Towards the end of the 1990s, computers dropped in price rapidly as more and more people wanted to jump on the Information Superhighway. But with their low cost came low specifications, and Biostar's EasyNow PC is a perfect example.

Sources:
Maximum PC, November 2002.
"Comdex: Net PCs, appliances take center stage," CNN: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/991...
"AMD intros EasyNow PC platform," The Register: https://www.theregister.com/1999/11/1...
Advent E-Go 2 PC specs: http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/advent/pc...
Biostar EasyNow photos: https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/...
More photos: https://imgur.com/a/fgEOH8e
Comdex Fall 1999 photos: https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/a...
Japanese coverage of the EasyNow with LCD monitor: https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/a... and https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/a...
Fujitsu Celvin photos: https://es.wallapop.com/item/pc-retro...
Fujitsu specs and useful info: https://web.archive.org/web/200212220...
SiS driver download page: http://w3.sis.com/download

00:00 - Introduction
00:39 - This thing looks like a...um...
00:58 - Specifications
02:50 - Power supply problems
03:58 - Take apart
09:09 - Probing for polarity
11:47 - Power supply hacking
15:29 - It didn't work
17:35 - Setting it up and power on
19:57 - Exploring the BIOS
21:54 - Windows Me is fine. Fight me
23:07 - Installing drivers
25:08 - BIOS WTF
27:37 - This computer sucks for a reason

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