Asus Lamborghini: $4,000 Windows Vista Laptop from 2007 

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Until they get it fight ;-)

He also have a hot wheels.

Dont forget the porsche

Rolls Royce is fine too

I misunderstood the assignment.

you're a little confused, but you've got the spirit!😂​@LGR

Thank goodness it vanished. Nothing was worse than 2000s gaming laptops.

@@lebronjohnson6735 It's fun to look back on but that's about it. There's very little I miss about that era of PC gaming. It was expensive and the tech just wasn't there yet for the most part.

The aesthetic that reminded me of that period is the white late CRT monitors and black early LCD screen side-by-side running World of Warcraft from white desktops. Laptop capable of running World of Warcraft was a dream.

Just like video games and movies as well, 2000s where a lot of things being experimented with small risks.. A lot goofy ideas for movies and whacky but interesting concepts for video games since it was the first era where ps2 and xbox shocked the world, also the decade where people not easily getting offended over little things i guess..

The last wacky design was in 2016. Thx msi

Same. I had a Asus G51-VX, which came out in late 2009. The parts and ports are very similar to this one, but mine was much cheaper than $4k. I still have it and it works too. Lol

Things definitely went slower in the early to mid 2010s, but nowadays tech evolution sped up again. I'm guessing thanks to Ryzen.

In the late '90s to early 2000s things moved faster still. Remarkably so, in fact.

@@dauf69 It will never go as fast as 20-25 years ago, though... Thankfully!

So I guess that means my ASUS F505 from 2019 will outrun this Lamborghini. LOL

Back when this came out I was still running windows 98

My god, when this came out, I was just excited at my "new" Pentium 4 PC with Windows XP

@@retro8696 Just, why? XP runs well on anything from 2000 onwards. At least the OS itself, the kind of software you install upon it is a different matter.

15 years since pepaw passed away.

my god dude. dont make me feel old. 😭 I remember in 2008, my dad had this PC that absolutely floored me. I was 11 back then, and at the time, I had a P4 2.6ghz, 1gb ram, and a Radeon 9600 XT. Solid PC for its time. But my dad had that Core 2 Duo E6300, 2gb DDR2 and that GeForce 9600 GT. I remember him getting a 1680x1050 LCD monitor and setting it up with his Soundblaster X-Fi. He'd ask me to come to his room so he could show me the power of that beast. Well, by 2008 standards as I know now. that was a mid-range PC with a rather budget tier CPU. but as an 11 year old back then, seeing great framerates at 1680x1050 on Dark Sector, Mercenaries 2, FEAR, Assassins Creed, Race Driver GRID, Call of Duty World at war. Out of that list. I could only have ran FEAR. I really miss those days. Especially EAX.

If only we would've gotten a Clint score!

THIS is a Asus-Lamborghini VX2S!

Clint is the type of guy to review exotic car-branded laptops from the mid-2000s.

Perfection.

Yes I am also subbbed to Doug's channel

On the other hand, only needing a couple of types to do absolutely anything now. Could feasibly do everything on USB-C alone now

@@AgentTasmania Yes, but you don't typically get more than a couple of such plugs in a machine, which makes a hub a necessity in many cases anyway.

@@AgentTasmania Well USB-C is touted to be fast, but only these days. ExpressCard (and it's predecessors) was revolutionary. Essentially baremetal contact to PCI. Not to mention that was superior in laptops anyway imo as cards slot in so nicely and had very little extrusion out and change happened in seconds. No tangling cords and adapters that can be yanked off easily. I still wish it would've remained as standard.

@@AgentTasmania USB drives and accessories? I haven't see a single mouse on USB C?

@@jothain It still does with framework laptop. It's basically expresscard but new.

One of my coworkers has some Asus gamer one that will always do some obnoxious loud boot up sound like it was spooling up a turbine, and it would always make us turn around to see what it was. He said he couldn't find it anywhere on the BIOS to shut up the damn thing.

Id hook that badboy up to speakers and force nearby folks to hear it every time

ASUS are worse.

I remember my dad ranting about his company provided Acer back in the day. He despised that thing.

@@TheBuilderize Yeah they were just not very good. Which was to be expected for 5-600€ laptops in 2009, it's not like the other brands were much better. But the Acer Ferrari laptop was 2000€. At that price you could get a really nice Sony Vaio that did not look and feel like a toy.

@@MrSupercar55 I never sold Asus laptops but I had friends who did and they definitely had a lot of bad things to say about them back then :p

I had a windows 7 Acer laptop from 2009 that was great. It was a thin, long battery life model. Wasn't built for gaming, but it could play 2 full length movies back to back on just battery power. Doing normal office work on it, it would last 9 hours on battery easy. That laptop lasted for years without issue, until it was well out of date.

You are everywhere I go somehow

And here a thought that you had a cannondale laptop

"Ah, a fellow scientist."

“I’m something of a scientist myself”

The new JWST deep space photo looks amazing!

@@Q3ark from black mesa to green goblin in seconds, amazing

It's not just you. Halo 3, CoD4, Bioshock, Burning Crusade, Roblox; the iPhone. RU-vid goes mainstream, Facebook goes mainstream. Cellphones still look weird, and aren't trying to be iPhones yet. Hellsing Ultimate gets another episode. Toonami has it's 10th anniversary, which leads to one of the best Toonami blocks ever, (from this point it's a gradual decline). Tim and Eric, iCarly, and Mad Men all debut on TV; Sopranos gets its finale, Punk'd, Code Lyoko, and Ned's Declassified all have their final episodes. Avatar TLA is in the middle of its original run, finally moving into the next story arc. Mass media has been a shadow of its former self ever since this period. It's like a record that keeps skipping, each time it repeats becoming a little more absurd, and removed from its former context. Depression in our society has become so palpable that it reaches our children. Likely everything I just mentioned contributed to this outcome but the high of it all sure felt fresh back then. Feels like we are walking backwards, with dependence on vices reaching a level comparable to the 80's but with none of the social cohesion or safety net.

And was cheaper than a high end thinkpad was for example

@@MF175mp which would be the real laptop (or high end macbook) the 1% buy instead of this fashion item. But, they might buy it for their spoiled teenage son......

@@Blackadder75 I'm with you there. I think this was aimed more towards the higher end of normal consumers, the kind who have money but iffy taste lol. It's not even close to being exclusive or expensive enough for the mega-rich.

@@Frank_Pods On my XP system/testbench, yes. It's a great card, supports Windows 2000 (or ME if you're a masochist) through 7.

Vista was dreadful!

@@rorz999 that's why I mentioned that perhaps I was too young to notice those. That HP laptop which my grandpa had used to run fine with Windows Vista, but then again, he didn't use it much because it occasionally didn't boot at all, so he refused to make it his main machine.

Lol. I remember seeing ads of those and was wondering that does that actually sell. Don't get me wrong as hardware seemed just fine, but those frame materials were just odd. Well no wonder it was fast forgotten with those kind of issues :)

The prices these things are to this days is over kill a used one cost more then my laptop did.

@@jothain the bamboo was only on the lid and the palm rest, everything else was normal. It looked great and was a pleasure to touch.

@@JohnKelly2 I remember lusting after one of those back in the day and wondering why more manufacturers don't use bamboo (probably a huge pain to work with compared to metal and plastic).

@@deanchur I'd suppose bamboo would need to be thoroughly soaked in some interesting combination of chemicals to make even remotely durable for such place. Otherwise it would crumble or warp in very short time, like within few weeks.

Happy to hear that they've helped and I wish you better times ahead!

What do you work at if can playback videos? 😀

Was gonna say... Any job that lets you watch lgr videos can't be that bad.

@@jothain software dev

No kidding! The Gallardo will be _TWENTY_ years old soon...

@@LGR Hey LGR, one question: Do you like Windows Vista? Cuz I sure do like it.

@@PurblePink8678 Had alright experience with it having SP1 on the Acer Aspire steel minitower my mom bought & later gave me. Specs were a pentium dualcore at 1.6 ghz 2 gb ram & a 8500 gt (upgraded from a 7300 gs 128 mb) & later a hd 3650 (may have overclocked the 8500 gt until it blew the capacitors & got too borrow another 8500 gt before i bought the 3650 as a replacement.) & then i built my own pc mid August 2010 & went with windows 7 Only thing left from that acer aspire now is the 500 gb harddrive from seagate, production date 2007 & between 51k & 52k hours last time i checked. Dunno exact numbers as i haven't checked in like 2 weeks.

Yeah. Crazy. Since I can vividly remember the advertisements of Asus Lamborghini, Asus Leather, and Acer Ferrari on local Tech magazines. 2007-2010 felt like it was just yesterday.. at least just 7 yrs ago.

I also remember the Asus Ferrari in ads

well, that and the amount of RAM needed... that took everyone by surprise!

Only reason why Windows 2000 got off somewhat lucky into XP’s lifespan, since most driver manufacturers merged their XP drivers alongside 2000 since they’re so similar and offered them as a packaged deal (yes, even if it’s explicitly labeled as only for XP, that may be because of the applet only supporting XP+ kernel calls which Extended Kernel should fix)

I got a Gateway (yes) gaming PC in 2009 with decent specs and a lot of RAM. I never understood why people hated Vista cause I thought it was fine, but I realize now that basically it was fine if you had a powerful computer but it was terrible for any other standard ones.

At the time, a lot of people were on systems that could handle XP at most and barely Vista. And when Vista launched, you had not only the OS's internals being heavily reworked, but you also had the fact that drivers weren't completely done yet. Adding to that, you also had OEMs claiming their lower end systems could handle regular Vista even though they could at most handle Vista home basic.

Apple at least tries to make different garbage, as in the one thing have going for them is that they're not made entirely of plastic although it makes absolutely no difference to the quality or usability

HP Zbooks are still good.

Then you really must not look at many modern laptops. Good keyboards is definitely still a thing and often better than many of the mushy feeling ones back then. Typical indicators for battery charge/discharge status, power state, drive activity and in some cases even WiFi and mute still exist and many modern laptops have way better design guideline than laptops of the (late) 2000s. On thinner or smaller devices, external dongles and port replicators have been a fairly common option since the 90s, if you're only looking at ultrabooks or cheap notebooks then less IO and a thinner keyboard mechanism is obviously what you're going to find, there are still a bunch of business/workstation-, premium- and gaming notebooks out there with your requirements.

@@resneptacle Good keyboard? Find a laptop where the keyboard has more travel than the width of two paperclips made after 2017.

I literally have the same one as my wallpaper so I was surprised!

Thank you, the new place is fun to film!

Do you happen to recall which business grade machines they were specifically?

No plans but we'll see! Just got it the other day so I'm still putting it through its paces.

Thank you, I'm glad you've been enjoying so long! :)

5:25 Again! Lamborghini on the screen of a Lamborghini laptop. That's some icing on the cake, hahaha

Thank you!

Actually I own a Porsche Design monitor, and it is solid... Kinda bulky though but I have a smaller desk, been wanting to get a new desk anyway cuz that thing has led's on the side powered by a cable management catastrophe.

I definitely feel they are intended for people who like flashy things.

I feel like it was a flash in the pan ploy to get some attention in the marketplace, but really they were too expensive for regular users and kind of a joke for actual rich people or for tech enthusiasts. Their main market was probably people who have a bit of money and really want to show it off any way possible, like drug dealers, upcoming rappers, repair shop owners, etc

The same people that buy Ferrari hats, but take them off in shame before they get into their 1995 Toyota Camry.

@@benm3382 Yes! A drug dealer's laptop it is for sure!

Middle East, and China

An SSD would help with loading times, but not FPS dips.

Thanks! I'd love to find one of those as well, they always looked sweet

Cough gta5

I wish Bloodborne could reach 30fps

PlayStation 4 is for stupid dorks.

I bought a Dell laptop in 2021 and I was actually very impressed with the look and feel of it. It would be cool if they did one of these gaudy licensing deals with a car company to make something unique.

Many younger folks will believe laptops typically cost thousands back then watching this. And no, the run of the mill laptop did not. They did in the late '90s. My 2007 laptop with a more basic Core 2 Duo and weaker (though still discrete) graphics adapter cost me 700-750 bucks, and if I had gone for something a bit fancier it wouldn't have been much more than 1000.

I still have the Vostro 1500 with the same specs, paid 1500NZD in 2007.

Update: Only Midnight Club 2 got a PC port, but it was easy to find on an abandonware site!

I hear you man, I was excited to see where it would all go at the time too but now it just seems like we're entering a dark age for entertainment among many other things...

@@tackytrooper Same. I miss being younger. 2007 I remember having my first custom built PC I made and it was a Core 2 Duo, not even top of the line with a GPU I actually forget...I think an x1900GT from ATI. It was all I could afford but this stuff used to make me want to get more money for top end systems. Lol

@@tackytrooper It's as if everything is getting expensive to where only the mega and ultra rich can afford anything. I almost want to give up on working all together not even $17 a/hour is worth it this is no joke man this shits kinda scary. You are right this really is a dark age for entertainment man Smartphone companies also want to force wireless headphones down people's throat which is not safe.

@@tackytrooper Hell I remember being a kid having Zelda Minish Cap and was excited for that all this expensive shit can bite me if it's not cheap I'm not interested.

They actually made compatible docking station? That's quite surprising to hear.

Niche products tend to become collectors items.

I made a quick clip of the tote bag last year when Dawid Does Tech Stuff covered one of the Asus Lamborghini units. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oVatyyWtlyA.html

Thanks!

That's why you should stick to just regular good specced laptops. Lol Did you really need that much computing power though back then?

Man your comment is making me feel alright about some of my purchases xD