AMUG Talk:Cheap computer at Frys

On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 08:37, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2004, at 8:14 AM, Craig White wrote:
>
> > - better than eMachines? Is this a trick question?
>
> I can't tell if you are being ironic. eMachines do have a reputation
> for being unreliable and unexpandable and not supporting many
> distributions do to things like winmodem issues.
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eMachines standardizes on basically nothing.

They purchases enough parts for a limited run - say 40,000 cases,
motherboards, processors, hard drives, floppy drives, cd rom, etc. and
produce, package sell and ship and that is the end of the product run.
The quality of each different 'model' is really dependent upon the parts
that they purchased for that 'run'

I have thought that by and large, for the amount that you pay for an
eMachines system, the quality is actually pretty good. The issue being
of course, the amount that you pay.

Generally, all modems that come with these hardware bundles are going to
be win-modems - it's about the money.

and lastly, immediately after I sent the trick question comment -
another metaphor came into my mind...at closing time, all the women look
pretty good.

Craig