Through my freinds experience with them, emachines are pretty reliable. He had it hooked up to the network at college which is alsways a hotbed for viruses but never had any trouble. I'll look more closely into the dell and ibm models. The dells have seen that have compatable graphics cards to the emachines cost a good 200-300$ more and this is being funded by my summer job money so that is a big factor in this purchase.

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W126 1983 300SD 286,000 miles and ticking
Baby blue exterior Grey MB tex
Recent work:
Replaced air cleaner mounting brackets and heat shields
Replaced alternator, fan and power steering belts
Replaced positive battery terminal
Replaced negative battery terminal and cord
New Duralast Battery

My car needs work.