@@mordekai_wilde unfortunately there's nothing that Microsoft or any PC manufacturer could have done to prevent the laptop industry from being devastated by Android because Android is essentially just a generic PC with generic power PC hardware marketed to the same business user except for the one secret weapon that Google had that say it apart from some generic Linux for Apple product was the advertising partnership that was demonstrated with TH-cam prior to Androidand therefore it's undateable that Android would have all the support as far as cellular broadband goes and as we've seen now that Android has matured it has absolutely copied windows and it's evolution in terms that Android is geared for custom operating systems for cellular broadband providers just like Windows has different versions of its operating system however the main difference with the Android is that the internet service provider can control and prevent using Android as a router but with Windows there's nothing to stop a user from turning their ultra portable laptop into a Wi-Fi router.
@B3ro1080 Sir what I mean is that hardware and software used with Android is favorable for Windows to be adapted for it which is why they were Android devices that can run Windows via an Intel processor. Android uses JavaScripts to replicate the same programming on windows and android also is marketed to the same business user as windows. Microsoft in the end had no choice but to have compatibility with Android because Google use advertising partnership to get everyone on their side to use universal scripts over proprietary web software which Microsoft had originally made their Fortune by monopolizing proprietary software on the internet.
@@CoffeeSuccubus Same, year ahead of you in age and have that same feeling. I don't miss all of Windows Vista, but I will admit the sleek looking toolbar was nice. Its pretty cool seeing how far we've improved in the last 11 years.
yeah, now we own a bunch of devices that look the same but are priced differently. Irreparable, quickly prone to obsolency and not even candidates for being collectible.
Yes it does have a usb port and in my opinion the keyboard isn’t that bad, if you have ever used a vaio vgn ux you would understand a truly awful keyboard
@@worldshell2313 It was bad for windows vista though as it wasnt optimized for mobile devices like these plus even on dekstops 1gb of ram in 2007 was very minimum to put it lightly
@@ΔημήτρηςΓκιουνέσογλου-μ1χ same thing happen with android smartphone, i still remember how happy 2007 people got 256MB smartphone even they have to root and kill background apps every minutes, with 1GB ram, plenty storage, and ability to run other OS you can make your friends get impressed even it's struggle run vista, if it was me i'll just reinstall it with linux, and again most linux distro run flawlessly in 1GB ram at that time
I had one of these in HS. Spent my whole summer job income to buy it. It was a hilarious thing to use and the dock made it pretty functional as a day to day device. Sold it 10 years ago for about 400$. Still a cool gadget
In 2007, the source video was probably shot to tape at 1080HD. But online sources of video at the time would have some pretty crappy encoding by today's standards. I would imagine that the video footage was taken from an online source... like an early TH-cam source.
Imaging pulling out your phone to send a text and when you press the power button to get the screen on the thing started to sound like a damn turbine engine spinning up.
Or how about: getting push notification sound followed by the fan kicking in due to all the stress of playing a sound and hdd spinning up to load associated program 🤣
I barely even started watching the video and had to pause to write this: I admire how LGR vids go straight to the point. In 20 seconds you have managed to say name of the series and what device you are going to present, including release date and its purpose. Your scripts are on point, it's a pleasure to watch like always - it starts great and then gets better
This feels like a nice device to have on the go or as a multimedia center. Made today and sold for like 400 I feel it would probably find an audience. Also the dock makes it look like a switch pc!
Hey LGR, I just want to give you props for giving any interesting technology you find a fair shake. Most retro youtubers (that I've seen) have a cutoff date and don't really give interesting tech released in the 2000's the love it deserves. I get it, 9/11 happened and we had a recession, but the 2000's were far from all bad.
I remember seeing one of these when I took a Vacation to NYC, and saw it in the Window. My Mom said she would buy one for me, thinking it would be like $100 maybe. Boy was she shocked at the price tag.
I love little pc's, but I'm glad I watched a video on this because I would have dropped like $500 on one in a drunken eBay splurge (if they even went for so cheap?) but the review is enough to calm my little pc curiosities!
I know we live in the era of smartphones, but I still wish this style of portable PCs were made and sold again. A "slate" style portable PC like this + Windows XP + support for all languages in the world, would be my ultimate dream PC.
Yeah it sounds like it's dying. The original iPod had a similar HDD and it never sounded like this. And like the old iPods, I bet it's possible to use a converter so that a CF card can be used instead.
My brother in law worked for OQO back when they were around, and one time he showed me a prototype unit (before the release) and I was pretty impressed by what it could do. He mentioned their target install base would be military field operations where portability and ruggedness were required (looks like the military thing never happened for OQO).
I got a free upgrade to vista with a machine that only came with 512mb and even with the 2GB i had upgraded it to it was not enough for snappy general use, Windows 7 however ran like a dream on the exact same machine.
Vista was a fine OS. The combination of limited res support, limited RAM and slow ass hard drive are the perfect storm for this device. Too bad Clint didn't try it with aero turned off.
@Poble Aero transparencies are off, but it's still running Aero Basic. No idea if dropping into classic would really improve the experience much at all though. I mean, I recall classic running better at times, but this device has so many choke points for Vista that I don't see dumping Aero making a real difference. I certainly don't think Clint missed a trick.
Omg I bought a PS4 when it first came out and when you’d turn it on out of the box it would be super loud, get really hot, and have a burning plastic smell. The smell would come on gradually you never knew it was there. I came home one day after leaving it in rest mode and the house was getting smoky. Came inside and the damn thing was smoking. I took it back and got an exchange. I have never experienced such! I had the BO3 bundle from 2015. Thankfully it hasn’t happened again!
I am surprised that anyone even was able to fit a full pc into something so small even back then... Sure, it may be jokingly bad in practice, this is really impressive in my opinion
I think out of all the innovations that came from the mobile computing boom, adoption of solid state flash storage really had the biggest impact on design. It allowed mobile devices to be much thinner, shock resistant, and most importantly, able to read and write large amounts of data significantly faster and without the noise. Just look at the huge jump in design from the original HDD iPod models to the first iPod Nano. Overnight, mobile devices went from chunky humming bricks to thin silent slabs.
Well it isnt, honestly i was quite suprised how much younger Gates looked, although that might just be the video quality and/or him not having to care about appearance anymore lol.
Great video. I love thinking back to how high tech we thought things were at the time. Although I think they missed the mark with that price on this little relic. My gaming laptop didn't even cost as much as this thing. And that's taking inflation into account lol. Thanks for your videos, man. Truly entertaining.
@J. Pelka Yea android as too many artificial limitations like not being able to listen to 2 things at once the only problem with windows is that it takes way longer to reboot even on a ssd and it tends to have a lot more bugs and crashes forcing me to reboot.
@@AnonymousGentooman It will forever remain a mystery why Android can't have consistently fluid scrolling. I mean it can't have anything to do with the modern CPUs, since it worked on iPhones several years ago (and reportedly on Windows Phone).
This makes me miss my OQO 01+. If the 02 was like the 01 you're not missing out on having the stylus it was horrible. Im pretty sure that "HDD" noise is the fan being shot and speaking about the hard drive the OQO has free fall protection where it parks the hard drive so if you simulate a free fall it audibly screams so in a real scenario it literally screams to its death.
HOLY CHEESE WIZ LGRMAN!! I have one of these too! XD I even have the docking station and is in great condition too! My fans are loud, but not that loud. I can't use it by its self too long as my arthritis acts up holding the heavy thing...not that it is a huge issue giving the horribly short battery life. OH! The battery, the battery. You missed that special feature. The circuit that controls charging is powered by the battery. SO if your battery completely drains (which is stupid easy to do) it won't charge. I had to buy a power supply and disassemble the battery to recharge it. I really should try installing a lite linux distro on it. I should get round to doing my video showcase of mine. If I do I will try to share with you.
VIA C7 was actually Centaur's design based on IDT WinChip. VIA bought Cyrix mostly for the name and patents, having only made engineering samples of Cyrix III Joshua core with Cyrix's design. The last iteration of Cyrix processor was in fact from AMD (the Geode, based on MediaGX architecture)
@@OverTallman Valid. I think I mis-remembered something from the Nostalgia Nerd. VIA used bits and pieces of Cyrix designs in other chips they made, but they were not significant enough to be considered a "function" of the processor, rather being some back end structures and traces. Cyrix really did have a good chance, but they gambled and lost. It's a similar story with 3dfx, which is another sad story, but that's for another day.
I was obsessed with UMPC's around 2007 at their peak. There were websites dedicated to selling them. They were ahead of their time and very powerful. But also very expensive. Also Netbooks were a thing too.
I actually bought a GPD pocket 2 to replace my OQO 02 and despite the system specs being far more capable, I find the 02 is still a far superior product to use. The backlit keyboard is a must-have, and the trackpoint is much more fluid and less tedious to use than the thumb touchpad on the GPD. The GPD's keyboard is a bit too big to use in a handheld position, and slightly too small to use comfortably on a table (and needing a table would defeat the purpose IMO) That said, if GPD could implement that machine into something that was ergonomically more like the OQO, I'd love it.
They could probably tweak the size, but I've heard that the kind of slide-out keyboard thing the OQO has going on has some weird awkward patents on it, which is why you don't see it all over the place. (then again how OQO got away with it if that's true is beyond me, since I don't think it was their patent or anything)
You know whats really crazy to me? This device you just did a retrospective of came out about 2 or 3 years before I started watching your videos. THAT blows my mind:D
I once got excited about a new version of a free-to-play game and started installing it without looking at the system requirements. It recommended 4 GB of RAM, and my computer only had 2 GB. That was even worse, as I recall. It looked more like one or two frames per second. My old Vista desktop was struggling big-time. 😂
It would be neat to see this today, with the internals of a Surface Pro, 20cm wide, and most importantly the slide out keyboard/mouse. Maybe make it more "business on the run" oriented, making it thicker in favor of a 10-20Ah battery that can last an overseas flight.
Amazing tech back in the day, I had one of those achos tablets, I thought it was perfect , i could record my shows and take them on the go, played music, 80gig hd, I still have it..
Onscreen keyboards are getting bigger and bigger with screen size and since swiping across the screen also exists, most people would probably only find it a nuisance to go back to physical keyboards.
I used to work on Wall Street as a Network/Computer tech and would visit the stock market exchanges (NYSE and Amex. I remember back in 1997 traders would use the Toshiba Libretto (small palm top computer that ran Windows CE OS) and also Fujitsu had their own small Micro laptops as well with Windows OS (they were really expensive, like over $5,000 in 1997).
4:14 The sound of nightmares within a nightmare. I would have loved something like that back in the day, though awfully disappointed by it's lack of power. Glad we finally have gaming level handheld PCs now but I do miss fold out keyboards even if they were awfully finicky.
@@andrewortiz1703 brigth it's the closest thing we get for a shadowrun movie...side note I want to introduce my friends to Shadowrun but we speak spanish and the 3rd edition it's the only one in spanish we could get....it's a good edition?
@@elroma7712 I've heard 3rd edition is the best edition of "classic style Shadowrun." Just don't play as a Decker in 3e, because I've heard decking rules were at their most convoluted in that edition. There was a big change between 3rd edition and 4th edition, and 5th edition can be seen as a refinement and improvement upon 4th edition.
I had a Sony Vaio UX, very similar to this in its challenges. I enjoyed being able to access PC files. I used to play Unreal Tournament and a few other games with everything set to the absolute lowest setting. It ran pretty well. Same tiny speaker. Very similar keyboard problems. The UX keyboard was entirely flat, so that was challenging to feel. It did NOT have an HDMI output, only VGA...It was still a wonderful tool/toy for me at the time for several years.
Imagine the fan AND the dying hard drive in a public place. People's heads would turn to stare in horror and wonder what in the world is making that sound and why. Is... is that ungodly noise coming from that little handheld device? It couldn't possibly be. Oh my gosh, I think it actually is. Call the Bomb Squad, Frank, I think it's gonna blow!
This. this so hard. I had a HTC Dream when they were still new and I still think it is by far the best design for an Android phone despite being so thick and the like..it was just so usable. Give me one with a larger screen and modern hardware, I'll be happy with that until it's broken and unusable.
@@himbeerme Think about what you just said: "I think that something with no physical keys/possibility of keytravel at all is more comfortable than something with minimal keytravel." ...that and speaking from experience with the HTC Dream/G1 you can also type way faster and can disable autocorrect entirely if you're a good typist on PC, I was hitting over 100wpm on that device.
I agree, I'm sad that physical keyboards are gone. I did have a Blackberry in the mid/late 2000s and it was quite nice to type on. Touchscreen typing absolutely sucks in comparison. Granted, phones now are so much better for apps and web browsing, but unfortunately at the expense of a good typing experience.
These early 2000s gadgets really throw into sharp relief was a paradigm shift it was when reliable gesture-based touchscreen navigation became a thing.
Oh yeah, I remember this thing, and that weird 'mobile computer' push at the time. Was part of all these new 'super cool' tiny computers, that were priced way out of what people would ever spend.
04:51 "It's not even doing anything intense"... Well, it's running Vista :-) I remember installing this on my old laptop and all of a sudden the fans sounded like a vacuum cleaner.
We tried these out at my company back in the 00s. Every exec thought it was awesome until they tried to use it every day. My IT team ended up using them as remote on-call devices - we double-stick-taped a PCMCIA adapter with an AirCard in it to the back so we could troubleshoot stuff from wherever. They still sucked in general.
It'd be interesting to see if/how it handles windows 10/different Linux distros for gaming as they're arguable easier to run than vista. What a cool thing to have back then though!
@@shawn914 regardless if it's a computer, a microwave, a toaster or a phone. Even a goddamn chinese 20 dollar "smart watch" has a jack. Even that has Bluetooth. Hell, my brother has a super old Sony walkman that has Bluetooth. IPhone is for stupid people who don't know how to handle a complex device such as Android. And for the record Apple blocks so much shit on iPhone that you technically can't do anything on it. (downloading files, comics, music, changing settings like runningg services, developer options etc) it's a fast device yes, but its for children.
I was obsessed with the idea of the umpc because it was right before smart phones were actually able to do everything, I was so against tablets, I can respect the evolution of the idea. So happy to see this
*I remember whipping out my Palm Treo 650 when no one had seen them yet (2005) everyone thought it was so cool. My one friend grabbed it and did a Quantum Leap (tv show) impression lol the thing was so bulky...but that thing was a solid phone had it for 4 years and when it retired it still had capabilities new smart phones didn’t have!*
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I used to want one of these SO BAD.
...I still do.
Me too! I fell in love when I saw this as like, a ten year old 🤣
Dad?
@B3ro1080 no i want this one
@@mordekai_wilde unfortunately there's nothing that Microsoft or any PC manufacturer could have done to prevent the laptop industry from being devastated by Android because Android is essentially just a generic PC with generic power PC hardware marketed to the same business user except for the one secret weapon that Google had that say it apart from some generic Linux for Apple product was the advertising partnership that was demonstrated with TH-cam prior to Androidand therefore it's undateable that Android would have all the support as far as cellular broadband goes and as we've seen now that Android has matured it has absolutely copied windows and it's evolution in terms that Android is geared for custom operating systems for cellular broadband providers just like Windows has different versions of its operating system however the main difference with the Android is that the internet service provider can control and prevent using Android as a router but with Windows there's nothing to stop a user from turning their ultra portable laptop into a Wi-Fi router.
@B3ro1080 Sir what I mean is that hardware and software used with Android is favorable for Windows to be adapted for it which is why they were Android devices that can run Windows via an Intel processor. Android uses JavaScripts to replicate the same programming on windows and android also is marketed to the same business user as windows. Microsoft in the end had no choice but to have compatibility with Android because Google use advertising partnership to get everyone on their side to use universal scripts over proprietary web software which Microsoft had originally made their Fortune by monopolizing proprietary software on the internet.
2007 tech being review by LGR now I know how getting old feels like.
Right???
i'm still wearing shirts from 2007!
I feel old too when I see 2007 tech. And i was born in 95
@@CoffeeSuccubus Same, year ahead of you in age and have that same feeling. I don't miss all of Windows Vista, but I will admit the sleek looking toolbar was nice. Its pretty cool seeing how far we've improved in the last 11 years.
I was stll sort of a FNG at work during thath time.
The mid 2000’s was complete mobile anarchy, and I love it
so true. I still think that having a dedicated gaming - music - camera device is superior than all in one devices now.
yeah, now we own a bunch of devices that look the same but are priced differently. Irreparable, quickly prone to obsolency and not even candidates for being collectible.
Tech companies were pretty much just throwing shit at the wall to see what stuck.
Not only in tech. May I remind you the outfits?
Same it was one of my favorite areas. I'm just naturally drawn to weird mobile devices
13 minutes of bashing the product and I still want one somehow
Definitely, I just bought 2 untested ones on eBay because of this video
@@WalmartMustacheMan what did they cost? Are you using them?
I got a steal of $30, although one has a torn ribbon cable but one looks good. I plan on buying a charger soon but right now I don’t have any money.
Yes it does have a usb port and in my opinion the keyboard isn’t that bad, if you have ever used a vaio vgn ux you would understand a truly awful keyboard
I wouldnt go with gpd, specs are awful for the price
10-15 years from now he'll be talking about samsung galaxy fold like that
Mateusz W and finding a rare one that doesn’t have a cracked screen.
If it ever comes out.
If you don't know better!
@@jakp8777 and if it isn't cracked then you better hope it doesn't have screen burn in
@@patrickglaser1560 even in GTA V computer game the Note 7 became famous.
DUDE this would have been so awesome for Runescape back in the day
Still would be if it ran decently lol
MAN I swear
Probably would be better off with a VAIO UX.
I bought one for 5 dollars and it ran gta san andreas and cs 1.6 fine
Btw it had windows xp
I used it for RunScape xD and With VAIO UX and VAIO P
1 Gb Ram with windows vista
Respect for the owner of this device, for the fact he never got angry enough to throw it against the wall
in that day it's very not bad for smartphone sized computing device
@@worldshell2313 It was bad for windows vista though as it wasnt optimized for mobile devices like these plus even on dekstops 1gb of ram in 2007 was very minimum to put it lightly
@@ΔημήτρηςΓκιουνέσογλου-μ1χ same thing happen with android smartphone, i still remember how happy 2007 people got 256MB smartphone even they have to root and kill background apps every minutes, with 1GB ram, plenty storage, and ability to run other OS you can make your friends get impressed even it's struggle run vista, if it was me i'll just reinstall it with linux, and again most linux distro run flawlessly in 1GB ram at that time
Why does my server have 1.2TB ram
Puppy would be awesome on this little beast.
I had one of these in HS. Spent my whole summer job income to buy it. It was a hilarious thing to use and the dock made it pretty functional as a day to day device. Sold it 10 years ago for about 400$. Still a cool gadget
What sorta stuff did you do on it?
Any graphic capability for games of that time? I always wanted to play Halo on it lol
@@kewlnes987 mostly I used to play WoW burning crusade on low OR mech commander.
Bermwolf haha nice
@JASON QUINTANA went to a better cause at the time. Plus my battery degraded and new ones were impossible to get
@JASON QUINTANA If only eh?
I laughed way too hard when hearing that hard drive rev up.
the windows chime playing through it killed me
Sounds exactly like an angle grinder. Painful but hilarious
Dying sheep noise
I couldn't help but cringe. A hard drive should never sound like that oh god.
Poor little guy's doing his best :(
I remember seeing this when i was a kid and fantasized about having one so i could play halo in school
Me but switch Halo with MapleStory
and chat with msn winks etc..
Hope you like errors.
Me too.. I wanted one so bad back then! I think I first saw one on tech tv
I would dream about playing Minecraft and playing fnaf at school on a pc like that
That 2007 footage of Bill Gates looks like it was filmed in the late 80s. Crazy how much difference 12 years has made for tech.
jaymz _mc Yeah, earlier I saw a video filmed in 1992 that had better quality..
it was just because it was recompressed. If he had the raw footage to rip from, it could still look 1080p.
Looks like SNL sketch.
In 2007, the source video was probably shot to tape at 1080HD. But online sources of video at the time would have some pretty crappy encoding by today's standards. I would imagine that the video footage was taken from an online source... like an early TH-cam source.
Im more shocked how much he got older within 12 years.and thats not a man with unhealthy life style as far as we know.it's scary getting older
I actually remember OQO. I was a micro pc building enthusiast in the early 2000’s, and this company ended up on my radar a surprising amount.
3:46 Ouch, that jab at the samsung fold.
It was brilliant. XD
Lol
Wow that shade
That harddrive sounds like it could saw a 2x4 in half!
"I saw this OQO in half!"
Sounds like someone with an angle grinder 😂
That's the scariest hard drive I've ever heard! The thing nightmares are made of.
It probably could.
oh really? i thought it was!
Imaging pulling out your phone to send a text and when you press the power button to get the screen on the thing started to sound like a damn turbine engine spinning up.
🤣🤣
Or how about: getting push notification sound followed by the fan kicking in due to all the stress of playing a sound and hdd spinning up to load associated program 🤣
4:13: I'm sure it's not that bad.
4:19: GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THERE.
Honestly, I'm shocked that it's still working.
AURORA BOREALIS?! At this time of the year? At this time of day? in this part of the country? Localised entirely within your hard drive?
@@JamieKnight23 Yes
@@Nagol93 may I see it?
@@coolrift8934 No
Sounds like a angle grinder...
My boss on the computer store I worked back in the days bought one, the first we did was to install Windows XP. It worked like a charm.
I barely even started watching the video and had to pause to write this:
I admire how LGR vids go straight to the point. In 20 seconds you have managed to say name of the series and what device you are going to present, including release date and its purpose.
Your scripts are on point, it's a pleasure to watch like always - it starts great and then gets better
This is why we watch his videos.😁
04:17 At first I thought you'd dubbed an angle grinder sound over the hard drive there. Ouch!
There might be an SSD replacement for that tho.
@@samiraperi467 i doubt there is.
That's the worst sounding hard drive I've ever heard... it really does sound exactly like my cordless angle grinder vibrating away.
@@samiraperi467 You might be able to jury-rig one in but it's unlikely since it probably has proprietary connectors.
The Icon of Sin I’m sure if he gives it to druaga1 he’ll find a way to fit an ssd in there
This thing had an HDMI port? Crazy!
Nokia n8 has too
Robert Deloyd How come you have a verified checkmark..? 🤔
@@anonymous2804 yes how come youtube has verified a channel with 30 subscribers wth ?
You can plug it in your tv
I had one and it was so slow that watching video output over HDMI was painful.
This feels like a nice device to have on the go or as a multimedia center. Made today and sold for like 400 I feel it would probably find an audience. Also the dock makes it look like a switch pc!
Damn this dude predicted the future
The mid-2000's future is my favorite retroist future!
Can’t believe we’re already at that point. Was a teen in the mid-2000’s, felt like 10 min ago
You would love to see the windows vista mediacenter, that thing rocks the perfect combination of sight and sound
Chinese Himmrah TH-cam OG... Checked out your channel ✊🏾🤞🏾
@@Mr.Obongo It always does. I remember the trial of OJ Simpson like it was yesterday, and that was in 1995. Time flies when we least want it to.
For me my favorite retro future is 50s Americana, but the mid 2000s come in a close second.
That hard drive approaching death makes it sound like there’s a tiny woodworking shop in there
Oddly enough, that sound seems appropriate for Vista.
Hey LGR, I just want to give you props for giving any interesting technology you find a fair shake. Most retro youtubers (that I've seen) have a cutoff date and don't really give interesting tech released in the 2000's the love it deserves. I get it, 9/11 happened and we had a recession, but the 2000's were far from all bad.
DOOM Osaka
When 2007 tech has more features than some 2019 stuff.
Nice vid LGR.
Like what? Genuinely interested what features you're talking about...
@@swsw6250 Well, headphone jack is one.
Full sized HDMI port?
@@swsw6250 full physical keyboard, full x86 apps.
Yea look at all those ports fantastic.
I remember seeing one of these when I took a Vacation to NYC, and saw it in the Window. My Mom said she would buy one for me, thinking it would be like $100 maybe. Boy was she shocked at the price tag.
I love little pc's, but I'm glad I watched a video on this because I would have dropped like $500 on one in a drunken eBay splurge (if they even went for so cheap?) but the review is enough to calm my little pc curiosities!
I know we live in the era of smartphones, but I still wish this style of portable PCs were made and sold again.
A "slate" style portable PC like this + Windows XP + support for all languages in the world, would be my ultimate dream PC.
Remember when devices had that upscale CEO office aesthetic?
The late 2000's remember
4:17 OMG i never heard a hard drive sound like that!!
The Techno Guy18 me neither. You sound so weird 1.8 inch 42 RPM hard drive.
I have. The bearings are gone :(
However there are 1.8" to CF card Adapters. Used one in my Thinkpad X41 Tablet
Yeah it sounds like it's dying. The original iPod had a similar HDD and it never sounded like this. And like the old iPods, I bet it's possible to use a converter so that a CF card can be used instead.
My brother in law worked for OQO back when they were around, and one time he showed me a prototype unit (before the release) and I was pretty impressed by what it could do. He mentioned their target install base would be military field operations where portability and ruggedness were required (looks like the military thing never happened for OQO).
Windows Vista Ultimate and a 1GB of ram... ehhhh....
I use to have laptop with 1GB that came with Vista
I got a free upgrade to vista with a machine that only came with 512mb and even with the 2GB i had upgraded it to it was not enough for snappy general use, Windows 7 however ran like a dream on the exact same machine.
Psychological torture off course. 😎
Vista was a fine OS. The combination of limited res support, limited RAM and slow ass hard drive are the perfect storm for this device. Too bad Clint didn't try it with aero turned off.
@Poble Aero transparencies are off, but it's still running Aero Basic. No idea if dropping into classic would really improve the experience much at all though. I mean, I recall classic running better at times, but this device has so many choke points for Vista that I don't see dumping Aero making a real difference. I certainly don't think Clint missed a trick.
Never thought I could find a device that's even louder than my dying original model PS4.
Seriously, clean it, it might be grateful.
BUY PS5
@@stefanandrejevic2570 no u
@@commodoreplus4792 I'm still thinking about it.
Omg I bought a PS4 when it first came out and when you’d turn it on out of the box it would be super loud, get really hot, and have a burning plastic smell. The smell would come on gradually you never knew it was there. I came home one day after leaving it in rest mode and the house was getting smoky. Came inside and the damn thing was smoking. I took it back and got an exchange. I have never experienced such! I had the BO3 bundle from 2015. Thankfully it hasn’t happened again!
Watching Bill Gates talking about a product vs. Steve Jobs is like night and day.
Yup considering 2007 is also the same year Jobs gave that legendary iPhone keynote that changed the entire smartphone scene.
@@PurushNahiMahaPurush LG Prada says hi
In all fairness, he was there to sell his OS, not another company's device.
Oh yes! I used to drool over the UMPC. Full desktop on my pocket!
I wanted the Vaio UMPC as a kid lol
I still want the Fujitsu f-07c, one day I will buy it.
Oh what is this in my pocket? It's a PC powered by a miniature jet turbine...
@Monica Vega that's sounds amusing but it sounds like the manufacturer just cheaper out on greese.
@@jakubprokopec2169 No kidding those shitty Vista laptop battery were shit but Samsung is good.at explosions no propane required.
Monica Vega could be both
It's the hardware screaming.
@@ghostunix731 just the note 7 my dude
Omg, I actually miss that fan noise. That's so nostalgic!!
I am surprised that anyone even was able to fit a full pc into something so small even back then... Sure, it may be jokingly bad in practice, this is really impressive in my opinion
renegade project now setting windows 11 into smartphones
even now*?
Heh, but yeah yes!
Missed a huge opportunity to put Typing of the Dead on this thing! Look at that keyboard! It SCREAMS comfort!
I think out of all the innovations that came from the mobile computing boom, adoption of solid state flash storage really had the biggest impact on design.
It allowed mobile devices to be much thinner, shock resistant, and most importantly, able to read and write large amounts of data significantly faster and without the noise.
Just look at the huge jump in design from the original HDD iPod models to the first iPod Nano. Overnight, mobile devices went from chunky humming bricks to thin silent slabs.
I remember window shopping online for one of these at 8 years old and thinking that they were one of the coolest things ever.
"2007 wasn't that long ago, only a few.....oh wait...."
Well it isnt, honestly i was quite suprised how much younger Gates looked, although that might just be the video quality and/or him not having to care about appearance anymore lol.
Right
Raymond Mertin Except it is, 13 years ago as of 2020.
My brain is still in 2010, i feel stuck in time someone send help please
lol feel ya mate
Great video. I love thinking back to how high tech we thought things were at the time. Although I think they missed the mark with that price on this little relic. My gaming laptop didn't even cost as much as this thing. And that's taking inflation into account lol. Thanks for your videos, man. Truly entertaining.
3:50 " no word on removing it will cause half the screen to die" okay but that was COMPLETELY unnecessary 😭😭😭😭😂😂
I always wanted to own one of these UMPCs. Then smartphones came along.
I'd still like one, because you just can't match a desktop OS on a smartphone (yet)
I still want one. If I could afford one, I'd buy a GDP.
The only UMPCs even available (or at least good ones) currently are the likes of GPD's various lineup: Win, Pocket, and "Micro PC"
@J. Pelka Yea android as too many artificial limitations like not being able to listen to 2 things at once the only problem with windows is that it takes way longer to reboot even on a ssd and it tends to have a lot more bugs and crashes forcing me to reboot.
@@AnonymousGentooman It will forever remain a mystery why Android can't have consistently fluid scrolling. I mean it can't have anything to do with the modern CPUs, since it worked on iPhones several years ago (and reportedly on Windows Phone).
I had the OQO model 1 and it was awesome. Those were the days!
This makes me miss my OQO 01+. If the 02 was like the 01 you're not missing out on having the stylus it was horrible. Im pretty sure that "HDD" noise is the fan being shot and speaking about the hard drive the OQO has free fall protection where it parks the hard drive so if you simulate a free fall it audibly screams so in a real scenario it literally screams to its death.
Somehow, LGR has become the TH-cam channel I have longed for all these years and never knew it existed. So glad I found it this month.
Welcome to club LGR! Wood Grain and DOS included!
It should be noted that there are plenty of YTPs of Clint goodness. Personally, I'm a fan of the bread ones.
Welcome brother, nice to have you
Dang. LGR is quickly becoming my favorite quarantine binge watch.
Same here!
Same here.
Same
same
This device could be revisited today! I see this as a potential.
Yeah, I want to see the the future of small pcs
GPD Win already exist. Look it up. Unless you’re specifically want a slide keyboard, pray and hope for the best.
No need when you can do so much with smartphones and tablets
@@MrVenom973 this looks so cool though
@Old Liquid That's your problem not mine
**notices buldge in ur battery**
OqO what's this?
holnrew It’s just happy to see you.
Ohh, *user-kun*
I truly wish I hadn't read this. Thank you OP
I think you mean owo
@@alexkuhn5078 r/whooooosh
yooo. You really good at voiceovers. Your subject matter is entertaining. Thanks for the good content.
"On loan"... *Unpeels screen protector, wiggles the display...*
And leaves a nice new bubble right on the screen
When you donate your collection to historians, your mileage may vary lol.
Yeah imagine keeping the protector in for THIRTEEN YEARS then having some guy just rip it off
That made me cringe, so disrespectful
I’m pretty sure, the person who lent it to him knew what he was getting into.
HOLY CHEESE WIZ LGRMAN!! I have one of these too! XD I even have the docking station and is in great condition too! My fans are loud, but not that loud. I can't use it by its self too long as my arthritis acts up holding the heavy thing...not that it is a huge issue giving the horribly short battery life.
OH! The battery, the battery. You missed that special feature. The circuit that controls charging is powered by the battery. SO if your battery completely drains (which is stupid easy to do) it won't charge. I had to buy a power supply and disassemble the battery to recharge it.
I really should try installing a lite linux distro on it. I should get round to doing my video showcase of mine. If I do I will try to share with you.
I recommend Lubuntu.
Wanna sell it?
that clockspeed for that power in 2007 is honestly really impressive
This was essentially the last iteration of the Cyrix processor on the market, albeit with the Via brand.
RIP. I had a 6x86 pr166 back in the day.
VIA C7 was actually Centaur's design based on IDT WinChip. VIA bought Cyrix mostly for the name and patents, having only made engineering samples of Cyrix III Joshua core with Cyrix's design.
The last iteration of Cyrix processor was in fact from AMD (the Geode, based on MediaGX architecture)
@@OverTallman Valid. I think I mis-remembered something from the Nostalgia Nerd.
VIA used bits and pieces of Cyrix designs in other chips they made, but they were not significant enough to be considered a "function" of the processor, rather being some back end structures and traces.
Cyrix really did have a good chance, but they gambled and lost. It's a similar story with 3dfx, which is another sad story, but that's for another day.
It sounds like its gonna explode
I know right xD
He should have tried to run Crysis or FEAR. EDIT: Oh he did. Doom 3?
Gotta love when hard drives sound like chainsaws.
With that battery bulge, looks like it would too!
Fo Real!
I was obsessed with UMPC's around 2007 at their peak. There were websites dedicated to selling them. They were ahead of their time and very powerful. But also very expensive. Also Netbooks were a thing too.
I really hope LGR looks at some GPD devices at some points which are exactly this idea (full Windows on a handheld) but actually good.
I actually bought a GPD pocket 2 to replace my OQO 02 and despite the system specs being far more capable, I find the 02 is still a far superior product to use. The backlit keyboard is a must-have, and the trackpoint is much more fluid and less tedious to use than the thumb touchpad on the GPD. The GPD's keyboard is a bit too big to use in a handheld position, and slightly too small to use comfortably on a table (and needing a table would defeat the purpose IMO) That said, if GPD could implement that machine into something that was ergonomically more like the OQO, I'd love it.
They could probably tweak the size, but I've heard that the kind of slide-out keyboard thing the OQO has going on has some weird awkward patents on it, which is why you don't see it all over the place.
(then again how OQO got away with it if that's true is beyond me, since I don't think it was their patent or anything)
Gpd sucks
You know whats really crazy to me? This device you just did a retrospective of came out about 2 or 3 years before I started watching your videos. THAT blows my mind:D
and where your mind now ?
@@dena5498 swimming in the Caribbean
Oof
Considering that smartphones were relatively new by the time the OQO Model O2 came out, I'd say that it was revolutionary at the time.
10:36 what?! 4 FPS is perfectly fine!
Next gen consoles be like: “Stunning 8k resolution at a respectable 4 FPS.”
It isn't unplayable until you have to start measuring in seconds per frame instead of frames per second.
Human eye can't see beyond 3fps anyways
If you synchronise your blinking to the refresh rate of the graphics, you (probably) won't notice :)
I once got excited about a new version of a free-to-play game and started installing it without looking at the system requirements. It recommended 4 GB of RAM, and my computer only had 2 GB. That was even worse, as I recall. It looked more like one or two frames per second. My old Vista desktop was struggling big-time. 😂
It would be neat to see this today, with the internals of a Surface Pro, 20cm wide, and most importantly the slide out keyboard/mouse.
Maybe make it more "business on the run" oriented, making it thicker in favor of a 10-20Ah battery that can last an overseas flight.
Is it just me, or does the dock literally look like it came from a Sims 3 expansion pack?
No GFX?
No RAM?
No CPU?
No problem!
It can still run DOOM.
Only with TTLs with ROM.
What CAN'T run Doom? that's becoming the real question now..
@@ChatterboxFM VIC 20?
My smart toaster?
@@sodadrinker89 Why yes it does run Doom doomwiki.org/wiki/Vicdoom
Watching this video made me realize that i had never heard Bill Gates' voice. Whack.
You've never seen him jump a chair?
Amazing tech back in the day, I had one of those achos tablets, I thought it was perfect , i could record my shows and take them on the go, played music, 80gig hd, I still have it..
I love these oddities of tech. Lost, obscure or forgotten, it's all so interesting. This device was no exception. Neat gizmo for its day.
I miss built-in full physical keyboards on phones. They need to come back!
Onscreen keyboards are getting bigger and bigger with screen size and since swiping across the screen also exists, most people would probably only find it a nuisance to go back to physical keyboards.
Get a Blackberry KeyTwo
@@Sherolox gfy
mlg dad jokes
No need to be so toxic
@@Sherolox touchscreens are what's toxic
I used to work on Wall Street as a Network/Computer tech and would visit the stock market exchanges (NYSE and Amex. I remember back in 1997 traders would use the Toshiba Libretto (small palm top computer that ran Windows CE OS) and also Fujitsu had their own small Micro laptops as well with Windows OS (they were really expensive, like over $5,000 in 1997).
4:20 This hard drive sounds like the THX theme
MapleMilk I thought it sounded like a razor. Maybe someone should fix it.
420 nice
Yes and no. It sounds harsher than that.
But it would be cool if it did.
The Hookers Xmas??
@@TristanSpeno nice
I wanted one of these so damn badly back then. It feels like just yesterday... and now I feel old
Me too!!
4:14 The sound of nightmares within a nightmare.
I would have loved something like that back in the day, though awfully disappointed by it's lack of power.
Glad we finally have gaming level handheld PCs now but I do miss fold out keyboards even if they were awfully finicky.
Sounds like a power tool.
The Samsung Galaxy S1 Epic's slide-out keyboard was pretty great.
This looks like a device that a hacker from a 1980s cyberpunk movie would use. Cyberdecks ahoy, chummers!
There are Shadowrun movies?.. OqO
Kasumi Ryona damn, I wish
@@andrewortiz1703 brigth it's the closest thing we get for a shadowrun movie...side note I want to introduce my friends to Shadowrun but we speak spanish and the 3rd edition it's the only one in spanish we could get....it's a good edition?
@@elroma7712 I've heard 3rd edition is the best edition of "classic style Shadowrun." Just don't play as a Decker in 3e, because I've heard decking rules were at their most convoluted in that edition. There was a big change between 3rd edition and 4th edition, and 5th edition can be seen as a refinement and improvement upon 4th edition.
@@andrewortiz1703 thanks
Christ I can remember this coming out and now it's retro
The sliding keyboard click then Windows login sound made a wrinkle appear on my head.
Retro rules!
I bought PS2, GBA and DS Lite at launch and now those are all retro.
I had a Sony Vaio UX, very similar to this in its challenges. I enjoyed being able to access PC files. I used to play Unreal Tournament and a few other games with everything set to the absolute lowest setting. It ran pretty well. Same tiny speaker. Very similar keyboard problems. The UX keyboard was entirely flat, so that was challenging to feel. It did NOT have an HDMI output, only VGA...It was still a wonderful tool/toy for me at the time for several years.
😂 That fan killed me. Imagine in public...
Yeah, what do the nearby hoomans react.
😂
"at least it's portable tho"
Imagine the fan AND the dying hard drive in a public place. People's heads would turn to stare in horror and wonder what in the world is making that sound and why. Is... is that ungodly noise coming from that little handheld device? It couldn't possibly be. Oh my gosh, I think it actually is. Call the Bomb Squad, Frank, I think it's gonna blow!
I wish that the phablet trend would adopt that style of keyboard.
This. this so hard.
I had a HTC Dream when they were still new and I still think it is by far the best design for an Android phone despite being so thick and the like..it was just so usable. Give me one with a larger screen and modern hardware, I'll be happy with that until it's broken and unusable.
Ehh, I think a touch keyboard is far more comfortable to type on than one of those tiny keyboards with almost no keytravel.
I think you could just make this work as an attachment- as a case with a integrated sliding keyboard
@@himbeerme Think about what you just said: "I think that something with no physical keys/possibility of keytravel at all is more comfortable than something with minimal keytravel."
...that and speaking from experience with the HTC Dream/G1 you can also type way faster and can disable autocorrect entirely if you're a good typist on PC, I was hitting over 100wpm on that device.
I agree, I'm sad that physical keyboards are gone. I did have a Blackberry in the mid/late 2000s and it was quite nice to type on. Touchscreen typing absolutely sucks in comparison. Granted, phones now are so much better for apps and web browsing, but unfortunately at the expense of a good typing experience.
Ahh FlatOut 2...what a classic, legendary game with an badass soundtrack. Thanks for reminding me (3 years later) to start playing it again.
Quake 3 Lan parties in high school on a Friday. Happy Friday everyone!
This and the Vaio UX-50 were the tiny computers I always wanted back when they were new
the Vaio P series are pretty kool as well
These early 2000s gadgets really throw into sharp relief was a paradigm shift it was when reliable gesture-based touchscreen navigation became a thing.
2007 me would have loved to play RuneScape on that bad boy!
@Teenage Pretty sure that device has no problem running PS1 emulator.
back then you could play runescape on a 1 ghz pentium 3 so pretty sure this pc could have ran it
That Era when smartphones had sliding keyboards. Damn, i feel old.
I miss my HTC G1, except for the bloody battery.
@@BriFiConnections Yes. Nokias in 2008-2009 had a physical keyboard. But among the earliest devices to have one is the T-Mobile Sidekick.
That was like 10 years ago. So you're at least 10 years old, I wouldn't call that old lol
Oh yeah, I remember this thing, and that weird 'mobile computer' push at the time. Was part of all these new 'super cool' tiny computers, that were priced way out of what people would ever spend.
Looks like a GPD Pocket that came up ten years before the hardware was capable enough to actually pull it off. Fascinating.
A better analog is the GPD Win due to chiclet keys.
@@anthonya.jumelles7103 But GPD Win has gamepad functionality and Pocket, like this thing, doesn't. Close enough either way.
This was impressive, never heard of it back in 2007, a literal portable PC smaller than a laptop.
I was not impressed as the holly binaries told me Microsoft is garbage.
Love your videos bro. love the nostalgia. Also your voice is so soothing for some reason. lol
I would like to see something about Sony Vaio UX Micro PC
Yeah, time to replace that 4200RPM HDD with an SSD
That hard drive does 500,00RPM enough to suck the world into a Black hole.
It uses a 1.8" IDE ZIF hard drive. Easiest solution would be a CF adapter in this form factor and a 32GB CF card, imaged with Windows 7.
@@SoleNero21 wotdafok
@@bmwolgas Better windows XP because Windows 7 updates take to mutch space on a 32 GB SSD
not mutch space over to install programs.
Hey smokers, Druaga1 here.
I frothed over these for hours at the electronics section at Harvey Norman back in the day.
I feel like if the keyboard slide was okay, putting a RPi3 in it and a different screen would make it AMAZING today.
I like things staying original and not modding them
Actually, it is rather capable already. Replace the HDD on it with some kind of flash media and there you go.
04:51 "It's not even doing anything intense"... Well, it's running Vista :-)
I remember installing this on my old laptop and all of a sudden the fans sounded like a vacuum cleaner.
We tried these out at my company back in the 00s. Every exec thought it was awesome until they tried to use it every day. My IT team ended up using them as remote on-call devices - we double-stick-taped a PCMCIA adapter with an AirCard in it to the back so we could troubleshoot stuff from wherever. They still sucked in general.
I have a similar device, HTC Shift X9500 with 7" touchscreen
used to love UMPCs so much, always wanted one. Things like the GPD Pocket 2 give me hope
i never heard of this computer before in my life
It'd be interesting to see if/how it handles windows 10/different Linux distros for gaming as they're arguable easier to run than vista.
What a cool thing to have back then though!
>win10
>easier to run than vista
???????? or are you talking about the linux distributions?
6:23 when a 1700 dollar computer from 2007 has more features than an iPhone x
Shite phones doesn't even have Bluetooth bruh. And Bluetooth is a thing since like 2000
It’s a computer? Not a phone? Those are very different things.
Iphone has been *roasted*
@@shawn914 regardless if it's a computer, a microwave, a toaster or a phone. Even a goddamn chinese 20 dollar "smart watch" has a jack. Even that has Bluetooth. Hell, my brother has a super old Sony walkman that has Bluetooth. IPhone is for stupid people who don't know how to handle a complex device such as Android. And for the record Apple blocks so much shit on iPhone that you technically can't do anything on it. (downloading files, comics, music, changing settings like runningg services, developer options etc) it's a fast device yes, but its for children.
@@shawn914 then this computer defeats all purposes of a phone
I was obsessed with the idea of the umpc because it was right before smart phones were actually able to do everything, I was so against tablets, I can respect the evolution of the idea. So happy to see this
*I remember whipping out my Palm Treo 650 when no one had seen them yet (2005) everyone thought it was so cool. My one friend grabbed it and did a Quantum Leap (tv show) impression lol the thing was so bulky...but that thing was a solid phone had it for 4 years and when it retired it still had capabilities new smart phones didn’t have!*
i had a treo 650. was really cool for the time with its keyboard etc