what is your opinions on these?i am moving so i am getting a new tv, dvd, and computer and i have decided on all but the comp.i set myself a limit of 1,000 or under.the sony's are way to much.i can get a presario or pavillion with a 60 gig hard drive, 1.3(i think) gig processor, 256 megs of ram, 56k modem, dvd rom, and cd-rw.one has the athalon and the other the pentium.i was gonna take the presario then i saw this emachines.for the same price it has 100 gig hard drive, 2 gig processor, 512 megs ram, dvd rom, and the cd-rw.

it is basically the capacity/speed of the others.do you think it is worth going with it being an e-machines.i have heard a lot of people are not to happy with it.

thanks for the input guys

Stay away from e-machines. Thank me later.
Your best bet would be to build it, for a grand you could get a great pc put together. Check out pricewatch. Any other questions just ask me, I've built about 20 computers in the past couple years and am pretty up to par on these things.

waylander, thanks for the tip.i have had a few people mention building to me.i want to but one from the store so i get the warranty's it comes with.you don't get that when you build.
what makes those e-machines so bad?just curious
out of the presario and the pavillion, which one do you think is better?

You get a warranty on every part you purchase when building your pc to clear up that misconception. And those warranty's are normally longer than what you get from a distribitur like Compaq or HP.

I do troubleshooting on PC's as my occupation right now, and just in my personal experience I have had more problems with E-machines. If you give 400 dollars...well you get what you pay for. And alot of the times the software was installed but not included, when I am working on someones emachine pc and I need to install a driver and it asks for the windows disk its no where to be found, and their recovery cds are ****. Win xp should clear that up. Emachine are accused of the afformentioned and just doing ****ed up crazy **** thats inexplainable. Rebooting for no reason.

Compaq is ****, along with the emachine in the scheme of things. HP bought them out, which isn't as stinky ****, but still on the lower end of the spectrum. Haven't had too much problems with HP's cept for the price range, you get what seems to be a good deal on these computers, but the corners are cut, for example a 5400 rpm harddrive, thats ata 33 or 66, when the standards are more so than that. They give you a pentium celeron, which is on the lower end, and then ram thats 100 mhz instead of 133. Theres alot to keep an eye out for. If I was to buy a computer and not buy one, I would probably lean more to Dell than the other ones.

i didn't know you got a warranty when you pieced one together.how difficult do you suppose that would be for someone that has never attempted it?

building a computer is a very easy thing..90% of the connectors are one way or can only go in one spot. RAM snaps in, so does the processor and every other component that would go in an expansion slot. 99.9% of components today are plug-n-play which means they configure themselves as long as you have a driver disk that comes with them.

i know a guy who has an e-machine for 3 years now and not a single problem, but its hardly upgradeable. there is like 1 expansion slot and 1 slot for RAM and the processor speed is pretty low as well.

i might look into building one if it is that simple.i was not to concerned with the e-machines being upgradable.i post on forums, read, and download and burn music.the capacities of the e-machines would be more than sufficient for my tasks.

Given most of the users I deal with are wanting more out of there pcs. And I am an avid gamer so I have to get more bang for my buck. Best of luck with what you decide, and yeah most of the warranties on parts are 1-3 years. Just like anything you buy has a warranty, or a limited warranty.

I ****ing hate e-machines!!! Those things suck so bad, they almost make me like the Japanese for making quality computers. Almost.

yeah e-machines are pretty stable, they use decent parts, but as mentioned their is little to no expandability built in since the cases are mini towers. You can build a 1.5 ghz+ comp for under a grand nowadays. right now ram prices are also at a pretty good rate for DDR2700.

I would say out of all the company manufactured PC's, e-machines is the less proprietary of them since they are basically other company's parts fitted into the case, whereas with Compaq and HP they even make some of their mobo components and drives, so you are more locked into going with their **** later.

Usually the only part you'll buy that has a 3 year warranty is a monitor, they all come with that pretty standard. The only problem with manufacturer warranties is usually in the case of computer parts, you have to RMA the piece back to them which costs you shipping, and your without the component for who knows how long.