Should i get a eMac

[mBurns]

My first computer was a 1.42 ghz eMac in 2005. It's still in commission. I purchased a MacBook Pro Core Duo the following year (still my main Mac). I use the eMac once a week or so downstairs for internet surfing. I can play Halo, UT 2004, do video editing, garageband, iTunes, etc with ease. Granted, I have 2 GB of Ram. I would only purchase the 1.42 Ghz eMac since it comes with 64 mB VRAM.

An eMac will work, but the performance won't be blazing. It won't be dead slow either. I run Tiger on my eMac because I feel it's faster. One should have reasonable expectations for a $300 Mac investment, which in all honesty, seems slightly high unless the machine is mint...

Also, don't forget there WERE problems with the eMac. Anyone remember the capacitor fiasco??

 

[CurtisEnergizer]

Good luck!

Hey i just found out that it is 1ghz processor and 10.4.11 1GB of ram. but im going to put 2gb in and leopard.

So do you think i should get it?

 

[MrCheeto]

Sorry, but the 1.25ghz G4 is the current cutoff. It handles Flash just well enough and is just at the entry level for most modern software that is PowerPC compatible.

I say 1.25ghz or bust.

I'm telling you, for that price you can get an Intel machine that won't disappoint.

 

[CurtisEnergizer]

Sorry, but the 1.25ghz G4 is the current cutoff. It handles Flash just well enough and is just at the entry level for most modern software that is PowerPC compatible.

I say 1.25ghz or bust.

I'm telling you, for that price you can get an Intel machine that won't disappoint.

what if i was to only use it with imovie?

 

[MrCheeto]

Oh well in that case, iMovie HD is just great! I wouldn't even try '08 or '09 but the original iMovie's are said to be the best anyway.

 

[jjahshik32]

All I can say is "keep on saving."

 

[MrCheeto]

Are we talking three hundred REAL American dollars?

It simply isn't worth that much, and it's sad that people get sucked into it by it's super modern design, not realizing it's YEARS old and their kids are going to bichan moan about how it's not able to play the latest Flash games and run Call of Duty.

Please, PLEASE, get a Mac Mini Intel. ANY Intel machine will blow this big box AWAY!

 

[MacHamster68]

a mini ...in that price range they are most times upgraded by the owner with hammer and chisel, if i look at some cases when the case doesn't fit together any more
and most times you need to buy keyboard mouse and monitor too

 

[CurtisEnergizer]

a mini ...in that price range they are most times upgraded by the owner with hammer and chisel, if i look at some cases when the case doesn't fit together any more
and most times you need to buy keyboard mouse and monitor too

Ok then what if i was just to get the eMac and use it for my internet things like skype, youtube, twitter clients, ichat then use my Hackintosh witch is 2.13 GHZ processor and 2gb RAM for all my programs such as FCE, Garage band, Photoshop.

That that will lay some weight of the Hackintosh so it will render fast.

What do you guys think?

 

[MacHamster68]

Ok then what if i was just to get the eMac and use it for my internet things like skype, youtube, twitter clients, ichat then use my Hackintosh witch is 2.13 GHZ processor and 2gb RAM for all my programs such as FCE, Garage band, Photoshop.

That that will lay some weight of the Hackintosh so it will render fast.

What do you guys think?

good idea , the eMac will be just fine (dont use flashplayer 10 )

 

[CurtisEnergizer]

good idea , the eMac will be just fine (dont use flashplayer 10 )

Yeah i dont really like watching youtube video with Flashplayer 10 its to glichy and you cant tell when the video is fully loaded lol.

Thanks for all your help i will send you a message if i need any help with the eMac

btw feel free to check out my youtube videos at http://youtube.com/CurtisTheEnergizer

 

[CurtisEnergizer]

Thank you everyone for all of your help!
I will keep you guys updated on the emac

Feel free to watch my youtube videos at http://Youtube.com/CurtisTheEnergizer

 

[mrsir2009]

Hey i just found out that it is 1ghz processor and 10.4.11 1GB of ram. but im going to put 2gb in and leopard.

So do you think i should get it?

Hey, if you have pre-intel Macs you might want to sign up to this forum and ask the question (since its geared towalds pre-intel Macs): http://classicmac.freeforums.org/

I found it on Google I might join myself... Also, wait till you find out the other specs, then decide.

 

[adrian.oconnor]

a emac is never a waste of money , what is more a waste of money buying a 5 year old computer which works flawless for £200 or buying a new computer for near £ 2000 which gets one problem after the other ... i prefer to buy some more eMacs ...

Why would a 5 year old computer work flawlessly and a new one not? The emac is significantly more likely to fail than a new computer, because the HDD is reaching the end of its life and there was a known problem with capacitors breaking down.

eMacs are pretty great computer running Tiger, I've had one and it smokes my iMac white Intel Even though the eMac's specs aren't nearly as good...lol

I doubt very much that it smokes your white intel iMac if you measure it objectively. The intel Macs I have owned, even the slow first generation ones, were all significantly faster than my G4 eMac (unless you're running old PPC code through Rosetta, then they're just a bit faster.)

 

[MacHamster68]

Why would a 5 year old computer work flawlessly and a new one not? The emac is significantly more likely to fail than a new computer, because the HDD is reaching the end of its life and there was a known problem with capacitors breaking down.

just look on the problems you buy if you buy a 27"imac ..and still no end in sight with new problems turning up

and since when is 5 years the end of the life for a harddrive , ok maybe in intel macs it is
in my imac g3 the harddrive is from 2001 and still working perfectly after 9 years of use
in my powermac 5500 the harddrive is form 1997 and still working perfectly after 13 years of use
the only harddrive ever failed in my computers before they had been 13 years old was a harddrive in a laptop which failed after 4 weeks ...seagate inside , intel inside...very bad combination , sold it straight away without even consider getting it repaired under warranty ,i dont trust things that have problems so early in life , i always had bad luck with computers /laptops having newer processors then intel p4 prescott ,thats why i avoid them , never had problems with amd /powerpc inside

and for the bad cap issue it only effects eMacs and iMac G5's too, produced between end 2003 and end 2004

 

[definitive]

a emac is never a waste of money , what is more a waste of money buying a 5 year old computer which works flawless for £200 or buying a new computer for near £ 2000 which gets one problem after the other ... i prefer to buy some more eMacs ...

that's like buying a flawlessly working pentium1 computer with windows 98 - no point in spending money on outdated hardware with hardly any support for today's software when you can buy something newer with warranty.

 

[nicroma]

Wow there is some bad advice here. Just keep saving and buy yourself a new machine. A Mac Mini will blow you away compared to what you are looking at buying, and it doesn't cost that much more.

Just keep saving!

 

[alent1234]

just look on the problems you buy if you buy a 27"imac ..and still no end in sight with new problems turning up

and since when is 5 years the end of the life for a harddrive , ok maybe in intel macs it is
in my imac g3 the harddrive is from 2001 and still working perfectly after 9 years of use
in my powermac 5500 the harddrive is form 1997 and still working perfectly after 13 years of use
the only harddrive ever failed in my computers before they had been 13 years old was a harddrive in a laptop which failed after 4 weeks ...seagate inside , intel inside...very bad combination , sold it straight away without even consider getting it repaired under warranty ,i dont trust things that have problems so early in life , i always had bad luck with computers /laptops having newer processors then intel p4 prescott ,thats why i avoid them , never had problems with amd /powerpc inside

and for the bad cap issue it only effects eMacs and iMac G5's too, produced between end 2003 and end 2004

hard drives are mechanical, means they die faster than non-mechanical devices. i've had some last a year others for many years.

the normal bell curve for any electronic device is most failures occur in year 1, year 2-3 are flat and after year 3 it's a gradual increase in the failure rate. so your advice about dumping something that broke right away is wrong

 

[alent1234]

I have been saving up for a new iMac but ive only got $300 so i had a look on Trade me which is New Zealand's version of eBay and i came across this eMac http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=276015569

I would like to use it for video editing and surfing the web.
The software i would like to put on it is Final Cut express and Garage band.

Do you think its good for that.

Please help.

for $300 get a used mac mini on ebay

 

[CurtisEnergizer]

for $300 get a used mac mini on ebay

Hey there is no point me getting a flash intel mac when i already have a good Hackntosh witch is a intel mac with a 2.13 ghz processor and im going to use the emac for all my internet things and my hacntosh laptop for my programs like FCE.

 

[mrsir2009]

Hey there is no point me getting a flash intel mac when i already have a good Hackntosh witch is a intel mac with a 2.13 ghz processor and im going to use the emac for all my internet things and my hacntosh laptop for my programs like FCE.

The eMac will be fine for the internet, you wouldn't notice the difference between Intel and G4 when your just browsing Ya don't always need modern computers, and sometimes its best to stick to the "classics". A lot of them have less problems and are better built then the new ones... Up until a year ago I've been using an iMac G3 as my main computer, never had any problems with her, and she's still in my garage in case my MBP fails me

 

[MacHamster68]

hard drives are mechanical, means they die faster than non-mechanical devices. i've had some last a year others for many years.

the normal bell curve for any electronic device is most failures occur in year 1, year 2-3 are flat and after year 3 it's a gradual increase in the failure rate. so your advice about dumping something that broke right away is wrong

i did not give advise , i just said that i always had problems with computers with intel and seagate inside and i am the worst customer , as i don't want to run forward and backwards and beg to get something repaired or exchanged , risking to receive the same rubbish again , thats one reason i stopped buying NEW computers , i don't earn my money to spend it to be used as a guinea pig
that is manly the reason i buy used computers , as it does not hurt that much if a cheap used computer breaks down , but buying a new one and hope it stays a couple days on my desk before i have to bring it back because of some fault ....not with me

 

[Stan Mikulenka]

Hi alent1234,
all HDs have stated failure rate in their specs (I think it's called MFBT), which is between 500k~1 000k hrs - yes 1 000 000 Hrs.
Just count how many years they SHOULD last even IF run 24 Hrs a day.
As MacHamster says, "they don't make them as they used to"
I have some SCSI hard drives which are between 10~20 years old & in perfect condition.
Now they churn them by milions in 3rd world countries (and crappy quality)
I had many new HDs fail in last 5 years...

 

[Pachang]

Hey there is no point me getting a flash intel mac when i already have a good Hackntosh witch is a intel mac with a 2.13 ghz processor and im going to use the emac for all my internet things and my hacntosh laptop for my programs like FCE.

why don't you just use the laptop for both?

Honestly this thread is hilarious. You want to get an eMac for no reason at all.

 

[mrsir2009]

why don't you just use the laptop for both?

Honestly this thread is hilarious. You want to get an eMac for no reason at all.

Its nice to have two in case one fails... Besides, its fun buying old computers, I brought a Mac Classic a few years back, and that had even less of a reason to be brought than the eMac