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eMachine laptops? Good buy? me 12-20-2004
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Posted by me on December 20, 2004, 7:50 am
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 Ive never owned a laptop before.

Curious what everyone thinks abt eMachines laptops and
if they are excellent "values?


Posted by J. Clarke on December 20, 2004, 10:53 am
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 me@privacy.net wrote:

> Ive never owned a laptop before.
>
> Curious what everyone thinks abt eMachines laptops and
> if they are excellent "values?

Work fine. Don't know how durable they are. Note that emachines and
Gateway have merged--the same products are sometimes available under both
brands, and there are some items available in stores under the Gateway
brand that are not available on the Gateway web site.

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Posted by Dan on December 20, 2004, 11:12 am
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I've heard excellent things from the ppl over on hardforum.com .
> Ive never owned a laptop before.
>
> Curious what everyone thinks abt eMachines laptops and
> if they are excellent "values?




Posted by J. Clarke on December 20, 2004, 7:15 pm
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Dan wrote:

> I've heard excellent things from the ppl over on hardforum.com .

I should have mentioned, I have one of their AMD64 models and it works a
treat. Only thing I'd change I think would be to go to a faster disk--I'm
undecided on how badly I want that.

>> Ive never owned a laptop before.
>>
>> Curious what everyone thinks abt eMachines laptops and
>> if they are excellent "values?

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Posted by Paul Rubin on December 20, 2004, 7:08 pm
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> I should have mentioned, I have one of their AMD64 models and it
> works a treat. Only thing I'd change I think would be to go to a
> faster disk--I'm undecided on how badly I want that.

I keep thinking people overestimate the effect of higher disk speed in
laptops. Track to track seek time tends to be about the same in
laptop drives regardless of the rotational speed. Faster rotation
means higher transfer speed at the same bit density, but going to a
higher capacity drive may get the higher transfer rate at the same
rotation speed by simply having increased the bit density.

Most of all, if the disk is a bottleneck, the application is probably
using the disk too much, and could benefit from re-engineering or
running from a ramdisk or something. 1 or 2 GB was a lot of disk
space not all that long ago. Software functionality hasn't really
changed all that much since those days. But today, high-end laptops
often have 1 or 2 GB of actual ram with close to zero latency compared
with disks. So, the software has to be doing something clumsy.


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