Entered CNET Catalog: 04/15/2005
SKU: T3882
Manufacturer: eMachines
Manufacturer description
Get the basics done right, at an incredibly low price. The T3882 is a sleek, black-and-silver package perfect for daily computing: sending e-mails, surfing the Internet, writing reports and more.User opinions
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User Rating: 
9/10
Good product
Pros: Easy to upgrade, good for doing work, can hold two R.A.M. drives that limit to 1gb in each slot. Has many usb ports.
Cons: Slow, not the best for gaming when bought stock with no upgrades, hardware may stop working, may have trouble with playing cd's.
Overall the T3882 is a great product when it has 2 RAM drives installed instead of the stock 256mb RAM.
User Rating: 
3/10
Not a good computer at all, don't get this!
Pros: It's okay if you're not playing any 3D games. It can do basic functions but every computer these days can do everything this hunk of junk can do and much, much, much, more.
Cons: Pretty much everything.
This computer uses integrated graphics, so no actual graphics card, just a small VERY bad low power integrated graphics chip(s) in the mother board. The graphics on this computer use the RAM(memory)so this is extremely bad. You have about more than half your RAM already used by Windows and background applications. And then a large percent is used by the graphics. So what's left is A TINY AMOUNT that can't process anymore info and the computer's just lagging if you try to run 3D games on it.
I find this computer to be noisy, even when it's not doing anything really. It gets very noisy when running games or multiple applications. This computer sucks and nobody should get it. It's slow, extremely low powered and not fitted for big monitors. 17" is the monitor size best for this lousy computer.
It can burn DVDs and CDs though and has 6 USB ports.
User Rating: 
8/10
Great pc for the price
Pros: Reliability, Speed, and tech support
Cons: Possible hardware breakdown
User Rating: 9/10
Awesome PC at a low price
Pros: good looking, bargain, great for movie/music people
Cons: a little slow, but hey, it's a celeron processor and it's a low price computer, what did you expect?
The problem was I only had $600 to spare to buy a new computer, and the whole bundle, not just the tower.
So, at Office Depot, they had a REAL nice deal for the T3882 bundle for about $650, without rebates! Wow! Sweet deal.
First, I try it out at Office Depot, to make sure it's fast, right? Right, and it pretty much was. And it even had a bunch of Norton 2005 junk riddled with it.
The setup was a breeze, Windows XP was already 95% installed, and all it did was ask questions about your internet access, lincense agreements, easy-to-answer things like that.
I must say after uninstalling Norton 2005 (which was pre-installed) and adding Norton AntiVirus 1999 with new definitions, I was kind of so-so on the speed, but with a Celeron D Processor, it was comparable to Dell's Dimension 3000.
It plays DVDs just fine, crystal clear on the flat screen monitor that came with the eMachines's bundle, and with the included PowerDVD software. It also burns CDs, but it doesn't come with avaliable software, but you can probably easily burn them on some program like WMP or RealPlayer of some sort.
It also has 80GB, which is a pretty big hard drive. It also had slot improvements for graphics and memory if wanted.
If I would have to do it again, I would not hesitate to try another eMachines PC. I am very happy with my PC.
User Rating: 
10/10
Good general purpose machine
Pros: Provides everything I need.
Cons: None that I can think of.
