though? I swore by my M1 Macbook Air which is a much more pleasant experience.

Reminds me of my asus a200h with an Intel atom

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Were it not for web bloat, I could have probably stayed on my 2013 dell latitude with 4 GB of RAM for another couple of years thanks to Linux. Mint isn't particularly lightweight but tbh any Linux distribution is significantly lighter than Windows in 2024.

antix, i run it on .y hp laptop with a celeron n2840 worse than the n4000 and antix only uses like 300mb of ram idle and barely any cpu usage.

Gentoo is pretty lightweight and great for beginners 👍

Glad to see someone going straight for linux. I'd like to see more improv-style videos like the old druaga1 videos where he just films himself while exploring/testing the hardware

A few years ago I had a 11 inch Lenovo, had 2GB of ram and 32GB of storage. Windows 10 ate like most of it for whatever reason. TBH I think Microsoft should make another OS for lower end systems because Windows in S mode is total BS

back in 2018 i needed a laptop for school, and bought an ASUS TP203NAH. came with non upgradable everything, and powered by a celeron (i think it was an N3350?). that thing's keyboard broke after 2 years, and started to turn off at random after some 3 years. only thing good bout' it is the 1TB HDD i got to use on my other laptop. it even likes to get hot as it don't have a fan.

and one thing those pieces off sh!t shoundn't be running Mint as Mint is way heavier than vanilla Ubuntu, I recommend you to use elementaryOS or puppyOs instead

windows running on Chromebook hardware is the worst crime ever HEAR ME OUT

I have a secondary laptop from 2014 which has weaker CPU. BUT it had upgradable SSD and RAM, which I did. It came with Windows 8 and 2GB of RAM and a 500GB mechanical drive. I upgraded it to 256GB SATA SSD, Windows 10, and 8GB of RAM, even though the manufacturer said it can't see more than 4GB. It's no beast, but it performs better than yours in this video. I assume if you could upgrade yours it would be even better. Pity about the soldered parts. It could make, at least spec wise, a decent laptop for basic or old stuff. Cool video.

Yup, consumer grade ewaste

Reminds me of my old Compaq Presario 2200, where everything was integrated onto the CPU and only the RAM could be upgraded. Fun times...

I've been a PC Tech since 2005, and for me, Laptop Technology has been spiraling down since mid to late 2010s in terms of repairability and upgradability (not all but most of them)... From Simple Upgrade back then that needs Disassembly now to just to Replace Battery, Keyboard, HDD/SSD, and RAM... To Soldered Non Upgradable Miniscule RAM and Storage (F that Mini HP Laptop)... To Super Flimsy Brittle Expensive Uber Slim Oven Laptops that sacrifices Heat Dissipation for Longevity, for the sake of aesthetic (F that Acer Nitro Laptop)... ... All I wanna say is, almost everything nowadays are disposable, so do your research, be wise of your purchases and never be a slave in this system...

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Hey! I daily drive the white version of one of those! The 2GB RAM version runs xubuntu pretty well, but of course it struggles with web browsers. I got it in exchange for teaching kids scratch at school (They got it as a demo and went for chromebooks instead, so they just had it laying around) It has served me very well and it will get me through university at this rate. The battery is definitely the biggest downside, it is down to 40% of it's original capacity and it shows...

use gentoo noob

Bro used rufus instead of etcher, Blasphemy

2:52 Keep in mind that video playback on Linux is always going to be horrible. I think you would have way better experience in Windows because even Cherry Trail Atoms can support 4K60 video playback in Windows with hardware acceleration. Whereas I don't remember being able to get HW acceleration to work even after installing VAAPI, I guess it's only really for encoding and not for decoding.