LeapOfFaith1 wrote:Buy a USB hub. They are like $10 now a days.

The problem with a hub is that a lot of devices won't be recognized on them. I tried that with my digital cameras and not one of them would upload through the hub.

marmorae wrote:as another IT Professional I find that hard to believe. True I prefer working on Dell over HP(easier diagnostics). Emachines make the whole center moan in agony when one gets checked in.

My favorite are thinkcenters. Great support. Solid, modular construction. They are cake to take apart and put back together. All around, worth the money in my experience...

dascooper wrote:I have been looking for a ball mouse for my wife - she is afraid that looking at the LED will burn a hole in her retina. I have tried to talk sense into her (and have spent hours wandering the back alleyways of warehouse electronic stores) trying to find one.

You need to be going to second hand stores. Salvation Army, Goodwill, etc.

they won't have them on the shelves though, you'll have to pick through their dumpsters.

"Ooooh a cookie!"

I'll wait till windows 8 is pre installed

A PS2 mouse and keyboard? Really?

carol2bs1grl wrote:Top o' the morning to ya!! I'm doing just fine -- yourself?!

carol do i still need to refrain from posting in CAPS?????? lol

carol2bs1grl wrote:Top o' the morning to ya!! I'm doing just fine -- yourself?!

I'm fine. It's snowing out today here, so I'm not really looking forward to the drive home from work...

Bought this PC for a little old lady who just checks her email a couple of weeks ago for $20 more. I could have sworn it was a dual core when I bought it though. Stupid me. I am gonna play with it for a couple of weeks and if I like I may keep it just for the Windows 7...I hate the thought of ever having to leave good old stable (enough) XP though.

A couple weeks ago for $100 more at a big office supply store I got a Compaq Dual Core with 3 GB RAM and 500 GB HD, and it wasn't a remade. Got two of these eMachines 5 years ago, they both died about the same time. It looks like the power supplies failed and took the motherboards with them.

Wow! Now this is a pile of rubbish if I ever saw one. Not only does the motherboard not have DVI or HDMI on it, but the 16x pci express slot is suspiciously absent - meaning you'll have a heck of a time upgrading that video card to something reasonable. Let alone, finding a 1x card that's low profile..

WHERE ARE MY PANTS?!.

crowsnest wrote:carol do i still need to refrain from posting in CAPS?????? lol

LOL...well, it's much easier on the eyes for you to refrain!!

ftmyersbuc wrote:The problem with a hub is that a lot of devices won't be recognized on them. I tried that with my digital cameras and not one of them would upload through the hub.

Then you need to stop buying $5 hubs. I've never had a device fail to be recognized off a USB 2.0 hub. If it has more than 4 ports, make sure you get a powered one. And some devices are just power hungry and want a powered hub anyway... I have 2 hubs at my desk. A squid style that is unpowered (but provides 4 5" cables coming off it for thumb drives and the such, and a 4 port powered hub.

ircmaxell wrote:I'm fine. It's snowing out today here, so I'm not really looking forward to the drive home from work...

Yeah..have to say I am not missing the snow! We've had a dusting fall overnight several times this week, but that's it. As far as I'm concerned, it can stay way the heck over there!!

marmorae wrote:as another IT Professional I find that hard to believe. True I prefer working on Dell over HP(easier diagnostics). Emachines make the whole center moan in agony when one gets checked in.

Why? Open case, see Bestec power supply, return to customer telling them it's not worth fixing. Done. Takes less than 5 minutes.

asabat wrote:A couple weeks ago for $100 more at a big office supply store I got a Compaq Dual Core with 3 GB RAM and 500 GB HD, and it wasn't a remade. Got two of these eMachines 5 years ago, they both died about the same time. It looks like the power supplies failed and took the motherboards with them.

How long until they died? If it was 4 years, than that's impressive. If 6 months, pathetic. But powersupplies seem to be the weak link in these budget computers anyway, so I'm not surprised that it failed...

hicks107 wrote:I'll wait till windows 8 is pre installed

Life's never been the same since Windows 3.1

Upgrade my current 4 year old Dell:
$ 119.00 Windows 7
$ 60.00 Upgrade RAM
$ ??.?? Fix whatever part is making strange noise

versus

$ 219.00 Refurb eMachine
$ 5.00 Shipping

For a $ 45.00 difference (or less, because I'm not sure how much it'll cost to replace whatever it is on my Dell going bonkers...the fan, maybe) I can replace it. Plus, I'm getting a better processor and a bigger hard drive than I currently have with the Dell.

I can wipe the old Dell, not worry about upgrading it, just fix the one part, and have a computer safe for the kids to play around on with no worries. Or I can wipe the old Dell and donate it. Either way, this is a win-win.

carol2bs1grl wrote:Yeah..have to say I am not missing the snow! We've had a dusting fall overnight several times this week, but that's it. As far as I'm concerned, it can stay way the heck over there!!

LOL... We're slated to get between 12 and 18 inches by tonight. Then another 4 to 12 (depending on who you believe) by tomorrow night... A 48 hour storm. Yay!

Mornin' boys and girls! Just checking in with a quick howdy. I'll try to keep an eye out for deals but:

1. Can't spend much $$
2. Everyone is on pins and needles about "the boss" looking over our electronic shoulders
3. Feeling like the w00t-offs have lost their sparkle.

Have fun everybody!
JPP

A man can dream cant he!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JustPaulPez wrote:Mornin' boys and girls! Just checking in with a quick howdy. I'll try to keep an eye out for deals but:

1. Can't spend much $$
2. Everyone is on pins and needles about "the boss" looking over our electronic shoulders
3. Feeling like the w00t-offs have lost their sparkle.

Have fun everybody!
JPP

Ahh see the boss can look over my shoulder, i'm still getting work done, and well put in my resignation letter today, so if I get fired I just start my new job sooner.

JustPaulPez wrote:Mornin' boys and girls! Just checking in with a quick howdy. I'll try to keep an eye out for deals but:

1. Can't spend much $$
2. Everyone is on pins and needles about "the boss" looking over our electronic shoulders
3. Feeling like the w00t-offs have lost their sparkle.

Have fun everybody!
JPP

1) I hear ya
2) That bites!!!
3) Agreed....need more of the old crowd to jump back in the forums

Hope you have a great day!

ircmaxell wrote:LOL... We're slated to get between 12 and 18 inches by tonight. Then another 4 to 12 (depending on who you believe) by tomorrow night... A 48 hour storm. Yay!

Ugh! LOL, sounds miserable!! I hope you have a snowblower at home!!

jennyland wrote:Upgrade my current 4 year old Dell:
$ 119.00 Windows 7
$ 60.00 Upgrade RAM
$ ??.?? Fix whatever part is making strange noise

versus

$ 219.00 Refurb eMachine
$ 5.00 Shipping

For a $ 45.00 difference (or less, because I'm not sure how much it'll cost to replace whatever it is on my Dell going bonkers...the fan, maybe) I can replace it. Plus, I'm getting a better processor and a bigger hard drive than I currently have with the Dell.

I can wipe the old Dell, not worry about upgrading it, just fix the one part, and have a computer safe for the kids to play around on with no worries. Or I can wipe the old Dell and donate it. Either way, this is a win-win.

IMHO, unless you are purchasing a mid-range or higher computer (I consider $800 or so the bottom of mid-range), I don't think they are worth upgrading. An economy PC comes with a weak processor by todays standards (and lower quality components), and as such will not last nearly as far down the technology curve as a mid-range computer will (CPU wise).

If you get a top of the line computer ($2000+), you can expect to be able to do incremental updates and have it last at least 5 years (I still have a 2003 era desktop that fulfills my desktop needs quite nicely, I have a top of the line laptop for any power computing I do). A mid-range ($800+) should last with one round of upgrades around 4 years. I wouldn't plan on keeping a discount computer for much longer than 2 years...

TehPetri wrote:So, it only has a 220W power supply, 2 memory slots, which are already taken, and I can't find anywhere whether it has any PCI slots at all. This is not an upgradable computer is it?

AdditionalPics show a mini PCI slot for a modem. Thant is it...

Windows 7 Home Premium is $199.99 from Microsoft website, so that leaves exactly $20 worth of hardware...

crowsnest wrote:


A man can dream cant he!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice liquid cooling system.

stunnard wrote:BOYCOTT WOOT! Support your fellow Wooters! Woot has not paid past contest winners award money and refuses to return emails and calls regarding these debts.

When you grow up and actually BUY ENOUGH from here, then feel free to complain. 3-9 purchases gives you no credibility. Go away.

eldiablohijo wrote:Ahh see the boss can look over my shoulder, i'm still getting work done, and well put in my resignation letter today, so if I get fired I just start my new job sooner.

Gawd, how I'd love to be in your position!! Been looking but the jobs... they just aren't out there! So I'd better hang on to the one I have!

ftmyersbuc wrote:The problem with a hub is that a lot of devices won't be recognized on them. I tried that with my digital cameras and not one of them would upload through the hub.

Give this one a try: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10307&cs_id=1030702&p_id=4876&seq=1&format=2

I have this one and it works perfectly with everything, it doesn't have any LED's or anything but it does what it should and for a good price. It's cheap but it's not, that site is famous for selling high quality items like this at a crazy low price. You can spend a lil more and get a name brand with sexy LED's if you want just do your reserch.

Just to stay on topic..... OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!! What a nice entry computer for people that are still slighty confused by technolgoy!!!!! They can start here and when they set it to self destruct by mistake, it was only 219.99 :D

JustPaulPez wrote:Mornin' boys and girls! Just checking in with a quick howdy. I'll try to keep an eye out for deals but:

1. Can't spend much $$
2. Everyone is on pins and needles about "the boss" looking over our electronic shoulders
3. Feeling like the w00t-offs have lost their sparkle.

Have fun everybody!
JPP

I feel your pain.

WoW!!! What a huge piece of junk. A few things, first it has a single core processor. This is a desktop for god's sake. Dual core at least. On top of this is it is a PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard. WOW! What a great deal. Oh and you can get a brand new one on NewEgg for $80 more. But, really stay away from this piece of The Strangers (2008). eMachines are terrible computers. They are made with the cheapest quality parts. And with 2gb's of ram and onboard integrated graphics card, all of that sexy 64 bit OS is just going to waste. AVOID!!!

[quote postid="3807963" user="rbarger"]Yes. Because the hard drive, processor, memory, power supply, CDR/DVD drive and other components are so different amongst all those manufacturers it must be difficult to make sense of the EMachines for you "IT Professionals". Give me a break; a PC is a PC; if you are good at what you do it is pretty easy to repair any of them with any issue.[/quoute]

Slimline is a different case, but point taken.

Because the hardeware is so similiar (although I would argue that Lenovos and Dells are built to a higher standard) I focus mainly on the software enviroment of the computer when you get it.

If you'd ever used an HP fresh out of the box you'll realize my horror. I don't have the luxury of just reimaging a computer that a friend has already setup and used.

From the open case picture, you can see that this just has two memory slots. With each slot holding a 1GB dimm, you'd need to purchase 2x 2GB sticks to upgrade this to 4GB. If you buy this and plan on upgrading the memory, bear this in mind!

HDMI Port?

davidoshea wrote:

^^^ Please!

I found one on Deals.woot. http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/ce0dc0bb-cc5f-4021-a0a0-35a723c1200d/leakfrog-leak-protector-alarm#2

for the love of GOD!!! How many refurb. e-machines do you have?!! NEXT!

is this compatible with my mac

stunnard wrote:BOYCOTT WOOT! Support your fellow Wooters! Woot has not paid past contest winners award money and refuses to return emails and calls regarding these debts.

Thank you for the warning Mr. "Just released from the third sub-basement wall licking room of my local regional center for the fairly mentally disturbed."

I shall commence with my pre-boycotting activities immediately.

Kellyoh1415 wrote:for the love of GOD!!! How many refurb. e-machines do you have?!! NEXT!

From my trackers...

Quantity Guess (experimental) : 500
Quantity Guess (based on previous sales) : 19 Remain Out Of 46
Time Remaining Guess : 00:29:43 Left.
Estimated sellout time : 11:01:28