I switched to Windows XP in 2023...

Chapter TItles:
0:00 The Legacy of XP
0:47 Mini Laptop, Big Love
1:51 Austin's Happy Place
2:45 Avoid the Internet, Stay Sane
3:41 A Webcam for Ants
4:44 Goodbye Cave, Hello Web
6:11 I'm Ticked Off (The Clock)
7:15 Upgrading to 2023-ish
9:03 That Hard Drive Looks Floppy
9:45 The Little Laptop That Could...?
11:32 Firefox Saves The Day
12:49 Who Needs an Entire Keyboard
13:25 I Just Want to Play StarCraft
14:56 Windows XP in 2023

[zeikjt]

Swapping out your HDDs for SSDs is one of the most transformative things you can do, just mind blowing load speeds on these old systems

[joshstucki]

Before 2013, virtually all PCs (and Macs!) had modular, replaceable, fairly-easy-to-remove parts (at least the memory, SSD, and battery, which all - always - should be replaceable/upgradeable).
I'd give my left kidney if this would return!!

[Quantumqbit]

There is a hidden power mode for these that makes them quite a bit more useable… I think for most versions you need to update the bios to enable it. Ran that as a daily until 2015! Without the bios update it would have been useless— it makes quite a difference. ETA - you know the power mode is on, it turns the power LED from blue to red(!)

[bananawarriorwootwoot]

I'm a network engineer and I was just talking to one of my seniors and we were bitching about windows 11 in corporate laptops and how it was super rushed.

She was emotional when the conversation drifted to windows XP. She has been a network engineer since 1995 and XP takes the crown out of all the flavors ( within windows of course. The best OS for us Netengs is Linux )

[zantar]

Windows xp is the staple of my childhood.. I still miss the ease and absolute pleasure of using xp to this day.

[SpringdayAutumnmoon]

2000s laptop webcams are like old black and white cameras of the 1920s, they're so antiquated they're basically an aesthetic now.

[kokonotsu_j]

Seeing office 07 in action really brings memories back to me. At that time people around me were all using office 03 and being the first to install 07 and see that gorgeous Aero UI made me feel so weirdly proud

[logisec]

The mic and webcam are surprisingly decent for what the machine is and even compared to todays laptops!

[turks]

I would be impressed if you had to use it for a month and showed through videos what that experience would be like for you.

[SoundOfFreedom]

They are really playing with us now. How can a 15-20 year old laptop be so small and have so many ports and a removable battery, while in 2023 this is not possible with even bigger laptops?

[TorutheRedFox]

general malware doesn't target XP anymore, partially because it's a headache to make _any_ software that targets XP nowadays, and partially because the only targets on XP that are worth the time to make malware for are highly specific targets such as specific organizations known to still use XP

[Hadihadi-wrmt]

Yes, it's old OS and not up to correct standard but to be honest it actually has some better feature than current windows :
1. It's simple and not too bloating. It's so basic, so it's light and feels fast.
2. Not force you to online and automatically share your data to others.
3. Not much happened behind. If you ctr-alt-del current OS, You will see so many program works behind, even if you don't want to

[nappa]

I cried when my XP system gave up the ghost long after Microsoft said it would end XP support. So seeing this gave my ticker Happy flutters. My time of playing Diablo (but not Diablo 2 because I didn't want to lose my character) just came flooding back and made me smile.

[joshstucki]

One of the things that made these netbooks decent is that as low-powered as the hardware was in 2011, Windows XP was ten years old at that point. As long as you didn't get the Vista versions (which were universally disasters, largely due to the hardware requirements leaping drastically from XP), they really were ok.

[Ryptahi]

I used this laptop for high school. It was around the time that normal laptops were just really big and quite expensive. I even used it for gaming as it was my only computer. World of warcraft was running around 10-20 fps and i was even raiding with this. Fps during 25 man raid was 0, which made things somewhat difficult, but good enough to be tanking something :D

[bigstuff]

I remember having to support these devices back when I was working for the Geek Squad at Best Buy in 2007-2010. They were quite painful to work and support since their early Atom processors and low RAM amounts and HDDs. It's nice that fast forward to today that you can toss in a cheap SSD and just like that, it's a "usable machine".

Thanks for the trip down memory lane Austin!

[Mario_Man]

The Legacy Update project is great for these old OS installs that no longer work with the official update servers.

[integerverload]

Something like that would be used for industrial factories. To program machines that are on closed networks. Industry does not like to upgrade until it has to.

[steelsofliquid]

I have Windows XP installed on a Toshiba Tecra A8-EZ8313 and HP Compaq 6005 Pro (the latter would've originally shipped with Windows Vista Business, but it performed poorly on that computer so I put Windows Vista Ultimate on a Lenovo ThinkCentre A70 of mine), both of which are rather frequently used with recording videos, although it's more often the HP Compaq, because it makes for a really awesome Windows XP experience, with stuff like Microsoft Office 2003, Adobe Creative Suite 2, Winamp, Macromedia Flash MX 2004, Netscape Navigator 9 and AOL Instant Messenger (among other programs) installed. Nice to see I'm not the only one who still uses Windows XP every so often!

[antonykao]

Why was Austin surprised that he could boot up StarCraft that easily? The game came out in 1998, many years before this laptop lol