I work on them quite often, all the other "name brand" PCs are built with the same crap. They all have about a 4% fail rate, and they all have pros and cons.
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Emachines is really easy to recover and they're tech supp isn't too bad.
They are roomy to work on and allow for quite a bit of upgradability.
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The recovery disk is a ghost image, so there is no selective recovery.
They were a horrible company a few years ago, and people still have a sour taste.
Buy from someplace that will take good care of you, or have good friends that can help you out.
Unless you're a computer nerd like me, you can't beat a working complete computer system for 400-1000 USD.
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