Wrong - I challenge you to remove a Mac Pro logic board, and make it fit an ATX case without ANY modifications.
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Wrong - I challenge you to remove a Mac Pro logic board, and make it fit an ATX case without ANY modifications.
Oh, my bad. The arrangement is different. Same parts, different layout. Does that really justify a separation from the rest of the industry? You are kind of splitting hairs here. By this argument i could say that a dell laptop is not a pc because the mobo layout is different that any other manufacturers.
Sorry, you accuse others of splitting hairs?. Look at your second but last post
.Nope, you didn't read my whole post. You can install whatever you want on your PC and it's still 'PC-compatible". It's ready and waiting, ie "compatible", for Windows installation at any time.
Ditto, install Linux on a Mac and it's still a Mac, ready and waiting for that OSX re-install to return to happy happy land at any time.
I love the eMacs too. My mom still has one actually. They were great computers and had the best CRT display I've ever used. The Mac Mini was a poor replacement for a low end consumer computer.
The eMac is awesome! It basically fixed everything that the original iMac needed. Gorgeous flat CRT, USB 2.0, G4 processor, and good discrete video cards. And today, an eMac can still do everything the average user needs (including smooth flash video playback) for around $100.
When our bedroom eMac was replaced by a 24" white iMac I found it really hard to sleep without the reassuring wind tunnel noise blasting away all night
I nabbed another one (1.25GHz) from eBay for £40 which was allegedly faulty. I assumed it had the leaky capacitors but it has worked flawlessly ever since I turned it on, nearly 2 years ago. I opened it up for some reason a while back and, sure enough, it looks like someone's squeezed toothpaste all over the motherboard but it chugs on regardless.
My daughter pushed hers off her desk (temper, temper) and things looked very bad at first...purplish, off-centre screen. Rebooted and it was back to normal.
Maybe not quite as cute as the iMac G3s but enough computer for the large majority of home users and a very cheap and cheerful 1st Mac for anyone.
I nabbed another one (1.25GHz) from eBay for £40 which was allegedly faulty. I assumed it had the leaky capacitors but it has worked flawlessly ever since I turned it on, nearly 2 years ago. I opened it up for some reason a while back and, sure enough, it looks like someone's squeezed toothpaste all over the motherboard but it chugs on regardless.
My daughter pushed hers off her desk (temper, temper) and things looked very bad at first...purplish, off-centre screen. Rebooted and it was back to normal.
Maybe not quite as cute as the iMac G3s but enough computer for the large majority of home users and a very cheap and cheerful 1st Mac for anyone.
I hadn't used professional CRT displays at the time but this is why I loved the eMac too. Even managed to convince some people at college that it used an LCD/TFT/whatever display because the tell tale sign was its flatness, heh.
Reason why I like my last gen C2D iMac is because it looks like a modern eMac.
Looking at this thread, seems like they're great machines. I plan on buying a 1.42 GHz one to become my main Mac in the next day or two. (My iBook G4 is good, but I need a desktop. My Intel mini is too crippled and unreliable.)
Uhm the Mini is MUCH more powerful than the eMac!. All I can ask is... why would you want this to be a MAIN Mac?.
Wow - fortunate it didn't land on her foot; they're HEAAVVV--YYYYYY!!
Good Lord, yes. I remember carrying around one at my grammar school Back In Tha Day, and it was way heavier than the G3 iMacs - and it didn't have a handle, which made it all the more difficult.
I'd assume that it was on purpose to discourage stealing, but it made life hell for all of us moving them about for legit reasons.
Sure, the mini is faster. But I also crippled it horribly in a RAM installation accident, and it's basically junk now. It hardly works at all.
My main machine is my 1.33 GHz iBook G4. Technically, the eMac is an upgrade.
(Just bought one on eBay about half an hour ago, actually.)
Sure, the mini is faster. But I also crippled it horribly in a RAM installation accident, and it's basically junk now. It hardly works at all.
My main machine is my 1.33 GHz iBook G4. Technically, the eMac is an upgrade.
Slip of the putty knife, or static discharge honey?.
Actually, it was a chef's knife. The RAM arrived before the putty knife I ordered, and I was impatient.
Actually, it was a chef's knife. The RAM arrived before the putty knife I ordered, and I was impatient.
Ahh! a pallete knife?. Sheesh you WERE impatient - haha awww, what a waste of a Mac!. I was tempted to use one of those... but resisted. Bless you.
Please geekbench that pos you call e-mac and i'll geekbench my 9 year old dell with celeron and show you how my pos is still 2x faster than you e-mac.
Please geekbench that pos you call e-mac and i'll geekbench my 9 year old dell with celeron and show you how my pos is still 2x faster than you e-mac.
I really doubt a 9 year old machine, much less a 9 year old Celeron, could beat ANY 4 year old computer.
The eMac was (and for many) still is a good machine and it's over-clock-ability is quite impressive (thanks to Apple's over-engineered heat-pipe).
However, I wouldn't touch the original chassis with a barge-pole (the NVidia Graphics models). They're a pain to work on and the analog/power boards are poorly built.
The only thing I don't like is the fact that some failures of the screen render the whole machine un-workable. In some cases, you can use an external monitor if that happens, or (if you're willing) you can pull the motherboard out and do this with it.
When they first came out, we joked how nobody would be stupid enough to steal one because they were so heavy. That was until a developer client called in with sad news that somebody had stolen his eMac and XServe.
With respect to comparing one with a MacMini, it depends on which models you're comparing. If somebody offered me a 1.42Ghz eMac or a 1.42Ghz MacMini, I'd pick the eMac for the simple reason that it doesn't use a 2.5" drive and choices of replacement optical drives are better (and cheaper).
That's my 2c.
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However, I wouldn't touch the original chassis with a barge-pole (the NVidia Graphics models). They're a pain to work on and the analog/power boards are poorly built.
The only thing I don't like is the fact that some failures of the screen render the whole machine un-workable. In some cases, you can use an external monitor if that happens, or (if you're willing) you can pull the motherboard out and do this with it.
When they first came out, we joked how nobody would be stupid enough to steal one because they were so heavy. That was until a developer client called in with sad news that somebody had stolen his eMac and XServe.
With respect to comparing one with a MacMini, it depends on which models you're comparing. If somebody offered me a 1.42Ghz eMac or a 1.42Ghz MacMini, I'd pick the eMac for the simple reason that it doesn't use a 2.5" drive and choices of replacement optical drives are better (and cheaper).
That's my 2c.
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RAM, 2 GB. (Officially 1 GB, but the USB 2.0 models (which is what you have) can support 2) HDD...not sure, probably whatever the max is your OS will recognize.
(Taken from "Mactracker" app)
Please geekbench that pos you call e-mac and i'll geekbench my 9 year old dell with celeron and show you how my pos is still 2x faster than you e-mac.
I doubt that *VERY* much indeed, and also considering you'd have no way of proving this, due to the fact that Intel versions of Tiger & Leopard require SSE2 *minimum*. As regards the dumb people you say you see in your sig?... think about it a bit...
Oh and for what it's worth, it's "eMac" not "e-mac"
I'm in on this thread about eMacs - another devotee.
Yes, eMacs were never made for portability, I darned near dropped mine when removing it from its packaging. The awkwardness of handling was largely, I suspect, because they were intended for the education market. The 1 GHz model was issued exclusively for schools but of course they found their way into wider public use.
Such is the popularity of the eMac that there is a sub-cult of people who've refused to give up on them because of the notorious capacitor problem. They've instead researched effective capacitor replacement, much cheaper than replacing the logic board.
People who own the 1.42 GHz model are the lucky ones, no capacitor problem.