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What to do with an eMac?

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onkzzz

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May 28, 2013
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Coventry, England, UK
My school are selling eMacs for £10 per mac. Nobody wants them and they have about 18 of them with OS X installed (not 9).
I may buy one, but what can one do with an eMac?

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BTW these were used in our music rooms. Now we have 2013 iMacs in!
 
onkzzz said:
My school are selling eMacs for £10 per mac. Nobody wants them and they have about 18 of them with OS X installed (not 9).
I may buy one, but what can one do with an eMac?

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BTW these were used in our music rooms. Now we have 2013 iMacs in!
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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 :D Seriously though, you can get a bunch (if not all of them) and then sell them on ebay for what they are really worth.
 
53kyle said:
They are excellent jukeboxes :D Seriously though, you can get a bunch (if not all of them) and then sell them on ebay for what they are really worth.
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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.
 
53kyle said:
sell them on ebay for what they are really worth.
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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.
 
I was looking to use of these as game servers for games like Minecraft and Counter Strike, or a home DLNA server with Ubuntu.
But, would they be able to handle it all?

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53kyle said:
...sell them on ebay for what they are really worth.
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How much could they be worth?
They are used-ish, and have 0 accessories.
They have some spare tiger discs if anyone wants one xD

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mojolicious said:
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.
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Exactly.
I don't know where I will put it if I get one.
BTW, does anyone know if you can get AirPort in one of these? They are currently Ethernet only :p

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mojolicious said:
Not much more than £10, but the look of things.
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BTW. They arent even selling at £10.
All they want is a £5 minimum donation to the school fund for music and I get one!
 
onkzzz said:
I was looking to use of these as game servers for games like Minecraft and Counter Strike, or a home DLNA server with Ubuntu.
But, would they be able to handle it all?

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How much could they be worth?
They are used-ish, and have 0 accessories.
They have some spare tiger discs if anyone wants one xD

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Exactly.
I don't know where I will put it if I get one.
BTW, does anyone know if you can get AirPort in one of these? They are currently Ethernet only :p

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BTW. They arent even selling at £10.
All they want is a £5 minimum donation to the school fund for music and I get one!
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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.
 
onkzzz said:
How much could they be worth?
They are used-ish, and have 0 accessories.
They have some spare tiger discs if anyone wants one xD
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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.
 
onkzzz said:
My school are selling eMacs for £10 per mac. Nobody wants them and they have about 18 of them with OS X installed (not 9).
I may buy one, but what can one do with an eMac?

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BTW these were used in our music rooms. Now we have 2013 iMacs in!
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I'd love to buy one... Is there any way I can have it delivered here, in Athens?
 
urbis said:
I could do with a Tiger disc!
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lol

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53kyle said:
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.
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Really? I might sell some then... make some casshhh

Altemose said:
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.
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Hmmm... I don't know if i wanna spend money on airport cards.
Besides, they would be rare to buy in the UK im guessing...
You cant even buy a iBook G4 logic board here... so yeah.
 
onkzzz said:
lol

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Really? I might sell some then... make some casshhh







Hmmm... I don't know if i wanna spend money on airport cards.

Besides, they would be rare to buy in the UK im guessing...

You cant even buy a iBook G4 logic board here... so yeah.
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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.
 
mark80 said:
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.
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Ah, you see, I thought of this first before I posted this here.
I don't know if I really want to get a "mac" and turn it into a "slight-mac". (if you know what i mean).

I want to keep OS X 10.3 on there and I want to make the best use out of it.
It is a good idea to use it with Linux but it is not worth the money and hassle.
Then again, we all have opinions :D
 
onkzzz said:
Ah, you see, I thought of this first before I posted this here.
I don't know if I really want to get a "mac" and turn it into a "slight-mac". (if you know what i mean).

I want to keep OS X 10.3 on there and I want to make the best use out of it.
It is a good idea to use it with Linux but it is not worth the money and hassle.
Then again, we all have opinions :D
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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.
 
onkzzz said:
Ah, you see, I thought of this first before I posted this here.
I don't know if I really want to get a "mac" and turn it into a "slight-mac". (if you know what i mean).

I want to keep OS X 10.3 on there and I want to make the best use out of it.
It is a good idea to use it with Linux but it is not worth the money and hassle.
Then again, we all have opinions :D
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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.
 
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.
 
Imixmuan said:
...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.
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Personally, I use Macs to run OS X because I like the software. I appreciate their efforts though...
 
Altemose said:
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?
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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.
 
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