1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:09,360 Coming in at a backbreaking 21 lbs, the 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:11,360 Dell XPS M2010 is the god of impractical 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:17,119 laptops. It has luggage clips. We are looking at 4 00:00:15,519 --> 00:00:24,160 20.1 in of laptop meat. It has nine speakers, 5 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:30,000 a detachable Bluetooth keyboard, and even an integrated DVD player. These are 6 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:34,160 exceedingly rare. It took our procurement team nearly 2 years to find 7 00:00:32,239 --> 00:00:40,079 one, but it was worth the effort because I cannot wait to show you guys the 8 00:00:36,559 --> 00:00:45,079 wildest laptop that Dell ever built just 9 00:00:40,079 --> 00:00:45,079 a mere 17 years after they released it. 10 00:00:51,680 --> 00:01:00,800 There are plenty of contenders for the wildest laptop ever built. the ASUS ROG 11 00:00:56,399 --> 00:01:03,920 GX700, Acer Predator 21X, or MSI GT80 12 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:06,080 come to mind. But what all those other 13 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:12,000 models have in common is that they were targeted at gamers. The Dell XPS M2010 14 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:17,520 is therefore unique in that it was actually aimed at businesses, not called 15 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:22,799 a portable device, but rather a transportable device. It was intended as 16 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:27,920 more of a workstation that you could move around as opposed to a laptop, 17 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:31,119 which isn't to say that no one ever tried. 18 00:01:29,759 --> 00:01:36,079 Is that what I'm intended to do right now? That's why this chair is here. 19 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:41,119 Oh my gosh, I'm already uncomfortable. I would lose circulation in my legs in 20 00:01:37,759 --> 00:01:43,680 like 20 minutes. This thing is so heavy. 21 00:01:41,119 --> 00:01:48,399 It wouldn't slip off my lap, though. Yeah, it's kind of trying to turn back 22 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:50,560 into oil. This soft touch finish is 23 00:01:48,399 --> 00:01:55,520 nasty. Oh my god. 24 00:01:52,720 --> 00:02:01,520 Oh, she's she thick, boy. Is this a cathode back 25 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:02,719 lit LCD? Because this thing is enormous 26 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:06,880 and heavy. I don't know. Finding exact specs very 27 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:13,120 difficult these days. This has wider ergonomic adjustments 28 00:02:08,879 --> 00:02:16,000 than some modern desktop monitors. Oh, I 29 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:20,480 get it. It's so you can move the display closer, 30 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:27,280 kind of like an AIO. There's also some very forward-looking features here. Is 31 00:02:22,879 --> 00:02:29,280 this webcam? Oh, it swivels so you can 32 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:33,760 always be in frame for your important business meetings. Look at this 33 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:39,040 delightful trackpad. The fact that this exists raises so many questions like who 34 00:02:36,959 --> 00:02:44,400 bought this? This this someone bought this within Dell. I mean, they knew it 35 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:48,720 was wild. It was called the Del Camino, a play on the El Camino, which is 36 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:54,560 neither a truck nor a car, but rather something in between. 37 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:56,319 That's solid and yet it feels like it's 38 00:02:54,560 --> 00:03:02,720 falling apart. What? Come on. 39 00:02:59,519 --> 00:03:05,280 That's not even true. Starting price for 40 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:11,519 one of these was $3500, but that was back in 2006. With 41 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:15,280 inflation, that would be about $5,000 42 00:03:11,519 --> 00:03:17,680 in today money. We ended up paying $330, 43 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:22,480 and that seems to be entirely due to its rarity, not because it's particularly 44 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:26,560 functional. With that said, it works better than I would have thought. 45 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:31,040 Documentation and drivers are still available on dell.com, but with that 46 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:36,080 said, I forgot how terrible Windows drivers were back in 2006. It took 47 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:40,560 nearly 4 hours of hitting next in installers to get everything set up on 48 00:03:38,319 --> 00:03:45,680 this. And that wasn't helped by the fact that Windows Vista is essentially no 49 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:49,360 longer an operating system. It's not even one of those legacy operating 50 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:54,319 systems that people are still using like Windows XP. When Windows Vista went eol, 51 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:01,120 everyone was like, "See you." Now, because our CPU is 64-bit capable, we 52 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:02,720 could have installed Windows 10, but I 53 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:07,760 actually vetoed that because I thought it'd be more fun to see how Vista works 54 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:13,040 in 2023 and get that real good nostalgia. You're probably wondering, 55 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:15,920 given the substantial included keyboard, 56 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:20,000 I love that this is a full-size desktop keyboard with trackpad, uh, why it is 57 00:04:18,799 --> 00:04:24,639 that I'm going to get a keyboard and mouse. This is the one aspect of the 58 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:29,199 machine that we were simply not able to get working. You can see all of my 59 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:32,320 locks, my scroll, my number, and my caps lock are flashing. 60 00:04:30,639 --> 00:04:36,560 Oh, that's because it's in pairing mode. Oh, it's in pairing mode. Yeah. 61 00:04:34,639 --> 00:04:41,759 Oh, so you might say that it has a 62 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:42,960 functionality impairment. 63 00:04:41,759 --> 00:04:48,000 You think it might have something to do with this? 64 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:53,440 It feels like you drank a whole juice box and then 65 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:58,400 threw it all up, rubbed this around in it, and then just let it dry. Like, it's 66 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:02,720 just gross. Touch it, David. I'm good. Actually, you know what? Before we 67 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:06,800 connect these, now seems like as good a time as any to take a closer look at the 68 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:11,600 base unit itself. Now that the keyboard is detached from it, it ends up looking 69 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:17,120 a lot more like an all-in-one PC than a laptop. But don't kid yourself, it is a 70 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:21,759 laptop. It has a battery. It uses laptop class components. And perhaps most 71 00:05:19,919 --> 00:05:27,520 importantly, it has the mid2000s version of laptop 72 00:05:25,199 --> 00:05:34,880 hardware expansion. On the right, you will find what appears to be a port for 73 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:37,440 the subwoofer. Shut up. On the bottom, 74 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:41,520 you will find a subwoofer. Don't worry, we're going to audition it later. A 75 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:45,440 removable battery. It's full of round cells. 76 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:52,080 What's the capacity? I love it. Uh 56 W hours only. 77 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:56,000 This has 62 in it. I don't think there's a very material 78 00:05:53,840 --> 00:06:02,000 weight difference between this battery and this entire computer. Also on the 79 00:05:59,039 --> 00:06:06,720 bottom, we'll find an air intake. Sticky. When it was new, this was worth 80 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:11,600 a whopping 1 hour and 42 minutes of battery life, which makes sense for a 81 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:16,000 gaming machine, but sure as heck doesn't make any sense for a business laptop. 82 00:06:13,919 --> 00:06:19,840 And look at this. It's got a built-in meter. Just click this button to see how 83 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:24,160 much battery life you have. For expansion, on the side, there's some 84 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:28,960 weird things. First, we've got this little tiny mini 1394 FireWire at the 85 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:32,720 size of this thing. I think they could have put a fulls size one, but hey, what 86 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:37,039 do I know? I'm not an engineer. Next to that, we've got something very 87 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:42,240 interesting. This is a 13in2 card reader. Now, I'm familiar with the 88 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:47,520 concept of a twoin-one card reader or even, you know, a 6in-1 card reader, but 89 00:06:44,479 --> 00:06:49,039 what is a something in two card reader? 90 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:55,280 Well, the weirdest bit is that it's kind of in three. So, with a commonly 91 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:57,120 available adapter, you can get many SD 92 00:06:55,280 --> 00:07:02,400 and stuff in this one. Oh, don't forget about SDIO. 93 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:04,880 Yeah. an XD. Very important memory card standards. 94 00:07:03,039 --> 00:07:07,919 What even's memory stick? Uh memory stick. That was Sony's 95 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:13,360 proprietary flash. Yeah. And then the two is because you 96 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:18,319 need this big fat one over here to do compact flash type one, compact flash 97 00:07:15,599 --> 00:07:23,120 type two, and micro drive. Micro drive was wild. They were actual mechanical 98 00:07:21,039 --> 00:07:28,400 hard drives that went into a compact flash slot. I forgot about those. We 99 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:32,479 should do a video on micro drive. get subscribed. Under the compact flash slot 100 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:37,360 is where things start to get really interesting. If you look very closely, 101 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:43,759 there's a little engraved expansion card there. That's because this slot 102 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:48,800 is what we used to have when laptops took expansion cards. This is called 103 00:07:46,319 --> 00:07:53,599 Express Card, and it's actually a PCI Express slot in there that you could use 104 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:57,759 to add things like high-speed USB or networking connectivity to your laptop. 105 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:04,800 Not that you would need to add networking to this one. Ah, not only not 106 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:09,680 only does it have gigabit LAN, it even has an RJ11 connector for the built-in 107 00:08:07,919 --> 00:08:16,960 modem. Dial up, baby. Next to it, we've got, 108 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:19,360 oh, this is amazing. Uh, Svideo and DVI 109 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:23,360 out for highdefinition external displays. Apparently, reviewers at the 110 00:08:21,759 --> 00:08:28,800 time got really annoyed that they included in the box an external TV tuner 111 00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:32,000 instead of building it in. I guess that's when Dell started their 112 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:37,120 dongles. My laptop 113 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:42,880 doesn't have internal hardware to be permanently attached to the 114 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:44,000 wall. It's TV Linus. You need to have TV 115 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:50,320 on something like this. Anywh who, over on the other side, we 116 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:52,320 have two USB 2 ports. And I don't Oh, 117 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,640 this must be for the TV tuner adapter here. Oh, yeah. Do we have it? 118 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,720 We don't. We don't. Okay. Well, sorry guys. We 119 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:03,360 don't have the TV tuner that plugs into Oh, the power brick that plugs into this 120 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:10,640 port is awesome. She's heavy and she'll do Oh, wow. A mere 150 W. 121 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:14,560 You can get power bricks this size that'll do like 250. Now, finally, on 122 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:20,399 the left side, we've got a Kensington lock. I mean, you'd hate for this thing to grow legs and wander away. two more 123 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:25,120 USB 2 ports and a microphone and headphone jack along with this button. 124 00:09:22,959 --> 00:09:30,000 Let's plug in some peripherals now, but oh, I guess there's a few things that we 125 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:31,920 missed. I alluded to this before, but 126 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:36,880 not only does the keyboard have integrated media controls, there is a 127 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:40,399 secondary set of media controls touch sensitive 128 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:45,920 all along the top of the device that belies its secondary function. After 129 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:49,200 all, life can't be all about business. 130 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:51,839 Surely sometimes you want to play 131 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:56,880 this. I'm gonna put a DVD in it. Uh, Alex, you brought a Blu-ray. That seems 132 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:59,040 optimist. Shut up. No way. Yeah, 133 00:09:57,519 --> 00:10:03,040 you've got to be kidding me. Apparently. Apparently, it does Blu-rays. I don't know. 134 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,600 We'll start with a DVD. Is this going to get stuck in there? It's not eating it. 135 00:10:04,959 --> 00:10:10,640 Uh. Oo. I don't want to lose this. Yeah, at least it has a good way of connecting to 136 00:10:09,279 --> 00:10:14,320 the internet. Wait, does it have Wi-Fi? It of course it has Wi-Fi. Centrino, I 137 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:17,680 see you put Opera on here. Is that a hint? Yeah. So, that's the newest one that 138 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:21,680 will work. I typed these T's together. One of them 139 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:25,760 was so delayed that it's at the end of the word. 140 00:10:23,519 --> 00:10:29,519 Oh, sophisticated. Okay. Well, okay. With 141 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:33,600 that in mind, hold on. Oh, that's so cool. Oh, you can see it 142 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:38,560 spinning through the little Windows. That's awesome. That was totally a 143 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:42,480 thing. I remember I had a friend that had a Discman that had a window in the 144 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:46,320 top. There's no way it's going to play this though because this is a 4K 145 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:50,160 Blu-ray. Like no, no, no, no, no, no, no. These are higher density and it's a 146 00:10:48,079 --> 00:10:53,839 whole thing. Even if it had software support, there's no way that old drive 147 00:10:51,839 --> 00:10:57,920 is going to play it. Play DVD movie. Well, let's use Windows Media Center, 148 00:10:55,519 --> 00:11:02,560 obviously. Man, throwback. That's kind of like what Steam Big Picture is to 149 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:10,200 gaming, but for media on your home theater PC. Oh, wait. It's just playing. 150 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:10,200 It was that easy. 151 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:20,000 There we go. This is bar none, by far the best 152 00:11:17,279 --> 00:11:25,680 sounding laptop that I have ever heard. And the touch controls work, 153 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:30,880 responsive. I am now downloading Power DVD1 from 154 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:37,079 oldver.com. Um, it has been tested free from 155 00:11:32,959 --> 00:11:37,079 spyware, adwear, and viruses. 156 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:44,000 Dell premium remote control. Oh, that's the remote control software. 157 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:48,800 Remote control? Like I can control this remotely? No, like it had a remote and the remote 158 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:52,959 was sick cuz it had a gyroscope in it, so you could use it as a mouse as well. 159 00:11:51,519 --> 00:11:58,959 Oh, I haven't really talked about the specs of the screen. It's 1680x 1050, 160 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:04,000 which was a common resolution for 20-in displays at the time. Uh, which is good 161 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:07,920 because it's a 20-in display. Uh that's an aspect ratio of what is that 5x4 or 162 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,959 whatever. 16x10. That's 16 by10. 163 00:12:10,639 --> 00:12:19,040 Yeah. In CNET review they noted that that resolution and aspect ratio was not 164 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:21,200 quite the holy grail of 1080p but that 165 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:26,079 it was widescreen and gives plenty of desktop space to display multiple 166 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,959 documents side by side. 1080p holy 167 00:12:26,079 --> 00:12:34,320 grail. Really? Yeah. 16x9 was always worse. CET always. Uh, 168 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:36,560 it has a 1.3 megapixel webcam, which I guess we can play with while this 169 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,519 installs. It's right on the right there. Quick 170 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:42,160 cam. Oh, it's a Logitech webcam. 171 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:50,160 Yeah. What is this? What is this interface? 172 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:52,240 Video effects. No way. I can do like AR 173 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:55,519 filters and stuff. Oh, wait. Maybe you need to open webcam 174 00:12:53,839 --> 00:12:59,760 software for this to work. Okay. Oh, a webcam was not found or is 175 00:12:57,839 --> 00:13:02,639 not working properly. It's worth noting that at this point we've spent about 176 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:09,519 half an hour trying to get Blu-ray playback working. I'm trying to install 177 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:12,560 Power DVD 9, which I had on a drive 178 00:13:09,519 --> 00:13:15,920 somewhere. Um, and it's not because the 179 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:17,920 computer's slow, you know, only 33% CPU 180 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:21,120 usage. It's just it involves a lot of hacky workarounds. Oh, the webcam's 181 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:26,639 working now. I got it working. I would say that that did not improve 182 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:32,399 much at all. But in fairness to it, this is a modern webcam that frankly 183 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:36,399 doesn't look that much better. I almost like the look of the old one 184 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:43,519 more. Like it feels more natural than this. Yeah, this has a lot of smoothing on it. 185 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:47,360 Okay. And Power DVD is still installing. Okay. It is slow, but a lot of that is 186 00:13:45,279 --> 00:13:54,800 down to the mechanical hard drive. Oh, how big is the hard drive on this thing? 187 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:57,839 Ah, yes. 250 GB. This shipped with a 188 00:13:54,800 --> 00:14:00,720 RAID zero drive configuration. 189 00:13:57,839 --> 00:14:03,440 That is an awful idea. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is your first time 190 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:10,399 playing a BDROM title. You need to select a region. Okay. Region A. 191 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:14,480 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Your graphics card is incompatible. 192 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:19,839 What? Come on. What's What's the GPU in this 193 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:24,000 thing? X1800. 194 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:26,880 What the hell is an X? Oh my good. It's ATI. 195 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:31,680 Yeah, not AMD. ATI. R129164.exe 196 00:14:29,519 --> 00:14:36,720 seems legit. I mean, it's off dell.com. It's probably fine. All files were 197 00:14:34,399 --> 00:14:40,160 successfully unzipped. Oh, okay. Here we go. Oh, yeah. 198 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:43,600 Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. Wait, was unable to find 199 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:46,959 components that could be installed on your current hardware. Please make sure 200 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:51,519 you have the required hardware or software. What are you talking about? 201 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:57,199 Where's device manager? Oh, right. You can't do that there yet. Um, 202 00:14:54,880 --> 00:15:01,360 yeah, but search worked, so it's fine. We found something called do not argue 203 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:06,079 ATI drivers, which seems to be a modified version of the Catalyst install 204 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:10,000 manager that is not digitally signed, but at least seems to attempt to 205 00:15:08,079 --> 00:15:15,920 install. So, what we're going to do, because this was so easy back then, is 206 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:20,880 disable driver signature enforcement. Yay. Okay, maybe these are legit, but 207 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:25,440 they do sketch me out a little bit. You can tell they've altered some stuff. I 208 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:31,199 don't know what do not argue.com is. Maybe something to do with these drivers. I know that modified AMD drive 209 00:15:28,959 --> 00:15:34,560 or ATI drivers were totally a thing back then. The display driver installed. 210 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,959 Success. Success. Success. Error messages. I don't see any. I mean, 211 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:41,040 let's go. Did we do it? Maybe. 212 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:48,240 Crap. Same thing. I think we're worse off than before. No, 213 00:15:43,839 --> 00:15:50,240 we have drivers now, but they're not 214 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:53,839 working. whereas before we didn't have drivers. It was just using Windows 215 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:57,120 drivers, but they were working. Before we try yet another sketchy driver 216 00:15:55,360 --> 00:16:00,720 package, I threw the Microsoft drivers back on. Let's see if they're working 217 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:03,839 for 3D acceleration. So, I don't know if we want to like actually play the game 218 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:09,839 once we get in here. Apparently, this GPU has a little bit of an issue where 219 00:16:06,079 --> 00:16:11,839 uh the thermal limits don't really work. 220 00:16:09,839 --> 00:16:15,440 So, it kind of blows itself up. Oh, years ago, she's working. 221 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:20,560 65 years. Is that Patrick Stewart? Yeah. 222 00:16:17,839 --> 00:16:27,800 God, it sounds good. Have you ever heard bass like that out of a laptop? 223 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,800 For the emperor. 224 00:16:31,839 --> 00:16:37,759 And that's where our story ends. So, I have the king of modern laptops. 225 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:46,529 This is like the benchmark, the MacBook Pro. Yeah. 226 00:16:46,959 --> 00:16:55,199 Sounds like a toy. Admittedly, there is a clarity advantage 227 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:57,820 to the MacBook Pro, but when it comes to 228 00:16:55,199 --> 00:17:00,399 sheer hutzah, 229 00:17:00,399 --> 00:17:05,839 that's what eight forward-facing drivers 230 00:17:03,839 --> 00:17:09,760 are going to do for you. Not to mention the subwoofer. Should I give up on 231 00:17:07,919 --> 00:17:14,160 Blu-ray playback or should we try one more sketchy driver? We found 232 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:17,120 one more. We could also try a different sketchy Blu-ray player. 233 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:21,919 I think we're reaching the end of our options here. We tried this weird Leoo 234 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:25,039 Blu-ray player, and I mean, it wasn't officially compatible with Vista anyway, 235 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:29,200 so it shouldn't be much of a surprise it didn't work. And we couldn't get any 236 00:17:27,439 --> 00:17:33,760 other driver package to properly install. 237 00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:36,240 Then we went back to our first solution that we looked at and went, "Ah, that 238 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:43,679 sounds like too much trouble. Let's update the drivers." Play. And 239 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:48,240 here we go. Let's go. This is not a bad looking display for how old it is. Is 240 00:17:45,679 --> 00:17:52,799 this IPS? It's got to be. You know, I bet that's part of why this thing was so 241 00:17:49,919 --> 00:17:58,960 expensive. My old boss at NCIX had probably the same panel on his desk. It 242 00:17:54,880 --> 00:18:01,200 was an NEC 20.1 in IPS that looked 243 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:05,440 amazing compared to anything else at the time. And it was glossy just like this. 244 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:09,360 Yeah, I think it might look better. Not bad. Why don't we open it up and 245 00:18:07,679 --> 00:18:14,640 find out what makes it tick? A new journey is about to begin. 246 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:19,360 Obviously, all the guts are going to be in the bottom of the unit here. There's 247 00:18:16,799 --> 00:18:24,960 no obvious screws other than this one. Well, look at this. Lionus 76 page 248 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:27,600 service manual tells you how to take out literally everything. 249 00:18:26,799 --> 00:18:34,000 Oh, good. So, yeah, that's the next step. This is pretty easy to get in. Oh, 250 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:40,160 whoa. That's awesome. One screw gets you 251 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:46,480 access to what am I looking at here? Two DDR2 sodium slots. My wireless card, 252 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:50,160 which is using I don't know, I forget what this standard is called. It's 253 00:18:47,919 --> 00:18:55,600 certainly not M.2. It would be the older like some kind of mini PCIe thing. Looks 254 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:59,600 like there was an optional secondary slot. I don't know what that would have 255 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:04,000 been used for. Maybe even like like a mobile SIM card or something like that. 256 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:08,320 I'm just guessing at this point. And then what do we find if we go deeper? 257 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:16,640 Wait. Wow. There's a lot of cooling in this thing. Is this all cooler? Holy 258 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:18,080 snikes. Oh, wow. Look at this. You just 259 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:23,919 put a screwdriver in there and the top pops off. No way. 260 00:19:21,919 --> 00:19:27,120 No way. Okay, I think I've got them in. Do you 261 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:33,200 want to pop it up? Uh, no. I don't have it in. Oh. Oh. Oh. 262 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:35,360 Hello. Wait. What is happening? What is happening? 263 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:39,360 Okay, that just came right off. Oh, okay. One sec. 264 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:45,120 Okay. Aha. Okay. 265 00:19:42,559 --> 00:19:49,520 What are we looking at now? Now we remove these screws and the whole 266 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:52,520 thing comes off, I think. Okay. 267 00:19:53,039 --> 00:19:59,600 Look at the size of that heat pipe. Oh 268 00:19:56,559 --> 00:20:02,320 my goodness. What are you compensating 269 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:10,799 for, bud? And I guess this is where the second hard drive was over here. Okay, 270 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:14,240 here's my Blu-ray drive. Man, this is 271 00:20:10,799 --> 00:20:16,240 like solid. This had to be machined out 272 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:20,400 of a solid freaking piece of aluminum here. That was not normal back then. 273 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:23,840 That was very unusual. There's no way. Look at this. It has to be. Look at it. 274 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:31,600 I mean, are you sure it's not plastic? Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure. Search your 275 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:35,919 feelings. It's aluminum. That's not It is. Yeah. Oh, I thought you were trying to 276 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:40,320 Okay, I told you it's metal. I know. That would just be such an 277 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:47,039 expensive part. I know. Look at the size of these fans, 278 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:49,360 too. These are huge. 279 00:20:47,039 --> 00:20:54,720 Not dissimilar to the size of a desktop fan. I mean, an older, smaller one, but 280 00:20:52,320 --> 00:21:01,120 still. And is there a reason you said that we have to take off the GPU cooler? 281 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:02,960 Uh because the GPU will cook itself. I 282 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:08,720 also just looked it up. So on the ASUS Zephris G14, 283 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:10,559 there's 83 fan blades on their fan. This 284 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:16,559 is what I don't know 15, 20, maybe 17. 285 00:21:15,039 --> 00:21:21,520 Nice. So this is a Core 2 Duo, right? Which 286 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:29,520 means that it did not have a built-in memory controller. So Oh, whoops. 287 00:21:25,679 --> 00:21:31,520 The chip that Alex thought was cheese by 288 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:36,880 the chip then that Alex thought was the CPU since it has a giant freaking heat 289 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:42,000 pipe strapped to it is not in fact the CPU but appears to actually be the 290 00:21:39,679 --> 00:21:45,600 motherboard chipset. That's where the memory controller was. 291 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:49,440 Wait, is the thing socketed? Holy crap. It is. 292 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:55,440 Oh, hell yeah. Since in 2005 293 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:58,400 I built my own laptop. I bought an ASUS 294 00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:01,919 M 5NE. I bought a CPU, bought RAM. You could 295 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:07,440 actually do that. You could buy barebones laptops, put your own CPU in, even mobile chips. This isn't a desktop 296 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:12,480 socket. This is going to be a mobile chip socket. There are daughter boards in this thing 297 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:18,320 that seem to be as big as the main boards on some modern laptops. 298 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:22,559 Everything was so much less efficient. Uh, this thing, uh, you said it has a 299 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:27,919 60watt hour battery. 62. Yeah. Okay, this with its 50 somethingwh 300 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:34,080 battery managed an hour and a half. What does this do? Probably like 8 10 hours. 301 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:35,679 15. Like actual real world 15. 302 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:41,200 Unbelievable. Wow. There's your CPU. 303 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:46,799 Oh, Lionus. We could have the only liquid metal Dell 304 00:22:44,559 --> 00:22:50,000 M2010 and then it would die. Yeah, we shouldn't do that. 305 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:56,559 Okay, this is cool. Check this out. This is how these uh mobile sockets worked. 306 00:22:53,039 --> 00:23:00,000 You have a little slot. Uh, there we go. 307 00:22:56,559 --> 00:23:00,960 Oh, and then it slides. And then you pop 308 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:07,520 it out. Yeah, just a little something like that. And it's a little slidy slide. Watch 309 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:10,400 this. Watch this. 310 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:13,520 I need like a razor blade. How did you get this off? 311 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:18,080 I just covered in IPA and then did that. Heck. The thing Alex is concerned about is 312 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:23,840 that our GPU in particular has no built-in thermal protections. So, if we 313 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:28,400 try to run Crisis and this thermal compound does not hold up, which it 314 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:33,440 might not, we could very well cook it and actually kill it. And replacing this 315 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:38,480 thing, given that MXM modules were not exactly necessarily always the same from 316 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:43,200 one model to the next would be very difficult. Time to throw her back 317 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:45,440 together and see if she does run Crisis. Oh, we don't we didn't put the bottom 318 00:23:44,559 --> 00:23:49,440 back on. Oh, the bottom. Uh, where did that even go? 319 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:53,360 I don't know. H. Does it really need it? 320 00:23:51,679 --> 00:23:56,960 Might as well. Yeah, we're here. But can it play Crisis? 321 00:23:55,520 --> 00:24:02,880 Well, first Cinebench. Ah, Cine. Now, what's the point? It's 322 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:05,919 going to take like 3 hours to run, Alex. It's fine. It's fine cuz it's Cinebench 323 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:10,559 R10, I think. Oh. Oh, you know, I'm kind of curious if 324 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:13,440 there's something obviously dead about the keyboard. 325 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:17,440 How does this come apart? Alex will run Cinebench and I will do this. 326 00:24:15,279 --> 00:24:21,919 We will parallelize David. Yeah. Alex made this handle so that it will 327 00:24:19,279 --> 00:24:24,480 fit my hands and his hands. How impressive is that? You're not going to 328 00:24:23,679 --> 00:24:30,640 hold up your hand. Sure. See, you know what they say about people with like not huge or anything hands. 329 00:24:28,559 --> 00:24:33,679 Wait, shut up. This has a removable battery. 330 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:39,039 Oh, wow. Freaking why. This has been running for a while. I 331 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:44,799 just started the 15. Alex, this is a 14wh hour battery. 332 00:24:42,559 --> 00:24:48,799 Anyway, I just ran Cinebench for fun on the XPS5, but I ran it before while it 333 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:55,600 was plugged in in high performance mode and got a score of 80,000 points in R10. 334 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:59,840 We were able to get a score of 4,825 335 00:24:55,600 --> 00:25:03,520 points. That's uh yeah, 16 times slower 336 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:05,440 than the XPS 15, which is what? Four 337 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:11,360 times smaller. Yeah, four times lighter. 338 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:13,760 But can it run Crisis? Holy. 339 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:21,760 I just paired to the keyboard. Holy crap. You got it to work. Okay, here it 340 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:24,559 is. Oh, yeah. It's working. 341 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:29,600 Oh, this is amazing. I will play me some Blu-rays. 342 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:31,600 Oh, now I can game on the trackpad. Uh, 343 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:34,960 okay. That is not what that is supposed to 344 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:39,039 look like. How's my night vision doing? Hey, what's up, team? This is totally 345 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:44,720 running. all low low resolution and everything, 346 00:25:43,120 --> 00:25:53,360 but it's running. Oh. Uh 347 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:56,559 oh, wow. That's uh that is not supposed 348 00:25:53,360 --> 00:25:58,400 to be there. Um, 349 00:25:56,559 --> 00:26:01,279 we specifically were like, "Okay, let's play the game for a little bit longer so 350 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:08,600 we can get to that point where you come out over the hill in the daylight and you you see everything in the distance." 351 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:17,360 I don't think that GP is too happy. Yeah, this is not how this was supposed 352 00:26:15,679 --> 00:26:21,520 to go down. 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