Emachines is Acer's low end with Acer being the mid and Gateway the high
end. The build quality is lower and they skimp on features, but they are
decent enough if you do not mind that.

I have never owned one, but have had an Acer laptop which is old, but still
works like new which is to say that it is slow and has a small HD by
today's standards but otherwise in good shape.