Great Wall U310 (Commodore VIC Slim) Keyboard PC
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- An entire PC built into a keyboard -- the Great Wall U310, also sold as the Diablotek and Gigazone U310 and as the Commodore VIC Slim: • Quick overview of the ...
Video contains music by Julian Croot ("80s Inspired Retro Synth Track"): picturedmedia.c...
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It seems weird at first until you realise it's just the laptop without a screen! Good video :)
Red_Eye_Gaming rip
***** what?
***** how?
***** ah, OK then
"Registered to:
Steve Jobs
Apple Computer, Inc."
What lol
Even more LOL is the fact that Steve Jobs died in 2011 and the BIOS revision on this thing was made in the same year! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@markusTegelane What?
The seller is gonna be pissed off if they find this video :P
Why will they be pissed off?
Look at 2:36 , the seller claimed "Not working", but they didn't realize they needed to put some RAM on it!
Fair enough.
All that's nothing compared to those people that have garage sales onl to find out that someone paid $5 bucks for a painting that was worth 100s of thousands of dollars.
IN it...
The GMA 3150 itself doesn't have support for hdmi output, that's why the hdmi is not installed. The only digital output is the LVDS for notebook displays.
Serial mice are still supported all the way through Windows 10. I've tested it personally.
jaykay18 cereal not included.
Cool, basically a netbook without a screen. It would be enough of a PC for some people.
It's actually _not_ a pentium 3
"... not just a keyboard -- it's a keyboard PC!"
Includes a driver CD....but....no CD drive LOL
oh i know its easy to get the drivers off the CD, but still, it just seems strange that they'd include it on a CD rather than a USB drive....(i know this computer is going as cheap as possible and flash storage cost more than a CD)
I don't know if it's a cost thing, or what, but even my i7 powered HP laptop came with a driver CD and no optical drive. Like you said, it's easy enough to get drivers, it just makes you wonder why they bother, lol.
Back in the day I got a CD-Rom drive with its drivers inside a CD-Rom... quite great. Luckily it worked with generic drivers under DOS
A computer such as this would be well-suited for use as a radio automation PC. Its power consumption, I'm sure, is greatly less than a much larger (and capable, of course) computer. All it'll simply do is be asked to behave as a sort of jukebox, something it can competently manage. I've looked into similarly equipped machines utilizing the Intel Atom processor, but this is the second time (the first being your K3 Windows 10 Keyboard PC Video) I've seen and also considered purchasing one for exactly the task aforementioned. It's too bad this model isn't produced any longer.
Neat computer.
I got a serial mouse working in Windows 10 64-bit so I'm not surprised that it works :).
I liked your political joke(when doing the typing test).
Er, I can't even get a PS/2 mouse to work in Windows 10 on my Core 2 Quad machine...
Speaking of Commodore VICs, I found a Vic-20 next to the trash in September after it got rained on at night.
Rained on? Is it dead?
+QuinSoft Netherlands +FP5Reviews I can't test it since I don't have a PSU. It is a later model wich supports a C64 PSU.
+simontay1984 I've already cleaned it and dried it; It's sitting behind the laptop I'm using right now.
Irony: VWestlife upload a video, Named Great Wall and this is a Keyboard PC, not a Political Video, and important: after the United States Election.... :D
You have to give credit to China -- they actually *did* build a Great Wall, not just a fence.
I think you right :D I do it! ;)
Maybe they should update their wall - Parts can probably be replaced with a fence.
I don't know if they have them in the U.S., but Great Wall sell cars here in Australia.
It's to keep the rabbits out...
9:19 OMG STEVE JOBS WAS THE PREVIOUS OWNER
Using a serial mouse on a modern PC that's really cool!
registered to steve jobs
seems legit.
this one was also sold as Joy-it Keyboard PC and Amerry TPC in Germany.
Same Atom with shitty GMA3**0 graphics w/o linux support (bcuz Intel brought it from Imagination Technologies explicitly w/o Linux drivers!)
My laptop has that functionality of asking what you just plugged in.
Great video as always! I watch the channel Lon Seidman, and he did a review last week of a Xiaomi laptop that came with Windows 10 in Chinese, and said that you can change it to the English version. I wonder what that would involve?
I believe all of the foreign language versions of Windows also support English. You just have to figure out how to navigate through the menus to get to the language setting.
+VWestlife afaik, xiaomi laptop comes with windows 10 single language, so it wont be that simple
Perhaps you can donwload the appropriate language file from Windows Update, just like you can with Windows 7.
dave4shmups You would have to buy a new Windows 10 key for English and then do a clean install with the new key.
you can download language packs from the Microsoft store in windows 10
I expected everything in this computer but a name brand CPU fan
Coupled with normal HDD these 2c/4t Atoms were pretty ok even if they did lag a little on the web. These CPUs were mostly found in tablets with something like 8GB or 16GB flash memory and this was their biggest issue. It was like trying to run Windows from mediocre USB 2.0 stick. Windows unlike Linux tries to save something with every single user action and these flash memories had to read 512kb blicks, erase and write them even for a single byte change. I once replaced such flash with MD drive and despite such drive having even lower sustained speeds system started running and not too bad either. This computer for the price and for the time (no RPi400 back then) was pretty nice. Should be fine for basic computer and should play lots of older games too. BTW. Nice thing about these Atoms is that they are like overclocked Pentium 1. Would be even better for something like Win98 if there were video drivers for W98... though for dekstop boards this might not be an issue.
Yes this is an interesting form factor. And I guess framework would be the equivalent buy the board 3-D print a case. It's surprising how thin it is you could barely make out that it's a computer from the pictures it looks like it's just a standard keyboard not that thick.
i enjoyed the 10 sec of the 80s test track. Is out there a completed one?
Yes: www.picturedmedia.com/download%20files/
nice!
Beat me too it!
I've heard of winamp enuff but have actually never seen it on a machine running it's rather interesting and I kind of like user interface.
Is more reminiscent of maybe a stripped-down VLC media player.
And be able to have the media boy or just in a small window like that he is kind of desirable but yet still have access two nose functions without completely minimizing!
Most of the time for me that pump be out of the way if I was running an older machine that was around that that period of time.
Used to have an old Pentium class Celeron machine.
That the time probably was best I could afford that was actually the first computer that was truly my own computer the about my money!
At the time I had supplemental income and was underpaid.
My father suggested since there was more than enough to do this it was suggested that a good investment for the time would have been computer and Furniture a good investment for the time would have been computer and office furniture in a few other things!
Definitely was a good investment!
Besides unfortunately I only have too much time to use the money so that was an issue at that point.
I use the heck out of it for years and I was so out a date even with that machine it was slow constantly running out of memory.
For some reason, i laughed at the part with the sticky note.
There's only one thing worse than a rapist.
You should review the Pi 400, raspberry pi computer in a keyboard. I would love to see what you think of it.
4:32 Kinda funny, in the ports diagram ok the top, they labeled the VGA port wrong. That's not the D-sub/Com port, but it's such a common misconception and it slipped into that box design.
That media player really whips the llama's ass.
stonent Man, the Winamp has been my preferred music player since the 90s, sadly lately it has been in conflict with the audio drivers in my computer, had to change it to MusicBee, I hope somebody picks them up and give it an upgrade.
Great Wall? Is that the same or a different brand as the car brand? haha
Great Wall is an OEM in China that does things like making power supplies, perhaps it also is the same company as the one that makes cars.
I love this idea. I wonder if someone will ever make one of these that has the specs of a normal laptop... then you could browse the computer on TV from the couch! I would buy one of those.
Why are you still running what is basically Windows XP on everything in 2016? On an Atom, I can understand, but on your Sandy Bridge i5 machine...
I don't use it on everything. I also use Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and Mac OS X El Capitan on a daily basis.
VWestlife Oh, well many of your videos suggest you are still using it as your main OS.
Calvin H. Yes, I do still use it as one of my three main OSes.
VWestlife I suppose because it's lightweight and not Linux?
It's slowly losing support though. Every time I set it up on a post-2006 computer, I have to go as far as to download sound and even ethernet drivers because it's so old.
Calvin H. Use Driver Booster.
Awesome, and fantastic thorough review!
Shame it's a piece of shit. I kinda like the idea. Then again; just a laptop without a display :-p
It'll be great if an all in one like this as like GTX 965M Graphics on a form factor like that!
MusicHaven2012 Sadly it would be a product for a niche market, would be expensive and hard to design with the keyboard. Plus i dont know where you'd get the funding for a project like this. And i think no keyboard company/laptop company would see it as profitable. :(
Why do you prefer it over a laptop or an all-in-one?
MusicHaven2012 you can rip a screen off of an expensive laptop and it'll be just like what you want.
step 1
buy used inspiron 7000 gaming
step 2
buy screwdriver
step 3
remove screen, flex cable etc
step 4
plug in monitor
congrats you've ruined a laptop
Heat
Thumbs up, just for the reveal of "PC" alone. 10/10 would watch you remove sticky note again.
Hurts that they're not making these any more.
9:20 The PC is registered to "Steve Jobs, Apple Computer Inc." and it's running Windows. How is that possible? No it can't be...
Thanks for making this. I'm currently addicted to the concept as a throwback to the microcomputers of the 80's. Beyond nostalgia I'm not sure of the wide case usage. Given it's possible to great a gaming laptop, I even see the potential to make an.....let's call it.... A500X ;) But that said, even these underpowered units like this and the K3, would make great little emulator boxes.
Apple should make something like this.
wow love the Sega keyboard!
This is such a good idea, I wonder if a name brand could develop this, maybe with a core M and more modern ports
If you don't need Windows for any reason, just get a cheap ASUS Chromebit for $80, attach it to an HDMI display with decent speakers, use a USB or Bluetooth keyboard that has a track pad, and get a cheap powered USB hub, and call it a day.
Pretty cool little machine, at least for the price you paid. :)
Well, I guess you had to supplement it with your own hardware, which adds up. Still, good find!
I converted a HP Stream 11 Laptop from a few years old into something like this, and i have to say, it's a pretty good HTPC for using internet websites or plex streaming
If this had a Cherry Trail instead of a D525 it would be a perfect machine for everyday use.
Should have put an Nvidia graphics card in it
It would have to be an older cheap one.
Because Nvidia always means fast.
***** How do they have nvidia cards in laptops without expansion?
Exactly.
They could redesign the motherboard.
nvidia is the beacon of graphic cards.
LOL. Nice to see the keyboard-based computers make a comeback. Seems someone realized how well these worked in the '80s, and decided to bring them back in more modern form.
Interesting. I've pondered on trying to build something similar from an old 486SL laptop board (long and thin!), random AT/PS2 keyboard and flashcard storage before, but didn't know usable it'd still be once all the cables were connected given that it'd be somewhat lighter and more likely to be pulled around by them than a classic heavyweight keyboard computer...
Technically, you can make one of these by decapitating a laptop. This is very popular with MacBook Pros.
If they could figure out shoving some of the guts of a Surface Pro 3 in one of these (an i7 model), I'd drop three paychecks on one just to see the housing melt.
How funny was that, a video that ran about 19:21 and I picked up on Oldies 107.9. Anyway, I noticed that you are a user of Winamp. I loved that app back in the day. I would use 2 plug ins and it made for the perfect automated delivery platform. I'm checking out the station and it sounds amazing. Reminds me of WLNG out of Sag Harbour, even have the reverb but not quite as much. These days, I had to replace my trusty Winamp for OTS-AV with some pretty amazing results.
Just because it's easier to find for most people who want a small PC for basic daily task, I'd say just get a ASUS Chromebit with a Logitech keyboard that has a trackpad for about the same price if this was bought new, which is what I have connected to a spare 23in ACER monitor with an HDMI to DVI adapter, and a spare Bluetooth speaker I had laying around for sound. It now sits on a old school wood office desk my grandfather had in my guest room, and it looks really nice with the unit mounted to the back of the monitor using a 3M command strip, and the speaker hidden behind the monitor taking up very little space for such a small desk.
I almost bet that distance morning was for the Wi-Fi especially considering where the antennas are located right next one's hands hmmm I'm not sure how good that is both from a Signal perspective and a radiating of Signal perspective. This thing is kind of cool. Linux is probably detecting an alternative display output that is unused in one of the chips assuming they used a laptop chip with a laptop display option built-in.
Could've made the backspace if they used the ISO layout without the BFE (Big F--king Enter) key
I would love if they made one of these keyboard PCs with an ultrabook Intel Core i3 of some description in them. That would make one of these invaluable. If they can cram an i3 into an Intel NUK, I'm sure they could do that with this form factor.
Too bad the K3 can only do Win10 despite being better in the graphics side. I'm eyeing this one just because it can do 7. I personally prefer 7 over 10 since I am still not so used to the Metro interface as much.
I think thats a wall mexico would actually pay for (sorry for that joke).
Probably not a good idea to name something that compact "Great Wall"
a bit late... but the warning about keeping 20cm away from the body means that it doesn't quite meet some EMI standard or another. And if you have an embedded device inside you, then keep it in another room.
These aren't really a good value for their limited upgradability. Less use cases for these than other SBCs, plus if you spill soda on this thing then you're out a lot more money than on a cheap regular keyboard.
Does a PS/2 to serial connector adapter even work if you hooked up a PS/2 mouse on this computer/keyboard?
Weren't greatwall the ones who made the power supply for the overpowered desktop pcs?
Kinda glad it doesn't have the Commodore game in it anymore, it doesn't look terrible in it's own right but sticking the Commodore brand in it just to cash in on brand recognition is pretty disrespectful.
look i dont know what im talking about, you can shoot me down however you like. You are you trying to take me down cause i bought a keyboard that wasnt a regular keyboard
I suppose for $22.94 and free shipping, you can't go wrong.
So... What happens when you get further than 20 cm away while it is still on?
If someone managed to fit current gen ultrabook internals in a Model M I would instantly buy one.
I would use Windows 7 or 10 XP long gone & was a good OS but not safe anymore.
You must’ve inspired Linus to make a very similar video since this one is a few years older than his video
I think you can say that This tipe of pc is the predecessor of the all in one pc like the Hp pavilon series.
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hey that's the zune Windows XP professional theme
This is Trump's new computer... the Great Wall!
hey in 10:48 was that the Toshiba satellite laptop in the vista video a few years ago
Ohh look an Amiga! Looks like she wants emulators installed!
Those are HP Probook style keys, I like them.
looks like it was made at 2011-12-05 aka 5 December, 2011
Where can I purchase this? I've been looking for one to do a video on forever! EDIT: I just saw you got it on Ebay! Very lucky. I love keyboard computers, if you ever consider selling it let me know. lol
pretty cool it will save much space.
It looks alot like an AZIO gaming Keyboard
I wonder if that would make a good dos box machine
What if you want a Dvorak one? :D
I always used a serial mouse on my main PC which runs Windows 10 64 bit. it's still surprising that it still supports these old legacy serial hardware.
This thing mounts the second iteration of the Bonnell architecture (what we are used to call Atom). Intel should have shipped this second generation back in 2008, and not 4 years later. I still have and use a n270 based netbook from 2009, and the heat that bloody chipset spits out is simply unjustifiable. That been said, with Mint18+LXDE and a 64GB SSD (pluse 2GB of ram) old Atom based nebooks are fantastic, sleek, devices.
ALSO, i almost forgot. I just bought for my uncle an HP ProBook 650 G2, with a bunch of stuff, i5 CPU, SSD with m.2 connector, built in wireless modem.... and a serial port. I was almost in shock. Somebody stuck a serial port on a skylake-u based notebook, that's something!
what is name for this keyboard
I call it George.
this is exactly what i want !!! i was looking at doing it myself with a off-the-shelf keyboard thick enough for a raspi.. wish someone did this again. i'd have it as a new zx spectrum or amiga .. or buy 2 !!! love the all-in-one. thx for the video, shame they don't sell them any longer.
Crazy, I can't find either of these keyboard pc computers on ebay. Some websites on google sell them for retail but nothing like what you found on ebay cheap
There was one on eBay recently: www.ebay.com/itm/282799772183
The keyboard is Apple IIC-esqe
Fun thing about the K3 one is there's actually solder pads inside to attach internal speakers to the board, just a shame mine got screwed over by windows 10 updates and won't boot up properly now...
What is the background music name at the beginning? Sounds like JS Bach but I could not recognize it
It's whatever was playing on the radio at the time.
registered to Steve Jobs, Apple? lol
I suppose it's possible to install a SSD inside those keyboard PCs. I think its good idea and would make those systems work quite fast :)
wow that was a very easy fix.
I haven't gotten through the video yet, but i bet he installed XP on it.
I was kind of right! #15 #XPMasterRace
+ThatGTAFan720 actually it's windows POSReady :P
Xylevan That's why i said "Kind of" It's technically XP, but not really, and he didn't actually install it, just stuck the drive in.
Great typing test ;-)
lol the wall that trunp wants to build
hey VWestlife,
Why did you abandon your HP mini pc?
Because my "Wal-Mart Special" PC is faster.
That's really cool. Hope they start to make the C64x's again.
IIIJFRIII ikr
VWestlife What video camera do you use to record the videos? Also what software do you edit it on?
Mostly a Canon HF200 and mostly iMovie 10 on my MacBook Pro.
i remember hearing about this under the vic name a few years back. It was cool seeing a brief Commodore revival
Cool vid! What's the name of the synth track you played when you did the audio out demo?
Honestly I would like the Commodore 64 Extreme version of this.
What a Sweet Deal :) QC