Dell Inspiron 9100: $4,800 Pentium 4 Laptop from 2004 

Can we appreciate that it had a FULL HD display....in '04!! That is like having an 8K display in a laptop display today.

The fire extinguisher and the "this is fine" wallpaper was a great joke

A speaker inside a battery. Now that’s what you call engineering.

I had one of these laptops in 2004, ran Firefox, took it on RU-vid, did video editing and physics sumulations, and it ran super-smooth. I think it's a testament to how inefficient modern web browsers and websites are that it struggles trying to do exactly the same stuff with new software.

From the front it looks like a laptop sitting on top of a laptop

This is legit the most 2004 thing I've ever seen.

Completely unrelated to this wonderful machine, but I MUST tell you this story. So, recently I was browsing the web for Duke Nukem and came across a Russian article from 2006 about some sort of a fan-made expansion or something along those lines. And it literally said "Duke was voiced by some random guy called Clint Basinger, who has a very similar voice to the original" This is so hilarious 😆

“I love ports” ok guess that’s why we don’t see apple products on this channel

"doop de doop de doop comic sans farts" Now that's the quality content I subscribed for.

I had the base configuration of this laptop while in college. That laptop from 2004 has a higher resolution than any of the other monitors in my house 16 years later.

I had this thing. I'm really surprised to see a review of it, I had always assumed this thing was pretty under the radar and nobody had it. Or at least it was way more expensive than it was worth. In 2004, I was going to college and spent my savings on this thing. Mine had 512 MB RAM. Lasted me a very long time. Software and browsers of its era had no problems; everything was fast. Games of the era were good enough. I have really such nice memories of using it as a laptop during the coldest days of winter and being toasty warm.

I was an on-site sell tech for 10 years , I serviced many of these. Changing the thermal grease from silicone to an artic silver or modern thermal compound will do wonders. The silicone didn't bond or cool well, and burned off over time

"...making this just about the most awesome laptop battery ever made!" "...well, expect for the fact that they had a tendency to overheat and potentially cause fires, leading to a recall of 2.7 million units in 2006. Whoops!" Gotta love this dry delivery of humor!

I had a friend buy this exact model as he went to college. This was right when dell added the accident insurance- that he didn't choose... And should have. The guy set up an aquarium above his laptop and of course spilled water all over it within the first month at being at school.

I notice the lights dim and the electric meter spin like Clark Griswold's house at Christmas time when that thing booted up...

"heck yeah, the sound" *turns it down* I relate to that so hard

I'm super impressed by the display, for the most part. I was not aware that Full-HD displays of that form factor existed around 2004, especially in a consumer device. I remember 2004 being the time when the initial transition to HD (mostly 720p) flatscreens started, and the early ones weren't super duper flat. (We actually used a CRT TV in the living room until 2009 or so.) Anyway, impressive laptop. Ridiculous hardware and a fun thing to look at. Thanks, LGR!

Dude!!!! I saw the thumbnail and I was like , hey , my laptop. Bought it practically new and still works perfectly . It’s gone from my primary gaming machine long ago , To my vintage gaming machine for a minute until I actually built a retro rig. It’s my little old soldier that’s never failed me

My dad had one of these and it played the Sims 2 soooooo good

When I saw my old laptop on screen, I smiled. When he said "Thanks to John" for the donation, I freaked out and tracked down my Inspiron to make sure I still had it lol Lots of good memories playing Age of Empires III, SW Empire at War, and Need for Speed Carbon; All with better graphics than our desktop at the time! What a coinkydink, glad I caught this vid.

12:23 That aquarium screensaver was a real blast from the past for me.

That startup sound...

I had this machine back in '04. It was great at all the multimedia stuff I had to get done at uni and gaming was a dream. Loved being able to play Doom 3 wherever I went. Miss that laptop.

I had one of these! It was an amazing laptop with a power brick almost the same size as the laptop... and it was suprising how much the little 1" subwoofer made a difference to the sound.

NO WAY! I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR SPEED BUSTERS FOR SO LONG! I had the faintest childhood memory of an Ubisoft racing game where on a specific map there was a t-rex walking through a narrow hallway with a car in its mouth(which is the California map), but nobody could pinpoint it, ever. Everyone just said I was thinking of Re-Volt, but I knew that wasn't the game. Thank you so much LGR, I'm off to have an amazing time reliving childhood memories. I never thought I'd find this game, this is an insane saturday!

Those easy to remove fans is something i miss in most laptops nowdays

I got the XPS when I graduated high school in 04. Saved for two years so I could buy a computer when I graduated. Half Life 2 needed to be played.

I was so stunned by the memories this video brought back that I forgot to congratulate you on the absolutely fabulous cinematic quality this video has. It's just beautiful to watch! Great work!

2:32 The good = High resolution screen The bad = High resolution screen (makes text hard to read) Make up your mind CNET!

Oh Wow! I was a technician at an engineering firm in the mid 2000's that bought all Dell's and we had some of these. Those things were tanks! I got to give Dell some kudos because those machines were built well and we could service them ourselves and they lasted a long time. We used ours until 2011!

I don't know how I found this channel initially but it's become my favorite. Something pleasant and stress free to learning about these cool relics.

Stunning ending note!! Keep it up LGR!

*Removable exhaust fan* I wished that became a thing with modern laptops.

"Texture Memory" The old days of when cards were still in that weird place of swapping between fixed and programmable pipelines. Memories.

Im pretty sure that thing would run LFD2

This is the laptop I clocked probably thousands of hours of Sims 2 gameplay on!! It was hot as balls!

7:57 Winamp! Winamp, it really whips the llamas ass "baaa"

I serviced a TON of these back in 2004 and onwards. I still have one of those floppy disk modules. It has a mini-USB on the side and I occasionally use it with my Mac to read 3,5” disks. Yeah, it looks ridiculous.

Oh my god thank you for reviewing this! I have this exact model, and have been wanting a video on it! It is definitely oddware

Such cool devices have been showcased on your channel this year. Keep up the great work!

There are worst display than this one on a laptop being sold today.

Skullz f yeah

OMG! Had one of those (not sure exact model though) but this surely brings back memory... Remember a lots of Unreal Tournament battles with my colleagues back then too! Thanks again for your epic videos making working from home less lonesome!

your videos always relax me man, thank you so much

pretty impressed with how well it handled youtube, considering that even some modern superbudget machines don't do it that well. Amazing to see both how far and how not far we've come in almost 20 years.

This might seem like a strange comment, but thank you for "timing" the ads correctly. I HATE it when they randomly cut in the middle of footage, especially since most of the time when the video resumes it "rewinds" a couple of seconds.

I remember seeing this in computer catalogues at the time, especially the Skullz one. I was 10 and Skullz was the one I wanted.

I appreciate the startup sounds!

10:00 watching LGR on LGR, now THATS meta

FINALLY one of these videos again! Love old-school high-end hardware!

Wow those XP screens bring back a lot of memories. Sometimes I just prayed to see that XP screen come up. Computers weren't so reliable back then. Thanks for the video!

This video warmed my heart. Thanks

Me finishing a Techmoan upload: Man I wish there was a new LGR to watch (Uploaded 8 seconds ago)

I don't need the captions, but I enable them anyways for the "flavor text." [Vehicular Man Laughter] and [Zombie Blasting Noises]

my friend had this laptop growing up and we spent a lot of time on it learning game maker and how to code, this video is extremely nostalgic

I remember my dad having a few of these he got from his work in '09 they were one of my first ever computers I came in contact with. This was a nostalgic video

The best moment of the day is always when LGR boss uploads a new video :) Greetings from Finland to Clint and thanks for the stellar content!

Your production value and video quality are really professional looking. It's been nice watching you grow and watching your content.

God that old Dell configuration page really took me back.

I had one of these, loved it! ( got it used for $300 in 2008) My only issue was when I had to replace the battery. The battery was about 3x the price of a normal battery

OMG this was my first computer it cost me $1,800. I had the 80 GB version with DVD RW drive and at the time it could play Half Life 2 and Doom 3

I had one of these when it was new. It served me well at home and at many LAN parties. It also cut off the blood supply to my lower legs when I used it on my lap. Good times :)

I had this laptop in college...I even had that mouse! I also learned the hard way after I thought my laptop was bricked...that it was really easy to loosen the hard drive without realizing it, preventing booting.

This channel is such a nostalgia trip. I remember these.

I miss laptops with ports, removable batteries and dedicated volume/media keys.

I remember when I got a 60 GB harddrive, I thought I could never fill it. Boy was I wrong.

Had this laptop back in college. It was a beast and requires me to buy an extra large bag to carry it. I was able to play warcraft 3 on this and that completely blew my mind at the time

Midtown Madness footage is so nostalgic to me, it was the first game I played with my brand new Microsoft Precision Wheel back in the day. And for the record, the wheel still works perfectly fine to this day.

Gotta appreciate he used WINAMP Now that brings back memories, downloading skins and listening to CD music 🙂

Remember when laptops were made to be serviceable (literally every component had its own bay and could be easily swapped)? Ahhh good times...

I remember these times...our family had our first laptop circa 2005. It felt like such a ridiculously special thing. Pretty sure it got replaced a couple years later because it just became unbearably slow and the battery gave out. This one's completely nuts though, but it's fun to see we had been trying to replace desktops as early as '04.

Damn, the fact that this is "old" now is a reality check for me... I remember wanting one of these so badly

"Doop dee doop dee doop comic sans farts" My favorite song!

I have one of these! It is unquestionably a “desktop replacement”, you might suffer knee injuries if you tried using this brick on your lap for any length of time.

I absolutely love the fact that the blue plastic highlight around the keyboard matches the task bar in windows xp!!!!

Holy crap, when that MasterWorks logo popped up I had flashbacks to playing Uz as a kid! The nostalgia thickened the second I saw those hyper-realistic 3D shapes. I never knew MasterWorks had made another game, but I do know what I'm doing today

As the Athlon came out in the 2000's I switched to AMD as well and with this 1GHz (wooooht) machine I was the king on LAN partys... at least for half a year

Holy crap HYPERBOWL Nostalgia

I enjoyed the video, but one thing I expected but didn't see. At 7:05 when you powered on the beast, I expected to see a clip. Something like the Death Star firing in Star Wars: A New Hope ("Commence primary ignition sequence" followed by an extreme bass note descending) or Christmas Vacation's auxiliary nuclear powerplant. I did appreciate the thermal image, nice touch! ☺

I loved mine that I had gotten second hand in 2008. It was a perfect upgrade coming from an Inspiron 1100 (smaller but also used a desktop processor!). I was rocking this thing still in college back in 2012, running Windows 7 Ultimate and connecting it up to projectors in class for presentations. I also made my own aluminum-shim mod to increase the cooling of the graphics card as well as used the SpeedFan app for Dell Inspiron's back in the day to make the cooling the most efficient while also staying very quiet. I'd say one of my most favorite laptops for back then even in 2012. It's hard plastics also allowed for plenty of bumps and bangs haha!

I had worse PC in 2010 than this Laptop. What a beast.

Wow, this brings back memories. I got one of these given to me in high school by a tutor as an incentive to get a perfect score in the year end trigonometry test. I still remember the countless hours of Counter strike and playing Half-Life 2 at 18-25 fps.

thanks for the review, I was going to buy this..

7:13 Damn, I heard highways on rush hours that were quieter than that! Still, at 2004 one could only dream of this kind of laptop. Great video!

Hah, i still have this laptop, with the 9700 radeon, loud as a jet engine, but beside the battery, still works.

Hearing everything reving up when you first turn it on... It's a wonderful sound

Amazingly enjoyable video. If you manage to come across one, I'd personally love to see you evaluate the Thinkpad G40 (have you already? I missed it if so) which also featured a desktop grade pentium 4 around the same era. While no doubt not nearly as impressive, it still would be interesting to see how they tried to compete in this very niche desktop replacement business laptop market.

7:47 omg the logitech m600 gaming mouse XD i got the exact same one for my xp retro gaming pc and i dont ever see them anywhere now but i've always loved em and had one as a kid so it always makes my day seeing one

I owned the XPS version of this for a brief period in 2009 (I actually traded a similarly speced P4 desktop for it) and it was an experience I will never forget, worked great too, until a fan died without my knowledge and the overtemp protection failed to shut it off, so it cooked itself.

My 2017 dell Inspiron also has an easy access to change parts, and also a really nice screen. Good to know they had this features since 2004

Fans that can be cleaned easily. A truly awesome thing for multiple cat owners. [EDIT: Fans go BWOOOO]

This is what I call a "table-top" computer: portable enough to work on the go, IF you can find a place to put it.

The keyboard looks like its surrounded by masking tape.

Damn! That aquarium screensaver really transported me back in time for a second.

Memories! I have the 8600 with the green snap cover. It was/is beautiful

I wish we still had laptops like this. Bulky and powerful.

mx518, nice..

I remember the first time dad got a laptop with his first CD burner, ah the memories of teaming up with him to type spreadsheets and learn how to burn things. Thank you for these nostalgic videos

I loved the XPS'es featured in the later seasons of Stargate SG-1 haha

2:00 ah the Logitech MX518, a man of taste I see!