My wife had an eMachines PC many years ago that was very unstable - USB/sound only working periodically. Unsurprisingly in hindsight a few months later the PSU blew up and took out the motherboard, RAM and CPU with it. HDD survived, thankfully! I wouldn't trust them again after that.
Benjie.
On 12 Jan 2012, at 17:15, Full Circle Podcast wrote:
> For what it's worth, everyone I know who's bought either E-Systems or E-Machines branded kit (laptops and desktops) has had reliability troubles.
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> Bargain bucket pricing means bargain bucket build quality.
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> RC
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> On 12 January 2012 02:18, Michael Daffin <james1479@???> wrote:
> These days I don't think it makes much difference, for general computing, which you go for... unless you have something that needs a more beefy computer (like gaming, image/video editing). But either way it mostly depends on what you want out of it.
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> I will say that one of the most important things when deciding is what manufacture made it ^^ but both Toshiba and ASUS I have found very reliable.
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> Also, think carefully about fully replacing your desktop entirely :) both have a 15" screen, which can be quite small if your use to larger and the keyboard and mice can get annoying for intense use (though this is down to personal preference, its just something to make note of).
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> Personally I like having a very powerful desktop (which are generally have a better cost to performance ratio and easier to upgrade) and a low spec'd laptop for when I cannot use my desktop (which is quite often). One hidden advantage of not relying on a laptop is that its not a huge loss (assuming its all back up properly) when it gets damaged/lost/stolen, which laptops have a tendency to do more often then desktops.
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> And as for benchmarking, it highly depends on what you want to do as different computer will come out top on different benchmarks... I find they are only useful if your looking at a particular aspect (ie you want to know how good it is for doing X and only really X).
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> Just for comparison, I have a ASUS 1018p 10" netbook [1] as my mobile computer, and find it is capable of doing just about everything I need it to when away from my desktop. This includes programming and compiling, even running the occasional virtual machine. The only think I found it lacking in is its graphical capability which is more then made up for by it being small, light-weight and having large battery life. But then this is what I generally want I want from a laptop.
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> But what ever you decide to do, make sure its if from a trusted manufacture, can do what you need it to and you cannot really go wrong :)
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> Michael Daffin.
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> [1] http://uk.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_1018P/
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