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With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market (www.xda-developers.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A lot of that instability was just budget 90s prebuilts being garbage. Gateway was close to eMachines tier as far as stability went. You had to spend 50-100% more money for something like a Micron desktop if you wanted reliability, or just build your own from reliable parts.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lol. I remember playing the original Sims on a a windows ME emachine. It was a terrible computer but I was just happy to have access to games and the internet.