Laptops eMachines come into our country by combining the brands Acer, Gateway, eMachines and Packard Bell in one holding Acer Group. It seemed, why Acer Aspire competitor in the face of similar devices, but sold under other brand? Turned out to be not so simple as it seems at first glance. Acer Laptop PCs from year to year becoming more elegant and more interesting in terms of design, and the price is gradually increasing. And then laptops eMachines become quite competitive and attract its share of the audience through affordable and sequenced by a combination of design / price / performance.
Model eMachines E642G, caught me on the test, belongs to a class of universal notebook to a wide range of tasks. Typically, this term, in most cases, hiding expressionless serednyachek, but "e-machine» E642G was able to destroy the stereotype.
The second thing that catches your eye - it's pretty massive size of the notebook, the fat did not name, but the general trend of thin and light notebooks he gets out.
The rest of the design E642G can be described as calm and practical, without any inserts and decorative elements.
The keyboard resembles most modern "fold" designed for "island principle" (when the keys are located a short distance from each other), but different installation keys in the keyboard unit. The model E642G keys do not protrude from the body, as occurs in most notebooks, but as if floating in a special recess. Despite all the design refinements, the keyboard is quite comfortable - the key large and distinguished a clear response, but the move buttons, in my opinion, a little big. The keyboard layout is standard and is as close to the desk.
The touchpad is shifted to the left of center topkeysa and executed in a small depression. The touchpad is small in size, but when working with them to lack in size is not felt. The touchpad supports multi-touch and has a dedicated area for vertical scrolling.
The role of "mouse" button is a long-rocker button, located below the touchpad. My feeling is the key bit tugovat and work with it are not very comfortable.
Gaming capabilities of the e-machine "is very modest, but to have fun with not too much of their new games is enough. To evaluate the performance in gaming applications I use a utility SmartFPS and demo versions of games Crysis, Warhead, and Aliens vs Predator. Results of testing are listed below:
In technical terms, the claims to the laptop also does not arise. Hardware AMD / ATI offer the best price / performance ratio - something that is necessary for the workhorse.
The biggest advantage of the new eMachines E642G is the price. 20000 rubles per user receives a modern laptop with an unusual appearance and productive filling.
Main technical characteristics:
- Processor: AMD Turion II X2 P540 - 2,4 GHz
- Chipset: AMD M880G
- RAM: 3 GB, DDR3
- Graphic Subsystem: ATI Mobility Radeon HD5470 512 MB
- Hard Disk: SATA 320 GB
- Optical Drive: DVD-RW
- Display: 15.6 inch, a resolution of 1366x768 pixels, LED backlight
- Ports and connectors: 2xJack 3,5 mm (microphone and headphones), VGA, HDMI, 3xUSB 2.0, Ethernet (RJ-45), format memory card reader SD / MMC
- Wireless interfaces: Wi-Fi 802.11b / g, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
- Optional: a webcam 1,3 MP
- Battery: 4400 mAh • h
- Operating system: Windows 7 Home Basic, 64-bit
- Dimensions: 381x253x25-30 mm
- Weight: 2,6 kg
- Sale in Russia: on sale now
- Price: The recommended price of 20000 rubles
Design
Appearance model eMachines E642G significantly different from most modern laptops. The first thing that you notice - is the lack of "gloss". Lid is decorated with three-dimensional pattern in the form of circles of different diameter, resembling soap bubbles. A similar "pattern" adorns topkeys. Alas, as the designers did not try to completely get rid of the gloss, it is they did not work - high-gloss screen frame.The second thing that catches your eye - it's pretty massive size of the notebook, the fat did not name, but the general trend of thin and light notebooks he gets out.
The rest of the design E642G can be described as calm and practical, without any inserts and decorative elements.
Functional features
New from eMachines is built on a platform of AMD / ATI. The notebook installed the processor AMD Turion II X2 P540 with a frequency of 2.4 GHz, 3 GB RAM, for DDR3 and graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD5470 with 512 MB of video memory. The notebook is also equipped with hard disk capacity of 320 Gbytes, and wireless adapters, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Complete the standard except for the selected platform - does not often lately caught laptops built on the processors AMD. Display
Diagonal screen size is 15.6 inches, the resolution is standard for such a matrix - 1366x768 pixels. The screen of the novelty "glossy", the brightness at a sufficient level, but the viewing angles are not very large. Especially the lack of visibility of the vertical - is worth little to reject the display of a color and go quickly in the negative.Opening angle of the display allows you to work not only at the table, but in a more comfortable environment
Ports and connectors
Despite the universal form factor notebook, the new eMachines staffed by only the most popular connectors and interfaces. The right side is a DVD drive and two-port USB 2.0, and on the left housed connectors VGA, Ethernet (RJ-45), HDMI, USB 2.0 and two connectors Jack 3,5 for a microphone and headphones. On the front end is a slot for flash cards format SD / MMC. Cheap and cheerful - not what you e-SATA or USB 3.0, ExpressCard slots and even less in demand by ordinary users, and gradually lose its relevance. The keyboard and touchpad
Keyboard E642G very much like a "Claudia" laptop Packard Bell, which we have not so long ago was told. This is not surprising, since both Packard Bell and eMachines has long been owned by Acer Group, is the appearance of individual elements are copied, saving on design development.The keyboard resembles most modern "fold" designed for "island principle" (when the keys are located a short distance from each other), but different installation keys in the keyboard unit. The model E642G keys do not protrude from the body, as occurs in most notebooks, but as if floating in a special recess. Despite all the design refinements, the keyboard is quite comfortable - the key large and distinguished a clear response, but the move buttons, in my opinion, a little big. The keyboard layout is standard and is as close to the desk.
The touchpad is shifted to the left of center topkeysa and executed in a small depression. The touchpad is small in size, but when working with them to lack in size is not felt. The touchpad supports multi-touch and has a dedicated area for vertical scrolling.
The role of "mouse" button is a long-rocker button, located below the touchpad. My feeling is the key bit tugovat and work with it are not very comfortable.
Performance and test results
Model eMachines E642G stars from the sky is not enough, but as a universal laptop for work and entertainment is quite suitable.Futuremark 3Dmark03, scores Methodology
| Asus N61D | 17851 |
| Packard Bell EasyNote TX86 | 8280 |
| eMachines E642G | 8080 |
| Asus N61Ja | 4158 |
Futuremark 3Dmark06, scores Methodology
| Asus N61D | 7173 |
| eMachines E642G | 3947 |
| Packard Bell EasyNote TX86 | 3597 |
| Asus N61Ja | 1908 |
Futuremark PCMark05 CPU, scores Methodology
| Asus N61Ja | 8229 |
| eMachines E642G | 5693 |
| Asus N61D | 4826 |
Futuremark PCMark05 Memory, Points Method
| Asus N61Ja | 6781 |
| eMachines E642G | 4934 |
| Asus N61D | 3752 |
Futuremark PCMark05 Graphics, scores Methodology
| Asus N61D | 7243 |
| eMachines E642G | 4322 |
| Asus N61Ja | 2633 |
Futuremark PCMark05 HDD, scores Methodology
| Asus N61Ja | 5952 |
| eMachines E642G | 4862 |
| Asus N61D | 4861 |
1024x768 | 1366x768 | |
Crysis (Direct 3D 10) | 14,17 FPS | 11,25 FPS |
Warhead (Direct 3D 10) | 10,35 FPS | 8,75 FPS |
Aliens vs Predator (Direct 3D 11) | 9,3 FPS | 7,6 FPS |
Runtime
Laptop equipped with a battery capacity of 4400 mA • h. Given the small screen is not the most voracious and "stuffing" to expect new items record time battery life is not worth it. What, in fact, confirmed in practice: the maximum load the laptop worked 2 hours and 40 minutes, while in the regime of minimum load - almost 3.5 hours. Video playback device lasted just half an hour, which was barely enough to view the movie.Runtime (max), minutes methodology
| Packard Bell EasyNote TX86 | 250 |
| eMachines E642G | 202 |
| Asus N61D | 156 |
Runtime (min), minutes methodology
| Packard Bell EasyNote TX86 | 124 |
| eMachines E642G | 98 |
| Asus N61D | 74 |
Opinion Mail.ru:
EMachines E642G model represents a reasonable compromise between design, performance and price. Appearance of new items may seem to someone not bright enough, but I think it better that way than to constantly scratch and zalapyvayuscheysya gloss.In technical terms, the claims to the laptop also does not arise. Hardware AMD / ATI offer the best price / performance ratio - something that is necessary for the workhorse.
The biggest advantage of the new eMachines E642G is the price. 20000 rubles per user receives a modern laptop with an unusual appearance and productive filling.
