$20 Dell Latitude CPx Laptop from 2000!! 

Windows NT/2000 is meant for business while Windows 95/98/ME is for home use as it was based on DOS.

Another awesome video! Beautiful machine, love retro Dell products! I notice a huge improvement on your audio in the video!

Oh wow, what a find for $20 CAD/$15 USD! This reminds me of the Gateway Pentium 3 laptop that my mom used to have for work. I remember bringing it on road trips and live-booting Knoppix on it so that I could try to access the internet with it.

Love how you could get to almost everything in the older laptops, not anymore lol.

very nice pickup!! I picked up one of the later latitude "1ghz Pentium III" laptops up in 2005 with XP used for 130$ off of eBay. It was my daily driver until 2009 when I bought my first laptop with my own money. Honestly They're very versatile machine with the modular bays and I even had the dock which increased the display ports with DVI, USB etc. I'm really looking forward seeing you fully restore this beauty in future videos.

A TRR video to end the year, excellent! 😁

I trash picked one of these about 10 years ago. I think i may have used it for a month until i was able to trash pick another, slightly better lappy. Great Videos! Love the channel!

Very cool machine! I was very partial to Compaq laptops back in the day.

That Rode microphone sure makes a world of difference. Now I need to teach you about audio post-processing to take it to the next level. And I challenge you to a Quake 3 deathmatch! But *only* if you leave your mouse sensitivity turned right down like that! ;)

This was the same model my mom used back when I was very young. I still have it and use it With Windows 2000. Nice Memories

This is like what 8bitguy used to be, before he just vanished. Love this channel.

I had this laptop back in early 2ks

Sounds like you got a new mic! I take it was a Christmas present LOL🤣 I just got a lav mic for Christmas by POPvoice and it's so great!! The sound quality to me is amazing! Your new mic really shines when you recorded sound from the laptop, I can sense that I can hear more detail that was missing prior!

Never had one, but I've seen them in person. Usually, the docking station is labeled something like CP Pt II, as I think they also worked with the CPi series.

My Latitude CPx is only a 500Mhz PIII - and the screen is definitely showing signs of age. But it's ok, because I have the big brother of this machine - a Latitude C610 with a 1Ghx PIII.

Awesome retro video so far!😁

Pentium III with 128MB RAM, I remember that being our desktop config but with Win 98. Nice to see this CPx was designed for XP as well 😉

Had the C640, later upgraded to the ultra-tier C840 with the 1600x1200 screen and GeForce 440Go. Perfectly cromulent gaming machine. Best part of upgrading from an earlier C-class, the batteries, dock, and bay accessories carried over. The business-class Latitudes sold me on Dell. Still using a 2011 Vostro 17" beastie today.

I love these old Dell systems. My CPi is one of my favorites and makes a great fast win95 machine. I've got a larger hdd in it (40gb) and the battery also works, plus I got my hands on a NOS one too. I believe Dell also made Zip and LS120 modules for these too, and the modules are compatible with other Dell laptops such as the C610.

I like IBM/Lenovo as well..partial to Gateway as well even though most thought they were junk

Good old times 😢

I have owned 5 or 6 of those dells i always found dell laptops easy to repair and upgrade

For its specs, I would use Win98. Of course if upgrade the memory, it would be better for XP but I tend to use Win2k on P3 machines if I want an NT OS, as I found that Win2k works well with 128M RAM (it runs Office, games and 128M of memory does not have a big impact on its performance). I preffer to use at least P4/AthlonXP for Windows XP. It can be also very good for dos games, ESS Maestro if I remember is quite good under plain dos as it have good SB emulation. I have an ESS Maestro 2 paired with an Trident Cyber (9255?) on an old P2@233 laptop and is very good for playing dos games. For a computer ofits age, is very good and compatible with OS from dos to XP; I found an Toshiba Satellite form the same era, an P3@750 with the same ATI Mobility but with Crystal Sound that is not friendly at all with dos games (no sound FX and General Midi is working only on few game), not even if running under Windows.

OMG I have two of these in my collection, but It was my first laptop back in 2001 ex lease one. Use at Tafe here in Australia guess thats like community college? I have the most fond memorys with laptop as I travelled around. Fun fact it was what got me on ebay huntering for parts for it back in 2002 i think found a cd burner for the mod bay was so stoked. went to plenty of LAN partys to with it too. My oringal one kept going till I upgraded to a maxed out Inspiron 6000 in 2006. thankx for being the rush of memorys back!!! hmmm might go and dig out one of them play some Quake Arena 😁or cut my teeth with some macromedia photoshop pre adobe those were the days

Nice! Makes me need to check up on another laptop i have with a ATI mobility Radeon. Only paired with a Intel P4 in this case. A Compaq Armada something something. Stuffed in a bag somewhere. How to burn your lap.... Just picked up a Apple Powermac G4 with the highest end processor inside. Just a single one but clocked at 1.25GHz. That thing flies on Mac OS 9! The previous owner already did some upgrades to the RAM and put an SSD inside as well! And a large archive of various software as well!

My dad had the newer model, the C600. He got it from his college. I still have it, I had to replace my the display assembly(to replace broken hinges), and the keyboard(as many keys weren’t working a the navpoint was giving ghost inputs)

HAPPY NEW YEAR SUBBED YAH.

Great video✌

It's crazy to think the Dell Latitude series is still going today.

awesome video i got the same machine with a bad cmos battery hoping to fix it soon though

That class of connector is called "ZIF" for Zero Insertion Force.

I have a Dell Latitude CPt-V from 2002 and it took me forever to upgrade. Originally came with 128mb ram; I put two 256mb sticks inside, a PC100 and a PC133 maxing out the ram at 512mb. CPU was a Celeron 466mhz Mendocino; I put in a Celeron 500mhz Coppermine which in the BIOS shows up as a Pentium III CPx-H. Also replaced the CD ROM drive with a dual DVD ROM/CD writer and replaced the charger battery and CMOS battery. Both batteries came directly from China, so I had to wait more than 2 months just for them to arrive in San Francisco and then finally to New York. Btw: I really enjoyed watching your video.😊

And happy New year

I had one of these for my first job as a Systems Analyst.

SP3 is a bit heavy for that amount of ram and Pentium 3 processor. SP1 or 2 will give you better performance on those specs

The ATI GPUs for laptop were kinda annoything. The default setting was for unexpanded screen view. We needed to go to the BIOS and set to expand to whole screen. However if we expand the imagem to whole screen, it kinda appears pixelized if the image is less than screen resolution. Mobility Radeon was kinda ok. Not top notch.

That was a good deal!👍👍 Dell made some fine laptops including the Inspiron 9400, it's only a 32 bit computer, but my example has a core duo processor (not core two duo) and a Sata 1 interface and it was marketed with Windows XP Media Centre installed, 2 gig., of DDR 2 ram., is it's maximum and I installed a 60 gig., SSD and Sparky Linux LXQT., the laptop works well. However, I shall change the SSD., and try LMDE 6.

i think that one video port is called S-video out....some of the newer CRT TV sets supported S-video out cool to see again

It's the same ATI M1 (Rage Mobility) found in my Pentium II-based Compaq Armada. It's somewhat faster than those horrible pure 2D cards I guess 😛

Man, Quake 3 sure had a lot of cowbell.

How funny, it's the same specs as my first (desktop) computer. I liked the design of Win2000 better, but the support for it ended and I had to migrate to XP around 2003.

16:50 Does that -really- mean this machine could boot off a USB drive? I doubt it, that was not common at the time. Especially not flash drives. Is there any USB related option in the boot menu? A bit further down the line there were machines that could boot from USB optical drives, but not thumb sticks.

You should find all parts for max upgrade and this laptop would be completely different machine!!

you already gotten the story about my same but slightly older Dell laptops, mine are the PII but they did not change much it seems, I had the same bios batteries that even eaten away the wires themselves, Dead main batteries , Absolutely gobsmacking poor speakers too. I don´t have the mouse joystick on my computers. But it was on these dells every part is married to the mainboard, screen, keyboard and everything. you can´t service them much because of this. it is a pretty high voltage bios battery to so you can´t really substitute it with a 2032 cell either. will be fun to see how you gonna solve this. I made a battery pack for mine and used the battery compartment for it as the main battery was dead anyway

hi pal ive picked up a PARS p4 laptop with windows xp on its a really rare make. they make computers for the uk mod now

to bad your not in ohio have an old dell pentium II laptop would have made a great review as always great work

But Windows 2000 & XP can use at home use ?

There was no need to install the driver of this laptop from Snappy Because the Drivers is available for this laptop From Dell site itself

Laptops in this day and age are not made like they use to be. Back in the day user serviceability was something you don’t get with modern laptops not only that build quality of modern laptops is nothing compared to this big chunky boy and I still like that. You say serial has phased out that’s true, in my line of work as a Network admin that works in Data Centers we still use Serial for configuring switches, console management to servers, UPS management too all over Serial. I have a laptop from 2004 with serial and I still use that to this day for work only because it has Serial which modern laptops don’t have unless you use that USB to Serial rubbish which I’ve wasted most of my life away trying to get that working with certain network switches etc. so I just get out my 2004 XP laptop within a few minutes I’ve done my work. Issue with maintaining these older machines is that IDE drives are hard to come by and changing the hard drive multiple times I’m needing another alternative instead of using IDE. But dang things back then were so different just with they made laptops like this today.

use the bottom half as a keyboard pc =)

But can it run Crysis?

surprised you don't need 256mb ram

I saw you have a IBM can you send that to me..L.O.L....No but i am searching for a IBM i love those laptops...i have a big collection of laptops but not a IBM...was it you who collected Floppy disk? disketts?...i have a giant box full of original disketts from programs windows dos etc etc etc..I had writen a list before but i lost it and to write down all again brrrr....:)

I'm the 69th

It's wierd that the service tag is on the top usually is on the bottom