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I *LOVE* eMacs!
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She's a beaut! This reminds me of when I first got my G3 iMac about a year ago.. first mac! Noble beginnings, but it was enough to convince me.Well, I finally got one. The 1.42 GHz model, because it's going to my workhorse from now on. I'm pretty happy with it so far, the speakers are the best I've ever heard in a Mac.
(Sorry for camera phone picture, will take real one once I get it all setup in my room.)
My PowerBook is better!
I don't know, I always thought the iMac G3 with the Harmon Kardon speakers sounded the best from the "modern" era. The Performa 6400 with built in subwoofer sounds great too!Well, I finally got one. The 1.42 GHz model, because it's going to my workhorse from now on. I'm pretty happy with it so far, the speakers are the best I've ever heard in a Mac.
(Sorry for camera phone picture, will take real one once I get it all setup in my room.)
Please answer re: Emac & Ipods
I never got a real answer on this:
I have tried to run the 2 i pods on the slower USB ports, and it simply freezes the Emac up. I called Apple and they say it is the slow usb, and not anything I can do (besides upgrade??) Suggestions???
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Is it true that I can not upgrade my USB port to a hi-speed 2.0 port? I called Apple and they said, NO GO.
I bought my eMac in 2000 (ish) and LOVE IT, ner' a problem, but now I can not run the new ipods on my old machine. tell me, do i really have to part with this beloved friend???
You can use the iPod, just rather slower than if it were USB 2.0.
I never got a real answer on this:
I have tried to run the 2 i pods on the slower USB ports, and it simply freezes the Emac up. I called Apple and they say it is the slow usb, and not anything I can do (besides upgrade??) Suggestions???
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PeeCee vendors will always aspire to Apple; as Guy Kawasaki says in the film "Welcome to Macintosh" - the PeeCee vendors just don't know WHICH bit to steal!
Apple all the way - innovation, obsessive attention to detail with their craft, and the faultless way in which they remove unnecessary and cluttered items from their designs - who ELSE has "HIG" (Human Interface Guidelines) to ensure software is made to look beautiful?!.
Everyone copies Apple, either blatently or subversively. Psystar and others even try to cheapen the Mac - wanna know why? they don't 'get it' like a REAL loyal Mac user would. They deserve all they get from Apple's lawyers - Apple forever!!
That all sounds rather creepy and wierd to me !
No you don't. They're big, heavy lumps of junk.
Unfortunately we still have some where I work, from the 700MHz to 1.42GHz variety.
They just take up so much space; not a 'classic' design either...
Uhmmm... no they're rather good!. I would recommend that if you want a modern Mac you wouldn't buy one of these as an "everyday" Mac... but for their vintage, they're incredible, and FAR from "junk"
. You could be FAR more unfortunate, and have to use a Dell with Vista
You could be FAR more unfortunate, and have to use a Dell with Vista
Ha hah hah, this is true.
Same here! I remember seeing one in it's box all those years ago. Sadly i didn't have the money then
You could be FAR more unfortunate, and have to use a Dell with Vista
Have you heard of hackinotshes?
No, I've been in a cave the last 10 years
Just sold my eMacs - loved them, but alas too sluggish and noisy. Now I have the 2009 Mac mini
... SO much faster; one forgets HOW fast Intel Macs are, when used to waiting about for PPC to catch up.
There's a guy around me selling a 1ghz eMac for $75. 512mb ram/40 GB HDD.
I'm using my dumpster saved iMac G3 right now, and I didn't know if it would be worth it to upgrade to the eMac. Bigger screen size, almost twice the processor speed, G3 -->G4, higher Geekbench score.
Although, I'm not sure if it would be worth it. I found a guy on craigslist selling two 512mb RAM sticks for $40, which would max my iMac out. Or, I could buy the eMac, and eventually max the ram out. Is that a wise investment?
I just worry that I wouldn't see any increase in speed during my day to day tasks of web browsing, iTunes, and MS Office. A 1 ghz G4 eMac can't even do youtube or streaming video, right? Neither can my iMac.
Should I just max out the ram on my iMac and go on my merry way? Or upgrade?
I'm using my dumpster saved iMac G3 right now, and I didn't know if it would be worth it to upgrade to the eMac. Bigger screen size, almost twice the processor speed, G3 -->G4, higher Geekbench score.
Although, I'm not sure if it would be worth it. I found a guy on craigslist selling two 512mb RAM sticks for $40, which would max my iMac out. Or, I could buy the eMac, and eventually max the ram out. Is that a wise investment?
I just worry that I wouldn't see any increase in speed during my day to day tasks of web browsing, iTunes, and MS Office. A 1 ghz G4 eMac can't even do youtube or streaming video, right? Neither can my iMac.
Should I just max out the ram on my iMac and go on my merry way? Or upgrade?
It could run web video, because it has 32 megabytes of VRAM. If it is a 2004 model. it could have video issues. Look at LowEndMac for more info on this. Plus, the AltiVec engine should help when using flash-intensive sites (like youtube). Plus, the 1 ghz G4 may allow you to use iPhoto and iMovie with the extra horsepower and VRAM. Take my word on this, we use these at school and they are great little machines. I would have gooten one and put my money where my mouth is, but my parents splurged and goy me an iMac G5 with some of my own $$$$$$ too.
It could run web video, because it has 32 megabytes of VRAM. If it is a 2004 model. it could have video issues. Look at LowEndMac for more info on this. Plus, the AltiVec engine should help when using flash-intensive sites (like youtube). Plus, the 1 ghz G4 may allow you to use iPhoto and iMovie with the extra horsepower and VRAM. Take my word on this, we use these at school and they are great little machines. I would have gooten one and put my money where my mouth is, but my parents splurged and goy me an iMac G5 with some of my own $$$$$$ too.
Wow, so it actually might be worth it. Hmm.
I never considered the fact that it has twice the VRAM. Does anyone in this thread actually have a 1ghz eMac and use youtube?
My Power Macintosh G3 with 2 MB VRAM played YouTube. Strangely my PowerBook G4 can't though. It just crashes Safari.
My eMac is rounder.
My PowerBook has better graphics, FW 800, Dual Link DVI, actual expansion (cardbus)(besides USB/FW400), backlit KB, Gigabit Ethernet, IS A LAPTOP!, and a LCD instead of a CRT.
I Love Emacs Too
i got one for 50 on c list 800 mhz, it was in a fire but opened and cleaned it and now it sits on my garage counter, they are nice looking, tough machines
i got one for 50 on c list 800 mhz, it was in a fire but opened and cleaned it and now it sits on my garage counter, they are nice looking, tough machines
I'm waiting for my nieces to go off to college (1-2 years at most), and their eMac is mine!!!!
(seriously too)
Only bad part, the older niece wants an HP laptop with windows... only because her boyfriend is a Windows guy. Oh well, I tried - and still am - to get her to buy a MacBook (and put Windows on that if she wants it).
(seriously too)
Only bad part, the older niece wants an HP laptop with windows... only because her boyfriend is a Windows guy. Oh well, I tried - and still am - to get her to buy a MacBook (and put Windows on that if she wants it).
We've got a 1GHz eMac with 768Mb and the Radeon 7500 card. It will play Youtube okay, but its best if you let the video load completely before playing. I'd really shoot for a 1.25 or 1.42GHz model though, having the extra processor + faster bus speeds and USB 2.0 ports would be worth it.
I've got a pair of 700Mhz eMacs I'm trying to get rid of! I was quite suprised at how loud the speakers were, far better than any other Mac's internals.
I just picked up an eMac 1ghz/512mb/80gb/Superdrive for $75! I'm actually not positive of the video card or USB version, but I think it's the ATI/USB1.1 model. I just found out I can't boot OS9 from it, which I'm a little bummed about but I'll probably use it as a general dorm machine. The only computer I usually bring to school is my 11" Vaio TZ, so having the eMac will be great for reading PDFs, Matlab, Grapher, Pages, etc.
Can the eMac use regular double sided SDRAM? I have two sticks of 512mb PC133 that I bought on eBay for my iMac G3, but it turned out they didn't work for it. They've been sitting around ever since, I was wondering if I could put them in the eMac.
Can the eMac use regular double sided SDRAM? I have two sticks of 512mb PC133 that I bought on eBay for my iMac G3, but it turned out they didn't work for it. They've been sitting around ever since, I was wondering if I could put them in the eMac.
If its the Pre-USB2.0 model, then yes it should use that RAM just fine I would think. If you've already got the RAM, I don't see any problem in at least giving it a try. I've been considering getting another 512Mb stick to bump our 1GHz eMac up to the 1Gb maximum because it just feels too sluggish with 768Mb.
Well, the high density RAM didn't work, but I stole a stick off of my G3 iMac to bring the eMac up to 1gb. This thing is LOUD though! I'm so used to my iMac and my little Vaio that fan noise is pretty jarring for me.
I'll put it up on Craigslist and see if anyone takes it for a small profit. If not, I might keep it around. It's amazingly fast for such an old PPC computer, even YouTube plays smoothly. I'm kind of shocked that the Genie effect is actually smoother than my old Macbook Air... discrete graphics FTW!
I'll put it up on Craigslist and see if anyone takes it for a small profit. If not, I might keep it around. It's amazingly fast for such an old PPC computer, even YouTube plays smoothly. I'm kind of shocked that the Genie effect is actually smoother than my old Macbook Air... discrete graphics FTW!