'This computer is never obsolete'

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Ryan Hoffman

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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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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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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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I had an eMachines laptop when I was at uni (bought it in 2004). Worst piece of junk I've ever owned. It was sent back for repair more times than I care to remember and the last time it was sent back they added all sorts of upgrades to it (probably thinking i deserve something considering it spent more time away from me). I got additional RAM, a larger HDD and better DVD drive and a few other things that I cannot remember.

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It doesn't runs Windows and all x86 apps. It might be more powerful (if we can even compare Intel/ARM) but it doesn't do the same thing :/

Actually the raspberry pi CPU is equilivent to a 300Mhz x86 in terms of 'power' one of the developers said :p

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