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Windows 7 Memory Question
A relative of mine needs a new tower PC and some other relatives are chipping in to buy her a low priced one. We found an E Machine. It comes with Windows 7. I'm on XP and know nothing of anything beyond Windows 7. I know my Dell is rock solid. It comes with an AMD Sempron 145 2.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. Will my relative get decent performance from this kind of machine? All she does is surf the net, pay bills, and do email, and maybe watch video on netflix. Her son does gaming on his x-box along with netflix. This PC tower is going for around $295 at Wal Mart. Thanks |
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On 12/20/2010 7:59 PM, Von Fourche wrote:
A relative of mine needs a new tower PC and some other relatives are chipping in to buy her a low priced one. We found an E Machine. It comes with Windows 7. I'm on XP and know nothing of anything beyond Windows 7. I know my Dell is rock solid. It comes with an AMD Sempron 145 2.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. Will my relative get decent performance from this kind of machine? All she does is surf the net, pay bills, and do email, and maybe watch video on netflix. Her son does gaming on his x-box along with netflix. This PC tower is going for around $295 at Wal Mart. Thanks From the usage I have had so far, 2GB should be fine for normal run-of-the-mill use as you described. Only the Netflix video may tax the memory. Not sure. I do not use Netflix. I am less than thrilled with eMachines, which often use a crappy power supply (same as HP Pavilions and Compaq Presarios). When the power supply goes, it takes the motherboard with it, because it does not have protective circuitry built in. The world is littered with dead eMachines systems. I have tossed out a number of perfectly good eMachines cases, after stripping the boards for the local electronic recycler. A shame, too. The cases are generally well made out of sturdy sheet metal without sharp edges to slice you up... Ben Myers |
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On Dec 20, 5:59*pm, "Von Fourche"
wrote: * A relative of mine needs a new tower PC and some other relatives are chipping in to buy her a low priced one. *We found an E Machine. *It comes with Windows 7. *I'm on XP and know nothing of anything beyond Windows 7. *I know my Dell is rock solid. *It comes with an AMD Sempron 145 2.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. *Will my relative get decent performance from this kind of machine? *All she does is surf the net, pay bills, and do email, and maybe watch video on netflix. *Her son does gaming on his x-box along with netflix. This PC tower is going for around $295 at Wal Mart. Thanks Also google "emachines reviews". Larry |
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On 12/20/2010 7:59 PM, Von Fourche wrote:
A relative of mine needs a new tower PC and some other relatives are chipping in to buy her a low priced one. We found an E Machine. It comes with Windows 7. I'm on XP and know nothing of anything beyond Windows 7. I know my Dell is rock solid. It comes with an AMD Sempron 145 2.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. Will my relative get decent performance from this kind of machine? All she does is surf the net, pay bills, and do email, and maybe watch video on netflix. Her son does gaming on his x-box along with netflix. This PC tower is going for around $295 at Wal Mart. Thanks $298 walmart emachines EL1352G-01w with amd sempron 145 (passmark 916), 2gb (1gb in each of two available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, geforce 6150se graphics (g3dmark 53), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year warranty (unclear if it is on site). http://www.walmart.com/ip/eMachines-...G-01w/15062989 $349 dell inspiron 570 (shipped free) with amd anthlon x2 240 (passmark 1591), 3gb (1gb in three of four available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, ati hd4200 graphics (g3dmark 147)), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year on site warranty http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-57...d=inspiron-570 the $350 dell is their lowest cost machine and it is a good entry level configuration. but there is no mistaking that $350 is both $50 and 16% more than $300. what it buys you is a 50% faster processor, a 300% faster video card, and little more memory which helps the overall experience with windows 7. all said it gets you a machine that will potentially have a longer life cycle since it is faster to begin with and because it is more upgradable. it can support some amd quad core processors and has 4 memory sockets instead of the emachines 2 and one is available/empty (with the emachines you would have to remove a memory module before you had an available socket to add a larger capacity module). it is also pretty easy to dismiss the quality of the emachines based on their history but that would not be my biggest concern. but - you can probably walk into the walmart and walk out with the emachines the same day where-as if will take a week to ten days to for the dell to arrive. ordered on just like this on 12/11, was told it would be delivered by friday 12/17, and it arrive on monday 12/20. fwiw, often staples has excellent deals on low cost hp machines, but not always. and individual staples have unadvertised close out deals and floor model deals that are some of the best values arround for low cost system. good luck. |
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"Ben Myers" wrote in message ... On 12/20/2010 7:59 PM, Von Fourche wrote: A relative of mine needs a new tower PC and some other relatives are chipping in to buy her a low priced one. We found I am less than thrilled with eMachines, which often use a crappy power supply (same as HP Pavilions and Compaq Presarios). When the power supply goes, it takes the motherboard with it, because it does not have protective circuitry built in. The world is littered with dead eMachines systems. I have tossed out a number of perfectly good eMachines cases, after stripping the boards for the local electronic recycler. A shame, too. The cases are generally well made out of sturdy sheet metal without sharp edges to slice you up... Ben Myers She currently has an old Dell with XP on it. Whenever it screws up I do a complete factory restore and it seems to run ok for a few days but then screws up again. I wonder if it has too little ram. I will do a factory restore and a week later they can't use Explorer to search the net. They have to use Chrome. Then the router which is hooked up to the computer and xbox screws up - only one is able to be used at a time. Either the computer can be plugged in and online or the xbox can be plugged in and online. There are ports for both the computer and xbox, it's a Linksys. But for some reason only one can be used. |
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On 12/21/2010 1:17 AM, Christopher Muto wrote:
On 12/20/2010 7:59 PM, Von Fourche wrote: A relative of mine needs a new tower PC and some other relatives are chipping in to buy her a low priced one. We found an E Machine. It comes with Windows 7. I'm on XP and know nothing of anything beyond Windows 7. I know my Dell is rock solid. It comes with an AMD Sempron 145 2.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. Will my relative get decent performance from this kind of machine? All she does is surf the net, pay bills, and do email, and maybe watch video on netflix. Her son does gaming on his x-box along with netflix. This PC tower is going for around $295 at Wal Mart. Thanks $298 walmart emachines EL1352G-01w with amd sempron 145 (passmark 916), 2gb (1gb in each of two available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, geforce 6150se graphics (g3dmark 53), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year warranty (unclear if it is on site). http://www.walmart.com/ip/eMachines-...G-01w/15062989 $349 dell inspiron 570 (shipped free) with amd anthlon x2 240 (passmark 1591), 3gb (1gb in three of four available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, ati hd4200 graphics (g3dmark 147)), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year on site warranty http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-57...d=inspiron-570 the $350 dell is their lowest cost machine and it is a good entry level configuration. but there is no mistaking that $350 is both $50 and 16% more than $300. what it buys you is a 50% faster processor, a 300% faster video card, and little more memory which helps the overall experience with windows 7. all said it gets you a machine that will potentially have a longer life cycle since it is faster to begin with and because it is more upgradable. it can support some amd quad core processors and has 4 memory sockets instead of the emachines 2 and one is available/empty (with the emachines you would have to remove a memory module before you had an available socket to add a larger capacity module). it is also pretty easy to dismiss the quality of the emachines based on their history but that would not be my biggest concern. but - you can probably walk into the walmart and walk out with the emachines the same day where-as if will take a week to ten days to for the dell to arrive. ordered on just like this on 12/11, was told it would be delivered by friday 12/17, and it arrive on monday 12/20. fwiw, often staples has excellent deals on low cost hp machines, but not always. and individual staples have unadvertised close out deals and floor model deals that are some of the best values arround for low cost system. good luck. to answer your question directly... will you get decent performance? you will get about the performance of a 3-4 year old mid range computer. netflix may be a problem for it was netflix can be processor and graphics card intensive. the emachines does have an expansion slot to install a dedicated video card if desired (and that could be one with an hdmi port to plug direct into a modern lcd or plasma tv). but i think the additional $50 for the dell buys a much better machine. the 6150se video in the emachines only supports directx9 whereas the hd2400 in the dell support directx 10.1. here's a nice comparison of what directx 10 can do vs 9... http://gizmodo.com/243099/directx-9-...g-to-vista-for |
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On 12/21/2010 1:28 AM, Christopher Muto wrote:
On 12/21/2010 1:17 AM, Christopher Muto wrote: On 12/20/2010 7:59 PM, Von Fourche wrote: A relative of mine needs a new tower PC and some other relatives are chipping in to buy her a low priced one. We found an E Machine. It comes with Windows 7. I'm on XP and know nothing of anything beyond Windows 7. I know my Dell is rock solid. It comes with an AMD Sempron 145 2.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. Will my relative get decent performance from this kind of machine? All she does is surf the net, pay bills, and do email, and maybe watch video on netflix. Her son does gaming on his x-box along with netflix. This PC tower is going for around $295 at Wal Mart. Thanks $298 walmart emachines EL1352G-01w with amd sempron 145 (passmark 916), 2gb (1gb in each of two available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, geforce 6150se graphics (g3dmark 53), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year warranty (unclear if it is on site). http://www.walmart.com/ip/eMachines-...G-01w/15062989 $349 dell inspiron 570 (shipped free) with amd anthlon x2 240 (passmark 1591), 3gb (1gb in three of four available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, ati hd4200 graphics (g3dmark 147)), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year on site warranty http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-57...d=inspiron-570 the $350 dell is their lowest cost machine and it is a good entry level configuration. but there is no mistaking that $350 is both $50 and 16% more than $300. what it buys you is a 50% faster processor, a 300% faster video card, and little more memory which helps the overall experience with windows 7. all said it gets you a machine that will potentially have a longer life cycle since it is faster to begin with and because it is more upgradable. it can support some amd quad core processors and has 4 memory sockets instead of the emachines 2 and one is available/empty (with the emachines you would have to remove a memory module before you had an available socket to add a larger capacity module). it is also pretty easy to dismiss the quality of the emachines based on their history but that would not be my biggest concern. but - you can probably walk into the walmart and walk out with the emachines the same day where-as if will take a week to ten days to for the dell to arrive. ordered on just like this on 12/11, was told it would be delivered by friday 12/17, and it arrive on monday 12/20. fwiw, often staples has excellent deals on low cost hp machines, but not always. and individual staples have unadvertised close out deals and floor model deals that are some of the best values arround for low cost system. good luck. to answer your question directly... will you get decent performance? you will get about the performance of a 3-4 year old mid range computer. netflix may be a problem for it was netflix can be processor and graphics card intensive. the emachines does have an expansion slot to install a dedicated video card if desired (and that could be one with an hdmi port to plug direct into a modern lcd or plasma tv). but i think the additional $50 for the dell buys a much better machine. the 6150se video in the emachines only supports directx9 whereas the hd2400 in the dell support directx 10.1. here's a nice comparison of what directx 10 can do vs 9... http://gizmodo.com/243099/directx-9-...g-to-vista-for fianlly, you could get the dell inspiron 570 in a $299 configuration (and free 5-7 day shipping, not 2 day like the $349 configuration). the $299 configuration has the same sampron processor as the emachines, the same 2gb, but just a 320gb drive instead of 500gb. it does have the same much better video card as the $349 dell and it has the 4 memory sockets (only two filled), and processor socket capable of support up to pehnom x4 processors. despite the wait for delivery i think this is definitely a better value than the emachines. http://configure.us.dell.com/dellsto...d=inspiron-570 |
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"Christopher Muto" wrote in message t... On 12/20/2010 7:59 PM, Von Fourche wrote: A relative of mine needs a new tower PC and some other relatives are chipping in to buy her a low priced one. We found an E Machine. It comes with Windows 7. I'm on XP and know nothing of anything beyond Windows 7. I know my Dell is rock solid. It comes with an AMD Sempron 145 2.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. Will my relative get decent performance from this kind of machine? All she does is surf the net, pay bills, and do email, and maybe watch video on netflix. Her son does gaming on his x-box along with netflix. This PC tower is going for around $295 at Wal Mart. Thanks $298 walmart emachines EL1352G-01w with amd sempron 145 (passmark 916), 2gb (1gb in each of two available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, geforce 6150se graphics (g3dmark 53), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year warranty (unclear if it is on site). http://www.walmart.com/ip/eMachines-...G-01w/15062989 $349 dell inspiron 570 (shipped free) with amd anthlon x2 240 (passmark 1591), 3gb (1gb in three of four available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, ati hd4200 graphics (g3dmark 147)), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year on site warranty http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-57...d=inspiron-570 the $350 dell is their lowest cost machine and it is a good entry level configuration. but there is no mistaking that $350 is both $50 and 16% more than $300. what it buys you is a 50% faster processor, a 300% faster video card, and little more memory which helps the overall How bad is the Sempron compared to the athlon? I've not dealt with those cheaper processors before. Whenever I get a computer I make sure it has a good processor. |
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On 12/21/2010 4:14 PM, Von Fourche wrote:
"Christopher wrote in message t... On 12/20/2010 7:59 PM, Von Fourche wrote: A relative of mine needs a new tower PC and some other relatives are chipping in to buy her a low priced one. We found an E Machine. It comes with Windows 7. I'm on XP and know nothing of anything beyond Windows 7. I know my Dell is rock solid. It comes with an AMD Sempron 145 2.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. Will my relative get decent performance from this kind of machine? All she does is surf the net, pay bills, and do email, and maybe watch video on netflix. Her son does gaming on his x-box along with netflix. This PC tower is going for around $295 at Wal Mart. Thanks $298 walmart emachines EL1352G-01w with amd sempron 145 (passmark 916), 2gb (1gb in each of two available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, geforce 6150se graphics (g3dmark 53), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year warranty (unclear if it is on site). http://www.walmart.com/ip/eMachines-...G-01w/15062989 $349 dell inspiron 570 (shipped free) with amd anthlon x2 240 (passmark 1591), 3gb (1gb in three of four available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, ati hd4200 graphics (g3dmark 147)), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year on site warranty http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-57...d=inspiron-570 the $350 dell is their lowest cost machine and it is a good entry level configuration. but there is no mistaking that $350 is both $50 and 16% more than $300. what it buys you is a 50% faster processor, a 300% faster video card, and little more memory which helps the overall How bad is the Sempron compared to the athlon? I've not dealt with those cheaper processors before. Whenever I get a computer I make sure it has a good processor. as previously stated, the anthlon is 50% fater than the sempron in these particluar machines. plus the video card is 300% faster in the $350 machine. the slow machine will work, but it doesn't offer the as much potential in a long usable life. what machine are you used to using? what model and processor? in order for any comparison to be meaningful you must have a reference. |
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"Christopher Muto" wrote in message t... On 12/21/2010 4:14 PM, Von Fourche wrote: "Christopher wrote in message t... On 12/20/2010 7:59 PM, Von Fourche wrote: A relative of mine needs a new tower PC and some other relatives are chipping in to buy her a low priced one. We found an E Machine. It comes with Windows 7. I'm on XP and know nothing of anything beyond Windows 7. I know my Dell is rock solid. It comes with an AMD Sempron 145 2.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. Will my relative get decent performance from this kind of machine? All she does is surf the net, pay bills, and do email, and maybe watch video on netflix. Her son does gaming on his x-box along with netflix. This PC tower is going for around $295 at Wal Mart. Thanks $298 walmart emachines EL1352G-01w with amd sempron 145 (passmark 916), 2gb (1gb in each of two available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, geforce 6150se graphics (g3dmark 53), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year warranty (unclear if it is on site). http://www.walmart.com/ip/eMachines-...G-01w/15062989 $349 dell inspiron 570 (shipped free) with amd anthlon x2 240 (passmark 1591), 3gb (1gb in three of four available slots), 500gb 7200rpm sata, 16x dvdrw, ati hd4200 graphics (g3dmark 147)), media card reader, gigabit ethernet, windows 7 home premium 64, 1 year on site warranty http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-57...d=inspiron-570 the $350 dell is their lowest cost machine and it is a good entry level configuration. but there is no mistaking that $350 is both $50 and 16% more than $300. what it buys you is a 50% faster processor, a 300% faster video card, and little more memory which helps the overall How bad is the Sempron compared to the athlon? I've not dealt with those cheaper processors before. Whenever I get a computer I make sure it has a good processor. as previously stated, the anthlon is 50% fater than the sempron in these particluar machines. plus the video card is 300% faster in the $350 machine. the slow machine will work, but it doesn't offer the as much potential in a long usable life. what machine are you used to using? what model and processor? in order for any comparison to be meaningful you must have a reference. Heck, I don't know anymore. It's a Dell. It's rock solid and does for me. I don't play games on it though. I'm looking at the Device Manager and see Intel Pentium 4 3.000Ghz. Manufacture date tag on my computer is 12/2005. Wow. I had no idea my computer is five years old. |
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