Upgrading the Ugliest Computer I Own 

It looks like a shopping kiosk.

me every time I see early 2000s "ugly" computers: I love him

watching this from a 1280x1024 monitor with a dead pixel line...

This isn't that ugly,pretty unique tbh.

that looks like an education pc we have in the UK called the RM One, they did an older one which ran XP and a modern one which was 16:9 and ran windows 7

Oh great, now I'll never be able to buy this for anything less than $50. The curse of RU-vid and eBay is a damning one.

Guess you're going to install Hannah Montana Linux on this PC now :P

obviously I saw that dead pixel line from 0:00. it's weird if anyone couldn't see that. you really need to contact Gateway to swap you a newer one.

I'm impressed you found one where all the capacitors aren't leaking. The gateway profiles were miserable machines.

As a tip, you could have made an ISO of the XP disc, downloaded and copied the drivers and any necessary updates onto the ISO using nLite, and burned the ISO to a CD. It saves a lot of heartache and gives you your sweet XP tunes during setup.

I have a Profile 6 as my... garage computer - the bulkier model in the bottom right of your pic of all the Profile computers. Yes, I have a garage computer. I lucked out and got one with a recent enough revision to be able to accept CORE 2 DUOs, though only up to the 6000 range. I think it has an E6300 right now? Also upgraded to an 8600gt - yes, you can use "full size" graphics cards, as long as they aren't too long, via the PCI-E 90-degree riser card. Anyhow, its purpose is to play music and youtube videos while I work in the garage, and to be there when I get stuck on a project and need to do more research, such as when I did the timing belt on my car for the first time and accidentally got one of the camshafts out of time. Woops! I've come to appreciate its weirdness, and how oddly upgradeable it is for such a small form factor. I think these are seriously overlooked as XP retro gaming boxes, and are still usable today with a modern OS if you can get a core 2 duo to work.

The QR code is for Hannah Montana Linux. Very useful.

Wrong Spec. You said it weighed 23.0lbs but your scale clearly shows 0.E2lbs.

You might be surprised at how much better it performs if you replace thermal compound. Thermal throttling was an issue with those machines even when they were new.

I know they no longer serve a PRATICAL purpose anymore, but I REALLY wish the eye candy known as screensavers and music visualizations make a comeback, and SOON!

I don't think it's ugly, but this is just me and my weird taste.

I remember we had some of these in one of the IT rooms at my secondary school. We thought they were so cool.

I mean is it ugly or are we not appreciating the perfectness of a computer Edit: Dang that’s a lot of likes

Another nice video! You deserve to be a bigger presence on RU-vid.

Lovely and relaxing video as usual! And even though I noticed the line of dead pixels straight away, I really think it's thoughtful of you to mention it in the end, due to the reason you stated. You're a very respectful person, so we thank you for that!

My first computer was a bunch of wires in a cardboard box

Oh hey, congrats on 100k!

realy enjoyed this one.. thanks again ! (ive watched a lot of your stuff)

Nice, another screen added to the screenception. I like it!

Face reveal!

As soon as he started talking about the early 2000's, I turned my quality down to 480p

Fun video! You had me the moment you played Everyday Chemistry though

You had my hopes up with that QR code at the end... did not disappoint. Lol

What is the beige tower you plugged into the vega port? Beautiful machine. This is a very interesting video. Thank you!

thats actually pretty cool, though the one dead line gets on my nerves

i owned a profile 5.5 and used it during highschool as a way to do my schoolwork but also play cs 1.6, surprised with the performance i got with it seeing as it was a old computer. i forgot all about this pc and seeing this vid in suggestion instantly brought back nostalgia! THANK YOU!

With the majority of XP installs I did back in the day, which were thousands of thousands. Only a few machines(which I did not use the OEM disk that came with any machines) ever actually played the installer music. In fact back then you were comsidered extremely lucky to ever hear that stuff. People and/or kids today like to think that stuff was just there like it is today, when in reality most of the time you were extremely lucky to have sound/Ethernet drivers upon install!

Such a pity you haven’t uploaded in the longest time - I remember watching this when it came out. Hope life is going well for you!

2:03 thats actually a standard 6 pin atx plug, usually used internally to power gpus

Wow, this brings back so many memories from middle school. It was amazing at the time!

Oh man this brings back a lot of school memories

When the ram costs more than the pc itself.

6:00 Four Guys, by the Beatles *When are you going to do a face reve-*

You sound like Dark Mane and it makes this video even more entertaining

machines made for business market are neat. I like this one. And the amazing Windows xp set up music

It's not ugly. It's beautiful in a clunky early-2000s way.

You want an ugly Gateway AIO machine? Track down one of the granddaddy's of the Profile series -- the Astro. These are sleek and serviceable in comparison. Imagine a beige plastic iMac with a crappy Celeron CPU and a CMOS battery that would cause it not to turn on at all.

From my childhood I remember visiting a family friend who had this model. I was amazed by it at the time, especially as every PC I knew of was a full tower! IMO it doesn't look bad for the era either.

Thank You for making me chuckle with the QR Code Easter egg xD

I just put the bell on! Best tech channel!

Did you replaced thermal paste?

Thanks for the "Bad Ben" episode of computers.. Don't upgrade it, bury it!!

It is actually pretty neat and nice. Definitely not ugly. BTW, after your video I'm really thinking on buying one just to get the case and fit a modern build inside it. And that floppy / DVD tray arrangement is just lit!

still waiting for dat face reveal

Does it support Pentuim Ds?

That's actually a really cool computer. I like it!

i have 4 of these still kicking around .. the 5.0 and 5.5 both had an upgradeable video card

Four guys is a fake song from a fake album , created by sampling songs from each of the Beatles' solo carers. It is a special kind of plagiarism, that actually credits the original artist's counterparts, in another dimension.

7:45 - For a moment I thought that little HP tablet was called iRAQ!

I love the great content keep it up!

great video, never saw this pc before

When are you going to do a face reveal? 6:02

I thought this was a POS system.

Those Gateway Profile designs are so 2000's I really want one

I love this channel. Keep doing this shit!

When are going to do a face rev...

Still waiting for a rebrand! Your channel name is too off-putting and generic and irrelevant for your awesome videos! I know I'm not the only one who thinks this either. I went a long time seeing your videos and not clicking on them because of the "Top Ten Dumb Science Facts" style channel name. Please rebrand to help you get more subs and views like you deserve!

20 years ago I was a Gateway tech and worked on dozens of Profiles. The first were little more than a laptop on a stick with a separate keyboard. I still liked them.

This guys is very good, he speaks at a rate that's pleasing, explains things once instead of over repeating like some do, got straight to the point without going off on side stories, didn't speak in a monotone (thank god) when people do that slow and all in one pitch (Yawn!!) it's also really really annoying lol... and he knows direct is best, no over complicating the story, points or explanations! Direct simple explanations are best.... always lol.. Thank you for a great video, REALLY enjoyed this! PS never heard of that song, though that actually just sounded like Band on the run by macartney!

the h264ify plugin really helps a lot with most older computer playing youtube video

@The science elf what is that computer you hooked up to the VGA to show how the input works. And what was it displaying . Wondering I've seen that tower before somewhere and I can't remember where or what it is. Please let me know its killing me know trying to remember.

That KVM feature is really cool. I've never heard of that before being built in like that

I saw one of these recently in a retable cabin in Colorado. It was set-up for internet explorer only and most websites were blocked. It had a sticky note on it with *EMAIL PORTAL* written on it.

I love these late nineties, early to mid 2000s computers. My fave PC era. Athlon forever!!!!

The concept itself is pretty nicely executed with it´s own cable input panel, speaking of which is this a perfect retro style AIO pc to put modern hardware into?

Nice video! i would love have one of this computers

One other odd note about the Profile 6 - it has an internal power supply, but not all of the power supply is actually in the enclosure. The unit itself only makes 12v and connects to the motherboard via a proprietary 10-pin connector. Then, there's more voltage conversion to create the 5v and 3.3v rails ON THE MOTHERBOARD, and a connector comes out of the motherboard to provide the molex and SATA connectors. Such a weird setup but it allowed them to have a very compact, enclosed PSU. That also means that, if you hacked off the connector, you could probably run the Profile 6, and the Profile 5.5 for that matter, off of a car battery.

Ah... I remember this computer. Such memories.

yay new upload!!

I really like the design great

7:06 "you can see that Portal is at really low settings" *TEXTURE DETAIL HIGH* *MODEL DETAIL HIGH*

Man, that mousepad... So many memories

Honestly that thing looks fine. Certainly slicker than (but not as cool as) the Ipex AllStationX systems that were popular here in Australia in schools and such around the same time that this computer was current. It was a "modular" AIO where you would install your own monitor on the inbuilt VESA mount, it used a standard mATX motherboard, desktop drives and you could even add video cards and such if you were daring. It didn't take up much more space (about an inch and change deeper) than this Profile and was half the starting price including a monitor.

You know this video is old when club penguin is one of the games he ran

Editing is 👌

6:13 What a beautiful beast.

I appreciate that Everyday Chemistry shoutout. The Beatles Never Broke Up is one of my favorite little internet oddities.

I used to have a profile 6. It was a good computer for back in the day. Personally, I loved the way it looked. Also, the profile 6 was a much better design than the 5 in my opinion, it used desktop parts instead of laptop parts which made it bigger but much easier to work on and upgrade. You could put it a full sized graphics card if you wanted to as it had a pcie slot with two openings in the back. It was really cool the way they fit it all in there. I loved that thing and I would probably still use it today if I had a way of upgrading the CPU. It used a standard desktop CPU, mine had a core 2 duo in it, but I used a specially designed motherboard.

I like how shiny that copper sink is.

"That sound will never get old" Lol same

I can't even count the number of times I've installed XP. (Do numbers even go that high?) Never once did it play music during the install, even when its sound driver was properly installed after setup was complete. Did you install as an upgrade? I haven't done an upgrade since it took me two days to work through issues going from 3.1 to 95, but have instead only ever done clean installs. Could this be why?

I love the fact that Gateway considered enough to give you a VGA and Audio Input so that you can use machine as both its own display and use the display and speakers for another machine. I wish all all-in-ones had this feature.

Maybe the early Pentium Ds would work on this machine? They are basically 2 Pentium 4s glued to each other in one Processor Package. Also Holy F, Congrats to 100K Subs, didn't even notice. I thought you still had like 10K.

Honestly. That's probably the best looking 2000 PC I've ever seen. Aside of iMac for sure.

There was a card slot inside where you can actually add a wifi card instead of using a USB adapter. I drill holes on the silver circles on either side of the case and attached two antennas to it. Those were the days.

Damn that's not ugly ,it's beautiful!

A good taste in music I see

Thanks TSE, interesting!

It makes me think of building a custom case for mounting to the back of my own screen. Use those wall mounts for something, and get the case off the dusty floor!

Nice casemod case 👌

Dat windows XP music though... I remember just listening to it because it was so chill...

What is that hulking behemoth of a PC you used to demonstrate the kvm capabilities?

Nice qr code at the end lol

That Literally Brings Back The Old Looks Of Computers (The PC Is On The Bottom Of The Monitor)

I have a Profile 6 that we use in our lab/work area(namely for coding and programming our MCU and FPGA logic), pretty neat little machine but I personally can't wait to replace it with a smaller laptop or something that uses less space on our benches.