Opinion Wanted on Emachines

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hi, i pretty much do email & a little online horse racing on a PC and i was thinking about picking up one of the Emachines (intel celeron), its on sale and after rebate it's like $350.00.
Package includes Monitor, Printer, DVD RW, Mouse and Keyboard.

Whatcha think?



thanks for your Opinions
 
For that price, I would have to say no. I have a 486DX4-100 @ 75Mhz that I used to regularly use on the internet, and listen to MP3s through Windows media player 9.

I paid $9 for it at goodwill, and $9 for the monitor. If you absolutley must buy something new, or made by gateway, buy the Emachine.

When you buy a new car, you could save up to about $8,000 just by buying a 2yr old one (such as chevy suburban). Its the same thing with computers. If you knew someone who can put together older computers cheaply, I would go that route.

Even a Slot-I P3 system for $100-$150 (with printer, monitor and stuff) would be well more than enough.
 
Absolutely not.

If all you're doing is email and things of that nature, you could build one for less than $350.

Besides, I hate mail-in rebates.
 
Well...for the money it probably isn't all that bad if you don't mind waiting for rebates (and you'll have "instant-gratification" instead of having to wait for it to be built or shipped). However, the downside is going to be all the preloaded crap software they put on those things. If you do decide to get it, I'd advise a format and reload w/ a clean install as soon as you get it out of the box. And make sure to load firefox on it for all of your internet needs...it'll just be a downhill ride if you leave IE on it.
 
Lord Nassirbannipal said:
Absolutely not.

If all you're doing is email and things of that nature, you could build one for less than $350.

Besides, I hate mail-in rebates.
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build one for cheaper??? an operating system alone is going to be a third of that price.

$90 for xp home
$30 for a cheap case
$30 for a cheap psu
$30 for some cheap RAM
$30 for a cheap video card
$25 cd/dvd drive or whatever you want
$50 for a HD after mail in rebates
$25 on fans/heatsinks
$80 for a cheap monitor
$60 for a cheap printer
$30 for mouse/keyboard/speakers

whoa that's already $480 :eek:

woops we forgot the motherboard and cpu!

tack on another $75 for a cheap mobo/cpu combo

$555

completely eyeballed prices, i'm sure someone could whittle it down to $450, but you're not getting near $350. Not to mention the hassle of getting the parts and putting it together just to surf the net. While I agree that building your own is a priceless experience, you're going to spend more that way.
 
I was asked this question a lot when I worked at BB. This was my standard responce

E-machine hasn't figured out something that no other company on Earth hasn't. Their computers are built with very inexpensive (cheap) parts.
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Buy an E-machine and you will get what you pay for.
 
blackrino9 said:
I was asked this question a lot when I worked at BB. This was my standard responce



Buy an E-machine and you will get what you pay for.
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What the fuck is that supposed to me.. i don't understand that LOL!!!!.. the grammar is horrible.. mind rephrasing it??
 
My boss got one for his daughter for x mas, I added more memory, put a better burner in it and for only having a 256 cash it runs very well! I was prety amazed, She burns DVD's e mails, IM's all day and night. Still runs good.
Gaming dont think so the 256 cash will hold it back.
He has gotten all the re bates back except for the 50 on the printer..
 
ugh I love the lack of knowledge shown when someone makes up bs about a retail product.

First off if one actually read up on the specs of some of these systems.. They might be suprised at what is actually in them.. Asus motherboards (hmm sounds like a familiar name... nah they gotta be using cheap parts right.. ) Example for 579 one can get an emachine with an Athlon 64 3200 and a pci-express slot 512 megs ram. 160 gig hard drive,double layer dvd-writer... like 7 usb2.0 slots.. 3 firewrire slots media card reader and more. But they must use cheap bogus parts lol.

Secondly Gateway owns emachines.. has been for like a year plus already. Because emachines as a company has been doing very well.

Also remember if price was everything so many of us here would never have tried an amd processor in the first place using the get what you pay for statement. Thats a moronic statement that is foolish idea to go by.

Truthfuly the reason their prices are so good is simple. they can buy in bulk what you or myself can;t and that allow them to get volume discounts. That's it. Not a big suprise.

Good luck with your new pc purchase and have a nice day.
 
I have had the experience of owning two emachines. Both were great systems I picked up for less that $400 each and I have no regrets about buying either of them. If you are looking for a complete pc on a budget, go for it.
 
You can get a Dell with identical specs for the money, and it'll come with better support, and in general higher quality parts. Might or might not come with a printer, but you can pick up a printer better than the emachines one any weekend at Office Depot for about $30.

Possibly even better if you go to Dell's refurbished outlet.
 
Dell dell.. n we make 40% of our profit repairing Dells over all other brands. Because we get more dells in with computer hardware problems then other systems. And the cost is higher for the consumer to deal with dell. Because they tend to like controlling more of the hardware= better profits for them. Not better product for the consumer. I work in a computer repair shop for a major retailer. Lets just say Dell is my "favorite" company. I thank you Mr.Dell you keep us in business. :)
 
bob said:
For that price, I would have to say no. I have a 486DX4-100 @ 75Mhz that I used to regularly use on the internet, and listen to MP3s through Windows media player 9.

I paid $9 for it at goodwill, and $9 for the monitor. If you absolutley must buy something new, or made by gateway, buy the Emachine.

When you buy a new car, you could save up to about $8,000 just by buying a 2yr old one (such as chevy suburban). Its the same thing with computers. If you knew someone who can put together older computers cheaply, I would go that route.

Even a Slot-I P3 system for $100-$150 (with printer, monitor and stuff) would be well more than enough.
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That's pretty decent, my cheapo system was $23...bought a used monitor at the WSU surplus sale, and received a P3-733 tower that neede 3 new capacitors...OS was free too, runs Ubuntu and knoppix...

MD
 
ReubenRosa said:
Dell dell.. n we make 40% of our profit repairing Dells over all other brands. Because we get more dells in with computer hardware problems then other systems. And the cost is higher for the consumer to deal with dell. Because they tend to like controlling more of the hardware= better profits for them. Not better product for the consumer. I work in a computer repair shop for a major retailer. Lets just say Dell is my "favorite" company. I thank you Mr.Dell you keep us in business. :)
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Or maybe you're just seeing more Dells because there ARE more Dells. Quantity is not an indicator of rate until you know how many are out there.

Oh, and you think Dell is more proprietary than emachine? :eek:

In the past both were horribly proprietary, but these days, the only things proprietary in your typical consumer Dell tower would be the motherboard and heatsink. I'm guessing it's comparable for emachine.
 
My dad has an emachine, got it for cheap and it runs fine.

For what you are doing I think it would be sufficent
 
eMachines used to be awful until they went bankrupt and/or were bought out. Under new management they've been doing fairly well (the CEO of Gateway was the CEO/owner/whatever of eMachines). Their product quality has increased substantially - their PCs actually work now.

For what you want to do, that is a good choice and a good price.
 
Make sure all the fans on it are running.. Seems to be a common problem i've seen with them on friends/referred peeps computers when I look at them... A little overheating, but I doubt that applies to every single one of em out there..
 
Badger, dont take this personally, but...

Your price list, Its... I dont get it. We are talking about dirt cheap budget computers, and your looking at one of the more expensive operating systems, $60 printers (My 1600DPI Lexmark was 70 something), and $25 HSF for a low power CPU (assuming cheaper is slower)

$30 for a cheap case? I bought a raidmax case with metal flake paint, 8 case fans, and a window for $32, and its a bit too flashy looking for being cheap. Newegg occasionally has $5 cases that look good as emachine cases.

Now considering that I used to rip, decode, and MPEG encode DVDs on a Celeron 366Mhz Emachine using windows xp up untill a month ago on a regular basis, I will assume a 400Mhz computer has enough balls for intenet. (BTW, I Played GTAIII, Mafia, Hitman II, C&C Generals on a 450Mhz PII that I paid $125 for.)

Now:

486DX4-100 Packard bell $9.99
19" Gateway monitor $19.99
Small Inkjet color printer $14.99
Keyboard $ 0.99
3 button mouse $ 0.99
240W Sony stereo/radio with
12" Pioneer woofers $34.99

Grand Total: about $90 after tax. Sure, I could have gone with the 10$ 14 inch monitor, and the 4$ computer speakers, but AC/DC just doesnt sound as good without the floor boards resonating.

All comes with a 14 day warrenty, At my local goodwill. Its wondefully what used stuff costs. That pioneer speaker system is rated at 92Db continous.

Now, I have just spend around 50 minutes at newegg on my incredily slow modem putting together a duron system. its around 150$.
 
I guess you're talking about this bundle:
eMachines T3882 Computer, EView E17F3 17-in CRT Monitor, Lexmark Z715 color Printer. Intel Celeron D335 2.8 GHz processor. 256 MB DDR RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, DVD-ROM & CD-RW Combo Drive. 8-in-1 Media card reader

Well worth $340AR. Add another 256MB and it's a very decent computer for the price. The Celeron D isn't a bad CPU. The only negative is that it lacks an AGP slot. But it doesn't sound necessary for the uses you listed.
 
bob - i guess you and i just have a different... "approach" to what's going into it. :)

I guess I meant that for the money he would be spending and the computer he would be receiving, it would be cheaper to just buy it than to build a comparable system all from scratch.

If he did just want to build a system on the cheap then yeah I'm all for that, and it'd probably work out well for him. I'm all for the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle approach :cool:
 
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