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I am literally tempted to by this and sue them for all of the misleading and lying. This is what wikipedia says a computer is: "A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming." And I believe it is failing even that description.
Imagine coming home from school and finding this already installed on your rig as a super pc upgrade birthday gift your parents bought instead of that overpriced RTX 3080 you wished for
The last thing you want for your parents to get is a graphics card, guaranteed they would get the wrong one or see a much cheaper one thinking its just as good
Downloading RAM is not necessarily a SCAM. Perhaps they are talking about RAM compression. Some software in the 90s did this. Perhaps, they are talking about a memory manager that removes pages of RAM and pushes it to the HDD. This one is not a good idea and you should let the OS handle that. It is much cheaper to just buy RAM. I think 16 GB DDR4 kit is just 100$ now.
One of their commercials show a guy holding an optical drive and insisting it is the hard drive and PC has had hard drive removed. False advertising and lies should earn somebody cell time.
Also consider that Linux isn't exactly friendly to tech illiterates. Sure, there's GUI centric distros, but then you'd still need to use bash terminal on daily basis, something that tech illiterates would have hard time getting used to.
Selling linux distros is not exactly illegal, but at least these paid ones are specifically tailored towards an type of use like servers or telephone management and offer complete assistance to the user instead of selling ubuntu with the wallpaper changed.
@@MakotoIchinose Nowadays, for the most basic usage there is no need to use command lines at all. The issue is that nowadays this very basic usage like browsing the internet and consuming media is not needed if smartphones are more than enough for this task. And paid distros for corporate use still exists, like Red Hat.
@@MakotoIchinose You're correct, but I do think that Zorin OS is an exception to this rule. It is quite user friendly, which is why I decided to install Zorin OS on my elderly parents' computer to replace Windows 10. I use it myself on both of my laptops. Based on my experience with this distro, I'd say that you can simply rely on the GUI to install software and never have to use the command line. To install a package, all you need to do is double click and it installs, just like in Windows. Even Ubuntu and Linux Mint aren't this easy to use.
For the price of the Xtra PC you can get a Raspberry Pi Zero W, with an SD card, keyboard, mouse, HDMI cable and power supply and actually get a computer.
For $25 you can make a better purchase of a hard drive and have better hardware overall without needing to overcome a fuckton of hurdles just to figure out how the hell those underpowered shits work.
@@amystery5238 Of course reporting ads doesn't do anything, as Google get paid to put those ads there. The scammers' ads aren't the product, our attention is the product
@@markio1105 I agree. Chromebooks are a great replacement. Netbooks were a bit ahead of their time. We have decent hardware at a low price today, with decent screens. What netbooks should have been in the first place.
@@markio1105 i used a netbook daily before and its was totally fine it could do 1080p it could play Gta Sa and wasent slow until pages and shit become heavier as balls in 2013~2014 and youtube decided to use crappy codecs
I don’t have a problem with them putting their “distro” of Linux on a flash drive and selling it. You go to a restaurant because you don’t want to cook the food yourself. I do have a problem with their blatant false advertising and intentionally wording their ads to sound like they’re going to give something their not.
"Perhaps you've seen some ads recently about a PC in a USB stick" Perhaps I have. Perhaps there's an ad for it on the side of my screen as I write this.
So many red flags! Beyond open source licences, and dodgy privacy.. Its purely aimed at people with little to no tech knowledge, and leveraging that for £££. Nevermind linux is hardly entry user friendly... Thanks for the content brother!
You don't install this ExtraPC thing. It runs from the USB stick. If it doesn't work, you would either have to go into the BIOS and select the USB the first booteable device or at least, before the HDD. That's something that the average joe would not know how to do.
I've got a lot of respect for you Jay and I think it's great you're giving some honest opinions about the difference between bootable flash media and an actual PC. Those testimonials are cringey though. lol Keep doing what you're doing man and I'm really loving the channel.
The idea is that your PC that is running Windows is slow, possibly because the antivirus is doing scans once in a while and it is a memory hog. Perhaps you have some memory resident crap. Linuxes tend to be lighter on RAM and don't have an anti-virus. Personally, I run Kubuntu.
my friend's church was giving these out for the teenage program thing, his parents legit tried to install it on his pc while he was at school, he was more pissed about his minecraft worlds then the fact the church could of modded the distro and spy on him.
My favourite part of the commercials is when they claim a hard drive isn't needed, verifying it by showing the hard drive is in their hand. Yet the device in his hand is a laptop Cd-rom.
This video made me thing about how I can create my own persistant live operating system on a pendrive, which is basically all that these products are, so I ended up creating one with Arch. Indeed, the Arch wiki has a page about 'Installing Arch on a removable drive.' Basically you can plug this into your PC, ajust a few settings in the BIOS, and have a full OS on a stick. I dont know how useful these can be, but I guess you can carry it with you and, like, continue working on another PC at a cyber cafe or at a friend's house.
My first OS I worked on professionally was BSD. I was in charge of coding for an ISP. Some of the slight shift from Unix to Linux was a bit jarring. It was not extreme, but just off enough to frustrate.
i feel like this is the kind of advertising that whether they get away with no issues or have a massive fine depends on what judge and jury happen to be in on that day
Easy tips 1. Defrag the hdd 2. Check startup programs 3. Kill not needed programs in task manager. 4. Dust the hell out of the vents/fan/sinks with brush or air 5. Update OS(But don't if the newer OS takes toll on components) 6. Check minimum system req when installing programs 7. Run a virus check. Uninstall your antivirus if you don't know anything and it's expired. use the windows defender that is already in pc 8. Judge whether these simple maintenance make it faster. For laptop, buy a new one if you still think it's slow. For PC, a new ram, ssd, or processor is what u need and gpu for graphic work don't bother if u use excel word and ppt
Yeah, that's very clearly a Cruzer Blade, I have a couple of them. And they're even using the lower capacity ones, they go up to 128 AFAIK which would make more sense for this job. The idea of a portable preinstalled stick makes sense, and I'm not against someone selling pre-made ones... as long as they're advertised properly. The proper uses for one of these is to be able to bring around your OS, programs and files to work "on the fly" without having to carry around a laptop where you know computers are available, or for quick troubleshooting (allows the OS and HDD to be bypassed in case of dead, corrupted or malware infected HDD). But it makes no sense for the things it is advertised for.
Linux has a long history of people profiting off of reselling distros, but typically not at THAT exorbitant of a price. $10 quick Ubuntu stick to make a few extra bucks is one thing, $25 "PC on a stick" is a disgusting misuse of that privelege, and absolute false advertising.
And how do you know the makers of Xtra PC didn't stick malware into their Linux distribution to siphon data off of the old computers' old drives and phone it back home to them?
The most disgusting part about this advertising is claiming that it’s a PC, not a flash drive. They advertise it like you’re buying a PC, but you need to already have a PC for these to even be useful.
I work in a place highly classified, so we have 2 entire networks, one is connected to the internet the other not, including seperate computers and printers for each. And Extra PC is calling that crap secure? If you would sugfest this in our Cyber security departmet, you'll be sent home immediatly
Usually my HDDs load videos faster (at least when the HDD is not sleeping or very fragmented) than USB 2.0, which these PCs will most likely have, since older Laptops from like 2010-13 mostly don't have USB 3.0 ports.
My favourite stupid moment in their ads is when the guy says " I can make this pc run and it doesn't even have a hard drive, here's the hard drive.". Then the fool in the add waves a laptop optical drive in there air. Crazy.
I have a ton of Thumb drives. I should sell them with Linux Mint on marketplace for $15. Under cut the competition and still make near 100% profit. Thanks for the tip!
I just want to know who is going to fall for this. If a church needs multiple computers to run, it’s likely one that has a congregation large enough to require an A/V setup, does livestreams of the services, or both. And the people who volunteer for those positions typically know enough about how computers work to know this is a scam. Any congregation too small to have at least one person who is knowledgeable about computers is likely also too small to see this product as a solution anyway
That guy opening a QuickTime video in Vista though! I thought I fell asleep and woke up in the past again! Look I know this is supposed to be making old computers look young again, but how far back are we planning on going? Even the poorest church in the most remote jungle in the world can get Win 7 Dell and HP laptops for sub $100 And I don't even want to get into that whole "We're not selling Linux, we're selling you a massively overpriced USB drive and giving you Linux for free" grey area!
You know I actually thought for a moment that this was a "pc-on-a-stick" that ran on its own and used some kind of VNC to use your local keyboard, mouse, and display...but no.
9:45 "Are you sick of paying thousands of dollars on new computers only to have them become obsolete? Then go and buy obsolete computers and use this thing!" Wow... the pot calling the kettle black.
i love how they say "like new" . its the same statistic slimey talk as saying "up to x2 performance" because if it isnt achieved, they can say "oh, we told you LIKE new, not NEW"
9:15 you dont even need to remove the usb drive to access the hard drive contents and access personal data if the storage is working. At least in Windows if it is password protected it is pretty annoying to go past the login screen, where as on a bootable usb drive the files are open for everyone to see unless the hard drive was encrypted. And selling linux distros is not exactly illegal either, it depends on the license of the software. Many ones tailored to companies are actually paid, but they are not just Ubuntu with the wallpaper changed...
You mention about bank account details, but the even bigger problem with schools accepting donated computers is that there could be adult content on them that the staff may not be aware of how to delete, if they’re only trained to use the Xtra PC flash drives.
I used to make sticks like this with portable apps on a partition that windows could run and a live Linux installer image on another. I could install Linux, run from USB, fix the boot sector, extract a product key to reinstall windows, image the drive to an external drive. See data on windows without the login password etc... It was useful back when windows wasn't too reliable and 5 year old computers weren't fast enough to run the latest operating systems. Now I don't have to do so much maintenance for my neighbors.
as someone who only uses Linux 99% of the time now... ads like this drive me NUTS ... people see this crap ... get scammed ... and think "all of that Linux thing...whatever linux is" is a scam too
There's two problems with this product that immediately come to mind. 1. Ubuntu isn't even that lightweight. In fact, it's one of the heavier distros of Linux. 2. Running it off a USB stick may not even reap you any benefits as you'll be bottlenecked by the USB speed. At the point of resorting to using Linux to make your computer faster, it'd be best to use a lightweight distro of Ubuntu such as Lubuntu or Xubuntu installed directly onto the computer itself.
In the German version of that advertisment (I mentioned it in another comment), they took the *CD/DVD-Drive* out of the laptop and said ~"look, it even works without the drive['Laufwerk']." ....
That Hp is no glacier, my moms laptop rocked for 12 years before it began to turn into a rock. Turns out the hard-drive hadn't been defragged in a decade and I reinstalled Windows 7 and it went back to being a mid 2000s speed demon.
What also really sucks about these advertisements is they kept saying "old, free, donated PCs". Misleading people to believe the OS on the USB drive will operate on any old computer, but that's not true if the OS is x86 only, then it won't run on older i686 platforms.
I’m going to say that I always will wipe a storage device if it had someone else’s data on it, here’s what I do 1. Boot computer with disk off Linux Live USB drive. 2. Open Terminal and use “shred” command on computer HDD/SSD. 3. Format and wipe 20 times, set to most securely. 4. Check if data is still accessible through recovery tools. 5. If data still accessible, repeat until inaccessible.
For $35, you get : - around $6 USB drive - Maybe $4 (or less) for boxes and packaging - $25 service fee (wallpaper design, sticker design, packaging design, finding suitable Linux distribution, copying Linux to flash drive, their energy to sell this product)
>Resurrect those old, dead computers and give them new life. Oh yeah, Lubuntu. I've seen on a forum that it even ran on a Pentium III computer or something. Oh wait...
I have recycled laptops with either no hard drive, or with a defective buss si the hard drive won't work, and I used a bootable USB drive to do it. The rest of the ad is bogus, no, it's insulting and reprehensible... But, yes, the drive in the ad will take a PC without a functioning hard drive and turn it into a working Linux computer. And, yes, I cab do it on a cheapo 5-Below drive...
Modern variations of Ubuntu are fine for a lot of end users. They can connect to their wireless network, browse the web, check emails and even do basic word processing, spreadsheets etc perfectly well without touching the CLI. However, there's a bigger problem - a lot of computers aren't set up to boot from USB by default, and if you don't understand tech well enough that you'll fall for this ad, you don't know how to change that setting.
yeah but that flash memory is essentially useless when your average read/write speeds for a USB 2.0 is about 37/53mbps. If you also factor in the price for Xtra-PC it's about 25$ + shipping for only 16gb's of storage, and if you want more you'd be paying 50$+ for 32gb's of storage still on USB 2.0. Instead of buying scammy garbage with that 50$+ you could buy a Samsung 860 EVO 500gb sata III ssd and get read/write speeds of up to 550mbps(you probably won't reach this though but that depends on what type of files you transfer). Just load that SSD up with Ubuntu and you essentially have their product but 100000× better because you'll have a decent amount of storage plus the faster speeds of using sata.
@@enderger5308 and to that I'd agree with you, flash memory is always going to be faster than your average hdd, so speed is a valid selling point. The fact that it uses flash memory alone isn't a good enough reason to buy this piece of junk but I'm sure everyone knows that. But yes your devils advocate does make sense and is totally valid, I just like to talk about technology and kind of take any chance I get.
@@mariocats6394 "your average read/write speeds for a USB 2.0 is about 37/53mbps" ==That's pretty slow. I have SATA HDD that can do 50 to 130 MB/s and your USB device can do 3.7 to 5.3 MB/s (I divided by 10).
@@louistournas120 what are you commenting on here? I'm sorry I'm just confused on why a SATA HDD having transfer speeds of 50-130 has to do with my transfer speeds.
good video but 14:20 has a slight inaccuracy. Most bootable USB solutions will run the OS off of a ramdisk anyway, so its not like they're starting VLC from a flash drive, its literally already loaded.
The last video you mentioned, if you look up the youtube channel "Tech Hacks Today", you'll find a channel with a video showing stuff like some "photostick" product featuring the same man (and Dell XPS laptop) as in the first video shown. I thought it would be easier to pay off an existing channel to show off products to people, but I guess it's easier to make your own with the same actors
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For those wondering if you have seen this before and why I didn’t directly plug it into the system I have already made a video reviewing the product. This video focuses on the ads and reviewing those. Check out my review here: ua-cam.com/video/0ZWZ4R48S6w/v-deo.html
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Jay you should cover this one! There's this shameless ripoff of Linux Lite called Windows 12 Lite and it's terrible.
My dude actually has a Minecraft server, not that there's something wrong with it
@@TheKingOfNachosTM there was some dadbot spamming in general on discord a few days ago and it was hilarious
im asensual. i am a god.
I am literally tempted to by this and sue them for all of the misleading and lying.
This is what wikipedia says a computer is:
"A computer is a machine that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming."
And I believe it is failing even that description.
this is like the usb stick that supposedly “blocks 5g radiation”
Saw one of those ads on reddit of all places...
They really do not understand their demographics
Oh shit I need to get one of those. Please sent me a link to those ads. Email me at jaystechvault@gmail.com
@@JaysTechVault I’ll try and find it again
@@JaysTechVault watch mrwhostheboss's video on it
@@JaysTechVault EEVblog took a look at the ads of one of these 5G blocking sticks
Imagine coming home from school and finding this already installed on your rig as a super pc upgrade birthday gift your parents bought instead of that overpriced RTX 3080 you wished for
To be fair to nvidia the 3080 is actually a really good deal if you have the extra hundred bucks compared to the 3070
It was the only thing that was in stock, give them a pass.
Why are you asking your obviously cheap parents for a $1000 graphics card?
@@kenbee1957 (its actually $500-$700 but scalpers on ebay steal the stock for themselves and mark it up a ton for profit)
The last thing you want for your parents to get is a graphics card, guaranteed they would get the wrong one or see a much cheaper one thinking its just as good
This guy: gEt ExTrA pC!!
Also that guy: **is running windows on the computers in the background**
L0L
@Agustinus Reynaldi I like win 7
Sure, the 60 year old's that run the church know how to go into boot options.
Most likely, they would get scared seeing the blue and white boot option menu and throw the computer across the room.
They would seize
@@DistrosProjects Linux’s steep learning curve makes no sense for where they are trying to market their “PC”.
Or use Linux CLI =))))
I’m not even sure they know how to restart.
2:07 "all you need is 25 dollars and you have a pc"
Well, not for this product, but for $35 u can buy a raspberry pi
Yeah, You do need accessories though, but still. Pretty good, just they don't have enough advertising.
You'd probably be better buying raspberry pi lol
Yea no shit. $5-10 for Pi Zero’s and they have a full GUI. Little slower but still runs. I have 15 Pi Zero’s, and a few Pi 4’s.
Yesssir
@@msinfo32 Raspberry pi 400 kit. $100 and all you need is a monitor.
Pc in a USB is just downloading free ram scam but for money
Except it’s not a virus
@@Adamlol642 We don't know what they put on the usb. If they can change the boot screen they can definitely put some spyware on there.
Speaking of, my computer is low on ram, and my usual ram downloading site has shut down for some reason, can you link me another one?
@@emeraldfinder5 YOU CAPITALIST MAY SUFFER
Downloading RAM is not necessarily a SCAM. Perhaps they are talking about RAM compression. Some software in the 90s did this. Perhaps, they are talking about a memory manager that removes pages of RAM and pushes it to the HDD. This one is not a good idea and you should let the OS handle that.
It is much cheaper to just buy RAM. I think 16 GB DDR4 kit is just 100$ now.
"A computer doesn't cost just $25 dollars!"
Budget Builds Official: Yeah I know I got this one here for a dime
Actually a quarter.
@@DistractedFace actually both
One of their commercials show a guy holding an optical drive and insisting it is the hard drive and PC has had hard drive removed. False advertising and lies should earn somebody cell time.
Yeah I know right?! I just commented about this too
So what, they shouldnt get frieza or androids or Buu time? 😂😂😂😂
I also got that ad for some time. I haven't stopped facepalming since.
@@Grisu1805 The worst part is they have admitted this and kept flat out lying to consumers. This is fraud and false advertising.
did these guy's advise the verge on pc building?
It’s horrible that they are selling Modified distros of Linux, a free operating system, and selling it to the tech illiterate
Also consider that Linux isn't exactly friendly to tech illiterates.
Sure, there's GUI centric distros, but then you'd still need to use bash terminal on daily basis, something that tech illiterates would have hard time getting used to.
Also remember when Mandriva Linux and Caldera Linux were used to sold towards enterprises back in the day?
Selling linux distros is not exactly illegal, but at least these paid ones are specifically tailored towards an type of use like servers or telephone management and offer complete assistance to the user instead of selling ubuntu with the wallpaper changed.
@@MakotoIchinose Nowadays, for the most basic usage there is no need to use command lines at all. The issue is that nowadays this very basic usage like browsing the internet and consuming media is not needed if smartphones are more than enough for this task.
And paid distros for corporate use still exists, like Red Hat.
@@MakotoIchinose You're correct, but I do think that Zorin OS is an exception to this rule. It is quite user friendly, which is why I decided to install Zorin OS on my elderly parents' computer to replace Windows 10. I use it myself on both of my laptops. Based on my experience with this distro, I'd say that you can simply rely on the GUI to install software and never have to use the command line.
To install a package, all you need to do is double click and it installs, just like in Windows. Even Ubuntu and Linux Mint aren't this easy to use.
For the price of the Xtra PC you can get a Raspberry Pi Zero W, with an SD card, keyboard, mouse, HDMI cable and power supply and actually get a computer.
Ikr. It’s such a rip-off
For $25 you can make a better purchase of a hard drive and have better hardware overall without needing to overcome a fuckton of hurdles just to figure out how the hell those underpowered shits work.
@@amystery5238 Of course reporting ads doesn't do anything, as Google get paid to put those ads there. The scammers' ads aren't the product, our attention is the product
Well, the pi zero would be painful to use as a daily driver.
It would do the job but how is it when you play video ?
If "your school doesn't have enough computer", then this product doesn't work either....
In the school I worked in, there wouldn't be any of these flash drives left after one lesson!
mom: go play with the neighbors kid
the neighbors OS:
why
sacrificing his computer so we don’t have to
But not the hero we deserve...
But he isn't sacrificing it in any way, there is no risk.
Are we talking about Jesus or his laptop ?
@@overlyobsolete2797 of course there is no risk it's all based on CISC 😂
@@overlyobsolete2797 He risked his money to get one.
We are reaching netbook levels...
What? What's wrong with netbooks?
I mean as long as you didn't pay much they are cool.
@@freedustin Windows 7 Starter, incredibly slow hardware, tiny screens...
@@markio1105 I agree. Chromebooks are a great replacement. Netbooks were a bit ahead of their time. We have decent hardware at a low price today, with decent screens. What netbooks should have been in the first place.
@@ubuntuforever I mean, most people could get by all of their daily tech needs with their phone or a tablet for cheap...
@@markio1105 i used a netbook daily before and its was totally fine it could do 1080p it could play Gta Sa and wasent slow until pages and shit become heavier as balls in 2013~2014 and youtube decided to use crappy codecs
I don’t have a problem with them putting their “distro” of Linux on a flash drive and selling it. You go to a restaurant because you don’t want to cook the food yourself. I do have a problem with their blatant false advertising and intentionally wording their ads to sound like they’re going to give something their not.
Exactly. They should at least be truthful instead of falsely advertising a product.
"Perhaps you've seen some ads recently about a PC in a USB stick"
Perhaps I have. Perhaps there's an ad for it on the side of my screen as I write this.
Oof
use an ad blocker
@@t0x1cl i'm on an ipad
@@dominic0305 rip
@@dominic0305 Pihole
So many red flags! Beyond open source licences, and dodgy privacy.. Its purely aimed at people with little to no tech knowledge, and leveraging that for £££. Nevermind linux is hardly entry user friendly... Thanks for the content brother!
I at first thought these would be “Windows To Go” USB Flash drives by the thumbnail and when you said “law suits”. Lol
went out to the folks house for thanksgiving and my dad bought one of these scam sticks. he paid 40 bucks with shipping.
Bruh
"What the actual heck?"
BANNED FROM THE CHRISTIAN MINECRAFT SERVER
Why would I also need to buy a tumbstick for each computer just buy one and use it over and over lol...
You didn’t do the really really misleading video where they pull out a disk drive and say it’s running without the hard drive when it’s a disk drive
lmao
This just seems like restarting your computer but with extra steps
You don't install this ExtraPC thing. It runs from the USB stick. If it doesn't work, you would either have to go into the BIOS and select the USB the first booteable device or at least, before the HDD. That's something that the average joe would not know how to do.
I like your funny words magic man
@@TNTSoldier Hé hé
10:19 Is it just me or does the guy's eybrows look like the xtra-pc logo curve, xD
BRUH FR
2:15 Technically there ARE usb pc-s but those are definitely not made by them.
yes there is pc sticks made to be pluged into a monitor
Those are HDMI though
Yeah, he ended up mentioning that later in the video
"The product is great!" - Jeff
"It's excellent!" - Jeff
"Easy to setup." - Jeff
3 brothers, like the 5 Georges that George Foreman has, the Foreman grill, the boxer?
We reached stupidity at it's finest. Xtra-PC is just a sandisk USB drive, the reason I know this is because I have the same USB drive
YOOO this guy was like "check out all our extrapcs and order yours today" and it zoomed in on his smiling face and then I got a chromebook ad
You ever see the ad on UA-cam with a dude holding a cd drive and calling it his hard drive? That's hands down the worst version of these ads.
"are you sick of buying new pcs and watching them become obsolete?" *laughs in thinkpad*
*Laughs in old Dell Latitude Rugged Extreme*
I've got a lot of respect for you Jay and I think it's great you're giving some honest opinions about the difference between bootable flash media and an actual PC. Those testimonials are cringey though. lol
Keep doing what you're doing man and I'm really loving the channel.
"25$ and you have a PC!"
Exept you still need a PC to plug it into.
The idea is that your PC that is running Windows is slow, possibly because the antivirus is doing scans once in a while and it is a memory hog. Perhaps you have some memory resident crap. Linuxes tend to be lighter on RAM and don't have an anti-virus. Personally, I run Kubuntu.
@@louistournas120 Thank you, Captain Obvious.
@@bushhawk5460
No problem, friend.
my friend's church was giving these out for the teenage program thing, his parents legit tried to install it on his pc while he was at school, he was more pissed about his minecraft worlds then the fact the church could of modded the distro and spy on him.
I to would be pissed if I lost my Minecraft worlds I still have worlds from 2011 on my pc
ik you don't want your church to look at your search history
My favourite part of the commercials is when they claim a hard drive isn't needed, verifying it by showing the hard drive is in their hand. Yet the device in his hand is a laptop Cd-rom.
somone had a good idea once now its wildly out of control. its not a bad concept but really wrongly advertised and expensive for what it is
This video made me thing about how I can create my own persistant live operating system on a pendrive, which is basically all that these products are, so I ended up creating one with Arch. Indeed, the Arch wiki has a page about 'Installing Arch on a removable drive.'
Basically you can plug this into your PC, ajust a few settings in the BIOS, and have a full OS on a stick. I dont know how useful these can be, but I guess you can carry it with you and, like, continue working on another PC at a cyber cafe or at a friend's house.
his laptop having a seizure in the backround laugh out loud 13:23
My first OS I worked on professionally was BSD. I was in charge of coding for an ISP. Some of the slight shift from Unix to Linux was a bit jarring. It was not extreme, but just off enough to frustrate.
3rd guy is just a fiverr actor I’ve seen him doing memes 😅
I would MAYBE believe it if the pc “thing” had HDMI.
Lol I thought this usb stick came with free ram 😂
i feel like this is the kind of advertising that whether they get away with no issues or have a massive fine depends on what judge and jury happen to be in on that day
"paying for a free operating system"
Enterprise Linux distros be like
Today’s lesson:
If you pester Jay about a certain video topic enough he actually will make that video
The ad that cracks me up is a lad saying this is the original hard drive, while holding and showing a cd drive
9:28 Or the kid sees the previous owner's 80TB "Homework Folder".
Easy tips
1. Defrag the hdd
2. Check startup programs
3. Kill not needed programs in task manager.
4. Dust the hell out of the vents/fan/sinks with brush or air
5. Update OS(But don't if the newer OS takes toll on components)
6. Check minimum system req when installing programs
7. Run a virus check. Uninstall your antivirus if you don't know anything and it's expired. use the windows defender that is already in pc
8. Judge whether these simple maintenance make it faster. For laptop, buy a new one if you still think it's slow. For PC, a new ram, ssd, or processor is what u need and gpu for graphic work don't bother if u use excel word and ppt
You can clearly see that, the thing is just a re-branded SanDisk flash drive...
Yeah, that's very clearly a Cruzer Blade, I have a couple of them. And they're even using the lower capacity ones, they go up to 128 AFAIK which would make more sense for this job.
The idea of a portable preinstalled stick makes sense, and I'm not against someone selling pre-made ones... as long as they're advertised properly. The proper uses for one of these is to be able to bring around your OS, programs and files to work "on the fly" without having to carry around a laptop where you know computers are available, or for quick troubleshooting (allows the OS and HDD to be bypassed in case of dead, corrupted or malware infected HDD). But it makes no sense for the things it is advertised for.
Linux has a long history of people profiting off of reselling distros, but typically not at THAT exorbitant of a price. $10 quick Ubuntu stick to make a few extra bucks is one thing, $25 "PC on a stick" is a disgusting misuse of that privelege, and absolute false advertising.
This has low key become one of my favorite channels, I know this is an old video, but if ya see it, keep up the great work.
And how do you know the makers of Xtra PC didn't stick malware into their Linux distribution to siphon data off of the old computers' old drives and phone it back home to them?
request the source code (they are required to provide it if you have Xtra-PC due to the GPL license)
It is very simple to install a persistent linux distro on a usb
The most disgusting part about this advertising is claiming that it’s a PC, not a flash drive. They advertise it like you’re buying a PC, but you need to already have a PC for these to even be useful.
I work in a place highly classified, so we have 2 entire networks, one is connected to the internet the other not, including seperate computers and printers for each. And Extra PC is calling that crap secure? If you would sugfest this in our Cyber security departmet, you'll be sent home immediatly
Usually my HDDs load videos faster (at least when the HDD is not sleeping or very fragmented) than USB 2.0, which these PCs will most likely have, since older Laptops from like 2010-13 mostly don't have USB 3.0 ports.
My favourite stupid moment in their ads is when the guy says " I can make this pc run and it doesn't even have a hard drive, here's the hard drive.". Then the fool in the add waves a laptop optical drive in there air. Crazy.
I have a ton of Thumb drives. I should sell them with Linux Mint on marketplace for $15. Under cut the competition and still make near 100% profit.
Thanks for the tip!
I just want to know who is going to fall for this. If a church needs multiple computers to run, it’s likely one that has a congregation large enough to require an A/V setup, does livestreams of the services, or both. And the people who volunteer for those positions typically know enough about how computers work to know this is a scam. Any congregation too small to have at least one person who is knowledgeable about computers is likely also too small to see this product as a solution anyway
That guy opening a QuickTime video in Vista though!
I thought I fell asleep and woke up in the past again!
Look I know this is supposed to be making old computers look young again, but how far back are we planning on going?
Even the poorest church in the most remote jungle in the world can get Win 7 Dell and HP laptops for sub $100
And I don't even want to get into that whole "We're not selling Linux, we're selling you a massively overpriced USB drive and giving you Linux for free" grey area!
You know I actually thought for a moment that this was a "pc-on-a-stick" that ran on its own and used some kind of VNC to use your local keyboard, mouse, and display...but no.
worst part is its clearly advertised to people that know nothing about computers. so if it works or doesnt, they wont have a clue
9:45 "Are you sick of paying thousands of dollars on new computers only to have them become obsolete? Then go and buy obsolete computers and use this thing!" Wow... the pot calling the kettle black.
They can get sued because linux uses a GPL License!
8:23 I wonder if this guy accepts Minecraft emeralds for an Xtra PC drive
the guy be like
"hmmmm"
@@CamalinoFolly LOL
i love how they say "like new" . its the same statistic slimey talk as saying "up to x2 performance"
because if it isnt achieved, they can say "oh, we told you LIKE new, not NEW"
I knew that was a scam all along i never clicked on their stuff to make em richer, subscribed make more vids about these scams thanks!
9:15 you dont even need to remove the usb drive to access the hard drive contents and access personal data if the storage is working. At least in Windows if it is password protected it is pretty annoying to go past the login screen, where as on a bootable usb drive the files are open for everyone to see unless the hard drive was encrypted.
And selling linux distros is not exactly illegal either, it depends on the license of the software. Many ones tailored to companies are actually paid, but they are not just Ubuntu with the wallpaper changed...
You mention about bank account details, but the even bigger problem with schools accepting donated computers is that there could be adult content on them that the staff may not be aware of how to delete, if they’re only trained to use the Xtra PC flash drives.
5:01 WINDOWS TEN DELL LAPTOP LOL
Imagine pulling out the ol' DOS computer... and not finding a USB port.
"With missing or bad drives", this seems 100% illegal as advertised.
No it’s a pc(Piece of crap)
good one
:)
The only use for a USB i have it to speed up windows. Which you can already do with a normal drive...
To the initiated it's just a bootable flash drive...I was disgusted at the ads when I first saw them.
I used to make sticks like this with portable apps on a partition that windows could run and a live Linux installer image on another. I could install Linux, run from USB, fix the boot sector, extract a product key to reinstall windows, image the drive to an external drive. See data on windows without the login password etc... It was useful back when windows wasn't too reliable and 5 year old computers weren't fast enough to run the latest operating systems. Now I don't have to do so much maintenance for my neighbors.
13:40 that is a HPG60, which runs fine on windows 8.1
as someone who only uses Linux 99% of the time now... ads like this drive me NUTS ... people see this crap ... get scammed ... and think "all of that Linux thing...whatever linux is" is a scam too
This guy just made a PC just with a USB. PC Builders hate him!!!!
There's two problems with this product that immediately come to mind. 1. Ubuntu isn't even that lightweight. In fact, it's one of the heavier distros of Linux. 2. Running it off a USB stick may not even reap you any benefits as you'll be bottlenecked by the USB speed. At the point of resorting to using Linux to make your computer faster, it'd be best to use a lightweight distro of Ubuntu such as Lubuntu or Xubuntu installed directly onto the computer itself.
That screen glitch was what happens when there's a driver issue.
Those that bought this also bought a 5G BioShield
In the German version of that advertisment (I mentioned it in another comment), they took the *CD/DVD-Drive* out of the laptop and said ~"look, it even works without the drive['Laufwerk']." ....
first two people: **advertising xtra-pc**
also those people: **literally using windows in the background**
That Hp is no glacier, my moms laptop rocked for 12 years before it began to turn into a rock. Turns out the hard-drive hadn't been defragged in a decade and I reinstalled Windows 7 and it went back to being a mid 2000s speed demon.
When they want 25 dollars for something that can be made for free (small usbs are probably 7$ I think?)
What also really sucks about these advertisements is they kept saying "old, free, donated PCs". Misleading people to believe the OS on the USB drive will operate on any old computer, but that's not true if the OS is x86 only, then it won't run on older i686 platforms.
Not sure if it was mentioned BUT when they said they're gonna speed the video up, they didn't. The reflection proves that
I’m going to say that I always will wipe a storage device if it had someone else’s data on it, here’s what I do
1. Boot computer with disk off Linux Live USB drive.
2. Open Terminal and use “shred” command on computer HDD/SSD.
3. Format and wipe 20 times, set to most securely.
4. Check if data is still accessible through recovery tools.
5. If data still accessible, repeat until inaccessible.
This is so disgusting. Thank you for bringing it to light again.
Ah yes...
*Expensive trash.*
This is exactly why ads make less likely to buy something.
For $35, you get :
- around $6 USB drive
- Maybe $4 (or less) for boxes and packaging
- $25 service fee (wallpaper design, sticker design, packaging design, finding suitable Linux distribution, copying Linux to flash drive, their energy to sell this product)
>Resurrect those old, dead computers and give them new life.
Oh yeah, Lubuntu. I've seen on a forum that it even ran on a Pentium III computer or something. Oh wait...
I have recycled laptops with either no hard drive, or with a defective buss si the hard drive won't work, and I used a bootable USB drive to do it. The rest of the ad is bogus, no, it's insulting and reprehensible...
But, yes, the drive in the ad will take a PC without a functioning hard drive and turn it into a working Linux computer.
And, yes, I cab do it on a cheapo 5-Below drive...
Modern variations of Ubuntu are fine for a lot of end users. They can connect to their wireless network, browse the web, check emails and even do basic word processing, spreadsheets etc perfectly well without touching the CLI. However, there's a bigger problem - a lot of computers aren't set up to boot from USB by default, and if you don't understand tech well enough that you'll fall for this ad, you don't know how to change that setting.
WTF... I've heard a couple of these background music tracks in scammy Kickstarter videos. Good indicator of literal crap being peddled.
14:41 - Playing Devil’s Advocate here, but the speed from the flash memory is technically a valid selling point.
yeah but that flash memory is essentially useless when your average read/write speeds for a USB 2.0 is about 37/53mbps. If you also factor in the price for Xtra-PC it's about 25$ + shipping for only 16gb's of storage, and if you want more you'd be paying 50$+ for 32gb's of storage still on USB 2.0. Instead of buying scammy garbage with that 50$+ you could buy a Samsung 860 EVO 500gb sata III ssd and get read/write speeds of up to 550mbps(you probably won't reach this though but that depends on what type of files you transfer). Just load that SSD up with Ubuntu and you essentially have their product but 100000× better because you'll have a decent amount of storage plus the faster speeds of using sata.
I’m not saying it’s good, I’m saying that the particular selling point is technically valid.
@@enderger5308 and to that I'd agree with you, flash memory is always going to be faster than your average hdd, so speed is a valid selling point. The fact that it uses flash memory alone isn't a good enough reason to buy this piece of junk but I'm sure everyone knows that. But yes your devils advocate does make sense and is totally valid, I just like to talk about technology and kind of take any chance I get.
@@mariocats6394
"your average read/write speeds for a USB 2.0 is about 37/53mbps"
==That's pretty slow. I have SATA HDD that can do 50 to 130 MB/s and your USB device can do 3.7 to 5.3 MB/s (I divided by 10).
@@louistournas120 what are you commenting on here? I'm sorry I'm just confused on why a SATA HDD having transfer speeds of 50-130 has to do with my transfer speeds.
I like how all these people in the ads are running Windows Vista or 7 for what ever reason.
good video but 14:20 has a slight inaccuracy. Most bootable USB solutions will run the OS off of a ramdisk anyway, so its not like they're starting VLC from a flash drive, its literally already loaded.
The last video you mentioned, if you look up the youtube channel "Tech Hacks Today", you'll find a channel with a video showing stuff like some "photostick" product featuring the same man (and Dell XPS laptop) as in the first video shown. I thought it would be easier to pay off an existing channel to show off products to people, but I guess it's easier to make your own with the same actors