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e-Machines........ any good?
are e-Machines computers any good???? how do the compare to HP's or Dell?
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11-24-2003, 05:36 PM
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11-24-2003, 05:37 PM
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Nope.. junk... any place that removes half the lightbulbs from their manufacturing facilities is grasping to save a buck... so how many corners did they cut in the computer?
They can't even caplitalize the first letter of their business name 
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11-24-2003, 05:49 PM
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I have a eMachines M503 Notebook. It serves to basic purposes, but I would recommend going to Dell or HP or Even Toshiba.
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11-24-2003, 06:30 PM
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its crap.
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11-24-2003, 06:38 PM
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Performance wise, they don't have anything going for them. You might as well toss the whole thing and just keep the CPU to put in another build.
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11-24-2003, 06:55 PM
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For what you pay, they do the job. Propriotory cases and not the highest quality m/bs. Special power supplies that are underpowered, mostly.
HP has some of the same problems. Of the 3, I would expect the Dell to be best choice. Just an opinion. |
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11-24-2003, 07:08 PM
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my dad just bought one.The power supplys are cheap. this one has a mobo manufactured by ECS and is overclockable! it came with xp but only 64 megs of memory which was shared with the onboard video.I doubled the memory and installed a Gforce video card.now it's a nice basic machine,perfect for him to learn on!
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11-24-2003, 08:50 PM
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ok u guys are too slow!!!!! lol just messin. we just went and got one! o well, its AMD so i'm happy. we can always buy a new mobo and power supply.
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11-24-2003, 08:58 PM
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NOOOOO i can see where this is leading to. enhanced08dotcom please dont buy an E-machines RETURN IT IMMEDIATELY. Not one person I know has something good to say aboot them. They are a hardware person's greatest enemy. I will consider you my greatest enemy if you keep it lol jus playin
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11-24-2003, 09:00 PM
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ok, well my dad bought it as an early x-mas gift. mom said we can't set it up till after x-mas so i'll talk to him about returning it. its really that bad of a system???? wow!
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11-24-2003, 09:03 PM
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I have a few friends who have purchased e-machines. They serve their purpose.
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11-24-2003, 09:15 PM
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e-machines are great for average email work processor and internet users.
there is nothing wrong with them. Just dont expect more then you should.
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11-24-2003, 09:26 PM
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I have fixed several of them. They are not worth the money. You get what you pay for. Save some more money and get a good computer. Dell's aren't bad.
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11-24-2003, 09:30 PM
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I have fixed a couple of emachines.
For the price I think they are decent...for the price.
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11-24-2003, 09:33 PM
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Oh yeah, for the money. They are good for checking your e-mail, but hopefully it will last.
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11-24-2003, 09:43 PM
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they work, just dont expect anyhting more then what you fgot, ive sitll got my 3 original emachine systems and they are all like 5 years old or older.
but for the moeny and quality go with dell, they have $500 dollar systems |
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11-24-2003, 10:09 PM
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I bought one of those 500 dollars systems Jimmy is talking about from Dell; Very pleased. No problems, and it serves it purpose (Net Box)... Haven't heard anything good about eMachines, and after using a computer with an ECS mobo in it, I have learned to avoid them like the plauge...
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11-24-2003, 11:00 PM
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Forget doing any gaming on an eMachine. They just don't keep up.
Out of an order of 30 we got at work, 2 were DOA and 3 more died soon after. That's an unusually high number compared to other orders. |
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11-25-2003, 03:12 AM
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dare i say this,but my emachines served me well, even in gaming with upgraded vid card and cable modem.was an older one (550mhz)sold to co-worker for 300 bucks.but i would not buy one now when you can build your own for cheaper and better than a store bought
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11-25-2003, 06:59 AM
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e-machines computers are rubbish (sorry)
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11-25-2003, 07:33 AM
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I don't know guys. I think we would have to consider what the eMacines box is being used for. I bought one for my grandparents to do some light surfing, email, light gaming, etc. It has worked fine for three years now. I don't think a electronics buff would even consider buying one, though.
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11-25-2003, 08:20 AM
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Funny that I read this now. I have no experience with an eMachines myself. Went to our local Wal Mart store twice this week. And both times someone was returning an eMachines system. Hummm....made me wonder!
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11-25-2003, 08:34 AM
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When you buy a computer so inexpensive, that if you were to price the parts listed for that machine it comes to more than the computer. Worry Worry very much.
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11-25-2003, 09:03 AM
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my sister has an eMachine and it holds its own. I took a look inside my sisters emachine and everything looked pretty good. It did have a junk power supply and a Fuji harddrive but you'll have that with any factory PC. She had me put a GeForce TI-4200 in it for her and I put COD and MP2 on it and they both ran great. Not good for gaming?, depends whats in the machine of course, it worked great for the 2 games I listed. eMachines are not all that bad, check whats inside first. Of course i still wouldnt recommend buying one, but for the price you cant go wrong and it has been very dependable for her. Not every one is capable of building their own computer.
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11-25-2003, 09:28 AM
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e-Machines are just what they were built to be, low budget, cheap computers. They serve a purpose...but in my personal experience I have never seen one that had a very long life span.
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11-25-2003, 09:45 AM
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Check out their report card from PC World magazine here:
http://www.emachines.com/corpinfo/article.html# |
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11-25-2003, 05:07 PM
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ok, so what parts are bad in them? i heard the mobos are bad and the power supplys. anything else?
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11-25-2003, 07:35 PM
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They're fine, and they last as long as any other PC, things go wrong sure, but how is that different from Dell or Compaq? I hear a lot of complaints from people who have never owned one and base their experience on repairs they have made to other peoples PC's, like they've never had to fix a dell. I have personally owned 3, and have bought a lot more for companies on a tight budget with a 24month failure rate of 2-5%. Thats not too bad a record, about the same as any other OEM systems.
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11-25-2003, 08:41 PM
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I was gonna stay out of it this time, but shucks, I can't do THAT! Here's a similar thread from a few months back. Read it to the end, enhanced08dotcom, some very good opinions offered. And some changes should be noted to the eMachines unit I refer to. It does not have an Intel mobo, but that is the correct Intel chipset. The hard drive is only 5400 rpm, but it is a Western Digital brand. I still have the eMachines T2240 mentioned and it still works flawlessly. My two home built machines will kick it's butt, but that's like comparing my old 10 second drag racer to the wife's PT Cruiser! To me, it's all about buying or building what's right for the application. Recognize with ANY prebuilt computer, the modifications/upgradeability is limited. Emachines have come a long way from their early days. Much like the old horror stories of OCZ memory, companies sometimes are forced to change or forced out of the market.
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...ight=emachines
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