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  • - [Austin] Hey guys, this is Austin.

  • Today I'm running solo for one very simple reason:

  • I want to do a little bit of a project.

  • So this, this is an eBay laptop

  • that I purchased recently which,

  • in theory, is actually a pretty good deal.

  • So what I got this for is a little under 200 dollars

  • and it is an HP Elitebook.

  • Now not that long ago, this was a 1,000 dollar plus laptop,

  • but it came with a few issues.

  • I don't believe it has Windows installed.

  • So I figured what better to do

  • on a boring Thursday morning than try to

  • revive this laptop and see if I can actually

  • get a solid system for only about 200 bucks.

  • What's kind of funny about this

  • is that I haven't done a video like this,

  • or specifically a project like this, in a long time.

  • So especially back in those early days

  • when I was just starting on YouTube,

  • I didn't really have a lot of money to work on projects,

  • so when I did it was always like a big deal.

  • I remember 2012, 2013,

  • I spent a lot of time building the ultimate iBook G-

  • Was it G3 or G4? I think it was G3.

  • And something like that was really fun for me.

  • It was just like a cool idea to take

  • an old piece of technology that I could actually afford

  • and do something beyond just kind of like

  • a standard review, right?

  • I mean I was spending 100, 200 bucks on it.

  • I wanted to load up an SSD and all this kind of other stuff.

  • Yeah, it was a different kind of time.

  • This, this is kind of bringing me back right now.

  • So I think I just have the laptop here.

  • There's no power adapter and I know at the very least

  • there's no copy of Windows installed.

  • Supposedly.

  • So maybe not in the greatest shape, although,

  • it actually does seem like it's aluminum.

  • And it's got this kind of soft touch

  • rubber back on the bottom.

  • Probably needs a bit of a clean.

  • That's kind of dirty.

  • But the idea here is that this

  • is a reasonably modern business laptop.

  • I need to check, it has a Core M inside.

  • I believe it's Skylake.

  • Keyboard seems fine, the trackpad's

  • a little bit on the small side.

  • I think the first thing I need to do

  • is to see if I can find a power adapter actually.

  • So it does has USB 3, as well as we have HDMI.

  • The build seems decent.

  • So I found an HP charger that I've used in the past.

  • I think this should be the same barrel plug.

  • Plug it in.

  • (Cheers)

  • We have life! Excellent!

  • So we've got the HP boot logo.

  • Yeah, I do want to see the starter menu.

  • Anytime you have a used laptop,

  • usually you're getting a lot of, sort of, grime and stuff.

  • Especially if you're buying it

  • directly from another person.

  • Oh yeah, there actually are

  • a fair few scratches on the outside.

  • But it does seem like it's made

  • out of aluminum, which is nice.

  • Something kind of exciting about

  • getting a new piece of hardware

  • and really not having any idea of, kind of,

  • what's going to work, what's going to be broken.

  • And seems all is pretty solid so far.

  • I do actually really like this soft touch material.

  • It feels nice.

  • It's got a little bit of wear on it,

  • but honestly it's not that bad.

  • So depending on what I find inside here,

  • I actually might want to do some upgrades.

  • I mean I was assuming that I was gonna

  • have to spend some money on this

  • just to get it up and running.

  • If it's something as simple

  • as just installing Windows, that's great,

  • but if I've got like an old hard drive or something in here,

  • I probably at least want to put an SSD in.

  • So this is not a sponsored video in any way,

  • but I actually legitimately do recommend

  • these iFixit kits.

  • If you're ever into tech, having stuff like

  • a full set of screws, even the weird obscure ones,

  • having some of the picks, the guitar picks,

  • all the stuff that kind of helps you

  • get into stuff, just makes it so easy.

  • I mean I don't really have to think about it.

  • It's a SanDisk X300 256GB M2 drive.

  • We also have a...

  • I can't tell what wireless card that is,

  • but it looks to be relatively modern.

  • It is frame less design because it is a Core M processor.

  • And it's actually, I mean it's pretty much

  • all battery inside here.

  • I mean that's actually pretty impressive.

  • Looks like the only slight issue I might have

  • is that it does not have user-accessible memory,

  • so I can't upgrade the RAM.

  • But as long as it does have 8GB, which I assume,

  • considering how modern the rest of the system is, it will.

  • We should be just fine.

  • So when it comes to installing Windows,

  • there's actually a really simple tool

  • that Microsoft provides that will allow you

  • to make your own USB flash drive

  • with a completely fresh and up-to-date copy of Windows 10.

  • Now I used to use one of the flash drives

  • that I had purchased from like

  • Amazon or Newegg or something, and that worked,

  • but the problem was that once you

  • actually get the actual Windows installed,

  • it would then have to go and do like a year of updates,

  • which could take a long time,

  • especially on lower-end hardware.

  • So when you use that Microsoft tool

  • and grab a little flash drive like this,

  • which I like because it has USB-A as well as USB-C,

  • I know that I always have a fresh

  • and up-to-date copy of Windows

  • that I can throw on any computer than I'd like.

  • Okay, well that's a good sign, I guess.

  • It should be booting from that USB drive right now.

  • I don't want to get too far ahead of myself,

  • but if the real issue here was just purely the fact

  • that Windows had been nuked on this

  • and no one knew how to, like, deal with it,

  • I mean, that's awesome.

  • And now, it's going to install Windows.

  • So with any luck, we will have a fully-working,

  • 200 dollar, 190 dollar system after Windows is done.

  • I'm always just nervous when things

  • seem to be going well, because this is completely untested.

  • Like it could just totally crash and burn on me.

  • But so far, it seems like I got a very nice, clean system,

  • no real issues, and Windows seems to be installing fine.

  • Which, if that was really the only problem, then lucky me.

  • I got a system that's not a flaming-pile of garbage.

  • So with a fresh copy of Windows installed,

  • what are we actually working with here?

  • So inside we have, it is a,

  • yeah looks like Broadwell,

  • so it's a Core M, 5Y51,

  • as well as we do have 8GB of RAM, 256GB SSD,

  • and we have, okay well it's dual band N wireless,

  • but at least we do have 5G.

  • 190 bucks, what do you think?

  • - [Ken] I mean, this...

  • Well, first of all, for 190 bucks

  • you're not gonna get a screen that's better than this.

  • - [Austin] Yeah!

  • - I think that that's pretty much my first impression.

  • This trackpad I'm hoping is, oh wow, that...

  • Scroll.

  • - [Austin] Drivers are not

  • installed yet. - Okay.

  • - [Austin] It's literally a fresh copy,

  • like a bunch of stuff is not working yet.

  • Compared to all the 200-ish dollar laptops

  • I take a look at, this is pretty solid.

  • - I mean, this probably already has

  • a better SSD and more RAM -- - [Austin] Absolutely.

  • - than anything you'll get 190 dollars.

  • - So one of the main issues here

  • was that I got this without it being tested

  • and without having Windows installed,

  • so it very easily could have been a total disaster.

  • - [Ken] Mileage may vary.

  • - [Austin] Mileage always varies with used stuff.

  • - With used stuff that might also be vaguely broken, right?

  • - [Austin] Everything seems to work so far.

  • It's even in pretty good shape.

  • - I see why you're using the mouse,

  • I didn't even realize the mouse was here,

  • I should've just --

  • - [Austin] At first the trackpad was not working,

  • and so I had to have the mouse and try to

  • get it up and running. - Oh, gotcha.

  • I don't know, if HP was selling this for

  • a couple 100 bucks, maybe closer to 1,000

  • if I had to guess--

  • - [Austin] I think it was, I can't see the exact SKU,

  • but I believe this was about 1,100 dollars

  • when it was brand new.

  • - Why would they include a trackpad that does not click?

  • - [Austin] Different time man.

  • - If you put like plastic wrap around this and had the box,

  • I could've believed that it was brand new actually.

  • - [Austin] Look at the lid though,

  • the lid has the scratches.

  • - Oh, yeah I guess.

  • But I mean, like that seems like normal

  • wear and tear for, what, like a four year old laptop?

  • Well this is aluminum isn't it?

  • - [Austin] It's all aluminum, yeah.

  • - It's great.

  • - So for a laptop that's four years old,

  • there's a lot that really jumps out to me.

  • First of all, while yeah the screen bezels are big,

  • I mean this is essentially a 13-inch laptop

  • form factor that we would know today,

  • just with that smaller 11.6 inch display.

  • The important thing is it's a high-quality panel

  • and it is a full 1080p resolution,

  • which looks really nice and sharp.

  • I mean it's easy to forget that this was

  • a business laptop and back in the day,

  • this was something that you

  • would expect to spend a lot of money on,

  • so it makes sense that is has a solid screen.

  • So the next step is to test the performance.

  • So with the Core M processor, I'm not expecting a lot,

  • but we do have still a dual-core 5th gen processor,

  • so it's not wildly out of date.

  • I don't know, I feel like it'll stack up

  • pretty well alongside a lot of the

  • two to 250 dollar laptops that you can

  • typically get at this price point.

  • So after getting drivers installed,

  • there are a few things that jump out to me.

  • First of all, the touch pad is better now.

  • It's still not very good, and it definitely

  • makes me wish that we still had Windows precision drivers

  • from much more modern laptops,

  • cause this just feels old, but it is somewhat usable.

  • Also something I didn't realize,

  • this has a fingerprint sensor.

  • Now it's not quite the same as what we have today.

  • So it's opposed to a standard capacitive one

  • where you just put your finger on it.

  • Instead, you run your finger down it,

  • but, I mean, hey that's actually

  • a really cool feature to have on 190 dollar laptop.

  • Last, and definitely probably the most important,

  • we can actually easily play This Is Episodes,

  • because we have the power for it.

  • The general system performance isn't bad.

  • So importantly, we do have pretty quick SSD.

  • Certainly not anything blazing fast by today's standards,

  • but way way better than any kind of hard drive

  • of basic eMMC flash that you'd find on most budget laptops.

  • Now as far as that Core m5,

  • or Core m5y, whatever the thing is,

  • the CPU is not quick.

  • It's definitely again faster than what

  • you're getting at the budget end of things,

  • but it's probably the spot where

  • this sort of does fall down a little bit.

  • But because you have the 8GB of RAM,

  • you have the reasonable CPU,

  • and it's backed up with a

  • pretty decently quick SSD, it is usable.

  • Now, is this going to be the new main system for me?

  • Probably not.

  • But, considering what we were able to get for the price,

  • considering how little work we actually

  • had to do to get this thing up and running,

  • I am super super happy.

  • You're always taking a risk when it comes

  • to buying something that's used,

  • dealing with any kind of somewhat sketchy hardware,

  • and you can totally lose out, right,

  • if you get something that looks amazing on paper

  • and ends up being a giant flaming-pile of garbage

  • because it has something blown or whatever,

  • you're gonna have major issues.

  • This, this is cool.

  • And I'm really really happy I did this project.

  • It really kind of brings me back

  • to the old, old days of before Ken was here.

- [Austin] Hey guys, this is Austin.

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