LGR Tech Tales - eMachines: Never Obsolete?
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Sixto
from age 9 i ran a -Vista Ready- eMachines and my parents both had 2 inspiron 1525s with Vista, interestingly enough both of them owned the same laptops despite being separated for years since, anyway by the time i was 15 and got a mid end rig with Windows 7 i almost wanted to put Vista on it because the sidebar gadgets were gone and i hated the Win 7 Aero look as opposed to Vista. now i run Windows 7 on one of those Inspirons (maxed out with C2D 9300 and 6gb ram lol) with no screen mounted on the wall (using the hinges from the screen as mounts no less) under my TV as my daily and it honestly surprises me how capable this thing is considering the intel 965 integrated gfx. i can run half life 2 on lowest settings lol. i would put Vista on here considering it's meant to be on here but Windows 7 is always gonna be the best, although a bit finicky to get working right on one of these. Ain't nothin like it since and you know there ain't gonna be nothing like it again if Microsoft has any say in it!
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from age 9 i ran a -Vista Ready- eMachines and my parents both had 2 inspiron 1525s with Vista, interestingly enough both of them owned the same laptops despite being separated for years since, anyway by the time i was 15 and got a mid end rig with Windows 7 i almost wanted to put Vista on it because the sidebar gadgets were gone and i hated the Win 7 Aero look as opposed to Vista. now i run Windows 7 on one of those Inspirons (maxed out with C2D 9300 and 6gb ram lol) with no screen mounted on the wall (using the hinges from the screen as mounts no less) under my TV as my daily and it honestly surprises me how capable this thing is considering the intel 965 integrated gfx. i can run half life 2 on lowest settings lol. i would put Vista on here considering it's meant to be on here but Windows 7 is always gonna be the best, although a bit finicky to get working right on one of these. Ain't nothin like it since and you know there ain't gonna be nothing like it again if Microsoft has any say in it!
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Len
Well had 3 of the E Machines at the time. They had the ATX case. If I remember the case and power supply were the selling features for me. Oh yeah Intel processor. Never had a problem with them. I guess I was lucky. Yep they participated in the downfall of the -Golden Age- following Gateway. It was cool at the time. I miss the Cow Motif of Gateway. sigh. Unfortunately, I remember how all companies of the time sucked. HP, Compaq, Dell, IBM they all had some rather Unique hardware offerings. They were out to get your money. E-Machines was no nonsense, It worked or did not. Kinda reminded me of Volkswagen Beetles. Some folks upgraded them after the first failures experienced. Thanks for the memories.
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Well had 3 of the E Machines at the time. They had the ATX case. If I remember the case and power supply were the selling features for me. Oh yeah Intel processor. Never had a problem with them. I guess I was lucky. Yep they participated in the downfall of the -Golden Age- following Gateway. It was cool at the time. I miss the Cow Motif of Gateway. sigh. Unfortunately, I remember how all companies of the time sucked. HP, Compaq, Dell, IBM they all had some rather Unique hardware offerings. They were out to get your money. E-Machines was no nonsense, It worked or did not. Kinda reminded me of Volkswagen Beetles. Some folks upgraded them after the first failures experienced. Thanks for the memories.
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TortureBot
Lol. I have the tower at 5: 45. I got it with another pc a buddy was tossing years ago. The original motherboard was dead (capacitors leaking all over the board, but the other pc he gave me had a good motherboard but bad power supply, and luckily they were the same form factor.
I managed to Frankenstein an Athlon 1. 3 Ghz together with the help of a couple of optical drives from the local flea market, that had the same curved silver front. Then I got the multi-card reader from Ebay for like $5 that was supposed to originally been in the eMachine. I keep it running on Windows XP for making IDE hard drives for arcade games like Gauntlet Legends, CarnEvil, and the like. Serves a purpose.
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Lol. I have the tower at 5: 45. I got it with another pc a buddy was tossing years ago. The original motherboard was dead (capacitors leaking all over the board, but the other pc he gave me had a good motherboard but bad power supply, and luckily they were the same form factor.
I managed to Frankenstein an Athlon 1. 3 Ghz together with the help of a couple of optical drives from the local flea market, that had the same curved silver front. Then I got the multi-card reader from Ebay for like $5 that was supposed to originally been in the eMachine. I keep it running on Windows XP for making IDE hard drives for arcade games like Gauntlet Legends, CarnEvil, and the like. Serves a purpose.
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Beautiful
I got eMachines AMD based one in box i Retired this year it was my daily when i got Ryzen PC i got that eMachines in Walmart in 2013 it came with Discount for Windows 8 It was upgraeded threw the years it was built by Acer it still works it Runs Windows 10 Pro very well My Mother got 2011 Based eMachines she Still uses to this day her is Intel Celeron based her ram been upgraded her Runs Windows 7 this year on Board video went out i put GT 610 video card in it Brought back to life for her she can't affored a new Pc yet for what she does the PC still fast enough Acer made hers eMacdhines might be called junk But they stay working for years and years out living some HPs
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I got eMachines AMD based one in box i Retired this year it was my daily when i got Ryzen PC i got that eMachines in Walmart in 2013 it came with Discount for Windows 8 It was upgraeded threw the years it was built by Acer it still works it Runs Windows 10 Pro very well My Mother got 2011 Based eMachines she Still uses to this day her is Intel Celeron based her ram been upgraded her Runs Windows 7 this year on Board video went out i put GT 610 video card in it Brought back to life for her she can't affored a new Pc yet for what she does the PC still fast enough Acer made hers eMacdhines might be called junk But they stay working for years and years out living some HPs
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Jesse
I can attest to the awesomeness of that 64 pit e machines being a bullet. I remember I was rocking an e machines all in one offering (around $500 brand new in 2002) and my mom had the 64 bit one with the and 64 processor, I used mine for about 10 years and upgraded the hardware until I couldn-t justify it anymore. Same for my mom, I think she actually kept hers for around 12 years. That was the first computer in our house with a flat screen monitor and I though it was the bullet that propelled us into the future. lol. Never really had issues with build quality until the motherboard finally crapped out one day.
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I can attest to the awesomeness of that 64 pit e machines being a bullet. I remember I was rocking an e machines all in one offering (around $500 brand new in 2002) and my mom had the 64 bit one with the and 64 processor, I used mine for about 10 years and upgraded the hardware until I couldn-t justify it anymore. Same for my mom, I think she actually kept hers for around 12 years. That was the first computer in our house with a flat screen monitor and I though it was the bullet that propelled us into the future. lol. Never really had issues with build quality until the motherboard finally crapped out one day.
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Steve
I remember my family used to have an Emachine, was running really slow and my parants split and both got laptops soon after. It just sat there for a while. My mum was going through photo's and realised she had a lot of old early childhood photos of me on the computer, we booted the thing up after I took the back off and cleaned off the couple years of dust as best as I could. Still sounded like a being ressurected unwillingly from what it thought was a peaceful death, and took a looooong time to boot. We got the photos off eventually and let it return to it's deep slumber where it remains to this day.
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I remember my family used to have an Emachine, was running really slow and my parants split and both got laptops soon after. It just sat there for a while. My mum was going through photo's and realised she had a lot of old early childhood photos of me on the computer, we booted the thing up after I took the back off and cleaned off the couple years of dust as best as I could. Still sounded like a being ressurected unwillingly from what it thought was a peaceful death, and took a looooong time to boot. We got the photos off eventually and let it return to it's deep slumber where it remains to this day.
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peanutbutterisfu
I-ve had a few EMachines and have had great luck. The one I have now I bought in the beginning of 2011 from Walmart for like 300 bucks. It still works just fine which is crazy that a cheap computer has lasted 10 years with absolutely no problems but I should have did the free windows 10 update because they stopped supporting the windows I have now. The other EMachines I bought in 2004 or 2005 that lasted about 4-5 years it just needed a mother board but I just bought a new hp from Walmart. The hp only lasted a few years because of a power surge.
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I-ve had a few EMachines and have had great luck. The one I have now I bought in the beginning of 2011 from Walmart for like 300 bucks. It still works just fine which is crazy that a cheap computer has lasted 10 years with absolutely no problems but I should have did the free windows 10 update because they stopped supporting the windows I have now. The other EMachines I bought in 2004 or 2005 that lasted about 4-5 years it just needed a mother board but I just bought a new hp from Walmart. The hp only lasted a few years because of a power surge.
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Rob
Here in early 2022. I still have an eMachines, a model T1115 with Celeron cpu, bought for under $500 at Frys Electronics, back in around 2001. The XP operating system is somewhat messed up, making it about 25 times slower than usual, probably from some corrupting adware early on. But I will eventually get another harddisk & put a fresh install. I can also replace the Celeron with a Pentium III, just to take advantages of the III, as well as maximize the system memory up to 512mb. Today, eMachines is gone & so is Frys Electronics.
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Here in early 2022. I still have an eMachines, a model T1115 with Celeron cpu, bought for under $500 at Frys Electronics, back in around 2001. The XP operating system is somewhat messed up, making it about 25 times slower than usual, probably from some corrupting adware early on. But I will eventually get another harddisk & put a fresh install. I can also replace the Celeron with a Pentium III, just to take advantages of the III, as well as maximize the system memory up to 512mb. Today, eMachines is gone & so is Frys Electronics.
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brickson98m
I have some good memories on the ol T6000. It was my dads computer, but when he replaced it, I took it because he was just going to throw it away, and I-m a tech pack rat with a soft spot for nostalgia. Unfortunately I didn-t get ahold of many of my favorite childhood games before he sold them at a rummage sale, but that was my own fault because he did tell me to take anything I wanted beforehand.
Either way, that machine did everything we needed, and played every game I had just fine.
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I have some good memories on the ol T6000. It was my dads computer, but when he replaced it, I took it because he was just going to throw it away, and I-m a tech pack rat with a soft spot for nostalgia. Unfortunately I didn-t get ahold of many of my favorite childhood games before he sold them at a rummage sale, but that was my own fault because he did tell me to take anything I wanted beforehand.
Either way, that machine did everything we needed, and played every game I had just fine.
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Joel
5: 45 I had that exact emachines W3400, with the 80gb HDD, 512mb ram, XP, Athlon 64 and integrated ATi graphics. Was a used and abused -family pc- for years starting from 2005 to around 2012 or so. God that thing was a slow pile of shit. Until the bloated XP oem install crapped out. Put a few flavors of linux on it that made it better than it was when new. Also repurposed the case for a -sleeper- gaming build. All the big-box store stickers on the front made it an ideal sleeper rig.
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5: 45 I had that exact emachines W3400, with the 80gb HDD, 512mb ram, XP, Athlon 64 and integrated ATi graphics. Was a used and abused -family pc- for years starting from 2005 to around 2012 or so. God that thing was a slow pile of shit. Until the bloated XP oem install crapped out. Put a few flavors of linux on it that made it better than it was when new. Also repurposed the case for a -sleeper- gaming build. All the big-box store stickers on the front made it an ideal sleeper rig.
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