eMachines continues to ply its wares in the cutthroat waters of the low end PC market, and its new summer and fall lineup looks like it'll be pretty competitive. $500 will get you a T5230 desktop (pictured with optional 19-inch display) with a 2.32GHz dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4400+, NVIDIA 6510SE integrated graphics, 1 GB of RAM, a 250GB disk, Vista Home Premium, and a dual-layer DVD±RW drive, while the $450 T5062 swaps in a single core 2.4GHz Athlon 64 3800+ and a 160GB disk. The $400 T3616 is somewhat less of a deal, with a 2.0GHz Sempron on a 160MHz frontside bus, 512MB of RAM, a 120GB disk, and Vista Home Basic. All these prices go down $50 if you complete the mail-in rebate eMachines will be offering, which should be enough to throw in a couple extra sticks of RAM and actually make these things useful.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John Doe @ Jun 29th 2007 12:22AM
Ahh E Machine. Proof that there really are cheaper (quality wise.) machines then Dell's $500 budge systems.
INTERNETSAVIOUR @ Jun 29th 2007 12:32AM
crist this abomination is still around? 500 isnt even an amazing price for a system with no screen. youd be better off just throwing away 500 on an iphone, atleast it has a screen.....
letstakeawalk @ Jun 29th 2007 1:16AM
I'd think harder about buying one of these if the AMD Athlon 3000+ T3092 I bought four years ago wasn't still chugging along. I'll admit, no heavy hitter here, but it's been a solid school computer, and I've got 40 gig of music and 60 gig of video stored for entertainment. The 17in LCD is still bright, no dead pixels. At a sum total around $750 from Circuit City, I'm pretty pleased with my E Machine..
KYDS3K @ Jun 29th 2007 2:26AM
eMachines hatred is so passé . . . i'll wait till i see some reviews on these before i pass judgement.
John Doe @ Jun 29th 2007 10:21AM
Reviews don't tell you about the quality build. At all.
DanielJForman @ Jun 29th 2007 7:45AM
My experiences have taught me that eMachines are great PCs for tech-illiterate parents. They don't do much more than check e-mail and stream a few audio/video clips every now and then, so a low-end, low cost system certainly has a legitimate market.
Doc @ Aug 30th 2007 6:02PM
The T5062 is now $299 at Office Depot... not bad for an "in-law" or second office computer system for email, MS Office and internet.
nVidia onaboard 128mb graphics, and one PCIe slot if you want to throw in a little bit of an upgrade card for some gaming. Comes with Vista Premium, too, which is over a $120 all on its own.