E machine pc, buy or not buy?

Like I few people have said, don't buy an emanchine. My last two computers were one and both quickly fell apart. I didn't use it for anything other than surfing the web, never even opened the case. But within two years my last one eventually started getting worse and worse until it finally died. The only cause was shitty hardware.

Just save up a bit more money and buy a better computer from a better company. It'll be cheaper in the long run.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

By that time he might want to consider getting a whole new computer.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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but I also believe that such extreme cost-cutting can only yield a final product with a build quality which is questionable at best. One of the main ways in which a company can can cut prices is to reduce the quality of the final product.

Good example of that: Dells. It's not that it's a shitty product, but you can definitely tell they cut a lot of corners. It's actually quite needlessly difficult to upgrade anything more advanced than RAM.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeah, I'm not actually saying Dells are bad computers, I'm typing on one right now. I'm just simply saying that they're cheaper for a reason. Reasons most people won't ever notice, nor take issue with. Which is fine by me.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

But at this point in time, a powerful computer that can do anything you want would just be a waste of money. $500 for a computer now, and then maybe another eight hundred a few years down the road isn't a whole lot. It might be "cheaper", but getting a costume/powerful computer now instead of in 2010 would be a bigger waste of money, especially if he has no intention of using the power he's paying for.

I was speaking idiomatically.