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Updated eMac Line Released Today
TellarHK writes "Today, Apple's eMac line got a nice upgrade with all models getting a 32M Radeon 7500 video chipset, display capable of 1280x960 resolution on a 17" flat CRT, and price cuts across the board. $799 will get you a base model with 40GB of drive, 128M of RAM (continuing the rather odd stinginess on RAM configurations), and an 800Mhz G4. $999 will get you an extra 20GB of drive and a 1Ghz processor, while $1299 lands you a whopping (ahem) 256M of memory, 80G, and a SuperDrive at 4x."
Price/Performance is only one factor in the TCO calculation. I prefer to look at Price/Work_Output. I know I'll start a war with these comments, but consider this:
.. I'm ready for the flames now :)
First, the "Windows" part of "wintel":
How much down time is caused by rebooting Windows?
How much down time is caused by patching Windows?
Is the cost of the Apple solution outweighed by the cost of downtime experienced by Windows users?
Second, there are other Intel-based OSs, like Linux and *BSD. These are excellent, top-notch OSs, however, it can be tough to convince management that they can rely on a vendorless OS. (Yeah, blah blah RedHat blah blah).
If I could convince my management to give up Exchange, then OS X would be a great solution for the default desktop config.
If we were all on the same STABLE OS, with a single vendor supporting our Hardware and OS, with the large selection of vendor-backed applications, our work output would go through the roof.
Ok
10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!
What I do not understand is why all their sub-1000 dollar models have built in mointors. I would love to see a powermac without a built in monitor in the sub-1000 dollar range i.e. an e-mac without the built in monitor.
This seems like a bargain too good to pass up. But I wonder about the quality of the monitor. If I were to get a Mac, it would be for photo and video editing. Is the integrated monitor on the eMac of good quality?
No USB 2.0 ports! Why not?