Touch Screen eMac

[sk8er123]

Hi, I was going to get a 1.42 eMac and buy a 17" touchscreen CRT and put it in the eMac. Just wanted to know your thoughts/ideas.

Thank you

 

[pistooli]

Why not TFT?

 

[Goftrey]

I never even knew you could get 17" touchscreen CRT's...

As pistooli said, get a TFT, it'll be much, much easier.

 

[92WardSenatorFE]

I don't know if its still offered but I believe Troll Touch used to have conversions for iMac G3/ eMac computers.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2006/03/3376.ars

You could always try to email them and ask if you are interested:
http://www.trolltouch.com/

 

[MAC MAN JW]

I don't know if its still offered but I believe Troll Touch used to have conversions for iMac G3/ eMac computers.

There is a iMac G3 with Troll Touch on eBay right now. The seller says the Touch Screen doe's not work. Hear is the link if you want to see it http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-iMac-G3-Graphite-400MHz-w-Troll-Touch-Touchscreen-Conversion-/350554631110?pt=Apple_Desktops&hash=item519eaf2bc6

 

[sk8er123]

Thanks

Thanks for all the replies this is great. Multiple people are telling me to go with TFT so I guess that's what I'll do. I just like the feel of CRT. Also never thought of having a company do it for me. Good idea just a little out of my budget for a 2005 computer. Thank you much. LONG LIVE PPC P.S any way I could buy an eMac internal video to vga or how would I make one.

 

[stroked]

Hi, I was going to get a 1.42 eMac and buy a 17" touchscreen CRT and put it in the eMac. Just wanted to know your thoughts/ideas.

Thank you

What good is a touch screen, when an eMac will not run an OS to support it?

 

[sk8er123]

Leopard

What good is a touch screen, when an eMac will not run an OS to support it?

The eMac can run leopard (quite well) and there is a driver for leopard (all the way back to Jaguar) found it on elo's web site.

 

[doctormark77]

we have several elo's at my work and they work pretty good. We use them with G4 Mac Minis

 

[666sheep]

P.S any way I could buy an eMac internal video to vga or how would I make one.

http://www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com/eServer/ - great site containing pinouts eMac video connector to VGA

http://www.ierna.com/blog/emac-lcd-conversion