Thoughts on eMachines laptop

[mwz26]

I noticed that the eMachines m5405 laptop was an editors choice in PC Magazine and its on sale this week for $799.99 at Best Buy. I think eMachines was recently bought out by Gateway, who makes good laptops, but would it be a mistake to buy the eMachines?


specs...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1706488,00.asp

 

[dnuggett]

Emachines has come a long way and they make some excellent value oriented laptops. I would not hesitate to pick one up.

 

[Macro2]

E-machines + Sempron = good deal

 

[Farvacola]

It surprises me that I'd ever say it, but indeed, E-Machines are actually becoming a competitive builder. I would look into one, if value is one of your main points.

 

[lrmat]

i bought an e-machine laptop last year, iwas going to by a good portable dvd player and decided to pony up the extra scratch and get a notebook instead. nice widescreen. good machine, good price.

 

[will889]

emachines has been competetive for a long, long time. The only things that were ever in question were the original power supplies on thos early towers, and the trigem motherboards on some units. I had an emachine emonster 700k w750 athlon that had the irongate 754 amd chipset, and the motheboard was msi. It was one of the very best machines out at that time and had some of the best reviews out there at that time. I had that little machine outperforming the Dell P2 and P3's easily. The only problem would have been the 120W power supply (I used a dremel to cut more space and aded and allied 250w). Trigem motherboards aside emachines were always good. They have used DFI, MSI, and FIC. Recently the FIC AU31 matx NF2. They also had one of the very first A64 platforms (as a tower) to come out as an OEM. It used a mATX VIA MSI KM800 with A643000-3200. They stopped producing it though for some reason but it performed well.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

i currently have a M6805, love it. Emachines is top knotch these days, i'm surprised they managed to swing their name around so quickly.

they are currently rated number one for customer support and satisfaction, better than Dell and other such companies.

 

[Anubis]

get it, they are nice, mu only issue is that the screen resoluton is too low, i want 1600x1200

 

[Andres3605]

i used to think all e-machines where crap until i saw my friends A64 3200+ dtr, with 9600 mobile, that was a good machine for a goog price.