Ageless, those dells are. the property is present in all Dells I've ever seen. It's as if they were enchanted at the factory. Seriously. (they probably are ...)
Mine came with a 1.8 Celeron and 256mb of RAM. Upgraded it to a P4 2.6 and 1GB of RAM in 2004 and added an extra HDD and a DVD burner. Still used it as my main machine until 2010!
Great video interesting to see the bios menu is the same as the one on my Dell Dimension 4100. Would love to see a future video on this computer exploring how well it surfs the internet and if it can still be used as a main computer after all these years.
Great Video , I still have my 2350, and a 4600. They were Awesome in their day. With the latest bios update you can upgrade the CPU to a 3.06 HT SL6S5 on most of those boards.
I got my first PC when I was 6 years old and it was my grandma's HP pavilion made some time in the late 90s along with an HP ink jet printer. The HP pavilion was upgraded to Windows XP from Windows 98. The computer did a good job at playing Bejeweled 2 and chuzzle and had a lot pictures from my first digital camera too. That PC got fried by 240volts AC power.
I used to have a similar Dell Dimension. Mine was a 4600 and I too enjoyed it a lot back then (it was also my first bedroom computer that I had personally). I got it brand new back in Christmas 2003 and used it up until as late as August 2011 before eventually replacing it with my now current bedroom computer, my HP Pavilion p7-1054 which I had since then (I even upgraded it to Windows 10 on my Pavilion). I still miss my old Dell Dimension 4600 as well as my IBM Aptiva (my first computer overall), they both served me well.
Last night I found a Dell 2350 on the trash the lady moving out told me I've had it for years and it stopped working, I looked at the dust coming from every opening including the floppy drive, I intend to keep this computer for old games and my record collection, my main baby in this house is my Dell Dimension 8400 which is resting on my bed until I add the new hard drive and the monitor I will hold to until the last breathe is my Dell Ultrasharp 2000FP my jaw hit the floor the first time I saw it, I moved every obligation on the back burner for this beauty, now I have gone on a tangent.
I've got a Dimension 2350 that was from an abandoned household and still have it to this day. It's got a Pentium 4 2.4ghz processor 2 GB RAM, 80GB hard drive and mine here runs pretty well. despite the old onboard graphics on it, I currently run Windows 7 on it and tat runs fairly well on it with all the original drivers on it. I actually put an internal wifi card on it for internet access on it. Good computer, cant believe how well it runs in general at its age. I certainly could've used 2 GB of RAM back in 2003 when this model was new!
Great video! I have a similar PC to this model, which is a Dell Optiplex GX260 PC with Windows XP Professional SP2 on it. I believe it was released in 2004 since Windows XP Professional SP2 came out in the same year and it also has an internal floppy drive. I also liked the TV commercial at the beginning of this video. Again, great job!
I remember looking to buy an LG player that had DIVX or AVI on so could play downloads I still have it now LOL I was given a Dell Dimension 3000 last night it all works fine its a p4 2.8 one.
I got into dell PC's when I got a bunch in a joblot of computers I purchased. I now have a Dell Dimension 4600, 1100, 2400, 2 optiplex GX60's, Dimension C521 and my oldest dell, a Dimension P120T. My 4600 is the only dimension that has an AGP slot, I upgraded it to it's max and use that as an XP gaming rig.
Recently acquired one of these exact models (2350) along with a Dell 4600 in an identical case design, though their front panels have slightly different shades of grey. So far all i've done is swapped the LED's in the front panel that were green (not a fan) with blue, which look a little better. Gave them both a thorough tear down and cleaning (for fun) and did some cable management for those IDE flat cables. Had issues with the CPU fan and duct being noisy so dealt with that. Decent little machine although limited expansion capabilities due to no AGP slot, no SATA ports etc. I really dislike the airflow design in these cases. The front hard drive mount voids any possibility of using the front for an intake air fan. :/ Still trying to figure a possible work around. But then I guess there's no point in adding additional cooling if you can't really mod them (without a modded BIOS... and who's putting that out?).
I ALWAYS go with Dell, I've found them to be the most reliable computers from my experience. I've been using Dell computers since I was born. We have an Acer Aspire that has server us well and is very reliable also but personally I prefer Dells. Still have my old Dimension 6400 running Windows XP and Precision M4400 running XP. We got rid of our Inspiron and Optiplex with XP unfortunately.
Also, your E Machine had the same fate as my ThinkPad.....almost, I broke Windows XP on it and I didn't have the equipment to fix it at the time (I broke the CD-ROM Drive), so I had a family member of mine install Lubuntu on it, I ended up breaking that and now....idk where it is, if I find it, I may fix it who knows XD
I actually have a Dell Dimension 4600 that my mom got for me 2nd hand from a former coworker for $10 about 5 years ago. Unfortunately, in march 2016, the computer was the victim of a house flood. Fortunately, it still works and I still have the thing, but it's running Debian acting as a VPN/ file server with a 1tb hard drive that came out of a broken Lenovo Thinkpad laptop
Billy I still have my emachines t3646 from 2005 and I did upgrades like ssd, power supply, ram, graphics card, cpu and yes windows 10 and it’s ok but if anything like Cortana is in the background, there goes all my cpu.
Hi All, I still have a Dell 2400 that i was given just to salvage files and photos of for the original owner. Once that was done i was told i could keep it as the Ebay prices are not very high and the $$$ the original owner was quoted to get his data backed up a 32g flash drive was ridiculous. So i formated the drive with dos 6.22 made 2 x 2gig partitions and first boot partition has dos and dos files the second is full of games. I then installed a fresh copy of XP on the rest of the drive 40 gig or whatever it is and it dual boots fine. For older games i hit the F2 key on boot up and change the cpu option to compatible, this basically turns off the cache and the pc runs similar to a 386 / 486 - perfect for older games, i have a pci sound blaster compatible and its pretty good for dos and XP Funny how some pc's are problem childs and the very next one is bulletproof ( i also have a Gateway 2000 P2 that runs Win98 SE that i purchased this year that is basically immaculate and untouched - it was a lucky find ) Cheers George
@ Tip is, don’t use fat32 as Windows XP bootable drive, it will blue screen on you, it’s best to format your drive with NTFS File System for windows XP boot drive, so you can get less blue screens.
Windows XP was released to manufacturing on that date, but technically, it wasn't released to the general public yet until October 25, 2001, so I think Windows XP will be officially 17 years old by October 25, 2018.
Wow i had the same problem with my Dell Dimension XPS B866, i will do something and in like 5 minutes without touching the PC, it will freeze entirely (But i fixed it later x) actually the reset button was the most used button on this machine XD
The Celeron processor at 400 MHz in the summer of 2000 (most likely what your eMachines used) would have been considered slow at that time as AMD had released their 1 GHz Athlon processor then and Intel had Pentium III systems at close to those speeds too. However the Celeron processor was good at PC gaming with a strong Floating Point Unit but a weak Arithmetic Logic Unit for general tasks. Good for gaming that is if you had a decent 2D/3D graphics card to go with it The weak ALU is probably what made your eMachines seem slow to you well that and the bloatware. Also you could have just saved the cab files (and other Windows install files) from your Windows cab folder and installed Windows 98 SE without the bloatware as you had the Product Key Code. I had a good experience with eMachines in early 1999 though my system had some components that had to be upgraded right away like the tiny 2 GB Hard Drive and lacking a decent graphics card.The power supply had to be upgraded right away too. However I recognized that even with upgrades it was badly obsolete by the end of the year 2000 but it was fun with Windows 98 era Gaming I built my first custom built system in January 2001 using the AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz CPU and I chose Windows 2000 Professional rather that Windows ME. I tried it at first with ( a copy of) Windows 98 SE but had some freezing up problems with that Operating System. Windows 2000 turned out to be great as Windows 2000 will run most of the software that the later Windows XP can run with just a very few exceptions.I never had any instability of freezing up problems again even though I used that system heavily up until 2010. Sorry that you had bad experiences with both eMachines and that much more costly Gateway. One of my brothers gave me several of his Dell Dimension 2400 systems and I used these as my first Linux systems. Edit by the way this video is I think the best video of yours describing your computer history Billy. It was quite enjoyable.
The 400 MHz Celeron was a CPU liked by many people as the competitor to AMD's budget K6-2 and not everyone could afford the Pentium II or Pentium III CPU at the time.
I've never liked EMachines. Never. I had a Dell Dimension E510 and my parents had a Dimension 4600; I have reason to believe that my Dim E510 is still alive today; I saw it be given to a customer when I donated it to the clinic where I go and fix computers. though that was four years ago ... The 4600? He died unfortunately, last year, though his last OS was PFSense; was thinking I could use him as a firewall for my local network. Never quite worked out.
First of all Windows ME was complete garbage!! I have these Dell pcs in my collection Still Working today: Dell Dimension 2400 Dell Dimension 3000 Dell XPS 400 Dell XPS 410 (My First PC I opened and upgraded) Dell Dimension E521 Dell Vostro 220 Dell Vostro 420 Dell Optiplex GX620 Dell Optiplex 740 Dell Optiplex 755 Dell Optiplex 780 Dell Optiplex 790 Computer's that have died Dell Dimension 8100 Dell Dimension 8300 Dell Dimension 4100 (Pentium III) Dell Dimension B110 Dell Dimension 4300 Dell Dimension 4700
dude were geting another dell great we can keep the house warm again this winter,wow u made some bad mistakes and the fx5200 was ur last that was not a good video card,& the agp was not on ur mother board cos u got the cheaper dell,there are a lot more people still using the Amiga to day than the old dell sorry im wrong there as they still use them dell p4 to keep there house warm in winter lol as i said, yes i had the dells and fixed loads of them
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Dimension 2350 was my first new PC back in 2003 and I still have it!
Ageless, those dells are. the property is present in all Dells I've ever seen. It's as if they were enchanted at the factory. Seriously. (they probably are ...)
Mine came with a 1.8 Celeron and 256mb of RAM. Upgraded it to a P4 2.6 and 1GB of RAM in 2004 and added an extra HDD and a DVD burner. Still used it as my main machine until 2010!
I was 2 years old when this commercial aired. This is bringing back memories.
Great video interesting to see the bios menu is the same as the one on my Dell Dimension 4100. Would love to see a future video on this computer exploring how well it surfs the internet and if it can still be used as a main computer after all these years.
Great Video , I still have my 2350, and a 4600. They were Awesome in their day. With the latest bios update you can upgrade the CPU to a 3.06 HT SL6S5 on most of those boards.
I got my first PC when I was 6 years old and it was my grandma's HP pavilion made some time in the late 90s along with an HP ink jet printer. The HP pavilion was upgraded to Windows XP from Windows 98. The computer did a good job at playing Bejeweled 2 and chuzzle and had a lot pictures from my first digital camera too. That PC got fried by 240volts AC power.
rip
I used to have a similar Dell Dimension. Mine was a 4600 and I too enjoyed it a lot back then (it was also my first bedroom computer that I had personally). I got it brand new back in Christmas 2003 and used it up until as late as August 2011 before eventually replacing it with my now current bedroom computer, my HP Pavilion p7-1054 which I had since then (I even upgraded it to Windows 10 on my Pavilion). I still miss my old Dell Dimension 4600 as well as my IBM Aptiva (my first computer overall), they both served me well.
Last night I found a Dell 2350 on the trash the lady moving out told me I've had it for years and it stopped working, I looked at the dust coming from every opening including the floppy drive, I intend to keep this computer for old games and my record collection, my main baby in this house is my Dell Dimension 8400 which is resting on my bed until I add the new hard drive and the monitor I will hold to until the last breathe is my Dell Ultrasharp 2000FP my jaw hit the floor the first time I saw it, I moved every obligation on the back burner for this beauty, now I have gone on a tangent.
I love those older Dell machines. I had a Dell Dimension 4550 and I never had a problem with it.
I've got a Dimension 2350 that was from an abandoned household and still have it to this day. It's got a Pentium 4 2.4ghz processor 2 GB RAM, 80GB hard drive and mine here runs pretty well. despite the old onboard graphics on it, I currently run Windows 7 on it and tat runs fairly well on it with all the original drivers on it. I actually put an internal wifi card on it for internet access on it. Good computer, cant believe how well it runs in general at its age. I certainly could've used 2 GB of RAM back in 2003 when this model was new!
Great video! I have a similar PC to this model, which is a Dell Optiplex GX260 PC with Windows XP Professional SP2 on it. I believe it was released in 2004 since Windows XP Professional SP2 came out in the same year and it also has an internal floppy drive. I also liked the TV commercial at the beginning of this video. Again, great job!
instablaster.
wow! i was born in 2003... but now, i will be 15th years old!
Same :)))
I will be 15th on August 19th. Not the same day.
I remember looking to buy an LG player that had DIVX or AVI on so could play downloads I still have it now LOL I was given a Dell Dimension 3000 last night it all works fine its a p4 2.8 one.
i have a 4700, with a 2.8 i need to get a graphics card for it because i can't stand the intel integrated...
dude were getting another dell! does that cpu not have HT?
Bonzi Buddy?
WE NEED JOEL HERE NOW, HE CAN FIX THIS.
I got into dell PC's when I got a bunch in a joblot of computers I purchased. I now have a Dell Dimension 4600, 1100, 2400, 2 optiplex GX60's, Dimension C521 and my oldest dell, a Dimension P120T. My 4600 is the only dimension that has an AGP slot, I upgraded it to it's max and use that as an XP gaming rig.
so take care now informations and some photos
Recently acquired one of these exact models (2350) along with a Dell 4600 in an identical case design, though their front panels have slightly different shades of grey. So far all i've done is swapped the LED's in the front panel that were green (not a fan) with blue, which look a little better. Gave them both a thorough tear down and cleaning (for fun) and did some cable management for those IDE flat cables. Had issues with the CPU fan and duct being noisy so dealt with that. Decent little machine although limited expansion capabilities due to no AGP slot, no SATA ports etc.
I really dislike the airflow design in these cases. The front hard drive mount voids any possibility of using the front for an intake air fan. :/ Still trying to figure a possible work around. But then I guess there's no point in adding additional cooling if you can't really mod them (without a modded BIOS... and who's putting that out?).
I ALWAYS go with Dell, I've found them to be the most reliable computers from my experience. I've been using Dell computers since I was born. We have an Acer Aspire that has server us well and is very reliable also but personally I prefer Dells. Still have my old Dimension 6400 running Windows XP and Precision M4400 running XP. We got rid of our Inspiron and Optiplex with XP unfortunately.
Just curious, what did you do with your Emachine and Gateway computers after you quit using them?
They have that bowling game is on the iPad now
I would be celebrating the day I got my ThinkPad (my first PC), but I don't remember when I got it XD
Also, your E Machine had the same fate as my ThinkPad.....almost, I broke Windows XP on it and I didn't have the equipment to fix it at the time (I broke the CD-ROM Drive), so I had a family member of mine install Lubuntu on it, I ended up breaking that and now....idk where it is, if I find it, I may fix it who knows XD
I actually have a Dell Dimension 4600 that my mom got for me 2nd hand from a former coworker for $10 about 5 years ago. Unfortunately, in march 2016, the computer was the victim of a house flood. Fortunately, it still works and I still have the thing, but it's running Debian acting as a VPN/ file server with a 1tb hard drive that came out of a broken Lenovo Thinkpad laptop
Billy I still have my emachines t3646 from 2005 and I did upgrades like ssd, power supply, ram, graphics card, cpu and yes windows 10 and it’s ok but if anything like Cortana is in the background, there goes all my cpu.
what if Windows Me + the Corner Packard Bell?
The GeForce FX 5200 is such a great card for Windows 98 games but its performance for running games from 2003-2005 is pretty laughable
Hi All, I still have a Dell 2400 that i was given just to salvage files and photos of for the original owner. Once that was done i was told i could keep it as the Ebay prices are not very high and the $$$ the original owner was quoted to get his data backed up a 32g flash drive was ridiculous. So i formated the drive with dos 6.22 made 2 x 2gig partitions and first boot partition has dos and dos files the second is full of games.
I then installed a fresh copy of XP on the rest of the drive 40 gig or whatever it is and it dual boots fine.
For older games i hit the F2 key on boot up and change the cpu option to compatible, this basically turns off the cache and the pc runs similar to a 386 / 486 - perfect for older games, i have a pci sound blaster compatible and its pretty good for dos and XP
Funny how some pc's are problem childs and the very next one is bulletproof ( i also have a Gateway 2000 P2 that runs Win98 SE that i purchased this year that is basically immaculate and untouched - it was a lucky find )
Cheers George
Always format the hard drive to NTFS
@ Tip is, don’t use fat32 as Windows XP bootable drive, it will blue screen on you, it’s best to format your drive with NTFS File System for windows XP boot drive, so you can get less blue screens.
The computer still runs good from 2003
The best Dell PC i have to play Hyperbowl with is my Inspiron 9400. The touchpad is really good for Hyperbowl and very responsive.
Fucking 20+ now.
That was my first computer.
review an old school Toshiba.
I agree its a legendary computer:)
The never obsolete computer is obsolete
nice video
Windows XP is turning 17 on 08/24/2018
Windows XP was released to manufacturing on that date, but technically, it wasn't released to the general public yet until October 25, 2001, so I think Windows XP will be officially 17 years old by October 25, 2018.
41:19 "Version 2014"!? You have installed the unofficial copy of Windows XP? The official copy of Windows XP always have "Version 2002" instead.
Wow! An very nice computer with running Windows XP on it. :)
34:45 epic line, and I'm still surviving without 60 fps at 4k, yeah pc today is way easier
Wow i had the same problem with my Dell Dimension XPS B866, i will do something and in like 5 minutes without touching the PC, it will freeze entirely (But i fixed it later x) actually the reset button was the most used button on this machine XD
I bought one from a thrift store for $2 really good machines for there day. Wish I could get a 4700.
In pole position, you can go faster by shifting into high gear
I sue to play sim city 4 deluxe and rollercoaster tycoon 2 a lot as a kid
Ive manged to push 4gb in the 2400 without anyproblems although i was never able to get xp to use more then 1gb or so lol
My parts are not came with
The Celeron processor at 400 MHz in the summer of 2000 (most likely what your eMachines used) would have been considered slow at that time as AMD had released their 1 GHz Athlon processor then and Intel had Pentium III systems at close to those speeds too.
However the Celeron processor was good at PC gaming with a strong Floating Point Unit but a weak Arithmetic Logic Unit for general tasks.
Good for gaming that is if you had a decent 2D/3D graphics card to go with it
The weak ALU is probably what made your eMachines seem slow to you well that and the bloatware.
Also you could have just saved the cab files (and other Windows install files) from your Windows cab folder and installed Windows 98 SE without the bloatware as you had the Product Key Code.
I had a good experience with eMachines in early 1999 though my system had some components that had to be upgraded right away like the tiny 2 GB Hard Drive and lacking a decent graphics card.The power supply had to be upgraded right away too.
However I recognized that even with upgrades it was badly obsolete by the end of the year 2000 but it was fun with Windows 98 era Gaming
I built my first custom built system in January 2001 using the AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz CPU and I chose Windows 2000 Professional rather that Windows ME.
I tried it at first with ( a copy of) Windows 98 SE but had some freezing up problems with that Operating System.
Windows 2000 turned out to be great as Windows 2000 will run most of the software that the later Windows XP can run with just a very few exceptions.I never had any instability of freezing up problems again even though I used that system heavily up until 2010.
Sorry that you had bad experiences with both eMachines and that much more costly Gateway.
One of my brothers gave me several of his Dell Dimension 2400 systems and I used these as my first Linux systems.
Edit by the way this video is I think the best video of yours describing your computer history Billy.
It was quite enjoyable.
I still used a 400 MHz Celeron as late as early 2006.
The 400 MHz Celeron was a CPU liked by many people as the competitor to AMD's budget K6-2 and not everyone could afford the Pentium II or Pentium III CPU at the time.
I have Dell XPS 13 2018
A PC's performance will be better when u upgrade it from factory 32mb to I'd say 2-4gb
because google is just moteur de recherche dont forget this and youtube site video
I've never liked EMachines. Never. I had a Dell Dimension E510 and my parents had a Dimension 4600; I have reason to believe that my Dim E510 is still alive today; I saw it be given to a customer when I donated it to the clinic where I go and fix computers. though that was four years ago ... The 4600? He died unfortunately, last year, though his last OS was PFSense; was thinking I could use him as a firewall for my local network. Never quite worked out.
before its IE AND AOL
yes windows xp too
Game name you intell
First of all Windows ME was complete garbage!!
I have these Dell pcs in my collection
Still Working today:
Dell Dimension 2400
Dell Dimension 3000
Dell XPS 400
Dell XPS 410 (My First PC I opened and upgraded)
Dell Dimension E521
Dell Vostro 220
Dell Vostro 420
Dell Optiplex GX620
Dell Optiplex 740
Dell Optiplex 755
Dell Optiplex 780
Dell Optiplex 790
Computer's that have died
Dell Dimension 8100
Dell Dimension 8300
Dell Dimension 4100 (Pentium III)
Dell Dimension B110
Dell Dimension 4300
Dell Dimension 4700
google DONT EXISTED BEFORE DONT FORGET THIS ON TIME WINDOWS 98
dont forget veste facebook men
its google men THE BIG PROBLEMS
et jai les benefices evidemment
google and facebook big problems
dude were geting another dell great we can keep the house warm again this winter,wow u made some bad mistakes and the fx5200 was ur last that was not a good video card,& the agp was not on ur mother board cos u got the cheaper dell,there are a lot more people still using the Amiga to day than the old dell sorry im wrong there as they still use them dell p4 to keep there house warm in winter lol as i said, yes i had the dells and fixed loads of them
and youtunbe
Intel extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeme graphics = junk
crappy