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Yeah, it's hard to speak loudly in a busy thrift store... that's why I made the beginning part to explain what I found in detail. If I ever figure out how to replace the audio track, I might be able to create a vocal track for these kinds of videos, but it's hard to justify the time when I get paid $0.00 to make and upload a video like this :)

@@CadeEdwards2013 Ive got the same issue as you man. Got a video in the pipeline that needs a vocal track but I cant find the right software to allow me to put it on the footage. Hopefully Sooner rather then later, you'll be earning from all these neat videos you make.

@Theutmostgeek Thanks! It's really just for fun... It also helps me to learn about how to shoot videos and a little about editing them. Mostly, I just enjoy finding stuff and this gives me a platform to share my finds with an audience. I appreciate the encouragement and I hope you can figure out the secret to adding audio to videos so you can get your videos up.

Yeah, I was happy to find one in good condition - this one is exceptional for sure. These laptops usually show up pretty thrashed when I find them, but every once in a while I find a winner. I love fooling around with these old notebooks and you can do quite a lot with them actually.

It rewards copying the same things over and over... but each copy is inferior to its predecessors. Kind of like making photocopies of photocopies of photocopies... not the direction I like to see this platform moving toward. Just my personal thoughts and I'm fine if someone finds it useful - not judging, just speaking my mind :)

@ you’re right, that is good to understand systems and the economy

I totally agree... it seems to be an end of an era type machine - just before optical drives disappeared and batteries became built into notebooks. I was very happy to find this one since I don't usually come across these types of laptops at my local thrift stores these days. Hope your enjoying your ASUS ROG laptop - it looks kind of fun to experiment with, but I hate the sticky rubberized coating on those kinds of things. I've had success using a bottle of isopropyl alcohol and scrubbing the crap off of some mice and other items, but its a pain and a lot of work.

Yeah, if the hinges get too loose I'll mess around with them, but it's a common trait of Dell laptops that I've come to accept. I was pretty happy to find one of these in good shape for a change. Found a few that were just too beaten up to bring home, but that's the fun of looking at my local thrift stores - never know what they will have.

@@CadeEdwards2013 it was quite the find one that nice

@@JohnSmith-xq1pz This was another one that I found that I passed up: ua-cam.com/video/JA4-HaP9FvQ/v-deo.html

Yeah, I've used Q4OS and quite liked it before - very good for low spec machines or VMs. I have three Linux machines and a bunch of Linux VMs I use when I want to run a Linux project and quite like them all. For a machine like this, the original Windows OS is much more interesting for my hobby stuff. You see, I run older programs I find on the Internet Archive or use accessories I find thrift shopping that only run on old Windows systems. Linux is great for some stuff, but an old Windows OS like this is better for my hobby projects.

Yes, the AMD Radeon R5 M335 is a discrete GPU that supports automatic graphics switching between the integrated GPU and discrete GPU. It's a pretty good laptop solution for less demanding graphics needs. I'm not a gamer so I can't verify what it runs, it's just what I've read online.

Nope, it runs great as is and I like having the original MediaDirect stuff on it that requires Windows. This is a hobby system that I use to run XP software on so Linux doesn't make sense for me. Got a number of other Linux systems for any Linux needs I have - it's about what projects I want to work on and having a variety of OSes to work with.

I don't do much gaming so I'm not sure about the temps for that... Hope your having fun with your new camera equipment and a good holiday!

5:49 Supermium a fork of Chromium - you can get it from GitHub.

So true... and it's so random!

Kind of a Windows Media Centre idea, but designed to save some power and allow you to play DVDs and music from CDs without actually booting to Windows.

Thanks! Great to hear you use it as your daily driver - that's pretty cool.

I'm sure if I was going to use this laptop in the real world Linux would be a very good option. I use this laptop strictly for hobby purposes so that means that older Windows apps, games, and hardware compatibility is paramount for my purposes. I see a lot of people using Arch with this kind of machine and it seems to be very compatible with the hardware.

Yeah, I kind of like to keep them original since I have lots of newer PCs that run the latest OSes. Also, no pain with constant ever changing updates to break things.

Thanks for watching!

Yeah, I was pretty surprised to find it in such good condition.

Nope, keyboard is fine and it's pretty much in perfect condition so I really didn't have to do anything other than a OS and driver reinstall. The challenge with thrift shopping is that you never know what you'll find so you need to check frequently and then it's just random luck. This was the best ThinkPad I've come across yet, but that's also the charm of it - you never know what might show up.

Yes, that would be a way to go about it and likely much easier than what I did, but I like to understand what's being installed on my systems so I took the long way around. I posted the drivers to my archive.org page for anyone interested in them here: archive.org/details/thinkpad-r60e-laptop

Me too... I usually I tend toward laptops and keyboards these days, but there are always lots of very cool things to check out at the local thrift stores.

I personally never have much of a problem with a CPU like this one. The graphics are usually the weakest link for this kind a system, so I can't recommend a CPU swap. If he just uses it for web surfing and productivity type things it should be fine. The SSD will give it a big boost if you are using Windows 10 as well. The other risk you might face when doing a CPU swap is the trouble of actually replacing it - there can be a lot of sticking point with this kind of upgrade. That's my two cents of advice for what it's worth - whatever way you go I hope it's a success. 👍

Laptops and PCs are my thing so I was out of luck. I also look for interesting mechanical keyboards or other computer accessories as well, but there wasn't anything on that visit. That's why I thought I'd make the video since there was still lots of very cool stuff that other electronics enthusiasts might find interesting to highlight.

Yeah, it's very good build quality and heavy... looks like it would have been a great system for the right space.

Great to here that others find these things as useful as I do. If you are only doing basic stuff on them they are perfect.

Thanks! I love how random it is... sometimes there is nothing at the thrift store and the next time I find something for next to nothing that's amazing! Half the fun is the process of exploring all the stuff they have. Happy thrift shopping!

@CadeEdwards2013 Couldn't have put it better myself lol. Always exciting going to thrift stores.

It's important to stay clean my friend :)

It was undoubtedly a groundbreaking magazine of its era. As a Star Trek fan, you couldn't resist being drawn to that cover.

Yeah, it's a very cool find. In Canada at my Value Village they usually go for $15 to $25 depending on condition and specs. Most are in pretty good condition (before people steal the RAM and parts out of them) and I've collected quite a few. Unfortunately they take up a lot of space so I've been restricting my purchases to laptops these days. Happy thrifting :)

I would love to have a collection like that, but alas, I have no room, so I have to be content with what I can find on the Net. They are certainly great nostalgic artifacts of a bygone era.

Still have the run from #1-#37. I brought #1 at local sci-fi convo. Also have the Spaceships photobook. Wasn't much of a book and paltry for the price at that time.

@@coolal19 I'd love to have the complete paper collection, but space... what can you do. Enjoy them while they last!

Can't beat the classics for writing and general productivity stuff. I was surprised how well it performed considering its age.

Yoooooo Hoooooo!

Now I know why I could never find this book at the library... I had to wait for Doug, Tim, Ed, and others to return it - LOL.

Libraries... I remember those things... the Internet kind of kill them. RIP 💀

Yeah, these things I find on the Internet Archive are true nostalgic gems!

Nostalgia 💯

Yeah, but then it would be a job... it's a lot more fun to randomly discover cool things when I stop by. 😁

Yeah, love all the cool stuff you can fine thrift shopping - the tough part is testing it out, but it's hard to beat the prices. 💵💲😃

@ my Florida thrift stores should have them and GPS navigation like tomtom garmin

@@justinlyonsPawPatrol No end of TomTom Garmin devices at my thrift stores... also any kind of stereo with a early gen iPhone connector. Often they have a line-in and are actually good audio devices, but that can be a challenge these days with most phones only using Bluetooth.

It's not a bad old keyboard and mouse combo. I always appreciate finding less common peripherals when I go thrift shopping and these were a great find.

@@CadeEdwards2013 and now it’s 150$ 😱

@@flamestrxck That's crazy expensive! I get my mice for about $5-$10 and my keyboards for about $10-$20 at my local thrift store in Canadian dollars.

@@CadeEdwards2013 yah?!?🥶

@@flamestrxck If you have a thrift store around your area, check it out... you never know what you might find.

Try searching UA-cam with something like "music for sleep and relaxation" and there is a ton of this stuff. I have it playing all the time while I work and I find it quite pleasant in an office environment.

I keep all the laptops in my videos (I'm not a reseller) and I do have better PCs for my real working life. I find these fun to use on hobby projects.

It was a great show and yeah, why the hell not!

Oh yes, and there is no problems at all. I don't do my banking or anything like that with it so it's all good :)

One of the greatest of the 90s duets 🎶

Hey EA, good to hear from you again. Yes, I totally agree - an SSD is key for real world usage of a Windows 10 PC these days. If that's what I was going to do with this one I'd definitely invest in an SSD. As a hobby system it's fine using a HDD since it doesn't make much difference for the kinds of things I use it for (running old software and connecting old hardware to it). Sounds like you've got a nice laptop there, did you get it thrift shopping?

@CadeEdwards2013 think I got my from Facebook it was a holiday laptop but my hp one broke so I got the acer out and use him now.

For sure! I just bought an Acer Aspire V3-572PG-5153 laptop on Friday - works perfectly after I did a factory restore to it.

Coquitlam, B.C., Canada

Nope, just a collector of crap - LOL...

Yup, lots of cool stuff to find thrift shopping...

Love solar power stuff.

Thanks for the interest. It was just something I decided to try to record, but it's awkward with so many people around. The place is called Value Village and there are a few in my area.