eMachines M6805 Notebook

Worst computer I've ever bought

Strengths: NA

Weaknesses: Hinges cracked about six months after I had bought it! Shuts down randomly.

Summary: I bough this computer about a year and 4 months ago. Soon after I bought it, the hinges cracked and it began to power down randomly. It was sent to eMachines to be repaired and they replaced the monitor and the fan. Soon after I got it back it would shut down randomly again. I took it in to get looked and and was told it was the power settings. Fixed those and took it home. Still continued to shut down randomly. Took it back in and they said it must be the power supply. Fixed that and it still continued to shutdown. Sent it in a fourth time and they indicated they could find no problem and just cleaned the inside and sent it back to me! It still shut down randomly so I did a system restore on it. Still shuts down all the time. DO NOT BUY THIS MACHINE!!!!

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I guess emachines does not have a lot of product t ...

Strengths: Speed. Price. Features

Weaknesses: Construction

Summary: I guess emachines does not have a lot of product testing. I guess that is what you get when you don't have many years in the PC market. My LCD screen hinges are cracking. They are made from cheap plastic. Hinges are a vital component for the laptop since they are used everytime you use the computer.

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When i bought this, I was kind of in a pinch. I wa ...

Strengths: *Widescreen display *nice gfx(ATI M-Radeon 9600) *Athlon 64, of course *fairly rugged, but not too heavy *built in wi-fi(802.11g)!! *you get all this for a pretty nice price

Weaknesses: *GODAWFUL speakers and built in sound--no MIDI support whatsoever--i suppose that's about par for laptops though *There is currently no support for this model on the emachines website (STILL!)

Summary: When i bought this, I was kind of in a pinch. I was going on a trip, but i needed to finish a program for C++ class. Thus i needed a laptop right away. I basically bought it b/c it was the only laptop i could find locally that had an athlon64 (which i think is a way-cool processor). Other than that, i did very little research. (ok, i read the spec-sheet on the side of the box and that was it! ;)

It has turned out to be great though. Only bad part is the sound, but most laptops do have crap sound. It kinda sucks for me cuz I do alot of studio recording via PC, and the standard audio capabilities of this computer don't really allow me to do much work. Especially with audio files or midi. Cakewalk Project 5 and fruity loops (software synth programs) work well enough, but the speakers are horrible and the amplifier must be like 3 watts...

Given the length of time that the Athlon 64 has been out and given the fact that AMD will soon be releasing the new Athlon 64 for Socket 939, I imagine that the price of the Socket 745 Athlon 64s will drop very shortly. Therefore, I'm not certain I would recommend this particular model.

Emachines does not lower the price of a specific model just b/c the processors MSRP goes down. Instead, they try to manufacture just enough to meet demand and no more (smart business model, imo). Therefore they will prolly release new athlon 64 models soon. just a thought...

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One of the best laptops I've ever owned.I was unsu ...

Strengths: SPEED...SPEED...SPEED

Weaknesses: Sound,weight

Summary: One of the best laptops I've ever owned.I was unsure about emachines products until I purchased this Laptop.$1549 with $250 in rebates you would be hard pressed to find a laptop with the features this has at under $2500 elsewhere. I've owned the M6805 for a little over a month,but have put it through the ringer using it 8 hours a day as a desktop replacement at work and doing double duty at home as primary internet access for a family of four.It has passed the test with flying colors.

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Overall the 6805 eMachine has been a great purchas ...

Strengths: Has a 15.4 screen, 80GB, Wireless 108.2G, 64mb ATI Radeon, 3200 64bit AMD processor. Great price.

Weaknesses: So far the only thing I dislike is the disability to upgrade the OS. Comes with a recovery disc. This maybe inaccurate as I've only owned it for 4 days.

Summary: Overall the 6805 eMachine has been a great purchase.

For the amount of power that this baby has you would be easily paying more then 2500 for a laptop.

Battery life seems decent. Battery life is a lot less then the new Centrino Tech Laptops floating around.

The 15.4 wide screen is very clear and with the 64mb video card it plays DVDs great.

I had to wait almost 2 days to find mine. And when I did I still had to go drive to pick it up from a retail store.

Overall I'd say this pc is worth the price and size.

Not really ment for the away from work businessman but more for that mild to hardcore gamer that wants some power on the go.

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eMachines M6805 Notebook

Strengths: Speed; Great LCD picture quality; price; ease of use; variety of components

Weaknesses: runs hot; cheap, plastic screen hinges crack easily; terrible battery life; terrible sound, rubber feet (four of them) on bottom of laptop come off easily

Summary: I've had this laptop for almost two years and I have to say overall, I'm impressed by its durability and speed. I've also been very impressed by it's screen quality. I know this because my coworkers use 4-5 different laptop brands and the M6805's LCD surpasses all of them by far in terms of its brightness and sharp resolution. That is the main reason I purchased this laptop from Best Buy. Additionally, it just seemed to have all the right number of components for just the right price. On the bad side, I had to return the laptop to replace the plastic hinges which have a notorious reputation for cracking. The laptop also runs very hot and has sometimes gotten to the point that I've had to shut it down for a few minutes to cool off. The battery life is also non-existent, mainly because of the the fast running Athlon 64 processor. I only get about one good hour of battery life when multitasking on the laptop. Lastly, the sound from the speakers is putrid at best. Overall though, I couldn't beat the price of this thing and so far, it's served me very well.

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Poor Construction

Strengths: Nice screen, decent performance

Weaknesses: Cheap cheap cheap construction, bad hard drive

Summary: Two big problems with this machine. The hard drive failed after one year, emachines did nothing for me. The hinge cracked and got progressively worse and now I can't even close the screen without the whole machine splitting apart. I now have to prop the screen up on my desk and cannot use it anywhere else because the hinges have totally failed. This is not a heavily used computer, it mostly just sits on my desk.

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