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There were an increasing number of cheap, proprietary PCs in the late 1990s -- many of which couldn't be upgraded well, or at all. But this Dell Dimension XPS could be almost as good as a custom-built computer. Sources: “Professional PCs,“ PC Magazine, December 2, 1997. Ensoniq AudioPCI photo: #/media/File: “Company News,“ The New York Times, December 11, 1997. “Pentium Part II,“ PC Magazine, June 10, 1997. Pentium Pro photo: : Pentium II commercial: Pentium II photo: : “AMD challenges Intel with cheaper MMX chip,“ Computerworld, April 7, 1997. “Intel's Celeron 266,“ PC World, May 1998. Slot 1 Celeron photo: : “Celeron CPU Caches Up, Adds Muscle to Basic PCs,“ PC Magazine, October 6, 1998. “Celeron 300A,“ Maximum PC Power User Handbook, autumn 2000. Pentium II in box photo: Socket 370 photo: :Intel_Socket_370_-_open-top_oblique_PNr° Socket 370 slotket adapter: “Rage 128,“ Maximum PC, February 1999. 00:00 - Introduction 01:11 - Drives and ports 01:53 - Not quite what it seems 04:35 - Upgrades 06:09 - The Slot 1 story 09:24 - Reassembly and cleaning 11:19 - I should have installed Windows Me on this 12:34 - Video cards kinda sucked back then, but we still liked them 13:31 - is the best, fight me 15:40 - It's a good computer ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: Follow me on social media! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (). Intro music by BoxCat Games ().
