I cannot stress how funny it is that my friend who is basically "computer illiterate" has that exact same granny mouse pad and she's only 35. I sent this to her immediately.
How's it even possible that someone from '87 or '88 is digitally illiterate? I am 37 and was already born with a mouse and keyboard waiting for me right outside. Almost literally, given that my father bought an IBM XT clone just weeks after I was born...
@classicallpvault8251 You'd be surprised. I was born in 80, and I've had to help kids in their early 20's reset their password for Gmail because they couldn't figure it out.
I'm the family computer technician and I have a not to dissimilar Logitech combo. I game on it all the time cause I don't want to spend a buck more than absolutely necessary.
Single channel actually. CPU is not doing much except pulling data to and from single channel RAM. When he upgraded the RAM it became obvious, almost double the FPS.
@@aleksazunjic9672You did see the CPU performance meter pegged at 100% ? And what do you think the CPU is calculating to send to the GPU? That would be all those complicated 3D world calculations plus all the game logic, plus all the other basic system functions. The CPU does a lot more than just shovel data to the GPU.
@@another3997 Nope. If that was the case Dawid would not be able to almost double FPS with another stick of RAM. What was really happening is moving the data trough narrow single channel.
Honestly, if granny buys this kind of thing for home use, I wouldn't even be mad. It seems like a decent deal for what a granny would do with a PC like video calls, mailing, watching knitting tutorials... It's not a gaming machine, obviously, but it's honestly not bad and not badly priced for what it actually is and tries to be.
I don't have the Pentium in that PC so I don't know exactly how it performs, but I had a PC with an AMD A6-9500 which exhibits the same GTA5 road-unloading issues, and it could barely play 1080p RU-vid videos or scroll Twitter/Reddit without serious stutters
@@HappyBeezerStudiosIs your C2D "rig" an all in one? Does it just have integrated graphics? Was it a bargain basement, office machine at the time you bought it? I suspect the answers are all "No". Comparing an old, expensive tower PC with discrete GPU to one of these is hardly fair. And your C2D isn't in warranty any more... which is a actually important for some customers. Horses for courses?
13:13 That might not be damage, actually. I opened up one of these exact models to upgrade the SSD and I had the same thing on the edges of my display. It turned out to be not damage and just some foamy thing that gets lodged under the LCD panel when you disassemble one of these things. You can try and remove the gunk from under the display, which is how I got rid of it.
When you somehow managed to separate the LCD panel itself from the backlight/diffuser assembly, I was like "oh no, this thing is bricked". I'm shocked you managed to get out alive with only some dead pixels.
This felt incredibly unrealistic as there was a disturbing lack of random bloatware that Granny acquired looking for new chocolate chip cookie recipes.
I once got a system that was owned by a granny, and oh my god, the bloatware was absolutely insane. For starters, the computer took like, 20 minutes to boot, (I wish I was kidding) and the amount of popups on screen was absolutely ludicrous. This lady had like half a dozen different antiviruses and about 10 of those PC cleaning programs. One clean install of Windows XP later, it ran like a charm...until the motherboard crapped out. RIP random Gateway tower (2003-2023)
My brother-in-law’s web browser was once so full of search bar add-ons hat they took up a third of the screen. He couldn’t figure out why his plague ship system was running so slowly.
@@jaydude25thank you. Those noobs weren't born early enough to see the earlier beard transition I guess. Or they were too busy watching Minecraft porn on their sesame street Chromebooks. Circle of life.
@@beetroot7156 I’m the most excited about discovering the wheel. It’s gonna make it so much easier to get all these systems I steal from a neighbouring tribe home.
On new Intel iGPUs (11th Gen and up) Its possible to install the Intel ARC GPU Drivers. Which should dramatically improve the brute performance of the iGPU.
do you have any more info on this? i got a 11th gen i3 tablet here and curios to squeeze more power out. i already got the cpu to run at all core boosts ifor inifinite durations. but gpu, no dice.
@@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 I have the Lenovo idea pad with a 12 gen intel i3 (UHD)with 12 gb ram, didn’t play it before I got the drivers, reach is low with graphical textures normal, but the others are normal graphics
@@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862 Well. The performance gain ranges from nothing to 30%. Depending on the game. I have only noticed with Genshin Impact on my girlfriend's Surface Pro 8 that it gets less warm and runs "smoother" with the Intel drivers. You have to try it out to see exactly what it does. However, after each installation of the ARC drivers, Windows tries, via Windows Update, to install the prehistoric driver again. I then have to reset it to the new driver each time via the device manager. DX9 and DX10/11 Games will benefit the most. DX12 less so. But a little is always better than nothing.
i still dont understand how manufacturers do not use 2 ram sticks, It always does make a good performance buff and that makes the product more attractive to buy, no? and it aint even that expensive
Companies want to maximize profits so only putting one stick in saves money. The people who buy these things aren't going to game on them usually so one stick is usually enough for emailing and using social media apps.
Every time I see a game is not using much memory, I expect adding more will be no improvement. But this shows it does improve things. I wonder why the game was only using about 1 GB when it had only 8. Unless the system was using the rest.
im so happy that dawid is always going to be around. he make wholesome content that everyone can enjoy. no linus media group issues just pure tech joy from this channel.
I bought the higher tier model for my tech illiterate wife, with the I5-1135G7. It comes with a 27" display and 16 GB of RAM. It does have Iris Xe graphics though and I could test some games on it at very low settings. It does run quiet nicely for what she's doing. 😃
I am genuinely surprised that it has actual so-dimm slots and not soldered ram. Neat. Was there anything good in the BIOS? Adjustable power limits or iGPU memory allocation settings?
I finished watching the intro of the original BSG tv series and among the thumbnails I see this video. I think to myself, that's weird I don't remember seeing this before, perhaps I missed it. 17 minutes ago. Oh a new one! Nice!
My parents had an early Lenovo all-in-one from 2013ish. In my opinion, their design back then was much better. I refurbished it to sell a few years ago and was really surprised. The PC was in the base, opened with a handful of screws. The RAM was upgradable, and they included an mSATA slot, which I made use of so the new owner got a much better OS experience. Of course that PC was packing an i5 and 530M I believe, and also cost more than $2000 at the time...but it just makes more sense to put the PC in the base.
In some weird way I would totally use that if it was bigger. There is something ironic about gaming on a beefy system, but having grandmas knitted carpet for a mousepad.
I buy AIOs for my office. They’re perfectly fine for office work tasks, especially if you bump the memory up (when you can, if it’s not soldered), but yeah gaming on one of these things just isn’t going to happen. I think I managed to get Skyrim going at like 25 fps on a Ryzen 5 system, but considering that these things are basically cheap laptops stuck to the back of a big screen it’s not surprising that they suck for anything other than spreadsheets and email.
I know he's playing games on it for views but these systems are fine for grandparents and simple office setups, like a front desk of some small business. Even better would be if it had Windows S mode so that Indians can't remote in with something like TeamViewer and scam the seniors out of money
Aside from the CPU, the hardware is actually kinda good for such a cheap all in one. If they were able to snuck in an i3 11th gen or newer, it would be a winner. PS. I just checked on our local online store, and this model, with 4gb of ram costs $600 here in the Philippines LOL
"It got this little pop up webcam thing, you know your granny can hide her identity while she's being scammed on the internet." Pissed myself laughing! 🤣
I have one of those (probably previous gen) that I bought in 2022. Instead of Intel's Pentium it has some AMD 4 core 8 thread. Not gonna lie, it performs pretty well, even when it comes to some medium gaming.
Grandma pcs are getting good. I use a similarly specced (athlon 200ge 16gb ram, ssd, aka old parts i had laying around) pc for web browsing and youtube watching and its certainly still more than capable for everyday grandma tasks.
It's great that old mid/high end hardware is as cheap as trash most of the time and that it's still capable of doing most regular stuff comfortably and smoothly.
That would be a nice layout for an AIO if it had a smaller keyboard that could slot into that shelf on the base.. But of course that's for holding Granny's Precious Moments figurines, so we can't have everything.
IF it uses Lenovo's standard optical drive attachment (SATA) it may be possible to get a drive bay adapter so you could at least add a SATA SSD perhaps.
Lenovo is really great when it comes to documentation and upgradability, but god forbid you wanna open one up to do so. Had the same experience with my ThinkPad. Took almost an hour of trying to get the bottom off.
Removable batteries are better than built-in rechargeables imo, since they are replaceable. I have a rotating sack of rechargeable AAs I use for various things.
Watching this on a Lenovo AIO in my office was... an experience. 🙃 Honestly though, I love Ryzen-based AIOs Lenovo makes, they are a really nice package price-to-performance-wise. The only downside is how annoying they are to disassemble and upgrade, they are really though out as back boxes that you set up in your office and never think about them until they decompose from old age.
My mom has one of those. It just received a brand new everything under warranty. The tech even busted the screen trying to get into it. It took two techs, with three visits to replace the MOBO and then it was missing the ribbon cable clamp, so they had to order a new one. With only a month left on the extended warranty, she got a new MOBO, processor and screen.
I've had that exact same mouse and keyboard, and the one thing I didn't enjoy was that the keyboard seemed to "time out" and I'd have to mash the keys a bunch before it came back to life for whatever reason.
You know, this system would actually be really cool if it had some reasonable laptop hardware in it. Like for example if it had a suitable display panel and something like a 3060m or 3070m, it would be a great video editing machine.
Unironically, the mousemat is one of the best that you can buy and that's really because of the design of the mousing-surface. Optical/laser mouses pin-point their location by tracking grades of hue (over-simplified), so a solid colored mousemat is actually the worst mat for tracking precision. The more busy a design is, the better the tracking the mouse has access to. Another thing is that if your desktop finish is woodgrain, forego a mousemat. Your naked desk offers all the tracking that you need, provided the woodgrain is horizontal, not vertical (Though we now are getting into neckbeard min-maxing territory). It doesn't matter that much in the end however- it's just something to keep in mind. So when you should consider a mousemat: When your desktop is in a solid color. When you don't need a mousemat: When your desktop has a woodgrain finish. Or basically any other finish aside from a solid color. Mousemats were designed to offer friction to the old ball-mouses. They're really not needed anymore because mouses today need a smooth friction-less surface and tracking by hue is good enough on it's own. However, mousing on a busy surface does help.
I like how you say "granny would buy this" because I actually wouldn't expect granny to buy this. It's unconventional, she either wants a laptop or a good 'ol box with some cables and a CRT next to it. And then still be scared that she's gonna get a virus from it
My grandmother is 93, still living independently, and she's so incredibly frugal that she'd end up with the cheapest refurbished office system that you can buy for 100 quid at HP or Dell resellers - and connect it to her CRT TV via SCART.
That disassembly is like opening a monitor and finding a laptop inside. If there is any PCIe lane available, even if it's through M.2 you could do a real upgrade and connect one of these external GPU thingies and throw a 4090 at it.
I come from the 90s. It blows my mind still that something like this which looks well made, is attractive enough, seems very functional and has such a large and pretty (relatively) display can be so absurdly cheap. Sometimes I think we need to step back and realize how things have progressed, Granny's computer here is actually pretty fricken great.
After you opened that thing up I had to pause the video and go pop the side panel off my PC as a sort of mental sorbet to get me ready for the next course.
watching this video actually brought back good old memories of what gaming looked like to me, before I had a job so I could afford a decent gaming PC xD
That guy you killed in Fortnite appears to be on the same PC as you For a little office setup though that's a pretty sweet deal. I'd happily use that for tedious entry work
this is the exact computer my granny has after she was finally convinced into replacing the last one. it's great for what she likes to do, which is pretty much just solitaire and light web browsing.
Well done for adding more memory, pity that it is not an easy end user option. What happed about the optional optical drive. Would have liked to see more touch screen
