Its a friggin Emachines! What are you thinking!?
1. The laptop seems to be manufactured by Arima, a supplier of laptops to many “retail-brand” manufacturers. 2. Emachines of 2004 isn’t the same Emachines of 1999. The old company went out of business, and it was purchased by an American who brought the company from poopular to a company that was one of the first out to retail with the Athlon 64s. 3. Emachines is currently being purchased by Gateway. the Emachines CEO will stay on as the Gateway CEO. Emachines will continue to cater to the retail market, whereas Gateway will cater to education and government markets.4. Purchasing: 1. There are currently $250 worth of rebates (100 emachines, 150 Best Buy/Circuit City) 2. If you take in a printout of Emachines’ ESP, there is a chance that the place you purchase it from will price match down $100. (the Emachines ESP is 189, the Best Buy is 299). They did it for me, they may do it for you.
