Exploring a Terrible Windows CE Netbook

Thanks to Case for letting me borrow this!

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Logo-slapped laptops are back! Today we're exploring a delightfully terrible Windows CE "netbook" from sometime in the early 2010s. And it's got the name of a light bulb manufacturer on it... so it has to be good, right?

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro & Overview
02:47 - Unboxing
06:57 - Initial Exploration
08:16 - Internet Explorer
10:40 - An old YouTube app
13:30 - The Photo Viewer
16:24 - Office programs & utilities
19:35 - Included games
22:05 - Modern YouTube & WarpStream
24:21 - Display settings
26:27 - Running some old PC games
32:08 - Running some console emulators
37:38 - Outro

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● Music/Credits:
Background Music:
"By the Fireplace", "A Night Alone", and "Brighton Lights" from the YouTube Audio Library

Outro Music: Silent Partner - Bet On It

Some materials in this video are used under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, which allows "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, and research.

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[vwestlife]

So I guess 13 years is how long it takes something to go from cheap new junk to nostalgic retro junk.

[TheDreamcastLover]

Fun Fact: The Sega Dreamcast has an image printed on the side of the console saying “Compatible with Windows CE”

[BlakeHelms]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a computer in a “blister pack”

[tonyb]

"This product is not a computer." I wonder if they were trying to avoid some specific tax with that, arguing that it is not technically a computer.

[AveCortes]

Incredible how this tiny shity laptop has more ports that the newest high top devices.

[vertujoe]

The titile of Chinese song means ”Chen Xu, Your Bro (myself) is only a legend.mp3“

[Graylord]

Ok, there's something so weird and alternate reality feeling about seeing a full laptop being packaged in a blister pack.

[bp]

I'm ready for "Installing X on the terrible windows CE laptop and everything goes wrong" 😂

[nushnume]

I had an old car GPS that used to run Windows also still see Windows CE running on those price checking things at the supermarket

[LotoTheHero]

"Not a computer" In the manual it says "setting up your computer" though... hmm... 🤔

[ciach_]

I definitely want to see a video on the installation of other OS's on this thing!

[ProtoMario]

An entire laptop in a blisterpack is wild.

[shockwave]

I enjoy the fact that almost every window seemingly has a different theme.

[georgemoodier]

that doom gameplay felt like cruelty squad but on even more drugs

[AnotherFreakingDude]

Imagine pulling one of these out of your backpack at Defcon, running Gentoo.

[jaredwright]

If you leave one of these running Solitaire for long enough (months), it somehow runs out of RAM and becomes completely unusable until it's rebooted.

[icukeosu]

12:30 - if i remember correctly you could actually stream YouTube videos from any regular media player. I actually did this on my Nokia E66 with RealPlayer. That YouTube app is probably just used some old API to search videos and stream them with WMP.

[yourlocalpensulilvanian]

fun fact: back in the late 90s sylvania made some televisions and vcrs, however weren’t very popular. i own one of those tvs and vcrs.

[gentuxable]

9:37 I'm almost certain this is because the UI was optimized for smartphones where it would open an on-screen keyboard when you focus a textbox and it would make sense to make it that big because there's not much room left on screen.

[notsoseagatey]

Imagine trapping a laptop in the worst type of packaging: Clamshell