eMachines Sub $200 Laptop

[amazon3d]

[link=http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=12347222]Walmart link to lappy[/link]

Walmart has an eMachines laptop for $198. I am going to get in line early and get it. It has a far superior set of specs than my current lappy (Toshiba Tecra A3-S611). My lappy currently sports a 1.2ghz Pentium M processor with 1gb/256mb Dimms and a 100gb IDE HDD. While this machine has a 1.8ghz AMD processor and 2gb of DDR2 Ram, 160gb SATA drive, DX10 compatible HD 3200 graphics card with up to 1.9gb of shared memory. Also has windows 7 Home premium. It also has a number pad for easy entering of numbers. The keyboard doesn't look over crowded, it is about the same as mine. However the addition of a full num pad is great as I tend to enter a lot of numbers.

The drawbacks:
Not a dual core.
Rather small HDD given today's standards.
Only 2gb Ram with an X64 system.
No webcam. No fingerprint reader.
Lack of HDMI port and only 2 USB ports.
No bluetooth support included.

 

[squirrel17404p]

My first computer was a EMachine. It was a good computer. Could play games in it with no problems.

 

[amazon3d]

Well I got it. I went to wally world at 10pm last night and sat in my van till around 2:20 and there was already 20+ people in line. So I waited for 2 3/4 hrs and got one of the 43 laptops they had, I was number 24. They were very un-prepaired for this event. Even with the large ammout of staff they had. I pulled alot of the the crapware off the comp and it is running pretty good. Scores a 3.2 in W7, the drawbacks being the CPU speed and Windows aero.
CPU: 3.2
RAM: 4.9
Graphics: 3.2
Gamining Graphics: 4.6
HDD: 5.3

 

[squirrel17404p]

Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz 5.9 5.9
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB 5.9
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series 5.9
Gaming graphics 1786 MB Total available graphics memory 5.9
Primary hard disk 371GB Free (466GB Total) 5.9
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium

System
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Manufacturer VelocityMicro
Model VelocityMicro
Total amount of system memory 3.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 4

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 1397 GB
Disk partition (C 371 GB Free (466 GB Total)
Media drive (D CD/DVD
Media drive (E CD/DVDCD/DVD
Disk partition (F 753 GB Free (932 GB Total)

Graphics
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Display adapter type ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
Total available graphics memory 1786 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 512 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1274 MB
Display adapter driver version 8.671.0.0
Primary monitor resolution 1680x1050
DirectX version DirectX 11

Network
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Network Adapter Intel(R) 82567LM-2 Gigabit Network Connection