The Aptiva was introduced in 1994 as a successor to the PS/1; it served as IBM’s primary home computer product line until 2001. The earliest models included Intel 486 processors and Windows 3.1. Later models shipped with Windows 95 or 98 and processors up through the Pentium III.
Our Aptiva features a 550MHz Pentium III processor and 256Mb of RAM; it is running Windows 98.

This era of PC gaming saw the rise of 3D games with series such as Quake and Tomb Raider. It also featured early networked multiplayer games including WarCraft and the EverQuest series.