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Pre-release: eMachines towers!
🕑 Added 2024-03-10 08:58:13 +0000 UTCWho would have ever guessed one could get nostalgia triggers from an eMachines! My family actually owned one of these systems back when it was new, so maybe that's why. My brother (in-law) received one for Christmas in 2005 or 2006. This video was so close to being delayed... Lost a day to work-related activities (hooray for DR failover tests). Burning the midnight oil to get this one out because I want that sweet weekly upload schedule back. Next week is my on-call week and it's already shaping up to be an eventful one. Might need to do something short like a single-system video (eww).
Hope you like it! https://youtu.be/-7Wfe9356CY
Comments
The Paul Allen
Will you be making cave monsters available to patreon?
Michael A Berry
Indeed, it is almost certainly a codec issue. In 2012, YouTube was likely using h.264, which was generally hardware decoded on video hardware at the time. If you haven't already, maybe try the browser extension: h264ify That will automatically tell YouTube that you want the h.264 formatted versions of the video and it might play better. Of course, YouTube is a much heavier site (read Bloated with Javascript and Shorts) that the browsing experience will be pretty poor still.
John Lasater
I have a question for the MikeTech community: As a favor to a friend, I am trying to rehabilitate the 2012 equivalent of a race to the bottom, Celeron-powered eMachine - a cheap Lenovo laptop with an AMD E1-1200 processor. I would like it to be able to handle the basics - Gmail, MS Word, and YouTube - but I am finding that it cannot handle YouTube. Not at all. Not even 360p. I upgraded the HDD to an SSD and added an additional 4GB of RAM to it. I've tried multiple operating systems (Windows 11, Linux distros, ChromeOS) and multiple graphics drivers, but it cannot play back even the lowest res video without stuttering or choking completely. And this puzzles me, because presumably when this thing was new, it COULD handle YouTube (who would buy a laptop in 2012 that could not handle YouTube?) Can anyone explain this? I'm thinking it has something to do with the evolution of the video codecs used by YouTube?
