New eMacs Arrive

well, rumours have been confirmed. We have a new eMac.

More importantly, at least in the UK, now the basic eMac is just £649 for the 800Mhz version. That is not a bad deal.

Now, since these new eMacs have the ATI 7500, I would be interested in knowing if the dual monitor hack for the ibooks with 7500 radeon cards also works in the emac. Would be kind of neat to hook a 1Ghz eMac to my 19" CRT and have dual desktop!

In the meantime, I'm still saving up to get that new ibook. Damn student debts!

wow they were very quiet about this, they look good, 799 is great.

iJon

Darn! You got to the site to post before me;).

[edit] I still don't see how they are putting a mere 128MB of RAM in the MID-range model! I might be able to understand in the low $799 model, but not anything else. Heck, OS X requires a MINIMUM of 128MB of RAM! Come on Apple! Why should any of your products be "just enough to get by"?

Apple's front page hasn't been updated, even the eMac page itself hasn't been updated. I only saw the release story on MacCentral just yet. How do we know for sure it's been released? Any other sources?

Ah, now I see: Apple's PR site HAS been updated with the press release. Okay, so it IS true...


:p

Originally posted by Bengt77
Apple's front page hasn't been updated, even the eMac page itself hasn't been updated. I only saw the release story on MacCentral just yet. How do we know for sure it's been released? Any other sources?

Ah, now I see: Apple's PR site HAS been updated with the press release. Okay, so it IS true...


:p

I just went to www.apple.com and was greeted with a great big message saying "The New eMac", so I went to the UK Apple Store and there it was! :D

Originally posted by Bengt77
Apple's front page hasn't been updated, even the eMac page itself hasn't been updated. I only saw the release story on MacCentral just yet. How do we know for sure it's been released? Any other sources?

Ah, now I see: Apple's PR site HAS been updated with the press release. Okay, so it IS true...


:p

lol. I just check the most obvious place to look: the Apple online store;). lol. And if you click on the link for it in the store, it still says under Features and options, "700 or 800MHz PowerPC G4 processor." ;). looks like they didn't really have this update slated to be anything big or they would have taken the store down for a minute and made sure to update it all.

Originally posted by KingArthur
Darn! You got to the site to post before me;).

It was pure chance. I checked this morning (9am BST) and there was nothing. Then I remembered that these things are not updated until about 13:00, when the US site is updated. So I checked now to see what was on and there it was. I don't do it again, promise. Leave me your email and I'll warn you next time. :P

[i][edit] I still don't see how they are putting a mere 128MB of RAM in the MID-range model! I might be able to understand in the low $799 model, but not anything else. Heck, OS X requires a MINIMUM of 128MB of RAM! Come on Apple! Why should any of your products be "just enough to get by"? [/B]

I prefer it this way. I can get RAM cheaper elsewhere, other than Apple. Anyway, low ram is an Apple feature. I personnally don't think 256Mb is enough for the pro line, but that is what comes as default. It should be 512. But I still prefer it that way, so that I can get my own ram cheaper elsewhere

Sort of dissapointing...

$1,698.00
1 GHz PowerPC G4
1GB SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA drive
SuperDrive
AirPort Extreme built-in

Seems like they may moved AirPort Extreme onto the PCI bus.

Q: What PCI bus...
A: Well if it still has SDRAM, then they probably didn't change the chipset. And the old chipset was the SDRAM PowerMac's chipset -- which does have a PCI bus.

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The good news is that even if the rest of the OS 9 legacy lineup gets EOLd, the iBook and the eMac may still be OS 9 bootable for a while longer.

Of course it's all wait and see, to have people check OS 9 booting and the new tech documents at Apple when they show up to see what chipset they use.

Apple hasn't even finished updating their pages. The front page of the store still says "eMac's from $999" and even on the order page the top say "700 or 800 MHz" eMac's. Only the bottom of the order page is correct...

Originally posted by chazmox
Apple hasn't even finished updating their pages. The front page of the store still says "eMac's from $999" and even on the order page the top say "700 or 800 MHz" eMac's. Only the bottom of the order page is correct...

umm are you at the US or UK website?