[sonofmof]

what do you guys think is the possibility of an upgrade to the emac in the near future ?

with the mac mini recieving updates in fairly quick succession is the eMac likely to get the same treatment ?

A 1.5 or 1.67 G4 with 512Mb Ram would be good. (maybe 128mb GPU)

I just bought my first mac 9 months ago (a 1.25 emac) and am lookin got kill of the remaining 2 pc's in the house shortly. another emac would be a welcome addition considering the recent problems with the imac that i keep reading about.

What do you all think ?

[the_glassman]

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
I honestly don't think it will be updated anytime soon. Nothing major even if it was updated. Just a slight speed bump and probably the same video card. My iMac has been wonderful and trouble free. I sold my old overclocked eMac and traded up to a maxed out 2 GHz iMac and haven't regretted it one bit.

[sonofmof]

Thanks for the reply, I cant really stretch to a new G5, have just moved house and things are pretty tight. was gonna sell off the 2 athlon xp2500+ and xp2100+ machines and use the money to either buy an eMac or a mini.

Am really taken with OSX and Panther and quite fancy getting my hands on Tiger and iLife 05.

I would be selling the XP systems whole so no keyboard or mouse or display to add to the mini therfore would need to buy new.

Which is the bedt performer currently ? the mini or the eMac ? I would think the eMac with the faster HDD and larger GPU, will the new updates to the mini cancel this out ?

Welcoming all opinions

[P]

The eMac is faster, but the dealbreaker is the form factor for most people - if you like the all-in-one style, get the eMac. The iMac issues should be sorted out now, but the price is of course much higher.

[Agent69]

Originally Posted by P

The eMac is faster, but the dealbreaker is the form factor for most people - if you like the all-in-one style, get the eMac. The iMac issues should be sorted out now, but the price is of course much higher.

I disagree. The deal breaker is the incredibly load fan the eMac has. I would say it was louder then my MDD was.

[sonofmof]

Originally Posted by Agent69

I disagree. The deal breaker is the incredibly load fan the eMac has. I would say it was louder then my MDD was.

Thanks for the reply, I'm not sure what a MDD is but the fan in my eMac 1.25 is way quieter than the fan in my PC's , so unless the 1.42Ghz eMac fan is a lot louder it is not an issue for me

[ApeInTheShell]

I think the MDD refers to the Power Mac Mirror Door Drive Model which was one of the last models to feature a G4 processor.

I think the question isn't whether they are going to upgrade the eMac. It is whether they are going to change the form factor to match the iMac G5 or get rid of it altogether. The latter wouldn't make sense but stranger things have happened.

A new eMac on October 12th would impress me.

[P]

I twould make sense to remove the eMac if they had something to replace it with. An iMac G5 15" at $999 (say) on one side and the Mac mini on the other would squeze the eMac out of the picture.