[wplug] eMachines?

Ben Beige b.beige at zoominternet.net
Mon Jan 26 18:23:35 EST 2004


That's odd my uncle has one it's a full mobo and has plenty of room for 
expansion, and hasn't caused him any head aches other than a  bad floppy 
drive (but smoke will do that to a system)


At 03:04 PM 1/26/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>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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