RE: Digital Archaeology: eMachines ET1352
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That looks a lot like the insides of my old Gateway with a Pentium 4. I was running XP with more RAM upgrades and a decent-for-the-time aftermarket graphics card, so it was probably more powerful all around.
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Gateway made awesome computers up until sometime during the Pentium 4 era. They went downhill after they bought eMachines and especially after they were bought by Acer.
My first computer was a 486 DX2-66 built by then Gateway 2000. My second was a Gateway Pentium II-333. After that, I started building my own.
My guess is they just kept using the same basic case with a new front panel as long as they could to keep costs down. I remember still feeling like king of the web when I first got Team Fortress 2 while running a 3 GHz hyperthreaded single-core CPU, 4 GB RAM, and a mid-tier ATI graphics card.