In the ad it had an Emachines Celeron 2500 mhz computer with monitor and printer. CDRW drive, 40 gigs, and 256 ram. Seems Awesome for your kids. IMHO cheap @ less than 400.00
Warm Best Buy 2.5 ghz computer W/ Monitor and Printer $389.97 ARs
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i wouldn't 
but then i know how to turn one (emachine) on by myself
op: maybe put emachines in the title? that way we KNOW anybody who comes in the thread -- and crabs on the deal -- as a troll and can deal with them properly
i mean, when i saw the price and bundle in the title, i KNEW, but some ferengi are new? ferengi and don't know/care, maybe that would help
keep posting!
but then i know how to turn one (emachine) on by myself op: maybe put emachines in the title? that way we KNOW anybody who comes in the thread -- and crabs on the deal -- as a troll and can deal with them properly
i mean, when i saw the price and bundle in the title, i KNEW, but some ferengi are new? ferengi and don't know/care, maybe that would help
keep posting!
I still refuse to buy a C E L E R O N.
Seems as though you can find an AMD chipped box for about the same and it will likely mow down the celery.
Seems as though you can find an AMD chipped box for about the same and it will likely mow down the celery.
Yeah, my best friend went and bought one of those systems because Circuit City gave him a credit card. I wanted to kick his a$$ for getting a machine with a celeron and w/o a damned agp slot. I was on my way back from a funeral so I couldn't intervine.
excellent price but emachines have a bad track record from my experience.
at this price, it's *almost* worth the risk of shoddy components crapping out on you
(i.e. my dad's early emachine that blew a power supply, then a few weeks later blew its celeron processor, my boss' 800mhz celeron with a dead cdrom drive and now faulty ram and incredible levels of screen burn-in on the emachines-label monitor, my friend's emachine-label monitor that blew a fuse or something and refused to turn on, that same friend's dead dvd-rom drive, my dad's newer emachine of the same model with a dead dvd-rom drive, and a few weeks later a dead power supply)
*almost* worth it.
at this price, it's *almost* worth the risk of shoddy components crapping out on you
(i.e. my dad's early emachine that blew a power supply, then a few weeks later blew its celeron processor, my boss' 800mhz celeron with a dead cdrom drive and now faulty ram and incredible levels of screen burn-in on the emachines-label monitor, my friend's emachine-label monitor that blew a fuse or something and refused to turn on, that same friend's dead dvd-rom drive, my dad's newer emachine of the same model with a dead dvd-rom drive, and a few weeks later a dead power supply)
*almost* worth it.
WTF??? you live in a world of computer n00bs... why did you're dad buy another and why did you not stop him??? Anything with an E shaped like that is evil... reason why ebay didn't do it.
Come on, when one buys an emachine at the bestbuy, one usually believes it just another off brand TV, not great but it gets the job done. How wrong is it!!! My dad learned an expensive lesson four years ago. He still wonders if I can get free cd-writer, ram, cheap harddrive... (those work great), how come the Evil-Machine can't last.
I beg to differ with most of your opinions on current emachines. They may have had a past that included some poor computers, but for the last few years they have made very solid machines. not to say they are extremely high performance of course.
in the year i have been supporting and repairing computers at bb - emachines per capita are the lowest probelm machines. we sell about same the amount of emachines then compaq and hp combined and we get approximately half as much emachines back for any type of probelms.
fundementally they are very simple machines and then just run. very plain and simple. beyond that they have a great performance advance over comparable hp/compaqs since they aren't bogged down by massive amounts of crap programs at startup that hp/compaq seems to deem neccesary for every consumer.
i have worked on thousands of all of these brands and from experience, rather than biased past history, i can say they are the most reliable machines bb carries. but believe what you will i suppose.
dew.
in the year i have been supporting and repairing computers at bb - emachines per capita are the lowest probelm machines. we sell about same the amount of emachines then compaq and hp combined and we get approximately half as much emachines back for any type of probelms.
fundementally they are very simple machines and then just run. very plain and simple. beyond that they have a great performance advance over comparable hp/compaqs since they aren't bogged down by massive amounts of crap programs at startup that hp/compaq seems to deem neccesary for every consumer.
i have worked on thousands of all of these brands and from experience, rather than biased past history, i can say they are the most reliable machines bb carries. but believe what you will i suppose.
dew.
to defend the emachines...i remember i bought my sister an emachine in 1998 for xmas;it was 299 at the time; well just this weekend, the computer went dead; i figured it was time to get her a new one so i was able to capitalize on a 2400 dell for 230 bucks after 200 worth of rebates; but the emachine, the only time it gave a problem was when a storm hit miami, and the modem went out on it; besides that, excellent machine to surf the web. hell, its been close to five years and that machine was still going strong!!! I would say that's not bad at all!!
Emachines have dramatically improved in quality since new CEO took over.
Recent PC World article based on consumer survey moved eMachine up from dead last to beat HP/Compaq and Gateway in both quailty and technical support (online and phone)
Recent PC World article based on consumer survey moved eMachine up from dead last to beat HP/Compaq and Gateway in both quailty and technical support (online and phone)
Emachines have dramatically improved in quality since new CEO took over.
Recent PC World article based on consumer survey moved eMachine up from dead last to beat HP/Compaq and Gateway in both quailty and technical support (online and phone)
Recent PC World article based on consumer survey moved eMachine up from dead last to beat HP/Compaq and Gateway in both quailty and technical support (online and phone)
I've certainly had some good luck with the newer eMachines. The T2080s are based on an ECS L7VMM mobo with a crippled eMachines BIOS. A quick flash upgrade from the ECS website and you have a respectable AMD 2000+ system with 266MHz DDR, a VIA chipset and 4x AGP all for under $400. I've sold more than 10 of these machines from the refurb market and haven't had a single one come back with problems. I use one at home for video editing.
I used to have a bad opinion on EMachines after hearing from 2-3 friends of failures. Then another 2 friends (brothers) told me their Mom had gotten them EMachines for Christmas last year, and they have both been very happy with their cheap computers ever since. So I guess the quality is improving, or these brothers are just lucky. Having said that, I have a good local friend who will likely be buying one of these, so I will hopefully find out how well-built etc they are firsthand soon.
thanks for the post op
thanks for the post op
I had no problems with (at least) 12 Emachines during the years. My friend's modem died in his Emachine, but so did his giga set (Siemens) phone, attached to the same line, so it could have been a surge or s.th. .
Contrary to the oh-so-famous dell junk, Emachines have "standard" motherboards, and I was able to (re) flash each of them with a normal BIOS.
But flashing the BIOS is s.th. people who buy dell's don't understand/need.
They are satisfied with a totally slowed down multi-waitstates-weirdo motherboard/PC, because it SAYSit is a xyz GHz processor in it.
Back to the deal: my question is, where is the ad? I called in and they didn't know about this deal.
Dennykgee, which ad are you referring to? Is it paper (which city/paper) or online?
Thanks!
Contrary to the oh-so-famous dell junk, Emachines have "standard" motherboards, and I was able to (re) flash each of them with a normal BIOS.
But flashing the BIOS is s.th. people who buy dell's don't understand/need.
They are satisfied with a totally slowed down multi-waitstates-weirdo motherboard/PC, because it SAYSit is a xyz GHz processor in it.
Back to the deal: my question is, where is the ad? I called in and they didn't know about this deal.
Dennykgee, which ad are you referring to? Is it paper (which city/paper) or online?
Thanks!
the product link shows a desktop sub $400 ar
my guess is that the bundle has rebates negating the cost of the monitor and printer
but it's just a guess
my guess is that the bundle has rebates negating the cost of the monitor and printer
but it's just a guess
This isnt exactly a "sale" I work at bb in pc sales, and these machines have been this price AR for at least 2 months. dew042 is right, we really dont get near as many of these back as we do hp/compaqs.
I do think that the T2865 is a better deal for under $800 AR with 2800+, dvd+rw, 512mb, 160gb, nforce2 board with on board graphics(still a hundred times better than intel extreme) and agp slot.
I do think that the T2865 is a better deal for under $800 AR with 2800+, dvd+rw, 512mb, 160gb, nforce2 board with on board graphics(still a hundred times better than intel extreme) and agp slot.
I got sucked in a year ago for an eMachine. Together it was 2.0 Celeron, CDRW, 40gb and came with a 15" Samsung FP that was $499 AR.
This machine has been a total piece of crap. It compromises everything in a very weak way.
I have since bought 3ea. of the Dell 400SC machines. I have moved the eMachine hard drive out and moved the 15" FP to my PVR system.
If this computer is for a kid that only writes reports for school, then it will probably be OK. eMachines will use onboard video and sound (not very well), low grade memory, and poor quality parts.
I know they sell alot of these, but consider your past computers and how you used them. That should help before you buy one.
I may just give my T2040 to my 76 year old Dad.
This machine has been a total piece of crap. It compromises everything in a very weak way.
I have since bought 3ea. of the Dell 400SC machines. I have moved the eMachine hard drive out and moved the 15" FP to my PVR system.
If this computer is for a kid that only writes reports for school, then it will probably be OK. eMachines will use onboard video and sound (not very well), low grade memory, and poor quality parts.
I know they sell alot of these, but consider your past computers and how you used them. That should help before you buy one.
I may just give my T2040 to my 76 year old Dad.
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