eMachines delivers EL1300 line of small form factor PCs

Once the laughing stock of the PC world, eMachines has managed to pull together some rather stylish looking rigs over the past few months. As the comeback continues, the company has outed two new Mini PCs in its EL1300 line, the $298 EL1300G-01w and the $398 EL1300G-02w. Both systems include a chassis that's 10.7-inches tall, 4.2-inches wide and 15-inches long (not exactly "mini" in our books...), and while the power ain't anything to write home about, it should handle Word processing and the occasional YouTube video fine. Speaking of specs, both rigs boast a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon 2650e CPU, NVIDIA's GeForce 6150SE integrated graphics, a 160GB SATA HDD, 18x SuperMulti DVD burner, nine USB 2.0 sockets and a multicard reader. Personally, we'd select the more pricey of the two, as that one arrives with a 20-inch LCD (E202H) and Windows XP rather than Vista Home Basic. Totally your call though, boss.

Gallery: eMachines delivers EL1300 line of small form factor PCs

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[Shinigami @ May 20th 2009 9:42AM]

What is the year of the press release? 2007?

[Shinigami @ May 20th 2009 9:43AM]

6150 SE was reviewed by iXBT (its in russian, can be found here: http://www.ixbt.com/mainboard/nvidia-geforce-6100-6150.shtml) in Jan 9, 2007. I doubt they looked into the future to write that article...

[N2 @ May 20th 2009 9:45AM]

at least 9300m video card..
I wish I can add some monster into this lovely? case...

[Maestro @ May 20th 2009 9:57AM]

The occassional youtube video? Since when did playing youtube videos become a standard of performance? My old Pentium 4 machine can play youtube videos just fine.

[Josh Ladella @ May 20th 2009 9:57AM]

I've always wanted to plug 9 cameras directly into one computer.

[Tarnation @ May 20th 2009 9:58AM]

I used to tell people to buy their kids these cheap eMachine PCs so they wouldn't have to call me as much to fix their computer. Children under the age of 14 are the number one cause of Viruses and Spyware in the home.

[Oli D @ May 20th 2009 10:08AM]

well why didnt you tell them to buy a mac or use ubuntu then?

[Tarnation @ May 20th 2009 10:17AM]

@OliD
Wow you didn't read my comment at all did you.

No to a Mac
A. They already had a nice newer PC.
B. They don't want one
C. I can buy about 5 emachines for the price of an iMac plus in two years they don't give a crap about tossing it and buying them a nice laptop or something.
Ubuntu
A. While yes it would have been more secure how many 14 and under kids do you know with 1337 skillz.
B. They would have been calling me more on how too use it.

o.O

[Oli D @ May 20th 2009 11:05AM]

I used ubuntu when i was 13...

Emachines are good value, my gf has a P4 one from years ago, you turn it on, it whines and creaks, heats to 100C then back down to 50, lets off some steam then loads Windows 7 RC fine. I took about 2 litres of dust out of it last time i gave it a service...

[MrShawn007 @ May 20th 2009 10:00AM]

If you have 9 cameras, you'd know better than to plug them into an e-machine!

[pedro @ May 20th 2009 10:06AM]

Looks fine to me. Acer seems to be doing a great job in reviving the brand

[Oli D @ May 20th 2009 10:08AM]

So its an InWin BM Mini-BTX case, a Jetway AM2 MITX motherboard and a low power Athlon chip.

For $300...

nice

[Major4Play @ May 20th 2009 10:10AM]

Looks just like Acer's SFF machines except its white.

"and while the power ain't anything to write home about, it should handle Word processing and the occasional YouTube video fine."

Actually a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon 2650e can handle just about anything from video to photoshop, unlike an Atom, Not a speed demon but very few things will kill it outright.

[greatsunjester @ May 20th 2009 12:43PM]

How do the 270 or 330 Atoms stack up against the 1.6 Athlon?

[rcarm @ May 20th 2009 6:59PM]

Athlon > Atom

[egress63 @ May 20th 2009 10:14AM]

This is perfect for your office cubicles. Small, compact and not very noisy (very important when your average floor has 200 -250 computers) - does your standard excel sheets and powerpoints. No wonder my firm has ordered over 2000 of these.

[Kumar @ May 20th 2009 12:03PM]

We're looking at computers this size and smaller for our next go round of workstations next year (windows 7 NOT vista).

About half to three quarters of our users just use web applications, so the smaller the better. To the disappointment of PC makers, I think nettops will probably work just as well.

The size the eMachines uses is appealing if we want to hold on to them long enough to need to do out of warranty repairs/upgraes, where the nettops will be more/less disposable.

[Ervserver @ May 24th 2009 12:18PM]

be nice to know the power consumption of these

[teasphere @ May 20th 2009 10:28AM]

I love all the unfounded hate for eMachines... I have built systems since the 486 days and quite often I would recommend an eMachine. I love how because you are a power user/game player that immediately that means everyone else around you needs a 1kw PSU, Asus high-end mobo, SLi, etc. eMachines were always perfectly fine for the average family computer and used the same components as almost all other big name PC makers. They all lasted as long or longer than other PCs and my sister just recently retired one that was still running great and over 8 years old. The blind loyalty/hatred thing with technology totally escapes me.

[Agent .25i @ May 20th 2009 10:32AM]

My first new, non home built computer was a cheap lil e-machine. It was great. I gave it to a friends kid a few years back and he's still using it. Other than a few upgrades made by them, the only issue it EVER had was a bad PSU.
I see them once in a while, customers houses, at the office; good to see they are still around and growing.

[Snwbrds2922 @ May 21st 2009 11:26PM]

Will it play Crysis?

[mere @ May 20th 2009 10:51AM]

lol at laughing stock
my $300 emachine has been the center of my music recording studio since 1998
i copped the $300 stock tower at bestbuy [2 of them]
added my own RAM, 2 dvd burners, sound card w/ MIDI, wireless mouse & keyboard

it's good for what it does.
recording multi track mixes & editing audio.

it's a little slow compared to my newer PCs & Macs, but it's a workhorse that's still going strong.

i going to retire it soon, maybe for the new model, or maybe another shuttle.
i'll just re purpose it as a .mp3 server or something.

[Oli D @ May 20th 2009 11:08AM]

eww shuttle

if i wanted cappuccino on my pc i would pour it on myself.

[Chox @ May 20th 2009 12:53PM]

Generally eMachines have some PSU problems but it's very reliable machine and good at what it does for the price. I had 2 eMachines and I'll probably buy another one if this one dies.

[genepro09 @ May 20th 2009 3:31PM]

emachines = acer = asus = same chinese quality = worst-to-medicore in quality = laughing stock of the IT world then and now... tsk.. tsk.. tsk...

[Shinigami @ May 20th 2009 4:49PM]

Did you ever own Asus products?

[Dest @ May 20th 2009 5:02PM]

User surveys have actually shown that computer manufacturer reliability is the same almost all around, including acer and emachines. Try again.

[Neoprimal @ May 20th 2009 7:47PM]

The only problem with emachines were their really, really high failure rates. The msi all-in-one mobos died something fierce and their psus for some reason failed at an alarmingly high rate as well. So if they're a laughing stock because they were just unlucky in their choice of cheaper components, so be it. Under Acer, they seem to be fairly solid contenders.

[MrShawn007 @ May 21st 2009 1:40AM]

I've worked for the geeksquad, and have seen far too many e-machines come back in less than a year with faulty motherboard/psu issues. I've also factored in the amount of units sold compared to the other brands.

IMO, E-machines == shitty brown mobo with blown caps.