http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/ Engadget Comments for eMachines Mini-e ER1402: all the PC your mother can handle for just $300 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/I was thinking the same thing, but knowing all the processors that have repeatedly fried out in every crappy e-machine my family has ever owned, I don't know if I'd even waste $299 on this thing.]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
Dusting and just general cleaning of your house would help to keep the dust in the computer to a minimum. Cleaning out the fans every once in a while isn't a bad idea.]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/It's pretty damn hard to fry a cpu unless its more than 5 yrs old. ]]>Jun 26th 2010 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/I've owned my eMachines since April of 04 and it's still going. It DOES make some weird humming noises sometimes, but I'm not really techy so I don't know what that could possibly mean.

P.S. The original keyboard died long ago, though. Damn it, I miss that thing ... ]]>Jun 26th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Thanks for the tip I've been working with computers probably since before you were born, though. The fact of the matter is that they have terrible designs, poor ventilation, and cheap fans - dust isn't the issue.]]>Jun 27th 2010 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Processor power isn't a factor here... Actually a *single-core* 3GHz Pentium 4 is pretty damn weak too. ;)]]>Jun 27th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/I don't think it's something anyone strives for - No one, in their right mind, tries that.]]>Jun 27th 2010 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 28th 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
thought it had a rhombus display ]]>Jun 26th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
Let's call a spade a spade.]]>Jun 28th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
With full-on desktop systems available for $300, this isn't the best bang for your buck around, but if you NEED something in a nettop form factor, it probably is.]]>Jun 26th 2010 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
It has a decent processor(dual core, I believe) and a decent GPU (GeForce 9200 > ION/Integrated gfx). Along with the form factor, this price is hard to beat, imo. ]]>Jun 26th 2010 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/9200m: 8 stream processors, 256 or 512MB RAM max, 64-bit bus, 31.2 theoretical GFLOPS.
9400M: 16 stream processors, 256MB system RAM, 128-bit bus,54 GFLOPS.
I'm assuming it's a 9200m because as far as I can tell that's the only kind of 9200m there is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_9M_.289xxxM.29_series]]>Jun 26th 2010 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/I stand corrected, good sir. What's the speed on this athlon neo?]]>Jun 27th 2010 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Do recall that the ION comes in two variants; one with 8 and one with 16 stream cores.]]>Jun 28th 2010 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
Granted this is an MSRP price though, so the street price is likely going to be even less at retailers.]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Priced as you spec the Neo listed for 599. So that would be more then 50% off. Nice try Dell fanboy!]]>Jun 26th 2010 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/ Use Dell Home coupon code ?$QNC1?HSKNR9F during checkout. Dell has their Zino HD Mini PC with Windows Vista Home Basic and Blu-Ray combo drive on sale for $378.99. Use online coupon ?$QNC1?HSKNR9F and the price drops to $284.24.
Additional System Specs:

* 1.5GHz AMD Dual Core Athlon X2 3250e Processor
* 3GB DDR2 Memory
* 250GB SATA Hard Drive
* ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics Card]]>Jun 26th 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/that thing in the pic is just the central unit :) no monitor is shown in the pic]]>Jun 26th 2010 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Lol, thought the same thing at first, but then I noticed that isn't a display. Weird place to put the case on the picture.]]>Jun 26th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/silly me...that rhombus thingy isn't the display...it's the computer]]>Jun 26th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Can't fit? Errr.. how about laying it flat?]]>Jun 26th 2010 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
But the VESA mounts are even better.

I wish they would put inexpensive SSDs in these devices instead of laptop drives. The performance difference is worth it, and its better to store your data on a centralized network storage or server anyway.

Glad to see the Athlon NEO is getting some love. Its still frugal but way outperforms the dual-core Atom processor (at least the 1.6ghz version does). Although technically neither are efficient from a performance to power ratio compared to the latest i3/5/7s, the idle power draw is great for tooling around.

The GPU looks like a pretty weak choice though. Considering the GPU lends a big helping hand for things like flash and HD video, it makes sense IMO for overall performance to go a little more upscale for this, even on a nettop.]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
TRIM support in W7, 230MB/s read and 135MB/s write. I bought three, heh!]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
They don't put SSDs in them because even small SSDs would raise the price by about $100. And sure, a central file server is great, but good luck getting mom to figure that one out. Plus that kind of defeats the purpose of a $300 PC....]]>Jun 26th 2010 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
> Most people have more vertical desk space than horizontal, so
> laying it flat wouldn't make much sense.

it's certainly a useful option but not a deal breaker. A machine of this general size fits quite well on a desk if you lay it down flat. This is the basic idea of a Mac Mini or a BookPC.

Sauce for the goose and all of that...]]>Jun 26th 2010 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
Heck the little micro 16GB SSDs in the Dell netbooks cost next to nothing. Works well enough for a boot drive.]]>Jun 26th 2010 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
The GPU is kinda crap, and they don't specify which Neo.

Theres a 1.7ghz single core (lame), and dual cores from 1.3ghz-1.7ghz which is like a 25ish % difference in performance span... pretty big.]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
That's kinda disappointing. Thank You for the reply :) ]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.emachines.com/products/products.html?prod=ER1402-05

The CPU and GPU are plenty capable for a HTPC (9200 has full hardware decoding), but not much else. The athlon II neo chips are about 50% faster clock-for-clock than the atoms, so this is just about halfway between a single core and dual core atom with ION nettop. The price seems fair (if not spectacular) for what it is.]]>Jun 26th 2010 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
If it had the dual-core and 9400, I'd be all over it, or at least one of the two.]]>Jun 26th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
It's pretty simple really.

Either it supports PureVideo/VDPAU B or it doesn't.

That should be something pretty easy to sort out if you could actually get one in your hands. The most interesting question probably remains Flash. Will it stutter and bring this machine to it's knees or not? Do you care?
]]>Jun 26th 2010 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/Jun 26th 2010 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/26/emachines-mini-e-er1402-all-the-pc-your-mother-can-handle-for/
Moot though, as its not like this is meant to travel, and 9lbs isn't going to dent even an Ikea desk.]]>Jun 26th 2010 8:44AM