pic 'This computer is never obsolete'

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Orly?

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

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

[Charisma Veteran]

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

[Haggis Veteran]

I had that exact model lol

[Crisp]

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

[Colin McGregor]

Probably still works so its not technically obsolete

[Hum]

Where can I buy one ?

[Ryan Hoffman]

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.

[Joseph B]

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

[Max Norris]

Wow 566MHz Celeron.. niiiiiice.

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

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

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

[+Warwagon MVC]

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.

[V9s]

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

[tsupersonic]

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:

[sundayx Veteran]

AOL Online AWWWWWWYEAAAAAHHHH.

[Dot Matrix]

Hahahahaha. With 32 MB of RAM how could it become obsolete? :p How's Crysis on it?

[bbfc_uk]

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.

[qdave]

Celerons...biggest mistake Intel made.

[Ambroos]

Celerons...biggest mistake Intel made.

Well then Intel didn't make any serious mistakes in my opinion. Celerons were slower, but they were cheaper. Makes sense to me.

[Anthonyd]

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

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 :/

[n_K]

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

[xendrome]

Probably still works so its not technically obsolete

Just because something still works, doesn't mean it's not obsolete.

[Anthonyd]

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

So the PC in the first post is almost twice as more powerful ? :p

[fmanchu]

I owned one of those also. Wasn't that a service that you pay monthly and after a year you could get an upgrade. I think it included internet service too. PeoplePC maybe?

[Twiddle]

Pretty sure I posted this last year.

Ah, yes, here is the picture. Thing is still sitting in my garage. :p