Best Buy Commercial 1994

[ssj4david]

Hey! That's my family's first computer!!

[rowenj]

wow $1998 i hated packard bell

[trancerobot]

$1998 in today's dollars? $2443.50

For ~$2500 you can get a Mac Pro. Or 4 budget laptops that'll run almost all of your programs. What would $500 in 1994 get you? Maybe a used Apple IIgs?

[ThePichu7892]

My right ear enjoyed this video.

[iixnullxii1]

I had this same configuration except I had the 486 dx2 and 8MB RAM... Speeed!

[youbeat2008]

Spec sheet: 486SX/33 MHz processor; 340 MB Hard Drive; 4MB of RAM; Color Deskjet Printer; DoubleSpin CD-ROM drive; Sound card and speakers; Super VGA Monitor; FAX/Modem; CD-ROM Software; Microsoft Windows; Microsoft Works; Microsoft Money(What the hell is this?); Prodigy; 1 MB Video Memory; O_o! Where can I buy this supercomputer?

[chica476]

@youbeat2008

all for 1998!

[ErwinNegentigNo2]

holy crap 1998. I can get a mac with that kind of money but i hate macs. WINDOWS FTW

[ActuallyDexterMorgan]

Now that computer is worth just 19.98

[ichigokarasu]

"Double Spin CD-ROM drive"? Now you're just makin stuff up.

[enzovicente1]

These computer only can runs pacman or zelda HAHAHA Fucking old high prices

[HOLYCRAP70]

holy shit 1998$ that is too much to ask

[B1LLDOG]

LOL! They were showing off about 4mb of memory.... and 1998 dollars for a fucking computer? the one i have is SO much better and i payed like 500

[mynameisjavin]

@B1LLDOG well obviously you didnt buy it in 1994 dumbass

[freemanstrip]

I remember that, yup $2500 for a 486 dx2 100 [mhz] HP with Windows 3.1 or 95 installed.

Lucky for me I got my company to pay for it after I put together a DB with it that totally changed the environment there.....Whew! What a gamble! ONLY in the US heh...

[flytheuk]

i remember those, if i owned it today, i would kill my self lol

[Lumotaku]

Yeah but 486 sx sucked I would rather a 386 dx than a 486 sx.

[Manimal347]

@Lumotaku

Pshaww! A 488sx was just a 486DX minus the math copro. Mind you, while the 486DX FPU was hot shit, very, very few 386s ever saw a FPU added to the 80387 socket (if even provided). Definitely, clock for clock, a 486sx was much faster, especially when running newer software such as Windows 95.

[waffles4everful]

WOW IT LOOKS LIKE IT CAME STRAIT OUT OF THE FUTURE

[cvhashim]

2000 bucks for that wtf!!!

[dropkickproductiontx]

Wow, computers were so much more expensive back then

[Manimal347]

I've owned machines just about like it. Well, I've had worse 486s. Try, a 120MB hard disk, no multimedia options and a 25Mhz CPU. Wow! Neither those nor this machine could run Windows 95 very well. Obsolete in two years - such is the price of going cheap and not spending $3,000 on a PC that would run Windows 95 moderately okay, veering into '11 usable after adding another eight megs of RAM, which nobody ever did.

[TheExeOneVIII]

4 mb of ram? I must upgrade my pc

[94XJ]

Back when Best Buy representatives actually knew computers...

[alexandgruntz]

Forget Windows 7, that would barely run Windows 95...

[natefly5]

350MB hard drive? is that even a 1 hour movie?

[CallOfDuty4Fish]

Holy shit! 4 megs of Mem?! 33 MHZ?! 340 MB HD?! WHAT IS THIS HAX! Whats the phone number I want one!

[VideoSuperMaster]

340 Megabyte hard drive lolz.

[ANeonTiger]

This makes me so thankful to have been born in 1990 so I never really had to deal with old school computers like this past early elementary school.

[Vikkar1]

@ANeonTiger you're still dealing with "old school" computers if you apply your thinking to the future. People who will be born 21 years from the day you posted this, will look at this video and say the same thing you just said about this technology, which was at the time, state of the art.

[ANeonTiger]

@Vikkar1 True but still.... I'm glad we have good computers now is all I'm saying.

[Vikkar1]

@ANeonTiger good computers? ...they're all good. As long as they work. What you mean to say is that you're happy to have 'better' computers than what was available in the past. No matter how "good" your computer is, there will always be a better one being developed as you ponder. It's called technology.

[ANeonTiger]

@Vikkar1 Yes, good as in better than early 1990's models. I'm aware of the concept of technology.

[gollapr]

@ANeonTiger Aw, you missed a great time during the 80s. I'll never forget when in 4th grade (1984), our classroom got one computer. We all were so excited to use it. It was so cool to see how a button pushed would make something on the screen move or make a sound. Yeah, the stuff back then was really slow, clunky and limited, but it makes me appreciate the new technology even more. 

[Quaaludedude714]

I'll take all I can get :) QC

[sonamara997]

you can laugh, but in 10 years, our kids will be saying that about our pathetic quad core i7s and 8 gigs of ram

[GradyLorenzo]

@sonamara997 that's why I have 16GB ram.

[sonamara997]

@GradyLorenzo now I'm jealous :'(

but you still win an internet cookie!

[chica476]

@sonamara997

8 gigs? where've you been? You can get 16 now... xD

[sonamara997]

@chica476 well my comp is from '09, so the specs are kinda small now

[spaxspore]

0.26

For almost 2 grand Yes it is...

[videogamepimp22]

now you can find those at yard sales for 11 bucks or cheaper lol

[Guynamedcolin]

Just think. THAT costs $2000. For a computer that costs $2000 now, you would be getting a Like Pro gaming computer.

[thomasmudd1976]

@Guynamedcolin that same price would be $3,054.09 in today's money. So if you think about it they have come down in price...a bit...hehe

[Austin989891080p]

my right ear enjoyed this!

[Kazuo1G]

ARG. I think the more appropriate question is... Can it run Quake? :D

[RightWingHunter666]

2000K for a a 486 Packard Bell. Jesus Christ...lol

[sk8erboi342]

Can i run Battlefield 3?

[mjallen1308]

I think my mom got one of those. I can't see her paying that much for it though.

[DougWiiBoy]

340mb hard drive and 4 mb ram... AHAHAHAHAHA

[SophiaVIP]

Omg how can i get this new compuer and dose it have windows 1.0

[sawmaster2]

Microsoft Windows was old when it came out.

[hamiltonjsh]

4 mb of memory! i just got done watching 4 GIGAbytes of porn!

[wozzupgamer]

@hamiltonjsh i just fiished downloading 150 GIGAbytes of games from steam!

[DoktorStrangelove]

YAY COMPUTAR

[Rich8951]

Laugh you guys, go ahead.

I bought a 486 66 MHz machine for about that price around 1993 or so. Guess what? I'M STILL USING IT!

I have never spent a DIME on a computer in 18 YEARS. I can't get on the Internet with it anymore, but so what? I do that at work.

How much have YOU spent on computers in the last 18 years? $5,000? $10,000?

Who's laughing now?

[OneWayProduct]

@Rich8951 Do you know what you have done in 18 years? Screamed at kids to get off your lawn.

You're a Dinosaur.

[Rich8951]

@OneWayProduct

Well, you can say that. I am also one RICH dinosaur!

How much money have YOU WASTED on machines you really didn't need.

You see, my youtube friend, you and I are different types.

1) I do NOT see myself in what I buy, or what I own.

2) YOU apparently feel un-fulfilled if you don't have the latest gadget!

How the advertisers and makes of useless junk have FOOLED YOU.

[OneWayProduct]

@Rich8951 I'm sorry, I needed a computer that could actually render more than just a star wipe on my video editing software as well as more power to run Photoshop. It's not so much that it doesn't work, it's that it doesn't work for what I'm trying to use it for.

Why don't take your dirt nap already and stop being an ass-gasket?

[dbzkidkev2]

@OneWayProduct lol, relax, take it easy, photoshop wasn't out for the pc then.

[venturae]

we should go back in time to tell people not to by this cause its a rip off for 2000$

[Rusty0918B]

Bikerdude97...You're right. HOWEVER...

Looking at the system specs on that machine, that is on the lower end. Well granted the 340 Meg Hard Drive isn't bad, but we got our first Pentium in 1994, which was extremely high end back then, and that had 16 Megs of RAM (as opposed to 4 here), PCI graphics (which were state of the art back then), etc. etc.

[cyprenator]

my phone has more RAM then this does drive space!

[J1zmo]

1mb I lol'd

[bikerdude97]

You might be laughing at this now but the truth is in 17 years we will be laughing at the computers available today.

[flagg2kplus]

That was actually my first computer when I was 9. My mom won it in a raffle from work, and instead of selling like my dad wanted, she said it would be best if I kept it for school. Thanks mom!

[RETROGAMER43]

Wow! 340 MB Hard Drive!

[Bflo23]

$2,000 back then.... With inflation and all, that computer system must be worth $5,000 now.

[albear972]

Double spin DC rom? Fuck yeah!

[journeysuperstar81]

GOD DAMN!!

[KennardKid5]

340 megabytes! WINDOWS? what a deal!

[djguapo]

but does it play Crysis 2?

[lvanhorn2]

@djguapo probably, considering crysis 2 is a console port.

[IrobhoI]

@djguapo Crysis 2 has got shitty graphics because of the consoles. :/

It would've been better as a PC exclusive title.

[mbrennan27]

@djguapo I DONT EVEN THINK IT COULD PROCESS A TREE BRANCH

[TrillionGrams]

I wanted them to hold hands at the end.

[wow1022]

33mhz processor 340MB hard drive 4MB RAM double spin CD-ROM drive super VGA CRT monitor and OMG a COLOR deskjet printer! for $2000!OMFG I NEED TO GET THAT and get rid of this 64bit Core i3 2.4Ghz 300GB hard drive 4GB memory Windows 7 laptop with and 1080P HD screen CD/DVD read and write drive that i got for $450

[sonysonix]

I have more memory in my hallmark card

[anthodium]

Heh. I was in 8th grade back then. I was part of a small but ultra-popular computer geeks group. We dated cheerleaders. Football jocks worshiped us. Someone asked us about this PC. We said: "Don't trust Packard SMELL." Shortly after that, "Packard Bell" went out of business. Coincidence? I think not!

[cvhashim]

@anthodium you lie. once a nerd, always a nerd. I bet your rich though

[kmabeb]

That Desktop: 4mb memory ($1998

My notebook: 4GB memory (~$500)

Gotta love the progress

Future Neurolink computer: 4TB memory ($125)

[hgallegos915]

I remember as a child my DREAM would be to have a computer. I am SO GLAD my parents never got me one because they were SO expensive and little bang for the buck wow.

[jakeharvey]

@hgallegos915 I say you had a deprived childhood. Being glad you never had a computer back then? With all the classic games and the amazing awe of discovery of the online world - your being glad is just a self defense mechanism.

[hgallegos915]

@jakeharvey I did, I was poor what can I say. My parents made only hundreds of dollars a month and not thousands like all you blessed people were. Sometimes we didnt even have money for an ice cream. But oh well thats the past now right? :D Now I got a ton of computers mainly because we couldnt afford JACK sheet when I was a child. Thank you for making me feel proud.

[jakeharvey]

@hgallegos915 I'd have let you come over and use mine.

[remingtonh]

@hgallegos915 your computer sucks compared to what we will have 15+ years from now. maybe you should have waited because of how little bang you get for your buck today.

[hgallegos915]

@remingtonh You a re right, luckily I only paid around 500 for mine.

[MrPlaystationboy]

should be 19,98

[xR3V0LUT10n1337]

now this is what i call High End Gaming PC

[Beermaker2000]

I think we can all agree that in hindsight they should have spent that $1,998 on cocaine and prostitutes.

[GamingPalooza]

lol 486

lol!! 340MB Hard Drive

lllolll 4MB memory

lmao prodigy

lmfao $1998 for a 486

[remingtonh]

@GamingPalooza I've come back in time from 2025.. .LOL !!!!1!! at your core i7! haha 3 Ghz? 2 TB hard drive.. LOL no holo-interface? fail your computer is fail.

[GamingPalooza]

@remingtonh

lol true,

imagine a computer from 2025? That will be one fast son of a bitch.

[remingtonh]

@GamingPalooza in my opinion ... either amazingly fast or not much faster than what we have now.  We might be approaching the limit.

[lightoforion]

4 Megs of Memory? Oh my god.

[SageRai]

Man I remember this, has a toddler was looking at ad for Fun, that was moderate back then. I saw a Mac desktop as high as 4000.

[HueyRocks23]

Can I even play Minecraft on that?

[Acceptable76]

@HueyRocks23 No. This has 4 MB of RAM, it would crash the computer! XD

[arronlewis69]

Alien deleted sceen

[agentdyer]

"Is that too much to ask?" Yeah, the price tag. Jeez. 

[ZRGuillermo]

They forgot to put a dot between those two 9's honest mistake.

[MRxLOKI]

I didn't even know what a Best Buy was back in 1994, we had Radioshacks

[wh4tevar]

@MRxLOKI

Let's see your Radio Sack. Ha! I crack myself up sometimes.

[haliblix]

4MB of ram? The Apple Performa has ATE

[FUNGALBALLZ4ALL]

packard bell was probably one of the ugliest PCs back in those days. I remember this classmate of mine had one, she left it on all the time, what weird chick!!!!

[TheTriodethom]

So the ad hype stays the same only the spec changed of the last 17 years . Try this with current spec. Multi-media speed latest printer and flash the features fast so no one read them too close . Sound like every Sunday Best Buys add today . Same great service and helpful friendly Knowledgeable staff as always.

[SKIMLURKER]

wow 94 sucked

[tharock220]

Geez, I built a computer with more video memory than this thing has hard drive. I'm so glad these days are gone.

[Mihkellt]

Holy shi*.When the information about the pc started to pop i was like :O x 4 .I must go and buy it.This is seryousli good deal.

[halo3productions911]

DAMN, $2,000?

Bawwww.

Still though, back then that was pretty fast.

[Clintonfitz]

Wow. Lol. I have 4GB of Memory, 2.53 GHz, iWork, Microsoft Office, a LED flat-panel display, great speakers, webcam, and MUCH more on my mid-2009 model 15" MacBook Pro!!! :p

And only for $1500!

[kirbyyasha]

@Clintonfitz Back then, the Mac Equivalent would have been like $3k :P

[remingtonh]

@Clintonfitz that computer will suck 5 years from now.

[mkennedy999]

What a bargain! Only $2,000! I don't miss those days.

[1r0nsn1p3r]

HOT DAMN I want to fuck this computer with my asshole! The Specs are amazing 4MB! That's like the amount of memory in a yak back YO!!

[FUNGALBALLZ4ALL]

@1r0nsn1p3r and it could be upgraded to 8 megs for another 500 or so i think!!!

[wildflower1020]

Lol I remember when the commodore 64

came out now that was a load of crap no windows just bit memory it took a string of characters a foot long just to create a letter. Thank God those day are gone.

[Hunkola]

LOL......4 MB of memory......I remember when that seemed like a lot......my first desktop PC cost $3,000 in 1993.......still cant believe I paid that much for a piece of shit clunker that could barely run CD-ROMs and Windows 3.1........dont miss those days at all

[HolyDiver1]

Only $1998 for all that?! What a steal!

[PatStrikesBack]

What a piece of shit for two grand.

[Sirynx77]

@PatStrikesBack How old are you? If you lived back then you would be surprised what a deal that was back then. Back when computers actually lasted you a long time and were reliable and well built. Now, they are so fragile that every second they operate is a blessing. 

[remingtonh]

@PatStrikesBack how much should it have cost?

[boxerjoey39]

@PatStrikesBack It wasn't a piece of shit back then!

[nirvanafreak619]

@PatStrikesBack back then that shit was the Mac

[TheAdarkon]

@PatStrikesBack LOL it would've taken millions of dollars to make a computer as powerful as mine back in 1994. In 1955 it would've taken trillions of dollars, more money than existed on all of Earth to make a computer as powerful as just my video card alone.

[chris978820]

lmao 340 mb hard drive? my cell phone has like 90 times that amount of memory which still doesn't hold all my music

[brandonesters]

lol

In 1994: priced at $1998 at Best Buy

In 2010: priced probably around $40 dollars at the Yard Sale up the street. It might even come with a CD-Rom of Oregon Trail!

[ken0176]

@brandonesters LMAO!!!!i have that game LOL!!!

[jubjubcat]

@brandonesters This was cutting edge tech at the time

[Deewana71727]

lol look at the price of that machine

[Gearboy1985]

OMG!!! 4 MB of MEMORY!!! 

[ken0176]

@Gearboy1985 lol i have 4mb on my 386 lol

[TheWindowsChannel]

I had that!!!!!! I still have a working 486 SX processor from it!

[slipknot789able]

computers back then were so space consuming and bulky and expensive

[thsmrtone1]

If you asked them if they knew their commercial would someday wind up on YouTube, they would be like WTF is YouTube???

On a side note, my CPU has more L3 cache than the ram in that computer hahaha!!

[raichann]

Aww I was 3, Guess that's why I don't remember it D:

[revo8778]

Packard Bell, the only brand worse than Dell!

[revo8778]

OMFG 2X CD ROM DRIVE WOOOOOOOO!!!!

[JohnBond007JB12]

THAT COMPUTER IS AWESOME!!!!!  (Just Kidding) Ha ha ha

[TheWindowsChannel]

@JohnBond007JB12 Wholly crap that must be effin' better than my effin' MAC Pro!!!!!!!! XD

[JohnBond007JB12]

@TheWindowsChannel Then why are you called "The WINDOWS Man" if you have a Mac???

[TheWindowsChannel]

@JohnBond007JB12 Well my laptop is a Dell D610 and I do use it a bit more than the Mac... plus the Mac is gone now :(

[Watcher3223]

Rip off, not so much because of price, which was actually reasonable back then for such a computer, but a rip off that you had to pay that much for a Packard Bell, which was a company that produced TERRIBLE computers in the 1980s and the 1990s.

[Techlology]

haha I wasnt even born back then......

[megaplushie]

Guis, this is the wave of the future! You heard it here first.

[StarionX]

It's funny that we look at this commercial advertising a "dinosaur" of a computer, and people will comment on how old it is or how primitive it is and how it's not even worth anything today.

15 years from now, with whatever advancements had been made in computers at that time, someone will see a video of a Core i7 and call that a dinosaur as well as say how primitive it is. Heck, I'll even go as far as to say 10 years from now.

Just food for thought.

[WarshMeh]

Thump, thump, thump, thump....lol WHOA!!! fail lol

[shinygem91]

340MB hard drive....WOW! XD

[SpeedyRaven2000]

Um, at the same time, Circuit City had the same computer for $1389.97.

[HateRepublicans]

that computer now probably costs $10 if someone is willing to spend that

[A4Tech223]

@HateRepublicans Well, now they sell it a double price. Why? Because is a museum piece :))

[TheWindowsChannel]

@HateRepublicans This is what i did: I swapped out mother boards with a newer one then I got an intel pentium 4, got a 500gb hard drive, 4gb ram, and ran windows xp pro SP3 on it. When my friend came over he said "What the hell is that crap?!?" and I booted it up and it was super fast (at the time) and when i showed him the specs he was laughing! :) "That THING has all THAT?! My computer only has a 80gb hard drive, 2gb ram!"

[Appule69]

God, To this day, I can't believe how fucking overpriced store bought PC's are...

Fucking rip offs.

[rsman169]

4mb memory.. that's a shitload of RAM,,,only in 1994.

[BoogsterSU2]

good thing we have better computers today than that time of the year :P

[Zoomer30]

I just vomited in my mouth a bit when i saw that Dino-pc

[Dangoxs]

300dpi! zomg i gota has it!

[ElectricFridge]

4mb of ram? 1 please

[IamSandman]

Best Buy started in 1966 as the "Sound of Music" with a large focus on audio equipment.

[viaductos]

At least you knew what was going on in your system. I remeber struggling with my 486 that had less than 200Mb of HD space. Every program and file was checked to make sure that I had the maximum amount of space. The few files and own folders were very tidy and I used to erase everything I considered useless, such as the "README" files.

486, expensive as hell, but it was worth.

[Aileflyer]

heheh we used to have this kind of pc back in those days

[Infinitrium]

4mb was pretty good for Windows 3.1. Amazing to think that nowadays some hard drives, heck even some sound cards have more memory than the computer in this commercial did.

[NitekMuscle]

I remember back in 1992, my 386SX costing around $2000 at Montgomery Ward.

[Appule69]

All prebuilt computers are complete rip offs. A high end gaming PC will only cost about $1000 if you build it yourself, but buy the same exact one already built from a store, and it will be $3000...

Fucking ripoff.

[luisonia1218]

wow i didn't know best buy was that old. hmm

[NitekMuscle]

It's been around since at least the early 1980s.

[onionofdeath]

founded in 1969 as a record store.

[clarkbell]

they made it big in 1987

[gedaman]

Oh my God!! What are you going to do with that MASSIVE 340 megabyte hard disk drive??? LOL

[ccoope15]

lol...that was the coolest back in the day..!

[DrtyWrm]

I remember when my father bought a Radioshack Tandy 1000 and his first top of the line Gateway computer WAAAAAYYYYYY way back in the day, and yes these were the prices! Half of the kids on youtube werent even born yet LOL. great vintage clip

[LastSteelgod]

Geez, a decent computer isn't even that expensive anymore.

[mianersiyok]

for a monitor that big, you'd think the picture would be better, now they're much flatter and the pictures are HD. lol.

[velocitaylor]

This would be like, $5000 in 2008 money