Impressive in the pc industry. I've heard emach. quality is much better than a few years ago.
I have a "Gateway GP6-450", rebuilt to a 300 Watt Power Supply, and a Powerleap replacement CPU, an Intel 1.2 GHz Tualatin.
Works well.
The next machine is an E-Monster 800 P III 800 MHZ, bought in 2001...a real piece of junk...until I learned that the Mobo was a Micro ATX form factor...and suddenly, I decided to "upgrade".
Purchased a Tower for $59 at Fry's. Came with a 350 Watt Power Supply, which replaced the miserable 120 Watt job on the original e- machine case.
Now, it was a two hour upgrade, and is as rock stable as any machine running Windoz ME [Actually, VERY stable, but not in Mac OS X class]. It is my favourite!
My last Machine is a SONY Vaio Digital Studio model running a P 4 1.2 GHz Celeron. It was purchased solely to run PC based Educational Software which incorporated Quicktime for Windows, after Microsoft dropped Pluggin support during its fight with Sun over JAVA.
I rarely use it, it is literally slower than the Gateway with the original Pentium II 450 MHz...as measured with digital stopwatches!
The Vaio runs Windows XP, loaded with Bloatware, which seems to reconfigure itself every few weeks.
My Significant Other uses it principly as a Word Processor, and as a machine for playing Hearts and Solitaire.
Next Machine WILL be a MAC!!