I receaved this laptop for christmas and was very happy with it. However I noticed almost immediatly the battery was getting very very hot, to the point that I developed a embarrasing rash on my crotch area. After avisit to the docs, I found out it was what he described as "crotch itch" a fungal infection created by having high tempatures on ur crotch area, this was very embarasing and worrying too.

Whats more, the battery in these I belive is unstable, I got my laptop in december last 2009 and by march 2010 the battery completly stopped working. To add insult the charger itself has no become faulty so if the charger is moved slightly the laptop powers down completly and has to be rebooted. The constant rebooting when the laptops power lead is moved even slightly has now corrupted my hard drive and made the pc unusable without a reformat.

Another problem with this laptop is the very very faulty dvdRw drive it runs extremly noisy and takes along time when installing anything from a cd to a point that it has to be a fault in the cd drive, dvds playing from the drive are slow and performing any copying directly from disk to hard drive takes alot of time.

I got my laptop from littlewoods catalogue, who I phoned about my issues and they have been very kind and sent me £100 compensation + a brand new Dell laptop worth almost double what I paid for the Emachines laptop. They was very willing to compensate me as soon as I mentioned the laptops model and the problem with battery tempatures. They also no longer stock / sell this model either wich leads me to belive there are problems with this line.

I purchased a new emachines at the beginning of the year. I had been very happy with their computers and service before they were purchased now the service is unbelievably bad.

After three months the unit could not be turned on when the button was pushed. They refused to provide a shipping label saying I had to pay to return the unit--they have no local repair. To top it off the unit did not work when it was returned. They claimed they replaced the mother board, most likely a good tech would check the switch and the power supply.

When I called to have it repair again they again insisted on prepayment of shipping. Its a cheap machine and isn't worth two shipping charges to have a small item fixed. The foreign customer service staff is total useless will not discuss any alternates they just say no to everything. I will never buy another, eMachines, Gateway or Asus --all the save company.

i purchased an emachines desktop model t5082 less than 2 years ago. from the beginning it was horridly slow and so loud it sounded like a jet engine. there are 6 usb ports on the computer and guess how many are working, one. this computer is not even 2 yrs old and i have to replace all of my usb ports. the one that is working (for now) has my internet service plugged in to it, so that means i have no place to plug in my printer, scanner, fax, camera, etc. i work from home for the same company for the last 4 yrs and they require my system to meet certain standards. when i purchased the computer it met them all, now less than 2 yrs have passed and it does not meet them. these computers are junk and i am warning everyone out there no matter how tight your budget is, now matter how desperate you may be to get a cheaper system, DO NOT PURCHASE EMACHINE PRODUCTS WHATEVER YOU DO!!! you will see from the other complaints how horrible these things are, please spare yourself the nightmare!!

Biggest piece of crap Ive ever used...Ive had mine a week and the onboard ethernet connection has failed...as Im running an alternative OS (Dual boot Ubuntu Linux and Vista Beta 2) and joined with the fact that ive broken the seal and opened the case...(to add a WORKING ethernet card) Im sure that the company will weasel their way out of honoring their 1 yr warranty, as their warranty explicitly states that you may only use software officaly approved for use with emachines. After reading the rest of these posts, I can see It would be a waste of my time to even try. I wish I would have looked up some customer reviews before it was too late...TOTAL CRAP!!

I bought this August 3, 2007. Then in December is when my trouble started. It just would not load, so I called tech line. I tried everything, still would not work. He said he was sending a box to send it in for repair. Got it back and hooked it up and turned on. Some kind of message came up and I did not want to press the wrong button (I am not real smart with computers) so I called the tech to find out which one to press. In otherwords, it STILL was not fixed. They sent another box. I sent it back. Next time, the quality control guy left his CD in the computer. Would not load again. I have shortened this down from all the cell phone calls (using minutes because they say try this or that, now restart the computer. This could go on for 50 or 60 minutes. I kept asking for another computer or refund. One tech told me only after 3 times repairing do they give a new one. Well, it did it again (3rd time). I finally talked to a corporate tech and he was requesting that I get another computer. He said it would be equivalent or better to mine. Had to send mine in again before I could receive my "new" computer. I did not get a "new" computer but a refurbished one (at least so far it is working), with new keyboard, mouse, speakers all cheaper than my original ones, which thankfully I still had and just used them. Altogether, my computer was out 5 months!! I asked if I would be getting a year's warranty and was told no, only 90 days!! In all, I spoke with 16 different people over this time. No more with Gateway or Emachines. Also, I will not buy at Wal-Mart's again. I will buy from a store that works on the computer (if I can find one like that).