If you don't want to pay as much as the e-Machine, I bought a lesser machine for $850 after rebates some months ago, the HP ze4630us. HP models generally have an exact duplicate sold as a Compaq machine. The equivalent model seems to be discounted at around $899 right now. The list price is around $1200, but rebates seem to be nearly constant.
I'm not a DVD movie fan, so I felt the extra size from a wide screen to be a drawback - this machine is already large and heavy enough.
It came w/ Athlon mobile 2500+ processor, 512 Mby RAM, 40 Gby disk, Parallel, Serial, Firewire, WiFi b/g, 10/100 Mb/s ethernet, phone modem, 2xUSB (1.1 unfortuneately), DVD-ROM/CD-RW, sound, etc,etc,etc.
No internal floppy disk. After I had paid $30 for an external USB floppy, I discovered a rebate slip in the sheaf of HP papers which would have got me one free from HP.
I thought it was an excellent buy, but you may demand more performance than I do. I imagine today's $899 equivalent has a faster processor.
Good luck in finding something that satisfies you.
SC