emachines laptop for $999

[callicles]

i expect this to get trashed, but i'd like to hear from someone who actually owns one. with rebates you can get the emachines m5312 for $999 from best buy.

would it be worthwhile to buy one at this price, especially considering the similarly equipped toshiba m30-s309 runs at $1839?

[rastorize]

I don't know much about that laptop...it doesn't look bad despite its emachine's heritage...

Here's a few reviews that might help you out though:
http://compactlaptops.com/sys/emach/m5312.htm
http://compreviews.about.com/cs/lapt...eMachm5312.htm

[slinky]

I'm pretty sure you can get a slicker looking Dell with centrino and a p4-m for the same price. That has a lot more battery life than that emachines.

[callicles]

well, the inspiron 8600 that has the Pentium M, 15.4" and 512MB of memory is $1424. thats almost half again as expensive as the emachines.

what i'm most interested in is how satisfied people who buy this laptop are. anyone?

[bboy022]

Have owned the emachines m5312 for about 4 months now and am really really satisfied have had absolutely no problems at all..... I orginally purchased an hp that broke was replaced and the replacement broke all with in a month took it back to best buy they told me to pick something else so i chose the emachines and I love it.....

[humbledboy]

I'm also considering an eMachines laptop. If you're still looking, check out cnet.com's laptop reviews. They have a section called "user's opinions" in most of their reviews. On the eMachines M5310, which is basically the same as the M5312 except for a smaller hard drive, 96% of the 57 people who actually own the M5310 gave it a positive rating. Most of the Dells listed there get positive ratings by real live users below 70%.

[Kuasimodem]

I just layed down the bucks for its big brother, the M6805, which has an Athlon64 3000+ processor and Radeon 9600 mobility video. Best Buy was sold out, but I wanted the rebates to knock the price down to $1299. Supposed to get it Tuesday.

I'll be posting some benchmarks and stuff probably next weekend.

[cyberdork]

Oh man! you've got that right. The e-machines M6805 is a serious machine, even to Desktop standards. I got my hands on one last week, couldn't pass up the $300 bucks in rebates, plus the Best Buy rewards card gives you another $60 in gift coupons in the mail. This laptop is grotesque, in a good way.. The combination of hardware in this thing is sickening, and the Graphics performance is phenomenal --- Even in power save mode running on battery, Full Direct x 9 games can run with full settings perfectly..

In term of performance --- I ran some quick Sisoft sandra tests --- Overall a very good performer, and the 1600mhz bus definitely helps -- awwww poor pentium, LOL.. The Athlon 64 beats out some of The desktop Pentium 4 3 gig processors in performance -- only the newest extreme edition pentium 4 3.2gig can beat this one --- really impressive for a mobile Athlon 64.. All in all, The M6804 stomps my desktop computers into the dust --- enough said. The only laptop made that can even run on par with this machine, is the newest Alienware $4000 laptop running the , that's right, Athlon 64 .. Good to be in the market for a laptop right now, sure glad I waited!!

[Rico Mania]

imma have to check one of these babies out! (The m6805)

[Rico Mania]

better still check this out!!! The m6807