Comments on: eMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme

By: Dajve bloke

Dajve bloke — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:07:30 +0000

As a person who “knew about computers” ™ i ended up servicing a number of these boxen. While fine for the less demanding user, any change in hardware required extreme care as the cheap mild steel in the chassis was quite rough, and fully prepared to turn hands and wrists into something that looked like badly wrapped salami.

There’s one in my loft, a 466 i think, that i kept for running Win95/98 games. But virtualisation made it largely unnecessary (looks glaringly at Medieval: Total War, which I have never got to run in slightly modern Doze).

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:42:42 +0000

On a similar note, I remember some company selling PCs with the first 64-bit x86 processor, and they bragged that it (on the basis of its 64-bit-ness, apparently) was “the last PC you’d ever need”.

By: Greg Mohney

Greg Mohney — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:18:05 +0000

I had several eMachines from Walmart, and they weren’t bad little budget machines. This was before I ever got into 3D accelerators or other hardware that would require a lot of power, but they made decent little Linux machines. I even made one into a Hackintosh.

This was before they were bought out and started using the “economy” Intel chips that were worthless.