Emachines at Best buy: Hot or not??

[Pegun]

Yeah i know the title sucked...but anyway...Im looking to buy a enw computer. I'm running everything I can off a pentium III 450 mhz with 256 (163 recognized) RAM on my college network. I'm getting a little bit of money to buy one so I saw Best Buy had Emachines on sale for 700 with 250 in Rebates for the entire package. Anyone have opinions? Used this or similar? The link is as follows:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ol...01173&type=product


Thanks for any help I can get...hopefully before Satruday 10/9. Thanks.

 

[imported_buggs]

I've seen better emachines for the same cost at times from best buy in the past. this won't be good for gaming cus it uses the main ram for video. no agp slot for video cards, so it can not be upgraded for gaming. everything else seems ok if you don't need to use it hard for anything. emachines however i have heard online at forums like this one but other ones, people don't like emachines cus they are cheap and the parts are cheap, not very good people say. however best buy has a 30 day money back gaurantee, so you don't have to worry about anything for a month. you could buy it, if within 30 days you need more or don't like it then just take it back for all of yer money back with no restock fee at all either.

 

[fbrdphreak]

buggs is absolutely right. This will never do for a gaming machine if you plan on playing anything recent. If you want to go cheap, go with one of the Athlon XP eMachines packages. They use a generic nForce2 motherboard, with integrated GF4 MX440 graphics, but it DOES have an AGP slot. It comes with 512MB, usually a DVDRW, and Athlon XP 3000+ or 3200+. It'll cost a little more, but MUCH better for the money. The next question is why don't you build your own? You can get a good quality Athlon XP system for prolly close to or less than the same price, much better quality/performance/upgradbility than eMachines. If you'd like to go that route, let me know.

 

[ShellGuy]

Just to give you an idea of what is out there here is a system from a shop near my place.



Will G.

 

[Pegun]

Well I ws originally thinking about doing it myself. The 450 machine I'm using now i built a few years ago but as I started to add up all the costs, getting a prebuilt, no matter what store i go to, would be cheaper than buying the parts for the tower, excluding even the cdroms and sounds card etc, and then buying a monitor, printer, speakers, keyboard etc. would cost at least 300 more. Granted a few of the things there i have but a usb mouse is a lot handier in my opinion, a new monitor is good since my screen is wobbling (kinda weird) and I need a hard drive to run my OS off instead of using a 4 gig as a OS drive and 80 gig as a slave.

Edit: I guess it might help if i add what I'm going to be doing. Well Mainly Unreal Tournament (the first version), Maybe Doom III if i can find it, I usually run some music and movies when I get bored and use MIRC and WinMX to do downloading. Any other Ideas???

Update: I really need to find some way to get my mind off this. I was looking around and found Dells on sale for about 655 - 700 or so. I dont mind paying that for the extra features it has plus ill add my 80 gig into it and my dvd burner. Any Opinions?

 

[MDE]

I just saw this in Hot Deals, should fit the bill nicely if you add another 256-512MB stick of RAM.

 

[fbrdphreak]

If you're looking @ 655-700, go into BBY & check out the Athlon XP eMachines and Athlon XP HP's. They run pretty good deals on them, come with AGP port, 512MB, CDRW (some have DVDRW), all for around that price after rebates if your particular model is on sale. And as a hint: if one model u want isn't on sale this week, it'll probly be on sale next week. I work in the Computers dept, I know.

 

[Pegun]

any opinions on getting a Dell instead? 3 ghz, 512 Ram, I'm gonna get a dual drive but I'm putting a DVD Burner and 80 gig HD in it when i get it, 40 GIG HD, 64 MB video Memory, all totals out to $655 with free shipping. Any more ideas?

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: Pegun
any opinions on getting a Dell instead? 3 ghz, 512 Ram, I'm gonna get a dual drive but I'm putting a DVD Burner and 80 gig HD in it when i get it, 40 GIG HD, 64 MB video Memory, all totals out to $655 with free shipping. Any more ideas?

Buy one off our FS/FT forum, for that price you can get a MONSTER rig with QUALITY PARTS that will blow any Dell out of the water. If you knew how to build you could beat that with brand new parts.....