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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 10, 2007 12:38:40 GMT -5
tech.msn.com/products/articlepcw.aspx?cp-documentid=4594343Wow. I've seen my share of crap computers, ones that didnt make this list. Nothing is more fun than someone telling you they have a computer for you to look at and then you see the label on the case and begin to vomit. Gotta love quality.
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Post by Avatar on Apr 12, 2007 23:21:55 GMT -5
d**n it, I got bogged down reading all the other "worst" articles that one links to.  (Oh, I see we have quite a strict word filter. LOL) --A |
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Post by thomasallencummins on Apr 13, 2007 5:33:42 GMT -5
d**n it, I got bogged down reading all the other "worst" articles that one links to. (Oh, I see we have quite a strict word filter. LOL) --A Perhaps it was your computer's fault. Maybe you own one of the machines on the list! NOOOOOOOO! |
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Post by ram on Jun 2, 2007 1:50:40 GMT -5
I remember seeing ads for those Mattel Barbie/Hot Wheels PCs. <cringe>
Packard Bell...yep, a name that will live on in infamy. Not surprised at all that it's #1 on the list. Never owned one myself, thank goodness, but I remember reading all kinds of bad reviews of Packard Bells. So now they're selling their substandard crap to customers in Europe? They have no shame.
Also, anybody else remember the bright blue K-Mart PC? I think it was PC Gamer that reviewed that machine (guess they felt masochistic that day), and boy was it a stinker.
The first (and last) PC my dad bought for the family back in the dark ages of 1997 was a clunker, too. He got ripped off cuz he didn't know any better. But at the time, none of the rest of us were computer geniuses either. Anyway, he paid about two grand for an AST system that was basically obsolete before it even left the store. (AST is defunct now, as far as I know. Good riddance, I say!) This is what I remember of that machine:
AMD 5x86 "PR 133" - essentially this was a glorified 486-equivalent chip
16 MB RAM
onboard 1 MB Trident video chip
onboard sound (might've even been stereo, but it was still crap)
14.4K modem that we never used
850 MB hard drive
2x CD-ROM drive that would read or not read discs depending on its mood
14" monitor
a pair of tiny, cruddy speakers
Somehow, that machine ran Windows 95, if just barely.
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Post by thomasallencummins on Jun 3, 2007 13:36:55 GMT -5
AMD 5x86 "PR 133" - essentially this was a glorified 486-equivalent chip 16 MB RAM onboard 1 MB Trident video chip onboard sound (might've even been stereo, but it was still crap) 14.4K modem that we never used 850 MB hard drive 2x CD-ROM drive that would read or not read discs depending on its mood 14" monitor a pair of tiny, cruddy speakers Somehow, that machine ran Windows 95, if just barely. Wow. That description is nearly identical to my first store bought pc. I managed a classic pentium 133mhz processor and a 4meg ATI vid card but most everything else was the same. As I recall Win95 ran just fine on that machine (I changed to WindowsNT 4.0 almost immediately as we were running it at work). That wasn't a bad machine when I got it but by todays standards it wouldn't compete with your average cell phone. Ah the good old days. ;D |
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Post by Avatar on Jun 3, 2007 23:24:14 GMT -5
Haha. My first PC was an AT (186? or 086?) , 640kb RAM, 2x5 1/4 drives. No hd. Used to boot off a DOS 2.3 floppy. I've had a PC ever since.  --A |
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Post by dANdeLION on Jun 4, 2007 14:06:03 GMT -5
HAL 9000 ranks pretty high on my list.
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Post by ram on Jun 7, 2007 0:17:37 GMT -5
Yeah, when HAL crashes, he takes you with him. Wait! He's no PC, he's a mainframe! (And you thought I was gonna say he was a Mac)  |
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