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'This computer is never obsolete'

Started by Mephistopheles, Jul 26 2012 15:52 pic

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 15:52

Orly?

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 15:54

I had that actual PC. I can confirm, it became obsolete pretty quickly in fairness.

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 15:56

eMachines.. Ah, I had one of those at one point. They were pretty much obsolete before you even removed it from the box.

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 15:57

I had that exact model lol

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 15:57

And here's a machine which is more powerful...

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#6 Colin McGregor

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 15:59

Probably still works so its not technically obsolete

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 15:59

Where can I buy one ?

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 15:59

I also had a similar model.. an eMachines eMONSTER 550! The eMonster line had the full P3 chip, instead of the Celeron.

It also had that sticker. I remember thinking, "it will be obsolete in a few weeks probably and one day we will all get a big laugh about it." Guess I was right.

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 16:07

Pretty sure they can be sued for false advertising on that lol

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 16:09

Wow 566MHz Celeron.. niiiiiice.

Not to be Buzz Killington though read the fine print on that label about the never obsolete bit.

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 16:09

Wow that would of become obsolete after it was taken out of the box im sure

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Posted 26 July 2012 - 21:50

Actually, its pretty good example how CPU's of yester year became obsolite really quick. To the point where software and or the operating systems needed to have the cpu upgrade for a speed increase. But now days with modern Core 2's the i series of Intel CPU's and AMD cpu's, are so power full it will take years before an OS or software will slow them down.

I have a i7 920 I built when they first came out late in 2008. So that makes this PC a little under 4 years old. Since them i've upgraded the ram from 6gb to 12gb and added a 80GB Boot drive. It still handles EVERYTHING I would want to do. I don't plan on upgrading this machine for another 4 years.

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Posted 28 July 2012 - 13:04

It was obsolete the day it was bought....i mean, celeron...really?

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Posted 28 July 2012 - 13:12

View PostV9s, on 28 July 2012 - 13:04, said:

It was obsolete the day it was bought....i mean, celeron...really?
The old Celerons overclocked like a beast!

Luckily you don't need to upgrade your hardware as often. I'm still running on a rig I built in Oct. 2009, when Windows 7 was released. I haven't upgraded much, except I maxed out the RAM (why not, it was cheap!), and I added a faster SSD recently and got a free graphics card. Sadly, I don't have USB 3.0 built in (I have a PCI-E card that added 2xUSB 3.0 ports), but most importantly, I don't have SATA 3 or PCI-E 3.0. First world problems :rofl:

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Posted 28 July 2012 - 13:16

AOL Online AWWWWWWYEAAAAAHHHH.
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