I got my eMac back in December when I switched to Mac and I'm VERY happy with it. So far, it's been the best computer I've ever had. 
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Why does no one have an eMac?
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Mechcozmo said:
i didn't explain myself very well. i was actually referring to Ph.D.s. i got the feeling the poster was belitting someone else, saying that because they (did not, in fact) have (what he/she considers) a mindless job that they didn't need an expensive computer. "the amount of money one spends on their computer does not intelligence or caste-system status increase" was my attempted point.
did anyone else feel the post i replied to was condescending?
i realize i'm a bit ot here, so i'll shut up about this now. to get on-topic, i've been thinking about a new machine. i've looked at the emac, but that widescreen on the imac is just a bit too seductive. the power of the machines is not really a concern. the work i do is not that processor intensive, so the difference in the speed is essentially a non-issue. the screen real estate, however, is a concern.
I gave my friend my old eMac. I guess he likes it.
I liked it too. A solid machince and too heavy for a criminal to jack from a classroom quickly....
I liked it too. A solid machince and too heavy for a criminal to jack from a classroom quickly....
mad jew said:No problems Claudia. Welcome to the lighter side of computing. Good luck on your paper.
Thanks! my paper came out really well, and now i have more massive paper writing to do
However, i installed the new OS and....i'm not very excited anymore I think maybe its because I havent really messed aroudn with it too much. I've been too busy attempting to use the backup of my old files from iDisk to work on my iBook, but, i dont know how to do it. hehe
Claudia said:Thanks! my paper came out really well, and now i have more massive paper writing to do
I'm glad the paper came out okay. I've only got another 8,000 words to go on mine and I'm done for the semester.
I'm appreciating Tiger more and more each day as I discover new features although I did the same with Panther right up until the end so it might just be OSX in general that tickles my fancy.
Sorry, can't help with the iDisk problem because I've never had .Mac. Hopefully someone else can though.
The eMacs are great!
I've had my eMac since October 2004, and it's the best computer I have ever owned. Sure, it would've been nice to get a iMac G5 or PowerMac, but for the money the eMac is hard to beat. Even the Mac mini isn't a good deal for me. By the time I add a keyboard, mouse, display, RAM, USB Hub, etc. it would be around the cost for a new eMac which has a better graphics card, larger HD, better speakers (even though the eMac's speakers aren't great), and a faster HD. I don't like people who put down the eMac for no reason. This is becuase they're mommies and daddies buy them iMac's and PowerMac's and they have never used a eMac in they're life. They put it down because it isn't pretty. Well, if they sat down and acutally used one they might see that's it is a great computer. I know that I LOVE my eMac!
I've had my eMac since October 2004, and it's the best computer I have ever owned. Sure, it would've been nice to get a iMac G5 or PowerMac, but for the money the eMac is hard to beat. Even the Mac mini isn't a good deal for me. By the time I add a keyboard, mouse, display, RAM, USB Hub, etc. it would be around the cost for a new eMac which has a better graphics card, larger HD, better speakers (even though the eMac's speakers aren't great), and a faster HD. I don't like people who put down the eMac for no reason. This is becuase they're mommies and daddies buy them iMac's and PowerMac's and they have never used a eMac in they're life. They put it down because it isn't pretty. Well, if they sat down and acutally used one they might see that's it is a great computer. I know that I LOVE my eMac!
I set up my parents' new emac yesterday, about 4 hours before the Apple/Intel rumor hit the web. d'oh! It could be like when they bought an Apple ][+ just before ][e's were announced. I was looking pretty smooth until I tried to find the power switch and took forever to figure out how to open the cd tray. It's a little bit slow with Tiger, could be cuz it's at 256MB RAM until the extra RAM gets here. They got it from macconnection, $794, arrived cross-country in 3 days with DHL Ground.
berol said:
Yeah, I'd say the reason it's slow is because of the RAM. Mine runs Tiger REALLY well and I have 512MB.
berol said:
After it is on, just put it to sleep. Shouldn't have to use that on button except for... well... never, really. My iMac G4 is always asleep and I never have to deal with that button.
There might be an Up To Date plan (if any) for anything new, flashy, and improved shmangees.
And I have to say, $794 is a helluva of a deal for RAM. If I were a computer program correcting your grammar, I'd say "undefined identifier 'it'" and then laugh at you. Which I did anyways. Uh-oh...
Mechcozmo said:
Yeah, my eMac is asleep when I'm gone or when I'm asleep.
I had to get out the User Guide to find out how to turn my eMac on.
What can I say? It was my first Apple computer.
nope. its because its ugly. and nobody who buys from apple is willing to buy an ugly comp..sjpetry said:Because it's huge compared to any thing but the PowerMac.
Size/Performance
Plus the Mac Mini is faster. And a lot of people have Crts ling around anyways.
katie ta achoo said:I love your logic. I think we all share it.
I've only seen and eMac ONCE outside an apple store. It was at school.
(funny story- AP music theory test, the other recording station for sight-singing broke so we used the eMac instead. She popped the CD into iTunes, and me being me, I may have goofed off on the Mac instead of practicing as hard as I should have, haha.)
Man, those eMacs... I can't stand the look of them. The monitor is too low, and CRT just bugs me. I'm so used to LCD now that the insane brightness of CRTs hurts to look at. Now, when I have to use a CRT, I either fiddle with the brightness or give up and put on sunglasses. ( I have crazy-sensitive eyes.)
Man, when is Apple going to ditch the eMac? It doesn't really fit with the aesthetics of the rest of the line.. maybe if they kind of converted it into an incredibly low-end iMac (with LCD!) and managed to keep the same price point... maybe call it the WeeMac or somethin.
It sticks out like a sore thumb, next to the sweet, sweet lines of the PowerMac G5, iMac, and of course, my baby PowerBook.
Yeah you won a PB so of course you don't like the eMac.
virus1 said:
It's not ugly. The Preforma's were ugly Apple computers, and people still purchased them. The older Beige PM G3's were ugly, and people bought them.
I don't have an eMac because they're kinda ugly and big... they remind me too much of the old iMacs from grade school with OS 8 that always crashed
To be fair, our cheap school only put 32 megs of RAM in those beasts.
To be fair, our cheap school only put 32 megs of RAM in those beasts.
I still have an eMac!!!
I still have an eMac 1.25 w/ a gig of ram.
still using it now for testing and running as a server sometimes.
Wanted to sell it a while back to buy a laptop but decided to keep it and use it as a test machine along side my dell inspiron laptop
Use the G5 to do some heavy photoshop and rendering work (Hobby)
and some audio recording. eMac is a very sturdy machine, newphews used it when they come here to visit me
Will keep this eMac until it dies then I will be gutting it. See if I can mod it
I still have an eMac 1.25 w/ a gig of ram.
still using it now for testing and running as a server sometimes.
Wanted to sell it a while back to buy a laptop but decided to keep it and use it as a test machine along side my dell inspiron laptop
Use the G5 to do some heavy photoshop and rendering work (Hobby)
and some audio recording. eMac is a very sturdy machine, newphews used it when they come here to visit me
Will keep this eMac until it dies then I will be gutting it. See if I can mod it
Yet another eMac user
Dang, if I'd have known that this thread was here, I would've replied sooner...
Yes, I also own an eMac (check my sig), for these reasons (in order of importance:
1. I badly needed a new Mac to replace my aging iMac Rev. D (366MHz, overclocked from 333MHz). I was a college student at the time, so I couldn't have afforded any other Mac anyway, not even an iBook. Hell, I even borrowed some money from my parents, I was that poor. (Don't worry, I've already paid them back!)
2. I got the lower end Gen3 eMac (1.5GHz, overclocked from 1.25GHz) with only the combo drive and no extra accessories in April 2004, which at that point in time, was the best bang for your buck for a Mac at the moment. The iMac G5 and iBook G4 had a lower cost/performance ratio at the time. Also remember when Powerbook users were having a fit when an $800 computer was matching performance (and sometimes beating) their $2000 laptops on Barefeats?
3. I like the simplicity of the All-In-One design. Even my PC-using LAN party friends still appreciate how easy it is to set up my eMac, even after 2 years. I'm always the fastest one up and running, while my friends have to go back and forth to their cars getting their towers, monitors, whatever. (We play lots of Warcraft 3 and UT2004, so raw speed is not an issue.) Not only that, but my PC friends say that my eMac is the best looking computer there. It makes me wonder why Mac users get so snobby about aesthetics sometimes. The eMac doesn't look that bad!
The eMac had the best cost/performance ratio for a Mac since the Gen3 in April 2004 up until now (the newly released iMac G5 holds that title now) since it had excellent hard drive performance (second only to the Power Macs), a graphics chipset equal (at the time of the 1.42GHz release) to the more expensive iMac G5 that was better than the Mac mini and the iBook, processor performance that is close to a Powerbook running on battery power, and a complete system that is almost as cheap as the Mac mini (with equivalent accessories).
So I guess the eMac is for people that are willing to sacrifice an upgrade path (and for Mac users, aesthetics,) for an excellent cost/performance ratio. Logic would have dictated I get a PC, but at least the eMac still uses OS X, so that also counts for something.
On another note, because the cost/performance for the iMac G5 is so good right now, I'm going to buy one within a couple weeks...
Dang, if I'd have known that this thread was here, I would've replied sooner...
Yes, I also own an eMac (check my sig), for these reasons (in order of importance:
1. I badly needed a new Mac to replace my aging iMac Rev. D (366MHz, overclocked from 333MHz). I was a college student at the time, so I couldn't have afforded any other Mac anyway, not even an iBook. Hell, I even borrowed some money from my parents, I was that poor. (Don't worry, I've already paid them back!)
2. I got the lower end Gen3 eMac (1.5GHz, overclocked from 1.25GHz) with only the combo drive and no extra accessories in April 2004, which at that point in time, was the best bang for your buck for a Mac at the moment. The iMac G5 and iBook G4 had a lower cost/performance ratio at the time. Also remember when Powerbook users were having a fit when an $800 computer was matching performance (and sometimes beating) their $2000 laptops on Barefeats?
3. I like the simplicity of the All-In-One design. Even my PC-using LAN party friends still appreciate how easy it is to set up my eMac, even after 2 years. I'm always the fastest one up and running, while my friends have to go back and forth to their cars getting their towers, monitors, whatever. (We play lots of Warcraft 3 and UT2004, so raw speed is not an issue.) Not only that, but my PC friends say that my eMac is the best looking computer there. It makes me wonder why Mac users get so snobby about aesthetics sometimes. The eMac doesn't look that bad!
The eMac had the best cost/performance ratio for a Mac since the Gen3 in April 2004 up until now (the newly released iMac G5 holds that title now) since it had excellent hard drive performance (second only to the Power Macs), a graphics chipset equal (at the time of the 1.42GHz release) to the more expensive iMac G5 that was better than the Mac mini and the iBook, processor performance that is close to a Powerbook running on battery power, and a complete system that is almost as cheap as the Mac mini (with equivalent accessories).
So I guess the eMac is for people that are willing to sacrifice an upgrade path (and for Mac users, aesthetics,) for an excellent cost/performance ratio. Logic would have dictated I get a PC, but at least the eMac still uses OS X, so that also counts for something.
On another note, because the cost/performance for the iMac G5 is so good right now, I'm going to buy one within a couple weeks...
I used an eMac just this morning. It wasn't nearly as fast as my iMac but that's understandable. I was actually quite impressed. Just like the iMac, it looks better in the flesh than in photos.
My son has one
My 10 year old bought his eMac 1.25 in Feb. 2005. He loves it, my 5 year old daughter loves it, my wife loves it too. I enjoy using it myself, to rip mp3 files and burn cds. For people that only want a computer that will setup and run right out of the box, the eMac is ideal. Our eMac performs 24/7, nevers sleeps and if not being used, crunches SETI.
My 10 year old bought his eMac 1.25 in Feb. 2005. He loves it, my 5 year old daughter loves it, my wife loves it too. I enjoy using it myself, to rip mp3 files and burn cds. For people that only want a computer that will setup and run right out of the box, the eMac is ideal. Our eMac performs 24/7, nevers sleeps and if not being used, crunches SETI.