[xmacintosh]

The eMacs are gone from the online store and from the hardware page.

[Will C]

You can buy mine if you like!.....

[xmacintosh]

Thank you... I bought an iMac G5 last month But before that I was owner of an eMac 1GHz. Great machine!

[yoesh]

eMacs are still available via the EDU and GOV apple stores.
they are just probably fading into the sunset quietly....

real question is will they be replaced or will the imacs take their place in the inventory of schools.

[Commodus]

The only way you can get an eMac now, if at all, is by doing an institutional purchase - no individual users can buy them.

I have to say that the eMac probably won't be missed very much - not by now, that is. I suspect that people only really bought the eMac in 2005 if they were a long-time Mac user or someone else in love with all-in-one but unable to afford an iMac. Everyone else already knew where they were going: the Mac mini is ultimately the cheapest option, and the iMac G5 has always been a better machine overall.

[Pao|o]

I think the eMac was more trouble for Apple than it was worth. The profit margin and sales of the eMac must be really bad for Apple to quietly kill it off. With the exit of the eMac there's a void between $699-1299 price range. We will either see a higher spec'd/expensive Mac Mini or a lower spec'd/cheaper iMac.

I think this is the reason Apple did a silent update of the Mac Mini. When you look at the specs of the silently updated highest end Mac Mini vs the phased out eMac it appears that the eMac is a bad deal.