The Tim Hortons Computer

To be fair, when you said "Imagine the biggest bezel", Ive imagined like those toy laptops for kids with the monochrome liquid crystal and ABC learning thing and thought surely it can't be this absurd. It was this absurd lmao🤣

This is definitely turning into a series of logo slapped laptops

Ok I can shed a little more light on the Platinum Awards. I was previously A Tim Horton's Employee from 2006-2017, whose location received this Platinum Award 3 separate years. You had to be within the top 10% of stores with both sales and also we would have the store graded every so often by a regional manager but the grading by the regional manager factored more heavily than the actual sales. I Received and actually still have the DVD player from 2007 though I think something died on the player if I remember correctly so it's non-functional. I also received an MP3 Player which I believe was from either 2006 or 2008 and a Coat but I can't remember what year that was for from the Platinum Awards. Yes everyone at the location received the reward but I believe the store owner decided how long you had to be at the store before you were eligible in receiving the platinum award gift.

this netbook screams "we need to reward our employees without spending too much on it" 😄 great video like always michael!

I couldn’t imagine how ripped off you’d feel even getting this for free, like wow free computer! And then getting it and seeing those bezels, reminds me of one of those toy laptops

That WiFi Power application is really the bee’s knees of "will this do?" programming. They didn’t ever bother giving it its own icon.

Fun Fact: This is how all Canadians currently access the internet, there are no other computers in Canada.

The bezel has a bezel of its own. Very meta.

This netbook made me remember back in 2010 when I was only 13 years old and I entered a country-wide drawing contest where the 1st prize was a netbook. I actually won, and the netbook was a Compaq CQ10-120LA, boasting a crazy 1 GB DDR2 RAM, 160 GB HDD, Atom N270 (1.6 GHz). As a kid, I was obsessed with Vista's UI so I was bummed when I powered it up and it had WinXP. But boy, I had a great time with that netbook!

The bezel reminds me of those VTech educational toy laptop computers from the late 1980s/early 1990s. Probably about as powerful too.

God, I love these corporate computers that have nothing to do with the company itself other than the name on the front.

This thing looks PAINFUL to use regularly

The line about reserving the right to change anything in the manual, is in most manuals, it’s just in the small print at the end, not at the front

This is very similar to the Sylvania Netbook sold at CVS back around this same time period. CPU is a VIA 8505, 128mb RAM, 2gb flash storage (500mb for Win CE and a partition of 1.5gb for local storage, if this thing follows suit). I think the Sylvania actually had a much larger screen.

You also have to remember that back then there weren't really any android tablets, and phone screens and storage was shite. Therefore, if you wanted to watch films on the go, your only option in terms of cheapo devices was one of these or a portable DVD player.

The keyboard being bowed like that is likely from the internal battery expanding due to age.

I would totally take this to Starbucks

Man, the screen is so tiny, even the bezel has a bezel!

As a Albertan this is too funny, but I only heard of this 2 sec ago from you, bruh. So underrated. Always fresh, always anti-virus, always Windows Hortons.

The bezel reminds me the first Asus EEE Pc, which used to have a 7 inch display inside a 10 inch body. WIth a bit of an effort, you could install Arm distribution of Debian onto it and make it somewhat useful. Surprising range of Linux apps and games have been re-compiled for the ARM architecture thanks to the popularity of Raspberry Pi.