[jamesl]

Hi

As we all know, the emac has been around for quite a while now, running on G4.

Does anybody know if we will see a revison of the emac within the nextvyear, as I am lookign to purchase top of the range emac for some school work.

Is it likely to make the move to g5 within the next year or not?

Thanks, James

[Luca Rescigno]

It'll probably be updated really soon. Last update was many moons ago. I'd guess another quiet update around the same time as the PowerBooks, just like last time. It could get a G5 at 1.6 GHz, but I'd guess it's more likely to get a 1.5 GHz G4. The rest of the stats should remain about the same, though I do hope it gets a better video card for running all of Tiger's CoreVideo effects.

[jamesl]

When is the next update expected? Roughtly?

Woulkd you advise me to wait until mid next year tio purcchase an emac, to run along side my g3 ibook?

[Dave N]

Here are a couple of items from the "rumor" sites:
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=760
http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2004/...25003454.shtml

It looks like a G5 eMac is in the future, but unfortunately not in the immediate future. I'm with Luca, hoping for maybe a speed bump and a better graphics card in the next upgrade. Then I'll probably wait for some to show up in the Apple refurb store and get one.

[jamesl]

Thanks for that information.
DO you think that it is liukely that there will be an eMac g5 revision before march/ april next year?

Also, is it likely that the price would be a lo more expoensive than the current emac range, due to the g5 processor?

[Dave N]

Sorry, I have no idea of if/when the eMac will be upgraded to a G5. I think the best thing to do is to just watch those rumor sites (appleinsider, macrumors) to see what they are saying.

As for pricing, I would guess that it will stay the same. Consider that the price of a G4 15" iMac was $1300 just last summer, then when they came out with the new models the price stayed the same and it got a G5 processor and a display increase to 17".