emachines love.

Austin · Post by **Austin** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 9:11 am

This forum doesn't have all the emachines love happening yet. I'm here to represent.

6810 baby! Great price at Best Buy, great service from Best Buy thus far and an awesome machine for the money! Go... go buy one now!

RodeoRanch · Post by **RodeoRanch** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:10 pm

I bought one oh, about 5 years ago. She's still ticking and I've had nary a problem.

Vegetable Man · Post by **Vegetable Man** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 7:34 pm

Yep, emachines are delivering some great bang for your buck. It's pretty impressive what you can get in $500-600 range. I also like that their cases are fairly standard and allow for easier upgrades than say, HP, Dell, Sony, etc.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:41 pm

Sorry dude, nothing but hate and malice for eMachines here.

My sister bought one a few years ago. What a half-assed POS that thing is.

- No AGP
- 200W power supply (that still manages to sound like a jet engine)
- 2 memory slots that came with 2 64 MB chips.

I tried to fix it up and give it to her kids, but that was hopeless. I'll build them something halfway decent from retired parts out of my system.

RookieCAF · Post by **RookieCAF** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:46 pm

I've seen a few of their newer desktops and there's alot to like, AGP Slot, Good standard hardware, nForce Motherboards.. Would love one of their laptops..

The older stuff I agree is Garbage.

Vegetable Man · Post by **Vegetable Man** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:48 pm

Oh, I should have clarified, yes their older stuff is crap. But most of the systems I've seen coming out in the 12-18 months has been a vast improvement(for reasons Rookie touched on, and more).

For everyday machines that you can buy 'off the shelf', I think they're some of the best available, especially when you consider price.

triggercut · Post by **triggercut** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:13 am

To repeat something that's been repeated ad infinitum on various forums:

eMachines, as currently configured, is in no way shape, or form the same company as "emachines" of 18 months ago. If you bear a grudge against emachines for crappy computers from before that time, well, cool. But don't hold that same grudge against the *new* company that bought the eMachines name.

The new eMachines is an American company, and under the same umbrella as Gateway. The people running the new company seem to know exactly what they're doing, and specialize in offering great bang for the buck. Their service and support are rock solid as well.

My em laptop is a beautiful thing. I did have some tech support q's a few weeks ago, and was surprised to get someone speaking un-accented english on the phone, and even more surprised that they had an answer (that worked) within about 4 minutes.

Austin · Post by **Austin** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:38 pm

Yeah, I have a laptop and it has been top notch thus far. Anyway they are built by Arima and provide excellent bang for the buck. (I cannot speak for desktops but it seems some people here love them too.)

godhugh · Post by **godhugh** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:44 pm

Those things are seriously good now?

I worked at CompUSA 4 years ago and they were so bad that I would steer customers away from them even if it meant losing a sale.

Hard to believe they've changed so much.

knob · Post by **knob** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:02 pm

My dad bought an Athlon 2400 laptop a while back. It didn't take long for the fan to start dying on him. Eventually, it got so bad that he could barely turn it on.

eMachines replaced it with a Athlon 3200+ 64bit for $200. Not bad, if you ask me.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:55 am

Forget eMachines, I am thinking of getting an eMac, just because I want to learn the OS.

Tim Frederick · Post by **Tim Frederick** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:06 pm

You know eMachines and Gateway are the same thing now, right?