 Welcome to another episode of me complaining about computers and technology So today the thing that you will see in front of you something I actually hate and that is three computers in one Vantage point. Okay, you see a desktop. You see two laptops. Okay. I A lot of people ask me. Hey Luke, how do you keep files sync between your different computers? What program do you use? I don't use any of them because at any point in time I am using one and only one computer. Okay, despite the fact that I now have three So this desktop I've had for like 10 years. This is the think pad that I've used for like a bajillion I don't know for I use for basically everything and this has been in the closet And this someone recently sent me. I'm going to do a video on this. It's a Libre booted think pad T 400 that's an x2 20. That's I don't know some kind of HP in v something or another Okay, why do I have three computers? Why do I hate it? Okay? The reason it is such a pain to have multiple computers, but I need them for different purposes and I want you Yeah, where's the okay? Yeah there you I want you to tell me What is the computer that I should get that solves all of my problems? So here? Here's where things are right now. Actually, maybe I'll show you the list already. No I'm not gonna show you the list yet. Okay. Here's the deal firstly. What is this desktop for? I hate that I'll put it this way think pads. Okay. Let's put it this way This is the ideal Okay, this is a laptop, right? I take it off. I do whatever I want I do work wherever I want great and I get home and oh my goodness. Look at this It's a dock that I can put this on. Wow now this laptop is magically transformed into a desktop I can now use it on the screen that's attached and I can connect whatever I want right that is the ideal That is actually how computers should be used right you can have a laptop You can easily just hook it up to a screen now of course the desk is like or the the dock the ultra base whatever like that's super Ergonomic I love that thing So that turns any laptop into a desktop that is the ideal I would like to be able to have a computer like that that I can do everything on the reason the desktop is here solely because occasionally I will do live streams, okay and the This laptop is actually fine the hardware on it is fine But thanks to the developers of OBS who are constantly breaking things and screwing things up and requiring more and more memory usage This laptop although it worked perfectly fine for five years of my channel for live streaming now Using the same software after updating like it just gets worse and worse and worse. So I have to use this higher spec You know has i7 and all this other stuff this this desktop, right? So that that is the only reason I use for that. So what does that mean? Let's think about what that means for me Okay. Now, of course, if I have a desktop here, of course, I'm gonna use it, right? I only just now plugged out this laptop It's usually not in use because usually I've been using this I'll get to that in a second But so the annoying thing about this is that okay if I if I'm gonna work on stuff on the desktop at my desk And I'll use my laptop somewhere else. Well, now I got to keep all of my repositories all my files Everything in sync. So I have to be constantly thinking. Oh, you know get an update this side or the other or You know if I want to download email which I do on my laptop It's a little tricky like getting that to sync with the email that's kept on my desktop and the server and all this kind of stuff It's just a pain. I would like to be able to use one computer for everything including my live stream So I actually made a list and this is a list of absolutely Okay, here's what I'm actually getting at I know it's almost four minutes And I haven't really told you what my actual motive in this video is my actual motive is I want you to tell me What computer I should get because I like to think that I know what computers are out there, but It has to match my specific qualifications. Let's look at these. Let's look at the I didn't expect to put my handwriting on the screen But I'll show it to you here are the four things Absolutely, I need in a laptop number one and by far the most important don't don't recommend me anything without a track point What is a track point? It is the absolute most important part of a laptop It is this thing right here. Okay, I know I know if you're you still using Fisher price my first computer You might be using oh, I'm gonna use the trackpad. Oh, man. All the heck and gestures. They're so cool No, okay grown adults. They use this why because you can type and move the mouse at the same time very ergonomic You move things around as far as I'm concerned If it does not have a track point, you might as well just throw it straight into the trash Don't recommend me anything without a track point. That is literally the most important thing It is less useful than a desktop. Okay, and notice even oh wow I don't even have the cap on it here, but notice that even my desktop computer has no mouse I even have that because why would he use a mouse if I have that every once in a while and need a mouse or something I will admit like if I'm I don't know if I'm over and someone or someone's over and wants to play games Right or like a normie wants to use my computer, but usually I don't like I'm like you got a you got a this is like You must be this tall to ride. Okay, that's as far as I'm concerned So track point is the most important thing in a laptop. That's number one number two the dock slash ultra base This thing under it. I wish I had three hands right now. This thing under it is The second most important thing. Okay, because I the thing about this laptop over here Okay, is that it is a t-series think pad which does not have a dock Okay, so I can't do that You know, I can't come do all my work and then get home and just plop it on this dock and everything's plugged in And in fact the dock can also have an extra hard drive which I do have in there I have a bunch of movies and stuff. So wow we get home and we want to watch movies. Oh my goodness There it goes. Now we can watch them great perfect It's separate if you don't have a dock. Sorry t400. I mean I like you but like it just you don't have that Okay, so that's number two number two thing now. It doesn't have to look exactly like this I know that some computers have a thing that's just on the back and in fact even the draw even the extra hard drive That's nice not required number three. It has to be repairable and non-planned obsolescent Kind of got confused with the grammar there. Yeah, again, I didn't expect to show my handwriting on screen if I feel a little naked So this computer if I want to remove the hard drive What do I do? I unscrew one screw here and pull the hard drive out if I want to replace the memory I unscrew two screws on the bottom, you know replace the memory Nowadays the thing with modern think pads is that oh you can't do that anymore. Sorry the memory is soldered in You can't even replace it. So what does that mean? Firstly, if you have RAM already, which I do from these other computers I can't just get a new think pad and put that in there. No if I want to hide If I need high memory usage, I have to literally just buy the version that's marked up by $500 that costs more Okay, that is where they get you that is the stupidity of it. Okay. Now. Actually, it's very smart because dumb people fall for it So, you know, I can't fault them there. I mean, it is unethical, but you know, whatever I understand why you know why it's working, right? So I want to be able to Fix things replace things this computer. I've had forever I've replaced basically everything on it and I treat it like if you know how to do it And if you have a old think pad that is easy to replace and fix parts on like you don't have to even treat it that nice Right that parts are cheap. You know how many keyboards I've gone through on these things I don't even know like I literally in my closet over there. I literally have a box of old keyboards Okay, I'm not even kidding All right, so Last one live stream. I have to be able to do a live stream. Okay, so as I said this one I could probably do a live stream on with ffmpeg, but in general it's not working for me right now And I will I'll also say this x2 20 I always hold on to computers for super long like unless they literally do not work I will not get rid of them But this one for example the charger on the back like it doesn't actually work It can only be charged through a dock right now. So that's totally broken and I've tried to fix that That's like nothing that can I'd have to like cut open wires to fix that and I'm just like screw it can't do that And also the battery like isn't fully attached. So I have to be careful when I have it You know, I basically I either have to have it on a dock or battery and plugged in or you know Just make sure that I don't let the battery fall out of it So this thing is super broken. So I might just you know get a new one throw this away or harvest it for parts Let's be real. That's what I actually do But as I said, it can kind of work for live streams Maybe if I just got the x2 30 or whatever, maybe that would be better. I don't know I you know, I think it's worth having the the the I don't know Maybe making the switch to the newer keyboard wouldn't be that bad in the grand scheme of things I'm not maybe I'm selling out and saying that. So those are the must-haves. Here are the probably should have Okay, this is a dream list. I don't even expect any of this, right? So 1080p display. This does not have a 1080p. This does not have a 1080p, right? So I'm just used to not having them, but it would be nice to have one. Okay. I don't this is one of those 1366 abominations. I don't know why they even made those But I would like to have one of those core boot It would be nice to install core boot on a machine. Okay, or ideally Libre boot But I know that there's basically I mean you have to have something as old as this to have a Libre boot You know on it in SATA would be nice to have extra hard an extra hard drive or you know 4g Adapter and lastly, but a decent onboard mic and a webcam. That's really hard to read but um, so ideally if I'm out if I'm recording it I want to be able to not have to carry around this giant, you know thing To record stuff like hypothetical, you know, of course This would be better than whatever onboard mic is there But like if I can get a decent on cat, you know decent webcam decent mic It would be nice to be able to just use that, you know If I want a live stream somewhere else or if I need to record something somewhere else So alright, so that is what I want. Okay, so really And what I want to be able to take this harvest it for parts basically get rid of this thing Oh, the other thing about the desktop This is also proof that I like literally hold on to everything even stuff. That's like partially broken This thing does not turn off. So when I shut it down It'll stay off for like five seconds and then boot itself back up. That's why I have this thing here So this is the real way to turn it off This is not even a joke like a lot of people. Oh, he's a tech youtuber. He has lots of crazy technology Yeah, this is this the technology. I actually have okay, so yeah, and I'm not I don't know I'm not gonna buy I'm not gonna spend a thousand dollars on some computer just so I don't have to flip the switch whatever So anyway, this thing is the thing I use now And just for like laptop usage But the thing is it's just getting annoying because I'll do work on my desktop And it'll be saved to those hard drives and then I'll have to keep it up in sync with this stuff And it's just a pain. I just want to be able to do that again with a computer that's on break so if you can think of any Computer that meets my requirements must have track point must have dog I mean it might be that this is the best thing I just need to get a new one maybe stream with ffmpeg instead of obs I don't know, but I just find it so frustrating to have multiple computers I'm just dying to get rid of these things. It's just and this thing makes so much noise I'm just complaining about this stuff now, but um, so yeah, that's how I keep my files in sync I don't I throw away computers and I only use one. Okay, that's what I actually do I just want to get rid of this stuff and stop thinking about it So that what wow what thanks for watching one of my vlogs guys. See you next time lol