eMachines once copied Apple.

[shortylickens]

I never knew about this:

 

[herm0016]

I remember having both apple and windows machines like this in the library at my elementary school, The apple ones were a rainbow of colors.

 

[IronWing]

I remember the knock off and the suit. I still don't know what demon of bad taste captured Silicon Valley back then but there sure were a lot of ugly machines for a few years.

 

[Torn Mind]

Nerds and the aesthetics fashion don't appear to be a natural marriage.

I'm a rare bird, because gossip and fashion stimulate pleasure centers in my body.

 

[Captante]

I actually sold a few of those back in the day .... E-Machines that came in standard PC cases were already garbage but these took it to a new level!

 

[sdifox]

Eh? Apple copied PC.

 

[herm0016]

they copied themselves... the lisa!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Emachine, with Windows 98 default green background. Wow, talk about a blast from the past!

 

[Captante]

Emachine, with Windows 98 default green background. Wow, talk about a blast from the past!

One customer bought 140 (!!) of the regular mini-tower kind from me for a school system in New Orleans... he placed a bunch more orders including some for more of the same crappy eMachine PC's after that so I guess they worked out okay?

I believe they were Celeron (sell & run!) 667's with 4gb's RAM and on-board ATI graphics. *(for $8 more per unit he could have had HP's with 866 mhz PIII's, an Nvidia discreet gpu & 8gb's RAM... WORLD's better systems... no-dice)

 

[brianmanahan]

shooot i remember how cheap and crappy those emachines were

 

[pete6032]

Crazy to think that people were getting machines back then with 4gb of RAM and today we only consider 8GB the standard.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Crazy to think that people were getting machines back then with 4gb of RAM and today we only consider 8GB the standard.

Unless it's my company, they still get 4GB of ram and a 500GB 5200rpm HDD as standard when we get "upgrades" then we need to make a special case to get more. It's crazy. We managed to get 16GB and a SSD this time around so we scored pretty good.

8GB should definitely be bare minimum these days. And SSD for boot drive too.

 

[Captante]

Crazy to think that people were getting machines back then with 4gb of RAM and today we only consider 8GB the standard.

If I'm building a PC now I consider 16gb's the standard for gaming and 8gb's the absolute bare-minimum.

I prefer to use 32gb's for overall system performance/multi-tasking on multi-use PC's and 64gb's (or more) for heavy video/photo editing.

 

[sdifox]

Crazy to think that people were getting machines back then with 4gb of RAM and today we only consider 8GB the standard.

Apple ][ 16kb

 

[IronWing]

Crazy to think that people were getting machines back then with 4gb of RAM and today we only consider 8GB the standard.

4MB, not GB. I had to writeup a justification letter for purchasing 32MB in 1995 as this was considered a shockingly large amount of memory. When I bought a Win 98 machine, it came with a 1GB hard drive which was considered good enough for most people.

 

[Captante]

4MB, not GB. I had to writeup a justification letter for purchasing 32MB in 1995 as this was considered a shockingly large amount of memory. When I bought a Win 98 machine, it came with a 1GB hard drive which was considered good enough for most people.

I remember paying BIG dollars for 96mb's of super-fast EDO RAM for my Dell Pentium Pro 200n in early 1996 (bought it with 32mb's) .... and then having to configure a bunch of tiny jumpers on the MB to make it boot with 128mb's @ a "blazing" 66 mhz!