eMachines etower 400i PC Desktop

Pros: Price
Cons: Inexpensive modem installed at factory-Poor Speakers

I recently purchased an emachines etower with a 466mhz Celeron processor. It is a good machine for the price. I bought it with 6.4gb hard drive, 64mb ram, 40X cd rom, and a 56k modem. It came in a package with an e-view 17" monitor, Lexmark Z11...

Pros: Low cost, good for student or second machine
Cons: Low quality, not good for games, cad etc.

The Emachines Etower is a budget system designed for internet browsing
and Word processing. If you need to run ram-intensive programs such as; large games, spread sheets, graphically intense presentations, video editing, etc...., this system is not...

Pros: terrible service
Cons: good machine, but no service

I purchased an E Machine 400is as my 1st computer and had a terrible experience. First the CDROM died on it within the first two weeks. After about $180 in long distance phone calls and (staples) the store I purchased it from mailing it back to...

Pros: They are VERY inexpensive, and, on the surface, quality machines....
Cons: Do your research about the company and their products before buying!

Well, well, well... should I have been surprised to land here at Epinions and find yet more negative ratings of Emachines PC's? NOPE! I am afraid that, alas, all you will discover about Emachines will be negative.
In February of 1999, my dear and...

Pros: Inexpensive, at least at first
Cons: Widespread failures and poor resolution

I just got off the phone with the e-Machine "rebate" center in Coppell, TX. It seems the $75 rebate, which I applied for on 12/31/99, has been "lost". It's now 6/12/00, and I'm told it will be another 21 days or so. . .
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Pros: Was inexpensive compared to a Hewlett Packard
Cons: Have had problems from day one.

Boy did we think we were getting a deal with this machine. If my understanding of the emachines is correct, I believe that is is a lower end of Hewlett Packard. I really don't have much good to say about it. We have owned it for 4 years. After 2 months ...

Pros: Cheap
Cons: Everything, cheap components

My experience with eMachines has been nothing but problems. I did not own one personally but was providing tech support to my relatives. I advised them very strongly against this brand but what are you gonna do when they go buy it on a whim. 64mb ram,...

Pros: Cheap
Cons: Everything else

I bought this because I was tired of spending big bucks for a top of the line machine only to have it be worthless in 2 years.

The 400i had the basics: 400 mh Celeron processor, 64 MB Ram, 4 GB hard drive. Nothing fancy but it served my...

Pros: seems to work
Cons: won't shut off

I bought a 400 ix because of the price , should have saved more
money . my tower has a "ghost power" according to the company . It
turns itself on when it wants to. After trying to e-mail the company for help ,...

Pros: Cheap
Cons: Breaks After A Month or so

I had an old Pentium 1 and was ready for an upgrade but I didn't want to spend $1000.00. I needed a bargain. I live right around the corner from the worlds greatest Office Depot. I love them :) I started with the E300

The modem on it broke so...

Pros: operates reasonably well
Cons: tech-support is akin to a cannon against a fly

We purchased this computer as a first time thing....We received a fairly reasonable deal at the time ... After 10 months of operating well the power-supply fan began making a hideous racket....Calling e-machines support we were told the PS was...

Pros: Low Cost, Easy to Use
Cons: Tendency to "break"

Keep in mind that I'm speaking totally as a sales person and from the views of what I noticed while working at Best Buy ... This computer can go both ways as for being good or bad ... I'm not really sure if it's more good than bad, but I'll be objective...

Pros: price, looks
Cons: speed,performance,support

My computer is a piece of crud. it brakes when it wants and doesn't wanna come back on. one time i was playing online with my buddies and all of a sudden it shuts off. i lost a lot of my information. the price may look appealing but surely it isnt what...

Pros: Inexpensive, easy to use
Cons: Breaks down, cheap modem, terrible speakers

I bought this computer a while ago simply because my old one was out of date (90 MHz…can you imagine that?). I wasn’t looking for anything very fancy, just something that I could write my reports with and do a little Internet browsing. I decided on the...

Pros: Price, Processor speed
Cons: RAM, no moniter included in price

The Emachines Etower 400i is a decent computer. Starting with the processor. A Celeron 400 is a nice processor for your everyday needs. It will do just about anything the normal user does, pretty well. 32 MB of Ram is a little low but what do you...