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. > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own