I remember a friend in school got one of these for homework. It was sad seeing her trying to play Plants VS Zombies on it. Incidentally, Plants VS Zombies actually ended up killing the laptop later on. Overheating issues. She was so excited to get a laptop, unfortunately what she got was this...
If you installed XP , your gaming performance would increase by a bit. GMA 950 XP drivers are way better. I had a GMA 950 for gaming, so i had to test it.. It runs san andreas on medium at HD :)
Yep, remember upgrading to 7 on my HP Mini 110, and though Aero ran well, gaming was around half the performance as on XP. Surprisingly though, OpenGL support is actually *better* under Linux!
Yeah, a CPU with 1 core and 2 threads, as well as just 1GB of DDR2, isn't going to run Windows 7 very well at all. And even if GMA 950 drivers were better under XP (a lot of later Windows XP laptops, such as the Packard Bell Easynote MV46, also had the GMA950), the fact is that you have a GMA 950 that is clocked at less than 1/3rd of its stock clock speed. No wonder why performance was abysmal.
@@TheSpotify95 i had the netbook this dude had. Idk how it got me though elementary(and a bit of middle school). It ran flash games pretty well, but nowdays its slow, especially when i have used much much better laptops, like my current one. But i highly doubt that it can do anything beyond that. TH-cam takes 2 minutes to load, and crashes twice every time as a reference point
It's funny how Wolfenstein 3D, a game from the 90's can't even run on this thing. I even added an extra gb of ram and it still wouldn't run well. It was super choppy and unplayable.
The performance on this netbook degrade overtime, Well computers in general but this netbooks are old and weak, Maybe installing the Sherry 1.3 driver for Intel GMA graphics will improve performance.
As the owner of one of these, i always wanted to overclock the CPU if it would be possible. I also played Runescape extensively with it, and even got 3-10 fps in the most recent Runescape version as well. I am however gonna recommend STRONGLY to enable a tool like "net balancer", and forcibly limit runescape to a super low bandwidth for your internet. 15-3 kbps or just 4kbps should be the max, as for then Runescape does NOT download and enable higher details at all. Which makes modern Runescape (rs3) actually playable for an old RPG title. Almost nobody will likely give this advice however, as for nobody would ever try what i just told you. But i did because i was forced to make my 3GB data cap last a few years back, and this became the result. Nonetheless, it is incredibly weak and i would be ultra-happy if i could have found out how to overclock the GPU and CPU. Hell, i'd not mind re-applying thermal pads and give it better thermals while i was at it. I am a tinker fanatic like that. Use or discard this comment as you see fit, cheers.
Budget-Builds Official Are you sure that this thing is from 2012? It performs worse than 900 mHz duron (1999 or 98 production date) computer that I build for fun. Also, i think my old Windows Mobile PDA is more snappy. Jesus.. and somebody paid like 200+ bucks for it..
I feel you brother. Luckily I escaped the pain of an original pentium with 32bit vista when I finally got a job and bought a decent desktop gaming build.
Aiur I used to use one one that was even older than that. I even did work on it, making over-edited, flashy PowerPoints on power point '97. Then I moved to muh sick gaming rig, so hapiness for me
You should try the HP2000. It's also a 5 year old laptop and I've had it since it came out. Sort of pathetic, but it can run all games up until 2004 and some recent low to mid-req games very well. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, for example, ran at a stable 30fps with medium settings and shadows disabled(res: 1366x768), only dropping down to 15fps when smoke grenades or missiles were used.
Unnamed Internet Citizen That's remarkable considering this laptop doesn't have dedicated graphics and sports a fairly mediocre CPU. But then again, it was new when I played MW3 and I made sure to disable every resource consuming background task.
Unnamed Internet Citizen Any idea how much building a PC like that would cost? I still use the HP2000 for everything and it sucks nowadays because it suffered heavy degradation. It has a dual core AMD E-300, and 4.00GB's of RAM with Windows 8.
Unnamed Internet Citizen Ah. Wouldn't be a bad idea for Budget Builds to make a video about the 7600GT then. Mine costed about $300 USD, which I'm pretty sure that nowadays you could get something way better than that for the same price.
Kenneth Eisenhower My HP Elitebook 8440p was a 7 year old laptop (with the HD Graphics). And it can run Killing Floor (the first one) on mid to high settings at 720p "Native" 60fps (with a bit of dips).
It's interesting that you brought these things up. I use my atom based netbook for the internet all the time. I've set up network sharing through ethernet to my actual PC as it doesn't have WiFi. My netbook is a router with a screen. Funny to think I used to use it for Nintendo 64 emulation and actually got some decent performance on some games.
The netbook may be dumb and slow, but at least most of them are upgradable with SSD, additional Ram slots, and replaceable battery. Portable laptops nowadays tend to go Thinner & Lighter and almost all of them are not customizable at all. Even batteries are not replaceable anymore. I wish they bring back netbook concept (7-10" screen) with today's modern processor and computing power. Imagine having a Netbook today equipped with AMD Ryzen, upgradable Ram, and SSD storage.
@@srp770 lowest i could posibly get. The game runs almost fine(with some screen tear and spikes) until somebody starts shooting at you and then i got somewhere 5 to 10 fps. IT does not run good enough to play decent. I absolutely dont recommend playing cs 1.6 on it .
I bought one of these for 50$ and i was scammed lol, this shit can't even play youtube videos i tought i could watch anime/movies on it but nah, even 10$ is a lot for this laptop
@@yatosan9217 Of course you can't play TH-cam; Budget-Builds managed to get 360p working with H264ify installed. Without that plugin (which is how I tested it) TH-cam was completely unplayable. And no, I won't test 240p or 144p as they are too low to watch properly.
you installed win7. that's already the wrong start. put windows xp instead and you'll have a much more bearable experience overall. heck, might even call it snappy.
If you just wanna play older games on this thing, XP is a good bet. I'd recommend dual-booting some form of Linux for Internet or network stuff due to how incompatible and insecure XP has become in that regard.
GraveUypo not Windows XP, Debian. It’s very usable, until you decide that you want to multitask. Then again, there’s almost no way to do that on 1gb of ram with an OS with a GUI.
back in 2011 i had to use a laptop that was worse than that. it had an intel celeron running at 900Mhz, windows me, 768MB of ram and s3 3d deaccelerator graphics.
You are still better than a dude in some forum I met 15 years ago who had a laptop with an SiS GPU. No Direct3D support at all. The only game it could play was Monopoly (from before 3D accelerators were a common thing)
My sister had this netbook years back and after I overclocked it a bit back to the actual values (since she already had it next to an outlet ready to charge anyway so higher TDP didn't matter) I was able to play games on PCSX2 at a steady 60 frames with hardly any tweaks needed, try it out, it's REALLY good if overclocked even a little!
Since I first watched this video, I was given a HP netbook by my friend; before I sold it on for them, I tested it to check performance. It was very similar to what I saw in this video, and why not? It had an Intel Atom N270 (check), 1GB of DDR2 (check) and the Intel GMA950 for graphics (check). So fundamentally the same machine, except that mine had a 160GB HDD instead of the 8GB SSD (8GB is useless for even a tablet or phone in 2018) and also ran Windows 7 Starter instead of the full blown Windows 7. Web browsing is exactly as what you describe under the Linux side of the ZG5, i.e. acceptable, but a little slow. TH-cam was awful, 360p max and then only for a little while. Streaming media (Spotify/Tunein) just about worked, as did playing a media file on Media Player. I didn't test gaming because I actually have a PS2 that I can use :) I fully agree with this review that netbooks in 2018 (and 2019) are done for - even a cheap tablet or phone will outperform this for web browsing and other basic tasks. Most phones and tablets are at least 720p now anyway, not 1024x600.
I still have my old laptop bought by my mom from 2006 or 2007. It's HP Compaq (forgot the laptop model) first 3 months, audio got broken along with Wi-Fi. Now, battery is dead, only able to use while it's plugged in, "A" on keyboard is missing, no upgrades, never opened for cleaning, running in windows 10 and surprisingly, Wi-Fi was fixed because of driver update. Working well and can run low spec games. So much memories with this baby. Will never throw it away or sell it.
Seriously, thank god Apple saved us from the nonsense that is netbooks. I never "got" the appeal of netbooks. They were basically an attempt by Acer to take a laptop and make it as cheap and disposable as possible by picking the cheapest parts from the bottom of the parts bin to the point even browsing the internet websites of the day was a crappy experience.
I'm still using a netbook every day :) It's my media center and network backup, attached to a 720p TV. It playes 720p films and youtube with smtube as well. Also Kodi does it's job really great. It can play 720p from the network (with cable). If it struggles, try to clean the computer and re-apply some thermal paste. It's a bit better performer, 64 bit Atom N455 CPU with Intel 3150 integrated graphics, also the ram is double, 2 gigs, running manjaro xfce edition. Crashplan creates the backup for other computer's important folders. Also it has an 1Tb HDD attached via USB, and duplicates the backups here if the internal hard drive dies. Got it really cheap in 2010 I guess, I used it as a school computer to take notes (and openTTD the crap out of it) after that he went to the back of the TV. I'm really happy with him, my next upgrade is a 4k TV, so a new media center will be required (i'll try to create something passive to reduce noise)... But this little device will serve well in the kid's room to display cartoons and movies :) Really good stuff with a wireless keyboard+mouse combo.
this is giving me throwbacks to 2009 when I was in elementary school playing crappy flash games on my older sister's hp netbook and having the thing lock up every 20 minutes
Brings me back, had a Acer Aspire One netbook for about a year and a half back then as an emergency PC. Because of the new novelty of smartphones at the time I did all my tinkering on Android at the time and didn't use the PC much for a few years. Kind of wish I kept it to play with nowadays. I remember putting Lubuntu on it just to get it in a semi useable state. 🤣
I got one of those too (second hand), as a novelty but quickly gave up and bought a real laptop with core I5 inside. While I had it, I played a lot with it; installed Linux ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Slackware, Debian), FreeBSD, AndroidX86, Win98 (with VESA display drivers it was very good for non 3D accelerated games) and even ms-dos (there it shined but sadly no sound other than pc speaker). I managed to somehow trade it for few USB flash drives and a 3G USB modem (that can do data, voice and fax) that I still have. I now have a Atom N2600 netbook (with Win7 32bit) to play with and it is strangely very good for games up to 2005 (Arx Fatalis, Gothic 2) and even some light later games (Torchlight, Fable, Angry Birds). For DosBox games on the go is the best machine I ever had. One thing bothers me: it plays fine Diablo but Diablo 2 always crashes.
I have a ZG5. I like it. I'm using it as a travel computer with Lubuntu. It runs some classic games and emulators and plays videos from the hard drive just fine. It's also good for work stuff like writing emails and chatting because it has a keyboard unlike tablets and smartphones. And it's tiny so it's really easy to bring along. It's not a gaming machine, and it's less capable of browsing the web than it was when it came out, but it's not entirely useless, to me at least. It's worth it to me just for the ability to transfer files between SD cards and USB sticks on the road.
i want a netbook that has an actual CPU in it (not the atom APUs) but i cant seem to find one that was made this decade which has a removable battery they are all sealed these days which is completely useless and uncivilized
I'm pretty sure I have one of these that is even older and I was able to use it as a studying laptop after installing Chromium OS (open source version of the OS in Chromebooks). The display is really the thing that brings it down massively. It's not that bad if you go into it knowing that 95% of everything you want to do will not work.
I could see this being a good retro emulation machine. Throw something like Emu-OS on it, and you could have yourself a little gaming device that could play retro games and (maybe) some older titles.
My friend bought the same netbook when it first came out. It was kind of slow at the time as well but I found that if you want to push it, it's best to keep it plugged in and set the power management to high performance. On battery it doesn't do much more than office work.
If you could please do a comparison video between this and one of the newer Intel's atoms (like the ones in Windows tablets). I think it would make a cool video, comparing x86 compatible mobile CPUs from Intel.
That ZG5 if I am not mistaken is the same hardware as Packard Bell Dot netbook. I got one with broken lid and I use it with an external 10" VGA monitor. I found the recovery disk from Packard Bell and I installed it on an old 160G HDD. It have XP home and the gaming is mostly like you describe it. The only upgrade was the memory to 1.5G. I played Gothic, Civilization 2, Diablo, Diablo 2. Now I installed Linux mint on it and I use it to stream music over wifi; I have two old network radios that are not useable anymore so I give them a chance to be useful.
Top tip: ditch the hdd, install puppy linux (slacko 6.3.2) on an sd card or usb and stick it in that thing. You'll be up and running in about 5 minutes, no setup needed everything works out of the box. Get an older version of ublock origin for the bundled firefox (ver.38) and this thing is completely fine for web browsing and youtube... I'm watching this video on a similar netbook as I type this (n280, 1gb ram).
Jordi Coma Garcia They probably are but there is a very small amount of light games for Linux and running Windows games in Wine also sucks on a netbook.
I had this exact netbook - I bought in for my ex back in the day - it needed some tweaking and calibrating BUT - I installed few games on it and in ran very well actually - tried old NFS on it - one of the old classics ran above 25 fps at native res. Also ran Beyond Good & Evil and Lego Star Wars at native res too, but needed the 3d hack to emulate the features the hardware wasn't capable of. Man I have such nostalgia for this netbook - hated to see it go after the break up ; / maybe yours had less RAM than mine - I also used an SD card as additional ram on this thing. seriously best netbook of the time EVER
Netbooks have evolved a lot. On the last gen Atom Z3735 Fable ran at 30 FPS at 720p with medium to high settings and I got Borderlands 1 to run at 40-60 at 640x400 with max settings without shadows... which looks good on a 8inch screen.
I still have my first laptop - an Acer AOD255 rocking an Atom N450 single core with hyperthreading. Used it so much. Actually installed 2 gigs of ram later on, gave it a new keyboard and a new display panel as well as a 9 cell battery. It served me very well. Back in those days, a single core atom with 1 gig of ram was able to run chrome and play youtube videos flawlessly.
3 hours to install windows 7? Not bad considering my laptop took 3 hours just to download and install a 4gb win 10 update... it's not an old laptop or anything either, has an m.2 ssd, i7-7700HQ... I blame windows 10
well theres two types of win10 only games, theres UWP games which is a windows 10 only DRM and theres DirectX 12 games, since Win 10 is the only operating system that can use DirectX 12. Some examples of Win 10 games are Forza Horizon 3 and Ashen (an upcoming win10 game). besides, im really only using the laptop for school and stuff, im not worried about microsoft stalking me, i use my main rig if i want to be private
yeah thats a fake video, there is no "crack" for forza horizon 3, its been bypassed, but no matter what even if its bypassed or cracked it will require windows 10, its hard coded into the game. as for DX12, i know its a shitty scam, i know forza is a shitty car game, i have no idea why i like shitty racing games.... anyway now im more interested in your profile picture, youre an anarcho-communist?
I still remember the old good days when I had Acer Aspire One. I used to play World of Warcraft on this thing with all lowest settings during Wrath of the Lich king. I was actually our guilds main tank. Raiding was like looking at slide show, barely getting 1 fps every 10 seconds (maybe that would count as 0.1fps?). Just mashing the buttons, hoping it would do something and see the fps go back to 11 after the boss was dead. Oh the good old days....
Yes, those notebooks are not bad for older titles such as GTA III, CS 1.6, PES 6, Quake III and other games released before 2004. There's a list of hundreds of great games for notebooks that run good on the internet. The browsing experience is quite acceptable under the Maxthon browser and it actually plays YT videos quite smoothly wich was shocking to me, although sometimes there are some little stutters. Atom N270 notebook downgraded to Win 7 from Win 10 was the best thing i could do to this little beast (maybe XP could even be better idk)
You have to remember, the Internet in 2008 (when the CPU was released) was a lot lighter than it is now, with a lot less stuff going on and a lot less processing power required.
CoolChicken_1213 Modern one? Probably not, as the Java version used in new versions is not available for XP, and XP is the only Windows that should be run on these netbooks. I think it can run MC up to version 1.5.2 or something at low settings in around 30 fps
Marcin Kralka I managed to get the new launcher working on Windows XP since it doesn't require Java, but even on a superflat world on lowest settings it runs like crap. I did manage to get the Minecraft beta 1.3 running on it, it's playable to say the least
One come up at my house and no one claim it(because its was so good), after checking it and see why no one wanted I found a good use for it as a BF1942 server, this was great at it!
That Aspire one in the video is from around 2008/2009ish, I had one as well. It can't even run Half life 2 or Doom 3 playable because the integrated graphics don't have hardware accelerated T&L or Vertex Shaders. The driver had to do this via software on the CPU, and considering how slow the old singlecore Atom CPU was it just ended up in a slideshow. The only games that ran well on those were games that were made until around 2000ish like Half Life 1, CS 1.6, Quake 3 etc.. Good thing some newer netbooks had an Nvidia ION chip with a GeForce 9400M GPU which speeded up a lot of games, but CPU limited games or emulators were still slow.
My worst gaming experience: smartphones! It started good, with many games going for 59p apiece (later increased to 69p, now 79p) but now most smartphone games don't cost anything to start playing yet as the game progresses, you get bullied into spending £1000+ on in-app purchases! On top of that, many of the older, better smartphone games can no longer be played due to newer versions of iOS not running them! They're conning you out of games you paid money for but cannot resell! Some, but FAR FROM ALL games, I have and will replace(d) by buying versions for REAL gaming handhelds; Let's Golf and Farm Frenzy I bought the PSP minis versions of, Airport Mania and Flight Control I bought the DSiWare versions of, Chu Chu Rocket and Speedball 2 I plan to buy the GBA versions of, Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing, Bookworm and Peggle I plan to get the DS versions of, Diner Dash and Blokus I plan to get the PSP versions of. Others, like X-Men Arcade and The Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville I may never be able to play again, unless there's an iOS emulator for Windows 10 that'll let me play them...
Then why even brag about smartphones devices being the worst gaming platform? You're too old for that shit! And it's not that bad, smartphones and tablets can emulate quite well Also, prove that you're a veteran, age means nothing. I'm 13, I got a part time job as an embedded engineer, I collect consoles and handheld devices and write homebrew shit (currently having all Sony consoles and handhelds except Pocketstation, GC, DC, WonderSwan+ Color, NES, SNES, GB->GBA, GP32, all DS variants except JP ones, original 3DS). I really wonder if that makes me a "veteran" in your definition
>5 year old netbook >Surely it can't be THAT bad >Sees video date >6 years ago Netbooks have gotten a lot better since, albeit also at a higher price. The last atoms can even do some older AAA titles.
To save yourself a bit of the pain that he experienced in the video, try going for one of Asus's EeePCs that have an NVIDIA ION2 (the one in the 12 inch netbooks is better than the one in the 10 inch). They're still going to be blegh for gaming, but they're cute little devices and it's still a wonder that something so tiny can have a GPU of any kind. Though honestly, if you want an old "netbook" for gaming, an Alienware M11x R3 or a Clevo W110er would be better. Then again, they're still pretty expensive despite being so old...
I had an Acer Aspire One. I remember when my laptop died, I actually played World of Warcraft burning Crusade on that thing for a little while. I remember the laptop couldn't handle anything in outland, but the basic vanilla wow world could actually run on that decently with the specs turned all the way down.
I have this exact netbook that I've refurbished recently, with an SSD, a 1GB RAM upgrade, a cooling system overhaul, and a new battery. Windows XP 32-bit. It runs Battle Engine Aquila at almost playable framerates at the lowest settings, and of course older games like Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, Zoo Tycoon, and OG Fallout. And it plays video on VLC just fine. I think the main problem is the HDD they come with, I recommend replacing that with an SSD.
I've got an Aspire One 722 - one of the AMD C-50 models with the HD display and Synaptics trackpad. It's honestly pretty great for what it is, battery life is a solid 5 hours on OpenSUSE, it handles 480p video/web browsing just fine, and I can stream Netflix/Prime Video with no issues whatsoever. It even has an HDMI port, which is handy for connecting it to the TV and playing back video there. Even the display isn't so bad, 1366x768 actually feels somewhat appropriate for this size, viewing angles are within acceptable range and color reproduction isn't offensively bad like on so many netbooks.
When some PC master dude says how PC gaming is both more popular and has better graphics than consoles, I remind him most PC gamers play on crappy laptops
Great vid! Maybe I'm the only one in the world but I loved my netbook. It was an aspire one 722 (I believe). Used it for work...browsing the web at home...just basic things. Gaming yeah..no way, but just simple stuff it worked great with. Considering it was around $100 at the time, it was great. Even had the extended battery and got close to 6 hours out of it.
These things can still serve a purpose if you´re ready to invest a bit of money and time in them. I doubled the RAM to 2GB (max possible), put a SSD instead of the HDD, and installed Ubuntu Mate on it. It revitalized the netbook completely, i´m able to browse the net with a decent waiting time (although not more than 2 tabs at a time,it starts to lag), i can watch TH-cam, i can watch movies, emulation of PS1 games works great, it´s suitable for working with Office, but i mainly use it for playing music at parties and events. It´s by no means a powerhouse, and one could say that it doesn´t pay off to invest in an upgrade when you can spend that money and get something more powerful for the price, but if you have one laying around and want to use it, or need something that portable, it has it´s place. There are also options to use the expansion port and get a hold of various third party hardware addons, like a decoder module used as a ˝powerup˝ so you can play 1080p videos, external GPU adapters, additional card readers and more. Obsolete in 2018 - yes, totally without a use - not so much.
I used to own one of those with similar specs except from Asus (EeePC) and it has 160gb harddisk instead, the rest is practically the same. You will need to overclock the Atom and use a program I believe it's called something like 'swift shader', which basically skips some of the shaders in games. With that I can run a few games like Sonic Riders and Devil May Cry 3 'at almost full speed', which was totally unplayable without. Counter Strike 1.6 runs okay too. It didn't felt so bad when I used it in that time (2010). Honestly even now I want one simply for the form factor, just to SSH and play around with Linux on. I wish more companies release Netbooks nowadays, especially if they can make it even thinner/smaller.
Netbooks are actually decently capable if you know what to look for. The Dell Latitude 2120 netbook I‘ve got has the standard 10.1 inch 1024 x 600 resolution screen but it does have a N550 atom processor. Most netbooks are running single cores or hyper-threaded single cores at best. The N550 is a hyper-threaded dual core running at 1.5 ghz. 4 threads running at 1.5 gigs isn’t to bad for a netbook. Not to mention it’s got 2 gigs of 1600mhz DDR3 ram which is the most it can take but with a 128 gig Samsung SSD in it it’s actually surprisingly decent for a netbook. Mind you this is running a 32 bit version of windows 7 ultimate. Put windows 7 starter or XP on it and it’d run even faster. It CAN game if you have realistic expectations. Railroad tycoon 1 and 2 as well as roller coaster tycoon 1 and 2 run flawlessly. Doom (the original) runs perfectly and if run threw a source port like Zdoom which gives you mouse look and other modernized enhancements it’ll run pegged at 60 fps. The original Driver game runs great on it as well. These games are running at max detail at the netbooks native max resolution. Other games no doubt would work too. So again if you know what to look for and have realistic expectations netbooks actually are decent. Put Chrome on it like I did and you can browse the web too even watching 720P video on TH-cam. Granted there’s no point in going higher since it only has a 600P screen and higher resolutions would simply bog the CPU down for no gain. But again it’s not a bad machine. Just look for one of the later netbooks that has better hardware like the N550 processor, DDR3 ram, a SATA drive instead of a IDE drive, ext....
Wish they still made Netbooks, a technicians dream machine. Powerful enough to run basic things like putty yet small and light. Plus Ethernet port and full sized SD card slot. Handy.
I have one of these. Works well for retro games on winXP. Sims 1, Empires DMW, Half-Life, Sim City 3000, Rollercoaster Tycoon, etc. Oh, and winxp pinball. I might even spend $30 and upgrade ram, ssd and new thermal paste, allthough it's mostly nostalgia for me, otherwise I'd get an N100 firebat PC off aliexpress.
Nvidia ION and ION 2 were pretty cool at the time, and were the solution for Atom gaming. Atom wasn't as horrible as it really seems, but manufacturers combined the cheapest and mediocre components on the market with the Atom, and this pushed its reputation down. AMD also had a competitor with atom (I think it was the C series, but they all had a radeon gpu) the nvidia ion solution that I used on an HP Mini, was basically a geforce 9400M, it wasn't good at running GTA IV well, but it ran as most of the games I wanted intended, in addition to being a big hype at the time, due to the fact that you were running a demanding game on something so small (just as it is a hype now in 2024, smartphones are running Fallout 4 through winlator). For testing purposes, I searched the entire internet and found an nvidia ion FOR DESKTOP, yes, they existed and were rare. It was a Zotac ion PCI-Express 1x. Paired with Pentium D955 and then with core2duo E8400, I could see that gaming performance on Intel Atom was not an abyss, Atom was handling the load well.
I had a hp mini wich never died, 10 years and only died when i tried to replace the intel atom with another one with 2x the tdp. It could run late 90's games and some early 2000's, possibly many 2002-2003 games. It was actually good to play msdos games, and old windows games.
I have nightmares about these acer netbooks, my brother had this exact model and I have a very vivid memory of my grandpa throwing it in the trash after the laptop froze in the middle of a youtube video, and then taking it back out like 4 hours later and it was still making that wretched noise
I’m using a hp compaq mini 110-1100 running windows xp as a retro gaming machine and it works great for me just today I was running quake 2 with no issue
I was stuck with one of these for 4 months (a Samsung model, with a very decent screen)... And Win7 was NOT an option. For example, WoW (Wrath of the Lich back then) would run at ~21fps at Undercity (not a taxing area at all) in WinXP, and just ~12fps on Win7. Gameswise, I had to stick to games released in 2001 or before.
Can't believe how the title reads "5 year old", when this actually came up in 2008! Performance is ridiculous, even taking that into account, but I'm surprised author got such a basic fact wrong.
I actually have an HP netbook (210-2000) with 2GB of ram and a dual core atom processor. Haven’t tried gaming with it, but it functions well enough as a secondary laptop. I still use it to do Skype interviews.
This reminds me of when my parents bought an acer netbook in 2009. The display stopped working in literally 3 months.
32megabytes: This one just won't die unfortunately.
32megabytes same for my dad.
Budget-Builds Official ship it to me. I need a netbook :D (?)
my older brother has one since 2009 and still uses it often as he don't have a PC nor a newer laptop...
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I remember a friend in school got one of these for homework. It was sad seeing her trying to play Plants VS Zombies on it. Incidentally, Plants VS Zombies actually ended up killing the laptop later on. Overheating issues. She was so excited to get a laptop, unfortunately what she got was this...
Thanks for the depressing story
I think the bad heatsink/air flow with dust kill very quickly the Net book's...
Just PVZ lmao
Bruh my brother also cant play any games. All of them lag. Even gta 3 can't run on the minimum specs.
That is very depressing
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If you installed XP , your gaming performance would increase by a bit. GMA 950 XP drivers are way better. I had a GMA 950 for gaming, so i had to test it.. It runs san andreas on medium at HD :)
Yep, remember upgrading to 7 on my HP Mini 110, and though Aero ran well, gaming was around half the performance as on XP. Surprisingly though, OpenGL support is actually *better* under Linux!
yep i had the same issue on my Asus EEE pc, came with windows xp on it but i upgraded to windows 7, i reverted to xp after about 3 hours lol.
Yeah, a CPU with 1 core and 2 threads, as well as just 1GB of DDR2, isn't going to run Windows 7 very well at all. And even if GMA 950 drivers were better under XP (a lot of later Windows XP laptops, such as the Packard Bell Easynote MV46, also had the GMA950), the fact is that you have a GMA 950 that is clocked at less than 1/3rd of its stock clock speed. No wonder why performance was abysmal.
@@TheSpotify95 i had the netbook this dude had. Idk how it got me though elementary(and a bit of middle school). It ran flash games pretty well, but nowdays its slow, especially when i have used much much better laptops, like my current one. But i highly doubt that it can do anything beyond that. TH-cam takes 2 minutes to load, and crashes twice every time as a reference point
Medium hd? I have a intel gma 4500mhd and it can't even run it at 720p
It's funny how Wolfenstein 3D, a game from the 90's can't even run on this thing. I even added an extra gb of ram and it still wouldn't run well. It was super choppy and unplayable.
And and can you maybe make a video upgrading a netbook as much as you can?
Are you trying to run the steam version?
OpTic KTG: Hmmmm could be interesting, I'll see what I can do :D
Intel drivers sucks at OpenGL.
The performance on this netbook degrade overtime, Well computers in general but this netbooks are old and weak, Maybe installing the Sherry 1.3 driver for Intel GMA graphics will improve performance.
OMG THAT SEGA GT MUSIC!!!!
i thought i was the only one who even knew that game existed.
jason994 I played Sega gt online all the time, trading and duping was my favorite
As the owner of one of these, i always wanted to overclock the CPU if it would be possible. I also played Runescape extensively with it, and even got 3-10 fps in the most recent Runescape version as well. I am however gonna recommend STRONGLY to enable a tool like "net balancer", and forcibly limit runescape to a super low bandwidth for your internet. 15-3 kbps or just 4kbps should be the max, as for then Runescape does NOT download and enable higher details at all. Which makes modern Runescape (rs3) actually playable for an old RPG title.
Almost nobody will likely give this advice however, as for nobody would ever try what i just told you. But i did because i was forced to make my 3GB data cap last a few years back, and this became the result. Nonetheless, it is incredibly weak and i would be ultra-happy if i could have found out how to overclock the GPU and CPU. Hell, i'd not mind re-applying thermal pads and give it better thermals while i was at it. I am a tinker fanatic like that. Use or discard this comment as you see fit, cheers.
+Yellow; I'll definitely have to try a tweaking video on this netbook so I'll look into it a bit more, thanks man!
Budget-Builds Official So, get it out of the trash :'(
promolic1: The shots at the begining were taken after the shot at the end, the netbook wasn't thrown away :D
Budget-Builds Official Thanks! I still have one, and can be useful for emulators, old quake mods, and maybe other stuff
Three gigabytes? My plan gets me two hundred times that!
The netbook of my childhood. This little beast was my "gaming" machine from 2009 until 2012
Yep, kept me company whilst on holidays abroad! Still works, unlike the main laptop I had at the time.
I would say not impossible at first, before watching this video
Slayx: This was genuinely the only computer that was so bad it hurt to use.
Budget-Builds Official I know that feeling, had a notebook as the main family PC for a year.. Dark times 😵
Budget-Builds Official Are you sure that this thing is from 2012? It performs worse than 900 mHz duron (1999 or 98 production date) computer that I build for fun. Also, i think my old Windows Mobile PDA is more snappy. Jesus.. and somebody paid like 200+ bucks for it..
this netbook is so trash that it hurts to even look at it oh my god
I have a 7 years old desktop. I'm using it now. It bearly runs Chrome....
You don't know true pain
mine's 10 years old, only upgraded the ram
I feel you brother. Luckily I escaped the pain of an original pentium with 32bit vista when I finally got a job and bought a decent desktop gaming build.
you dont know pain from 2002 desktop dell dimension 8200 256mb ram in 2010. Finaly upgaded to max spec and running windows 7 pro pretty good
Try the pain of old macintosh.
HAHAHAHAHAAHAH
SCREW APPLE
Aiur I used to use one one that was even older than that. I even did work on it, making over-edited, flashy PowerPoints on power point '97. Then I moved to muh sick gaming rig, so hapiness for me
I felt like I was in Tumbler theb
But can it run *CRYSIS*
yes it can at 1 fpd (frame per decade)
It wouldn't even start.
Fpm ( frames per millennium )
1fpe (frame per era)
It'd probably catch fire if that was attempted.
You should try the HP2000. It's also a 5 year old laptop and I've had it since it came out. Sort of pathetic, but it can run all games up until 2004 and some recent low to mid-req games very well. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, for example, ran at a stable 30fps with medium settings and shadows disabled(res: 1366x768), only dropping down to 15fps when smoke grenades or missiles were used.
Unnamed Internet Citizen That's remarkable considering this laptop doesn't have dedicated graphics and sports a fairly mediocre CPU. But then again, it was new when I played MW3 and I made sure to disable every resource consuming background task.
Unnamed Internet Citizen Any idea how much building a PC like that would cost? I still use the HP2000 for everything and it sucks nowadays because it suffered heavy degradation. It has a dual core AMD E-300, and 4.00GB's of RAM with Windows 8.
Unnamed Internet Citizen Ah. Wouldn't be a bad idea for Budget Builds to make a video about the 7600GT then. Mine costed about $300 USD, which I'm pretty sure that nowadays you could get something way better than that for the same price.
Kenneth Eisenhower I have the exact same lapto
Kenneth Eisenhower My HP Elitebook 8440p was a 7 year old laptop (with the HD Graphics). And it can run Killing Floor (the first one) on mid to high settings at 720p "Native" 60fps (with a bit of dips).
It's interesting that you brought these things up. I use my atom based netbook for the internet all the time. I've set up network sharing through ethernet to my actual PC as it doesn't have WiFi. My netbook is a router with a screen. Funny to think I used to use it for Nintendo 64 emulation and actually got some decent performance on some games.
The netbook may be dumb and slow, but at least most of them are upgradable with SSD, additional Ram slots, and replaceable battery. Portable laptops nowadays tend to go Thinner & Lighter and almost all of them are not customizable at all. Even batteries are not replaceable anymore.
I wish they bring back netbook concept (7-10" screen) with today's modern processor and computing power. Imagine having a Netbook today equipped with AMD Ryzen, upgradable Ram, and SSD storage.
You´re right, i miss 10" screen. And it would be amazing a ryzen laptop. Example: Dell or Asus laptops with Amd APU more often would not be bad.
Also, CS 1.6 would have been a better choice than CS Source...
Still not running well. I tried.
@@ThunderMan88 what graphics ? and what was tfe fps ?
@@srp770 lowest i could posibly get. The game runs almost fine(with some screen tear and spikes) until somebody starts shooting at you and then i got somewhere 5 to 10 fps. IT does not run good enough to play decent. I absolutely dont recommend playing cs 1.6 on it .
@@ThunderMan88 the steam version of cs 1.6 uses opengl. The disc version will run way better. (20-30fps)
@@ThunderMan88 possibly*
i just sold one of these on ebay this exact model only with a 160gb hard drive, i can agree that even installing linux on this was so much effort.
The one of these I sold was also the one with a 160GB hard drive (HP Mini 110 with the same specs).
I bought one of these for 50$ and i was scammed lol, this shit can't even play youtube videos i tought i could watch anime/movies on it but nah, even 10$ is a lot for this laptop
@@yatosan9217 Of course you can't play TH-cam; Budget-Builds managed to get 360p working with H264ify installed. Without that plugin (which is how I tested it) TH-cam was completely unplayable.
And no, I won't test 240p or 144p as they are too low to watch properly.
I watched this video, thought "wow, tiny laptop, cool!" And bought one. Bad idea. Then I bought 108 of them for £500. That was a bad deal.
@robloxzbackroomsów indeed so - if you want me to send you proof through email then yeah contact me through mine on channel info
it’s so weird seeing this being called 5 at one point
I really don't know what you can do with this laptop
vladosan boss: Cup holder?
uhhhhhhhhh
Notepad?
vladosan boss You could flatten a turd with it. Just put it on the keyboard, and close it
Well this laptop was designed to have XP on it so it makes sense why Windows 7 ran like shit on it..
Austin Alexander my phone is better than this
I love hearing squidward playing the clarinet
Saaame
Thats kelpy g you uncultured swine
Arson_ist lmao
you installed win7. that's already the wrong start. put windows xp instead and you'll have a much more bearable experience overall. heck, might even call it snappy.
If you just wanna play older games on this thing, XP is a good bet. I'd recommend dual-booting some form of Linux for Internet or network stuff due to how incompatible and insecure XP has become in that regard.
GraveUypo not Windows XP, Debian. It’s very usable, until you decide that you want to multitask. Then again, there’s almost no way to do that on 1gb of ram with an OS with a GUI.
Het Speelkwartiertje Slaat Terug matbe even lubuntu
I have one of these that I honestly love. Not for performance, but it has a charm to the form factor/setup that's hard to explain.
I don't understand but I feel the same than you!, really bad performance nowadays (I use Lubuntu) but I have a great feeling working with this old pc.
back in 2011 i had to use a laptop that was worse than that.
it had an intel celeron running at 900Mhz, windows me, 768MB of ram and s3 3d deaccelerator graphics.
Ah, the S3 Savage 4 LT... gave decent laptop performance for 2000 when it worked right, but had loads of issues with OpenGL games.
You are still better than a dude in some forum I met 15 years ago who had a laptop with an SiS GPU. No Direct3D support at all. The only game it could play was Monopoly (from before 3D accelerators were a common thing)
My sister had this netbook years back and after I overclocked it a bit back to the actual values (since she already had it next to an outlet ready to charge anyway so higher TDP didn't matter) I was able to play games on PCSX2 at a steady 60 frames with hardly any tweaks needed, try it out, it's REALLY good if overclocked even a little!
Since I first watched this video, I was given a HP netbook by my friend; before I sold it on for them, I tested it to check performance. It was very similar to what I saw in this video, and why not?
It had an Intel Atom N270 (check), 1GB of DDR2 (check) and the Intel GMA950 for graphics (check). So fundamentally the same machine, except that mine had a 160GB HDD instead of the 8GB SSD (8GB is useless for even a tablet or phone in 2018) and also ran Windows 7 Starter instead of the full blown Windows 7.
Web browsing is exactly as what you describe under the Linux side of the ZG5, i.e. acceptable, but a little slow.
TH-cam was awful, 360p max and then only for a little while.
Streaming media (Spotify/Tunein) just about worked, as did playing a media file on Media Player.
I didn't test gaming because I actually have a PS2 that I can use :)
I fully agree with this review that netbooks in 2018 (and 2019) are done for - even a cheap tablet or phone will outperform this for web browsing and other basic tasks. Most phones and tablets are at least 720p now anyway, not 1024x600.
I still have my old laptop bought by my mom from 2006 or 2007. It's HP Compaq (forgot the laptop model) first 3 months, audio got broken along with Wi-Fi. Now, battery is dead, only able to use while it's plugged in, "A" on keyboard is missing, no upgrades, never opened for cleaning, running in windows 10 and surprisingly, Wi-Fi was fixed because of driver update. Working well and can run low spec games. So much memories with this baby. Will never throw it away or sell it.
Oh god, netbooks. Being a student when these were all the rage was fun. As far as gaming went they were only good for emulation of early 90s consoles.
Seriously, thank god Apple saved us from the nonsense that is netbooks. I never "got" the appeal of netbooks. They were basically an attempt by Acer to take a laptop and make it as cheap and disposable as possible by picking the cheapest parts from the bottom of the parts bin to the point even browsing the internet websites of the day was a crappy experience.
@@Δημήτρης-θ7θi remember proper laptops existed back then though not just apple stuff
I love that the under a pound build ran better than this
I'm still using a netbook every day :) It's my media center and network backup, attached to a 720p TV. It playes 720p films and youtube with smtube as well. Also Kodi does it's job really great. It can play 720p from the network (with cable). If it struggles, try to clean the computer and re-apply some thermal paste.
It's a bit better performer, 64 bit Atom N455 CPU with Intel 3150 integrated graphics, also the ram is double, 2 gigs, running manjaro xfce edition. Crashplan creates the backup for other computer's important folders.
Also it has an 1Tb HDD attached via USB, and duplicates the backups here if the internal hard drive dies.
Got it really cheap in 2010 I guess, I used it as a school computer to take notes (and openTTD the crap out of it) after that he went to the back of the TV. I'm really happy with him, my next upgrade is a 4k TV, so a new media center will be required (i'll try to create something passive to reduce noise)... But this little device will serve well in the kid's room to display cartoons and movies :) Really good stuff with a wireless keyboard+mouse combo.
this is giving me throwbacks to 2009 when I was in elementary school playing crappy flash games on my older sister's hp netbook and having the thing lock up every 20 minutes
Brings me back, had a Acer Aspire One netbook for about a year and a half back then as an emergency PC. Because of the new novelty of smartphones at the time I did all my tinkering on Android at the time and didn't use the PC much for a few years. Kind of wish I kept it to play with nowadays. I remember putting Lubuntu on it just to get it in a semi useable state. 🤣
I got one of those too (second hand), as a novelty but quickly gave up and bought a real laptop with core I5 inside.
While I had it, I played a lot with it; installed Linux ( Fedora, Ubuntu, Slackware, Debian), FreeBSD, AndroidX86, Win98 (with VESA display drivers it was very good for non 3D accelerated games) and even ms-dos (there it shined but sadly no sound other than pc speaker). I managed to somehow trade it for few USB flash drives and a 3G USB modem (that can do data, voice and fax) that I still have.
I now have a Atom N2600 netbook (with Win7 32bit) to play with and it is strangely very good for games up to 2005 (Arx Fatalis, Gothic 2) and even some light later games (Torchlight, Fable, Angry Birds). For DosBox games on the go is the best machine I ever had. One thing bothers me: it plays fine Diablo but Diablo 2 always crashes.
I have a ZG5. I like it. I'm using it as a travel computer with Lubuntu. It runs some classic games and emulators and plays videos from the hard drive just fine. It's also good for work stuff like writing emails and chatting because it has a keyboard unlike tablets and smartphones. And it's tiny so it's really easy to bring along.
It's not a gaming machine, and it's less capable of browsing the web than it was when it came out, but it's not entirely useless, to me at least. It's worth it to me just for the ability to transfer files between SD cards and USB sticks on the road.
i want a netbook that has an actual CPU in it (not the atom APUs) but i cant seem to find one that was made this decade which has a removable battery
they are all sealed these days which is completely useless and uncivilized
Thinkpad x131e i3 3227U and it’s 100 usd
Dell INSP1440
good luck doing that on board an aircraft (where you cant bring tools)
i hate islam too
glad to know im not the only one with a functioning brain
I have a laptop from 2006, and I tought that was shit. Now I changed my mind
Intel open source driver on Linux can even outperform windows on OpenGL games, I really would have liked some benchmarks there.
Yep, tried Minecraft way back and it somehow ran better on Linux!
I'm pretty sure I have one of these that is even older and I was able to use it as a studying laptop after installing Chromium OS (open source version of the OS in Chromebooks). The display is really the thing that brings it down massively. It's not that bad if you go into it knowing that 95% of everything you want to do will not work.
I could see this being a good retro emulation machine.
Throw something like Emu-OS on it, and you could have yourself a little gaming device that could play retro games and (maybe) some older titles.
I have one. It struggles with SNES.
My friend bought the same netbook when it first came out. It was kind of slow at the time as well but I found that if you want to push it, it's best to keep it plugged in and set the power management to high performance. On battery it doesn't do much more than office work.
If you could please do a comparison video between this and one of the newer Intel's atoms (like the ones in Windows tablets). I think it would make a cool video, comparing x86 compatible mobile CPUs from Intel.
That ZG5 if I am not mistaken is the same hardware as Packard Bell Dot netbook. I got one with broken lid and I use it with an external 10" VGA monitor. I found the recovery disk from Packard Bell and I installed it on an old 160G HDD. It have XP home and the gaming is mostly like you describe it. The only upgrade was the memory to 1.5G.
I played Gothic, Civilization 2, Diablo, Diablo 2.
Now I installed Linux mint on it and I use it to stream music over wifi; I have two old network radios that are not useable anymore so I give them a chance to be useful.
Had this in primary school 6 years ago
I still have one of these. Its amazing how underpowered they are. Nearly unable to play games just 5 years older than it.
My grandpa has one right now 😂
Top tip: ditch the hdd, install puppy linux (slacko 6.3.2) on an sd card or usb and stick it in that thing. You'll be up and running in about 5 minutes, no setup needed everything works out of the box. Get an older version of ublock origin for the bundled firefox (ver.38) and this thing is completely fine for web browsing and youtube... I'm watching this video on a similar netbook as I type this (n280, 1gb ram).
I think that linux drivers for intel are much better than the windows. But is not a powerful graphic card.
Jordi Coma Garcia They probably are but there is a very small amount of light games for Linux and running Windows games in Wine also sucks on a netbook.
Yep, they technically support OpenGL 2.1 versus 1.3 on Windows.
Glad to see you making high quality videos so fast.
I just realised I have the same one as him
Which I definetely don't use for Bonzi Buddy
I still use this shit today
The desire to play and break is great
*THIS LAPTOP EVEN BEAT THAT LITTLE POOP*
IVE BORN IN 2008 and i got window7 acer
I had this exact netbook - I bought in for my ex back in the day - it needed some tweaking and calibrating BUT - I installed few games on it and in ran very well actually - tried old NFS on it - one of the old classics ran above 25 fps at native res. Also ran Beyond Good & Evil and Lego Star Wars at native res too, but needed the 3d hack to emulate the features the hardware wasn't capable of. Man I have such nostalgia for this netbook - hated to see it go after the break up ; / maybe yours had less RAM than mine - I also used an SD card as additional ram on this thing. seriously best netbook of the time EVER
you bought windows license for that?
Tiny7 cracks Windows 7 Ultimate with edits
Netbooks have evolved a lot.
On the last gen Atom Z3735 Fable ran at 30 FPS at 720p with medium to high settings and I got Borderlands 1 to run at 40-60 at 640x400 with max settings without shadows... which looks good on a 8inch screen.
why didnt you install xp on it?
Bozidar Linux is an better option
I still have my first laptop - an Acer AOD255 rocking an Atom N450 single core with hyperthreading. Used it so much. Actually installed 2 gigs of ram later on, gave it a new keyboard and a new display panel as well as a 9 cell battery.
It served me very well. Back in those days, a single core atom with 1 gig of ram was able to run chrome and play youtube videos flawlessly.
3 hours to install windows 7? Not bad considering my laptop took 3 hours just to download and install a 4gb win 10 update... it's not an old laptop or anything either, has an m.2 ssd, i7-7700HQ... I blame windows 10
I know its spyware, but man theres some win10 only games i wanna play...
well theres two types of win10 only games, theres UWP games which is a windows 10 only DRM and theres DirectX 12 games, since Win 10 is the only operating system that can use DirectX 12. Some examples of Win 10 games are Forza Horizon 3 and Ashen (an upcoming win10 game). besides, im really only using the laptop for school and stuff, im not worried about microsoft stalking me, i use my main rig if i want to be private
yeah thats a fake video, there is no "crack" for forza horizon 3, its been bypassed, but no matter what even if its bypassed or cracked it will require windows 10, its hard coded into the game. as for DX12, i know its a shitty scam, i know forza is a shitty car game, i have no idea why i like shitty racing games.... anyway now im more interested in your profile picture, youre an anarcho-communist?
lol wut??? My PC installed Win10 in like 20-30 mins, and its not even really powerful. My connection is 100Mbps/12.5MBps btw.
+Yoshi
My internet is 8 Mbps :(
I still remember the old good days when I had Acer Aspire One. I used to play World of Warcraft on this thing with all lowest settings during Wrath of the Lich king. I was actually our guilds main tank. Raiding was like looking at slide show, barely getting 1 fps every 10 seconds (maybe that would count as 0.1fps?). Just mashing the buttons, hoping it would do something and see the fps go back to 11 after the boss was dead. Oh the good old days....
Acer: Empowering People.....more like Enraging People
I have the Aspire One D257, so I know how this goes, its horrible.
@@robertszujo9528 what is with dell?
I love my acer nitro 5, of course it’s in the mid $650 range but still not bad at all
@@kyria_kous gotta help that youtube algorithm :P
Dat Sega GT 2002 music got me crying. Great game
AND you got that Kelpy G. Beautiful.
I doubt Sims 2 will be playable on that netbook lol..
dphcMMD I had The Sims 2 on a similar netbook and it actually played it very well. It is not a resource heavy game really.
Your right I had a emachines netbook with the same specs and it can't play sims 2 trust me I tried...
Barely, at the lowest settings. A house crammed with objects was a slideshow when moving, but ran well when not panning the camera.
Can also fomfirm it works
Yes, those notebooks are not bad for older titles such as GTA III, CS 1.6, PES 6, Quake III and other games released before 2004. There's a list of hundreds of great games for notebooks that run good on the internet. The browsing experience is quite acceptable under the Maxthon browser and it actually plays YT videos quite smoothly wich was shocking to me, although sometimes there are some little stutters. Atom N270 notebook downgraded to Win 7 from Win 10 was the best thing i could do to this little beast (maybe XP could even be better idk)
*but can it run roblox?*
Sackkid34 _2 dont buy this shit!
Sackkid34 _2 If I can't. That means it's bad.
It can be used as a VNC machine tho
Atom N475 was slightly faster when you install “Chell 1.7b or 1.8b”. Using GMA 3150
Reinforced my opinion to avoid netbooks
rise and shine
You have to remember, the Internet in 2008 (when the CPU was released) was a lot lighter than it is now, with a lot less stuff going on and a lot less processing power required.
Can it play Minecraft?
CoolChicken_1213 Modern one? Probably not, as the Java version used in new versions is not available for XP, and XP is the only Windows that should be run on these netbooks. I think it can run MC up to version 1.5.2 or something at low settings in around 30 fps
Marcin Kralka I managed to get the new launcher working on Windows XP since it doesn't require Java, but even on a superflat world on lowest settings it runs like crap. I did manage to get the Minecraft beta 1.3 running on it, it's playable to say the least
Back in the day I got this to run minecraft with a lot of tweaks and lowest settings.
One come up at my house and no one claim it(because its was so good), after checking it and see why no one wanted I found a good use for it as a BF1942 server, this was great at it!
that is not a 5 years old netbook its a 15 years old netbook
It's 11-12 years old now.
@despacito 2 My comment is over one year old, so I guess we agree. And the original comment was like 4 years off.
Who cares.
That Aspire one in the video is from around 2008/2009ish, I had one as well.
It can't even run Half life 2 or Doom 3 playable because the integrated graphics don't have hardware accelerated T&L or Vertex Shaders.
The driver had to do this via software on the CPU, and considering how slow the old singlecore Atom CPU was it just ended up in a slideshow.
The only games that ran well on those were games that were made until around 2000ish like Half Life 1, CS 1.6, Quake 3 etc..
Good thing some newer netbooks had an Nvidia ION chip with a GeForce 9400M GPU which speeded up a lot of games, but CPU limited games or emulators were still slow.
My worst gaming experience: smartphones!
It started good, with many games going for 59p apiece (later increased to 69p, now 79p) but now most smartphone games don't cost anything to start playing yet as the game progresses, you get bullied into spending £1000+ on in-app purchases! On top of that, many of the older, better smartphone games can no longer be played due to newer versions of iOS not running them! They're conning you out of games you paid money for but cannot resell! Some, but FAR FROM ALL games, I have and will replace(d) by buying versions for REAL gaming handhelds; Let's Golf and Farm Frenzy I bought the PSP minis versions of, Airport Mania and Flight Control I bought the DSiWare versions of, Chu Chu Rocket and Speedball 2 I plan to buy the GBA versions of, Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing, Bookworm and Peggle I plan to get the DS versions of, Diner Dash and Blokus I plan to get the PSP versions of. Others, like X-Men Arcade and The Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville I may never be able to play again, unless there's an iOS emulator for Windows 10 that'll let me play them...
May I ask you a question?
*how old are you?*
and im sure you're not an adult kek
I will have you know I am 29! I will be 30 at the end of November! Therefore, I am a veteran of when portable gaming meant something!
Then why even brag about smartphones devices being the worst gaming platform? You're too old for that shit!
And it's not that bad, smartphones and tablets can emulate quite well
Also, prove that you're a veteran, age means nothing.
I'm 13, I got a part time job as an embedded engineer, I collect consoles and handheld devices and write homebrew shit (currently having all Sony consoles and handhelds except Pocketstation, GC, DC, WonderSwan+ Color, NES, SNES, GB->GBA, GP32, all DS variants except JP ones, original 3DS). I really wonder if that makes me a "veteran" in your definition
Hey! That's almost same netbook my mother has! Though hers has 2 GB of RAM (the maximum amount). I can't believe she still uses it.
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*says: 1024x700*
Khoi Sousa OMG IS SO DIFFERENT HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL
YOU FRICKIN NORMIE
XD
Normie my fucking ass
gtfo fuckhead
_And oh look just like I guessed_
*A shitass budget gaming channel*
kidd im sure you have over worries like someone destroyed your minecraft village, its just a little thing sooo... shut the fuck up!
you got a job hmmm that worries me
oh
>5 year old netbook
>Surely it can't be THAT bad
>Sees video date
>6 years ago
Netbooks have gotten a lot better since, albeit also at a higher price. The last atoms can even do some older AAA titles.
I want one!
To save yourself a bit of the pain that he experienced in the video, try going for one of Asus's EeePCs that have an NVIDIA ION2 (the one in the 12 inch netbooks is better than the one in the 10 inch). They're still going to be blegh for gaming, but they're cute little devices and it's still a wonder that something so tiny can have a GPU of any kind.
Though honestly, if you want an old "netbook" for gaming, an Alienware M11x R3 or a Clevo W110er would be better. Then again, they're still pretty expensive despite being so old...
I had an Acer Aspire One. I remember when my laptop died, I actually played World of Warcraft burning Crusade on that thing for a little while. I remember the laptop couldn't handle anything in outland, but the basic vanilla wow world could actually run on that decently with the specs turned all the way down.
“Plus, it has a 8gb ssd, that’s not bad”
*Bruh*
bru
I have this exact netbook that I've refurbished recently, with an SSD, a 1GB RAM upgrade, a cooling system overhaul, and a new battery. Windows XP 32-bit. It runs Battle Engine Aquila at almost playable framerates at the lowest settings, and of course older games like Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, Zoo Tycoon, and OG Fallout. And it plays video on VLC just fine. I think the main problem is the HDD they come with, I recommend replacing that with an SSD.
And I actually got OG Halo running on it, believe it or not. Barely playable, but running.
One of ur computer screens is not the right way round
Rosy Waters dude, some people prefer their screen at a portrait angle.
He's trying to play Downwell
I've got an Aspire One 722 - one of the AMD C-50 models with the HD display and Synaptics trackpad.
It's honestly pretty great for what it is, battery life is a solid 5 hours on OpenSUSE, it handles 480p video/web browsing just fine, and I can stream Netflix/Prime Video with no issues whatsoever.
It even has an HDMI port, which is handy for connecting it to the TV and playing back video there.
Even the display isn't so bad, 1366x768 actually feels somewhat appropriate for this size, viewing angles are within acceptable range and color reproduction isn't offensively bad like on so many netbooks.
PC Master Race wins again!
with gorgeous 2fps
kiwi the human eye cant percieve more than 1.2 fps anyway
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Lol but if your serious u need help
When some PC master dude says how PC gaming is both more popular and has better graphics than consoles, I remind him most PC gamers play on crappy laptops
Great vid! Maybe I'm the only one in the world but I loved my netbook. It was an aspire one 722 (I believe). Used it for work...browsing the web at home...just basic things. Gaming yeah..no way, but just simple stuff it worked great with. Considering it was around $100 at the time, it was great. Even had the extended battery and got close to 6 hours out of it.
Still better than my laptop
way do you install the cs: source ???
i have a zg5 and only counter strike 1.6,pes 2006 and and nba 2004 are playable with decent fps
My shitty phone is stronger than this
These things can still serve a purpose if you´re ready to invest a bit of money and time in them. I doubled the RAM to 2GB (max possible), put a SSD instead of the HDD, and installed Ubuntu Mate on it. It revitalized the netbook completely, i´m able to browse the net with a decent waiting time (although not more than 2 tabs at a time,it starts to lag), i can watch TH-cam, i can watch movies, emulation of PS1 games works great, it´s suitable for working with Office, but i mainly use it for playing music at parties and events. It´s by no means a powerhouse, and one could say that it doesn´t pay off to invest in an upgrade when you can spend that money and get something more powerful for the price, but if you have one laying around and want to use it, or need something that portable, it has it´s place. There are also options to use the expansion port and get a hold of various third party hardware addons, like a decoder module used as a ˝powerup˝ so you can play 1080p videos, external GPU adapters, additional card readers and more. Obsolete in 2018 - yes, totally without a use - not so much.
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Jouble Jåbs it would die
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kader gumus frames per year
that moment when a 50c computer in a shoebox runs better than a netbook.
yeah the £0.25 pc worked better than this all round!
I play on my 13 year old windows XP on my channel
I used to own one of those with similar specs except from Asus (EeePC) and it has 160gb harddisk instead, the rest is practically the same. You will need to overclock the Atom and use a program I believe it's called something like 'swift shader', which basically skips some of the shaders in games. With that I can run a few games like Sonic Riders and Devil May Cry 3 'at almost full speed', which was totally unplayable without. Counter Strike 1.6 runs okay too.
It didn't felt so bad when I used it in that time (2010). Honestly even now I want one simply for the form factor, just to SSH and play around with Linux on. I wish more companies release Netbooks nowadays, especially if they can make it even thinner/smaller.
Netbooks are actually decently capable if you know what to look for. The Dell Latitude 2120 netbook I‘ve got has the standard 10.1 inch 1024 x 600 resolution screen but it does have a N550 atom processor. Most netbooks are running single cores or hyper-threaded single cores at best. The N550 is a hyper-threaded dual core running at 1.5 ghz. 4 threads running at 1.5 gigs isn’t to bad for a netbook. Not to mention it’s got 2 gigs of 1600mhz DDR3 ram which is the most it can take but with a 128 gig Samsung SSD in it it’s actually surprisingly decent for a netbook. Mind you this is running a 32 bit version of windows 7 ultimate. Put windows 7 starter or XP on it and it’d run even faster. It CAN game if you have realistic expectations. Railroad tycoon 1 and 2 as well as roller coaster tycoon 1 and 2 run flawlessly. Doom (the original) runs perfectly and if run threw a source port like Zdoom which gives you mouse look and other modernized enhancements it’ll run pegged at 60 fps. The original Driver game runs great on it as well. These games are running at max detail at the netbooks native max resolution. Other games no doubt would work too. So again if you know what to look for and have realistic expectations netbooks actually are decent. Put Chrome on it like I did and you can browse the web too even watching 720P video on TH-cam. Granted there’s no point in going higher since it only has a 600P screen and higher resolutions would simply bog the CPU down for no gain. But again it’s not a bad machine. Just look for one of the later netbooks that has better hardware like the N550 processor, DDR3 ram, a SATA drive instead of a IDE drive, ext....
Wish they still made Netbooks, a technicians dream machine. Powerful enough to run basic things like putty yet small and light.
Plus Ethernet port and full sized SD card slot. Handy.
I have one of these. Works well for retro games on winXP. Sims 1, Empires DMW, Half-Life, Sim City 3000, Rollercoaster Tycoon, etc. Oh, and winxp pinball. I might even spend $30 and upgrade ram, ssd and new thermal paste, allthough it's mostly nostalgia for me, otherwise I'd get an N100 firebat PC off aliexpress.
Nvidia ION and ION 2 were pretty cool at the time, and were the solution for Atom gaming. Atom wasn't as horrible as it really seems, but manufacturers combined the cheapest and mediocre components on the market with the Atom, and this pushed its reputation down. AMD also had a competitor with atom (I think it was the C series, but they all had a radeon gpu) the nvidia ion solution that I used on an HP Mini, was basically a geforce 9400M, it wasn't good at running GTA IV well, but it ran as most of the games I wanted intended, in addition to being a big hype at the time, due to the fact that you were running a demanding game on something so small (just as it is a hype now in 2024, smartphones are running Fallout 4 through winlator).
For testing purposes, I searched the entire internet and found an nvidia ion FOR DESKTOP, yes, they existed and were rare. It was a Zotac ion PCI-Express 1x. Paired with Pentium D955 and then with core2duo E8400, I could see that gaming performance on Intel Atom was not an abyss, Atom was handling the load well.
I had a hp mini wich never died, 10 years and only died when i tried to replace the intel atom with another one with 2x the tdp.
It could run late 90's games and some early 2000's, possibly many 2002-2003 games.
It was actually good to play msdos games, and old windows games.
I have nightmares about these acer netbooks, my brother had this exact model and I have a very vivid memory of my grandpa throwing it in the trash after the laptop froze in the middle of a youtube video, and then taking it back out like 4 hours later and it was still making that wretched noise
I’m using a hp compaq mini 110-1100 running windows xp as a retro gaming machine and it works great for me just today I was running quake 2 with no issue
This was my dad's netbook when I was like 10, I usually borrowed it to play browser games and some facebook games. Boy, that was over a decade ago.
I was stuck with one of these for 4 months (a Samsung model, with a very decent screen)... And Win7 was NOT an option. For example, WoW (Wrath of the Lich back then) would run at ~21fps at Undercity (not a taxing area at all) in WinXP, and just ~12fps on Win7. Gameswise, I had to stick to games released in 2001 or before.
Can't believe how the title reads "5 year old", when this actually came up in 2008! Performance is ridiculous, even taking that into account, but I'm surprised author got such a basic fact wrong.
I actually have an HP netbook (210-2000) with 2GB of ram and a dual core atom processor. Haven’t tried gaming with it, but it functions well enough as a secondary laptop. I still use it to do Skype interviews.
@0:40, you mentioned that the display is a 1024x700 panel, but the info on the right of the screen lists it as a 1024x600 panel. Typo?
Vishal Gajjar no, he said it wrong