Emachines and Dell

By comparison: a Yugo and a Lexus.

And everyone has one---an opinion, that is.

Message Edited by beneteau on 12-03-2005 06:23 PM

Not quite - hardware-wise, they're more alike than different.

Folks---ya'll ain't comparing apples to apples. Maybe 1 apple to 1 apple but not the overall basket of apples. Emachine utilizes AMD processors almost exclusively. Granted---their "accessories" (memory/hard drive capacity/drives, etc.) may appear to exceed Dell's----but, check their prices---and, again, remember the processor.
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I would suggest you take a closer look at AMD CPUs, which for the past few years have run even with or better than Intel's, at lower prices.

The rumor mill is rife again with the idea that Dell may finally spring an AMD system - it's a market that eMachines and HP have to themselves right now, that Dell can't compete with. That may change.

If you change the faceplate on the Dell, HP, Compaq and eMachines budget models, you couldn't tell them apart from the inside. They all use the same hard drives and many of the same other components. All of them are built for their sellers by the same pool of Taiwan and China-based electronics ghost manufacturers.

If emachines are so great------why aren't you using one now and answering questions on their forum? (If they have a forum, which I doubt). Just being sarcastic! Nothing personal.

AMD makes great CPUs but they have to be run on some average to sub-par chipsets, too bad really. eMachines are notoriously cheaply assembled but hold up as basic PCs for the most part. I would still gladly take a Dell over an eMachine, and hardly consider Consumer Reports to be an appropriate gauge of technical merit or quality.

Would you personally buy an eMachines for your mother-in-law?

So where would...ahem...someone shop for an eMachine if one were, say, trying to get a bargain system for one's mother-in-law (whose 5-yr-old Gateway is dead).

There was a time when eMachines were throwaway systems, and Dell were mid- to high-end machines, and there was no comparison.

eMachines has upgraded and Dell has come out with its own throwaway systems (the 2400/3000/B110/B310). As I wrote before, you could line up an eMachines, a Gateway, a Dell, an HP and a Compaq system and if you could swap the faceplates, never know the difference.

Just as it's hard to tell one DVD player or VCR from another, it's hard to tell one basic computer system from another these days - they're all made by a handful of companies, out of the same parts, with largely the same feature sets, and they're supported in the same way (for a limited time, in a limited way, by offshore support departments).

All of the major retailers sell them.

Only if i were an Outlaw, just kidding:smileywink: