eMacs Soon?

[MacRumors]

eMac updates are expected as early as tomorrow...

ThinkSecret reported (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/04/20030415021723.shtml) on 1GHz high end eMacs approximately 2 weeks ago with speeds ranging from 800mhz to 1GHz.

More recent supports suggest $799, $999, and $1299 pricing, hinting at a new model at the low end with steady pricing on the other two models. Speeds are expected to range from 800MHz to 1GHz.

A Page 2 article (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/05/20030503160304.shtml) also suggested that new Apple updates are expected this week. eMacs remain (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/05/20030501191708.shtml) the top candidate -- though Apple also has revealed that new music will also become available (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/05/20030505122652.shtml) on May 6th. International support is expected to follow...

[Grimace]

The emac is definitely a necessary entry level product for Apple - good for them to monitor it's progress.

[cosmicsoftceo]

Mac 6th

Nice to see Apple has a month named after it now. ;)

[mac15]

well, not many schools that I know of down here use eMacs, they still use the older and at the time cheaper iMacs

[reiggin]

Let's rename all the months to match up with our favorite company. Next, June becomes "Jobs," right, then what?

[reiggin]

Originally posted by reiggin
Let's rename all the months to match up with our favorite company. Next, June becomes "Jobs," right, then what?

Dang, you guys are quick about fixing things. Why?!? It's so much fun to mess with typos!

[lmalave]

Well, I guess this means the CRT iMac will be officially retired, even from the education store. Or maybe they'll lower the price even more, to $599? That would be fantastic. Schools are so cash-strapped the prices really need to be as low as possible.

[MacQuest]

Originally posted by reiggin
Let's rename all the months to match up with our favorite company. Next, June becomes "Jobs," right, then what?

July is now "Jaguar"...

[evil]

a 1 ghz g4 superdrive for 1299 or whatever seems like quite a deal to me.
this emac update might actually make me lean towards getting a cheaper emac as compared to the 17 imac.

[iJon]

well this is good to hear, even better if its tomorrow, my newspaper teacher is waiting to get some new emacs, we will see what apple brings to the table.

iJon

[applemacdude]

if they do ill buy it . cheap+fast=happy me

[coumerelli]

Or maybe they'll lower the price even more, to $599?

It would be GREAT to see a mac at this price...let's see, a great G4, or top of the line iPod? Hmmmm?

Originally posted by MacQuest
July is now "Jaguar"...

October has GOT to be Cupertino :D

[job]

$999 for 1Ghz?

nice.

i'll take one please.

any word on whether or not it will include DDR SDRAM and the faster bus (133Mhz) of the iMac?

[nagromme]

The eMac has always been a great buy. I bought mine reluctantly as a cheap stopgap, only to be surprised at the power it has. It will last me a good long while! GREAT screen, surprisingly good speakers, even for music, and great looking too.

I hope you can BTO a CD-R or Combo for the bottom model--almost a necessity for backing up and sharing. Then that would be a really nice low end! And if you can afford the 1GHz + swivel stand (highly recommended) and 640 RAM... you have yourself a nice machine!

Adding TV out is really nice--I'd play DVDs that way if I could. I suppose the iMac will get that next time.

[dguisinger]

Are we missing something that might be implied?

You can't just give out a 1GHz machine at that low of a price with that many features.......it will cut into the iMac sales.......

Lower iMac prices? Updated iMacs?

If the iMac prices are lowered, then the PowerMac is a real bad deal.....new PowerMac pricing to clear inventory? new low-end 970 announcement?

Maybe i'm reading a bit into it, but you can't give away a machine equivilent to the top-end consumer machine without a ripple effect.......either of apple making an adjustment, or in customer's purchasing decisions.

[MacEyeDoc]

January = Apple
February = Firewire
March = Woz
April = Airport
May = Mac
June = Jobs
July = Jaguar
August = OS X
September = Safari
October = Quicktime
November = Rendezvous
December = XServe

:)

[Mudbug]

Originally posted by dguisinger
Are we missing something that might be implied?

You can't just give out a 1GHz machine at that low of a price with that many features.......it will cut into the iMac sales.......

Lower iMac prices? Updated iMacs?

If the iMac prices are lowered, then the PowerMac is a real bad deal.....new PowerMac pricing to clear inventory? new low-end 970 announcement?

Maybe i'm reading a bit into it, but you can't give away a machine equivilent to the top-end consumer machine without a ripple effect.......either of apple making an adjustment, or in customer's purchasing decisions.

While this would all be great, I don't think we'd see quite that big of a ripple on a random tuesday in May... too close to WWDC and other reasons, but mainly because that would be a pretty huge step for them to take without anyone (present company excluded) even having a guess at it.

I, however, wouldn't mind it in the least.

[scem0]

Originally posted by coumerelli
It would be GREAT to see a mac at this price...let's see, a great G4, or top of the line iPod? Hmmmm?



October has GOT to be Cupertino :D

You should check out Core Computers as 2khappyware.com.

[herr_neumann]

Could this be the begining of a new price point? Could this be some of the steps we heard about to gain market share? Hmmm.... I like the sound of this.

Could this be the IBM effect? CHeaper chips means cheaper computers.

ANyone know if IBM is making G4s now that Motoslowa has given the go-ahead?

[Ja Di ksw]

I was just looking at the eMac's on the Apple Store, and noticed they advertise it as coming with iTunes 2: "gives everyone easy-to-use tools for organizing and managing their entire digital audio collection"! Wow, now I can't WAIT to get one of these :D.

I wonder what new and amazing features will come with itunes THREE!!! Getting giddy just thinking about it . . . . . .

[iSmell]

Originally posted by dguisinger
[B]Are we missing something that might be implied?

You can't just give out a 1GHz machine at that low of a price with that many features.......it will cut into the iMac sales.......
/B]


Um, you can and it won't if the 1 GHz machine in question weighs twice as much, is 5 times as noisy and has a 10 times crappier screen on it.

When the emacs first came out a year ago, I thought they were too good of a deal (by apple's standards) to pass up so I got one. A year later I have some mixed feelings. The screen is slightly blurry, flickers unbearably at its highest resolution and is hard to look at for a long time (like most CRTs in my opinion). It is pretty powerful and it was definitely a major upgrade from my lombard in terms of performance, but if I had it to do over again, I might have shelled out a little more for an iMac, or waited a little longer. As it is, I think I'm going to end up owning this thing for a lot shorter period (maybe 1.5 yrs) than I normally would keep a computer for (closer to 3 yrs).

Just a little warning before you get excited about 1 GHz eMacs.








macfecta

[trrosen]

Hey guys just looked at eMacs at the Apple store online.....I got 30 day delivery times for all models. This could certainly be an indicator that new models are coming very very soon. (as in tommorrow)

[Wonder Boy]

My turn...

January =Jaguar
February = Firewire
March = Maya
April = Airport
May = Mac
June = Jobs
July = Ives
August = AppleCare
September = Switcher
October = Docktober http://forums.macrumors.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
November =nVidia
December =Display

[Wonder Boy]

My turn...

January =Jaguar
February = Firewire
March = Maya
April = Airport
May = Mac
June = Jobs
July = Ives
August = AppleCare
September = Switcher
October = Docktober
November =nVidia
December =Display

My first double post! I'm no longer a DP virgin!

[mkaake]

Originally posted by Wonder Boy
My first double post! I'm no longer a DP virgin!

i'm proud of you man

matt

<edit>

oh crap. i was gonna be all funny and post 'i'm proud of you man' twice. and i screwed up. how does that work out? the one time i want to post twice and i can't even do that... and now there's a second page and there would be a gap between them, and all of the humor is gone. gone i say.

</edit>

[dguisinger]

Originally posted by trrosen
Hey guys just looked at eMacs at the Apple store online.....I got 30 day delivery times for all models. This could certainly be an indicator that new models are coming very very soon. (as in tommorrow)

I just noticed that as well.

[NicoMan]

Originally posted by dguisinger
I just noticed that as well.

Apple stores are down. Here come the new eMacs. Anything else ?

NicoMan

[bobindashadows]

Originally posted by NicoMan
Apple stores are down. Here come the new eMacs. Anything else ?

NicoMan
hmm... they aren't down for me. what store are you at, US?

[skunk]

US Store is up, foreign ones are down. What gives, I wonder?

[NicoMan]

Originally posted by bobindashadows
hmm... they aren't down for me. what store are you at, US?
I checked Uk and France... both down. Maybe it's iTunes Music store for international users or something... who knows?

NicoMan

[robbieduncan]

Just when I wanted to check the status on my new 30Gb iPod as well! Hope that it's worth it!

[NicoMan]

Originally posted by robbieduncan
Just when I wanted to check the status on my new 30Gb iPod as well! Hope that it's worth it!

or maybe it's the new-look Apple store, US style.

NicoMan

[Ambrose Chapel]

The US store just went down...................

[NicoMan]

Originally posted by Ambrose Chapel
The US store just went down...................
new eMacs are out, with top speed 1GHZ and the top model featuring Airport Extreme.

NicoMan

[NicoMan]

Originally posted by NicoMan
new eMacs are out, with top speed 1GHZ and the top model featuring Airport Extreme.

NicoMan
Also new is the Radeon 7500 with 32Mb DDR SDRAM. (Well disappointing IMHO, but it's an entry-level machine so we can't really complain...)

NicoMan

[skunk]

Originally posted by NicoMan
new eMacs are out, with top speed 1GHZ and the top model featuring Airport Extreme.

NicoMan

You must be looking at a different AppleStore....US store's still on 800MHz

[Ambrose Chapel]

New eMacs is good I guess, but I was hoping it would be the new 15" PB. Maybe next Tuesday...

[skunk]

That's odd: US store hasn't changed, UK has.

[Ambrose Chapel]

That's odd: US store hasn't changed, UK has.


The US store is down right now.

[NicoMan]

Originally posted by NicoMan
Also new is the Radeon 7500 with 32Mb DDR SDRAM. (Well disappointing IMHO, but it's an entry-level machine so we can't really complain...)

NicoMan

Another interesting point is that they seem to be able to boot into OS9...


CD-ROM and Combo drive equipped eMac models have both Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 installed. Mac OS X is the default boot-up operating system. Choose optional languages and keyboards other than the country default language, if needed.

NicoMan

And btw I am looking at the UK store

[skunk]

Originally posted by Ambrose Chapel
The US store is down right now.
What's going on? I can still see (and reload) it. Still at 800MHz....

[skunk]

Ahh! Just changed...:)But it still says GeForce 2MX on the US Site, now there's a Server error on the site. Way to go, Apple...

[Einlanzer]

Apple store in Canada is now down.

[NicoMan]

European sites are now down again and giving an Apache error...

NicoMan

[skunk]

It's that Low YoYo Stuff.....

[imnoah]

Looks like someone at Apple is getting a pink slip sometime today...

[imnoah]

Summary
? 1GB SDRAM - 2 DIMMs
? AirPort Extreme Card
? Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
? 1GHz PowerPC G4
? 80GB Ultra ATA drive
? SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
? Mac OS X include

$1698

[Ambrose Chapel]

The US store is up and running, I have the eMac page up now.
$799 - 800MHz/128MB SDRam/40GB/CD-Rom
$999 - 1GHz/128 SD/60/combo
$1299 - 1GHz/256 SD/80/super
$1698 - 1GHz/1GB/ SD/80/super/AE built in (custom config)
ATI radeon 7500 w/32 MB for all

The hardware page isn't updated yet

OS 9 included on the 799 and 999 models, not the 1299 or the ultimate...

[skunk]

STILL gives the wrong speeds under "Features and Options", STILL no word on graphics card on US site...Actually not much seems to agree: they've only changed half the page.

[imnoah]

Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday announced the release of a new family of eMac all-in-one desktop systems.

The eMac has been a hit with both education customers and consumers, and we've made it more powerful and affordable than ever," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of Hardware Product Marketing. "The eMac offers customers a complete system that is the ideal entry point for today's digital lifestyle."

The new eMacs offer up to a 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor, a faster 4x SuperDrive, high performance ATI Radeon 7500 graphics, up to 80GB hard drives and internal support for AirPort Extreme wireless networking. The eMac also has a 17-inch flat CRT display.

[seamuskrat]

Check out Apple Store. 1 gig eMacs. 800 at 799 for 800. 1299 for 1 gig. Airport Extreme in the top end!
Apple website not yet updated just the store. Shipping same day!

Not bad for 799, and to think a gig G4 for 1299 WITH superdrive.

[***T-MC®***]

Originally posted by Macrumors
eMac updates are expected as early as tomorrow...

ThinkSecret reported (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/04/20030415021723.shtml) on 1GHz high end eMacs approximately 2 weeks ago with speeds ranging from 800mhz to 1GHz.

More recent supports suggest $799, $999, and $1299 pricing, hinting at a new model at the low end with steady pricing on the other two models. Speeds are expected to range from 800MHz to 1GHz.

A Page 2 article (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/05/20030503160304.shtml) also suggested that new Apple updates are expected this week. eMacs remain (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/05/20030501191708.shtml) the top candidate -- though Apple also has revealed that new music will also become available (http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/05/20030505122652.shtml) on May 6th. International support is expected to follow...




Here's the new eMacs accdg to MacCentral --> new eMacs (http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/05/06/emacs/)

[F/reW/re]

Wonder what gfx card it's got...

[Ambrose Chapel]

Wonder what gfx card it's got...


Radeon 7500/32Mb
specs on the previous page..

[Groovsonic]

Didn't the old eMac have 100mhz bus? If so, they bumped it to 133.

What video card did it have before? Is the 7500 an improvement over the old one?

Hmm... Those prices are pretty tempting...

[jxyama]

Education store knocked out the CRT iMac... There's now a gaping empty
space there.

Forgot to ask... Was eMac always AirPort Extreme ready?
New ones are... Even the $799 lowest model can be equipped
with AE...

[dstorey]

Yeah, old emac had 100 mhz bus and GForce 2 MX..you can still see on the US site, they fogot to change a graphic... How longs it before they drop the 15" iMac now? The bottom end eMac has just as fast processor, bigger screen (in theory but maybe not viewable), better graphics card(?) and a faster buss and it is way way cheaper...just the iMac has more memory and a combo instead of a cd rom and the benifit (or disbenifit depending where you stand) of a Flat screen. The 15" iMac is no way value for money now in my opinion...a price drop would make that beautiful 17" look even more tempting though ;)

[Moe]

Definitely now the "best buy." With a reasonable 133MHz non-DDR 512MB single-dimm/60GB HD/Combo Drive configuration, and no AE, the 1GHz is $1149 ($1091 educational faculty/student).

Upgrade the 80GB HD/SuperDrive (doesn't say what speed that I can find) model to 512MB single-dimm to compete with the new 17" iMac w/512 single-dimm (no AE or Bluetooth on either), and it's $1399 vs $1999 ($1244 vs $1939 educational).

Hardly makes the $600 premium ($695 educational) for the LCD panel and bandwidth-limited DDR of the 17" iMac seem worth it. And definitely obsoletes the rumored to be discontinued 15" iMac.

If you absolutely, positively gotta buy a Mac before the 970s, investing as little as possible in a G4 with one of these makes the most sense to me.

However, now that the bottom-of-the-line Mac has the same computing power as the iMac, and except for level 3 cache, the top of the line PowerBook, and the bottom of the line PowerMac, I have to really rethink my prediction of the 970s not coming until this time next year.

My earlier post accidentally used "by for your school" prices instead of "buy for yourself." I shouldn't post until after the 2nd cup of coffee.

[knoxer]

Moe, it's a 4X superdrive, like the new iMacs and PowerMacs

[Moe]

Thanks, knoxer, that makes sense.