http://store.emachines.com/emachines/store...=111&action=new



Digital 15.4" Widescreen
Mobile AMD Athlon

 

it's pretty cool...I was considering getting that at circuit city.... I think they have a 250 rebate on it right now

 

Only experience I know of is my Brother got a e-machines desktop and it was a piece of poo.

 

That's not nice to compare emachines to Mr. Hanky. The Christmas Poo deserves more respect than that.

 

so i guess nobody has real hands on experience with this laptop?

earlier emachines were POS - but i've been hearing better things about them lately, that's why i'm even considering now.

 

I would go back to a typewriter before I buy an emachine... It's the Kia or Hyundai of computers.

 

that bad eh? so nobody has anything good to say about emachines?

 

Do you need it to have a battery? I found that with my previous laptop it was plugged in 100% of the time anyway.

So what I did was go with an ECS Desknote. What it is, is a laptop that uses desktop ram, and desktop processor. Which makes it crazy cheap (and easily upgradable). Not to mention you don't have the internal battery.

Mine is a P4 2.4 Ghz (I didn't go with the Athlon because it runs much warmer, even tho I like Athlons better), 512 MB DDR RAM, 40 GB HD, CD-RW/DVD Combo, Almost every port imaginable (4 usb 2.0 for example), 15 inch LCD, 64MB DDR Video Card.

Back in March I paid $999 US for it. I'm thinking its probably a bit cheaper now.

 

I'm using a new IBM Thinkpad T30. 1.4 gig P4, 1 gig ram. I hate it. Slow, heavy, hot...

My next laptop - G4 Powerbook 17"

 

STAY AWAY FROM EMACHINE THEY ARE CRAP. used to be a tech at Comp usa and we'd get so many of thoes things in . get a dell or a sony laptop. ALOT better. a lil mroe expensive but you'll be pattin yoruself on the back when ti works for more than 1 and 1/2 years