New eMac Tomorrow?
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Rod Rod
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aafuss1 said:
well, you're one for two.
the current 1.25GHz eMac (released April 13, 2004) can take up to 2GB of RAM.
anyway why not set your sights higher for the video card wish? such as a Radeon 9600/9700... anyway I just wanted to clarify about the eMac's RAM ceiling.
QFace
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Headless eMac = bad idea
In my opinion, the eMac was made really to continue the design of the original iMac. The all in one design is great for schools, and unlike the first LCD iMac, the eMac is far less fragile. The all in one design of the eMac is great for schools looking a sturdy computer that won't clutter up spaces. Unfortunately, the eMac is atrociously ugly... an updated eMac that resembled the old iMacs [but with larger flat CRTs] and came in various colors would boost eMac sales not only in schools, but for consumers looking for a simple, cheap desktop. So many people still love the design of the old iMacs, and would buy this computer simply for the look.
In my opinion, the eMac was made really to continue the design of the original iMac. The all in one design is great for schools, and unlike the first LCD iMac, the eMac is far less fragile. The all in one design of the eMac is great for schools looking a sturdy computer that won't clutter up spaces. Unfortunately, the eMac is atrociously ugly... an updated eMac that resembled the old iMacs [but with larger flat CRTs] and came in various colors would boost eMac sales not only in schools, but for consumers looking for a simple, cheap desktop. So many people still love the design of the old iMacs, and would buy this computer simply for the look.
Dont Hurt Me said:
The eMac's display is not a Studio Display. The eMac has a shadow mask display, which is why I won't buy one. Colors are washed out, and the display just isn't that sharp. Sorry, but after looking at Trinitron displays all my life, the eMac's display is abysmal; it really detracts from the 'wow' factor of OS X. Shadow mask displays can also have weird ghosting issues sometimes, but I haven't seen any on the various eMac's I've played with.
The Studio Displays were Trinitron/DiamondTron-type displays (Trinitron, I'm 90% sure of it). Much much sharper, and vivid colors.
MacPhreak said:
It's true. However, you can attach any sort of monitor you want to an eMac. I run a 19" FD Trinitron CRT as the main display (at 1344 x 1008, 100Hz) and use the built-in CRT (at 1024x768, 89 Hz) as a secondary display. Great for notes, palettes, IM/mail windows, etc.
Once you go dual-monitor, you never go back. The spanning hack rules.
-vga4life
Lord Bodak
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aliasfox said:
Internal TV tuner is the only thing keeping me from dumping my Linux desktop. I have a PowerBook with an eyeTV, but it just doesn't compare to the internal TV tuner in my PC due to the latency and the need for having another box connected.
Put a TV tuner in the iMac and I'll buy one right now. Same would probably be true for the eMac.
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Skiniftz said:There better £$%@£%$'ing well not be a new eMac - I just bought 42 of them of which half are delivered already.
I feel your pain.
toughboy
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MacFan25863 said:
The old iMac, iLamp, is a very "liked" model and they cannot take the risk to harm the iMac G5 sells..
and plus, if eMac is going to be LCD headed, then it means that the cheapest mac will be above 1000 USD in United States and 1000 euro in Europe which can never ever compete with a custom-build chaisis only PC which never cost more than 600-700 with best price/performance configuration made.
I wished Apple could release a chaisis only mac (without screen -lcd or crt-) with dualcore G4 and good configured machine and with a price of a prescott P4 PC which is 700 or at most 800..
Another point to keep in mind is that, if Apple offered the current eMac at a lower price and an improved eMac at the current price (just speculation, remember), you still might be better off getting the higher priced of the two. With more up-to-date specs, it'll be that much longer before it becomes obsolete for its purpose, whatever that is. Your parents probably aren't the likeliest candidates for constant upgrades to the latest and greatest state of the art computers, so you'll want this one to last them a while. They might upgrade RAM and/or disk space down the road, but it's not a good plan in the long run to buy a slower processor or stripped down configuration if they would expect to use the system for many years.
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Doctor Q said:
Especially with a new OS coming out around the corner that will require ever more of the computers processing power.
Speaking of which, I'd wonder if they'd also upgrade the video card so it will handle Tiger better.....
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