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Apple Offers eMacs To All
pinqkandi writes "Apple released the cool and cheap eMac a few weeks ago -- but for educational purposes only. Today, they announced that it is now available to everyone, for only $1099, making it the cheapest G4 Mac ever. I'll buy one." I won't, but I am glad people who want to buy it, can. It's a nice little machine. I guess Apple doesn't see it cutting into iMac G4 sales, but I wonder if iMac G3 sales (starting at $800) will suffer.
As it is, people will buy this eMac, complain about it being slow and tell all their friends, who will just assume Macs are slow.
Of course it will--Apple doesn't have big plans to push yesterday's hardware and design as The Next Big Thing. The G3 iMac is right at the end of it's lifespan and has only stuck around this long to fill Apple's entry-level slot. The eMac will probably completely replace the old G3 iMacs before too long.
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What kind of a moron would expect mac users to run Emacs.
And why aren't they using GNU instead of *BSD? Someone call RMS!
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It can do 1152x768 and 1280x960. The back has a video out port for a second monitor, but it does not support dual monitors (only mirroring).
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Of COURSE they will. That's the point. They're replacing that model with a current model.
I'm using 128 megs on an G3 iMac (circa Jan 2000) and Mac OS X works great. Of course I don't use it for high end game playing, photoshop or other workhorse apps.
For typical use (e-mail, browsing, an office suite), digital hub stuff (iPhoto, iTunes) and for unix-y program-y stuff, the eMac is likely to be a pretty good choice.
Don't expect a machine billed as an 'educational computer' to blow the doors off your expectations.
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We all vie for eMacs, with vigor, no less, but rather more.
Have you read my journal today?
That's a CD R/W.
The next step up is a combo CD R/W + DVD.
The top of the line is a DVD R/W.
I don't think Apple will sell a system without a writable CD; they emphasize burning too much in their advertising.
I'd really like to see a $999 eMac replacing the prehistoric iMac range entirely, but I guess the costs aren't quite there yet.
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This is a very big deal.
Think about it. For those people considering buying a PeeCee...
Feature for feature, from the 17" CRT to the G4 proc, 40g HD, USB, FireWire, ethernet, AirPort, and finally OS X... there is no better value on the market right now!
$1099 for a desktop *nix box is huge, and just what Apple needs to lure disaffected wintel users to the Mac platform.
--geethree
Just so everyone knows:
DON'T BUY RAM THROUGH APPLE!
They are forced to pay a very high price for it and in doing so are forced to charge a lot for it. When you get a computer from Apple get the least amount of RAM possible and buy the rest seperately.
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Anyone have info about whether all of the hardware is supported for Linux on PPC?
Thanks.
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
Cheap powerful machines == more opportunities for Linux on the desktop. Thanks Apple!
You've got a lot of nerve, coming to an apple.slashdot.org article and posting a comment about Linux on the desktop. Are you wearing your asbestos underwear, or what?
Then again, looking at your posting history, it appears that you may just be a subtle and effective troll.
...for our little office here. It's really a great machine for businesses that already have a Mac presense, and for any who are moving into it. 1099 for the whole kit and kaboodle. It'll fit on any desktop. It's got more than enough power for anything aside from server stuff and serious film/video production work. No DVD, but for businesses, especially small businesses, that doesn't really matter a whole lot. It's got enough video memory to run the accellerated quartz features in Jaguar. We're going to be specing these things for serveral of our clients, and retiring the aging Cube we're using to pasture as a test machine and getting one for ourselves pretty soon. I'm just peeved that It's not gonna be mine.
Just got back from the local Apple store and they've got a couple of them out there. Really sweet little machines.
I have noticed that performance *has* improved dramatically from the pre-10.0.4 days. Once I upgraded to 10.1 and beyond, Mac OS X doesn't feel sluggish. Of course, YMMV.
Last week foobar104 helped me determine I have a 'so what?' attitude to performance. I guess I've spent too many years on slow computers to care (for example, my current work machine is a Pentium II Laptop).
Just last week I got in a 'discussion' with a guy who complained that Mac's suck because they use harddrives with slower RPMs and that his Wintel desktop machine was better because it could load Photoshop faster. To me, it's what you get accomplished AFTER the software is loaded which makes a difference.
That being said, if I were getting a G4 eMac, I'd probably pop for the extra RAM.
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The educational model still has a combo drive option available which suggests Apple doesn't want to cut into their combo drive supply by offering it to Joe Sixpack.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
I paid the same amount for my PC, and my PC has the same specs--40GB HD, USB, ethernet, Unix...
:) And before Apple killed the clones, I really was hopeful that there would be some price-competitive Macs on the market. But don't kid yourself; there aren't.
The difference is, I bought mine TWO YEARS ago.
So, really, what are you waiting for?
Just FYI, I always price compare whatever I want to the equivalent Mac, because the hardware platform isn't that important to me. (Linux runs on Macs
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And the G4 has the same size L2 as the Celeron.
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To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
I did just what you suggested on both my iMac DV SE (Jan 2000) and iBook (Sept 2001). Both of them have 128 megs RAM and Mac OS X 10.1.4.
With Mozilla and Finder running I started Terminal. I got a prompt at the end of "3 hippopotamus" on both machines. Earlier when I had a few more programs open in the dock (BBedit, Help Viewer, System Preferences) it went up to "5 hippopotamus". Not great (and my 'stopwatch' sux), but not exactly forever.
I'll take your tip and get some more ram when I have the chance.
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Hmmmmm ... wonder how long it'll be before THIS lawsuit happens??
utter rubbish
Time for dadragon to compare the feature to feature price of the new consumer eMac to the old student eMac. Prices for students come from the University of Saskatchewan's computer store (ccs.usask.ca), consumer prices are from Apple's online store (Canada) All prices are Canadian Dollars.
Student:
Combo dvd/cdrw drive
128mb ram
40g HD
Firewire
Geforce2MX 32mb
$1979
Consumer:
CDRW
128mb ram
40gb HD
Firewire
Geforce2MX 32mb
$1794
Well, the difference is $185. An external DVD reader costs more than $185, but an internal one is less. I think the consumer model is a better value, but the student model will likely go down in price at the next price update, so I think this will be my next desktop.
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Read the pretentious component names:
700Mhz PowerPC G4
40GB Ultra ATA
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX with 32 MB of DDR SDRAM
Two 400-Mbps FireWire (IEEE 1394) ports (5); 8 watts shared
(fortunately, Apple's long since stopped prepending all their new product names with Power or Quick) QuickTime
Apple Pro Keyboard, Apple Pro Mouse
May we never see th
I hate to sound rude, but Apple has a Web site where you can easily read the specs.
There's an opportunity to make a lot of cash in that idea, somewhere, I'm sure of it.
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