should i buy an emachines or are they garbage?

Question

the one i saw had a 3.0 processer///2gigs ram....i mean that sounds good right?

Answer 1

Emachines used to have quality problems. You have to look at the market that they were competing in at the time. Back during the dot-com boom there was alot of pressure to have free or insanely cheap computers. These were subsudized by alot of advertising on the machines themselves and were made with substandard components.

They are now owned by Gateway and are much improved from the old days. Yes they do still come with alot of suff loaded on them from the factory, but so do all the other brands. Anyone familer with computers knows that the first thing you do to any new computer is give it a nice clean fresh install.

Answer 2

Steer as a procedures faraway from eMachines as conceivable. they are absolute junk and could finally end up being a waste of you and your son's funds. decide on a Dell or an HP. it type of feels as in case you're very traumatic approximately guarantee and tech help so because it is yet another excuse to go with a type of manufacturers; they have great tech help without spending his college coaching. once you purchase, even regardless of the indisputable fact that, say which you do no longer decide on any application assume the working gadget put in because of the fact all of it is rubbish it is one month trials. seek for unfastened application for anti virus and such like AVG unfastened version or Spybot seek and wreck. no longer getting application apart from abode windows will say you a great type of time and funds sooner or later.

Answer 3

My experience with e-machines hasn't been to pleasant. They come with TONS of advertising on the desk top (way more than any other brand I've seen), and you have to spend a while to clean the machine up so that you can do what you want on it instead of having to click off prompts to 'try this', 'try that'.
The last e-machine I foolishly purchased (in 2001) had a CD player/writer in it but not enough RAM to actually WRITE CD's.
Perhaps they've since hired post-highschool grads to build their machines, but I wouldn't bother.

Answer 4

piece of crap.

i myself have purchased an emachine just yesterday. i saw the price (it was around 500), and purchased it, thinking it's all good due to the fact that there was a high amount of ram and memory and other goodies.

little did i know that i had my hopes up too high for this. i tried installing programs like AIM, iTunes, FireFox, etc. First time i turned it on, right away it detected an error as I JUST OPENED internet explorer and turned off by itself. i restarted it, tried installing iTunes, and again it turned off by itself. i was able to install AIM just fine, but eventually it turned off by itself again. so i decided to just turn it on and leave it alone, went to the bathroom, came back, and surprise surprise, emachine decided to say "LOL OK BYE TURNING OFF LOL".

i was severely disappointed. i'm returning this piece of crap tomorrow morning and buying myself a systemax.

Answer 5

OH BOY I OWN ONE FOR A WEEK AND HAD TO GO BUY A NEW PC I GOT THA NEW MAC ITS THE BEST PC OUT THERE BY FAR SAYS ME ANYWAYS. DONT BUY EMACHINES THEY CANT HOLD SOFTWARE OR DRIVERS PROPERLY C- YA -YW- 2- BTW -1-

Answer 6

my b/f sells computer and he says that hp is the best one you can buy without building it yourself. he doesnt like e-machines. I have a e-machine at work and it seems to work alright except that those usb jump drive things it doesnt recongnize. other then that i havent had any real problems with it.

Answer 7

My 3 yr old emachine wasn't THAT cheap-
$799.00 I haven't had problem one!!!!

Answer 8

I bought one in 2001 and it works perfectly still today.

Answer 9

i bought one and it didn't even last a year, the monitor was the first to go. i finally bought an hp and i am completely satisfied.

Answer 10

They're garbage! They put the cheapest parts possible in them...that's how they can sell them so cheaply.