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Gateway Acer Emachines - New Emachine Offerings Best Ever in Price / Quality
EL1358G-51W - Compliment
Review by jhoy_45242 on 2012-02-26
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IRVING, CALIFORNIA -- I read more negative than positive about Emachines....they don't know what they are talking about. I am a 25 year hardware/ programming veteran. These new small footprint unit are the bomb. They are as "heavy" (weightwise) as Emachine earlier version mini towers, meaning they are as good. The price $298. is unbeatable. The only downside is that they are PUSHING Norton antivirus (I don't know anyone that uses Norton. There are screens that come up that want you to buy Norton with a small "close" button at the bottom of the window if you don't. They continue coming up even though you have said No over and over again until finally a screen comes up that doesn't have the option to close and you must RESTART the computer to get rid of it.
This would not normally be a problem for the computer should have been configured before you the home owner used it by a technician at a store somewhere. Well....lo and behold.....for all you technicians out there.....these machines are being sent out with WINDOWS INSTALLER disabled
This would not normally be a problem for the computer should have been configured before you the home owner used it by a technician at a store somewhere. Well....lo and behold.....for all you technicians out there.....these machines are being sent out with WINDOWS INSTALLER disabled
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Posted by tnchuck100 on 2012-02-26:
"...they don't know what they are talking about."
That is not a very good comment to promote confidence in your review.
Every reviewer that has a negative experience is NOT wrong. If you have had a good experience that's great. But that does not make others wrong.
That is not a very good comment to promote confidence in your review.
Every reviewer that has a negative experience is NOT wrong. If you have had a good experience that's great. But that does not make others wrong.
Posted by Old Timer on 2012-02-26:
Good info about the Norton stuff on a factory eMachine. We steer people away from Norton as much as we can. It has made paper weights out of too many PC's. It's pretty easy to kill the Norton pop-ups on a new machine. Delete the program or just remove it as a start up. Yes, someone that may not understand that, it can be very frustrating.
I have an old eMachine that still runs great. It has some old software that I use that will not install on newer systems. So I keep the old beast around just for those couple of programs.
I have an old eMachine that still runs great. It has some old software that I use that will not install on newer systems. So I keep the old beast around just for those couple of programs.
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