[ale] Need a chep machine

[Jim Kinney]

I did not know that Acer bought eMachines. That's a big step up for
eMachines. I've been pretty happy with the Acer laptops so I hope they can
do well for eMachines name. I swore at them and off of them about 3 years
ago for being too poor quality to rely for anything but non-important tasks
(which is _what_ task? Everything everyone does on the computer is important
to _them_!)

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was going to reply with much the same info as Geoffrey just posted. Acer
> is the biggest selling brand of notebooks in Europe (or was about 2 yrs.
> ago). I do expect that they have raised the quality of their product from
> what Emachines formerly offered. I've only ever worked on one and it was a
> hard drive problem, but like the old Compaq's it had some of the BIOS info
> written to the hard drive, so you couldn't just replace the hard drive and
> go on our merry way. Wound up replacing it with a Dell fro ~ $400 or $500
> (this was maybe 6 yrs. ago).
>
> That said, over all, computer hardware is far more reliable now than it was
> 10 yrs. ago. There are only a few hard drive manufacturers for all
> manufacturers to choose from (Hitachi, Toshiba, Samsung, Seagate & WD) and
> memory is pretty darn good these days, both the chips and the modules. The
> things that separate the higher quality from the lower quality  machines are
> basically the components on the motherboard and the power supply. Is a $200
> Emachines as good as a $800 "roll your own", no, but it is still a LOT of
> computer for the money and compute-power wise, probably something most of us
> would have been proud to have owned not many years ago.  OK, so maybe you
> have to replace the power supply or even the whole unit in 2-3 years, is
> that better than dropping $300-$500+ today? To each his own, in that
> decision.
>
> GC
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:
>
>> Warren Myers wrote:
>> > every eMachines box I've used has worked on the order of 2-4 years.
>>
>> Emachines was purchased by gateway and now acer now owns them.  I've
>> heard their quality has gone up since the acquisitions, but no personal
>> experience.
>>
>> >
>> > WMM
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Emachines are bottom-feeders. Lifespan measured in months not years.
>> >> Disposable hardware by design. If that's OK for the use, $200 is a very
>> >> cheap price for new hardware.
>> >>
>> >> On Mar 29, 2010 8:30 AM, "Chuck Payne" <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Guys,
>> >>
>> >> Don't take this as spam, but I just got an e-mail from buy.com, they
>> >> have e-machine for $200, are they good machine?
>> >>
>> >> http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=214870148&i=0&adid=17070
>> >>
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