Hey everyone, sorry for the bad voice over audio. Between work & family, time is very limited for making videos, and I decided that it's good enough to get the point across rather than re-record it. Thanks for watching!
@fred-youtube
4 жыл бұрын
Try MX Linux on an SSD on this cheap PC
@PC4USE1
2 жыл бұрын
It's cool-thought it was only me LOL
@damian9303
5 ай бұрын
Feels as uncanny as watching an international film on Netflix. Had to export into VLC just to resync the audio
@IgorGiganskiANtiatom
3 жыл бұрын
Another usage is "Dedicated Music Player" , it has network capabilities, can have bluetooth capabilities with a bluetooth usb dongle or 2.4ghz dongle so you can use a remote controller or a phone to play songs from!
@LowDoughTech
3 жыл бұрын
Great idea!
@bobklahn42
2 жыл бұрын
I have an ebay FM transmitter. The power cord needs a pretty well filtered power source, and it plugs into the audio output. From my third floor apartment I can listen to my play list at the pool behind the building. Just set to the lowest frequency, where there are no other stations.
@judenihal
Жыл бұрын
@@bobklahn42 you better be using a USB DAC and lossless files when broadcasting with FM.... I can't stand it when mp3s with poor dacs are used in radio stations. I CAN HEAR THE DIFFERENCE!
@judenihal
Жыл бұрын
computers and phones should be separate when playing music.
@heimerblaster976
4 жыл бұрын
A better small Linux Os may be SliTaz. On a thin client it will fly. Great video and projects for this device. Another project you could try is a pfSense firewall go up a few notches on the type of thin client and its easy. I'm talking maybe another 10.00$
@ZacharyNoah
2 ай бұрын
I'm currently using my HP T610 Thin Client as a retro Windows XP gaming machine. Using WinSetupFromUSB, I've installed Windows XP Professional with Unofficial SP4 v3.1b on a 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, even though 1TB storage is overkill for Windows XP. I've also installed the latest drivers using Snappy Driver Installer. After that, I've installed WinCDEmu and used it to mount the CD-ROM ISO images of my favorite PC games from the late 1990's and early 2000's. As for the games that used MIDI music, I installed VirtualMIDISynth 2.9.3, which was the very last version to support Windows XP, and set it to use my favorite soundfont. I store my CD-ROM ISO images and my favorite MIDI soundfonts on the 16GB SATA Disk-On-Module, which originally came with my thin client.
@charleshines2142
9 ай бұрын
I imagine the 2 hidden USB sockets may be used by some people for USB software keys. The reason being is that some of those keys can be really really expensive since they are a license for software. My Dad had a cabinet business and some of the software he used was $10,000. The scary thing is that the license was on one of those USB keys and if you lost it that is $10,000 down the drain!! Or a more realistic use for the hidden sockets these thin clients have would be a clever place to hide the USB adapter for a wireless keyboard and mouse. Back in days before my laptop had Bluetooth I had to use a mouse that came with a USB dongle. I chose one that comes with the smallest you can get. That is because I don't want my USB ports getting beat up every time I am a klutz and bump something plugged into them. Do you know the feeling when you get a USB device that just won't reliably stay connected despite it being all the way in the socket. That is only because when they get loose or broken it can be a nightmare trying to use those sockets to transfer a file to a computer. You will know when it happens too because with Windows you will hear the sounds that correspond to plugging in or unplugging a USB device. If you are easily annoyed you won't like loose USB sockets!! Just imagine if ethernet jacks were so unreliable, you would probably lose your mind trying to check your email over a problem that might not be on your end. The horror of it!!
@alankingvideo
5 ай бұрын
You can get a thin client today for a similar price with 4-20 times the cpu power. This is a very old cpu. Look at the Dell wyse range.
@kbhasi
2 жыл бұрын
I find it weird that KZitem somehow glitched and shifted the audio around 8 seconds out of sync, yet the KZitem automatic subtitles are fine.
@rastamouse7861
4 жыл бұрын
These things can probably make really nice retro emulation machines! Just use Batocera or Recalbox and see how it does!
@LowDoughTech
4 жыл бұрын
As media players they sorta struggle with 1080P video, so I speculate that they would emulate systems like SNES just fine, but could struggle with 3d rendering. I plan on doing this to one of these machines eventually and putting it to the test, I just haven't had time.
@rastamouse7861
4 жыл бұрын
@@LowDoughTech I actually bought a pretty old Intel NUC with the Celeron 847 in it for $35 and put batocera on it... Easily one of my favorite toys! I don't have to pull my laptop out to play my favorite retro games anymore, it just stays hooked up to my TV.
@LowDoughTech
4 жыл бұрын
@@rastamouse7861 Right on, nice work!
@bhsx
4 жыл бұрын
It would be cool to make a beowolf cluster of these and compare to a rpi cluster of the same number of machines. Tracking wattage should be a part of the comparison. It would be awesome to do a total cost analysis: 10 of these thin clients vs 3 rpi4/4, or 4 rpi4/1, or let's say 5 rpi 3b. In those cases I would bet that the ten absolutely trounce the raspberry pi clusters, even accounting for power usage. I love the pi and my ten year old is learning scratch on the pi and is just about to do a flashing led on the GPIO pins. If you don't need the GPIO this would probably be a cheaper and more "robust" solution.
@houseofspadesamoderngarden6425
Жыл бұрын
Hey I'm trying to do this I'm definitely trying to get more ideas what I can do with a couple of them
@houseofspadesamoderngarden6425
Жыл бұрын
That or a smart TV wall or something
@stefandackus-wirken1756
3 жыл бұрын
Hey, nice video! I was thinking to make a chart plotter with a raspberry pi, but a thin client might be interesting as well or even better! On/off button casing low power etc. Having a normal (touch)screen with opencpn on a boat would make navigation on water super easy! Let me know what you think. Kind regards Stefan thumbs up!
@LowDoughTech
3 жыл бұрын
That sounds like a really cool idea!
@thompsonevergreen8006
Жыл бұрын
dudes doing that ventriloquist meme
@Mustafa-yl5yq
4 жыл бұрын
Low Dough Tech Show. I love it.
@cugir321
3 жыл бұрын
Slax linux is like a rocket ship on my dell D610, 32 bit, 1 gig ram, 1.6g processor. 17 year old PC that's faster then Win 7/XP/ Vista The perfect youtube/internet pc....video flys! Can run slax in memory or load it on a 2 gig flash drive. Takes 5 minutes. Connects to my phone wifi instantly.....couldn't get a hardwire phone teether with a "visible" phone but the wifi is great.
@TheCustomFHD
3 жыл бұрын
Im gonna buy a simmilar thing and use arch + openbox + tint2
@TitoLukason
3 жыл бұрын
T510/610 is way better choice
@asphixmx
2 жыл бұрын
Idea: Do a music server, with Volumio, or Daphile
@Jakab95
2 жыл бұрын
I used a T5740 as a server (apache, TeamSpeak, Mumble, FTP, even RDP) for nearly 4 years from 2015 to 2019. Now it is a backup server. Not by backing up data, but being ready to step in if necessary. Also now is an OpenVPN server. The main problem is that Ubuntu stopped supporting x86 devices, so the newest Ubuntu server is 18.04.6 LTS. Now I dualboot that from a pendrive and a Windows 2000 (for retro office stuff) from the 2 GB IDE Flash.
@BeefdayCZ
4 жыл бұрын
Top notch content, love it. You shall blow up in no time. Maybe you could make a comparison video about Raspberry Pi and this PC for given scenarios.
@LowDoughTech
4 жыл бұрын
That's a great idea. Out of the gate, I believe the Raspberry Pi 3 trounces this machine all day every day, but this PC has the advantage of having a native X86 processor.
@machinehed2155
4 жыл бұрын
Thx. Lowdough. I just nabbed a 15.00 dollar dell. !!! Yes Sir Awesome share
@redpill8338
4 жыл бұрын
Schools: I will take your entire stock
@obfuscated3090
2 жыл бұрын
XP Embedded, POSReady etc are easily available for the experimenter from the usual sources.
@inherentmirth5180
9 ай бұрын
I like when he says he's "experienced in Debian," and pronounces "Debian" incorrectly. Bravo.
@festro1000
2 жыл бұрын
Since these these designed with remote access in mind how practical would it be to use these as a client for gaming servers?
@psions555
6 ай бұрын
Provided the CPU/GPU has hardware accelerated decoding of the right codecs it should be no bother to use Xbox game pass, parsec, steam link etc. This Atom is too old and useless, but atom X5/X7s will work fine because I do so on a regular basis. Thin clients with Pentium Silver J5005 are really cheap and ones with the J6005 are no more expensive than a pi 4! Those could handle many older games played locally
@RS-lv2lk
4 жыл бұрын
Firewall?
@100Bucks
4 жыл бұрын
Turn it into a cable box, iptv. You can also play Geforcenow if you can afford to waste data.
@jancovanderwesthuizen8070
5 ай бұрын
Considering the prices Raspberry Pi’s go for these days, this easily beats them
@berndeckenfels
4 жыл бұрын
Why not use a thin client as thin client? :)
@LowDoughTech
4 жыл бұрын
That would be cool, but I don't have a "thick server". 😁😁😁
@rkcpek
2 жыл бұрын
A retro gaming pc with puppy linux?
@RFLCPTR
4 жыл бұрын
Or...install a SSD ;)
@pocketstationman6364
Жыл бұрын
Puppy Linux is great for these things
@cugir321
3 жыл бұрын
Just pulled an old Dell dual Pentium 3.3G, 64 bit, 4 meg of ram, out of the closet...probably 12 years old....it was half falling apart with no hard drive. Downloaded the 64 bit version of Slax....My Gosh this thing is faster then any computer I've used. This is super surfer! I'm going to try Porteus next.....it has a decent office package and firefox. Firefox will not run with youtube on my dell 1.6g 1 meg ram laptop....it rocks with chromium...There's something about chromium that works with youtube. I'll say it again....Slax linux is amazing for old computers....especially with 4 g of ram and 64 bit. I spent all morning on my laptop trying to find a browser to work with XP. (I got a drive with XP, a drive with Win 7, and Slax on a flash drive).....there were no browsers that would play youtube on XP. I tried probably 10.
@marilynreno7510
2 жыл бұрын
are you the maker of slax?
@316diag
6 ай бұрын
Mypal, a fork of Pale Moon, plays KZitem on XP.
@garth56
4 жыл бұрын
Ps it's Debbyian not Deebeian Debby and Ian Debian :-)
@LowDoughTech
4 жыл бұрын
I actually knew this...it's just old habits die hard! I think I'll probably always say soo-DOH, instead of soo-dew, and Ooobuntoo instead of Ooo-boon-too as well. Thanks for watching!
@smileynetsmileynet7922
2 жыл бұрын
QOD Server
@ssharpeyes
4 жыл бұрын
incredible ideas ..
@LowDoughTech
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@WizardNumberNext
2 жыл бұрын
you can 12MB/s lighting fast? have you tried 10GbE? 1GB/s? I am running on GbE now only because I cannot fit into 20 port switch (getting reasonable 48 port 10GbE switch and 6 10GbE NICs with iSCSI, FCoE and RDMA was always way beyond my budget, especially now - we are speaking about 4 digit number getting close to 5 digit number)
@notilia
Жыл бұрын
Got one of theese from a guy who had like 40 of those for just 5 bucks, and then I got an oem extra 2gb ram stick for less than 2$. I had it laying around ror a month as i couldn't find a good distro that wouldn't run on usb and would have decent GUI, i will try your suggestion now
@Wahid_on_youtobe
4 жыл бұрын
Why is this is not for kids :'( ?
@LowDoughTech
4 жыл бұрын
I made this video back when there were a ton of C.O.P.P.A. scares all over KZitem with no clarification. I added that to protect myself during the time of uncertainty.
@ovalwingnut
Жыл бұрын
And "hear" I thought it was the thin-client I was watching it on.. :O) It's all good. Thanks
@squidwardtentacles2736
Жыл бұрын
how would a thin client like this do with emulation? I'm thinking about turning one or multiple into emulation boxes and run up to ps1 games. If this can't is there a thin client that can?
@bobklahn42
2 жыл бұрын
I have several 8gig pata plug in drives, plan to use them on smaller thin clients, dell FX-170. Also have pata to SATA adapters, but they need outside mounting on the small units, and the bigger ones tend to have SATA plugs anyway. Your plan for sata mounting is just what I work on. Sata cards are becoming common, and 16 gig are cheap. I ran speed checks on USB 2 flash drives. San Disk Cruzer force scored top of the heap, using crystal disk mark, on all measurements. It's a bit more expensive than others. I am thinking of using a plug in wireless module instead of the internal, which will free up the internal socket for other uses. However, I do not know if it will work for other purposes. Oh, for the straight line sata cards right angle adapters are available. They tend to run faster. The bad news, I do not actually use these, I play with them. I am a techie type, hardware. Long years in industrial controls, now retired. For my online music downloads, I have an old Dell D-610 with XP and Magix Music Manager, a now obsolete program that only runs on XP, to download music twice a week, one from a US station, one from Ireland. It turns on automatically 15 minutes before the earlier show and off at midnight. Off I could set for any time, but it's just easier to leave it at one time. Like your video, will look at more. Bob
@DEATH-flare
Жыл бұрын
SODAMN RAM 😂
@rcdenis1
Жыл бұрын
I used a similar unit along with a port mirroring enabled 5 port switch and placed it between my wifi access point and my cable modem to capture/monitor all traffic in and out of my home network.
@TheUnofficialMaker
Жыл бұрын
mqtt?
@bobklahn42
2 жыл бұрын
Oh, I bought some cables to try to use the internal card plug, extend it and attach the card to the top cover, but haven't gotten around to trying it yet. The expanders are costing about $20 something on EBAY now. Add in useless printer and data ports, and a useful card slot. Plus room for whatever you want to add, like a SATA dive with a SATA card in the slot.
@aaronarcilla7979
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting! Thanks for the video!
@olegpysarenko8764
4 жыл бұрын
Many thanks!
@joshuagood4237
4 жыл бұрын
Have they got enough power to run as a retro game system
@LowDoughTech
4 жыл бұрын
Here's where I tried it. kzitem.info/news/bejne/moB6mGSqiIqDko4
@themuhammad1
2 жыл бұрын
Install Zorin OS lite 32bit in it. Enjoy
@OneCupOfCoffee204
Жыл бұрын
I have two of these that I got from work. They were throwing them out. Just curious as to what these are used for? Are they full-blown computers?
@andrewgibson9520
8 ай бұрын
I’d like to know that also. Did you end up using yours for anything? I got mine thinking I can set it up to be a house computer for checking emails,scrolling Facebook. Stuff everyday people do.
@krystum9521
3 жыл бұрын
I have a pc like this but the problem is that can its processor be upgraded from intel atom n280
@obfuscated3090
2 жыл бұрын
No, you need to buy a faster machine. For as little as they cost buying the absolute bottom tier versions will mostly be frustrating. Thirty to fifty bucks shipped will get you much better thin clients. However if you use it as a thin client (not hard) and RDP into a faster server they make convenient shop machines in environments where you would not risk a PC you cared about.
@justin-hurd
4 жыл бұрын
out of curiosity, how would one of these compare to a raspberry 4b, power-wise?
@chrisg661
4 жыл бұрын
RP4 is ARM, this HP is x86. Power wise, to my knowledge the RP4 consumes less power than the HP.
@justin-hurd
4 жыл бұрын
@@chrisg661 huh, alright. thanks for the info!
@LowDoughTech
4 жыл бұрын
I think at a glance, the Raspberry Pi 4 is a lot more powerful, too. I haven't had a chance to compare the two yet.
@obfuscated3090
2 жыл бұрын
ARM thin clients exist. I recommend studying the OS the makers use first before installing something different so you get an idea of their capability and what contemporary OS may interchange. It's interesting stuff.
@certs743
3 жыл бұрын
Cool video. There are some more recent thin clients out there now like a few with AMD dula cores and 64 bit which would greatly improve your options. One cool thing with the internal USB ports though is you could add a small Wi-Fi dongle and possibly manage better networking on that instead of the antiquated 10/100 connection.
@curvingfyre6810
2 жыл бұрын
still gonna be really sluggish on usb 2 speeds. You'd have a better time getting a cheap pcie to mpcie ribbon, and dual sided taping an mpcie wifi card to the inside of the chassis. My bet is that those internal ports are best used as huge long term storage attachments, cached by a smaller sata drive.
@tristan6509
2 жыл бұрын
@@curvingfyre6810 let's be real here, the CPU in these things struggle to run windows let alone internet browsing, wifi speed is the least of your concerns. I use mine with Ethernet and it's still slow as shit even with gigabit (HP T5630), It's a thin client... Temper your expectations
@Trappy1
3 жыл бұрын
At 4:22 what is the grey connector next to the 15+7 sata connector?
@LowDoughTech
3 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty certain it's mini PCIE for fitting in something like a wifi or bluetooth chip, but I haven't tested it. Something like this amzn.to/38HgUNL
@walrusman151
Жыл бұрын
Turned mine into a DOS machine. With some tweaking of Freedos the hp thin clients are great ways to dip your toes into retro computing as they are inexpensive, plentiful and route old pc speaker audio through the headphone jack unlike some other thin clients. Good video!
@asriazmi
3 жыл бұрын
good enough for zoom online classes?
@LowDoughTech
3 жыл бұрын
I would aim for something a little more powerful. These machines are fine for storage servers, webservers, things like that. When it comes to web-browsing, they're a little under-powered.
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