I've read some other posts suggesting that emachines are less than the best....

A client was sold an Emachine (celeron 600, 32Meg ram!!!!, 8.4 gig HD with millenium installed) by another vendor. I have been asked to evaluate the machine....
My first impressions are not good.

The question I'm asking is: Do Emachines work with 3rd party RAM, what sort of price would you expect to pay for this machine spec (from emachines and custom build)?

I prefer quality and upgrade possibilities over cheapness, the client hasn't a clue either way but will probably quote my opinion in discussions with the vendor.