Oh shit AOL 5.0!
If you post this on Lemmy, sooner or later someone is going to come along and explain how to get this machine to run Linux.
I am 100% sure that you can install Slackware on this device
Give it a few months. Altman will have us using shit like this again.
Bold claims for something with a celeron in it
Imagine paying $99 every TWO years to get the fastest pc.
Sounds expensive, definitely wouldn’t take that deal
Will still probably work as a local server somewhere
I can see her ports!
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.
Fine print. Probably didn’t work out well.
Special eMachines™ Upgrade for $99 to eMachines™Network Members Only
Subscribe to the eMachines™ Network for 24 consecutive months and we’ll upgrade your eMachines™ for only $99 (plus shipping)!
Here’s how it works: If you live in the contiguous U.S. or Canada, we’ll contact you after you’ve subscribed to The eMachines™ Network for 24 months and offer to upgrade your eMachines™ PC to whatever processor technology is built into whatever eMachines™ PC you can buy at the time of the upgrade for whatever you paid for your original machine. For example, let’s say your eTower* PC was priced at $399 (not including promotional discount) and runs a 366 MHz processor, but at the time of the upgrade $399 would buy an 800MHz eTower. We’ll upgrade your eTower* to 800MHz.
All you have to do is ship us your PC within 90 days, plus $99 (or Canadian equivalent), proof of purchase and payment for return shipping. We’ll promptly upgrade it and return it. Note: you’ll have to back-up your data to avoid accidental loss, and use the original packaging (we have replacement packaging available). See more detailed information"
whatever eMachines™ PC you can buy at the time of the upgrade for whatever you paid for your original machine
“All our current PC’s are priced higher than your was, eat shit”
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).
It was obsolete before you even bought it. It has a shitty celeron.
I miss the old Gateway cow PCs. This would make a pretty sick sleeper PC to bring to LAN parties.
Just missing this sticker
Did any of y’all old folks forget to turn it off?
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.
On the right side, upgrade to the latest every 2 years for $99.
However, you had to ship the current machine back to them at your own expense, and have no computer while you waited on the new one.
It was an upgrade scheme carefully crafted to be such a pain in the arse that nobody would use it.
People were calling this out for the bullshit it was back in the day… Marketing wank is marketing wank.
64 MB RAM and 3D graphics? That’s more than most of us can afford nowadays!
DVD drive was hella fancy for a windows 98 system.
