Cwilliams

December 19, 2006

I would not suggest anyone use Norton or Macafee They are so proccess hungry its not even funny and good luck removing them. It may look like there gone when you uninstall but trust me they are not. The best paid program I have ever found is PC Cillin antivirus from best buy. 39.99 and comes with 3 licenses. You can purchase another license online for like 7.99.

December 2, 2006

Confirmed By my Brother. An Email came from Corp. Best Buy. They are to Redo do Schedules for the weekend of the 16th. The store will open at 6:00 am. Overtime was authorized if needed and the stores should be fully staffed. They said there will be a conference call on Monday At 7:00 am and all department managers and Store manager should be present. Something big is in the maken!!!!!!!! :cheesy:

December 2, 2006

The only thing that would be worth selling is Women's clothes and Merry Christmas to my wife. Because, guys are the only ones who are making their shopping choices at that point!!

I guess I am the exception. My wife has 17 presents under the tree already and more to go. I shop for her all year and hide them at my mommy's house. :cheesy:

December 1, 2006

Nobody not Nobody can touch Best Buys black friday deals. :gdflasher:

December 1, 2006

Here is a rumored deal I was told about.... Do not take to heart as it is a rumor. Nintendo DS not the light version. 79.99 with 15.00 dollars off the nintendogs game if purchased at the same time. And yes they are calling it Blackfriday round 2

December 1, 2006

I heard from a friend of my wifes that Walmart will be doing a black friday round 2 on December 15th. She is a Ast store Manager and said corp. called them yesterday and told them there will be huge sales and tons of rollbacks. They are determined to turn there numbers around and will do whatever it takes to get people in the stores to shop. Do you guys think if this does happen other stores will follow? :yup:

November 30, 2006

The link above will take you right to it just add it to your cart.:)

November 29, 2006

There is 2 slots total. One stick of 512mb here is a link to the 1 gig dual channel kit i just ordered for this machine. Its a great price and lifetime warranty. I swear by this stuff

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227075

November 25, 2006

I was number 1 in line at our best buy. I was wearing my Geek squad shirt. Off duty of course. I had bought some of those cheap printable business cards and printed the best buy logo on top and then a number 1 through 100. When someone got there the had to sign a card and then sign a master log that I kept with there name number and time of arrival. When they came out to hand tickets out the store manager came out and asked for my list. she went down the line with the guys and if there was any question she would ask for the card and match it to the list. There was a bunch of last minute friends and familly showing up and cutting line. Guess what if you don't have a card go to the back is what she said. It worked out great and she loved it this way. It will now be a standard at our best buy. :yup:

November 21, 2006

From the sounds of it No agp slots

November 21, 2006

I for one am with you. I never wanted to scare anyone from this comp. But we do have to be careful how we word things as to not let people think they can run out and put power house stuff in here and just run like that. I build my own comps and my wife has a compaq and I am tired of hearing how come She always gets my left overs. I will purchase this and throw my p4 640 in it with ati card and 2 gig ocz ram with a new power supply and that will fix her. What she does not know is I already ordered my Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Kentsfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80562QX6700 :cheesy:

November 21, 2006

You can buy dual at walmart. Enough said

November 21, 2006

I'd be willing to bet the power supply will handle it fine. As for cooling, the X1600 has active, not passive cooling, so I think they'll be fine in that regard as well. Anyone that's upgrading the card is very capable of swapping power supplies in a worst case scenario. And a 160mm fan or two wouldn't be hard to add as well. I'm unsure how these cases are cooled myself. I just don't want to scare people away form upgrading this when in reality, chances are it'll take all those upgrades fine.

Here is a few reviews from newegg

Pros: great cheap graphics card runs great

Cons: it tends to overheat like crazy make sure if buying this you have plenty of cooling fans and a well ventelated case.

Other Thoughts: good graphics card needs to be cooled a lot very cheap but still becomes extremely hot probably goin to upgrade it in the next few months

Excellent card for the $$, ATI offers the absolute BEST support available, new drivers released monthly.

Cons: heat tends to be a problem for this card *IF* you dont have adequate cooling in your PC. I have had no problems running two of these cards in crossfire, side by side, just keep my case fans turned up :)

November 21, 2006

The official ad on Best Buys website, located HERE states the PC is a Intel Celeron D 352 which is, in fact, a 3.2 Ghz machine. This is listed with the T3522 eMachines code so I am thinking the call center made a mistake. Easy to do since even emachines.com and e4me.com do not have this system listed (at least not that I have seen)
If you plan on gaming, definately pick up an after-market graphics card because the provided "media accelerator" really will just not cut it. There are many card available, including one on sale at Best Buy, but, if you want true gaming performance, I would say look to higher end cards and not just sale items.
Besides, the sale card ( ATI x1600 Pro 512 MB PCIe ) only has a minimum of 5 in store so it will be more of a fight for them than the pc since you get a ticket for the PC but not the card.

Here are the specs according to Best Buy :

Intel® Celeron® D processor 352 with Intel® EM64T enhancement,
512MB PC4200 DDR2 memory, DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive,
100GB hard drive and Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900
15" flat-panel LCD monitor with fast 16 ms response time,
400:1 contrast ratio and antiglare screen coating
Compact PIXMA photo printer with ChromaLife100 technology for long-lasting,
borderless 4" x 6" photos
Hope this helps you all out.

You also should be careful telling people to get to high end of a video card for this machine. For one they are very power hungry and unless you upgrade the power supply it may not boot at all or be very unstable. Not to mention these cases are not the best and you run the risk of cooling issues.

November 21, 2006

Not only that but this has an open PCIE slot with upgradeble ddr2 ram up to 2 gigs. I am going to get this and the pcie card they are selling. I will upgrade the power supply put the card in it with 2 gig of good ram plus i have a p4 640 3.2 ghz hyper threading processor with some adding cooling and my wife will have a decent gaming comp.

November 21, 2006

I had a chat with E-Machines tech live chat and got the official specs of the 189.00 computer.

Ryan_GWER4776 says: Okay please hold i check on my resources about your question thank you

Ryan_GWER4776 says: I am still researching your issue at this time. I apologize for the wait.

Ryan_GWER4776 says: Do you want me to give you the full specifications of the system?

Ryan_GWER4776 says: Processor Intel® Celeron® D 355 64-Bit Technology, EM64T 3.33 GHz 533 MHz FSB 256 KB L2 cache

21 Nov 2006 08:44:30 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Memory 512 MB DDR2 (1 - 512 MB module), 533 MHz (PC4200) SDRAM Expandable to 2 GB

21 Nov 2006 08:44:37 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Hard Drive 100 GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA

21 Nov 2006 08:44:44 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Optical Drive CD-RW/DVD combo drive 48x max write (48 x 32 x 48 x 16)

21 Nov 2006 08:44:51 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Audio 6-Channel (5.1) High Definition Audio

21 Nov 2006 08:44:58 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Video Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (GMA900) Up to 224MB Shared Video Memory PCI-Expess slot available for upgrade

21 Nov 2006 08:45:05 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Modem 56 K ITU V.92 ready fax/modem

21 Nov 2006 08:45:13 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Network 10/100 Mbps integrated Ethernet LAN

21 Nov 2006 08:45:25 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Interfaces Six USB 2.0 ports (two in the front, and four at rear of the case) One VGA port One serial port One parallel port Two PS/2 ports (keyboard and mouse) One RJ-45 port Five audio jacks (two in front and three in rear)

21 Nov 2006 08:45:33 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Add-In Card Slots One PCI-E ×16 One PCI-E ×1 Two PCI conventional

21 Nov 2006 08:45:42 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Bays External: Two 3.5-inch Two 5.25-inch Internal: Two 3.5-inch hard drive bays

21 Nov 2006 08:45:55 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Input Devices Standard multifunction keyboard Two-button wheel mouse

21 Nov 2006 08:46:04 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Speakers Amplified USB powered stereo speakers

21 Nov 2006 08:46:08 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Dimensions(H × W × D) 14.25 × 7.25 × 16.00 inches

21 Nov 2006 08:46:13 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: Weight 22.5 lbs (computer only, no packaging)

21 Nov 2006 08:46:39 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: You can save this specifications by saving chatlog

21 Nov 2006 08:46:57 AM Ryan_GWER4776 says: To save your chat log, please click on the "View Live Log" button at the bottom right side of the chat window. It will open a chat log window. Please use the option to "Save log to disk".

November 21, 2006