[wplug] eMachines?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in January Vanco, Don assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 	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?

i don't think he's looking at a laptop. as for the POS reference, think
packard bell ;). emachines were (are?) marked toward the lowend, check your
email and play solitaire types. as a result, it probably has a cheap
motherboard with no-name components integrated into it. my understanding is
that they don't have the upgrade options most other pc manufacturers (like
a dell). so you may only have one pci expansion slot, it will most
definitely have a win modem, perhaps no extra memory sockets, the cpu may
be soldered to the mb, cheap video card, etc.

if you just want to use it as a router, it'll probably work like a champ
though.

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