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.

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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 - passport.mid is the best, fight me
15:40 - It's a good computer

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