emachines

these computers are on sale for $250...are they worth this amount? i have consistently heard bad things about emachines?

Cheap parts and lousy tech support. You'd be better off spending the $250 on a gun and shooting yourself in the foot. It would be less painful than dealing with a eMachine computer.

I just recently rebuilt an eMachine that was just a year and a half old the motherboard went bad and they didn't even make the same board for it anymore the replacement was $150.00 and you couldn't even use the OS reinstall CD anymore. So I striped out the MB and the Celeron processor and replaced it with a Gigabyte MB and a AMD Sempron 3500 processor used the DDR ram off the board and fixed it for only $100. Thats about what you will face using eMachines.

I have worked on a few eMachines in my time, never encountered any problems with them from a hardware point of view.

Actually we have two of them where I work, one is about 6 years old running ME, the other about 2 years old running XP, they are still both going strong though.

Maybe it is the TLC they get from me. :)

All that I have done with them from a hardware point of view is install more memory, that was only due to the fact that we run some quite memory intensive software on them.

I think for $250 you could do a lot worse.

thx for the feedback...i purchased an hp a1600n for $500 (less $50 mail-in rebate)

Looks like a nice one. :D

Remember the first thing you do when you get it is update windows, uninstall all the crap software it comes with, and then install security software. :D

These should help with that:

http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showtopic=7936

http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showtopic=6329

Oh and this might help too. :lol:

http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showtopic=3503

these computers are on sale for $250...are they worth this amount? i have consistently heard bad things about emachines?
My fiance computer is w3503 and it had some problems fresh out of the box. I reinstalled the OS and dropped in some more memory and now it works fine. I'm gonna be adding more ram put in a agp 8x vid card in it and replace the celeron d with a pentium d. Her machine will be done after that.