I am glad that you are covering more and more mid 2000's tech lately because that is one era that rarely gets any attention. That's when a lot of the unusual and wacky designs made their appearance but just few years later it all vanished and nobody is talking about it
@@lebronjohnson6735 It's fun to look back on but that's about it. There's very little I miss about that era of PC gaming. It was expensive and the tech just wasn't there yet for the most part.
The aesthetic that reminded me of that period is the white late CRT monitors and black early LCD screen side-by-side running World of Warcraft from white desktops. Laptop capable of running World of Warcraft was a dream.
Just like video games and movies as well, 2000s where a lot of things being experimented with small risks.. A lot goofy ideas for movies and whacky but interesting concepts for video games since it was the first era where ps2 and xbox shocked the world, also the decade where people not easily getting offended over little things i guess..
Same. I had a Asus G51-VX, which came out in late 2009. The parts and ports are very similar to this one, but mine was much cheaper than $4k. I still have it and it works too. Lol
@@charliemartin-k7m Just, why? XP runs well on anything from 2000 onwards. At least the OS itself, the kind of software you install upon it is a different matter.
my god dude. dont make me feel old. 😭 I remember in 2008, my dad had this PC that absolutely floored me. I was 11 back then, and at the time, I had a P4 2.6ghz, 1gb ram, and a Radeon 9600 XT. Solid PC for its time. But my dad had that Core 2 Duo E6300, 2gb DDR2 and that GeForce 9600 GT. I remember him getting a 1680x1050 LCD monitor and setting it up with his Soundblaster X-Fi. He'd ask me to come to his room so he could show me the power of that beast. Well, by 2008 standards as I know now. that was a mid-range PC with a rather budget tier CPU. but as an 11 year old back then, seeing great framerates at 1680x1050 on Dark Sector, Mercenaries 2, FEAR, Assassins Creed, Race Driver GRID, Call of Duty World at war. Out of that list. I could only have ran FEAR. I really miss those days. Especially EAX.
This brings back some memories. We had one of these at work in 2007, because we needed a Vista laptop that was fast enough to do h.264 acceleration in GPU shaders. It was such a pain to have to travel with this luggable, and we had to pack it into a hard shell Pelco case and check it in at the airport. But hey, it made for impressive video tech demos in 2007!
When I was working in a small computer shop in the late 2000s, one of the techs had the Acer Ferrari laptop. Always thought it was hilarious, the worst combo of the most prestigious car brand and a crappy Acer laptop. The shop we worked at were Acer sellers back then, so we that's what we sold, and they were just not good. Also, they had probably the worst warranty system of any manufacturer I've ever experienced. They would just LOSE laptops all the time, it was crazy.
@@G-Mastah-Fash Yeah they were just not very good. Which was to be expected for 5-600€ laptops in 2009, it's not like the other brands were much better. But the Acer Ferrari laptop was 2000€. At that price you could get a really nice Sony Vaio that did not look and feel like a toy.
I had a windows 7 Acer laptop from 2009 that was great. It was a thin, long battery life model. Wasn't built for gaming, but it could play 2 full length movies back to back on just battery power. Doing normal office work on it, it would last 9 hours on battery easy. That laptop lasted for years without issue, until it was well out of date.
@@AgentTasmania Well USB-C is touted to be fast, but only these days. ExpressCard (and it's predecessors) was revolutionary. Essentially baremetal contact to PCI. Not to mention that was superior in laptops anyway imo as cards slot in so nicely and had very little extrusion out and change happened in seconds. No tangling cords and adapters that can be yanked off easily. I still wish it would've remained as standard.
Can you imagine arriving with this laptop at work and it making the engine revving sound every time you turn it on, haha. Agreed on the look though. Not a bad idea either to have a leather surface, it's something you touch everyday for extended periods.
One of my coworkers has some Asus gamer one that will always do some obnoxious loud boot up sound like it was spooling up a turbine, and it would always make us turn around to see what it was. He said he couldn't find it anywhere on the BIOS to shut up the damn thing.
I just love, that you used this gorgeous photo of the Carina Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope as the background image! 💖 I've been using it on all of devices since the release of this photo.
Cant express how much 2007 is stuck in my head… I changed school that year and my dad (live him to death) got remarried… so seeing tech from 2007 makes me relive this confusing, yet astounding time of my life relive again… Thanks lGR 👌🏼
It's not just you. Halo 3, CoD4, Bioshock, Burning Crusade, Roblox; the iPhone. TH-cam goes mainstream, Facebook goes mainstream. Cellphones still look weird, and aren't trying to be iPhones yet. Hellsing Ultimate gets another episode. Toonami has it's 10th anniversary, which leads to one of the best Toonami blocks ever, (from this point it's a gradual decline). Tim and Eric, iCarly, and Mad Men all debut on TV; Sopranos gets its finale, Punk'd, Code Lyoko, and Ned's Declassified all have their final episodes. Avatar TLA is in the middle of its original run, finally moving into the next story arc. Mass media has been a shadow of its former self ever since this period. It's like a record that keeps skipping, each time it repeats becoming a little more absurd, and removed from its former context. Depression in our society has become so palpable that it reaches our children. Likely everything I just mentioned contributed to this outcome but the high of it all sure felt fresh back then. Feels like we are walking backwards, with dependence on vices reaching a level comparable to the 80's but with none of the social cohesion or safety net.
Is that drive an HD DVD burner? Because yes, they did sell HD DVD-R and even HD DVD-RW discs, with a capacity of 15 GB (single layer) or 30 GB (dual layer).
Hah, these limited run "laptops of the 1%" are always interesting to see. And inside it looks just like a regular Asus of the era! Edit: Glad to see UT2004 tested! My favorite title, runs great on my GeForce 6800.
@@MF175mp which would be the real laptop (or high end macbook) the 1% buy instead of this fashion item. But, they might buy it for their spoiled teenage son......
@@Blackadder75 I'm with you there. I think this was aimed more towards the higher end of normal consumers, the kind who have money but iffy taste lol. It's not even close to being exclusive or expensive enough for the mega-rich.
LGR, your videos get me through the day. I've recently started a new job and it's been a tough transition, but when I put your videos on while I work, I feel like I'm hanging out with a friend excitedly telling me all of his nerdy/gaming/computer stuff. You don't know how much it helps. Sorry for the sappy comment, just thought you should know how much your channel means to me. Stay classy, dude ;)
I loved that era of Asus laptops. I wanted one of the Lamborghinis, but that wasn't remotely in my budget. I later got an Asus Bamboo U43. It was powerful and covered in wood. Unfortunately it ran really hot, and the case plastic started disintegrating. I assume it was a more eco friendly plastic, as "eco" was the theme of the laptop. All the standoffs and anchor points started snapping off. One of the hinges came loose and damaged the charging port. As I took it apart to repair it, the case just started crumbling. It was a shame, it was a great laptop, but it was time for a replacement. So I went with a refurbished bog standard Dell laptop. It wasn't sexy, but it didn't disintegrate.
Lol. I remember seeing ads of those and was wondering that does that actually sell. Don't get me wrong as hardware seemed just fine, but those frame materials were just odd. Well no wonder it was fast forgotten with those kind of issues :)
@@JohnKelly2 I remember lusting after one of those back in the day and wondering why more manufacturers don't use bamboo (probably a huge pain to work with compared to metal and plastic).
@@deanchur I'd suppose bamboo would need to be thoroughly soaked in some interesting combination of chemicals to make even remotely durable for such place. Otherwise it would crumble or warp in very short time, like within few weeks.
MXM laptop GPU cards sound amazing until you realize you can actually never get newer cards unless the manufacturer specifically went in, added support and then whitelisted them in a BIOS update. Which of course they never do, limiting you to the best GPU the damn thing shipped with.
I worked for a very large laptop re-seller in the UK during this period, and we sold the Acer 'Ferrari' version of this laptop. During the 3 years I worked there, we sold about 3, IIRC.
Apple at least tries to make different garbage, as in the one thing have going for them is that they're not made entirely of plastic although it makes absolutely no difference to the quality or usability
Then you really must not look at many modern laptops. Good keyboards is definitely still a thing and often better than many of the mushy feeling ones back then. Typical indicators for battery charge/discharge status, power state, drive activity and in some cases even WiFi and mute still exist and many modern laptops have way better design guideline than laptops of the (late) 2000s. On thinner or smaller devices, external dongles and port replicators have been a fairly common option since the 90s, if you're only looking at ultrabooks or cheap notebooks then less IO and a thinner keyboard mechanism is obviously what you're going to find, there are still a bunch of business/workstation-, premium- and gaming notebooks out there with your requirements.
So you finally came full circle and review items as ancient that are as old as your channel. That is quite an accomplishment. Keep it up and congratulations Clint!!
Vista (Win 6.9) was a good boy, the main issue at first was drivers.. because they rewrote all the subsystems from scratch in order to modernize them, and so new drivers were needed from *everyone*
Only reason why Windows 2000 got off somewhat lucky into XP’s lifespan, since most driver manufacturers merged their XP drivers alongside 2000 since they’re so similar and offered them as a packaged deal (yes, even if it’s explicitly labeled as only for XP, that may be because of the applet only supporting XP+ kernel calls which Extended Kernel should fix)
I got a Gateway (yes) gaming PC in 2009 with decent specs and a lot of RAM. I never understood why people hated Vista cause I thought it was fine, but I realize now that basically it was fine if you had a powerful computer but it was terrible for any other standard ones.
At the time, a lot of people were on systems that could handle XP at most and barely Vista. And when Vista launched, you had not only the OS's internals being heavily reworked, but you also had the fact that drivers weren't completely done yet. Adding to that, you also had OEMs claiming their lower end systems could handle regular Vista even though they could at most handle Vista home basic.
I worked on these machines in a warranty shop. The main board is almost identical to a much cheaper business grade machine from the time, to the point the graphics board and CPU were interchangeable.
Seeing Windows Vista on this laptop makes me want that OS back again. I remember playing Purble Place and Mahjong Titans on a Win Vista HP laptop gifted to my grandpa, with him working on his desktop PC beside me. The memories, and the design beauty of Vista. Perhaps I was too young to understand the alleged performance issues it showed.
@@rorz999 that's why I mentioned that perhaps I was too young to notice those. That HP laptop which my grandpa had used to run fine with Windows Vista, but then again, he didn't use it much because it occasionally didn't boot at all, so he refused to make it his main machine.
That was cool! Almost like a mint inbox experience but it looks like the previous owner kept a couple of important jiggly bits! Not much of a loss with the 7200 RPM because a solid-state drive would make that thing run a whole lot better.
So crazy to think how long ago that car came out now. Those clips really make me feel old. That laptop fits the Gallardo owner quite well.. you found a brand new one?!
@@PurblePink8678 Had alright experience with it having SP1 on the Acer Aspire steel minitower my mom bought & later gave me. Specs were a pentium dualcore at 1.6 ghz 2 gb ram & a 8500 gt (upgraded from a 7300 gs 128 mb) & later a hd 3650 (may have overclocked the 8500 gt until it blew the capacitors & got too borrow another 8500 gt before i bought the 3650 as a replacement.) & then i built my own pc mid August 2010 & went with windows 7 Only thing left from that acer aspire now is the 500 gb harddrive from seagate, production date 2007 & between 51k & 52k hours last time i checked. Dunno exact numbers as i haven't checked in like 2 weeks.
Yeah. Crazy. Since I can vividly remember the advertisements of Asus Lamborghini, Asus Leather, and Acer Ferrari on local Tech magazines. 2007-2010 felt like it was just yesterday.. at least just 7 yrs ago.
You have excellent taste in desktop backgrounds, same one I'm using right now... Impressively quick film-to-release turnaround too, given that background has only been available since Tuesday!
Who are these computers even marketed towards? They seem more like a gift you get for buying a +200k sports car or at the very least an add on premium you can add to your Lambo but it never struck me to think there was a market of exotic sports car labeled computers.
I feel like it was a flash in the pan ploy to get some attention in the marketplace, but really they were too expensive for regular users and kind of a joke for actual rich people or for tech enthusiasts. Their main market was probably people who have a bit of money and really want to show it off any way possible, like drug dealers, upcoming rappers, repair shop owners, etc
I remember repairing these and making them scratchfree on our DOA department at the Asus repaircenter in The Netherlands, was awesome to see these and hold them in hand, especially the revving at boot. The ZBD was indeed a guarantee as we replaced a couple of the LCD's and since we needed to make them scratchfree we replaced the covers now and then as well which we decorated our repair stations with :D Also a nice tidbit of info, the VX1 was based off the Asus V6 (basically just upgraded and different covers), the VX2 was based off the Asus V2 and so on. Another thing, Asus did have Porsche laptop as well in the 90's if I remember correctly, but never saw one of those in person.
5:03 I know I've said it before, but these kind of transitions you do are really fantastic stuff. High quality, beautiful, and classy. It is pro and shows you also enjoy what you do (and are good at it, haha). And always progressing as you push yourself to do better and it shows! Great work.
I know this was 15 years ago but I can still feel the excitement one would get looking at this. Jesus, look at all the accessories. It comes at a hefty price tho
Actually I own a Porsche Design monitor, and it is solid... Kinda bulky though but I have a smaller desk, been wanting to get a new desk anyway cuz that thing has led's on the side powered by a cable management catastrophe.
holy hell, i remember this thing!!! i remember getting a base-level ASUS at the time, and they had a huge glossy printout in the box pumping up the Lambo laptop (lamboptop?) I can't believe any of them survived/were sold, so this is great.
This was back when even cheap laptops were quality made modularly designed and easily repairable and upgradeable. The mid to late 2000s is my favorite era of computers.
A laptop with Windows Vista and an HD DVD drive is definitely a nice time capsule of 2007, haha. Hope you'll be able to find that nice bag one day too.
As someone who was born in 1994, I do have some nostalgia for the 90s and turn of the century. However, laptops like this one I can vividly recall lusting for as a penniless teenager with a dodgy old second-hand beige office PC. I had no hope of running Oblivion or FEAR, and if I saw a rich kid with one of these laptops I would have been trying very hard to befriend them so I could have a go! Thoroughly compelling and well filmed video as usual, Mr LGR. Thank you for a great viewing experience.
I always love the specialty laptops! I remember the Porsche Design two-in-one from a few years ago! Also I saw that steam deck! 👀 - are you planning a potential emulation filled review?
Very interesting piece of limited edition tech from precisely the era of the computers that nowadays get no love at all and get massively dumped: too hampered for some modern-day tasks, too modern to be appreciated as retro.
Definitely should see what upgrades are out there for this. I think if you could find some it would make a great blerbs video follow up. Maby toss in a ssd just to see if it helps any of those fps dips.
Great video as always! Can we get a review of that Steam Deck you had sitting next to the laptop as well? Or do we get that in 15 years or so when it also becomes retro 😀
Cool that you covered this one! I remember seeing the yellow Lamborgini laptop for display in a shop here in Rotterdam and thought it looked absolutely awesome with that car-paint.. but thought it was mostly looks. I did went for an Asus laptop that year, one that weighs even heavier, the Z83U (A7U) and it still works today. Quality.
I`ve had experiance with the yellow version of smaller Asus Lamborghini in 2008. Actually I was impressed only with additional set of Asus, because some sony Vaio TT180 was technically really interesting for 2008 for me.
I'm a bit chuffed that this had the same CPU and GPU as my 2007-vintage Dell Inspiron 1720, for "only" about twice the price with that accessory package... 😁
Many younger folks will believe laptops typically cost thousands back then watching this. And no, the run of the mill laptop did not. They did in the late '90s. My 2007 laptop with a more basic Core 2 Duo and weaker (though still discrete) graphics adapter cost me 700-750 bucks, and if I had gone for something a bit fancier it wouldn't have been much more than 1000.
Thanx 4 a Superb Video again! I just Love Premium Laptops from the Late 90s to early 2010s , the sweet spot was about 2003 to 2007 according to my Heart ;)
While definitely different, this reminded me of the HP livestrong laptop I had sometime around 2005. Would be interesting to see you cover that one if you ever get the chance. Don't have mine anymore but do have the bracelet it came with somewhere still in it's packaging.
Awesome that you managed to get one is such good state and so complete with original box stickers etc (except that leather case...that thing would still be sweet). Nice review 😁 I wonder when the Dell McLaren laptop will be launched 😄
I bought a Dell laptop in 2021 and I was actually very impressed with the look and feel of it. It would be cool if they did one of these gaudy licensing deals with a car company to make something unique.
In the early to mid 2010s, I had a Compaq CQ58 laptop whose webcam mic occasionally did the same thing that the Lambo laptop's mic did at 8:55. That mic pitch lowering quirk is quite nostalgic to me.
I've always found "themed" laptops and computers like this to be extremely tacky. Laptops are the pinnacle of planned obsolescence. You know that within a few years you'll get all sorts of problems that factory resets aren't likely to fix and a 5 year old laptop is essentially useless. Nothing like putting an expensive car brand on something that is made to break down and be thrown out.
Maybe you should read up about the infamous Ferrari sticky dashboards. Their high end F40 also has a fuel bladder that has to be replaced every ten years. A whole load of problems you wouldn't expect to have with a Ford.
I disagree. I have had and used laptops since 2004 and I just bought the fourth one. So that is 5 years per laptop on average. The last two still work and run Linux, no problem. Both of them Acers by the way lol.
Being a mid-2000s gamer; it STILL impresses me when laptops run games the category previously couldn't. Playing Bad Company 2 on an ASUS Zenbook still floors me.
I hear you man, I was excited to see where it would all go at the time too but now it just seems like we're entering a dark age for entertainment among many other things...
@@tackytrooper Same. I miss being younger. 2007 I remember having my first custom built PC I made and it was a Core 2 Duo, not even top of the line with a GPU I actually forget...I think an x1900GT from ATI. It was all I could afford but this stuff used to make me want to get more money for top end systems. Lol
@@tackytrooper It's as if everything is getting expensive to where only the mega and ultra rich can afford anything. I almost want to give up on working all together not even $17 a/hour is worth it this is no joke man this shits kinda scary. You are right this really is a dark age for entertainment man Smartphone companies also want to force wireless headphones down people's throat which is not safe.
@@tackytrooper Hell I remember being a kid having Zelda Minish Cap and was excited for that all this expensive shit can bite me if it's not cheap I'm not interested.
I worked at a PC refurb/recycling place in Seattle for a couple years and saw a few Lambo (or maybe Ferrari) laptops, one was bright yellow, the other was bright red. They sold for some $$$ even though they were pretty much useless.
HA! Fixing the previous tech's screw-up on this laptop was literally my first task when I started as a tech at Staples. He didn't ESD ground himself when swapping out a trackpad under warranty... and fried the entire system somehow. Motherboard, LCD, everything had to be replaced. So I got to build an Acer Lambo VX2S from scratch, in my first few days, with basically only software experience beforehand. I somehow succeeded and got very quickly (within a few weeks) promoted to supervisor.
Ooooh, the gt 8600m. Ticking time bomb that card. I remember growing up with an ASUS C90s that had one... I'd have to bake mine in the oven at 200 degrees for 20 minutes just to get the machine to boot. Eventually after a few hours the machine would blue screen or freeze, then I'd know it's time for another baking session. But it was able to play Halo 2 Vista, so it was worth it!
I had this laptop in 07 and it’s the best example of a sheep in wolves clothing. Quite honestly it was an impulse buy as I was about to go on a round the world trip. Never impulse bought laptops thereafter. While it did look and feel great there were so many problems that after about 8 months of travelling I ended up giving it to a friend’s 10 year old son in Australia and I bought a netbook just for the reliability. My friend told me his son was heartbroken when the laptop completely died about 6 months later. It was the worst laptop I have ever bought until I bought the recent MSI z16 Hiroshi Fujiara limited edition. Only had it 6 months and it’s been in repair for 2. Was sent back to me last Friday still broken. They’ve had to replace the motherboard twice already!!!
I wonder if a modder could take that laptop chassis and, speaking in automotive terms, swap the engine? the case itself doesn't really look aged. the io is a bit iffy but like that with modern hardware honestly could be very sick
Lgr, you know what would be neat to cover: "the floppotron/ Old technology used for neat purposes... I'd be really intrested in an opinion of someone that lives and breathes pc of times long gone.
First the Ferrari, then the Corvette, now the Lamborghini.. How many times will LGR flex his exotic cars on us??!
🤣 😂 🤣
Until they get it fight ;-)
He also have a hot wheels.
Dont forget the porsche
Rolls Royce is fine too
I am glad that you are covering more and more mid 2000's tech lately because that is one era that rarely gets any attention. That's when a lot of the unusual and wacky designs made their appearance but just few years later it all vanished and nobody is talking about it
Thank goodness it vanished. Nothing was worse than 2000s gaming laptops.
@@lebronjohnson6735
It's fun to look back on but that's about it. There's very little I miss about that era of PC gaming. It was expensive and the tech just wasn't there yet for the most part.
The aesthetic that reminded me of that period is the white late CRT monitors and black early LCD screen side-by-side running World of Warcraft from white desktops. Laptop capable of running World of Warcraft was a dream.
Just like video games and movies as well, 2000s where a lot of things being experimented with small risks..
A lot goofy ideas for movies and whacky but interesting concepts for video games since it was the first era where ps2 and xbox shocked the world, also the decade where people not easily getting offended over little things i guess..
The last wacky design was in 2016. Thx msi
As soon as a TH-camr hits it big, they buy a new house and a Lamborghini.
It’s like, you’re following the checklist, but you’re missing the point.
I misunderstood the assignment.
you're a little confused, but you've got the spirit!😂@LGR
Funny how fast tech was evolving then though.
My 2009 bargain bin laptop had about the same specs as this just 2 years later
Same. I had a Asus G51-VX, which came out in late 2009. The parts and ports are very similar to this one, but mine was much cheaper than $4k.
I still have it and it works too. Lol
Things definitely went slower in the early to mid 2010s, but nowadays tech evolution sped up again. I'm guessing thanks to Ryzen.
In the late '90s to early 2000s things moved faster still. Remarkably so, in fact.
@@dauf69 It will never go as fast as 20-25 years ago, though... Thankfully!
So I guess that means my ASUS F505 from 2019 will outrun this Lamborghini. LOL
I remember drooling over this thing, as silly as it was.
My god, 2007 was 15 years ago...
Back when this came out I was still running windows 98
My god, when this came out, I was just excited at my "new" Pentium 4 PC with Windows XP
@@charliemartin-k7m Just, why? XP runs well on anything from 2000 onwards. At least the OS itself, the kind of software you install upon it is a different matter.
15 years since pepaw passed away.
my god dude. dont make me feel old. 😭 I remember in 2008, my dad had this PC that absolutely floored me. I was 11 back then, and at the time, I had a P4 2.6ghz, 1gb ram, and a Radeon 9600 XT. Solid PC for its time. But my dad had that Core 2 Duo E6300, 2gb DDR2 and that GeForce 9600 GT. I remember him getting a 1680x1050 LCD monitor and setting it up with his Soundblaster X-Fi. He'd ask me to come to his room so he could show me the power of that beast. Well, by 2008 standards as I know now. that was a mid-range PC with a rather budget tier CPU. but as an 11 year old back then, seeing great framerates at 1680x1050 on Dark Sector, Mercenaries 2, FEAR, Assassins Creed, Race Driver GRID, Call of Duty World at war. Out of that list. I could only have ran FEAR. I really miss those days. Especially EAX.
This brings back some memories. We had one of these at work in 2007, because we needed a Vista laptop that was fast enough to do h.264 acceleration in GPU shaders.
It was such a pain to have to travel with this luggable, and we had to pack it into a hard shell Pelco case and check it in at the airport. But hey, it made for impressive video tech demos in 2007!
You are everywhere I go somehow
And here a thought that you had a cannondale laptop
When I was working in a small computer shop in the late 2000s, one of the techs had the Acer Ferrari laptop. Always thought it was hilarious, the worst combo of the most prestigious car brand and a crappy Acer laptop. The shop we worked at were Acer sellers back then, so we that's what we sold, and they were just not good. Also, they had probably the worst warranty system of any manufacturer I've ever experienced. They would just LOSE laptops all the time, it was crazy.
ASUS are worse.
I remember my dad ranting about his company provided Acer back in the day. He despised that thing.
@@G-Mastah-Fash Yeah they were just not very good. Which was to be expected for 5-600€ laptops in 2009, it's not like the other brands were much better. But the Acer Ferrari laptop was 2000€. At that price you could get a really nice Sony Vaio that did not look and feel like a toy.
@@MrSupercar55 I never sold Asus laptops but I had friends who did and they definitely had a lot of bad things to say about them back then :p
I had a windows 7 Acer laptop from 2009 that was great. It was a thin, long battery life model. Wasn't built for gaming, but it could play 2 full length movies back to back on just battery power. Doing normal office work on it, it would last 9 hours on battery easy. That laptop lasted for years without issue, until it was well out of date.
I loved how many port options you still had on laptops in circa 07.
On the other hand, only needing a couple of types to do absolutely anything now.
Could feasibly do everything on USB-C alone now
@@AgentTasmania Yes, but you don't typically get more than a couple of such plugs in a machine, which makes a hub a necessity in many cases anyway.
@@AgentTasmania Well USB-C is touted to be fast, but only these days. ExpressCard (and it's predecessors) was revolutionary. Essentially baremetal contact to PCI. Not to mention that was superior in laptops anyway imo as cards slot in so nicely and had very little extrusion out and change happened in seconds. No tangling cords and adapters that can be yanked off easily. I still wish it would've remained as standard.
@@AgentTasmania USB drives and accessories? I haven't see a single mouse on USB C?
@@jothain It still does with framework laptop. It's basically expresscard but new.
Can you imagine arriving with this laptop at work and it making the engine revving sound every time you turn it on, haha.
Agreed on the look though. Not a bad idea either to have a leather surface, it's something you touch everyday for extended periods.
One of my coworkers has some Asus gamer one that will always do some obnoxious loud boot up sound like it was spooling up a turbine, and it would always make us turn around to see what it was. He said he couldn't find it anywhere on the BIOS to shut up the damn thing.
Id hook that badboy up to speakers and force nearby folks to hear it every time
I just love, that you used this gorgeous photo of the Carina Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope as the background image! 💖
I've been using it on all of devices since the release of this photo.
"Ah, a fellow scientist."
“I’m something of a scientist myself”
The new JWST deep space photo looks amazing!
@@Q3ark from black mesa to green goblin in seconds, amazing
It comes with 32 bit Windows because if you bought this in 2007, you were a 50+ year old Executive who needed to run 16 bit apps.
The webcam video and audio genuinely made me burst out laughing! The pitch change caught me so off guard haha
You've shown us the quirks and features. Very good.
If only we would've gotten a Clint score!
THIS is a Asus-Lamborghini VX2S!
Clint is the type of guy to review exotic car-branded laptops from the mid-2000s.
Perfection.
Yes I am also subbbed to Doug's channel
Cant express how much 2007 is stuck in my head… I changed school that year and my dad (live him to death) got remarried… so seeing tech from 2007 makes me relive this confusing, yet astounding time of my life relive again…
Thanks lGR 👌🏼
It's not just you. Halo 3, CoD4, Bioshock, Burning Crusade, Roblox; the iPhone. TH-cam goes mainstream, Facebook goes mainstream. Cellphones still look weird, and aren't trying to be iPhones yet.
Hellsing Ultimate gets another episode. Toonami has it's 10th anniversary, which leads to one of the best Toonami blocks ever, (from this point it's a gradual decline). Tim and Eric, iCarly, and Mad Men all debut on TV; Sopranos gets its finale, Punk'd, Code Lyoko, and Ned's Declassified all have their final episodes. Avatar TLA is in the middle of its original run, finally moving into the next story arc.
Mass media has been a shadow of its former self ever since this period. It's like a record that keeps skipping, each time it repeats becoming a little more absurd, and removed from its former context. Depression in our society has become so palpable that it reaches our children. Likely everything I just mentioned contributed to this outcome but the high of it all sure felt fresh back then. Feels like we are walking backwards, with dependence on vices reaching a level comparable to the 80's but with none of the social cohesion or safety net.
Is that drive an HD DVD burner? Because yes, they did sell HD DVD-R and even HD DVD-RW discs, with a capacity of 15 GB (single layer) or 30 GB (dual layer).
Seeing an HDMI port on this laptop really struck home how old that standard is, one that we even use today on modern computers and laptops!
Hah, these limited run "laptops of the 1%" are always interesting to see. And inside it looks just like a regular Asus of the era!
Edit: Glad to see UT2004 tested! My favorite title, runs great on my GeForce 6800.
And was cheaper than a high end thinkpad was for example
@@MF175mp which would be the real laptop (or high end macbook) the 1% buy instead of this fashion item. But, they might buy it for their spoiled teenage son......
@@Blackadder75 I'm with you there. I think this was aimed more towards the higher end of normal consumers, the kind who have money but iffy taste lol. It's not even close to being exclusive or expensive enough for the mega-rich.
@@Frank_Pods On my XP system/testbench, yes. It's a great card, supports Windows 2000 (or ME if you're a masochist) through 7.
LGR, your videos get me through the day. I've recently started a new job and it's been a tough transition, but when I put your videos on while I work, I feel like I'm hanging out with a friend excitedly telling me all of his nerdy/gaming/computer stuff. You don't know how much it helps. Sorry for the sappy comment, just thought you should know how much your channel means to me. Stay classy, dude ;)
Happy to hear that they've helped and I wish you better times ahead!
What do you work at if can playback videos? 😀
Was gonna say... Any job that lets you watch lgr videos can't be that bad.
@@jothain software dev
I loved that era of Asus laptops. I wanted one of the Lamborghinis, but that wasn't remotely in my budget.
I later got an Asus Bamboo U43. It was powerful and covered in wood. Unfortunately it ran really hot, and the case plastic started disintegrating. I assume it was a more eco friendly plastic, as "eco" was the theme of the laptop. All the standoffs and anchor points started snapping off. One of the hinges came loose and damaged the charging port. As I took it apart to repair it, the case just started crumbling.
It was a shame, it was a great laptop, but it was time for a replacement. So I went with a refurbished bog standard Dell laptop. It wasn't sexy, but it didn't disintegrate.
Lol. I remember seeing ads of those and was wondering that does that actually sell. Don't get me wrong as hardware seemed just fine, but those frame materials were just odd. Well no wonder it was fast forgotten with those kind of issues :)
The prices these things are to this days is over kill a used one cost more then my laptop did.
@@jothain the bamboo was only on the lid and the palm rest, everything else was normal. It looked great and was a pleasure to touch.
@@JohnKelly2 I remember lusting after one of those back in the day and wondering why more manufacturers don't use bamboo (probably a huge pain to work with compared to metal and plastic).
@@deanchur I'd suppose bamboo would need to be thoroughly soaked in some interesting combination of chemicals to make even remotely durable for such place. Otherwise it would crumble or warp in very short time, like within few weeks.
MXM laptop GPU cards sound amazing until you realize you can actually never get newer cards unless the manufacturer specifically went in, added support and then whitelisted them in a BIOS update.
Which of course they never do, limiting you to the best GPU the damn thing shipped with.
Ain't gonna lie. I want a LGR full-length episode with your voice pitch altered like that.
I worked for a very large laptop re-seller in the UK during this period, and we sold the Acer 'Ferrari' version of this laptop. During the 3 years I worked there, we sold about 3, IIRC.
love how these old laptops had good keyboards, inicator leds, decent design and enough usb ports, nowadays all laptops are the same garbage
Apple at least tries to make different garbage, as in the one thing have going for them is that they're not made entirely of plastic although it makes absolutely no difference to the quality or usability
HP Zbooks are still good.
Then you really must not look at many modern laptops. Good keyboards is definitely still a thing and often better than many of the mushy feeling ones back then. Typical indicators for battery charge/discharge status, power state, drive activity and in some cases even WiFi and mute still exist and many modern laptops have way better design guideline than laptops of the (late) 2000s. On thinner or smaller devices, external dongles and port replicators have been a fairly common option since the 90s, if you're only looking at ultrabooks or cheap notebooks then less IO and a thinner keyboard mechanism is obviously what you're going to find, there are still a bunch of business/workstation-, premium- and gaming notebooks out there with your requirements.
@@resneptacle Good keyboard? Find a laptop where the keyboard has more travel than the width of two paperclips made after 2017.
So you finally came full circle and review items as ancient that are as old as your channel. That is quite an accomplishment. Keep it up and congratulations Clint!!
Crazy seeing how much 8 bit guy has upgraded quality-wise! Keep up the good work!
Vista (Win 6.9) was a good boy, the main issue at first was drivers.. because they rewrote all the subsystems from scratch in order to modernize them, and so new drivers were needed from *everyone*
well, that and the amount of RAM needed... that took everyone by surprise!
Only reason why Windows 2000 got off somewhat lucky into XP’s lifespan, since most driver manufacturers merged their XP drivers alongside 2000 since they’re so similar and offered them as a packaged deal (yes, even if it’s explicitly labeled as only for XP, that may be because of the applet only supporting XP+ kernel calls which Extended Kernel should fix)
I got a Gateway (yes) gaming PC in 2009 with decent specs and a lot of RAM. I never understood why people hated Vista cause I thought it was fine, but I realize now that basically it was fine if you had a powerful computer but it was terrible for any other standard ones.
At the time, a lot of people were on systems that could handle XP at most and barely Vista.
And when Vista launched, you had not only the OS's internals being heavily reworked, but you also had the fact that drivers weren't completely done yet. Adding to that, you also had OEMs claiming their lower end systems could handle regular Vista even though they could at most handle Vista home basic.
I worked on these machines in a warranty shop.
The main board is almost identical to a much cheaper business grade machine from the time, to the point the graphics board and CPU were interchangeable.
Do you happen to recall which business grade machines they were specifically?
Seeing Windows Vista on this laptop makes me want that OS back again. I remember playing Purble Place and Mahjong Titans on a Win Vista HP laptop gifted to my grandpa, with him working on his desktop PC beside me. The memories, and the design beauty of Vista. Perhaps I was too young to understand the alleged performance issues it showed.
Vista was dreadful!
@@rorz999 that's why I mentioned that perhaps I was too young to notice those. That HP laptop which my grandpa had used to run fine with Windows Vista, but then again, he didn't use it much because it occasionally didn't boot at all, so he refused to make it his main machine.
That was cool! Almost like a mint inbox experience but it looks like the previous owner kept a couple of important jiggly bits! Not much of a loss with the 7200 RPM because a solid-state drive would make that thing run a whole lot better.
loving the new camerawork and scenery, Clint!
Thank you, the new place is fun to film!
So crazy to think how long ago that car came out now. Those clips really make me feel old. That laptop fits the Gallardo owner quite well.. you found a brand new one?!
No kidding! The Gallardo will be _TWENTY_ years old soon...
@@LGR Hey LGR, one question: Do you like Windows Vista? Cuz I sure do like it.
@@PurblePink8678 Had alright experience with it having SP1 on the Acer Aspire steel minitower my mom bought & later gave me.
Specs were a pentium dualcore at 1.6 ghz 2 gb ram & a 8500 gt (upgraded from a 7300 gs 128 mb) & later a hd 3650 (may have overclocked the 8500 gt until it blew the capacitors & got too borrow another 8500 gt before i bought the 3650 as a replacement.) & then i built my own pc mid August 2010 & went with windows 7
Only thing left from that acer aspire now is the 500 gb harddrive from seagate, production date 2007 & between 51k & 52k hours last time i checked.
Dunno exact numbers as i haven't checked in like 2 weeks.
Yeah. Crazy. Since I can vividly remember the advertisements of Asus Lamborghini, Asus Leather, and Acer Ferrari on local Tech magazines. 2007-2010 felt like it was just yesterday.. at least just 7 yrs ago.
I also remember the Asus Ferrari in ads
You have excellent taste in desktop backgrounds, same one I'm using right now... Impressively quick film-to-release turnaround too, given that background has only been available since Tuesday!
Who are these computers even marketed towards?
They seem more like a gift you get for buying a +200k sports car or at the very least an add on premium you can add to your Lambo but it never struck me to think there was a market of exotic sports car labeled computers.
I feel like it was a flash in the pan ploy to get some attention in the marketplace, but really they were too expensive for regular users and kind of a joke for actual rich people or for tech enthusiasts. Their main market was probably people who have a bit of money and really want to show it off any way possible, like drug dealers, upcoming rappers, repair shop owners, etc
The same people that buy Ferrari hats, but take them off in shame before they get into their 1995 Toyota Camry.
@@benm3382 Yes! A drug dealer's laptop it is for sure!
Middle East, and China
I remember repairing these and making them scratchfree on our DOA department at the Asus repaircenter in The Netherlands, was awesome to see these and hold them in hand, especially the revving at boot. The ZBD was indeed a guarantee as we replaced a couple of the LCD's and since we needed to make them scratchfree we replaced the covers now and then as well which we decorated our repair stations with :D
Also a nice tidbit of info, the VX1 was based off the Asus V6 (basically just upgraded and different covers), the VX2 was based off the Asus V2 and so on.
Another thing, Asus did have Porsche laptop as well in the 90's if I remember correctly, but never saw one of those in person.
Where's the Kia Spectra laptop?
Chromebook running a blazingly “meh” Intel _Celery_ Processor. It’ll last forever, though!
5:03 I know I've said it before, but these kind of transitions you do are really fantastic stuff. High quality, beautiful, and classy. It is pro and shows you also enjoy what you do (and are good at it, haha). And always progressing as you push yourself to do better and it shows! Great work.
5:25 Again! Lamborghini on the screen of a Lamborghini laptop. That's some icing on the cake, hahaha
Thank you!
I know this was 15 years ago but I can still feel the excitement one would get looking at this. Jesus, look at all the accessories. It comes at a hefty price tho
I've always felt that these supercar branded laptops were incredibly tacky. It's like the kind of marketing you'd use to attract small children.
Actually I own a Porsche Design monitor, and it is solid... Kinda bulky though but I have a smaller desk, been wanting to get a new desk anyway cuz that thing has led's on the side powered by a cable management catastrophe.
I definitely feel they are intended for people who like flashy things.
holy hell, i remember this thing!!! i remember getting a base-level ASUS at the time, and they had a huge glossy printout in the box pumping up the Lambo laptop (lamboptop?) I can't believe any of them survived/were sold, so this is great.
Love LGR idk what it is, but hearing someone with a smooth talking voice talking about computers makes me feel at ease
New house and a Lamborghini? Very nice my dude 🤙
This was back when even cheap laptops were quality made modularly designed and easily repairable and upgradeable. The mid to late 2000s is my favorite era of computers.
I wouldnt be surprised if this is ridiculously priced even now. Man, I love vista so much
I love hearing about the 30 fps issue . Because PlayStation 4 actually had games that ran 30fps locked . So many years later .
Cough gta5
I wish Bloodborne could reach 30fps
PlayStation 4 is for stupid dorks.
A laptop with Windows Vista and an HD DVD drive is definitely a nice time capsule of 2007, haha. Hope you'll be able to find that nice bag one day too.
Me: 2007 isn’t that long ago.
LGR: can I interest you in this serial / parallel port?
That's one of the most attractive laptops I've ever seen. I've admittedly been in love with Lamborghinis since being a child in the late 80s though.
As someone who was born in 1994, I do have some nostalgia for the 90s and turn of the century. However, laptops like this one I can vividly recall lusting for as a penniless teenager with a dodgy old second-hand beige office PC. I had no hope of running Oblivion or FEAR, and if I saw a rich kid with one of these laptops I would have been trying very hard to befriend them so I could have a go!
Thoroughly compelling and well filmed video as usual, Mr LGR. Thank you for a great viewing experience.
I always love the specialty laptops! I remember the Porsche Design two-in-one from a few years ago!
Also I saw that steam deck! 👀 - are you planning a potential emulation filled review?
No plans but we'll see! Just got it the other day so I'm still putting it through its paces.
This thing is downright cool and actually a seriously powerful machine for the time
Very interesting piece of limited edition tech from precisely the era of the computers that nowadays get no love at all and get massively dumped: too hampered for some modern-day tasks, too modern to be appreciated as retro.
8:58 - I think the tape mechanism needs new belts. Techmoan told me so.
HD DvD... now there's a name I haven't heard in FOREVER
your videos always make me feel at-home. keep up the quality content! been watching since 2018!
Thank you, I'm glad you've been enjoying so long! :)
Definitely should see what upgrades are out there for this. I think if you could find some it would make a great blerbs video follow up. Maby toss in a ssd just to see if it helps any of those fps dips.
An SSD would help with loading times, but not FPS dips.
My first laptop as a kid was a 2007 Asus F3Ka... This took me back as Vista was daily driver for quite a while on that.
Great video as always!
Can we get a review of that Steam Deck you had sitting next to the laptop as well? Or do we get that in 15 years or so when it also becomes retro 😀
AWESOME and very timely background choice there, Clint! Webb shots make any ridiculously ensconced electronics actual works of art haha!
Great video Clint, I'd love to see a review of the 007 range of laptops.
Thanks! I'd love to find one of those as well, they always looked sweet
Cool that you covered this one! I remember seeing the yellow Lamborgini laptop for display in a shop here in Rotterdam and thought it looked absolutely awesome with that car-paint.. but thought it was mostly looks.
I did went for an Asus laptop that year, one that weighs even heavier, the Z83U (A7U) and it still works today. Quality.
Am surprised what good shape it's still in.
Hhh I liked your sarcasm about the hd-dvd optimism of pc magazine 😂😂😂
I`ve had experiance with the yellow version of smaller Asus Lamborghini in 2008. Actually I was impressed only with additional set of Asus, because some sony Vaio TT180 was technically really interesting for 2008 for me.
Clint you're my kind of guy. You appreciate rare cars and rare computers.
I'm a bit chuffed that this had the same CPU and GPU as my 2007-vintage Dell Inspiron 1720, for "only" about twice the price with that accessory package... 😁
Many younger folks will believe laptops typically cost thousands back then watching this. And no, the run of the mill laptop did not. They did in the late '90s. My 2007 laptop with a more basic Core 2 Duo and weaker (though still discrete) graphics adapter cost me 700-750 bucks, and if I had gone for something a bit fancier it wouldn't have been much more than 1000.
I still have the Vostro 1500 with the same specs, paid 1500NZD in 2007.
The driveway introduction of the Lamborghini was humorous.
The main thing I took away from this video is that I need to hunt down the PC versions of the Midnight Club series!
Update: Only Midnight Club 2 got a PC port, but it was easy to find on an abandonware site!
Thanx 4 a Superb Video again! I just Love Premium Laptops from the Late 90s to early 2010s , the sweet spot was about 2003 to 2007 according to my Heart ;)
OMG the hotkeys for changing color temperature would have been absolutely amazing for a laptop. Darned screens always had a green push.
that subtle steam deck flex at 19:12 "yeah let's just get that in shot..."
I see you, Clint.
While definitely different, this reminded me of the HP livestrong laptop I had sometime around 2005. Would be interesting to see you cover that one if you ever get the chance. Don't have mine anymore but do have the bracelet it came with somewhere still in it's packaging.
bro is passionate, you can tell the effort into these videos
I remember asking my father to get this laptop (or one that's very similar) when I had no concept of money. He just laughed at me in response.
Man, Battle for Middle Earth II was a blast from the past. That was my favorite game for so long.
Awesome that you managed to get one is such good state and so complete with original box stickers etc (except that leather case...that thing would still be sweet). Nice review 😁
I wonder when the Dell McLaren laptop will be launched 😄
I bought a Dell laptop in 2021 and I was actually very impressed with the look and feel of it. It would be cool if they did one of these gaudy licensing deals with a car company to make something unique.
In the early to mid 2010s, I had a Compaq CQ58 laptop whose webcam mic occasionally did the same thing that the Lambo laptop's mic did at 8:55. That mic pitch lowering quirk is quite nostalgic to me.
To be fair, I'd have kept that case too. It's freakin' sweet.
15:46 The Elder Scrolls WHAT
I've always found "themed" laptops and computers like this to be extremely tacky.
Laptops are the pinnacle of planned obsolescence. You know that within a few years you'll get all sorts of problems that factory resets aren't likely to fix and a 5 year old laptop is essentially useless. Nothing like putting an expensive car brand on something that is made to break down and be thrown out.
Maybe you should read up about the infamous Ferrari sticky dashboards. Their high end F40 also has a fuel bladder that has to be replaced every ten years. A whole load of problems you wouldn't expect to have with a Ford.
I disagree. I have had and used laptops since 2004 and I just bought the fourth one. So that is 5 years per laptop on average. The last two still work and run Linux, no problem. Both of them Acers by the way lol.
@@juliusfucik4011 it's been a mixed bag for me. Some haven't even made it to 5 years, whereas others passed that milestone easily
Being a mid-2000s gamer; it STILL impresses me when laptops run games the category previously couldn't. Playing Bad Company 2 on an ASUS Zenbook still floors me.
Wow, an ASUS you didn't have to pick apart in order to change the battery
This is one of those things that while I would never personally have bought one, I'm glad it exists. Thanks Clint!
Damn I miss my younger years :( now I am sad because I'm 30 and that the cool stuff happened when I was a kid.
I hear you man, I was excited to see where it would all go at the time too but now it just seems like we're entering a dark age for entertainment among many other things...
@@tackytrooper Same. I miss being younger. 2007 I remember having my first custom built PC I made and it was a Core 2 Duo, not even top of the line with a GPU I actually forget...I think an x1900GT from ATI. It was all I could afford but this stuff used to make me want to get more money for top end systems. Lol
@@tackytrooper It's as if everything is getting expensive to where only the mega and ultra rich can afford anything. I almost want to give up on working all together not even $17 a/hour is worth it this is no joke man this shits kinda scary. You are right this really is a dark age for entertainment man Smartphone companies also want to force wireless headphones down people's throat which is not safe.
@@tackytrooper Hell I remember being a kid having Zelda Minish Cap and was excited for that all this expensive shit can bite me if it's not cheap I'm not interested.
That background image made me melt with happiness man 8:27
I worked at a PC refurb/recycling place in Seattle for a couple years and saw a few Lambo (or maybe Ferrari) laptops, one was bright yellow, the other was bright red. They sold for some $$$ even though they were pretty much useless.
Niche products tend to become collectors items.
This LAPTOP 💻, was very very popular, back in the MySpace days, my Brothers and Sisters.
Not gonna lie, a leather palmrest even on a modern laptop sounds pretty legit.
I was just reminiscing about the Ferrari and Lambo laptops the other day. Well played sir, well played.
I still have my Asus Lamborghini VX2S from back in the day with the docking station! I love this thing!
They actually made compatible docking station? That's quite surprising to hear.
12:26 Why does the 8600 GT share memory with the mainboard? I can see four Hynix (?) RAM-chips on the MXM board.
HA! Fixing the previous tech's screw-up on this laptop was literally my first task when I started as a tech at Staples. He didn't ESD ground himself when swapping out a trackpad under warranty... and fried the entire system somehow. Motherboard, LCD, everything had to be replaced. So I got to build an Acer Lambo VX2S from scratch, in my first few days, with basically only software experience beforehand. I somehow succeeded and got very quickly (within a few weeks) promoted to supervisor.
Ooooh, the gt 8600m. Ticking time bomb that card. I remember growing up with an ASUS C90s that had one... I'd have to bake mine in the oven at 200 degrees for 20 minutes just to get the machine to boot. Eventually after a few hours the machine would blue screen or freeze, then I'd know it's time for another baking session. But it was able to play Halo 2 Vista, so it was worth it!
I had this laptop in 07 and it’s the best example of a sheep in wolves clothing. Quite honestly it was an impulse buy as I was about to go on a round the world trip. Never impulse bought laptops thereafter. While it did look and feel great there were so many problems that after about 8 months of travelling I ended up giving it to a friend’s 10 year old son in Australia and I bought a netbook just for the reliability. My friend told me his son was heartbroken when the laptop completely died about 6 months later. It was the worst laptop I have ever bought until I bought the recent MSI z16 Hiroshi Fujiara limited edition. Only had it 6 months and it’s been in repair for 2. Was sent back to me last Friday still broken. They’ve had to replace the motherboard twice already!!!
That's why you should stick to just regular good specced laptops. Lol Did you really need that much computing power though back then?
Man your comment is making me feel alright about some of my purchases xD
All I could think of when you peeled that plastic coating from the keyboard wrist rest was Techmoan’s signature ‘Oh yeah, take it off, baby!’ 😎😎😎
I wonder if a modder could take that laptop chassis and, speaking in automotive terms, swap the engine? the case itself doesn't really look aged. the io is a bit iffy but like that with modern hardware honestly could be very sick
I love it, it's even worthy for someone to buy it and replace everything rebuild it from scratch with modern hardware.
Lgr, you know what would be neat to cover: "the floppotron/ Old technology used for neat purposes... I'd be really intrested in an opinion of someone that lives and breathes pc of times long gone.
Great video enjoyed watching this one! Hope to see more in the future :)
Woah, who would spend $4000 on a vista laptop back then!
Lamborghini fans who could afford it.
Someone who can afford a Lamborghini....
True I guess, if I was spending that kind of money for a laptop back then, I'd put windows XP on it. Much better operating system imo
If you owned a Lambo back then, that means you loved your car and this would be cheap for you. That remains true to this day.
@@fluttzkrieg4392 yeah
Had to have a rev sound on start up. I was actually waiting for it. 😁