[Prime Choice]

That's too bad for the Gateway employees and all, but I've never heard anything but bad things about Gateway products. That's why I was seriously bummed to learn that Gateway had recently bought out eMachines (of which I have six perfectly-functioning systems).

Guess I'm back to building my own again. Thank God for the Shuttle and Antec bare-bones boxes.

[chilepepper]

I bought a refurbished eMachines Celeron 366, expecting the worse from some comments i heard on the net (it was really cheap is why i bought it)

i was amazed with it. it looks like at that time eM was a 100% KOREAN effort. the enclosure was tank like, all the components were Samsumg or LG. everything was was very solid and nicely put together...

bottom line is I was impressed. was my kids machine for a couple of years & i sold it for about what i bought it for... (even though it was only 366, it still had a DVD and did a pretty good job playing it -- generally you need a faster machine than a Celeron 366 in order to play DVD.

My one disappointment w/ the e366 ?? i couldn't overclock the beast -- i wanted to run in a 550MHz and the BIOS wouldn't let me...