eMachines 770 Review

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riker's Review of eMachines 770 Computer

13th Aug 2007

Overall Rating

2.5 stars
  • Value for money
    2 stars
  • Ease of Use
    3.5 stars
  • Time Computer Owned
    Less than a Week
  • Ease of Set Up
    1.5 stars
Good Points

15" LCD screen
Neat tower with 2 USB under front flap
Pentium 4 2.4
80 GB hard disc
DVD-ROM
CD-RW
Software bundle


Bad Points

Only 256 MB memory


General Comments

I bought this e-Machines 770 second hand for my son so that I could get him off my own computer. Unfortunately the previous owner had left it with their own passwords etc. still in place and had changed a lot of the settings which made it run slower than it should. I managed to locate recovery CDs, including Windows XP home from gennersales.com which contained a ghost image of the original setup. This put the machine back to its factory state and everything ran much faster. It took a while to download all the Windows XP home patches but at least it is now in a clean state.

It doesn't run some of the intensive graphics on PC games but it is perfectly adequate as a second computer for the kids. It can play DVD movies and is fine connecting to my son's Samsung mobile phone to download photos and MP3s. I have also connected my digital camera via USB to download photographs. We have it connected to the internet via a Linksys wireless adapter and it works fine.

Doesn't seem a bad buy now but without the recovery CDs it would have been completely useless.

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