What do you mean, this bad boy is probably powering a semi-critical government system somewhere, definitely not obsolete.
There are some data recording systems on planes designed in the 90s that still use the original designs. Memory cards that are as big as your hand and only hold megabytes worth of data.
Upgrading would be fairly simple in theory, but getting anything approved to be used on an aircraft is an expensive pain in the ass so they don't want to go through that. They don't need any more storage capacity either.
So somewhere out there some comapnies are making these now ancient parts for now ancient systems, and probably making a killing because nobody else makes them.
I had almost this exact scenario happen with a CNC machine for a very old but profitable niche company. Pain in my ass.
In my experience neither computers nor women will accept a 3.5 inch floppy.
That's why we called them stiffy drives. It's the 5.25inch disks that were floppy.
5.25 inches floppy, but 3.5 inches when hard. Hmm 🤔
Cmon that thing will run Linux like a champ!
if your distro of choice happens to be debian with openbox
That’ll make a great Hackintosh!
Holy shit my grandfather had this exact PC up until ten years ago or so lol
I wonder if it's possible to get a bunch of these, daisy chain the processors, and span hard drives until it can install and run Monster Hunter World.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
I doubt enough of these exist to make an adequate E-Machine supercomputer
This PC has the clocks and it rocks, but it was obsolete before you opened the box.
It's all about the pentiums baby
How many sales stickers can one machine have?
Manufacturer mandates a certain amount of flair.
no no no no, it's not a mandate, it's just that we encourage self expression here in the PC market. You do want to express yourself, right?
Someone remembers Office Space far better than I do! Lol
37 pieces of flair to be exact.
It's in the contract that technically 15 would suffice, but who wants to be the company that only does the bare minimum?
This was a computer for idiots even when it came out.
Reformat it and upgrade the RAM and it did pretty good.
Reminds me of my first desktop PC.
Intel Pentium II 266Mhz, 64MB of RAM, 2.99GB HDD.
Of course a 3.5" floppy drive was also included, and a CD-R Reader.
I had to purchase a 33.6k modem separately, tho.
I think we had this exact computer when I was growing up.
Yep I know my grandparents did. Played minesweeper and that cat mouse cheese and wine game like all day.
It will still run Windows 98 just fine.
Common ig has a Celeron!
It always baffles me when like the old hard drive fit in the RAM of am average today PC. What will it be in 10-20 years, 2TB RAM in an average PC?
My first PC had a 170 MB (!) hard disk and 4 MB RAM. After an upgrade to 8 MB it could (barely) run Windows 95.
Moore's law will speeddown and then die, tech advancement per space will stagnate. Also, no home PC needs 2 TB of RAM.
We old-timers have heard that exact argument for like forever. Didn't happen.
Even Intels chief engineer thought that after 3um there would be impossible to reach 1um.
1um = 1000nm BTW and we're at like 3nm
I'm reading the other comments, and wondering why do people need to be binary like that? Yes, diminishing returns are a thing, so we shouldn't expect the same degree of improvements, but stating hard limits is also something that usually gets laughed several years later.
Most of people use computers just for memes and emails, so yea, it is never obsoluted.
eMachines were obsolete two years before they were even built.
The sticker was supposed to be "Newer obsolete".
My cousins has an eMonster PC and I thought that was just the most insanely powerful PC.
Wasn't there a time when it was considered unfeasible that anyone would ever need more than a few kilobytes?
they just mean, you just need to replace each component and it will be good as new!
you know, motherboard,ram,ps,cpu. those drives prolly work today if you have an ide and floppy headers.. might need some molex power adapters
it connects to the internet, dude, just download more ram
Comouter tower of Thebes.
What's the problem here? That unit will do all your floppy disc needs until the end of time
It's still good for some great retro gaming. Or maybe a server of some kind. So yeah, it's not obsolete yet.
i've got a couple old emachines mintowers here, one was redone with a new (at the time) athlon ii.
solid cases for reuse, just a little tight on space inside and zero airflow intake from the front (across where the hdd bracket is). neither really matter if you're not trying to put in a big video card and use ssd instead of hdd. so i just hang on to them in case i come across something new-ish to put in them.
My emachines etower 566 is my daily driver, am i my alone here? It's current year, and this thing is still not obsolete.
I remember buying an eMachine on credit. It used crazy expensive RDRAM
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