Is the brand name eMachines any good?
To quote Yahtzee:
In short, no.
In long, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…
He summed it up. I can’t say my experience with eMachines has been a pleasant one.
Pros: Their available at Costco and Walmart
Cons: Everything else
Well the thing is i need a new laptop and, the emachines are in my price range. It did have some good specs though.
The specs usually are, they’re just of horrible quality.
I bought a new emachines bundle back in 98 and thought it was the biggest pile-o-crap I ever wasted money on even for a “budget system”… that said, it never broke or failed catastrophically and it was still running ok when I sold it about 6 years later. I had one at a job about 5 years ago and surprisingly have nothing negative to say about it… it was fairly “top of the line” as far as emachines go.
I’d have to say they are a LOT better now than they were in the past since they no longer feature Cyrix processors.
A. Show where it says on their site that it says they have laptops and B. My graphics card is more expensive than their most expensive computer which made me lol
I have one as a non gaming pc that i’ve had for over 6 years. I have never had a problem with it of any kind.
Sorry my bad, i meant Netbook or Notebook or whatever.
To my knowledge they don’t sell those either. Emachines is a good source for bargain, bottom of the line desktop computers. I don’t have any experience in their displays or all in one PC’s, so I really can’t make any statements about them. However, I had a heavily upgraded emachines computer several years ago, and it really never failed me…
If it’s a netbook (budget mini laptop) you’re looking for, I’ve heard good things about the ones from Acer and MSI. However netbooks really aren’t that suitable for anything other than email/web browsing/word processing. (And neither are emachines computers.)
i’ve heard eMachines tends to ship their systems with pre-installed adware/spyware.
My friend bought an eMachines for about £1,000 back in 2002. 1.8ghz processor, 256mb DDR RAM, No AGP Slot, Filled with pre-installed shit that slowed boot time considerably.
In other words, don’t bother.
I had 3 eMachines in my possession in the past, they were all shit ecxept one on which I was able to flash the bios from an MSI motherboard(it was the same board, rebranded for eMachines) and it suddenly became stable and even overclockable. 
Honestly though I did it just to remove the ugly logo from the boot screen. 