Bought my first prebuilt PC since I bought my first in 1998

[BentValve]

I got my first PC in 98 or so, it was an HP , it had a slow Celeron and Windows 98.

It was ok for a first PC .


A year later or so I started building my own.


My last built PC has been dying , its a hardware issue for sure. I am gonna
toss it though cause I am tired of working on PCs.


The fact is , I am tired of building PCs so to make a long story short I bought
an Emachines PC, Gateway bought them years ago I guess.

For the cost I could not have built this much PC.

Long story short , its sweet. I am soo happy to be done with
homebuilt PCs , for awhile at least!

Cost are down on PCs alot so its not gonna be as easy to save a bundle like it
used to be.

I heard of Emachines when they first came out and worked on a few,
they were junk for sure, IMO anyways.

I think Gateway has done something nice with Emachines, the PC I bought is very nice .

Well ok, ive had a few Dells and other desktop prebuilds for very short periods of time.
So I do have some other experience with pre-builts.

But I have not bought a desktop prebuilt to keep for the long haul since
my first in 98' , this Emachines I am keeping.


I am tired of a running bootleg OS too, with this Emachines Microsoft has finally
gotten another buck from me.

I am using Vista Premium now.

I hope this PC turns out to be good for the long term, I am gonna find out.

If not , well I guess I will have to build what I want.

 

[wwswimming]

i think eMachines got a bad rap because of the power supply.

i have an old eMachines T2200, one of the few with Firewire as well as USB 2.0.

it's about the cleanest designed computer i've ever seen, the way cables are
routed on the inside.

 

[IlllI]

one thing i dont like about pre-built computers is all that preloaded crap they put on them. my mom recently got a new computer and i spent like 2hrs trying to clean all that junk out of there

 

[BentValve]

I agree with that , though the extra stuff on this one aint bad.
Office, Money, Mcafee , nothing that really slows me down to much.

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: clandren
one thing i dont like about pre-built computers is all that preloaded crap they put on them. my mom recently got a new computer and i spent like 2hrs trying to clean all that junk out of there

Thats nothing a quick format won't fix

 

[wwswimming]

full disclosure - i bought a few thousand shares after the dot com bust.
it was 33 cents a share. it went up to about $2 a share. i think
some Korean company bought it. then Gateway bought it.