EMachines, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based computer technology company Acer Inc., specializes in making budget-oriented personal computers. Thus, the processors -- or central processing units -- installed on these products are usually from low-end to mid-range brands. The computer chips that each eMachines PC possesses usually come Intel Corp. or Advanced Micro Devices. Like other processors, the ones installed on eMachines computers have a processing speed; a front-side bus, or data transmission, speed; and an Level 2 cache, or secondary memory bank, for its high-speed access to computer data.
Desktop Tower Processors
The traditional desktop tower PCs are roughly split into the EL1352, EL1333, ER1401, ER1402, ET1810, EL1850, ET1831 and EL1850 series. Most of them have a CPU from AMD's most popular brand, the Athlon, which has a processing speed range of around 1.6 to 3.1GHz and an L2 cache range of 512KB to 2MB. However, the EL1352G, a model under the EL1352 series, has a processor from AMD's budget-oriented Sempron with a processing speed of 2.8GHz and a 1-MB memory bank. Also, the ET1810-01 and EL1850-01e have Intel Celeron 4xx series CPUs instead of AMD ones.
All-in-One Desktop Processors
The eMachines' two all-in-one desktops, the EL1352-10u and ET1331-40e, share the same price tag with the performance-oriented EL1352-10e tower as the most expensive desktop PCs. The EL1352-10u has the 2-GHz AMD Athlon II 170u while the ET1331-40e has the dual-core 2.8-GHz AMD Athlon II 220. Each processor has two caches that add up to 1MB of storage space.
Notebook Processors
As of May 2011, eMachines has three notebook PC series: the eME527, eME528 and eME442. The first two have an Intel Celeron 900 -- a member of Intel's low-end CPU brand -- which offer a 2.2-GHz processing speed, 800-MHz FSB rate and 1-MB cache. The last mentioned notebook has a more advanced processor, which hails from AMD Phenom's V-Series division. Its processing speed is 2.3GHz, its FSB speed is 1,066MHz and its L2 cache offers 512KB, which promotes faster memory access due to its smaller size.
Netbook Processors
EMachines has only one netbook in its PC lineup. As the smallest computing machine -- indeed, a smaller, stripped-down version of the notebook PC -- the eM350 has the least powerful processor: the Intel Atom N450. Designed specifically for electronic products its size, the N450 has a 1.66-GHz processing speed, 667-MHz FSB speed and a 512-KB L2 cache. The CPU, however, consumed up to only 5.5W of power, thus making it more energy efficient than the other eMachines processors.
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