2026-11-04 16:11 UTC
Replies (18)
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@otp@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-04 16:15
That RAM’s gotta be worth a pretty penny
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@MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 2026-11-04 16:17
I was there, Gandalf. IIRC this was because emachines had a type of subscription program for upgrades. They were shit machines, btw. The power supplies were trash and had a non-standard form factor.
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@cannedtuna@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 16:59
I miss the old Gateway cow PCs. This would make a pretty sick sleeper PC to bring to LAN parties. Missing this one.
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@balsoft@lemmy.ml 2026-11-04 17:07
64 MB RAM and 3D graphics? That’s more than most of us can afford nowadays!
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@arak@lemmy.today 2026-11-04 17:23
This was good spec for windows 98 but celeron 600mhz was like the tail end of 98 just before xp
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@albbi@piefed.ca 2026-11-04 18:37
A game port on the front would have been so useful. I hated reaching around the back to screw/unscrew that thing.
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@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-04 18:43
My 566i2 had a Celeron with no cache, Windows ME, and a CD-ROM drive. The worst of all worlds. Still loved that piece of shit to death. It ran Halo so badly that a friend and I once managed to snipe each other simultaneously.
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@sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-11-04 18:51
In terms of computational power, no. In terms of style, yes, correct.
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@Zachariah@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 18:59
this meme is worth at least two beans, a jeans, and one orb so i’d say that thing’s still worth a small fortune
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@bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-04 19:32
Hey but the CRT it came with still works today and looks better than anything over VGA on dreamcast!
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@TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 21:20
Itll run NetBSD.
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@nullspace@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 21:23
Reading the tag it’s saying you can spend $99 to upgrade to the latest model every two years as you would a cellphone, fulfilling the promise of you never having an obsolete pc.
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-11-04 21:24
Your computer rocks but it was obsolete before you even opened the box.
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@Psythik@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 21:27
This annoys me every time it comes up because if you read the fine print, they’re not literally saying that the computer will last forever as-is, they’re selling a subscription service. I mean you can literally read what it says in the pic: for $99 you can upgrade to a new PC ever two years, effectively meaning that your PC will never be obsolete, so long as you keep paying the fee.
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@dasrael@lemmy.zip 2026-11-04 23:33
People were calling this out for the bullshit it was back in the day… Marketing wank is marketing wank.
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@Jackusflackus@lemmy.world 2026-11-05 00:02
It was obsolete before you even bought it. It has a shitty celeron.
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@VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-05 02:38
A home pc that came with Win98LT… Lite! As in you didn’t need the full version which had the nice network components (home server services, network neighborhood, windows firewall, etc).
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@Pratai@piefed.ca 2026-11-05 02:42
It was obsolete thirty minutes after the photo was taken.