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21 eMacs
21 eMacs
10 x 1.25 GHz, 1 GB, SuperDrive, 80 GB
11 x 1.42 GHz, 1 GB, SuperDrive, 160 GB
From Tyler Junior College through an eBay reseller.
10 x 1.25 GHz, 1 GB, SuperDrive, 80 GB
11 x 1.42 GHz, 1 GB, SuperDrive, 160 GB
From Tyler Junior College through an eBay reseller.
*obligatory i hate you post*
nice find
going to shift them is not going to be easy though they be heavy
nice find
going to shift them is not going to be easy though they be heavy
Wow 21 eMacs! How much did it all cost?
Let's just say I've only got the sell a few of these to cover the expense of the entire lot.
They are the nice eMacs too - they have USB 2.0 (useful if you have an iPod or digital camera).
My wife has a 1.25 GHz eMac and uses it daily - she loves it!
My wife has a 1.25 GHz eMac and uses it daily - she loves it!
i have a emac 700 mhz with 768 mb ram and tiger
...hate it
its ungainly slow and al i do is surf the internet
after barley a day of use it bogs down and slows to a crawl
...hate it
its ungainly slow and al i do is surf the internet
after barley a day of use it bogs down and slows to a crawl
Open Activity Monitor and see whats sucking on your processor.
1. It's "barely", not "barley".
2. That's why you restart the machine.
3. I would honestly recommend getting more RAM, my 733Mhz PowerMac G4 does fine, but it has 1.25GB of RAM.
^^^
My quicksilver has the same memory. Now if it would stop messing with its hard drive access permissions....
My quicksilver has the same memory. Now if it would stop messing with its hard drive access permissions....
Upgrade to 1 GB - apps using up memory and then hitting swap slows it down.
Erase and reinstall Tiger - bad install or maybe hard drive fragmentation.
The 1.42 GHz eMac with 2 GB RAM, Radeon 9600 64 MB graphics, 160 GB HD, and a SuperDrive makes a fantastic PPC machine that can even take on some light gaming. Choose Leopard if you want to be up-to-date or Tiger if you need to run older apps in Classic.
1 english is not my first language so save me the nitpicks
2 right so what about those claims that you rarely have to reboot mac os x just hot air i take it
3 pc 100 ram isnt cheap any more
i doubt an extra 256 mb wil make that much of a difference on this dog of a emac
tiger has been reinstalled several times no difference so far
the internal drive is shot so i have to boot of a usb drive and tiger is the only one who does that
jaguar and panther kernel panic and os 9 doesnt even bother to show up
tiger is probably the worst os for this machine other then leopard
i am in no hurry to upgrade to leopard unless it becoms mandatory
other then finding it ugly the additions superfluous ( as in i dont want or need to use them ) the minimum requirements are rather steep
ill stick with tiger and panther
USB 1.1 [xx(] ]'>
The 1.25's are much better than the 700's. Faster system bus, use of DDR memory, better GPU... says it all really. I quite enjoyed the 1.25's but otherwise hated the 700's.
Nice haul, and good luck with the distribution.
Nice haul, and good luck with the distribution.
No wonder it sucks! You're booting off of USB 1.1 - that's barely 1 megabyte a second! You can't run your main OS off of USB 1.1, it's just too slow!
You have to either replace the internal hard drive or boot off a FireWire hard drive. You have no room to complain at all if you are booting the whole damn thing off USB 1.1!
Find trashed PCs from 1999-2002 era or so and pull RAM from them.
Sweet. I have 4 of them, 1 700mhz, and the rest 1.25ghz. I managed to cobble together a 1.25ghz from the parts of the others. It runs leopard a treat with 2gb of RAM, but no core image means some eye candy is lacking.
I plan on assembling the 700mhz and let my parents use it with 512mb of RAM, the 40gb HD, and tiger.
If you are willing to let go of one of the 1.42ghz boxen, I would love to have a top of the line eMac. I love these machines!!
-digital
I plan on assembling the 700mhz and let my parents use it with 512mb of RAM, the 40gb HD, and tiger.
If you are willing to let go of one of the 1.42ghz boxen, I would love to have a top of the line eMac. I love these machines!!
-digital
How much do you plan on shifting them for? I'm not really looking for new computers, but a fairly powerful Mac like those for a decent price would be good.
I installed Leopard on my G4 from an external HDD via USB 1.1... Now *THAT* was an exercise in patience.
Am I the only one here who hates eMacs? Heavy, bulky, unreliable...Even ugly perhaps.
I like emacs more then fruity imacs, but towers are king.
The 1.42 GHz eMac lists for $289 on the Adopt a Mac website. This is beating out every other online retailer already, but I will cut a side deal for one if anyone is interested.
I had an eMac once. I can agree with you on the heavy and bulky. That made it really hard to move, and the slippery material on it made it even worse, but I don't know where the unreliable comes from. My eMac was fine in the reliability area. As for the appearance, I think it looks okay, but a bit out of proportion (with such a flat front and such a curvy back).
My mom had an eMac, the logic board died within 2 years. Also corrupted hard drive - only just got the data off it.
Depending on the speed of the eMac that could've been a capacitor problem though, which every vendor at the time experienced.
eMacs are big and difficult to move specifically because of where they were originally sold. The intent was that you bought 30 of them, and had a moving crew set them up, and then they just hung out in the lab for the next three to five years. (not being stolen from the school, because of the fact that they're huge, heavy, and had a less desirable CRT display.)
eMacs are big and difficult to move specifically because of where they were originally sold. The intent was that you bought 30 of them, and had a moving crew set them up, and then they just hung out in the lab for the next three to five years. (not being stolen from the school, because of the fact that they're huge, heavy, and had a less desirable CRT display.)
I have a 700mhz eMac, 768Mb Ram, and after the years of daily use, it realy started to slow down. Realy badly. To make a long long story shor, I figured out (after few OS reinstalations) that the truble was in its harddrive.
I replaced the old 40GB for new 120GB. And it was realy like new. Try it out.
Taking apart eMac is fun, use an apple manual definitely, its so stuffed inside.
Apart from the fan noise its a great computer for my parents.
I replaced the old 40GB for new 120GB. And it was realy like new. Try it out.
Taking apart eMac is fun, use an apple manual definitely, its so stuffed inside.
Apart from the fan noise its a great computer for my parents.