The World's Smallest Windows PC in 2007! OQO Model 02 

Me too! I fell in love when I saw this as like, a ten year old 🤣

Dad?

@B3ro1080 no i want this one

@@matthewwilde5222 unfortunately there's nothing that Microsoft or any PC manufacturer could have done to prevent the laptop industry from being devastated by Android because Android is essentially just a generic PC with generic power PC hardware marketed to the same business user except for the one secret weapon that Google had that say it apart from some generic Linux for Apple product was the advertising partnership that was demonstrated with RU-vid prior to Androidand therefore it's undateable that Android would have all the support as far as cellular broadband goes and as we've seen now that Android has matured it has absolutely copied windows and it's evolution in terms that Android is geared for custom operating systems for cellular broadband providers just like Windows has different versions of its operating system however the main difference with the Android is that the internet service provider can control and prevent using Android as a router but with Windows there's nothing to stop a user from turning their ultra portable laptop into a Wi-Fi router.

@B3ro1080 Sir what I mean is that hardware and software used with Android is favorable for Windows to be adapted for it which is why they were Android devices that can run Windows via an Intel processor. Android uses JavaScripts to replicate the same programming on windows and android also is marketed to the same business user as windows. Microsoft in the end had no choice but to have compatibility with Android because Google use advertising partnership to get everyone on their side to use universal scripts over proprietary web software which Microsoft had originally made their Fortune by monopolizing proprietary software on the internet.

so true. I still think that having a dedicated gaming - music - camera device is superior than all in one devices now.

yeah, now we own a bunch of devices that look the same but are priced differently. Irreparable, quickly prone to obsolency and not even candidates for being collectible.

Tech companies were pretty much just throwing shit at the wall to see what stuck.

Not only in tech. May I remind you the outfits?

Same it was one of my favorite areas. I'm just naturally drawn to weird mobile devices

Still would be if it ran decently lol

MAN I swear

Probably would be better off with a VAIO UX.

I bought one for 5 dollars and it ran gta san andreas and cs 1.6 fine Btw it had windows xp

I used it for RunScape xD and With VAIO UX and VAIO P

the windows chime playing through it killed me

Sounds exactly like an angle grinder. Painful but hilarious

Dying sheep noise

I couldn't help but cringe. A hard drive should never sound like that oh god.

Poor little guy's doing his best :(

Right???

i'm still wearing shirts from 2007!

I feel old too when I see 2007 tech. And i was born in 95

@@CoffeeSuccubus Same, year ahead of you in age and have that same feeling. I don't miss all of Windows Vista, but I will admit the sleek looking toolbar was nice. Its pretty cool seeing how far we've improved in the last 11 years.

I was stll sort of a FNG at work during thath time.

Definitely, I just bought 2 untested ones on eBay because of this video

@@WalmartMustacheMan what did they cost? Are you using them?

I got a steal of $30, although one has a torn ribbon cable but one looks good. I plan on buying a charger soon but right now I don’t have any money.

Yes it does have a usb port and in my opinion the keyboard isn’t that bad, if you have ever used a vaio vgn ux you would understand a truly awful keyboard

I wouldnt go with gpd, specs are awful for the price

🤣🤣

Or how about: getting push notification sound followed by the fan kicking in due to all the stress of playing a sound and hdd spinning up to load associated program 🤣

Mateusz W and finding a rare one that doesn’t have a cracked screen.

If it ever comes out.

If you don't know better!

@@jakp8777 and if it isn't cracked then you better hope it doesn't have screen burn in

@@patrickglaser1560 even in GTA V computer game the Note 7 became famous.

in that day it's very not bad for smartphone sized computing device

@@worldshell2313 It was bad for windows vista though as it wasnt optimized for mobile devices like these plus even on dekstops 1gb of ram in 2007 was very minimum to put it lightly

@@user-ic3ie9yv2d same thing happen with android smartphone, i still remember how happy 2007 people got 256MB smartphone even they have to root and kill background apps every minutes, with 1GB ram, plenty storage, and ability to run other OS you can make your friends get impressed even it's struggle run vista, if it was me i'll just reinstall it with linux, and again most linux distro run flawlessly in 1GB ram at that time

Why does my server have 1.2TB ram

Puppy would be awesome on this little beast.

Damn this dude predicted the future

Me but switch Halo with MapleStory

and chat with msn winks etc..

Hope you like errors.

Me too.. I wanted one so bad back then! I think I first saw one on tech tv

I would dream about playing Minecraft and playing fnaf at school on a pc like that

jaymz _mc Yeah, earlier I saw a video filmed in 1992 that had better quality..

it was just because it was recompressed. If he had the raw footage to rip from, it could still look 1080p.

Looks like SNL sketch.

In 2007, the source video was probably shot to tape at 1080HD. But online sources of video at the time would have some pretty crappy encoding by today's standards. I would imagine that the video footage was taken from an online source... like an early RU-vid source.

Im more shocked how much he got older within 12 years.and thats not a man with unhealthy life style as far as we know.it's scary getting older

Yup considering 2007 is also the same year Jobs gave that legendary iPhone keynote that changed the entire smartphone scene.

​@@PurushNahiMahaPurush LG Prada says hi

In all fairness, he was there to sell his OS, not another company's device.

DOOM Osaka

It was brilliant. XD

Lol

Shots fired!

Wow that shade

What sorta stuff did you do on it? Any graphic capability for games of that time? I always wanted to play Halo on it lol

@@kewlnes987 mostly I used to play WoW burning crusade on low OR mech commander.

Bermwolf haha nice

@JASON QUINTANA went to a better cause at the time. Plus my battery degraded and new ones were impossible to get

@JASON QUINTANA If only eh?

Same here!

Same here.

Same

same

"I saw this OQO in half!"

Sounds like someone with an angle grinder 😂

That's the scariest hard drive I've ever heard! The thing nightmares are made of.

It probably could.

oh really? i thought it was!

Nokia n8 has too

Robert Deloyd How come you have a verified checkmark..? 🤔

@@anonymous2804 yes how come youtube has verified a channel with 30 subscribers wth ?

You can plug it in your tv

I had one and it was so slow that watching video output over HDMI was painful.

AURORA BOREALIS?! At this time of the year? At this time of day? in this part of the country? Localised entirely within your hard drive?

@@JamieKnight23 Yes

@@Nagol93 may I see it?

@@coolrift8934 No

Sounds like a angle grinder...

Can’t believe we’re already at that point. Was a teen in the mid-2000’s, felt like 10 min ago

You would love to see the windows vista mediacenter, that thing rocks the perfect combination of sight and sound

Chinese Himmrah RU-vid OG... Checked out your channel ✊🏾🤞🏾

@@Mr.Obongo It always does. I remember the trial of OJ Simpson like it was yesterday, and that was in 1995. Time flies when we least want it to.

For me my favorite retro future is 50s Americana, but the mid 2000s come in a close second.

@Monica Vega that's sounds amusing but it sounds like the manufacturer just cheaper out on greese.

@@jakubprokopec2169 No kidding those shitty Vista laptop battery were shit but Samsung is good.at explosions no propane required.

Monica Vega could be both

It's the hardware screaming.

@@ghostunix731 just the note 7 my dude

Well it isnt, honestly i was quite suprised how much younger Gates looked, although that might just be the video quality and/or him not having to care about appearance anymore lol.

Right

Raymond Mertin Except it is, 13 years ago as of 2020.

My brain is still in 2010, i feel stuck in time someone send help please

lol feel ya mate

Like what? Genuinely interested what features you're talking about...

@@swsw6250 Well, headphone jack is one.

Full sized HDMI port?

@@swsw6250 full physical keyboard, full x86 apps.

Yea look at all those ports fantastic.

Oddly enough, that sound seems appropriate for Vista.

There might be an SSD replacement for that tho.

@@samiraperi467 i doubt there is.

That's the worst sounding hard drive I've ever heard... it really does sound exactly like my cordless angle grinder vibrating away.

@@samiraperi467 You might be able to jury-rig one in but it's unlikely since it probably has proprietary connectors.

The Icon of Sin I’m sure if he gives it to druaga1 he’ll find a way to fit an ssd in there

I love little pc's, but I'm glad I watched a video on this because I would have dropped like $500 on one in a drunken eBay splurge (if they even went for so cheap?) but the review is enough to calm my little pc curiosities!

The Techno Guy18 me neither. You sound so weird 1.8 inch 42 RPM hard drive.

I have. The bearings are gone :( However there are 1.8" to CF card Adapters. Used one in my Thinkpad X41 Tablet

Yeah it sounds like it's dying. The original iPod had a similar HDD and it never sounded like this. And like the old iPods, I bet it's possible to use a converter so that a CF card can be used instead.

I wanted the Vaio UMPC as a kid lol

I still want the Fujitsu f-07c, one day I will buy it.

Seriously, clean it, it might be grateful.

BUY PS5

@@stefanandrejevic2570 no u

@@commodoreplus4792 I'm still thinking about it.

Omg I bought a PS4 when it first came out and when you’d turn it on out of the box it would be super loud, get really hot, and have a burning plastic smell. The smell would come on gradually you never knew it was there. I came home one day after leaving it in rest mode and the house was getting smoky. Came inside and the damn thing was smoking. I took it back and got an exchange. I have never experienced such! I had the BO3 bundle from 2015. Thankfully it hasn’t happened again!

Yeah, what do the nearby hoomans react.

😂

"at least it's portable tho"

Sounds like a power tool. The Samsung Galaxy S1 Epic's slide-out keyboard was pretty great.

renegade project now setting windows 11 into smartphones

even now*?

Heh, but yeah yes!

I use to have laptop with 1GB that came with Vista

I got a free upgrade to vista with a machine that only came with 512mb and even with the 2GB i had upgraded it to it was not enough for snappy general use, Windows 7 however ran like a dream on the exact same machine.

Psychological torture off course. 😎

Vista was a fine OS. The combination of limited res support, limited RAM and slow ass hard drive are the perfect storm for this device. Too bad Clint didn't try it with aero turned off.

@Poble Aero transparencies are off, but it's still running Aero Basic. No idea if dropping into classic would really improve the experience much at all though. I mean, I recall classic running better at times, but this device has so many choke points for Vista that I don't see dumping Aero making a real difference. I certainly don't think Clint missed a trick.

Wow You were really rich in College

I'd still like one, because you just can't match a desktop OS on a smartphone (yet)

I still want one. If I could afford one, I'd buy a GDP.

The only UMPCs even available (or at least good ones) currently are the likes of GPD's various lineup: Win, Pocket, and "Micro PC"

@@slawor4 wish windows phone took off, had the fluidity of ios with the customisability of android, best of both worlds

@J. Pelka Yea android as too many artificial limitations like not being able to listen to 2 things at once the only problem with windows is that it takes way longer to reboot even on a ssd and it tends to have a lot more bugs and crashes forcing me to reboot.

Only with TTLs with ROM.

What CAN'T run Doom? that's becoming the real question now..

@@ChatterboxFM VIC 20?

My smart toaster?

ran cinebench on our school computers, 60 points, ran gz doom perfectly (just had to switch to software rendering)

And leaves a nice new bubble right on the screen

When you donate your collection to historians, your mileage may vary lol.

Yeah imagine keeping the protector in for THIRTEEN YEARS then having some guy just rip it off

That made me cringe, so disrespectful

I’m pretty sure, the person who lent it to him knew what he was getting into.

Next gen consoles be like: “Stunning 8k resolution at a respectable 4 FPS.”

It isn't unplayable until you have to start measuring in seconds per frame instead of frames per second.

Human eye can't see beyond 3fps anyways

If you synchronise your blinking to the refresh rate of the graphics, you (probably) won't notice :)

Yeah, I want to see the the future of small pcs

GPD Win already exist. Look it up. Unless you’re specifically want a slide keyboard, pray and hope for the best.

No need when you can do so much with smartphones and tablets

@@MrVenom973 this looks so cool though

@Old Liquid That's your problem not mine

holnrew It’s just happy to see you.

Ohh, *user-kun*

I truly wish I hadn't read this. Thank you OP

I think you mean owo

@@alexkuhn5078 r/whooooosh

MapleMilk I thought it sounded like a razor. Maybe someone should fix it.

420 nice

Yes and no. It sounds harsher than that. But it would be cool if it did.

The Hookers Xmas??

@@TristanSpeno nice

I recommend Lubuntu.

Wanna sell it?

I know right xD

He should have tried to run Crysis or FEAR. EDIT: Oh he did. Doom 3?

Gotta love when hard drives sound like chainsaws.

With that battery bulge, looks like it would too!

Fo Real!

Welcome to club LGR! Wood Grain and DOS included!

It should be noted that there are plenty of YTPs of Clint goodness. Personally, I'm a fan of the bread ones.

Welcome brother, nice to have you

RIP. I had a 6x86 pr166 back in the day.

VIA C7 was actually Centaur's design based on IDT WinChip. VIA bought Cyrix mostly for the name and patents, having only made engineering samples of Cyrix III Joshua core with Cyrix's design. The last iteration of Cyrix processor was in fact from AMD (the Geode, based on MediaGX architecture)

@@OverTallman Valid. I think I mis-remembered something from the Nostalgia Nerd. VIA used bits and pieces of Cyrix designs in other chips they made, but they were not significant enough to be considered a "function" of the processor, rather being some back end structures and traces. Cyrix really did have a good chance, but they gambled and lost. It's a similar story with 3dfx, which is another sad story, but that's for another day.

Anything that can run a full desktop version of Windows in a small form factor is still probably the coolest thing I have ever seen. But fuck, too expensive.

There are Shadowrun movies?.. OqO

Kasumi Ryona damn, I wish

@@andrewortiz1703 brigth it's the closest thing we get for a shadowrun movie...side note I want to introduce my friends to Shadowrun but we speak spanish and the 3rd edition it's the only one in spanish we could get....it's a good edition?

@@elroma7712 I've heard 3rd edition is the best edition of "classic style Shadowrun." Just don't play as a Decker in 3e, because I've heard decking rules were at their most convoluted in that edition. There was a big change between 3rd edition and 4th edition, and 5th edition can be seen as a refinement and improvement upon 4th edition.

@@andrewortiz1703 thanks

The sliding keyboard click then Windows login sound made a wrinkle appear on my head.

Retro rules!

I bought PS2, GBA and DS Lite at launch and now those are all retro.

Onscreen keyboards are getting bigger and bigger with screen size and since swiping across the screen also exists, most people would probably only find it a nuisance to go back to physical keyboards.

@@Sherolox You can use the iPad Pro's touchscreen keyboard which is basically a fullsize keyboard but you still can't touch type, hence why you can buy a physical keyboard. Onscreen keyboards are a PITA for any serious writing

Get a Blackberry KeyTwo

@@Sherolox gfy

mlg dad jokes No need to be so toxic

I actually bought a GPD pocket 2 to replace my OQO 02 and despite the system specs being far more capable, I find the 02 is still a far superior product to use. The backlit keyboard is a must-have, and the trackpoint is much more fluid and less tedious to use than the thumb touchpad on the GPD. The GPD's keyboard is a bit too big to use in a handheld position, and slightly too small to use comfortably on a table (and needing a table would defeat the purpose IMO) That said, if GPD could implement that machine into something that was ergonomically more like the OQO, I'd love it.

They could probably tweak the size, but I've heard that the kind of slide-out keyboard thing the OQO has going on has some weird awkward patents on it, which is why you don't see it all over the place. (then again how OQO got away with it if that's true is beyond me, since I don't think it was their patent or anything)

Gpd sucks

and where your mind now ?

@@dena5498 swimming in the Caribbean

Oof

This. this so hard. I had a HTC Dream when they were still new and I still think it is by far the best design for an Android phone despite being so thick and the like..it was just so usable. Give me one with a larger screen and modern hardware, I'll be happy with that until it's broken and unusable.

Ehh, I think a touch keyboard is far more comfortable to type on than one of those tiny keyboards with almost no keytravel.

I think you could just make this work as an attachment- as a case with a integrated sliding keyboard

@@himbeerme Think about what you just said: "I think that something with no physical keys/possibility of keytravel at all is more comfortable than something with minimal keytravel." ...that and speaking from experience with the HTC Dream/G1 you can also type way faster and can disable autocorrect entirely if you're a good typist on PC, I was hitting over 100wpm on that device.

I agree, I'm sad that physical keyboards are gone. I did have a Blackberry in the mid/late 2000s and it was quite nice to type on. Touchscreen typing absolutely sucks in comparison. Granted, phones now are so much better for apps and web browsing, but unfortunately at the expense of a good typing experience.

You've never seen him jump a chair?