21 eMacs

[Mike Richardson]

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.

 

[bluekatt]

*obligatory i hate you post*

nice find

going to shift them is not going to be easy though they be heavy

 

[slimac55]

Wow 21 eMacs! How much did it all cost?

 

[Mike Richardson]

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.

 

[macgreg]

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!

 

[bluekatt]

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

 

[Christopher]

Open Activity Monitor and see whats sucking on your processor.

 

[MrMacPlus]

barley a day of use it bogs down and slows to a crawl

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.

 

[Christopher]

^^^

My quicksilver has the same memory. Now if it would stop messing with its hard drive access permissions....

 

[Mike Richardson]

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

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.

 

[bluekatt]

barley a day of use it bogs down and slows to a crawl

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.

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

 

[bluekatt]

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

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.

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

 

[Richard]

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

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.

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(] ]'>

 

[iMac600]

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.

 

[Mike Richardson]

the internal drive is shot so i have to boot of a usb drive

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!

 

[MrMacPlus]

3 pc 100 ram isnt cheap any more

Find trashed PCs from 1999-2002 era or so and pull RAM from them.

 

[iamdigitalman]

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

 

[chris]

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.

 

[MultiFinder]

the internal drive is shot so i have to boot of a usb drive

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!

I installed Leopard on my G4 from an external HDD via USB 1.1... Now *THAT* was an exercise in patience.