LMAO.... I read that whole thing laughing at "POS" equipment before I realized he means "Point of Sale", not "Piece of $4!t".

Coincidentally, I am putting this in a Dell box. Tried a Vostro 200 and a Vostro 220, thinking maybe the MoBo had an issue with the on-board USB. Same deal-i-o on both. XP doesn't like it.

 

LOL I know, I got a chuckle out of that. I think he was working on an old optiplex or something. I had one those WAYY back when. They were pretty good buisness comps in their time, just ask Fred Flinstone lol.

And that post was from 2017, even funnier lol.

 

LOL... we still have a few Optiplex's around. Couple of them have i5's in them.... really been decent PC's - for a Dell.

 

Oh the amount of optiplexs still out there running medical equipment. Still see DOS, old old versions of windows, something running an old flavor of windows had 512mb of ram... that thing was SCREAMING the entire time it was turned on lol had Felix the cat as a helper on the desktop... you know like Clippy the paper clip with word but for the equipment

 

I use to have nightmares about that paperclip...yea, it was weird, it had horns. Paper clip from hell.

Can't believe I confessed.

 

I figured those things must of died out by now. Damn , they'll handle an i5 ? Those Form factors use to be popular as well.. HP's?

 

Can you run 64bit on those OptiPlexes ?

 

You mean like this one?
Yep.

 

No , not at all. They're still making OptiPlexes ?

These are the machines I was thinking of, -

http://www.pcandserverstore.com/Dell...se_p_1913.html

I was thinking these were the end of the line for some reason...what do I know lol.

 

Well, that explains why I was a little surprised they ran an i5 anyway lol.