The Windows XP SteamDeck... 

Props to Samsung for giving customer support for a 17 years old device

Huge props to Samsung for actually going through the effort of troubleshooting a 10+ year old product and providing some customer support for it! Now THAT'S some reliable service right there.

Working in customer service, I can totally relate with the Samsung CS. I would stay full time over the phone to help with something out of the ordinary tech support call. Removes our job boredom. Kudos to that CS guy and your efforts. More powers...

As somebody that works in IT Support, that Samsung technical support analyst deserves a medal. And a big bonus.

It's crazy how portable PCs got shat on during that time. It would be cool to see more.

He's back! Also, even Samsung predates the Steam Deck by like... 17 years?

Having dealt with Samsung support before, I am *stunned* they were even willing to talk about this one, let alone dig in and actually help. That rep deserves a promotion!

This is a new record, in 18 hours you've managed to make this tablet and every other one like it either extremely expensive £300 or so, but also the chargers are now £25 not £8 congrats.

I have a Q1 Ultra that I use quite regularly for car diagnostics. And it works great for old XP games that won't run on modern windows.

Great video! Hope the channel isn't dying like Low spec gamer

If it wasn't for guys like you then little gems like this would be lost to history. Sure, there might be an odd website or blog somewhere buried on the interwebs but these kind of videos really help. Mad props to Samsung too 👀

These were wildly popular in Korea. There was one guy in IT I worked with who absolutely loved the Sony UMPC because it offered him a much easier set up for on the floor IT work at the server farm or somewhere in the office. I managed to snag a WiBrain UMPC with Ubuntu for pretty cheap in Yongsan and took that baby home to install Knoppix STD for work. I still got it kicking around here somewhere. I'm really excited that Steam Deck kind of kicked off the UMPC revival here tho, and I love that GPD basically kept it alive all these years with their og Win handheld (which was lowkey the best IT tool I ever got my mits on).

So glad to see another upload! I like this little tablet quite a lot, UMPCs from this era had a lot of charm even if they were a tad underpowered. Nowadays it makes a great retro PC gaming box for the pocket, beats the heck out of an XP virtual machine on a phone in my opinion.

Glad to see you're back! I remember having the same language issues you had when translating it from russian to english way back in 2012 or 2013, while reinstalling windows and then using an english to portuguese patch I found online back then. Only way i found out of these bugs was upgrading to vista. I think thats the only time upgrading to vista solved anything

I used to use quite a few of these back in like 2008. We were using them at events for taking green screen photos with phones, bluetoothing it to the little PC, then uploading that directly to a web server for people to retrieve their photos. Besides the horrendous speed of how slow the HDD was, these little things actually ran quite well. And powered with an external battery, they'd run all day long. We even had some attached to mobile arms off backpacks and stuff so our brand ambassadors were completely mobile.

I hope you are okay budget builds

Oh great, I own one of these too. It's interesting how your copy of XP Tablet PC gave a lot of issues, mine went fluidly. Also, no, you can't install 10 or 11, 11 is a defo no since it's 64-bit only, and 8.1 or 10 won't start the installer because the CPU is missing PAE. Thankfully however Windows 7 and Vista are supported on it, and I've booted them alongside XP thanks to a 256GB ZIF SSD. Super smooth. Now only if I can get a new battery... (P.S. Minecraft 1.7.10 with Optifine at low ran at 7fps)

This is not a drill everyone, Budget Builds is finally back.

I wanted a UMPC so bad when I was a teenager, I loved the form factors and how small they were considering they were a full PC, and at the time they seemed so futuristic.

I have two later models of this, the Ultra ans Ultra Premium models. They actually have tiny keyboards built in, half on each side of the screen. I think they're super cool, really fun to mess around with older games on. Would have been amazing to have had one when they were new!

Prices of these have increased on eBay so you’re probably right the radar has picked them up. This video was filmed back in October 22 correct?

You are back. Cheers. Love your stories. Hope you always keep on doing these.

Ok now I want one LOL! I mostly stick with late 90s PC games, so I'd imagine that would do pretty good on a device like this. The concept of running Windows XP on the go sounds awesome to me! Not sure about getting one for parts as I'm not sure if replacement parts are available like a battery or (God forbid) a screen replacement. I wouldn't be worried about the RAM and HDD though cuz that can be upgraded easily like you showcased!

For someone who played Quake on the N95 and HTC Universal back then, this is awesome!

Its good to see a new video. Also what a device. That would be a dream computer for me back in time

do you think it could have been the old hdd causing installation woes? those old mini ide hard drives aren't known for longevity, and ssd upgrades are pretty easy to come by with the popularity of ipod ssd upgrades.

This is exactly the content I subscribed for! Much love from Germany, you legend

The legend is back, glad to see a new video. Love the content you make and distribute for us to enjoy!

Here's me, waiting for mr Budget-Builds to come back from Uni

I bought a Samsung Q1 in 2006. It still works until this day. I run a Linux distro on it and use it routinely to interface with other equipment in my lab. This was a great video. Took me back. 🙏

Been having a rough time of it and your videos always help me unwind (plus they let me appreciate my hardware alot more 🤣) Welcome back and happy new years 😊

This looks like a hell of a lot of fun. I've had a bit too smooth a year with computers and I yearn for some painful troubleshooting. I might treat myself.

The UMPC I salivated over wishing I could afford at the time was the OQO Model 02. I still kind of want a Model 01+ or Model 02. Being quite rare bits of tech I find it unlikely however :(

It’s great to see you back, and it’s amazing Samsung support actually helped out with a 15 year tablet

Such a wonderful surprise that you uploaded a video! And what an interesting device indeed!

Really cool video, man!! Thanks for all of the effort!

That was a really nice review and an excellent device - never would I have known that something that has a lot in common with the Steam Deck, would have been available in 2005/2006... And no, these won't stay under the radar now you've done a review about them.

i actually owned one of these. was never able to actually install any other operating system on it. after a few years in storage, i went back to it just to see the screen had smashed. Nice to see what it could have became of it

I loved the UMPC form factor ... when it was done well. I was an early user of the Viliv S5, which had noticeably useful features like Bluetooth for a wireless keyboard/mouse, a SIM card slot for a data plan modem, and GPS. And it was small enough to (barely) fit into a lot of my pockets. It was a lot more convenient than a laptop for contract work on-the-go, both on site (when allowed) and nights in dingy hotel rooms. Also IN THE CAR with a suction-cup mount it made for an excellent GPS to navigate unfamiliar distant locales. It was way more capable of smartphones at the time, and ran all of the developer apps I could ever need, including things like MS Office, MS Visual Studio, GIMP and Audacity. Plus it played some games. It was brilliant! It strikes me as so strange that this form factor stayed so niche, as it was everything I could ever want when I was on the go. With Skype it even made real phone calls. (Though I'd have preferred UMPCs to eventually include real phone systems. Which they still don't.) The Viliv S5 even had an FM radio. Whereas today you rarely even find SIM modems or radios in UMPCs. Heck, you can rarely even find a modern UMPC with more than one USB port either, as if it won't be constantly tied up for charging, which is weird considering how cut-down their feature sets usually are today. WHY?! Either give them hardware features built-in OR give them USB ports to add those features. (I'd prefer built-in, but you take what you can get.) It's the weird cut-down cost-saving nonsense that makes most UMPCs, then and now, pretty freaking useless as laptop replacements. That, and most won't fit into a pocket anymore, in spite of technology getting better and better. And why so few get a decent docking station... Honestly, all these years with them, and still no one, including their manufacturers, understand them. But maybe with the modern resurgence as portable game consoles, like the Steam Deck, maybe, just maybe, someone will finally get it right again, as the ultimate laptop replacement for people on-the-go and in-the-know.

Good to see your still among the living. Your vids are so relaxing and entertaining, glad you're back!!

There was a tool to overclock those GMA 900 chips in xp to 400 mhz if I remember. I think it also worked on the GMA 950. The software vertex shading ready killed the frame rate for some things still but it helped

Were people not aware of GPD when they were making tiny laptops/handheld PCs before the Steam Deck?

Love the old devices you look into and bring back to people's attention

Incredible work for a video! Respect!

On the USB stick , i find some older USB2 sticks are better for older devices or doing things like bios/firmware updates. I keep a 512mb ancient hardly USB 2.0 disk about for just stuff like this . I have tried to update firmware on some very high end kit from modern USB3 disks and had problems , throw it on that old 512meg disk and boom problem solved.

This whole thing is just...super awesome! I had no idea this thing existed. As a Steam Deck owner I would have LOVED this back in the day.

7:00 - "It was under that box about please consult corresponding mother" A common Windows XP Pitfall.

it's great to see a new video from you man, you make good content

I imagine your video made this device quite popular, as I tried to buy one three days after the video was released and the lowest price I could find was $130. Great video! Made me miss windows xp for some weird reason.

Never heard of this, but wow thats great, even looks good. reminds me of the wii u pad.

Man I missed your videos. Welcome back :)

Great watch as always! Cant wait until next time :D

You okay mate? Been six months.

Those 1.8 inch hard drives were also used on the Dell Inspiron D430. Good news you can upgrade to an MSATA ssd with the right hardware. Made my Dell a lot quicker.

So happy you're back! Good stuff, love dumb handheld computers like this. We missed ya :)

I would be very impressed if you decided to make a video using this device, rendering, mixing, and all that. A short 30 second sketch about drinking tea and browsing second hand sites would be good. I got my start on a different channel using windows xp movie maker

In around 2020, I've got the Lenovo T410 from recycling, it had one of the first SSDs in it (weird 1.8 micro SATA) and the reason why they tossed it out, the "dead" SSD, it decided to lock in Read Only mode. I've searched for firmware for it (it was crucial's OEM model) and found it, tried it and it failed to detect SSD (the issue was that default BIOS setup is AHCI, and software only works with legacy IDE emulation mode, that I've learned much later) I've contacted crucial support being sure that they'll laugh on me at best, but the guy on the line was really nice and helpful, after my complains about firmware missing on their site, he found it and emailed me the files, the same ones I've found and failed to install due to AHCI, but still kudos to them, and shame to intel to removing BIOSEs for "old" motherboards. SSD fixed itself after firmware update by the way, laptop still rocks Windows 10 like a champ.

Did you run out of budget for the next video? Just kidding lol

I was getting worried :) Glad to see you back.

This is a pretty cool and handy device. Amazing Vid !

My science teacher had an xp tablet in 2004, as an aspiring nerd I was blown away by such capabilities

That is an impressive portable computer. That Samsung actually helped troubleshoot such an old computer running an OS not supported for nearly a decade is... impressive :) Sadly the processor, while it supports PAE, does not advertise it in the CPUID instruction. Later revisions of the architecture did. Windows, starting in Windows 8, requires PAE and will refuse to boot. Linux has a patch where you can pass forcepae that will allow it to use PAE even if CPUID does not report it. There were a few patches for Windows 8 (note: not 8.1) but any update will break it. So Windows 7 is the last version you can install without patching and patching is fragile for Windows 8. Windows 11, furthermore, does not support 32-bit computers at all. For the graphics, Intel has a driver for Windows Vista, but not Windows 7. However, the Vista driver appears to work for people who upgraded from Vista to 7 with that GMA 900 (though it is not WDDM driver so no Aero). If you want to try to upgrade to Windows Vista or 7, that is potentially feasible without weird patches.

Really enjoyed the video amazing job

They're upwards of 200 now on ebay

God, I remember seeing these things as store demos when I was in high school and being bewildered at the form factor. They were expensive, too, like $1,300 or something. They later made versions running Vista that handled as well as you can imagine.

so hyped that there's still new uploads i hadn't seen one in a while, glad to see the retro pc goat back

Great videos, never knew this even existed pretty interesting to see earlier types of devices like this

my comment was deleted for having a link, but I had said that I know how to fix the archived recovery images, you just need to go into the $oem folder and delete all of the MUI files, and edit the autorun to exclude them. I spent hours trying to fix this same Russian problem when I used those images on my q1 ultra

This thing is even weirder than I thought. I kinda love those UMPCs, they still seem so futuristic to me. I mean, a whole proper PC in an almost pocket size, modern tablets are pretty boring in comparison lol By the way, if you didn't know, you can fully update Windows XP and actually restore its Update feature with legacy update. I don't know if updating XP would actually make a difference in performance, but that would be an interesting video idea maybe.

Welcome back man 😊 hope you've had a great Christmas 😊

The amount of patience to go through constant error is truly commendable. Knowing this made it a hell of a lot cooler!

Please come back bro

what happend to this channel??? no uploads for ages

Good stuff, good to see you upload again, and less than a day after I commented on your last video :)

fantastic return video!!! Glad to have you back!!! hope all is well!

have you stopped making videos?

I genuinely thought this channel was dead. Nice seeing a new fun video from you again 👍

This was honestly pretty impressive considering when it came out. Nice video!

*checks your pulse* Are you okay? We love you and your videos, and we miss you!

But can it run steamos

man have i missed your content. it's always a pleasant surprise when you upload a new video. You make me feel at home, as corny as that sounds. Keep it up!

you're like the jeremy clarkson of old dated tech, I love it

Budget I’m ur biggest fan 😍

can it run crysis ?

So happy to see a new video

finally you are back after 4 month of waiting ! keep it up

It was only a couple of days ago when I was lying in bed looking for something to watch on RU-vid. And I thought to myself. I wonder where budget builds is, it's been a while. And now after seeing the trouble you have had with this. I see why it's been a while. You have more patience than me mate 🤣 Glad to see you're doing well

I've never seen one before. Very cool. Good find!

great video! liked and subbed :)

Thank you for the unique video 🙂

Great video, and kudos to the Samsung support for helping to get it up and running, I'm surprised they didn't just say it's no longer supported. Though you're putting the device at a potentially high risk by taking that thing online especially without antivirus running on it. Granted there's probably less of them spreading around the internet, though years ago it was possible to almost immediately become infected with worms or trojans due to how far out of date it is and no longer receiving security patches. It's possible that time-frame has mostly passed with less and less XP devices being on the internet, though I would have connected it to an isolated SSID with firewall rules to only allow the device to talk to the internet and nothing else locally as a safety precaution, especially if you have any other retro devices on your network as well.

I have a samsung phone (s23u) for the first time now and absolutely love it. Like samsung in general. Now I like them even more. The fact that they spent so much time helping you make the device work is awesome. And this thing looks like such a cool device. Imagine having that back in 2006

That SC3K music in the background is so charming. Thank you.

i brought myself a Steam Deck the other day, its been amazing so far, and I'm not even close to getting everything I what running it but it's such a refreshing PC experience I've found joy in gaming for the first time in the better part of a year. then along comes your video I find it mind-blowing this is a path we have been down in the past. its also got me nostalgic for the XP tablet experience, need to add windows XP duel boot to my steam deck wish/to-do list XD

What a glorious return!

That's incredible! And at the same time makes me appreciate the PSP even more.

Greetings! Your video came up as a recommend one for me and I’m glad it did! It was nice seeing someone else with one of these UMPC’s! I have two that I’ve had for quite a while. Both where second hand eBay purchases so I did not have much more than the unit’s which one is lacking a charger! On my main one, it has the stock operating system. I’m not sure if I can make an image to have to install to yours as I’ve never had any luck moving older OS’s from one system to another.

I would never have had the patients or ingenuity to get this thing running. Kudos.

Welcome back man, i miss your video.

WOOT!! You are back!! I thought you had died or gone to jail!!!! Now, onto watching the video....