What to do with an eMac?

Anything... Web browsing, Photoshop, Music, anything. They aren't as fast as a new machine but well worth it for that price. Get like 5...

 

They are excellent jukeboxes Seriously though, you can get a bunch (if not all of them) and then sell them on ebay for what they are really worth.

 

Or be like Southern Dad and stockpile them for coupon printing. However, get a couple of the top spec models and it'll be good.

 

Not much more than £10, but the look of things.

You can do stuff with eMacs – I had one on my desk for 4-5 years – but the problem with them as secondary machines or servers or whatever is the space they take up.

 

It is in your best interest to get Tiger disks. Retail software is always good to have. The original eMacs 700 or 800 MHz take a regular AirPort A/B card, but later eMacs took an AirPort Extreme card. For Minecraft, I know it can only do up to 1.5.2.

 

I don't know how much they are really worth, but on ebay I see them at £20-100, some with and some without accessories.

 

I'd love to buy one... Is there any way I can have it delivered here, in Athens?

 

They weigh 50 pounds / 23 kilograms. They aren't worth the price to ship them.

 

I could do with a Tiger disc!

 

They can be had on the Internet. Though I don't look at the UK version of eBay.

 

Word processing is the most I would probably use one for. The modern web is a bit much for most models unless you have the max (1gb) amount of ram and the faster CPU and even then there are plenty of limitations. It would also work well as a jukebox of some sort. You could attach an external drive for more music storage as the internal hard drives tend to be a bit small.

 

Put Linux on it

I would experiment with some lightweight Linux distro. Maybe start with a pure cli and add a lightweight window manager. With a light os, the machine shoud handle most websites at acceptable speed.

 

Best way would be to go Tiger. The resource footprint is close to Panther in my experience and you have a much better selection on software.

 

10.3 is still usable I suppose, but 10.4 is more stable, up to date and actually still has a small amount of supported apps for it. If you can find it, get it for sure.

If not, Linux may be your best shot... it can be a hassle for certain, but "the money" shouldn't be a problem as most distros are free.

 

Run MorphOS if you can. Otherwise, I'd stay with 10.5 or a 10.4/9.2.2 mix and run what you can.

http://www.morphos-team.net/hardware

 

Mac OS X is still very usable. Do you use MorphOS? I keep hearing about it but have never personally tried it? Do you recommend I give it a shot?

 

If you have 100 bucks (or euros) to blow

...then by all means, install MorphOS. I am consistently impressed to blown away by the performance MorphOS gets out of old PowerPC hardware. I've never used it, cause I don't pay for sex or software. This guy shows what an iBook G4 can do with MorphOS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMCZhZX_-mY

I don't believe there is support for Airport in the current MorphOS release, so you'll have to buy a MorphOS friendly USB dongle or just use it with Ethernet.

Your web browser choice is limited to Odyssey, which is a modern, webkit based browser.Timberwolf was a port of Firefox to Amiga, but I don't think it went very far past Firefox 4.0. Otherwise MorphOS enthusiasts all seem to be mostly former Amiga gamers, and I never got into Amiga or gaming, so I don't have much to say about that.

 

Boat anchor.

 

You could turn them into planters or a fish bowl.

 

Personally, I use Macs to run OS X because I like the software. I appreciate their efforts though...

 

I tend to lump Morph with Linux in terms of using it on my PowerPC's. If you have an extra Mac to mucky muck with, do it. If not, stay with OS X.