Take a good look at their warranty and tech support policy (at www.e4me.com\).
It looks like you don't have much of a warranty unless you buy the $59.00
extended warranty. If you don't buy the extended warranty at least buy the
emachine from a store that has a 30 day refund policy so at you can have a
decent burn-in period for problems to show up.

 Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wirt writes:
> > And as to peripherals, the $399 e-machine comes with an ATI Rage II card, a
> > Crystal 3D sound card, a 24X CD-ROM, a game port, a USB port, and a 56K
> > modem, all included for that price.
>
> Just a couple more notes:
>
> The modem is a "win modem", i.e. a pithed controller and analog
> line interface which requires all the actual modem protocols to run as
> a driver within Windows.  Doesn't mean that it's not a perfectly useable
> solution, but you might have a wee bit of trouble getting it to work in
> a non-Windows OS, and it probably eats some percentage of the CPU when
> operating.
>
> There are two USB ports.  One on the back in the usual place, but the
> second one is on the front of the machine behind a little flip-up door
> that also contains the Game port.  Very nice design.
>
> For those who might be thinking about ordering these things by the dozen,
> the $399 price is really $449 less a $50 rebate that is only good as a
> "one per purchaser" deal, so in quantity they are more like $450 than $399.
>
> The more expensive models also include a rebate in the pricing, but the
> rebate is less.  The $499 models are $524 with a $25 rebate, making them
> $75 more expensive rather than $100 for a volume purchaser.  I don't know
> if you could negotiate getting the rebate on each unit if you were going
> to buy them by the hundred or not.
>
> G.
>
>

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