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eMachines W3050 AMD Sempron 3000+

Monday, April 18th, 2005 | Desktop Computer Reviews, Reviews

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This sub $400 dollar machine features some hard to beat features for a refurbished complete desktop computer. It definitely gets a mention up there in the ranks of refurbished desktop computers.

This machine comes from the the reputable eMachines company, which strives to sell desktop computers at very good value.

This model features an AMD Sempron 3000+ processor which means that it’s speed when compared to an Intel is about 3.0Ghz. This is a standard budget processor from the AMD corporation. It serves well for home use.

It comes with a respectable 512MB of DDR ram, which is more or less standard these days. It should offer the versatility to allow you to run almost any application you could need. And it has slots available if you need to upgrade in the future.

It’s graphics comes courtesy of the onboard nVidia GeForce 4 MX graphics. This should be more than sufficient to allow you to run reasonable high resolutions on a flat panel computer monitor. There are plenty of cheap computer monitors available to match this PC.

Data storage comes courtesy of a huge 80GB hard drive, which will provide more than enough space for all your information. If that’s not enough, it comes with a DVD writer. This DVD writer is capable of writing to any DVD format you can think of, allowing you to save tons of space on your hard disk, and store those home movies you cherish.

Besides all of these, it comes packed with all sorts of extras. Most notable of these would be the card reader. No more fussing around with a whole heap of card readers for each different thing. These slots are located at the front of the computer for easy access and usability.

Audio plugs, LAN RJ-45 port and modem ports round out the computer. It also includes speakers.

This computer would be most ideal for the home user, who mostly uses their computer for typing documents and surfing the web. It is well able to do other things like play your favorite MP3s, and because of the DVD writer, play your favorite movies too. My recommendations for upgrades would be to upgrade the memory to 1GB if you intend to more graphics intensive work, to go for a seperate video card.

You will need to buy a computer monitor seperately.