No difference, they're the same company now. My last (current) "roll it myself" was ~$750, and had specs better than the $1200 machines.
Walt On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: > I would agree with that except I will say this one has been plugging along > for 4-5 years and never had a bit of trouble till now. As I said before, I > usually roll my own, and am looking into that now but it has been my > experience lately thats its cheaper to just go buy one at the store. If I > do go that route again, what about HP or compaq? > > On 8/15/2011 9:52 AM, Dan Penoff wrote: >> >> I worked on a lot of eMachines in the past, and regretted it every time. >> >> It was obvious that they put whatever was the cheapest that day in the >> box. Case in point: I had two identical machines on the bench, both with the >> same model number and specs, and they had totally different motherboards, >> video cards, etc. >> >> The only thing that allowed you to see the differences was by looking up >> the serial numbers on their web site. >> >> Major POS computers from my experience. An excellent example of "you get >> what you pay for". >> >> Dan >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Aug 15, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Dieselhead<126die...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Bzzt! emachine often use oddball cases. it may not be compatible with >>> standard components. Tigerdirect also has "barebones" systems for pretty >>> good prices. >>> >>> Might be cured with a pci video card, but may be other motherboard >>> problems. >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
