QaspR
nixCraft 🐧Never obsolete? That is a bold statement computer, from the 2000s. 🫣
BigLinter@nixCraft and it still runs the best games ever just fine.
Techsorcist@biglinter @nixCraft Expedition 33 and Rogue Trader?
philamand@nixCraft I mean, have you looked at the specs ? Who would ever need more ?
Elrick_Winter
the hatter@philamand @nixCraft No need to look at it's specs, it says you can upgrade the computer every 2 years for just $99. I wonder how long that offered was honoured for.
Hdunagan@nixCraft Loooove the AOL sticker, brings back memories.
Marius@nixCraft would still be a good gaming rig for all the best games made #neverobsolete
Niklas 🧙@nixCraft all the best computers are 50% stickers by weight
mikeTesteLinuxQlub
That_Damn_Frank@nixCraft There are worse systems out there.
Does anyone remember that Spawn of Satan... Packard Hell...?
Wayne Werner@That_Damn_Frank @nixCraft Acer has entered the chat
Albirew@nixCraft wow! this beast have a front gamepad port* and you dare call that obsolete!? 😂
*according to what's implicitely wrote on the front sticker
*according to what's implicitely wrote on the front sticker
David Zellhöfer@nixCraft if it runs Doom, it will never be obsolete
Pablo Masegoso
Oliver Vanderb@nixCraft "And last but not least the case fully build by stickers only!"
DAP@nixCraft is that an e-machine out in the wild? From the era where everything had stickers to help explain all the features of those multimedia PCs.
Mister Wanko@nixCraft Celeron CPU, that's a real statement
Ufal Salman@nixCraft but it is indeed never obsolete
Owl Eyes@nixCraft Not just 3D. No, 3 *to the power* of D
saxx@nixCraft I forgot about AGP 😆
Dr. Quadragon ❌
🪨@nixCraft "Never obsolete!"
Also written right below "upgrade your PC to the fastest model in the market every 2 years for only $99!"
Also written right below "upgrade your PC to the fastest model in the market every 2 years for only $99!"
purple's a fire marshal first aider
Tisha Tiger / Neliger@nixCraft We all want to play with this old beauty!
So, in some way... It's not obsolete! :p
Jan Schöppach 
@nixCraft try to request an update for $99
Leeloo@nixCraft
Standard ATX case? If so, it should be possible - in theory at least - to swap out the motherboard and everything else🤔
Getting proper airflow will be hard, but something with a laptop class cpu might be doable.
Fluffy Kitty Cat
Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦@nixCraft Just slap Linux on that bad boy; I'm sure it will run just fine 😅
(this is partly a joke because I've had some harrowing experiences even getting Linux to run on older hardware)
Usagi
@usagi @nixCraft One thing worth looking into is seeing if the case is reusable. Get a new motherboard, some fans, a CPU and new peripherals. Air flow might be an issue, and if it was built to proprietary specs new mb's might not even fit in there, but who knows?
New computers do not come with optical disk bays anymore which is a shame.
Alex Keane@zalasur @usagi @nixCraft Went looking for some DVDs or BluRays to get some Ghibli to show my daughter, and learned that Best Buy where I am has gotten rid of all the physical media, just wide open space where the racks used to be with the 5 tables of laptops for sale spread out to try to fill some of it
Cy
Ian R Buck@nixCraft
The details on the sticker are interesting. They're referencing a subscription model where they send you a new computer every 2 years.
The details on the sticker are interesting. They're referencing a subscription model where they send you a new computer every 2 years.
Panderito 
@nixCraft it says you can upgrade it every 2 years for 99. Sounds cheap! 😆
Mike Smale@nixCraft If it can play TIE Fighter, X-Wing, Full Throttle, and Day of the Tentacle I want it. Power Pete too but that was Mac exclusive.
@earwigplanet @nixCraft it runs Doom and QII, what more do you really need?
JacobRPG❌👑@nixCraft
Needs more stickers.
Needs more stickers.
Brian Edward Kelley
mcSlibinas@nixCraft it can be true. If paired with some industrial printer no one builds anymore 🤔
RejZoR@nixCraft I've had Celeron 333MHz, 64MB RAM, 4GB HDD and S3 Savage3D 8MB AGP at that time. That S3 graphic card was wild with S3 Metal graphics API. All Unreal Engine games ran crazy fast with it and there were tons of them. Running UT99 at 1024x768 on High was crazy for such a low end GPU.
BjoernAusGE@nixCraft it features an Intel Celeron. It was already obsolete when build
Redline@nixCraft Haha. We had so many bold statements back then.
kwayk42@nixCraft The eMachines logo kinda says it all too
Kurt Weiske@nixCraft That's a lot of flair!
OS-SCI@nixCraft Just put an old Linux version on it, and run it off the grid.
Simon Greenwood- eMachines became Gateway who were then bought by Acer
- MCI/UUNet became Verizon
- Netscape was bought by AOL and still has a twilight existence as an ISP and apparently a Chrome based browser.
That label is basically a time capsule of early 1998.
@nixCraft
That said, it's a decently specced machine for the time, and the $99 upgrade would have been a good deal, although I have a vague memory that it was discontinued after the company's first takeover.
That said, it's a decently specced machine for the time, and the $99 upgrade would have been a good deal, although I have a vague memory that it was discontinued after the company's first takeover.
Not an Alien@nixCraft Not obsolete. This is just what's under the hood running some legacy software (offline hopefully) for a utility company, or large municipality!
SuperIlu
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥@nixCraft
It has CD R AND W! What more do you need?
It has CD R AND W! What more do you need?
@nixCraft perfect case for a sleeper with double barrel 4090s
#?.info 
@nixCraft I love that its reasoning is based upon its use of Internet technologies from UUNET/MCI and Netscape.
mathew
Paul Martin
Fuxle 
🔜EF30@nixCraft i think it runs current debian in x86 just fine
salguod, man 🍂🍁 lazysupper56k in 2000. 😅
I guess the trick is that it already is obsolete.
Tito Ciuro@nixCraft Famous last words.