Anyone else impressed with Emachines laptop?

[Skiguy411]

I got a emachines laptop (2400+, 512 ddr ram, Radeon 320M IGP, 15.4 widescreen, 60 gig hd, 802.11g) for 999 AR. So far Im pretty impressed with it. Working great with decent battery life, but got the best buy 3 year warrenty just in case. If they are a company trying to turn themselves around, this is certainly the way to do it.

Anyone else agree/disagree?

 

[Ionizer86]

Very nice specs. The XP-M Barton systems seem very nice (both the HP/Compaqs and the eMachines). The price/performance on that chip is excellent (P4 type speed, almost as fast as P-M's, for the cost of a mobile celeron). Battery life should be good too, and you've got some Radeon 7000 that should suffice, lots of ram, and tons of hard drive.

 

[Schadenfroh]

who makes emachines laptops?

 

[knouri]

I got one for my wife for Christmas. It truly kicks!

 

[Pudgygiant]

The Averatec laptops are pretty nice too. AFAIK you can only get them from retail (like bestbuy, office depot...), but they're pretty damn good. 2400+, 512, combo drive, 11b, either 30 or 40 gig, and VERY light, for $799 (and there's been some whopping rebates on them as late, like $150 off total).

 

[Skiguy411]

Oh yeah forgot to mention dvd/cd-rw combo drive!

 

[madthumbs]

Almost half a year ago you could get a 2.2GHz 512MB ram 40gig HD Built in Wireless, CDRW/dvd combo Toshiba for a little over $800 AR. I've come to believe that Toshiba is the top name in laptops. Considering eMachine's proprietary power supplies which cost over $100 used and are known to start fires (sleave bearing fan placed horizontally instead of vertically), I'd go with the peace of mind of a better brand for similar price/ performance ratio. Not sure, but you may also want to consider Fujitsu. Don't know how popular they are, but I've been impressed by the ones I know of.

 

[madthumbs]

Almost half a year ago you could get a 2.2GHz 512MB ram 40gig HD Toshiba for a little over $800 AR. I've come to believe that Toshiba is the top name in laptops. Considering eMachine's proprietary power supplies which cost over $100 used and are known to start fires (sleave bearing fan placed horizontally instead of vertically), I'd go with the peace of mind of a better brand for similar price/ performance ratio. Not sure, but you may also want to consider Fujitsu. Don't know how popular they are, but I've been impressed by the ones I know of.

 

[dnuggett]

I've come to believe that Toshiba is the top name in laptops.

Why is that?

 

[Paulson]

Overall I think that e-machines is making a comeback. I've look at some of their new desktop models and they're not too bad.

 

[vegetation]

Originally posted by: madthumbs
Almost half a year ago you could get a 2.2GHz 512MB ram 40gig HD Toshiba for a little over $800 AR. I've come to believe that Toshiba is the top name in laptops. Considering eMachine's proprietary power supplies which cost over $100 used and are known to start fires (sleave bearing fan placed horizontally instead of vertically), I'd go with the peace of mind of a better brand for similar price/ performance ratio. Not sure, but you may also want to consider Fujitsu. Don't know how popular they are, but I've been impressed by the ones I know of.

Huh, do you have any idea of what you're talking. A laptop does not use a fan cooled power supply, at least none that I ever saw (or would purchase if it did), and the emachines uses a standardized dc power entry port (compared to Dells which ARE proprietary).

 

[arsbanned]

hehee. p0wned.

That e-machines lappy does look like an eeeeexcellent value. At that price it's certainly worth a shot. As laptops get to be cheaper it won't be so necessary to get any more than a couple years out of one.