My brother got the 400mhz version of this when he went to college. I later got is as a hand me down, for my first PC that was shared with the family. When I later built a computer, I stripped the emachine down and mounted all the parts to a board and hung it on the wall where it still ran. It became the machine I tried installing linux on and stuff.
If you look at it in a “Ship of Theseus” sort of way this might be true. For example I have a machine that I built in 2006, Over the years parts here and there have been swapped out to the point that the only original piece is the case. I still think of it as the same machine I built in 2006 even though it most definitely is not.
Of course, the ship and my machine both slowly changed over time where as this machine here would just be swapped out entirely every 2 years.
My wife’s family had that exact model eMachines PC when we started dating. I made it a priority to build her a better PC as soon as I could.
I had forgotten about computers being slathered with stickers in the past
Country roads, take me home…
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
Puppy Linux
I can get Windows 11 to run on it.
why?
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.
Damn, would that deal still be going or nah?
Lol I think they’d tell you to go fuck yourself if they were still around. I think i saw another user say e machines died around 2013
Sounds expensive, definitely wouldn’t take that deal
Will still probably work as a local server somewhere
Yes. I would give even odds that the exact one pictured is humming away, under a desk, forgotten, serving someone’s email, somewhere.
I can see her ports!
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.
