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Can This USB Stick Resurrect Your Old PC?

May 29, 2021
let's play a little fantasy game, let's say I'm

your

grandmother and here I am on my computer that you built for me, oh I don't know, 10 or 12 years ago and the hardware was pretty good then, but these days it's working very slow, so you know, I'm just doing grandma things like turning on the internet to surf the web or catching up on my tech news, maybe open a couple of tabs, gotta get that news from everyone. sources, oh boy, they are still loading,

this

tab is still loading, maybe watch a video in the meantime with the VLC, look at that right click delay, isn't it a thing of beauty, there it is and while I wait for that. maybe enjoy a nice little 3D pinball game, okay I think you see where we're going with

this

, it's time for Grand to finally give in to

your

incessant complaining and upgrade the old machine, but just when it's about to do it.
can this usb stick resurrect your old pc
You're browsing Facebook and find an ad for, oh thank you, the add-on PC that claims to breathe new life into old computers for between 49.99 and 79.99, but could it be the magic bullet it claims to be or is it just another predator? ? product designed to take money away from the elderly and the technologically illiterate, there is only one way to find out. Following this message from glasswire, with glasswire you can instantly view your current and past network activity, detect malware, and block misbehaving apps on Windows and Android. offer code linus to get 25 off glasswire at the link below okay so I understand there are a few different oh anthony in the video.
can this usb stick resurrect your old pc

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Hi, I understand there are a few different versions of the Add-on PC, so I have the 64 gigabyte Pro Add-on PC. and this is the one we spent 80 US dollars on, and then you have the turbo 32 which is much smaller and I spent I think 49.99 on it, okay it's not that bad, one thing you notice immediately about these things is that these are just, I mean this one, they didn't even cover the brand, this is just a sandisk cruiser blade cruiser blade 32 gigabytes, so it's a usb 2 and this would cost you somewhere in the neighborhood, it can't be more than like 10 dollars, yeah, about, and then this, I mean, they put a

stick

er on this one, at least I'll be fine, here we go, and this is a 64 gig cruiserglide 3.0, so it's USB 3, but for our old computer in particular, we.
can this usb stick resurrect your old pc
Anyway, we're not going to make any profit from that, yeah we only have 2.0 okay, but I mean they probably are, I mean I'm sure they tell people no, not really, they just say which gives you big storage speed. File resolution capability and software. What is file resolution software? I assume it is some kind of recovery software. Also check out these prices, between $50 and $160. Yes, this better be amazing. So should we just figure it out? open let's turn this on sure let's do it uh oh yeah you know what and that's it buddy do you want to do the turbo anyway just because then we can see what that file resolution software is all about?
can this usb stick resurrect your old pc
I think it's identical, otherwise okay cool, what is this like a two quad core or something? No, it's a Pentium d. Well, let's see if you can make this feel snappy. So maybe there's something to it. Well, they have an extra PC. their own boot logo they did an fs check on the actual hard drive. Choose a password for your administrator account. Well, I'll use the password because I need something I can remember to start using all the great features we need. set up some additional apps, these apps require you to be connected to the internet in order to download and install them and it looks like, oh I assumed it was network but it's a wired connection, it looks like it picked up our cable and wi-fi nicks, yeah , okay, both real technologies, okay, let's go ahead and do this, do you accept the eula for VLC media player, Rhythm Box media player, ubuntu restricted plugins, Adobe Flash, okay, this is all which I would probably install, yeah, okay?
Okay, so everything installs to the PC's extra USB

stick

and doesn't use your hard drive, fascinatingly well based on how long it takes to install the fonts. We may be asking a lot, so you'll probably recognize this. What is it based on? probably uh ubuntu, which is a lightweight ubuntu distro, is it just me or does giving your grandma Linux seem like a bad idea based on that, giving her Linux Linux already seems like a bad idea? Yeah, we'll talk more about that a little bit. A little later, thanks David. Okay, we're tired of waiting for True Type fonts to install.
Yes, we want to cancel. We're done now. Looks like he won't ask us to do it again. Why don't we snoop? It's totally geared towards great here, so we have the Thunderbird email client, which is even still up to date, it was discontinued and I think it was picked up again. It has a dedicated Facebook link that will presumably open in the Firefox web browser here and there. It's an old Firefox logo, yeah, so there's not much to it. There is, yes, there is LibreOffice, there is Firefox and, for grandma, anyway, there is no obvious way to add more applications, which is not usually in a user-friendly operating system like Ubuntu. or manjaro or whatever, there will be like adding or removing software, yes, but in this case I want to say that I know what it is, but now let's try file res ready to search and save your files with one click.
I'll try. this one click approach, I hear the hard drive ticking, yes you can see it's mounted disk and program files, oh it's just finding everything now, did it actually take the pictures you put specifically to test it? It seems that's all. program files, oh here we go, okay, what we don't know is how it's handled if you have more data than can fit on a USB stick, but that's a little beyond the scope of this research, I think so. I guess the point we're getting at here is that if grandma has the means to learn Linux, which you already know, what if all she's going to look at is Facebook, email, Kindle, and Pinterest, maybe not even be so difficult?
Yes, no, probably not. but if you're going to put the effort into learning how to use Linux, maybe you should put the effort into learning how to create your own bootable Linux USB that Anthony has created for us, complete with high-end graphics, how long did it take you? to create this anthony about an hour about an hour okay, so what am I looking at here? This is manjaro linux, it's a relatively lightweight, modern, Arch Linux based Linux distribution, I got it, that's our hard drive, so go to our documents and settings. and any images we leave behind are basically as simple as simply browsing to find them.
Yes, did you preconfigure it with Firefox or does it just come with Firefox out of the box? Great, let's take a look at our YouTube experience, since that's what it was. The last thing we saw on an additional PC again is Firefox is not going to be hardware accelerated, so a couple of dropped frames here and there and uh, yeah, oh, wait, wait, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, it's still a disaster, what else do we try? Do we just want? as a general responsiveness thing, start up an open office, you know, yeah, start up an open office, I mean, still, it's all going to be USB 2.
So it's going to be comparable in terms of loading times, but sure, Let's create a writing document where you put what you want to call it? Oh, stop here. Okay, sure, beautiful. Did you have to install any drivers or something or not? Auto detection is pretty good. Alright. Brilliant. Oh, look at this. It has chrome and everything is pre-installed. No, I preinstalled Chrome, you did, yeah, okay, everything else is preinstalled, including steel, including steam. Yeah, how about Steam is normally only available on Ubuntu in terms of overall responsiveness? No, maybe it's actually not much worse. just open our news, no, it's probably just as slow, yes, you can only order so much from a pentium d, okay, why don't we try it and why don't we try to do one more thing?
Let's play great friendly games on Steam. that frame rate though yeah well it's running in full HD but it's working now I realize I've never played Pickle What yeah oh Peggle Rocks it's pachinko oh yeah yeah I know to the god of tetris, there it is, yes, extreme fever, you are dead. okay anthony let's go head to head how do we go head to head with a mouse? uh, take turns oh, okay, okay, what was the level of tutorial you have? oh no, you have to get over it all the time, don't forget it and We're done with the extra computer.
Your final thoughts. It's not as bad as I thought it would be. That destroyed file or whatever it's called. High resolution programs. Yes. It actually worked pretty well. I didn't expect him to do it, but he did. it took out all the files that would be considered important to most people, apart from the fact that it's very old and didn't install the sources which would have given Grant a bit of trouble, yeah I mean it's just ubuntu with some more fluff and it's not that bad, but for the price now I'm going to take a contrarian position here because I think the price is really reasonable considering the extra time it would take them to create a bootable Linux USB 40.
At $80 it's perfectly reasonable, the only thing I disagree with here is that it's advertised as a

resurrect

ion of old machines when, as we've clearly demonstrated, it's not a magic solution, it doesn't go beyond not being able to play YouTube videos. and open documents to be able to do that all of a sudden you're still very limited by the hardware that you have and there's going to be a huge learning curve and that's something that I feel like they could be a lot more transparent about in their advertising so my issue here isn't It is not with the product but only with the claims of the product itself.
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