A Rare Windows 98 Laptop, Made In Australia! - Optima TL2000 

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Windows 98: Eucalyptus Oil Edition

IM ADDICTED TO... *Windows 98 start up*

When I was in college, all of our desktop computers were Optima. Back then we were using Windows 95. Thanks for this bit of nostalgia.

11:40 General Psivewri: "A fine addition to my collection"

I love that wallpaper at the end there on the laptop 😂

1:06 You are a real gentleman, respect.

11:13 😂 Can't do any longer for acting like the keyboard is working.

I seem to remember Optima computers being sold at Dick Smith stores, and their desktops were cheap too from memory. I also remember seeing reviews of their laptops on CNET Australia back in the early 2000s.

Your videos are definitely worth the wait. I once dipped my toes in these types of restoration videos, but quickly found out they're not for me... I don't remember how I found your channel, but I'm happy I did! You somehow managed to get me into these types of videos and I am very thankful. Love your content! Keep on making these quality videos! I make sure to turn off adblock just for your videos!

My mate used to work at the Tandy’s at Glenelg. He sold lots of these computers to thousands of people all over Adelaide! Nice video. Made me feel bloody good. Cheers.

That startup sound always brings me back to retro games and the clickity clackity of your HDD while your PC loads Windows. Ill always miss those days.

Windows 98 Was really ahead of it's time when it was released!

Thanks for another amazing vid! you and hamish from budget builds are my favorite tech youtubers, your videos are one of the last few good things in life. Thank you for all that you do

OMG Optima, all my school computers were from that brand back in primary school. Memories!

I was hoping you'd play the startup sound one more time, and you delivered :D Super neat little Aussie laptop.

I always love a bit of mystery hardware. I wish I knew why keyboards on laptops randomly stop working, I have an old ThinkPad T520 where the keyboard randomly stopped working.

Really enjoy all your videos! Always look forward to them keep it up mate! 👍😷

Beautiful laptop. I love W98, soooo good memories!

Another great video mate! Gotta love some of that Windows 98 nostalgia!

Can confirm we had a bunch of Optima computers at my primary school, from the classrooms to the libraries

"I love how they were able to make a paperclip so lovable" Uh, chief, you sure about that?

2:00 Psivewri : that has to be the most epic startup sound of any windows opreating system Windows XP : THAT'S NOT FAIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

How awesome! Thanks for making a video on such an interesting, rare laptop! The build design of this laptop reminds me a lot of Toshibas of the time period.

Thank you for posting this awesome video! Vintage laptops are the best!

Oh Encarta- so many hours looking up whatever popped up. It’s where I learned all I know about hovercrafts (which isn’t much).

I love the interest you have in these machines and operating systems. I may be getting hooked... 😀

I love the Windows 98 Startup too. its just so epic and beautiful!

Great video, I love those late 90s laptops.

Love your vids!

Optima was quite a common monitor supplier in schools in Australia. Even made their own unique mice and keyboards (rebranded peripherals if I recall correctly).

Surprisingly to see this name again especially on RU-vid. My brother used to work in Optima assembling their PCs.

Was waiting for this vid 🙌

Love these videos. I have an old late 90's Compaq laptop which belonged to my older sister when she went to high school. It needs a restoration since the rubber coating is all sticky, and the hinges are loose. But otherwise it works, I even have the swappable CD-ROM and floppy drives for it.

that laptop bag really got me for some reason, it's like a mini version of the one my mum had (which still takes up soo much space behind the sofa) from like 2004.

Wow, never thought I'd see an Optima PC again! The high school I went to used Optima PCs up until 2009 when they were being phased out by Lenovo ThinkCentre & ThinkPad models (and white MacBooks for the teachers who wanted those). I remember when I started in Year 7 in 2008 there being labs full of beige box Optima Socket 478 P4 era desktops with big 19" Optima branded CRTs, and the "high end" lab in the main building having LGA775 Celeron D based Optima machines with black cases & 17" black flat faced CRTs, which were somehow running Vista (the beige ones ran XP), which ran super poorly. The beige ones got retired in late 2008 to early 2009 and the black ones held on until end of year 2011 where they got moved to the woodworking shop which was filled with asbestos lol, they decided to demolish that building at the end of 2011 and the 12 or so Optimas left got recycled at that point. I also remember there being a cart full of Optima laptops at one stage in Year 8 in 2009, they ran XP & had Celeron Ms in them and were about 14" in size. They felt cheap and kind of nasty and were probably just some Chinese OEM design Optima rebranded. In 2010 or so, being the nerdy kid I was I was friendly with the IT team and set up a lab of Lenovo ThinkCentres to replace the first set of black Optima desktops, as "payment" for this, I got to take one of the Optimas home as well as a few other bits and pieces (I still have an Optima mouse in a spare parts bin to this day). Out of a stack of about 45-50 machines, I chose one of the ones that was in the best condition, which if I remember right it was kept in a storeroom as a spare and never really got used. I ended up using this computer for about a year and a half as my main PC, and then for another four years as a server. Upgraded the CPU from a 3.06 GHz Celeron D 346 to a 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 650 and then later a 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo E6300, upgraded the RAM originally from 512MB to 2GB, and then later to 4GB when it became my server, and even threw in a GeForce 6600 GT until it died due to no airflow in the ATX desktop case about a year in. As for OSes, it came with that old Vista install (which is how I could tell it was in storage as most were upgraded to Windows 7 by the time they were decommissioned), installed my totally not pirated copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and then eventually it ran Server 2008 R2 and then Windows Server 2012 when it became my home server. The Optima machines mostly used standard desktop components, it used a pretty standard Gigabyte i945 chipset motherboard which drivers were on Gigabyte's website, and when I rebuilt it into a server in 2012 I got rid of the Optima case and put the board in a standard ATX case and filled it with hard drives. Was a pretty good machine despite it's low-end nature and saw use up until 2016 when I finally retired it. I'd love to find more Optima PCs or put out more information to the internet about them. Back in 2012 I did plan to start a website with another guy about Optima history as he also had a few Optima PCs and a history with them. We had a falling out though and he became really creepy and weird after that and started stalking me, so that project had to die as a result which was unfortunate.

Since Optima is Australian, it ACTUALLY runs 86 sʍopuᴉʍ I'll sort myself out

Clicked on this video so fast! I grew up on windows 98! Such a throwback

It's really amazing how far laptops or as I like to call them notebooks have become.

This Is Some Kind Of Compaq Clone, Resembles one and looks just like the keyboard on my 2006 hp compaq

If its a membrane keyboard you could carefully remove all the keycaps, remove the membrane on each of them, then clean the carbon contacts on both the membrane and the keyboard with iso. There is a slight chance if breaking the scissor mechanism but if you're careful enough it's doable.

2:05 Windows Xp: Am i a joke to you?

What the Psivewri I just woke up and first thing i see on youtube is your new video because i live in europe Thats cool!

It's so awesome that it has the ATI graphics card! I had a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT like 14 years ago and it was so limited by it's C&T GPU. An ATI would've been awesome!

Good work😳👍🏻

Like you I never heard of them but I'm glad that their memory lives on in this video!

Man i like classic stuff Great video !

i had an old Compaq Armada 1530DM i got used for 20nzd i was shocked laptop was from 1995/1996 and has 1gb hdd 80mb ram and pentium 133mhz when i bought it the laptop was 20 years old and lady said her husband used it for work most days till around 2000 till he upgraded and the battery could still hold a charge almost as good as a new battery

One of my most favorite screen savers of Windows 95 to Windows XP was the one with the pipes

Very cool computer! Nice screen and graphics accelerator. So many laptops from this era were failures on both counts. My Toshiba from that era certainly was. Hope you find a keyboard at some point!

I remember my father using the same laptop when I was a baby, thanks for the nostaligia

I don't know why, but you make the kind of videos that you can watch over and over again...

Love these vids

Love the vids

Our school was kitted out with Windows XP Optima towers. I really miss them.

Really looking forward this to be upgraded to the max

My oh my. This is beautiful. Very 2000's like.

That keyboard looks really familiar. I'm sure some bigger company made it and Optima used it instead of spending the R&D to make their own. Finding a replacement might be easier than you think.

Love to see the processor upgraded and the keyb fixed though

Remarkable how a 20 year old 98 edition laptop's battery is holding charge to this day, but yet all my modern laptops from the past 10 years lost charge holding capabilities within 2 years

It was actuall a very nice video

Ur right that’s the most best startup sounds I ever heard on my pc it kinda sounds real on my pc

these are the kind of videos that get me asleep at night.

Here in the USA, we have some PC manufacturers from the late '90s that no longer exist - Compaq, Packard Bell, Gateway/Gateway 2000 and eMachines. While HP and Dell are the 2 biggest manufactures, but there are several others beside those.

Okay so I work for NEXTGEN Distribution who actually owns Optima - hilarious! Optima does license auditing and optimisation for businesses - say for example you were about to do a big database license renewal with Oracle, Optima comes in to ensure you're not over licensing based on infrastructure changes in your business, or they let you know if you've fallen out of compliance with the vendor and help you get back up to spec before you're audited by the vendor and need to pay a penalty. So funny seeing our little orange logo on your video :D :D

ok that wallpaper is pretty cool, I want it

Mmmmmm that startup sound!

I love how the Win98 startup sound phases through mono and stereo

Love the new wallpaper

Amazing video

I didn't know optima made laptops! I have a 1978 Optima Typewriter in my collection, so i was surprised!

Just the time when I thought the day couldn't get better Psivewri uploads a video

That is a really cool laptop.

Surprisingly nice little laptop! Good luck finding a keyboard for that one :(

I’ve never used an Optima laptop in my life before but I do remember using Optima desktop computers and playing games like Chip’s Challenge and Klik ‘n’ Play back when I was primary school we went from Windows 98 to XP!!! Ahh good times!!! 😊😊😊

Yes more laptop content!!

HI! Did you try to look for cuts on the cable's keyboard? When I accidentally damaged the cable form an old netbook, y cut and exposed the wires from the cable and it worked nice!

Awesome laptop!

What ASMR videos?! This is what I call relaxing and satisfying

your voice is nice to listen too!

COOL! I love you videos

Love that shirt you got man, my friends got the same one

I grew up playing deer hunter 2 on an old Pentium 3 system. Still have the game and play every once in awhile. Crazy that it's only 150mb for a complete install!

That looks like a pretty solid retro gaming laptop

You need more subs dude

Got a UMAX Laptop of that Time. AMD K6 300 Mhz, 32 MB EDO Soldered to the Mainboard + 64 MB SDRAM, 2.1GB HARDDRIVE, and the Graphics Processor is a Trident

I had an Optima laptop during year 11 and 12. Great solid machine. We bought it from Dick Smith Electronics. Unreal Tournament 2004 just ran on it.

Hello! Good day! I hope you are doing well and safe and sound, despite of the challenges we are facing and experiencing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. I am glad to know that you are safe since you are one of the greatest RU-vid video creators I am following and currently subscribed to. I am a big fan of yours from the Philippines. I am Jerico Alba, a 2nd Year Mass Communication student and I watch how you restore PCs and other devices using your iconic eucalyptus oil and your skills in restoration of PC components (e.g. the laptop from 1990s, and repairing many Macbooks). However, you told from one of your videos that you have so many laptops that you have restored and you have no idea of where and who to give it to? And have you mentioned that it can be sent to viewers? I am one of your greatest fans since I subscribed you when you still have less than 100K subscribers, and I love sending likes to your videos. I have also recommended you to my friends and luckily, they are now an avid fan of yours. I also learned a lot of things in restoring a PC and laptop. However, the profits I earn from fixing them only benefits to our daily livelihood, and I still struggle for online classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for I only rent a laptop to use, just to pursue my education. I hope you can notice my message and be one of the lucky fans that will be able to receive a free restored MacBook :( Moreover, the video was uploaded in September 15, which is my birthday. I wish you a happy holidays, my friend! If so, this will be very lucky and best holiday for me. Thank you very much and I will still continue to be one of your avid fan no matter what! I love you and your videos! :)

Errors are red My screen is blue Oops! I think I deleted System32

Omg I wish he had daily videos lol I keep watching the same videos so many times

You posted this video on August 1 but in America is still July 31 Logic

Dude, I love MS Encarta! That was such a good Encyclopedia. And those games in Encarta were so fun to play as a kid. Man I wish that program and wish I could get it again somehow. Would it run on Windows 10?

The etched school name is just part of it's history.

Do you have a link for where you can buy that eucalyptus spray you use online?

It was kinda funny when you said that the fan is loud. Our old school computers (finally replaced for quite powerful ones) were like this when you turned them on and used: Startup Engine ignition And liftoff You could even hear the turbopumps

Hi, just a quick question. Do you have a dell latitude cpx as i have got one and its as rare btw you mentioned me in your QnA video

Aye nice to see a laptop made in your home country

A RU-vidr with golden voice

I think NT 4.0 has the more badass startup sound but both deserve to be heard at least once

@Psivewri - I worked in education and we used to use Optima for our servers to operate the Library Catalogue. As a matter of fact, I still have the old optima unit that ran it. A pentimum 2. 2.4ghz.