I bought an E-machine in 2000 and I added memory, replaced the monitor, keyboard, mouse, sound card (X3). But that thing was still kicking this year when I upgraded to a T5048 Emachine. I have seen other computers break down while my EMachine was still ticking. I hardly ever turned it off, did regular disk scans, and used Mozilla Firefox as my browser. I don't know if that helped or not, but I was very pleased with my EMachine.