WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:09.360 Coming in at a backbreaking 21 lbs, the 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:11.360 Dell XPS M2010 is the god of impractical 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:17.119 laptops. It has luggage clips. We are looking at 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:24.160 20.1 in of laptop meat. It has nine speakers, 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:30.000 a detachable Bluetooth keyboard, and even an integrated DVD player. These are 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:34.160 exceedingly rare. It took our procurement team nearly 2 years to find 00:00:32.239 --> 00:00:40.079 one, but it was worth the effort because I cannot wait to show you guys the 00:00:36.559 --> 00:00:45.079 wildest laptop that Dell ever built just 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:45.079 a mere 17 years after they released it. 00:00:51.680 --> 00:01:00.800 There are plenty of contenders for the wildest laptop ever built. the ASUS ROG 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:03.920 GX700, Acer Predator 21X, or MSI GT80 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:06.080 come to mind. But what all those other 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:12.000 models have in common is that they were targeted at gamers. The Dell XPS M2010 00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:17.520 is therefore unique in that it was actually aimed at businesses, not called 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:22.799 a portable device, but rather a transportable device. It was intended as 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:27.920 more of a workstation that you could move around as opposed to a laptop, 00:01:26.080 --> 00:01:31.119 which isn't to say that no one ever tried. 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. 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:41.119 Oh my gosh, I'm already uncomfortable. I would lose circulation in my legs in 00:01:37.759 --> 00:01:43.680 like 20 minutes. This thing is so heavy. 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 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:50.560 into oil. This soft touch finish is 00:01:48.399 --> 00:01:55.520 nasty. Oh my god. 00:01:52.720 --> 00:02:01.520 Oh, she's she thick, boy. Is this a cathode back 00:01:58.240 --> 00:02:02.719 lit LCD? Because this thing is enormous 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:06.880 and heavy. I don't know. Finding exact specs very 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:13.120 difficult these days. This has wider ergonomic adjustments 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:16.000 than some modern desktop monitors. Oh, I 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:20.480 get it. It's so you can move the display closer, 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:27.280 kind of like an AIO. There's also some very forward-looking features here. Is 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:29.280 this webcam? Oh, it swivels so you can 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:33.760 always be in frame for your important business meetings. Look at this 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:39.040 delightful trackpad. The fact that this exists raises so many questions like who 00:02:36.959 --> 00:02:44.400 bought this? This this someone bought this within Dell. I mean, they knew it 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:48.720 was wild. It was called the Del Camino, a play on the El Camino, which is 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:54.560 neither a truck nor a car, but rather something in between. 00:02:51.200 --> 00:02:56.319 That's solid and yet it feels like it's 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:02.720 falling apart. What? Come on. 00:02:59.519 --> 00:03:05.280 That's not even true. Starting price for 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:11.519 one of these was $3500, but that was back in 2006. With 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:15.280 inflation, that would be about $5,000 00:03:11.519 --> 00:03:17.680 in today money. We ended up paying $330, 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:22.480 and that seems to be entirely due to its rarity, not because it's particularly 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:26.560 functional. With that said, it works better than I would have thought. 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:31.040 Documentation and drivers are still available on dell.com, but with that 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:36.080 said, I forgot how terrible Windows drivers were back in 2006. It took 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:40.560 nearly 4 hours of hitting next in installers to get everything set up on 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:45.680 this. And that wasn't helped by the fact that Windows Vista is essentially no 00:03:43.280 --> 00:03:49.360 longer an operating system. It's not even one of those legacy operating 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:54.319 systems that people are still using like Windows XP. When Windows Vista went eol, 00:03:52.000 --> 00:04:01.120 everyone was like, "See you." Now, because our CPU is 64-bit capable, we 00:03:57.920 --> 00:04:02.720 could have installed Windows 10, but I 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:07.760 actually vetoed that because I thought it'd be more fun to see how Vista works 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:13.040 in 2023 and get that real good nostalgia. You're probably wondering, 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:15.920 given the substantial included keyboard, 00:04:13.040 --> 00:04:20.000 I love that this is a full-size desktop keyboard with trackpad, uh, why it is 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 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:29.199 machine that we were simply not able to get working. You can see all of my 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:32.320 locks, my scroll, my number, and my caps lock are flashing. 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:36.560 Oh, that's because it's in pairing mode. Oh, it's in pairing mode. Yeah. 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:41.759 Oh, so you might say that it has a 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:42.960 functionality impairment. 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:48.000 You think it might have something to do with this? 00:04:45.520 --> 00:04:53.440 It feels like you drank a whole juice box and then 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 00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:02.720 just gross. Touch it, David. I'm good. Actually, you know what? Before we 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 00:05:04.960 --> 00:05:11.600 base unit itself. Now that the keyboard is detached from it, it ends up looking 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 00:05:14.400 --> 00:05:21.759 laptop. It has a battery. It uses laptop class components. And perhaps most 00:05:19.919 --> 00:05:27.520 importantly, it has the mid2000s version of laptop 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:34.880 hardware expansion. On the right, you will find what appears to be a port for 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:37.440 the subwoofer. Shut up. On the bottom, 00:05:34.880 --> 00:05:41.520 you will find a subwoofer. Don't worry, we're going to audition it later. A 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:45.440 removable battery. It's full of round cells. 00:05:44.320 --> 00:05:52.080 What's the capacity? I love it. Uh 56 W hours only. 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:56.000 This has 62 in it. I don't think there's a very material 00:05:53.840 --> 00:06:02.000 weight difference between this battery and this entire computer. Also on the 00:05:59.039 --> 00:06:06.720 bottom, we'll find an air intake. Sticky. When it was new, this was worth 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:11.600 a whopping 1 hour and 42 minutes of battery life, which makes sense for a 00:06:09.840 --> 00:06:16.000 gaming machine, but sure as heck doesn't make any sense for a business laptop. 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 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:24.160 much battery life you have. For expansion, on the side, there's some 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:28.960 weird things. First, we've got this little tiny mini 1394 FireWire at the 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 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:37.039 do I know? I'm not an engineer. Next to that, we've got something very 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:42.240 interesting. This is a 13in2 card reader. Now, I'm familiar with the 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 00:06:44.479 --> 00:06:49.039 what is a something in two card reader? 00:06:47.520 --> 00:06:55.280 Well, the weirdest bit is that it's kind of in three. So, with a commonly 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:57.120 available adapter, you can get many SD 00:06:55.280 --> 00:07:02.400 and stuff in this one. Oh, don't forget about SDIO. 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:04.880 Yeah. an XD. Very important memory card standards. 00:07:03.039 --> 00:07:07.919 What even's memory stick? Uh memory stick. That was Sony's 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:13.360 proprietary flash. Yeah. And then the two is because you 00:07:10.880 --> 00:07:18.319 need this big fat one over here to do compact flash type one, compact flash 00:07:15.599 --> 00:07:23.120 type two, and micro drive. Micro drive was wild. They were actual mechanical 00:07:21.039 --> 00:07:28.400 hard drives that went into a compact flash slot. I forgot about those. We 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:32.479 should do a video on micro drive. get subscribed. Under the compact flash slot 00:07:30.880 --> 00:07:37.360 is where things start to get really interesting. If you look very closely, 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:43.759 there's a little engraved expansion card there. That's because this slot 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:48.800 is what we used to have when laptops took expansion cards. This is called 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:53.599 Express Card, and it's actually a PCI Express slot in there that you could use 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:57.759 to add things like high-speed USB or networking connectivity to your laptop. 00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:04.800 Not that you would need to add networking to this one. Ah, not only not 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:09.680 only does it have gigabit LAN, it even has an RJ11 connector for the built-in 00:08:07.919 --> 00:08:16.960 modem. Dial up, baby. Next to it, we've got, 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:19.360 oh, this is amazing. Uh, Svideo and DVI 00:08:16.960 --> 00:08:23.360 out for highdefinition external displays. Apparently, reviewers at the 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:28.800 time got really annoyed that they included in the box an external TV tuner 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:32.000 instead of building it in. I guess that's when Dell started their 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:37.120 dongles. My laptop 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:42.880 doesn't have internal hardware to be permanently attached to the 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:44.000 wall. It's TV Linus. You need to have TV 00:08:42.880 --> 00:08:50.320 on something like this. Anywh who, over on the other side, we 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:52.320 have two USB 2 ports. And I don't Oh, 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.640 this must be for the TV tuner adapter here. Oh, yeah. Do we have it? 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:58.720 We don't. We don't. Okay. Well, sorry guys. We 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 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:10.640 port is awesome. She's heavy and she'll do Oh, wow. A mere 150 W. 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:14.560 You can get power bricks this size that'll do like 250. Now, finally, on 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 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:25.120 USB 2 ports and a microphone and headphone jack along with this button. 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 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:31.920 missed. I alluded to this before, but 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:36.880 not only does the keyboard have integrated media controls, there is a 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:40.399 secondary set of media controls touch sensitive 00:09:38.560 --> 00:09:45.920 all along the top of the device that belies its secondary function. After 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:49.200 all, life can't be all about business. 00:09:45.920 --> 00:09:51.839 Surely sometimes you want to play 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 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:59.040 optimist. Shut up. No way. Yeah, 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. 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. 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 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 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 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:21.680 will work. I typed these T's together. One of them 00:10:19.920 --> 00:10:25.760 was so delayed that it's at the end of the word. 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:29.519 Oh, sophisticated. Okay. Well, okay. With 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:33.600 that in mind, hold on. Oh, that's so cool. Oh, you can see it 00:10:31.680 --> 00:10:38.560 spinning through the little Windows. That's awesome. That was totally a 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 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 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 00:10:48.079 --> 00:10:53.839 whole thing. Even if it had software support, there's no way that old drive 00:10:51.839 --> 00:10:57.920 is going to play it. Play DVD movie. Well, let's use Windows Media Center, 00:10:55.519 --> 00:11:02.560 obviously. Man, throwback. That's kind of like what Steam Big Picture is to 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:10.200 gaming, but for media on your home theater PC. Oh, wait. It's just playing. 00:11:06.560 --> 00:11:10.200 It was that easy. 00:11:11.040 --> 00:11:20.000 There we go. This is bar none, by far the best 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:25.680 sounding laptop that I have ever heard. And the touch controls work, 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:30.880 responsive. I am now downloading Power DVD1 from 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:37.079 oldver.com. Um, it has been tested free from 00:11:32.959 --> 00:11:37.079 spyware, adwear, and viruses. 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:44.000 Dell premium remote control. Oh, that's the remote control software. 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 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. 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:58.959 Oh, I haven't really talked about the specs of the screen. It's 1680x 1050, 00:11:56.720 --> 00:12:04.000 which was a common resolution for 20-in displays at the time. Uh, which is good 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 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:10.959 whatever. 16x10. That's 16 by10. 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:19.040 Yeah. In CNET review they noted that that resolution and aspect ratio was not 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:21.200 quite the holy grail of 1080p but that 00:12:19.040 --> 00:12:26.079 it was widescreen and gives plenty of desktop space to display multiple 00:12:23.040 --> 00:12:26.959 documents side by side. 1080p holy 00:12:26.079 --> 00:12:34.320 grail. Really? Yeah. 16x9 was always worse. CET always. Uh, 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:36.560 it has a 1.3 megapixel webcam, which I guess we can play with while this 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:39.519 installs. It's right on the right there. Quick 00:12:38.560 --> 00:12:42.160 cam. Oh, it's a Logitech webcam. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:50.160 Yeah. What is this? What is this interface? 00:12:47.040 --> 00:12:52.240 Video effects. No way. I can do like AR 00:12:50.160 --> 00:12:55.519 filters and stuff. Oh, wait. Maybe you need to open webcam 00:12:53.839 --> 00:12:59.760 software for this to work. Okay. Oh, a webcam was not found or is 00:12:57.839 --> 00:13:02.639 not working properly. It's worth noting that at this point we've spent about 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:09.519 half an hour trying to get Blu-ray playback working. I'm trying to install 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:12.560 Power DVD 9, which I had on a drive 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:15.920 somewhere. Um, and it's not because the 00:13:12.560 --> 00:13:17.920 computer's slow, you know, only 33% CPU 00:13:15.920 --> 00:13:21.120 usage. It's just it involves a lot of hacky workarounds. Oh, the webcam's 00:13:20.560 --> 00:13:26.639 working now. I got it working. I would say that that did not improve 00:13:23.760 --> 00:13:32.399 much at all. But in fairness to it, this is a modern webcam that frankly 00:13:29.760 --> 00:13:36.399 doesn't look that much better. I almost like the look of the old one 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. 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 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:54.800 down to the mechanical hard drive. Oh, how big is the hard drive on this thing? 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:57.839 Ah, yes. 250 GB. This shipped with a 00:13:54.800 --> 00:14:00.720 RAID zero drive configuration. 00:13:57.839 --> 00:14:03.440 That is an awful idea. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is your first time 00:14:01.680 --> 00:14:10.399 playing a BDROM title. You need to select a region. Okay. Region A. 00:14:07.920 --> 00:14:14.480 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Your graphics card is incompatible. 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:19.839 What? Come on. What's What's the GPU in this 00:14:17.680 --> 00:14:24.000 thing? X1800. 00:14:21.760 --> 00:14:26.880 What the hell is an X? Oh my good. It's ATI. 00:14:24.880 --> 00:14:31.680 Yeah, not AMD. ATI. R129164.exe 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:36.720 seems legit. I mean, it's off dell.com. It's probably fine. All files were 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:40.160 successfully unzipped. Oh, okay. Here we go. Oh, yeah. 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 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:46.959 components that could be installed on your current hardware. Please make sure 00:14:45.680 --> 00:14:51.519 you have the required hardware or software. What are you talking about? 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:57.199 Where's device manager? Oh, right. You can't do that there yet. Um, 00:14:54.880 --> 00:15:01.360 yeah, but search worked, so it's fine. We found something called do not argue 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:06.079 ATI drivers, which seems to be a modified version of the Catalyst install 00:15:04.160 --> 00:15:10.000 manager that is not digitally signed, but at least seems to attempt to 00:15:08.079 --> 00:15:15.920 install. So, what we're going to do, because this was so easy back then, is 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:20.880 disable driver signature enforcement. Yay. Okay, maybe these are legit, but 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 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 00:15:28.959 --> 00:15:34.560 or ATI drivers were totally a thing back then. The display driver installed. 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:36.959 Success. Success. Success. Error messages. I don't see any. I mean, 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:41.040 let's go. Did we do it? Maybe. 00:15:39.760 --> 00:15:48.240 Crap. Same thing. I think we're worse off than before. No, 00:15:43.839 --> 00:15:50.240 we have drivers now, but they're not 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:53.839 working. whereas before we didn't have drivers. It was just using Windows 00:15:51.680 --> 00:15:57.120 drivers, but they were working. Before we try yet another sketchy driver 00:15:55.360 --> 00:16:00.720 package, I threw the Microsoft drivers back on. Let's see if they're working 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 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:09.839 once we get in here. Apparently, this GPU has a little bit of an issue where 00:16:06.079 --> 00:16:11.839 uh the thermal limits don't really work. 00:16:09.839 --> 00:16:15.440 So, it kind of blows itself up. Oh, years ago, she's working. 00:16:14.160 --> 00:16:20.560 65 years. Is that Patrick Stewart? Yeah. 00:16:17.839 --> 00:16:27.800 God, it sounds good. Have you ever heard bass like that out of a laptop? 00:16:24.320 --> 00:16:27.800 For the emperor. 00:16:31.839 --> 00:16:37.759 And that's where our story ends. So, I have the king of modern laptops. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:46.529 This is like the benchmark, the MacBook Pro. Yeah. 00:16:46.959 --> 00:16:55.199 Sounds like a toy. Admittedly, there is a clarity advantage 00:16:52.160 --> 00:16:57.820 to the MacBook Pro, but when it comes to 00:16:55.199 --> 00:17:00.399 sheer hutzah, 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:05.839 that's what eight forward-facing drivers 00:17:03.839 --> 00:17:09.760 are going to do for you. Not to mention the subwoofer. Should I give up on 00:17:07.919 --> 00:17:14.160 Blu-ray playback or should we try one more sketchy driver? We found 00:17:11.600 --> 00:17:17.120 one more. We could also try a different sketchy Blu-ray player. 00:17:15.760 --> 00:17:21.919 I think we're reaching the end of our options here. We tried this weird Leoo 00:17:19.600 --> 00:17:25.039 Blu-ray player, and I mean, it wasn't officially compatible with Vista anyway, 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 00:17:27.439 --> 00:17:33.760 other driver package to properly install. 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:36.240 Then we went back to our first solution that we looked at and went, "Ah, that 00:17:35.120 --> 00:17:43.679 sounds like too much trouble. Let's update the drivers." Play. And 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 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 00:17:49.919 --> 00:17:58.960 expensive. My old boss at NCIX had probably the same panel on his desk. It 00:17:54.880 --> 00:18:01.200 was an NEC 20.1 in IPS that looked 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:05.440 amazing compared to anything else at the time. And it was glossy just like this. 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 00:18:07.679 --> 00:18:14.640 find out what makes it tick? A new journey is about to begin. 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 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:24.960 no obvious screws other than this one. Well, look at this. Lionus 76 page 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:27.600 service manual tells you how to take out literally everything. 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, 00:18:31.120 --> 00:18:40.160 whoa. That's awesome. One screw gets you 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:46.480 access to what am I looking at here? Two DDR2 sodium slots. My wireless card, 00:18:43.760 --> 00:18:50.160 which is using I don't know, I forget what this standard is called. It's 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 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:59.600 like there was an optional secondary slot. I don't know what that would have 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:04.000 been used for. Maybe even like like a mobile SIM card or something like that. 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? 00:19:06.080 --> 00:19:16.640 Wait. Wow. There's a lot of cooling in this thing. Is this all cooler? Holy 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:18.080 snikes. Oh, wow. Look at this. You just 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:23.919 put a screwdriver in there and the top pops off. No way. 00:19:21.919 --> 00:19:27.120 No way. Okay, I think I've got them in. Do you 00:19:25.520 --> 00:19:33.200 want to pop it up? Uh, no. I don't have it in. Oh. Oh. Oh. 00:19:30.320 --> 00:19:35.360 Hello. Wait. What is happening? What is happening? 00:19:34.080 --> 00:19:39.360 Okay, that just came right off. Oh, okay. One sec. 00:19:37.760 --> 00:19:45.120 Okay. Aha. Okay. 00:19:42.559 --> 00:19:49.520 What are we looking at now? Now we remove these screws and the whole 00:19:48.080 --> 00:19:52.520 thing comes off, I think. Okay. 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:59.600 Look at the size of that heat pipe. Oh 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:02.320 my goodness. What are you compensating 00:19:59.600 --> 00:20:10.799 for, bud? And I guess this is where the second hard drive was over here. Okay, 00:20:06.080 --> 00:20:14.240 here's my Blu-ray drive. Man, this is 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:16.240 like solid. This had to be machined out 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:20.400 of a solid freaking piece of aluminum here. That was not normal back then. 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. 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 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 00:20:35.120 --> 00:20:40.320 Okay, I told you it's metal. I know. That would just be such an 00:20:39.360 --> 00:20:47.039 expensive part. I know. Look at the size of these fans, 00:20:43.600 --> 00:20:49.360 too. These are huge. 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:54.720 Not dissimilar to the size of a desktop fan. I mean, an older, smaller one, but 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? 00:20:57.600 --> 00:21:02.960 Uh because the GPU will cook itself. I 00:21:01.120 --> 00:21:08.720 also just looked it up. So on the ASUS Zephris G14, 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:10.559 there's 83 fan blades on their fan. This 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:16.559 is what I don't know 15, 20, maybe 17. 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:21.520 Nice. So this is a Core 2 Duo, right? Which 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:29.520 means that it did not have a built-in memory controller. So Oh, whoops. 00:21:25.679 --> 00:21:31.520 The chip that Alex thought was cheese by 00:21:29.520 --> 00:21:36.880 the chip then that Alex thought was the CPU since it has a giant freaking heat 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:42.000 pipe strapped to it is not in fact the CPU but appears to actually be the 00:21:39.679 --> 00:21:45.600 motherboard chipset. That's where the memory controller was. 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:49.440 Wait, is the thing socketed? Holy crap. It is. 00:21:47.280 --> 00:21:55.440 Oh, hell yeah. Since in 2005 00:21:52.320 --> 00:21:58.400 I built my own laptop. I bought an ASUS 00:21:55.440 --> 00:22:01.919 M 5NE. I bought a CPU, bought RAM. You could 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 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 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:18.320 that seem to be as big as the main boards on some modern laptops. 00:22:15.840 --> 00:22:22.559 Everything was so much less efficient. Uh, this thing, uh, you said it has a 00:22:21.280 --> 00:22:27.919 60watt hour battery. 62. Yeah. Okay, this with its 50 somethingwh 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:34.080 battery managed an hour and a half. What does this do? Probably like 8 10 hours. 00:22:30.080 --> 00:22:35.679 15. Like actual real world 15. 00:22:34.080 --> 00:22:41.200 Unbelievable. Wow. There's your CPU. 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:46.799 Oh, Lionus. We could have the only liquid metal Dell 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:50.000 M2010 and then it would die. Yeah, we shouldn't do that. 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:56.559 Okay, this is cool. Check this out. This is how these uh mobile sockets worked. 00:22:53.039 --> 00:23:00.000 You have a little slot. Uh, there we go. 00:22:56.559 --> 00:23:00.960 Oh, and then it slides. And then you pop 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 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:10.400 this. Watch this. 00:23:07.520 --> 00:23:13.520 I need like a razor blade. How did you get this off? 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 00:23:15.840 --> 00:23:23.840 that our GPU in particular has no built-in thermal protections. So, if we 00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:28.400 try to run Crisis and this thermal compound does not hold up, which it 00:23:26.080 --> 00:23:33.440 might not, we could very well cook it and actually kill it. And replacing this 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:38.480 thing, given that MXM modules were not exactly necessarily always the same from 00:23:35.760 --> 00:23:43.200 one model to the next would be very difficult. Time to throw her back 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 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:49.440 back on. Oh, the bottom. Uh, where did that even go? 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:53.360 I don't know. H. Does it really need it? 00:23:51.679 --> 00:23:56.960 Might as well. Yeah, we're here. But can it play Crisis? 00:23:55.520 --> 00:24:02.880 Well, first Cinebench. Ah, Cine. Now, what's the point? It's 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 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:10.559 R10, I think. Oh. Oh, you know, I'm kind of curious if 00:24:08.320 --> 00:24:13.440 there's something obviously dead about the keyboard. 00:24:11.760 --> 00:24:17.440 How does this come apart? Alex will run Cinebench and I will do this. 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:21.919 We will parallelize David. Yeah. Alex made this handle so that it will 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:24.480 fit my hands and his hands. How impressive is that? You're not going to 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. 00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:33.679 Wait, shut up. This has a removable battery. 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:39.039 Oh, wow. Freaking why. This has been running for a while. I 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:44.799 just started the 15. Alex, this is a 14wh hour battery. 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 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. 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:59.840 We were able to get a score of 4,825 00:24:55.600 --> 00:25:03.520 points. That's uh yeah, 16 times slower 00:24:59.840 --> 00:25:05.440 than the XPS 15, which is what? Four 00:25:03.520 --> 00:25:11.360 times smaller. Yeah, four times lighter. 00:25:07.120 --> 00:25:13.760 But can it run Crisis? Holy. 00:25:11.360 --> 00:25:21.760 I just paired to the keyboard. Holy crap. You got it to work. Okay, here it 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:24.559 is. Oh, yeah. It's working. 00:25:21.760 --> 00:25:29.600 Oh, this is amazing. I will play me some Blu-rays. 00:25:26.080 --> 00:25:31.600 Oh, now I can game on the trackpad. Uh, 00:25:29.600 --> 00:25:34.960 okay. That is not what that is supposed to 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:39.039 look like. How's my night vision doing? Hey, what's up, team? This is totally 00:25:37.600 --> 00:25:44.720 running. all low low resolution and everything, 00:25:43.120 --> 00:25:53.360 but it's running. Oh. Uh 00:25:47.360 --> 00:25:56.559 oh, wow. That's uh that is not supposed 00:25:53.360 --> 00:25:58.400 to be there. 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