Systemax PC Infomercial from 2000

Came across this at the end of a tape that I was digitally archiving. Thought it would be an amusing bit of point-in-time PC marketing. Back in the earlier era of Systemax, not too long after their take-over of TigerDirect.

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  • @SpookeyClown
    @SpookeyClown6 жыл бұрын

    Holyshit! It comes with a search engine preloaded!!!

  • @velvetpilot2008
    @velvetpilot20082 жыл бұрын

    This is the dope who sold me the MagicJack!

  • @lorumipsum1129
    @lorumipsum11297 жыл бұрын

    was gonna buy, saw it had windows me. Saved my money.

  • @Reality_withdrawls
    @Reality_withdrawlsКүн бұрын

    My parents got me this and through the years of upgrading to play games and replacing failing hardware, the only thing left of it that was original was the tower case. So up to like 2009, there was this Frankenstein patchwork pc with a tower that read the original stamping in bold "Systemax: The World's Most Powerful Home Computer"

  • @unsealedabsurdfiles
    @unsealedabsurdfiles6 жыл бұрын

    the legend that is MEL ARTHUR

  • @SpookeyClown

    @SpookeyClown

    6 жыл бұрын

    I know... the only guy who could get me to buy shitty computers or useless bloatware

  • @GRM42192
    @GRM42192 Жыл бұрын

    It was because of this TV ad my Dad called and purchsed this whole bundle.

  • @In3Dee
    @In3Dee Жыл бұрын

    8:35 The big "your kids will use it for homework" ploy. I don't think anyone has ever used a computer for school. Ironically, the purchase probably compromised the kids learning and served to be an anti-homework tool.

  • @professorpenne9962

    @professorpenne9962

    Жыл бұрын

    telling your parents age of empires is a history lesson

  • @StasherDragon
    @StasherDragon3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the share!!!

  • @zifferplays1097
    @zifferplays10974 жыл бұрын

    600MHz holy fuck that's a flashback.

  • @enigmanemo9352
    @enigmanemo93525 жыл бұрын

    At the time this commercial was made, I was working in Systemax tech support at their call center in Fletcher, Ohio. Their PC systems were terrible.

  • @thatguyfrye

    @thatguyfrye

    2 жыл бұрын

    Can confirm, had a Systemax Tiger that was slow, janky, and the hard drive inevitably failed.

  • @KantusKid
    @KantusKid4 жыл бұрын

    This guy makes me want to spend $999 on this old ass machine.

  • @triangleofdeath6246
    @triangleofdeath62464 жыл бұрын

    6:20 "we have never gone that low on any system you have seen here before" I call BS, as my mom paid just under $1,200 for one of these "Ultra" PCs in sept 1998. She bought it at a "Mom and Pop" computer shop . she even got the rebates, and got $200 back (so, yeah, $999 after rebate) It had a intel Celeron @433 mhz , and windows 98. It originally had 32 Mb of RAM, which we later upgraded to 256MB . 15" viewsonic monitor, canon printer and scanner, and many CDs , including one called "New PC essentials " I still remember playing "Mowing Maniac" and "Roof Rats"

  • @sjsisjsjks

    @sjsisjsjks

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mowing Maniac and Roof Rats are from something called After Dark Games that you can still download online

  • @marvinlassegue951
    @marvinlassegue9513 жыл бұрын

    I’m 20 years behind. I should bought this system in the early 2000’s.

  • @savagedick1462
    @savagedick1462 Жыл бұрын

    I bought a athlon slot a 600mhz tower pc with 256 pc100 memory and one 20gb and a 10gb slave hard drive with cd burner and zip drive for 9 bucks in early 2002 at the goodwill

  • @allentoyokawa9068
    @allentoyokawa90687 ай бұрын

    Had one, with a 667 P3

  • @QuertyQw33n
    @QuertyQw33n3 жыл бұрын

    I remember seeing this commercial when I was nine. I love computers but the only computer I had was one of those toy VTEch

  • @velvetpilot2008

    @velvetpilot2008

    2 жыл бұрын

    I had the same VTech computer too, if I remember correctly, it had a lot of games and stuff on it.

  • @savagedick1462

    @savagedick1462

    Жыл бұрын

    I got my first computer at the goodwill clearance store in 2000 . 9 bucks and only 2 years okd

  • @QuertyQw33n

    @QuertyQw33n

    9 ай бұрын

    yeah it had a lot of educational stuff in a couple of creativity games.

  • @RetroFan
    @RetroFan5 жыл бұрын

    When the webcam came around is when cam sites came around. ;)

  • @velvetpilot2008
    @velvetpilot20082 жыл бұрын

    Not gonna lie, I really want this old computer and all that old software.

  • @professorpenne9962

    @professorpenne9962

    Жыл бұрын

    I hope at least some people who bought this kept all the documents and software, that's history

  • @velvetpilot2008

    @velvetpilot2008

    Жыл бұрын

    @@professorpenne9962 I completely agree! I gotta believe there's some 60 or 70 year old out there who bought this off this infomercial and never upgraded their computer. Probably never used any of the software either.

  • @fmachine86

    @fmachine86

    12 күн бұрын

    I have about 50 of them still in box complete from when I bought an old abandoned computer store for my software business. They were…okay. Not great. They play old games well.

  • @velvetpilot2008

    @velvetpilot2008

    12 күн бұрын

    @@fmachine86 Wow. A bunch of old Systemax computers? Lol

  • @fmachine86

    @fmachine86

    11 күн бұрын

    @@velvetpilot2008 Yeah. I think the old man was a dealer.

  • @WichitaGamer
    @WichitaGamer Жыл бұрын

    is that Danny Harmon at the beginning there? Distant Signal? love that guy

  • @StasherDragon
    @StasherDragon3 жыл бұрын

    TigerDirect

  • @saxxa88
    @saxxa884 жыл бұрын

    64mb of RAM. Damn that's alot!! I would of been sold if it was Pentium 3 running at 600Mhz..

  • @FlixCreEightR
    @FlixCreEightR3 жыл бұрын

    Look at porn!

  • @RetroFan
    @RetroFan5 жыл бұрын

    Can I run BF 1?

  • @RGTGame64
    @RGTGame649 ай бұрын

    the entire package: $1199.99. include $1000+ software package which reduce the effective pricing less than $200.00 for the computer. good deal yes. reliability not too sure

  • @professorpenne9962
    @professorpenne9962 Жыл бұрын

    now you can buy 64gb of ram and someday thats gonna look like 64mb