eMachines EL1600-01 Windows XP Home Desktop PC
- Contents – eMachine EL1600-01 Desktop PC, Optical Mouse, PS/2 Keyboard
- Software Bundle – Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2, Microsoft Works, Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 60-Day Trial
- Norton Internet Security 2009 60-Day Trial, 1-Year Limited Warranty
- Intel Atom 230 1.6 GHz Processor; 512 KB L2 Cache
- 1024 MB DDR2 RAM; 160 GB SATA Hard Drive
Product Description
The eMachines EL1600 Desktop delivers energy efficient performance and expansion possibilities in a sleek and sophisticated black finish, easy access front ports and powerful performance. Personalize your DVDs by laser burning unique, high-res transparent images directly on the label side of discs with Labelflash Technology when you burn DVDs. This stylish, compact PC features Intel Atom processing technology, plenty of storage, a DVD/CD burner and more for a great everyday computing experience.Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Labelflash SuperMulti DVD+-R/RW Drive 10/100 Base T Ethernet LAN Front ports – 4 x USB 2.0, Microphone Back ports – 4 x USB 2.0, Serial Port, Parallel Port, 2 x PS2 ports (keyboard, mouse), Headphone, 3 x Audio Ports, RJ-45 (LAN), RJ-11 (Modem), VGA Expansion slots – PCI Express x1 (occupied) Drive bays – external 5.25 (occupied), internal 3.5 (occupied) Monitor is not included…. More >>
eMachines EL1600-01 Windows XP Home Desktop PC
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3 comments
Valerie Blazer on December 10, 2009 at 4:33 am
Good quality. Great price. Nice and compact. Computer works quickly. This is the third eMachine I have purchased over the years and have always been satisfied.
Michael Horn on December 10, 2009 at 7:08 am
An impulse buy to replace an aging laptop my wife uses in place of a home desktop. A good price got me interested – but had some worries about ‘only’ 1GB of RAM and the ATOM processor. Could this bargain basement machine get the job done?
The XL operating system uses less memory than the current bloated VISTA OS and so far – it seems that 1GB will suffice for my wifes computer routine – mainly websurfing/downloading articles and printing newsletters. I believe one can stuff up to 1.5 GB of RAM into this box – but that’s plan “B” – and only if needed. I attached the computer to a 22″ 16:9 ratio monitor – the shared memory video card seems to handle it ok.
I’ve attached a 500GB external hard drive to insure no storage problems – but 160 GB internal is a nice size. Setup was a snap, performance is adequate – Microsoft Office runs a little slow (compared to my Dual Core Intel laptop processor)- (EXCEL spreadsheets of any size or complexity of formulas should probably use a more capable machine). Photo editing is yet another decision point. Minor editing is ok using lite software … but this is NOT a candidate machine for photoshop editing unless it is very casual and one is not used to runing this program on a larger (RAM) and faster (processor) machine. Computer gaming – again – depends how much memory and processor speed needed by the game engine; many graphics intensive games will not run on a shared video memory graphics card … another place not to press your luck.
Eventually you will forget which machine you’re on in a multi-computer household and hit a computer ‘brick wall’ processing wise … but it hasn’t happened yet. Good value for the money – but don’t press your processing luck if you’re used to faster machines at work or at home. As said in a previous review – a great second machine and a good value for the money.
A candidate for younger school children and lite office work. A great place to start comparison shopping if you are a budget driven consumer.
J. Shackleton on December 10, 2009 at 7:26 am
Ok – if you are looking for a simple, no-frills computer to do “office” tasks, surf the internet, store and play music and watch DVDs, this might be just the computer for you. It is small, quite quiet and sips energy where my other quad-core beast gulps it. For 85% of my computer needs, this computer has it covered.