Defunct PC brands - which did you own?
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kevboard
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the only prebuilt PC I ever owned was a Dell when I was a kid. back then they were basically the best quality you could get.
I think I had exactly this case:
it had an Intel Pentium 4, either 500MB or 1GB RAM (I think it was 1GB) and a Geforce 2MX.
it also came with a really good CRT Monitor, which I used for my Xbox 360 for a while later lol
I think I had exactly this case:
it had an Intel Pentium 4, either 500MB or 1GB RAM (I think it was 1GB) and a Geforce 2MX.
it also came with a really good CRT Monitor, which I used for my Xbox 360 for a while later lol
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Weirdest thing, customer back in the day just didn't want it anymore. SGI O2.
One step further, had a nice Linux 1RU server to start a web business with. Cobalt RAQ2.
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StreetsofBeige
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Only brand name PC/laptop I've had are Dells and just recently MSI. MSI laptop rocking great. Zero issues in two years.
Dells were fine. The old ass tower in the 2000s was great.
The laptops worked fine except in two of them the frame part would crack. I think I bought 4 Dell laptops across 15 or so years. One from me opening/closing it too many times. And the other from picking it up on a corner and it snap cracked. I dont know, maybe that's my fault. The most recent Dell laptops I had - one had an annoying BIOS blue screen error every once in a while I'd watch/stream videos too much (it would always bomb out about 2 hours in requireing a reboot), and the other one had broken keys (which I fucked up more watching YT videos thinking I could fix it myself opening it up with tweezers and shit lolol). They always have it going wrong around year 4. lol
My first PC I bought on my own was a tower from some noname store. Probably saw their ads in the newspaper. Didnt even customize it. Just ordered a model as they advertised. Took two weeks to be ready! I was a few days away from cancelling. Never again I'd buy from a random PC shop. Just buy a branded model I could get online or from a store right away.
Dells were fine. The old ass tower in the 2000s was great.
The laptops worked fine except in two of them the frame part would crack. I think I bought 4 Dell laptops across 15 or so years. One from me opening/closing it too many times. And the other from picking it up on a corner and it snap cracked. I dont know, maybe that's my fault. The most recent Dell laptops I had - one had an annoying BIOS blue screen error every once in a while I'd watch/stream videos too much (it would always bomb out about 2 hours in requireing a reboot), and the other one had broken keys (which I fucked up more watching YT videos thinking I could fix it myself opening it up with tweezers and shit lolol). They always have it going wrong around year 4. lol
My first PC I bought on my own was a tower from some noname store. Probably saw their ads in the newspaper. Didnt even customize it. Just ordered a model as they advertised. Took two weeks to be ready! I was a few days away from cancelling. Never again I'd buy from a random PC shop. Just buy a branded model I could get online or from a store right away.
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The Fartist
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CTX with an AMD K-6 3dNow @450mhz, 64gb RAM, 8gb HDD, 16x CD-ROM. Got it for my 15th birthday in 1999 from Best Buy. Thanks mom! I got a serial 2x CD-RW drive soon after.
Trilobit
Absolutely Cozy
I'm pretty sure Compaq Presario was the family's main computer when I was about ten. Loved it as it gave me so many great gaming memories. It was there when we got broadband for the first time and I was able to try out a bunch of DOS and Flash games I found online.
I actually was a PC player first and foremost unknowingly the first part of my life as we didn't get at console until I got older. Had I had friends who liked to open up and tinker with computers it might have changed my gaming related life. Never entered that space on my own.
I actually was a PC player first and foremost unknowingly the first part of my life as we didn't get at console until I got older. Had I had friends who liked to open up and tinker with computers it might have changed my gaming related life. Never entered that space on my own.
DownLikeBCPowder
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I still have my towers from the mid/late 90s. AT&T, Compaq, and Gateway.
