I restored the WORST laptop Apple ever made 

that caught me completely off guard, I piggy-laughed even!

I just logged in on my phone just so I could also post comment about bursting out laughing about this statement.

It's always fun when people who don't speak like me break out of their shell.

"Don't sugarcoat Sundance, give it to me straight".

This is the funniest part to me​@@IntegerOfDoom Collin is very G rated in my opinion

Someone put SponsorBlock's highlight on that and they have my heartfelt thanks.

Can be said for everything apple though

Didn't swear during the whole video... "This is going to be Ad Family Friendly Safe"... then he drops of S Bomb because it had to be said

Yep I wish we could get more product tech reviewers to be honest and state that “it’s frankly a Piece of 💩” instead of pushing product and not biased due to free products, but is wishful thinking at best?

A true road apple.

The biggest technician that ever lived

Hinge Problems

its the greatest technician thats ever lived

HP=Hinge Problems

still can't tell if jeff or jeff

"Hey... you wanna see the worst laptop I own?"

Now it's *really* hard to tell if jeff or jeff @@CraftComputing

I think it's important to preserve the laptop Apple would like us to forget, and document why it sucked.

Throw the towel… yea, that’s it. ;-)

*something

​@@stefanocrespi5424 I was meant to type something but autocorrect came out of the grave and fucked me up

But if there is any product by any company that can it, it's Apple and their crappy laptops.

Oh I dunno... LGR tried restoring a hot wheels (barbie?) PC and said f u c k

And the last person _I_ would expect to say "shit". Twice.

The Walmart special

Chrysler was so bad until all the problems were fixed by the dealer..on your time.

RCA was at the top of the world at one point

Chrysler Cars I've always had Goodluck with and if mine gives me issues now it will have nothing to do with it being a Chrysler since the car is 21 years old with 249000 miles.

the comment is so funny, yet so sad at the same time

lmao i understood that reference

Nice one. >w>

Underrated comment

lost it @ this.

A company I did a job for had bought thousands of these for execs. Most of them ended in skips, completely unused.

I snorted at that line and absolutely had to follow instructions on that. My god Colin, I would’ve pitched the thing into the trash after only half of what you went through on this laptop.

I have no large experience with Acer but they're seemingly pretty average, a friend of my grandparents got an 15" Aspire ES1 and it's okayish with i3-6006U, the LCD panel has 1080p resolution, still got optical drive and just 4 GB of RAM, however DDR4 and another slot is available, three USB-A but sadly one on of them a 3.0. But they really put a 1 TB mechanical hard drive into that thing (at that time 240/250 GB SSDs were available at the same price of a 1TB 2.5" HDD) I recently serviced it and it enraged me once more how slow Windows 10 due to that spinnin' rust was! So I got a 250 GB SSD where I cloned Windows onto and also a stick of RAM to have dual-channel, now it really runs and also boots up in around 20 seconds instead of far above 2 minutes to get to the login screen and easily another minute to the desktop! And no joke, I bought a 2017 iMac 21.5" 4K a year ago (with i5-7400, 8 GB of RAM, Radeon Pro 555 and 1TB HDD) and this ran the final official mac OS version - Ventura from HDD better than Windows 10 on that Acer laptop. Also barely seen some outstanding concepts and innovations, at least their ConceptD line has some nice styling similar to Asus' ProArt and Gigabyte's Vision lines, if the prices are similar I'd rather choose such a Laptop or small Desktop over a overstyled Predator/ROG/TUF/Aorus Gaming machine.

I just had four slot 1 motherboards fail in front of me. I can feel this.

I'm working on a Sega Game Gear...I got it all nicely recapped after being blasted with fish stink all afternoon, only to have the contrast wheel explosively decompose

Hence bullshit.computer exists for a reason

At least it isn't a Coleco Adam.

@@MrJohndoakes Isn't that the computer that wipes the cassettes when you turn it on

5300/190 definitely need to be up there (along with the Duo 2300c, which wasn't a terrible design but was just SLOW due to its architecture - my family had two of them). But the 145B/150 as the maximally cost-reduced 100 series should be up there.

The worst was the non-stick power lead jack, which would do anything not to stay put in the power socket. Sneeze anywhere near your 5300 with a depleted battery and watch your machine switch off in disgust.

I agree with just about everything here, but the battery thing is massively overblown. The units with Lithium batteries never made it to customers. The fires were all apple employees or in the factory (only around 3 I believe). The real unfortunate part is that it hit the press, meaning that people still talk about it. The main disappointment is that they had to switch back to NiMH batteries - that lowered the battery life. That’s what should be criticized, not the fires which also weren’t even apple’s fault.

The 5300 series were still useable/connectable/expandable. The 150 was extremely limited in every conceivable way.

But the 5300 saved the world.

i dont think he was able to format the drive though

Oh, but it didn't break him.....he forced it to continue to live.

That RAM is worth more than the laptop!

it's kind of weird to think that in a generation this hobby won't even exist because all our current tech is designed to end up as e-waste

I know a few people who picked them up as auxiliary laptops for their small size and light weight. It may have been designed for the casual consumer, but they were appreciated by (e.g.) techs who were highly mobile during the work day. It served a specialized niche between "actual laptop" and "tablet with keyboard."

At least the 12" had its compromises for plausible reasons (for extreme compactness). The 150 was just "let's keep ripping out features until we can ship this under $X and still have whatever margin we want." It must have been painful to work on the team that made that thing.

Stick Apple Silicon in there and swap out the keyboard for a Good keyboard and it would make for a pretty good Chromebook competitor. Maybe they can even hit the $400 range if they use an A-series chip instead, it would still be faster than many Chromebooks today.

Which one? Clamshell, white, or both?

@@und4287 The white iBook with the Rage 128 GPU. The clamshell iBooks were also very difficult to get into, but they didn't have the same GPU issues that the later white iBooks had.