I Bought a $20 Laptop From Cash Converters...

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Recently I purchased an old laptop for $20 from Cash Converters here in Adelaide. Is this Asus t100ta-dk003h hybrid tablet any good? Well, let's find out!

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Nathan Sivewright
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[Thomas_Nookington]

Cashies, where you can find your dreams.

[PHEEliNUX]

I've had a larger ASUS Transformer of the same line years ago, yeah the 2GB models even then would've popped up "Hey close some things to avoid being interrupted/crashes"
Using it nowadays will make that message appear more often, 4GB is definitely a necessity to be useable.
I still use it from time to time for specific things.
I've thought of replacing W8.1 for Linux, but seems like it uses a 64Bit OS with a 32Bit BIOS, somehow, so I just gave up on it.

[thebasketballhistorian]

A laptop that charges by micro USB.

Okay, I've seen everything now.

[MultiWirth]

i just got myself a Dell business class tablet.
It was well over 1k when it launched in 2017 but i picked it up for about 260€ and it has a i5 7300U aswell as 8GB of RAM and a full sized m.2 NVMe enabled slot for SSDs.
It even can take a second SSD inside the unpopulated mPCIe slot where usually the WAN module would sit in another configuration of this model.
The wifi module also sits in a mPCIe slot, can be upgraded but isn´t needed though.
Supports bluetooth 4.0 and wifi 5ghz, enough for me.
The type cover has a white backlight and it features a full size USB 3.0 aswell as two Type C ports with displayport and that´s also used for charging (needs 20V PD though).
At last it also includes many handy enterprise features aswell as legacy CSM module for BIOS emulation.
So technically, it can run windows Xp even but i already had issues getting drivers to work in windows 7 as the 7th gen Core i no longer supports windows 7.
Anyways, i got windows 11, ubuntu and android-x86 up and running on a 512gb SSD.
The OS can be selected through the boot menu, which is accessible with F12 or the volume buttons.
Best tablet i ever owned.

[kepuexe]

I've had this model for a whole week back in 2014. It was very nice. But the big Oof-point was the very slow charging process. The included charger was not capable of charging my device while running Windows 8.1. I didn't knew a thing about third party chargers then. But...it was a nice litte computer.

And $20 is a nobrainer, for sure. :D

[win]

I have 2 of almost the same model as the video the difference is that its the T100HA instead the T100TA model. My model is originally shipped with the original release of Windows 10 from 2015. Now I have one of them with unsupported Windows 11 and the other with Windows 10. I still use them in 2022 and they are still good!

[Zebra_Paw]

A lot of people only need a computer for one reason: file transfer, dragging them to the desktop, being able to manage documents easily, etc...
But the power of their phone is enough for what they need to do. In this case a such tablet is a perfect fit, as long as you install a 64 bits OS on it of course, I don't know why but sometimes people are stupid enough to use half the CPU and get unusable performance + limiting compatibility!
When reinstalling Windows be sure to install every driver! Psivewri doesn't seem to be good at finding them

[I_was_a_Bullfrog]

Always good to see Adelaide content creators. Keep up the awesome work, mate!

[john_rafael]

Dankpods fans untied and sang the cashies them song

[abdulkhujliwal]

Oh
I found it at Cashies mate
Where you can find your dreams
They've got wares and chairs
And a bog downstairs
Some cubs and tubs
And hats for scrubs
And out of date movies
So get on down to cashies mate
You know it'll change your life
So get off the floor
Get out the door
Forget Ebay they charge you more
And lose your life at Cashies mate

[MichaelFlatman]

I had one of these, a T100TAF (cheaper red version with 1 speaker, z3735f cpu). I loved it, unfortunately broke the screen and replacements weren't great. (had phantom touches etc)

You could get a variant with 4gb of ram, and a 500gb spinning hard drive (in a 10in laptop!) which would reside in the keyboard dock. This required a 9v 2a charger to ensure enough power to charge and use the device at the same time...

The 30whr battery and low powered CPU made it have a frankly insane battery if required, and being able to run off *any* power bank was a cool bonus. Charge times were slow though, with my model charging thru micro usb 5v2a.

I miss mine dearly, i'm leaning toward geting another one cheap but feel like it probably wouldn't get used to it's fullest potential. These early baytrail tablets running windows 8 are what gave the Intel Atom a new lease of life. When these chips were launched they were as powerful as an original iPad Air, for roughly the same power use too.. Impressive stuff!

[MaximNightFury]

We go down to cashies
To find $20 laptops

[industrialcream]

I had a very similar netbook from Asus I bought in 2017 (I didn't have much money at the time). It had 4 GB of RAM, but only 32 GB of storage, most of which was taken up by Windows 10. I wound up installing a low spec Linux distro, which ran much better.

[Cheen]

I had that laptop for a while a few years ago, it was a nice little laptop, I remember when I updated the bios and it unlocked a bunch of new features in Windows 10 also I remember the tablet crashing if you didn't have the right drivers installed in Windows and disconnected the keyboard

[erg]

i really like the music in your videos mate!

[slavboii]

**fades in from the distance** "I found it at Cashies mate"

[wayard]

" remember the start screen, every one liked this hence why it was never used again" had me dying

[MIZUch.]

Petition for a Dankpods x Psivewri Cashies collab

[TimothyRichard]

I actually had this laptop from 2015 to 2017. It worked pretty well and I liked the portability of it. Seeing this video actually made me buy another one on eBay for $45. However, mine has been updated to Windows 11.

[dejfmastejn]

Oh, thanks for this video.
I got this laptop yesterday to try to upgrade it. Thanks to you, I don't have to disassemble it :)