are emachine's good pcs
 

there are affordable and look nice. but are they actually worth getting or are they crap. anyone owned one before

never heard of them

NEXT!

I heard they are alright.... but they have really bad motherboards which are always fucking up. So... =/

NO. Had one back in '97. Crashed constantly.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

wouldn't trust something of that price


just buy a dell, computers are cheap these days anyway

Emachines are cheap crap, build your own b0x from name brand components after reading reviews for them by searching google or hardware sites.

Failing that, dude get a dell.

How many silly questions do you intend to ask tonight?

Dreamweaver over FrontPage....Any idiot knows this.


emachines suck ass.......Any idiot knows that too.

Never owned one, but had a friend at the University I went to who bought one. The thing never worked right.

Get a Dell or build your own box, not to hard to do.

AaronM probably has visited http://www.enuinc.com in Portland, Or a few times...

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they came out with the 2003 findings on CNN a few days ago and emachines were voted the worst comp for 2003

No, avoid them like the plague. Compaq, IBM, HP all these commercial pcs suck. My advice to you is to build your own or get it customized.

NEGATIVE: dont buy one of those crappy things. friend of mine had about 4 in a row, kept returning and each subsequential replacement was shittier than the next.

Dell has deals routinely for $398 or $349 systems even.

WalMart has linux based systems for about $199

I've had good experiences with them. I put the employees on them, back in the day.

Check out tigerdirect.com if you want a machine that you won't have to put together.

I picked up 5 drives from them yesterday. :glugglug

I use to live by the Hillsboro store... Spent plenty of bucks there...

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Depends what you want it for...entry level, it would probably do the trick.

Remember though, price is low because the parts are basic...if you need speed, build your own or pay a little more for a better product.

Maybe in the past years emachine have been bad, but lately the reviews that ive been reading give them thumbs up

I bought a emachines for $400..
athlon xp 2400+
128mb ddr pc2100
48x cdrw
xp home

ended up frying the cpu, now running on 1.3GHz athlon xp.
upgraded to 392mb ddr. threw in a 64meg vid card...running 2k now and it runs basicly flawless.

Im on an emachines at the moment. It was an okay system, at the time I got it (4 years ago) it was the best that I could afford with my budget.

But, first one I had, power supply went out after the first year.

Im getting a new one soon, either going with a Dell, or with a system I build myself.

HELL NO


I used to work at Fry's electronics and we sold them and 90% of them came back.

They are shit

There is a reason they are low price......

use your fucking brain

:2 cents:

I bought about 10 of them when we started camchicks.com

After building a couple machines out of the cheapest parts I could find, I figured out it was actually cheaper to buy new emachines! :helpme

We have run them 24/7 for 3 years, and had a few harddrives fail, but given our extreme usage I consider that excusable.

wow surpiseing that all the negatives with emachine. We own 2 of them. had them over a year and no problems. I run windows server 2003 on them and everthing runs smooth.

i made a ton of money spamming chat rooms of good ol emachines :)

an emachine is a like cheap hooker with herpes... you wanna stay the fuck away from um!

bought 4 over 2 years
BAD MOVE

a calculator and a typewriter are better than those pieces of shit, stay away!

i got a emachine early last year and it seems to get the job done, havent had any problems of yet