eMachines has announced its new line of slim tower PCs. Its more or less the same with HP’s Pavilion SlimLine and Dell’s Inspiron 530s desktops. However, eMachines allow users more upgrade flexibility and what’s even better is its still in the range of budget PC territory. The EL1200 features two configuration, one can cost about $298 and the other is $349.

The configuration specs are as follows:

EL1200-05w ($298)
-1.5GHz AMD Athlon 2650e CPU
-1GB DDR2 SDRAM
-Nvidia GeForce 6150SE integrated graphics chip
-160GB 7,200rpm hard drive
-18x dual-layer DVD burner with Labelflash
-14-in-1 digital media card reader
-Windows XP Home

EL1200-01e ($349)
-1.5GHz AMD Athlon 2650e CPU
-2GB DDR2 SDRAM
-Nvidia GeForce 8200 integrated graphics chip
-320GB 7,200rpm hard drive
-18x dual-layer DVD burner with Labelflash
-14-in-1 digital media card reader
-Windows Vista Home Premium
-HDMI port
-eSATA port

Considering the larger hard drive alone, the $350 model looks like the better deal of the two. The HDMI and eSATA ports make it more enticing, but of course depend on other hardware to be truly useful.