eMachines

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

The Microtel PCs that made the news seem to be more like $400.00 now, 
with minor differences for either Linspire, Xandros or Windows, and 
about $260.00 for one with no drives or OS.  Tiger Direct and Micro 
Center seem to have some really inexpensive boxes with Linspire and 
nearly as inexpensive ones with XP Home.  Fry's probably has some 
even cheaper, but they aren't as mail order-oriented and they're not 
in the midwest

When we needed a couple of new ones at work, I happened onto some new 
Acer systems.  They are rather modestly configured but really 
solid.  The business-oriented AcerPower series have XP Professional 
for only a little more than an eMachines one with XP Home.  About 
$600.00 for one with a 160GB SATA disk, a DVD burner and 1GB of RAM.

At 10:51 AM 8/10/2006, you wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Harry G wrote:
>
> > I need a cheap desktop for my daughter which has to have Wincrap 
> on it.  Have
> > the quality of eMachines improved at all?  She doesn't need speed, just a
> > basic PC.
>
>What about those $200 Walmart PCs?
>
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Stuart Biggerstaff
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