Solve : A computer that never becomes obsolete?

1.	Solve : A computer that never becomes obsolete?
Answer» I've been LOOKING for one of these for a long time. Apparently this E-machine will never become obsolete. I've got one here, a 466id, and, by golly, it's never going to be obsolete either. How do I know? Well, it says so, just like that 533id2 in your photo. It has a 15GB hard drive! jelous Its my dream machine! Hmm.. I wonder if you can still buy that sticker. Its true that it is never obsolete. You can turn it into a firewall, paper weight or my most favorite show it off to firends and hope they are jelous. I was wondering does it have a 4 or 8MB Video card in it?Specs...We have had a few of those at our school. (Haha, never obsolite... yeah right) Useless pieces of junks that manage their way into the closet if you ask me (unless you load it with Windows 3.11, then it will seem fast)The 466id I have was my mother's first computer. My siblings and I gave it to her for Christmas 1999. A few months ago, a tenant in her rental property gave her a newer eMachines, one with Win XP Home and a 1.2 or 1.3 GHz CPU. At first, my mother was going to give this one to a church but I explained to her that it was a substantially better computer than her 466id. So, she DECIDED to keep the newer one. So, I now have the 466id. A local supermarket has a bulletin board on which anyone can post For Sale signs. I posted a sign for the 466id and haven't recieved a single call on it. If it's appears to be worthless on the MARKET, I haven't decided what I'll do with it; I'll probably either keep it AROUND for awhile or take it to local computer recylcing drive in May or a later collection drive in the fall. I believe the 466id had only 4MB shared video memory. I had an old PCI video card with 8MB that I installed in it. It originally had 64MB of RAM; was later increased to 128MB. I have the original Win98SE restore CD.my desktop is a 566i2... it didn't have the "never obsolete" sticker on it though... my parents bought it in July of 2000 (it had WinME on it). It originally only had 32MB RAM but when we bought it we got a free upgrade to 64MB :O Then in '04 when they bought a T2824 (2.53GHz) i inherited it. Note that it's the faster of my two computers ! I put Windows 2000 Professional on it and upgraded the RAM to the maximum of 256MB. lol -JohnQuote I put Windows 2000 Professional on it and upgraded the RAM to the maximum of 256MB. lol -John This is probably a fine running machine i would guess...Quote Quote I put Windows 2000 Professional on it and upgraded the RAM to the maximum of 256MB. lol -John This is probably a fine running machine i would guess... rofl.. here is something to confuse everyone: specs of it are.. 700mhz celeron, HP CUW-AM motherboard, 256mbs of PC100 memory (even the old crappy HP motherboard supports more RAM than the stock Emachine board that blew up.. i believe the emachines max ram was 512, the HP's is a gig i believe), 8gb seagate primary hdd, 19gb ibm secondary, 48x cd rom drive, promise PCI to ultra 100 adaptor (four drive, for testing externally, just run the cables out the back ), 350w rexus PSU, linksys 100mbs eithernet card, runnin w2k pro (so i can interface with either ntfs or fat partitions without running the bloatware that is XP on it)Haha, Dead_Reckon, so you finally decided to bring out your "pMachine", eh? We ended up installing Windows XP one one of those (same as the Admin posted) eMachines, and BOY WAS IT SLOW! I cant belive Windows didnt deny the instalation. (But it did work, just a bit of startup time)Quote Quote I put Windows 2000 Professional on it and upgraded the RAM to the maximum of 256MB. lol -John This is probably a fine running machine i would guess... Yeah, it is, despite being 7 years old. My laptop, on the other hand, which is the same age, and has XP on it (big mistake, i'm switching to 2K on the next reformat) is so slooooooow. Dead_Reckon: hehe i think i used to have that same monitor...i've had that monitor since 2000.. when i had the horrible packard bell.. long time ago..

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I've been LOOKING for one of these for a long time. Apparently this E-machine will never become obsolete.

I've got one here, a 466id, and, by golly, it's never going to be obsolete either. How do I know? Well, it says so, just like that 533id2 in your photo. It has a 15GB hard drive! *jelous* Its my dream machine! Hmm.. I wonder if you can still buy that sticker.

Its true that it is never obsolete. You can turn it into a firewall, paper weight or my most favorite show it off to firends and hope they are jelous.

I was wondering does it have a 4 or 8MB Video card in it?Specs...We have had a few of those at our school. (Haha, never obsolite... yeah right)
Useless pieces of junks that manage their way into the closet if you ask me

(unless you load it with Windows 3.11, then it will seem fast)The 466id I have was my mother's first computer. My siblings and I gave it to her for Christmas 1999. A few months ago, a tenant in her rental property gave her a newer eMachines, one with Win XP Home and a 1.2 or 1.3 GHz CPU. At first, my mother was going to give this one to a church but I explained to her that it was a substantially better computer than her 466id. So, she DECIDED to keep the newer one.

So, I now have the 466id. A local supermarket has a bulletin board on which anyone can post For Sale signs. I posted a sign for the 466id and haven't recieved a single call on it. If it's appears to be worthless on the MARKET, I haven't decided what I'll do with it; I'll probably either keep it AROUND for awhile or take it to local computer recylcing drive in May or a later collection drive in the fall.

I believe the 466id had only 4MB shared video memory. I had an old PCI video card with 8MB that I installed in it. It originally had 64MB of RAM; was later increased to 128MB. I have the original Win98SE restore CD.my desktop is a 566i2... it didn't have the "never obsolete" sticker on it though... my parents bought it in July of 2000 (it had WinME on it). It originally only had 32MB RAM but when we bought it we got a free upgrade to 64MB :O
Then in '04 when they bought a T2824 (2.53GHz) i inherited it. Note that it's the faster of my two computers !
I put Windows 2000 Professional on it and upgraded the RAM to the maximum of 256MB.
lol
-JohnQuote

I put Windows 2000 Professional on it and upgraded the RAM to the maximum of 256MB.
lol
-John

This is probably a fine running machine i would guess...Quote

Quote
I put Windows 2000 Professional on it and upgraded the RAM to the maximum of 256MB.
lol
-John

This is probably a fine running machine i would guess...

rofl.. here is something to confuse everyone:

specs of it are.. 700mhz celeron, HP CUW-AM motherboard, 256mbs of PC100 memory (even the old crappy HP motherboard supports more RAM than the stock Emachine board that blew up.. i believe the emachines max ram was 512, the HP's is a gig i believe), 8gb seagate primary hdd, 19gb ibm secondary, 48x cd rom drive, promise PCI to ultra 100 adaptor (four drive, for testing externally, just run the cables out the back ), 350w rexus PSU, linksys 100mbs eithernet card, runnin w2k pro (so i can interface with either ntfs or fat partitions without running the bloatware that is XP on it)Haha, Dead_Reckon, so you finally decided to bring out your "pMachine", eh?

We ended up installing Windows XP one one of those (same as the Admin posted) eMachines, and BOY WAS IT SLOW!

I cant belive Windows didnt deny the instalation. (But it did work, just a bit of startup time)Quote

Quote
I put Windows 2000 Professional on it and upgraded the RAM to the maximum of 256MB.
lol
-John

This is probably a fine running machine i would guess...

Yeah, it is, despite being 7 years old. My laptop, on the other hand, which is the same age, and has XP on it (big mistake, i'm switching to 2K on the next reformat) is so slooooooow.

Dead_Reckon: hehe i think i used to have that same monitor...i've had that monitor since 2000.. when i had the horrible packard bell.. long time ago..

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