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New notebook Manufacturer...

crabbyman

crabbyman

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Emachines is now producing a new notebook. It looks like a good deal. I have never heard anything about Emachines really. My friends have 3 of them and have never had a problem. I wonder how well their notebooks will hold out?

eMachines lappy
 
Not sure how that laptop is, but I'd rather spend a bit more and get a Dell with the same specs. At least I know the customer service is there then when I need it. Never had good luck with Emachines, since I have to fix them when my friends bring them to me.

Tim
 
I work as a service technician for best buy. And we get far more compaqs and hps back for service than we do emachines. They seem to be pretty good machines overall.
 
Originally posted by: dnuggett
I haven't heard anything good about Emachines other than the price is decent. On a good Dell discount day you can find a lappy from them that is comparable for around the same amount.

I work as a service technician for best buy. And we get far more compaqs and hps back for service than we do emachines. They seem to be pretty good machines overall.
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Maybe because you sell more HPs and Compaqs ?
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I work at bb service as well and no - actually we sell far more emachines. they are the number one seller by a long ways. we sell more emachines than hp/compaqs combined.

per capita emachines are the lowest probelm machines. i reccomend emachines out of hand for the best price/perfomance.

they have lower amounts of crappy software preloaded to slow the system down. they run noticably faster. a simularly loaded hp or compaq takes a good five-ten minutes longer to do and entire setup and optimization and that's not hyperbole at all....

regardless - these are probably made by a thirdparty anyways. this thing looks way too close to the samsung rebadges that are the vpr laptops. wouldn't be surprized if these are very simular to the vpr laptops.....

dew.

 
Wouldnt that just be cool? More Samsung rebadges for us? I think so...especially since its a cheap price!@
 
hrmm i guess emachines have gotten better over the past few years. when they were selling cyrix mII based systems, emachines looked like they were headed for a packard bell fate. the new notebook looks decent enough except note that it uses integrated (ati IGP) video... so don't expect much in the way of gaming there.
 
Still doesn't look like a bad deal for the money to me, personally. I have been looking for a cheap under $1500..the cheaper the better...laptop. Only one other is cheaper and its Averatec (Sotec America's new name) for $1000.
 
under $1500? did you see my post in the other thread? fujitsu lifebook 1.6ghz for $1029 SHIPPED! thats $500 cheaper, basically $999 plus shipping, packaging and insurance... not sure there is a better deal than that... oh well, buy what ya like 🙂

anyway yeah, have a good hunch they are relabels... because back in the eSlate 400K days, they were identicle to the KDS 5350AS model, which is probably ALSO a re label. they were the same color case, and all the specs were the same, their screens fit eachother, mainboards everything. never seen anything about them now, but they were absolute crap then, they broke on the drop of a hat.
 
Nothing against you man...its just I would like a new one...from factory with a warranty that I can fall on. Its the comfort of complaining and knowing that you can at least get some money off or return it.
 
xp-m?? xp-m!!

between the lifebook s2000 and s6000, the pentium-m machine beat out the xp-m... should be interesting to track this emachines baby tho... not a big emachines fan heh. and IGP, ew. where's my 802.11?? sigh.
 
Consider emachines as more of an appliance than a regular PC, that is what they want to market it as. I think for the price of $1,299 it is a nice deal and it has wide-screen! Non-tech savy people will buy them for sure! 😉
 
So are you saying that, in your opinion, it wouldn't be good? ..or just that tech savy people would opt for something more nerd like...persay a T40? or a Z1 series?
 
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