The Last of the Old Atoms. 

LIKE IF YOUR'RE WATCHING BUDGET OFFICAIL BIULDS ON 2019!!!!!!

Fun fact, the Intel n450 doesn't support speculative execution, thus isn't vulnerable to Spectre...

“Let’s see how it hold up in 2019” > 1GB DDR2

He's back! I believe I had an Acer netbook with that CPU. It was actually reasonably useful with using Office and browsing the Internet. But I must have gotten frustrated with it, because I bought a proper laptop shortly after :)

My dad still uses one of these and blames the fact that pages take 5 mins to load on our WiFi...still it's cool you can run windows on such a low voltage

The fact that you included a Linux option earns you a thumbs up

”Epic streaming pc for free” Would be nice clickbait hamish

nooo not the n450 *vietnam flashback*

N450 eh.. I played an old version of ePSXe with dx3D 6 petes plugin.. I love it. The only problem with the N450 is that... you'll have trouble running anything past 2002.

Came for the curiosity of the video, stay for The Sims background music.

Really like that The Sims music in the background tho

My mom bought one of these netbooks in early 2010 with a similar atom. I remember it being a decent little thing. It was powerful enough to play RuneScape with my brother even at 4 or 5 years old.

Now the real test: will an actual potato perform better?

I got my first computer when I was 2, a Dell Inspiron Mini laptop with an Intel Atom. It still runs to this day on Ubuntu instead of Windows XP.

This gave me unbearable flashbacks and muscle contractions Nah but fr great job man, glad to see your back, and with ads this time

I use MSI U90 on antix/xubuntu nowadays as main driver. It has 2GB of ram, and N270 overclocked to 2GHz. Also I used GMABooster to take the GPU to 400MHz. It can run 720p videos in SMPlayer with ease, as well as in Kodi whilst streaming. With CoreAVC plugin on Win7, it uses about 60% of CPU to run 1080p videos. Also, Quake III works quite well. I simply cannot bring myself to buy new PC as long as I don't get to do serious programming in Uni, since CodeBlocks and a bit of Eclipse for java works just fine on this one...

finally a new video, got back to rewatching some of your content lately, loving it man, keep up the great work! the Atoms were always really interesting to me because of the extremely low TDP, like some newer ones (x7-z8750), with 4cores and 4 threads, has a TDP of 2W. and it actually ran stuff better than I thought it would. and fuck, your voice is sexy, i missed it. BTW I'm Kakoka, this is my second channel. Also my main rig with the HD4670 died 2 days ago, PSU blew up(I put in a x3470 to replace the i3-550, which has a TDP of 95W compared to 71W, it lasted for 3 weeks but the poor 250W PSU couldn't handle it), I'm gonna test the system with some other PSU someday

Wowww this takes me back I remember being stuck with an Atom N270 based netbook for a couple of years, I'm pretty sure that any of todays budget machines are an absolute dream compared to what I was stuck with back in 2009. It's always fun to see how much you can do when stuck with an insanely slow CPU though and watching this definitely gave me some flashbacks. :P

Use mini pci-e adapter for the laptop and add your AMD Fury That would be pretty coool

I transformed one of those things into a non-stop running HTPC for my parent's fitness room. It plays an infinite loop of downloaded Ramones clips into the TV from a thumb drive. Father is a great singer.

I miss my little netbook. I used to play early Minecraft on it while deployed, and its battery lasted longer than everyone else’s laptop, and it came with a camera for Skype. It eventually died when I spilled a drink on it.

This channel is just amazing. Every video is very interesting and has a unique touch to it

I wanted to make a joke about Crysis but I was worried you won`t see it on that netbook. It won`t load 2:35 :D

I had a Toshiba NB 200 for almost 10 years - little thing literally travelled around the world with me and been to about 10 countries. During that time, it went down from an 8hr battery life to a 5hr one, and only needed a display ribbon cable replaced, and a keyboard (which was my fault - smashie smashie). One of the first things I did to it was upgrade the RAM to 2GB, which helped a lot, and then I put a 250 gb disk up from a 120 or something. This thing was a tank - it took everything I threw at it, was highly portable, and very durable. It's currently in Cuba, as I traded it away for a private day-package tour instead of paying 160 CUC (which is about what I paid for the netbook in 2006) to a teacher moonlighting as a tour guide with a cab. He loved it. I also gave him a bunch of DDR RAM, an extra 2.5 inch hard disk and some USB keys. AFAIK it's still down there, being lovingly used with Ubuntu Mint, and will likely still be used for some time. It's good to see it continues to be used for teaching :D

I think we had that Atom in a Packard bell back in the day and damn was it slow. I have such bad memories with it since we had to survive with it for over a year due to how our family desktop died and we had to wait until we could get a new one..

As it is my first laptop in my entire life, I hold it dear to me because up until now, I still have it beside me. I remember when I was still 14 years old that I create/edit youtube videos in it so I could try the feeling of being a RU-vid content creator. But, of course. The specs isn't enough. I remembered the old days when I read throughout every system requirements just to be able to fully run a game without any hiccups. The old days. Those were golden memories... Also, try using Osu! as a benchmark for low spec pc cause the game can run on a potato and the game is also fun to play!

I recently found my old Toshiba NB200, uses the N280 Atom. I put a 2Gb stick of ram, and a 120Gb SSD in it and it runs Linux Mint XFCE fairly well. It's proving to be a very usable device.

One of the current examples of how technology has advanced so much Even a phone can play 1080p60 and higher videos, able to play 3D games such as PUBG M, CODM, Genshin Impact, so on and so on

Funny I stumbled on your video the day after I gave a new lease of life to my EeePC 900a (atom N270, even less powerful than yours) by installing the linux antiX distribution on it. For all you said here which is right on the money, let me point out that if you're not a gamer, the wimpy eeepc 900a runs libreoffice without breaking a sweat. In ten years I used it countless of times to correct on the fly some jobs I was paid to do. In the train, in cars, in planes, on vacations, anywhere. Each time I've charged my client more than the price I bought this machine new back in 2008 ; so in 10 years, this machine probably paid for itself a couple dozen times. Not bad. Today it's semi-retired, but I have a 7yo son that's not yet ready for AAA action, and Ltris, xgalaga and a couple of other 2d or puzzle games will keep him occupied while this machine itself is ideally rugged to handle his temper, but light enough he can haul it everywhere like a handheld game console. So depending on your needs, such a computer can be in fact an ideal budget solution for some use cases.

puppy linux runs really well on these pcs get the modded drivers for the gma 3150 and games will run better on windows

Glad to see you're back, top quality video as always, keep em coming.

I had a high end Atom laptop made around the same date as those. I couldn't have been happier with its performance. It ran contemporary games fine. Low graphics but still max resolution and decent framerate, certainly more than playable. Windows 7 Home, 4GB of RAM, and frankly it was more powerful (minus the GPU) than my old Core2Duo gaming laptop just a few years earlier. The complete low end netbooks of the day might have performed about as well as you could expect, but for a high end Atom computer I was delighted, 11 inches, 10 hours of battery, and able to run all of the hobby-like games perfectly, able to play youtube videos without issue. It all but replaced my gaming laptop, with the vast majority of my time split between my Atom laptop and my desktop.

Glad to see the official budget builder is back! When you mentioned how to get it for free, I chuckled since about 2 months back, I picked a Dell netbook with an Atom N455 out of the recycling. Could barely get it to run Lubuntu let alone game. Also, browsing was exactly as bad as you suggested (240p was only way to get good enough frames to watch).

Great little chip. Everything's going towards the phone processors now. I mean, look how far they've come in such a small amount of time. You can have a quad core ARM chip which does the same as an Atom, and uses even less power, and is even smaller. Bonkers. Love the sims music in the background. Gorgeous 👍😊

Intel Atom: I'm a bad potato processor Intel Celeron: *mashed potatoes sounds*

This is literally the first thing you’ve posted this year, it been 4 months well done for actually coming back I thought you left RU-vid.

Love these videos man, keep it up. Excited for future stuff!

Notice how different result in running games on Linux NATIVELY and in Wine - this is exact reason why linux community demands for actual port and native build and not another "lets wrap stuff in wine" answers. RU-vid on Linux with Firefox? Say WHAT? You should use Smplayer with MPV, i guess it would allow higher resolution and maybe even hardware acceleration if there any. Also, about setup linux on Atom, well, you missed most fun it has before. At ti,e when netbooks was fresh, its was hardly possible to run stock kernel on such machines. For example i had one of eeePC with Atom and i had to use special kernel made by fans to get stuff (bluetooth, Wifi) actually working. Needless to say, years after that, when i tried to revive device with just Lubuntu everything worked fine from the box, since needed drivers and patches found their way in stock distro kernel.

Aah yes, I remember this well. Nice video. This reminds me very much of the Acer Aspire One ZG5 that you tested previously (N270/GMA950) as well as the HP Mini 110 that I recently sold online for a friend (again, N270/GMA950). And performance was basically not much different. I still reckon that GTA Vice City would have been better on a Playstation 2 console. I also reckon CS1.6 would have been better than CS Source as the former would at least be playable, instead of looking like a PowerPoint. This also confirms that Windows 7 (whatever version it was) was the wrong OS to use on the ZG5 and that Windows XP was the best Windows OS to use on low end hardware like this. And regarding security, well, Windows 7 (any version) has less than 1 year of support left, so it will soon be in the same boat as Windows XP. Maybe Lubuntu Linux was the best OS for casual stuff like web browsing (what these things were designed for), Windows 7 Starter was the best for anything "modern" and Windows XP was the best overall choice, including gaming (not that this thing will game anyway, as from the benchmarks you demonstrated on both netbook reviews). I struggled to get even 360p RU-vid (without h264ify) so congrats on getting that working! Overall? Don't get one of these. A modern Atom might be ok, but my phone likely has more power than any Atom based system, as well as a higher resolution screen and a better battery life and usability.

Glad your back :) hope you had a lovely break.

1½ year ago my computer broke down, and I was stuck with a netbook (same specs except 2GB RAM) for 4 months. Browsing internet was pure terror, but man - I have never played so many good games in such short time. Strict limitations can be very good for your creativity... For shits and giggles I kept a list of the games that I have successfully played on the netbook. I have used low settings when needed, often the native resolution of 1024x600 and achieved "playable" framerates of 30+ fps (with the exception of Halo and Soldier of Fortune 2). - Age of Wonders - Age of Wonders - Wizard's Throne - Age of Wonders - Shadow Magic - Alien vs Predator Classic - Arcanum of Steamworks and Magic Obscura - Arma Cold War Assault - Avadon - Black Fortress - Baldur's Gate 1 - Baldur's Gate 1 - Battle for Wesnoth - Delta Force 1 - Delta Force 2 - Delta Force 3 - Land Warrior - Delta Force 4 - Task Force Dagger - Deus Ex - Diablo - Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition - Dungeon Siege 1 - Dungeon Siege 2 - Fallout 1 - Fallout 2 - Fallout Tactics - Freedom Fighters - Freelancer - Ghost Recon - Gothic 1 - Gothic 2 - Grand Theft Auto 3 - Grand Theft Auto Vice City - GzDoom 1.8.02 (Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Strife) - Half-Life (turn off the hq models and textures!) - Halo - Heroes of Might & Magic III - Hidden & Dangerous Deluxe - Hitman 1 - Icewind Dale 1 - Icewind Dale 2 - Jagged Alliance 1 - Jagged Alliance 2 - Masters of Magic - Max Payne 1 - Max Payne 2 - Might & Magic 6 - Might & Magic 7 - Morrowind - Mount & Blade - OpenXcom - Outcast - Planescape Torment - Privateer - Gemini Gold - Project I.G.I - Quake 1 - Quake 2 - Quake 3 - Retro City Rampage - Return to Castle Wolfenstein - Rune - Shadow warrior: Classic Complete - Soldier of Fortune 1 - Soldier of Fortune 2 - Soldiers of Anarchy - Starcraft - Star Trek - Elite Force 1 - Star Trek - Elite Force 2 - Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2 - Outcast - Star Wars - Jedi Academy - Sum of All Fears - SWAT 3 - System Shock 1 - System Shock 2 - Temple of Elemental Evil - The Thing - Tiberian Sun - Unreal Gold - Unreal Tournament '99 - World of Goo Don't forget that you can emulate everything up to Playstation 1 / N64 as well.

These little computers were great for learning programming languages, since almost all computer languages in 2010 would run on this, paired with a lightweight text editor, you had a decent python/php/java/c++ machine.

you help me learn more about computers thanks!

glad you started testing lightweight linux distros for older hardware. I have an old atom based HP mini and I love it to bits for a "dumb terminal" (linux without graphics server and only text based stuff for remote management, chat, etc. With such small power draw and a beefy extended battery I can easily get 8 hours of screen on time!

Wow. I want one of these to run DOS on it. Sweet, sweet raw performance

I have this processor, upgraded to 2gb of ram and tried an underclocked RX 460 (Power brick limitations). It actually did great in Left For Dead 2, something like 40-90fps.

What's scary is that this is a big step up over the Atom N270 in the first-gen Lenovo S10 I owned. That thing's super-low 1024x600 screen resolution meant that some games wouldn't even install. It was slooooooooooow. They were a noble idea, but netbooks weren't anything but painful until the Asus X205 and HP Stream 11 came along. I would use Steam's in-home streaming to play Metro 2033 at maxed out settings on my X205, which was kind of surreal.

Loved that you used Build 1 from the Sims as the background music.

Glad to see you back after a short while :)

2:57 **looks at the another monitor** LV. 600 BOSS

Wow who is this Budget builds, his videos are awesome.

Man, I'm glad you are back. It was boring without you. I watched all of your old videos all over again. Can you make a video about a Duron processors? :)

The Atoms were delightful. My Dell Mini 10v had the older N270 with GMA950 graphics, and while that too was drastically underpowered, it ran Mac OS X Snow Leopard beautifully (that's mostly why I bought it). I even tried to edit some 720p video in iMovie on there, and despite the chip almost giving me third degree burns on my lap, it did work! Nowadays though even with a lightweight Linux distro it's really really showing it's age.

And I thought my Celeron was slow...

They are certain not worth it! lol I have an Atom laptop I've been thinking of playing with eventually.

My life's shit but at least I don't have one of these notebooks as a daily driver. Thanks for uploading, hope to see more.

Ayy great to see back!! :D

I'd prefer an AMD APU for a netbook.

Some of them like the hp mini 110 had a optional crystal decoder for video, but i never found one specimen of this rare bizarre thing

I have a Lenovo S10 with such cpu but upgraded to 2GB since early days. In 2016 it has been upgraded to Win7 with SSD. It serves well as a Citrix client, for RDP and running putty. In its early life, it was even running a VMware player with a work image so that I can use corporate domain and vpn software on a personal machine. As a infrastructure person, it has been brought overseas for 2 critically important business trip in 2017 and 2018. It can still run chrome reasonally well and can help me to book flights and hotel, doing online check-ins ...etc. Setting up switches and firewalls using putty, brought up servers from ilo, rdp into them and setup clusters and brought up VMs for a site. The good thing is that it has a proper Lan port. I think this piece of hardware had really over archieved. Of course, browsing google map is now slow and youtube can only barely play at viewable framerates at 360p. But if any vendor can bring a machine with modern processing power with the same form factor, i think I will buy another one and have it serving for another 10 years.

I have three netbooks, one of them was a halftop with N280, other one was HP with N455 and a good o' Lenovo that used to be my relatives' machine with N470. The Lenovo one was a sentimental value to me and had a very long story about it.

Damn, much slower than my Atom Z3745D. lmfao.

I thought you died. Edit: Great video as always Budget.

I bought an MSI Wind U135DX back in February 2011. It had 1GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD loaded with 7 Starter, a 1024x600 display and an Atom N455. I actually *REALLY* liked it when I first picked it up. I was only really using it for coding light applications, so I never noticed most of the complaints others had about the Atom chips of the time. Before long it was running Linux exclusively for Python development and I genuinely didn’t mind it at all. My mom liked mine so much she went out and bought one herself. I wouldn’t use one now, of course, but I do have fond memories of late nights typing away on that thing with RU-vid videos running in the background and liters of soda to keep me going. I dug it out in about 2016 and installed Linux on it fresh to see how it had held up. Yikes...

This was interesting. Can't wait for the next one!

Watching on my tablet that has a Z3580 quad core 2.33ghz atom

Now im interested i seeing one of those dual core atom n330 netbooks with a nvidia ion chipset like the asus eeepc 1201n and see how far you can push that.

... I didn’t look at what channel had uploaded it as this popped up in my recommendations. Just the title, not thumbnail or anything else either... I thought it was going to be a weird thing about physics... Now I wish there was a video about old atoms dying out and some sort of new magic atoms taking over... But this was fun to watch too

So glad you're back man

I have an Acer Aspire One D270 with an Intel atom n2600, I'm running Windows 10 32 bit with 2 gb of RAM, and it still struggles to keep up

Nice one, try install gentoo on the atom! ~Roger

I had a similar model with the same cpu all those years ago, it was good for reading pdfs, note pad, word pad and basic light surfing whilst listening to mp3 music with win amp, at the time it has handy whilst travelling around whilst I was doing my PhD. It was easy to carry and had some uses.it came bundled free with the use 3g dongles.

Was starting to worry about you. Great video, sir. As always.

maybe he'll be able to run minesweeper on windows xp? edit: 1gb ddr2🤣 I thought my 4gb ddr3 was bad

I still have my old Dell Inspiron 1010. I used it all throughout high school because it was super portable. Now, it sits as a Volumio machine on my home stereo because that's pretty much all it can handle in modern world applications.

I have been a user of Intel graphics chips in laptops for many years, I can say with certainty that the chips are more powerful than they appear, there were driver modifiers that extracted every last drop, as well as adding non-existent features like opengl. You also can't use Steam games as a measure of comparison, these source engine games have been improved over the years, with better textures, shaders, etc., to look more beautiful, but they have become more demanding than their 2004 counterparts.

I used to take my netbook to transfer music to people's phone at work. Worked great for that!

Finally bro you’ve started to post again! We’re glad you’re back at the vids😀

My wife bought me that exact laptop for my deployment to Afghanistan, so that we wouldn't care if it got destroyed by the dust and heat. I quickly upgraded the ram to max speed and size. That made a very noticeable difference in performance. The little guy held up great and I still have it although the battery is dead. It ran Skype and youtube well and that's all I cared about for my "travel" laptop. I was a helicopter pilot so I would take it with me as I hopped around the AO. I had a nicer laptop that didn't leave my room, that I used for HD videos and other intensive tasks. But I loved that Samsung, because it worked and if it broke, we weren't out a lot of cash. The dust over there is insane and will smother electronics, over time.

You missed a gem. Couple month ago I pulled one such nettop out of storage since I was going to a LAN party and one of my friends is a MAC user. I tried to run SWAT 4 (2005) and got a slideshow. But then I reinstalled Windows 7 to remove all bloat and OC it with SetFSB to 2.1GHz (26,5% OC, more was unstable). Thing is, while this OC method is quite dangerous, iGPU getting OC too (was main focus actually). I launched SWAT 4 and it *ran playably* . It turned out pretty capable machine after that. Now I wanna upgrade RAM to 2GB in hopes to run even more games (it actually uses up to 256MB of *shared* memory, so in fact you should've tried upgrading it for this video).

That's The Sims 1 music in the background... now? :O The memories rush in. Haven't played it in like 10 years but that music is burnt into my mind.

I had Asus EEE PC 1005pe netbook in 2010 and I really loved it, it had Atom N450. Upgraded it with 2gb of ram and played World of Warcraft with ~25fps, as long as I stayed out of the larger cities. Battle for Wesnoth, C&C Renegade, Battlefield 1942, Starcraft etc. old games. Battery life was amazing, 12 hours with the screen on. I was conscripted to finnish military and I could put torrents on for the night or fall asleep with the laptop on bed. Typing was great and the machine fit on my pocket.

Oooh!! I missed your smooth voice!! My brother got the same netbook and I remember how he got really mad when he played RU-vid.

Excellent video! See you in 2 months!

Hey gotta say u make the best vids, my favourite is the 775 build vid

Love these super low end videos. Just wish you could expand your library of test games.

Using The Sims 1 soundtrack for background music = instant sub.

A few years back, I picked up for £40, what I regard as, one of the very last old skool netbooks - the Packard Bell EasyNote ME69BMP form 2014. These were basically the cheapest laptops on sale in PC World up until the likes of those HP Stream laptops (and its various rivals) came about with their stupidly small 32GB eMMC hard drives. There was a sense when using this netbook that they had finally become decent with usable performance compared with the early netbooks of the N200/N400 series Atoms, and even N2600/2800 Atom era. This had one of the very early Baytrail Celerons, specifically the N2805, with 2 GB RAM, Windows 8 and a 320GB hard drive. It also had a touchscreen which worked fairly well. And overall it was a perfectly decent machine with decent battery life (for the time) and was properly usable. RU-vid playback at 720p was also no issue, and so was 1080p (provided it wasn't a 1080p 60 video). With an upgrade to 4GB RAM (its maximum) and an SSD, it even ran Windows 10 smoothly.

These are actually perfect little machines for things like diagnostics in cars or machinery. I even use one to run my cnc router. They're also pretty sturdy which makes them even more suited for workplace tasks.

I was wondering what happened to you but I didn't see this video in my sub box for some odd reason. I'm a week late but still, good to see you back

I've got mine that has N570 on it! It was a 1015PX model from ASUS n forever I am grateful cause that laptop has teached me to be VERY PATIENT. Going strong 7 years till now =)

Got one still in use every day since 2010 :) (N450, 2 g ram, 64g ssd) It started as a just for fun project, now if it dies, I will really miss it. 1. It's hooked to a 720p TV and works as a media center. Runs the latest 64 bit linux mint mate, and plays back movies from network shares. I found smplayer as the best solution, way more friendly on resources than VLC. 2. 720p youtube also works with minitube, free on linux. 3. Network backup server --> I have both win/linux and mac systems around the house, so I use the netbook as their backup (backing up the desktop, documents, etc folders to an external USB HDD) 4. Started to script some home automation stuff, works beautifully. 5. It's fun. I really love to squeeze out the maximum of these low end machines. If this machine dies I will get an Rpi and port every function to it. It will be a really fun project :)

What a coincidence, I was looking for similar typewriter-tier device a few weeks ago, and for the same price it was either this model or Aspire One 522 with AMD C-60. With whopping 1MB of l2 cache and 2 (overclockable!) cores it's pretty snappy and it even supports 4gig DDR3 sticks. God, I miss the times when such small devices had removable storage and RAM, that SSD did wonders to it. Pretty handy daily driver, and integrated HD6290 even handles Portal on minimals. I hope you'll get a chance to review one from the red side, they are pretty interesting.

I had an Aspire One with a N450 and installed a BCM70012 hardware video decoding card which helped a lot with playing video.

At 2015, I was looking for a cheap netbook, just for my university studies (I could not afford anything over $100 at that time), for just as running linux for programing, have something for taking notes in classes, and watch mkv videos at spare time. There was a huge variety of used netbooks with intel atom n450, but slightly over $100 (yeah, in Hungary, used electronics prices are kind a ridiculous), but then I saw an Asus Eeepc 1015BX, with AMD Apu. The main reason I bought that (around for $85, in perfect condition, slightly used) was, that it had a hdmi output. And as I read after, for a reason. 1080p mkv was played outputed just as from any new video card. That AMD mobil apu was a muscle pc compared to anything with the n450. Also it did run win7 and win10 smoothly. Hmmm, good old days...

Absolutely loving used song playlist

Nice to see back

I used a PC very similar to yours as a file server with a Linux install. Worked well.

I have a Samsung NC10 netbook which was briefly shown in your video, it uses the Atom. I go to the public library frequently and use the wifi in the library. With earphones on I listen to music and watch videos on RU-vid with no problems. I cheated a bit by spending 10 bucks on a memory upgrade to 2gb. I also had to put in a new battery. I wiped off xp and put on Lubuntu. I do use it and do enjoy it. It plays RU-vid good and I put in a collection of games that it plays nicely, backgammon, chess and so forth. Also I put on chromium with hangouts and can make phone calls from it for free with the wifi. At home I have a nice laptop to use for my daily driver but to carry around this Atom netbook is light and works well for all my needs.

I’m so happy. Your are back