eMachines offers up stylish, underpowered EZ1601-01 all-in-one PC

Remember that EZ1600 we peeked back in April? Seems its long lost cousin just got official courtesy of eMachines, as the EZ1601-01 all-in-one retains that same PC-in-a-monitor feel yet sports a clearly different model name. Or, you know, maybe eMachines just changed the label up on us. At any rate, the newest member of the EZ Series features a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 945GSE chipset, 1GB of DDR2 memory, completely uninspiring GMA 950 integrated graphics, a 160GB SATA hard drive, 8x SuperMulti DVD burner, WiFi, five USB 2.0 sockets, built-in speakers, a bundled keyboard and mouse, multicard reader and a 18.5-inch LCD. Thankfully, the underpowered machine offers up Windows XP in order to keep resource demands in check, but the $399.99 price tag may be a bit much given the N270's age.

[Alex @ Jul 14th 2009 9:13AM]

Wooh, underpowered for sure. Imagine trying to run media center on this (which is something I imagine you'd want to do). It'd probably be almost as slow as loading the guide on my underpowered cable box.

[xtole @ Jul 14th 2009 9:45AM]

What are you left with when you polish a turd?

[Nikesh @ Jul 14th 2009 1:27PM]

A slightly smaller, slightly smoother, and slightly shinier turd?

[xtole @ Jul 14th 2009 3:06PM]

Still left with a turd. Emachines can polish their PC line all they want, you still end up with shit at the end.

[davidcroneuk @ Jul 14th 2009 9:17AM]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/07/sony-announces-vaio-w-netbook/

[216 @ Jul 14th 2009 9:19AM]

considering that its an e-machine, the specs are fitting

[ioebob @ Jul 14th 2009 9:21AM]

So this is just a netbook with a DVD drive and a 18.5 in screen.

I mean I seriously could just hook up any netbook to a HDTV with a vga port and get the same results. Hell, my TV is bigger than this thing and my netbook has 2 gigs of RAM, I'll get better results.

[Platinum_Skeet @ Jul 14th 2009 10:49AM]

If they would've put at least a core 2 duo in this it would be kinda worth a buy. The Atom makes it a complete fail...

[Superstition @ Jul 14th 2009 9:22AM]

Not really a very compelling machine. At first, I was thinking "Might be nice for Grandma", but there's cheaper machines with similar specs than this. Maybe your paying a premium for the "All in one" design.

[davidcroneuk @ Jul 14th 2009 9:27AM]

This is my comment

[Toy Yoda @ Jul 14th 2009 9:54AM]

It looks like a dance character from Space Channel 5.

[Matthew @ Jul 14th 2009 10:12AM]

Ok... I'm at a loss to the use of atom procs in any machine other than a portable. What is the appeal? For the same price you can get a machine based on an older dual-core architecture that will run circles around anything based on an atom.

Can anyone explain to me why anyone in their right mind would pick an atom for anything other than a portable?

[tmarks11 @ Jul 14th 2009 12:24PM]

atom=low power consumption=less heat removal required = quiet computer.

Or that is the theory anyway. Once the proccessor hits 100% continually while doing HD decoding because they include a crummy video chip, the fan will start sounding like a jet engine.

[Chris @ Jul 14th 2009 9:25PM]

You fail to realize that AIO PC's are only portables in disguise. Hence they are lame as you give up the portability of a laptop and also the power/upgradeable nature of a desktop. Thus they are stupid.

[wuvhandles @ Jul 14th 2009 10:26AM]

Thats the stupid thing about these all in one pc's. They give you sooo much less power for the price. I mean what's the point? Why not get a laptop? I can easily find a new laptop for $400+ Canadian that will outperform that thing, and will be more portable...

[reluttr @ Jul 14th 2009 10:41AM]

I would much rather have a laptop that has a flip around screen and fold out stilts, because not only would it do what this thing does but I could take it with me as well.

[james @ Jul 14th 2009 10:48AM]

As always they are offering up a underpowered with a lower price point to get people to buy them.
I get emachines in all the time for repairs and in most cases I just tell my customers to buy a "real" computer.

[dan2600 @ Jul 14th 2009 10:57AM]

this will not sell good.

[windblownmonkey @ Jul 14th 2009 11:06AM]

A pentium dual core and at least some ati low end graphics chip would have made this a decent build for entry level usage.

[Todd.Starbuck @ Jul 14th 2009 11:15AM]

Style over substance... all-in-one and therefore hard-to-upgrade? Sounds like a Mac.

[BigD145 @ Jul 14th 2009 11:40AM]

eMachines? PASS.