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Summary: Emachines T2542
Review: After inspecting the insides of HP, Compaq and E-machines and observing very little if any difference in build quality, I decided on this entry level unit. Main reason: price. I would have preferred a Pentium 4 CPU but that was $150 more. To compensate for the Celeron chips pokey ways, I added an extra 512mb stick of ram.
I also replaced ( out of whim not necessity) the original 40 gb 5400 drive with an 80gb 7200 Seagate hard drive. Because Emachines come with restore disks, installing the new drive was a snap. This was one year ago. No trouble to report. If I were buying today, I would still pick Emachines, but would select one with an AMD - Athlon cpu.
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Summary: Very bad service
Review: I bought an e-machines computer 3 months back and have had all sorts of problems with this computer in 3 months. I have been very unhappy the way I have been dealt with. I just talked to a guy call Dustin (or Justin) who would not tell me his real name and said Dustin in the corporate office is all I need to know. He also said there is no one else I could speak to and he had no supervisor (It all ended at him is what he said). He was extremely arrogant and had no tact to talk to a customer who has been frustrated by a bad product. Stay away from e-machines
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Summary: bad service and low quality
Review: I purchased a T2542 emachine® on 1 November 2003. The first computer had an Ethernet card that was defective out of the box. I called the technical service group at emachines. They recommended that I return this computer and get a new one - I did. Approximately 3 weeks later, the power supply of the new computer stopped working. I called technical service again; they had a short (under 30 seconds) wait time. I was told that a new power supply could be sent and I could handle the repair (they said it was easy - they are probably right). Anyway, I was going out of town and said that I would request the part when I returned (I did). Four days later - no part. So I called technical service again and they said that they didn't know why it didn't ship. They would put me on the top of the list but couldn't guarantee when or if a new part would be shipped in the next week. I asked to speak with a manager. Their management also told me that they have no control over distribution or shipping and I would have to just wait. When I asked to speak to the head manager, I was not allowed too. They gave me the corporate office number and said that was all they could do. I have owned my emachine for 6 weeks and it has only worked for ½ of this time. This computer was inexpensive, but not worth the savings. The service and customer care is below standard and I question the ethics of the management organization. I would recommend that you do not purchase this computer.
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Summary: bad service and low quality
Review: I purchased a T2542 emachine® on 1 November 2003. The first computer had an Ethernet card that was defective out of the box. I called the technical service group at emachines. They recommended that I return this computer and get a new one - I did. Approximately 3 weeks later, the power supply of the new computer stopped working. I called technical service again; they had a short (under 30 seconds) wait time. I was told that a new power supply could be sent and I could handle the repair (they said it was easy - they are probably right). Anyway, I was going out of town and said that I would request the part when I returned (I did). Four days later - no part. So I called technical service again and they said that they didn't know why it didn't ship. They would put me on the top of the list but couldn't guarantee when or if a new part would be shipped in the next week. I asked to speak with a manager. Their management also told me that they have no control over distribution or shipping and I would have to just wait. When I asked to speak to the head manager, I was not allowed too. They gave me the corporate office number and said that was all they could do. I have owned my emachine for 6 weeks and it has only worked for ½ of this time. This computer was inexpensive, but not worth the savings. The service and customer care is below standard and I question the ethics of the management organization. I would recommend that you do not purchase this computer.
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Summary: My new Kickin' Computer
Review: I've been waiting years to buy a new computer and finally bought this one over the weekend. It's a really good buy. However, if you buy it in an actual Circuit City, you will get $350 in rebates with the monitor and printer included. This ends up with a actual purchase price around $390. The computer itself is fast, and easy to use. Note that because it does not have the absolute latest versions of Windows XP and Norton Antivirus, you MUST register your virus software FIRST and then download the blaster worm patches from Microsoft. My computer had been infected in the first hour of use. After all was downloaded though it was fine. Check out the Big Fix feature eMachines offers. It's very helpful.
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Summary: horrible
Review: this IS the worse computer ever. I've had problems with this thing since day 1. Click on a file...yeah..be patient..only take about 5 minutes for it to pop up. and the damn thing freezes all the time..my shut down won't even work sometimes so i have to turn it off by hand,which can corrupt files (happened once..had to restart my whole computer) they say the Blaster worm is actually a worm but i think its just a glitch in the system cause i had it AGAIN after i restarted it, i've had troubles just to get on here and write this review because of all the annoying glitches and slowness of it. i dont even have 1/2 of my hard drive filled..ive checked for viruses, and i defraged and cleaned it up..so dont say its going slow becuz $hit on my computer..please steer away from this thing, go get a good brand..such as a sony..thats what im getting next a Vaio thank you for reading this...just..please dont make the same mistake i did bye-bye
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