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Emachines 64-bit Athlons Now On Sale

Posted by timothy on from the better-emachines-than-packard-bell dept.

tomhudson writes "According to zdnet, emachines, the company geeks like to make fun of, finally has a toy we'd all like to get for Xmas -- an Athlon64 on the cheap :-)"

6 of 486 comments (clear)

  1. finally has a toy we'd all like to get for Xmas by Pingular · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No. eMachines are TERRIBLE. My dad bought one a while back, it's the cheapest piece of crap ever. You can't upgrade ANYTHING in it (hard-disk, memory, gfx card, processor, NOTHING). It's noisey, the components are cheap, and if this 64bit is the same, I'd hate to have one.

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  2. A little idea... by mgcsinc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow, they seem to have managed to jack the price for their cheesy PC's up about $300 by slapping a nice big 64-bit label on one... and oh will consumers bite. Seriously, does no one else see this as simply a marketing gimmick, considering the tech-averted nature of their base market?

  3. Where is it? by tim_m · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I give up. Looked all over at their website and can't find the T6000 anywhere. Is it such a quiet release that eMachines doesn't want to give any details about it at all?

  4. Why do we make fun of them? by El · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My father bought 3 emachines for various family members. Within a year, none of them were working. I don't know where they get their parts, but I suspect it's from other companies reject piles. There has got to be a reason why these machines are so cheap -- and quite frankly, my time is too valuable to waste it on flakey hardware.

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  5. Emachine with 64bit Athlon by El · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Isn't that sorta like a Chevy Vega with a supercharged V8?

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  6. My gripe about AMD64: mobo limits on RAM by buck68 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been reading about the AMD 64 bit processors with great interest. I really like many of the things AMD has done in the x86-64 designs. But the one thing that blows me away is that many of the "desktop" mobos for AMD 64 still only allow a maximum of 2 or 4GB of phyisical RAM. What the hell is the point of a 64bit architecture if you can't use more of the address space than with IA32 processors? Surely not 64bit math?

    I would think that machines with 2-16GB of RAM would be the natural zone where AMD64 starts to really do things that are a pain in the ass on IA32. As far as I can tell, few of the current AMD 64 motherboards fall into that space. Bah.