[wplug] eMachines?

[Vanco, Don]

wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:
> I am looking to set up an inexpensive gateway/firewall in my
> lab ato CMU.
> Some cmu.misc.market (cmu-private newsgroup) guy is selling
> an eMachines 2
> GHz Celeron system for $200.  Would it be a mistake for me to
> use such a
> cheap POS as a linux gateway and fileserver?  The only reason I even
> looked at the ad was because it had a couple peripheral devices I was
> personally interested in (like an internal DVD/CDRW drive).
	Why is a 2GHz Celeron a POS?  Or is it that eMachines are in general
less than desirable?  Not knowing the brand I'd almost say that $200 sounds
a bit too good to be true (or at least to good to be not a stolen laptop)  I
was just looking at an eMachines AMD-64 laptop (6807) - at $1500 it's hardly
a give away.  Are eMachines junk or something?

Don