I think the PM is going to get a big boost. It really needs it. When that happens this in a couple of weeks time then the eMac and iMac will both get more substantial specs. 133Mhz bus at a minimum (they already take PC133 RAM) and faster outright CPU's (probably only 800 for the eMac though). Also, as evidenced by the recent widescreen iMac debut, the GF4MX is a drop in replacement for the 2MX now in use (pin compatible) so expect that too, though maybe not on the eMac.
You might even see a combo-drive model. It looks like Apple has no interest in making a truly affordable computer (for which the iMacG3 is perfect, but only if they drop it to 599-699 instead of the ridiculous 799-999 they now charge) I think Apple just might kill the iMacG3 and replace it with a lower eMac -- around 899 for the lowest model, read-only optical, and then a 1099 CDrw/Combo model depending on how cheap of a drive they can get.
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the emac doesn't need an update (it'd be nice though). it's the low end product (not including imac g3). 700 mhz is plenty fast. i don't expect it to be updated, but i won't hold it against them if they do
I wouldn't be too surprised if the eMac stayed just how it is until next Spring when it would get bumped again for the educational buying season. This would allow the iMacs and PowerMacs time to pull ahead of it, giving the eMac room to be updated.
I wouldn't be surprised if the iMacs got a processor and feature bump around October.
My wife was the one who really wanted an eMac but now that we have it, I can't get away from it. It hard to back to the iMacDV now or any of the other Macs we have. I've already bumped the ram up to 768mb and it's much zippier now. I was afraid it would hardly run at all on 128mb but I was surprised that it wasn't to bad. I think it's well worth the $1100 and right now you get a free Epson printer to boot. OSX is great, I trying to see how long I stay in X without going back to Classic9.
<strong>well , didnt sell it to my friend, long long story i wont get into and im pretty bummed bout it so im stuck in windows for who knows how much longer</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ack!
I actually am encouraging a co-working to buy an eMac - very small print business and our Account Manager/Design woman has a pre-G3 beige tower which she just loves.
It is so slow it makes me cringe. Plus her machine crashes at least once a day which also makes me cringe (I came in to do web design for them and immediately put X on the B/W machine they put me on...)
They are very budget conscious and so I figured an eMac was the way to go - PowerMac is really a machine worthy of high rez photoshop work/Quark/making big PDFs, but she is so happy now I can't imagine she would even notice the difference between the PMac and the eMac...
Plus, the price is a great selling point. Actually a huge selling point.
Is the eMac really clunky looking (in other words would she be embarrassed to have it on her desk when clients walked in the door?) It looks pretty Barneyesque in pictures.
The eMac indeed needs an update. It needs a respectable graphics card and faster and larger hard drive. Once the PowerMacs are updated, there will be room for better eMacs without getting to close to the low end pro machine. Perhaps an eMac SE?
No chance in hell. The soonest an update would come would be in time for a spring buy cycle in education, which is much smaller.
eMac is for education. Apple sells them to us grudingly, because the margins are low (although they bump up the prices to us mortals) and they really want us to move to the new iMacs.
Save up your pop cans, shell out for that 17" iMac flatscreen. Gawd, that's a beat.
I don't see such a huge aesthetic problem with the eMac. It's about as small as a 17"CRT can get. My NEC FE750 (17" CRT) looks bigger and it doesn't have a whole functional computer to hold in it's boxy chassis. It looks huge in pictures, but I checked one out at the campus store where they have it next to an iMac G3 -- they really are the same size. The eMac looks much SMALLER in person. I think I'd get the stand for it, though.
I think part of the emac's problem is that it's white. White tends to make things look larger, and the emac is no exception. The one's I've seen look fine, but I would much rather get one in a different color. Just my opinion though.
I actually like how the eMac looks, and even with its 17 inch screen, it is quite a bit smaller than my 17" crt studio display. I think it's great because it packs a 17" monitor into a relatively small package (about the size of the 15" CRT iMacs, really). Of course, the twice-as-expensive 17" iMac is awesome-looking, and takes up even less space than the eMac.
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You might even see a combo-drive model. It looks like Apple has no interest in making a truly affordable computer (for which the iMacG3 is perfect, but only if they drop it to 599-699 instead of the ridiculous 799-999 they now charge) I think Apple just might kill the iMacG3 and replace it with a lower eMac -- around 899 for the lowest model, read-only optical, and then a 1099 CDrw/Combo model depending on how cheap of a drive they can get.
<strong>5. Half an hour in a room with Me, a Bottle of Gin, and a Clown named "Sprinkles"
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I wouldn't be surprised if the iMacs got a processor and feature bump around October.
<strong>well , didnt sell it to my friend, long long story i wont get into and im pretty bummed bout it so im stuck in windows for who knows how much longer</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ack!
I actually am encouraging a co-working to buy an eMac - very small print business and our Account Manager/Design woman has a pre-G3 beige tower which she just loves.
It is so slow it makes me cringe. Plus her machine crashes at least once a day which also makes me cringe (I came in to do web design for them and immediately put X on the B/W machine they put me on...)
They are very budget conscious and so I figured an eMac was the way to go - PowerMac is really a machine worthy of high rez photoshop work/Quark/making big PDFs, but she is so happy now I can't imagine she would even notice the difference between the PMac and the eMac...
Plus, the price is a great selling point. Actually a huge selling point.
Is the eMac really clunky looking (in other words would she be embarrassed to have it on her desk when clients walked in the door?) It looks pretty Barneyesque in pictures.
No chance in hell. The soonest an update would come would be in time for a spring buy cycle in education, which is much smaller.
eMac is for education. Apple sells them to us grudingly, because the margins are low (although they bump up the prices to us mortals) and they really want us to move to the new iMacs.
Save up your pop cans, shell out for that 17" iMac flatscreen. Gawd, that's a beat.
Matthew