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I got weak in the knees and went to Bestbuy to grab a new laptop. I picked up the emachines 6810, what a machine. I was worried, we all remember the old emachines, but I have read a lot of good things about them recently so I did a little more research standing there in the store and it turns out its a pretty good buy. I have been using it for three days now and I am hooked. I've only played one game, KOR and that ran well. I've been putting all of my cds on it (WMA) and watching movies, not a single lock up, not a single crash. I have copied files form the memory sticks and burned them to cd and ran this thing through its paces. I like this machine, well worth the money.

glass

specs please kind sir !

I'm no fan of eMachines but I hear they're laptops are good. Probably built by someone else and re-badged.

Reviews:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1625625,00.asp

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/ ... 604,00.asp

http://compreviews.about.com/od/deskrep ... sM6810.htm

I hear you FP.

A few weeks ago a Sailor at work told me that bought an Emachines laptop, I cringed but didn't tell him why. Of course, after seeing what you get for your money I started doing a little more research on them and decided to give it a shot. I paid 1550 after taxes with a 100 rebate and 150 gift card rebate so 1200 overall, not too bad for this kind of performance. I could replace my desktop with this if I wasn't running a dual monitor setup and recording TV with it. As it stands it will be an awesome deploying computer for me. Gaming, dvd watching, the works, its a nice machine so far.

I know gateway owns Emachines now, the gateway laptops were different from the Emachine but i'm sure they use alot of the same parts internally. Most of the laptops in this class looked similar anyway, most of the chasis look exactly the same, just different guts I guess.

Specs Specs Specs:
Processor
Model : Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Speed : 1.60GHz
Model Number : 3200 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR2406 (estimated)
Type : Mobile
L2 On-board Cache : 1024kB ECC Synchronous Write-Back (16-way, 64 byte line size)

Mainboard
Bus(es) : ISA AGP PCI IMB CardBus USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
MP Support : 1 CPU(s)
MP APIC : Yes
System BIOS : AT/AT COMPATIBLE
Total Memory : 510MB DDR-SDRAM

Chipset 1
Model : VIA Technologies Inc Apollo K8HTB CPU to PCI Bridge
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 804MHz (1608MHz data rate)

Chipset 2
Model : Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 804MHz (1608MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 512MB DDR-SDRAM
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 160MHz (320MHz data rate)

Video System
Monitor/Panel : Default Monitor
Monitor/Panel : Default Monitor
Monitor/Panel : Plug and Play Monitor
Adapter : ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series
Imaging Device : ICatch (VI) PC Camera

Physical Storage Devices
Hard Disk : HITACHI_DK23FA-60 (55.9GB)
Hard Disk : GENERIC USB Storage-CFC USB Device
Hard Disk : GENERIC USB Storage-MMC USB Device
Hard Disk : GENERIC USB Storage-MSC USB Device
CD-ROM/DVD : Slimtype COMBO LSC-24082K (CD 24X Rd, 24X Wr) (DVD 3X Rd)

Logical Storage Devices
Hard Disk (C : 55.9GB (34.4GB, 62% Free) (NTFS)
Audio cd (D : 0MB (0MB, 0% Free) (CDFS)

Peripherals
Serial/Parallel Port(s) : 1 COM / 0 LPT
USB Controller/Hub : VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub : USB Root Hub
USB Controller/Hub : USB Mass Storage Device
FireWire/1394 Controller/Hub : VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
PCMCIA/CardBus Controller : Generic CardBus Controller
Keyboard : Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse : Synaptics PS/2 Port Pointing Device
Mouse : Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Explorer
Mouse : Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Explorer
Human Interface : Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Explorer
Human Interface : Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Explorer

MultiMedia Device(s)
Device : Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA (R) Audio Controller

Communication Device(s)
Device : Conexant SoftK56 Data Fax Modem

Power Management
AC Line Status : On-Line
Battery No 1 : 100%

Operating System(s)
Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Home (Win32 x86) 5.01.2600 (Service Pack 1)

Network Services
Adapter : VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter
Adapter : Broadcom 54g MaxPerformance 802.11g

Great little lappy. I almost bought one my self. Their are several threads around the other forums about these. Seems like most folks like them.

If I were to buy a notebook today I would get one of those. I actually almost did...but ofcourse the $ went to my mom to pay more of her stupid bills.

Greg

I'm tempted to get one and sell my Dell Inspiron 1150, I could easily get $550 for it since I have a lot of extras with it.

I'd be nice to have something portable that I can play a REAL game on. Not a must have since the lappy is mostly for work, but when I travel it would be nice.

yeah, now you tell me, after i just bought a Dell 1150. I did look at the e-machines, however since I had to many problems in the past with the desk top models did I not go any further then look at them.
May be I should have waited a bit.
I'm not to happy with my Dell.

The Dell 1150's a fine laptop - I have one. BUT it's not for gaming. Nice bang for the buck otherwise, and I do love the 4 hour battery.

I installed Farcry on this thing last night, it runs at 1200xwhatever and runs well with the settings on low. I'll play around with it and see how it runs at a lower res with the settings turned up a little. With low settings it was not as nice as a desktop of course but it still looked pretty damn cool and ran fine, no stuttering with lots of badguys and what have you. Now I've got six months to beat that game!

Anchors away my boys, Anchors away!

I would knock the resolution down to 800x600 or maybe 1024x768 and I would bet that it'll run Farcry just fine with medium eyecandy.

The only thing holding you back is the small amount of memory on the video card (64mb).

please quit talking about this nice laptop which is better than the one i rarely use and makes me keep thinking ....<<buy me>>......