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if you guys enjoy watching me get absolutely fleeced by collectors this

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is gonna be the best episode yet ladies and gentlemen i am coming at you

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with the one the only

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hot wheels pc the good news for me is

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that the 1900-ish u.s dollars that i spent to acquire this thing is

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considerably less than the 6 000 bounty

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that i offered on the WAN Show for a full set including the tower monitor

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keyboard mouse mouse pad and racing wheel all

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of which i've got the bad news

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is that that ended up being just to borrow it i have to send it back when i'm done

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MSI's GeForce rtx 3080 gaming x trio 10 gig has it all performance low noise and

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RGB gamer aesthetics check it out today at the link in the video description

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full disclosure guys i could have spent the full bounty amount and gotten a hot

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wheels pc and full set of accessories that i could have kept but the main

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reason that i didn't is because

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i don't want one and i'm not the only one both the hot wheels

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computer and its cuter cousin the barbie computer were colossal failures for a

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number of reasons starting with well the branding you see in 1999 it was

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more common for families to have a single desktop computer that everyone

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shared so even though they were priced quite attractively at just 600 us

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dollars the tackiness of the design inherently

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made it a niche product because it was really only for families where junior or

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little miss was going to have their own computer in their room problem number

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two was the product i mean on the surface it

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sounded pretty good Intel CPU Windows 98

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a whole host of included educational software and games i mean the hot wheels

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one check this out even came with a hot wheels branded

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steering wheel and pedal for racing games only the computers themselves were

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sick a full 50 of the initial units

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apparently suffered from bad power supplies causing a rush of customer

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service complaints and returns

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um let me just make sure this is the tear

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down one hold on making matters worse even if the quality

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was perfect the product faced significant criticism for being a pretty

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underwhelming computer even for the low price holy sh

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patriot computers was based in canada sorry all the disappointed children uh

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on behalf of my fellow canadians then

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wait what okay

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got our cd-rom drive floppy as well as a

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hard drive in there i believe this unit here was a celeron 333 model with a six

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gig hard drive i want to say 6.4

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the other one's got a 10 gig oh wait no i think i get it it's all one big piece

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here i think i actually do have to take out this stupid screw on the bottom

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this is the for parts one

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okay wow it literally does not have a single

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expansion slot i mean look at this rear i o shield

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two usb 2s modem

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speaker mic monitor out oh serial and

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two more usbs that's it pop the id and

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floppy cables off and let's see if we can oh yeah there we go

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slide the drives out get a bit of a better look at that

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supremely unimpressive motherboard

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what the motherboard tray just like pops up like that wow

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well that mile that would make assembly like pretty easy actually good idea

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patriot computers too bad you never live to see it through i wonder if they

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actually did like a custom board for this thing oh never mind this is from

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back when Intel made their own motherboards see there's actual Intel branding right

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there on the board definitely nothing stand out about this machine other than

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the failure rate apparently so many of these died during the product life cycle

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that the manufacturer patriot computers was ultimately driven to bankruptcy

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don't feel too bad for them though they went down real ncix-like actually

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accepting orders and people's money up

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until the very end leaving thousands of people with computers that they ordered

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and were not going to receive mattel ended up having to issue 100 free toys

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and gift certificates to angry parents who thought they were going to be

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getting a hot wheels pc or barbie pc for their kids for christmas but found out

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last second that they were going to end up with nothing

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but did their kids really miss out there's only one way to find out in

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addition to this for parts unit i've actually got what this particular

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collector refers to as a museum grade

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hot wheels pc that is fully functional

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and for funsies i'm going to tell my kids that i replaced their computer

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with this and see what they think of it

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it looks good do you want to try it okay

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i'll press it harder yeah there you go this button is to open

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up the cd drive oh well we got to turn on the monitor

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too can you press power button on the monitor you gotta give it a

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little pushy push there hey there we go

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i missed that sound so it's got some games already loaded on it when you just

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move this a little bit it goes so far um

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yeah so this is a new technology um it's actually a ball mouse it's for

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ballers do you know what a baller is no okay baller's someone who's just you

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know they ball too hard right um

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so it's got like a ball in there so the ball moves a little roller inside the

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mouse and that's what moves the cursor around pretty much what i'm trying to say is there's no way to adjust that who

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put napster on this uh why don't we try why don't we try a game that it comes

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with so hot wheels actually

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shipped the pc with a cd wallet and

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a collection of software official collector's guide

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rally challenge tattoo designer

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uh brian the electrician threw a few things in here for me as well need for speed two why don't we try lost vikings

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too hmm can i try something new old tab

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i actually do not know this app cannot be run in a window uh okay

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hey there we go

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what do you think does this seem better than the yellow computer

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we're looking for the big shiny metal thingy that brought us here well

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i know a spell that could send you there of course you don't buy a hot wheels pc

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to play lost vikings you buy hot wheels pc

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to play racing games please tell me there's a driver cd in here all right

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why don't you fire up the stunt track driver okay you want to do the goldfish bowl race

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the room race sand castle race i don't know

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we'll pick one fine maybe slightly more cooperative

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okay this one thanks okay do you know which one is gas this

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one yep okay here we go

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wait is does this game even use the wheel oh okay wow you sure wipe out a

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lot kid i don't know but you gotta steer a little bit

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are you like you're supposed to use like what are you even supposed to well hold

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on but does this control it it totally does you have to like crank

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it though what the oh you're going backwards that's a trick

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what's wrong with this computer compared to the old one i see lots of lines

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scan lines well steering wheel doesn't work much you know some people pay good

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money to have scan lines on their uh on their computer it doesn't work

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okay let's try something else let's try need for speed all right you know what

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forget the wheel it's hard why don't you just use the uh

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keyboard what do you think this game got pretty good graphics

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yeah are you sure

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kind of i like the old computer better what do

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you think is this a pretty cool computer yeah

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okay i'm gonna uh quit this one is there a minecraft on it minecraft you say

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uh nope it does have other games though do you

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want to try some different games

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there's magic school bus solar system

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okay so you just click on stuff maybe try clicking on liz uh you gotta

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click on them why i want to cool facts about uranus

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cool facts about uranus sure uranus let's go with that

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uh something to click there 32 000 miles across 84 years it's been

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84 years for one year at least 15 moons

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oh yeah there's that cd-rom spinning up gotta load that content you think pretty

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good graphics as good as minecraft

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yeah you know i think my kids uh

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unironically probably wouldn't care if i swapped out their existing computer with

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this one i'll be right back go ahead and cut for a sec uh hold on i'll be right back can i cut

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okay is there a video here andy yeah i think

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so okay

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ow okay well the whole kids react to part

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didn't go exactly how i expected i sort of thought they'd be like oh my

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monitor's so big oh why is it so loud oh why do the graphics suck they just

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don't care at all i guess content's still king right so

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