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let's play a little make-believe game shall we let's say that i'm

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your grandmother and here i am on my computer that you put together for me oh

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i don't know 10-12 years ago and the hardware was pretty good then but these

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days it's running a tick slow so you know i'm

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just doing grandmotherly things like uh

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firing up the internets to

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browse the web oof

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catching up on my tech tech news

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maybe i open up a couple of tabs gotta get that news from all the sources

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oh boy are these still loading is this tab still loading

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maybe i'll watch a video in the meantime with the vlc

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look at that right click delay isn't that a thing of beauty there it is and

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while i'm waiting for that maybe i'll enjoy a nice little game of pinball

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in 3d

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okay i think you see where we're going with this it's time for grand to finally

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give in to your incessant nagging and upgrade the old machine but then just as

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she's about to do it she's browsing the facebook and she finds an ad for oh

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thank you

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the extra pc which claims to breathe new life into

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old computers for anywhere from 49.99 to

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79.99 but could it be the magic bullet that it

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claims to be or is it just another predatory product designed to take money

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from the elderly and tech illiterate there's only one way for us to find out

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oh after this message from glasswire with glasswire you can instantly see

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your current and past network activity detect malware and block badly behaving

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apps on Windows and Android use offer code Linus to get 25 off glasswire at

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the link below

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alright so my understanding is there's a few different oh Anthony's in the video

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hi my understanding is there's a few different versions of the extra pc so

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i'm holding the extra pc pro

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64 Gigabyte and this is the one we spent 80 us dollars on right and then you've

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got i've got the turbo 32 which is much smaller

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and i spent i think 49.99 on it okay not too bad now something that's immediately

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noticeable about these things is that these are just

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i mean this one they didn't even cover up the branding this is just a sandisk

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cruiser blade cruiser blade 32 gig so that's a usb 2 and this would cost you

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somewhere in the neighborhood it can't be more than like 10 bucks yeah roughly

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and then this i mean they did they put a sticker on

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this one at least i'm just gonna okay

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ah there we go and this one's a cruiserglide 3.0 64 gig

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so that's usb 3 but for our particular old computer we're not going to get any

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any benefit out of that anyway yeah we only have 2.0 okay but i mean they're

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probably i mean i'm sure they sort of tell people that no really nope they

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just say that it gives you speed large storage capacity and file res software

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what is file res software i'm guessing it's some kind of recovery software

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also check out these uh was prices anywhere from 50 to 160 dollars

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yup this thing better be amazing all right so should we just should we just

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crack it open let's fire this thing up sure let's do it uh oh

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yeah you know what

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and you're done bud okay so do you want to do the turbo one

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anyway just because then we get we can see what that file res software

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is all about i think it's identical otherwise okay cool

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what what is this like a core two quad or something uh no it's a pentium d

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well let's uh let's see if if it can make this feel snappy then

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maybe there's something to it all right extra pc they've got their own

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boot logo they did an fs check on the actual hard drive please choose a

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password for your administrator account well i'm going to go with password

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because i need something i can remember in order to begin using all the great

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features we need to set up a few additional applications these applications require that you are

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connected to the internet so they can be downloaded and installed and it looks

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like oh i assumed that was network but it oh it is

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wired connection one it looks like it picked up both our

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wired and wi-fi nicks yep okay

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both real tech all right let's go ahead and do this do

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you accept the eula for vlc media player

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rhythm box media player ubuntu restricted add-ons

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adobe flash okay this is all stuff that i would probably install yep okay

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okay so everything gets installed to the extra pc usb stick and it does not use

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your hard drive fascinating

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well based on how long it's taking to install fonts

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uh we might be asking for a lot so you would probably recognize this what

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is this based on uh probably uh ubuntu

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which is a lightweight distro of ubuntu is it just me or does uh giving your

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grandma Linux seem like a bad idea

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based on that giving Linus Linux is already looking like a bad idea uh yes

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we'll talk more about that a little bit later thank you david

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okay we're tired of waiting for the true type fonts to install

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yeah we want to cancel we're done okay it looks like it's not going to prompt

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us to do that again so why don't we poke around in here it's

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totally grand oriented so we've got thunderbird email client is that even

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still updated it is it got discontinued and i think it got picked up again it's

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got a dedicated link to facebook which presumably will open in firefox web

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browser here and that is an old firefox logo yeah

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so there is not a whole heck of a lot to this is there yeah there's libreoffice

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there's firefox and for grandma anyway there is

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no obvious way to add more applications not

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really usually in a user-friendly operating system like

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ubuntu or manjaro or what have you there'll be like an add or remove

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software yeah but in this case i mean i know what it is but

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now let's try file res ready to find and save your files with

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one click i'm going to try this one click approach go i hear the hard drive

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ticking yeah it's you can see that it's it's mounted the drive and

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program files oh it's just finding everything

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now did it actually grab the pictures that you put on

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specifically to test it um

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looks like that's all program files oh here we go here it is

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oh okay what we don't know is how it handles if

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you have more data than will fit on a usb stick

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but that's a little bit beyond the scope of this

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investigation i think so i guess the point we're getting at here is that if

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gran is got has got the wherewithal to

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learn Linux which you know what if all

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she's ever gonna look at is facebook

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and email and kindle and pinterest maybe

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isn't even that hard yeah no probably not but if you're gonna

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put the effort in to learn how to use Linux maybe you should put the effort

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into learning how to create your own bootable Linux usb

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which Anthony has created for us

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complete with high-end graphics

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how long did it take you to create this thing Anthony about an hour about an

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hour okay okay so uh what am i looking at here this is manjaro Linux

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it's a relatively lightweight uh modern Linux distribution based on arch Linux

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got it that's our hard drive so getting into our

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documents and settings and any pictures we left behind is

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basically as simple as just navigating for them yep did you

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pre-configure it with firefox or does that just it comes with firefox out of the box

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great well let's have a look at our youtube experience then since that was the last thing we looked at on extra pc

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again firefox is not going to be hardware accelerated so

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a couple drop frames here and there and uh yeah

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oh wait wait yes oh yeah yeah it's still a hot mess

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what else did we try do we just want like some general responsiveness fire up

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some open office you know yeah fire up some open office i mean it's still it's

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all going to be usb 2. so it's going to be comparable as far as load times go but sure

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so let's create a writer document where do you put what you want to call it oh

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stop here okay sure beautiful did you have to install any

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drivers or anything or no the auto detection is pretty good

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okay cool oh look at this it's got chromium and everything is this all

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pre-installed stuff i didn't i pre-installed chromium you did yeah okay

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uh everything else is pre-installed including steel including steam yep huh

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how about that normally steam's only available in ubuntu in terms of overall

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responsiveness no maybe it isn't actually

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much worse let's just open up our news

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no it's probably about as slow yeah you can only ask so much of a

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pentium d okay why don't we try and why don't we try and do one more thing let's

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play some grand friendly games on steam okay

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that frame rate though yeah well it's running at full hd but it's

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running i realize now that i've never actually

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played pickle what yeah oh peggle rocks it's pachinko

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oh yeah yeah i know

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god of tetris there it is

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yeah extreme fever you're dead okay all right Anthony let's go head to head how

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do we head to head with one mouse uh take turns oh okay

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all right what

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oh that was the tutorial level you've got

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oh no you have to beat it all the time no forget it and we're done

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extra pc your closing thoughts it's not as bad as i thought it would be

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um that file wreck or whatever it was called uh programs far res yeah uh

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actually worked pretty well uh i wasn't expecting it to but it did it pulled off

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all the files that would be considered important to most people aside from the

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fact that it's really old and the it wouldn't install the fonts which would

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have given grant a little bit of trouble yeah i mean it's it's just straight

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ubuntu with some extra fluff on it and it's not too bad but for the price

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now i'm actually going to take up a contrary position here because i think

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the price is really reasonable the extra time it would take them to faff about

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creating a bootable Linux usb 40 to 80

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dollars is perfectly reasonable the one thing i do take issue with here is that

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it's advertised as a resurrector of old

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machines when as we've clearly demonstrated it's not a magic bullet you

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don't go from not being able to play youtube videos and open documents to

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suddenly being able to do that you are still very much limited by the hardware

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that you have and there is going to be a learning

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curve for grand and that's something that i feel like they could be a lot

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more transparent about in their advertising so my issue here is not with

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the product but rather just with the claims the product itself

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i actually don't mind it yeah i thought i would hate it i was i

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was expecting this video to just be crapping all over extra pc but you can i

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think probably see the tone shift as we make our way through it yeah a lot

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why would you tell me now it's a good segue

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into what