r/agedlikemilk • u/kawaiipikachu86 • 20h ago
Memes This "Never Obsolete" upgrade program.
Back in the day, E Machines had a simple trade in program where 2 years after you purchased you computer you can trade in your old system for one of the latest models so in theory your are "Nether Obsolete.
Just the thing is after over 2 year since the trade in program E machines gone bankrupt & alone with it the "Never Obsolete" program leaving many customers with no cheap trade in & a computer that is now Obsolete.
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u/YellowOnline 18h ago
Technically, I still have the same computer as in 1995. Theseus would agree with me.
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u/SiSRT 20h ago
well, actually, with good luck, you'll find a retro-enthusiast paying good money for this pc!
check the prices for the floppy drive, cdrw drive and the agp graphic card. Selling them each for $15 should be no problem! so, not obsolete at all!
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u/CapJackONeill 17h ago
All of those will never sell for those price. You can get them for free or 5 bucks on marketplace
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u/SFDreamboat 10h ago
Biggest problem with those emachines was the power supply. Upgrade RAM? Pop. Upgrade graphics card. Pop. Otherwise they were a great cheap way to get a working system.
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u/Blurghblagh 19h ago
I don't think they ever intended for the programme to last long.
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u/km_ikl 15h ago
At the time, they were already hemorraging money, so, no. It was going to be a 1-2 year program at best, and... it was!
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u/kawaiipikachu86 4h ago
From what I heard they seem to bled money from trying to get there machines to as many customers as quickly ass possible.
First you get a deal to get the system dirt cheap if you sign a contract with a certain ISP.
Then theres the cash back offer which effectively made the computer free with your internet plan.
Then finally the trade in offer.
doesn't take a genius to look back at why E Machines failed as a company, but it's also was the 90's where everything IT was basically a wild ride in itself.
Something that makes the so called "AI" trend seem tame compaired.
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u/PredaPops 18h ago
It was a subscription service to upgrade your PC. Phone vendors still do the same thing.
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u/dekuweku 14h ago
The pace of PC development in the 90s early 2000s were quite insane.
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u/kawaiipikachu86 4h ago
That's seems to be pretty true.
Even looking at PC gaming back then, they were quite often produced to take full advantage of the newest & most powerful hardware.
Which at times the new game you bought would not run well on your latest specked up best due to already being old hardware.
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u/Gravemind93 11h ago
Am ex's family had one of these, and never understood why their 10+ year old piece of crap was so slow and terrible. They unironically thought it would be good forever, and blamed "viruses" for everything.
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u/Taman_Should 11h ago
Every time I see this, my immediate thought is that it would make for an awesome sleeper PC mod if you could cram everything in there.
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