By God I Love This Thread...........
Because, Like my Emachines T-5026, it's immortal! (Well almost immortal).
If you install a Bestec PSU into a different computer and it takes out the motherboard, why wouldn't Emachines computers be junk? Beats the heck out of me, I'm just an end user.
If you get a dose of spyware in your Emachine, why wouldn't that be a bad motherboard? Beats the heck out of me, I reinstalled Windows, I guess that replaced the motherboard capacitors while it was reformatting :/C.....! Who says M$ hasn't thought of everything.
I'm not really using the T-5026 to write this post, it burned up long ago and this is just it's ghost I have connected to the internet! How's that for an extended warranty?
Let's suppose that this computer really does blow up tomorrow, (it'll be 4 years old this February 14th), how loudly and bitterly should I complain about that? How much does it owe me? It's obsolete now, so if it stays in working condition, the other "children" will only make fun of it anyway. "That P.O.S. can't play COD19, you need a 13 core processor and a one million GT graphics card". Can't you just hear the angels singing?
Emachines are built from the same parts that comprise HPs, Compacs, and Gateways. It's not really logical to accuse Emachines if a WD hard drive fails, now is it? Gee, I don't know, maybe it is, as I said before, I'm only an end user, what do I know.
Let's see now, my computer is 4 years old and it cost $570.00 (with a monitor and printer), if we subtract $130.00 bucks for the monitor and printer, that would be $480.00 for the desktop, or ten bucks a month. It doesn't seem like you could lease a machine for that price, now does it? Maybe Emachines are something akin to beer, which as everyone knows, you can't buy, you can only rent.
Every year PC worlds does a customer survey, and Emachines (for no apparent reason) gets good marks. See, all those other end users don't know jack either.
Maybe Gateway owns PCWorld mag. Being an end user, I can't possibly be expected to keep track of corporate entanglements, now can I?
Interestingly, in my machine the Bestec PSU (300 Watt) failed after only about 5 months. Well, it was about 99 degrees that day, in a non-airconditioned room. No matter, the box should work in July in Death Valley. See, Emachines are junk! Told ya! I replaced it with an Antec, (same 300 watts), it failed a year later, Emachine gets the blame for that also, but I can't figure out why. Again, I'm only an end user, don't expect epiphanies of thought from me. The wonderful thing here is that when I installed the Antec PSU, it repaired the motherboard, which everybody knows went bad and ruined the Bestec. Antec thinks of everything too! Hooray for Antec! Shame on you Emachines!
So, when the old unreliable T-5026 finally kicks the bucket, I'm going to retreat into a bitter rage- slash- deep depressional, abject, despondent funk, and ruminate about how many ways from Sunday I'm going to sue Gateway! When I'm done with them, their boardroom furniture will be in my livingroom, and that's that!
I've gotta close for now, I don't want my bad thoughts to ruin the motherboard in this clunker, at least not yet.
Y'all have a nice day, and buy a Dell, they're the best, or maybe a Compac, I'm still confused. HP is it then? Sometimes I feel so helpless, beings that I'm and end user an all that.
