10.5 mac mini and emac boot time

[carfanatic41]

eMacs are supposed to be for education.

e= education

[smils9098]

@carfanatic41 yer you right....emac for education mac

[FallenLeafProduction]

are the 1ghz and up eMacs still decent machines? Are they still good? because they go very cheap on eBay, and I've never owned a mac before. I just want to try one out. I don't want a complete piece of crap, but i don't want to spend all my money on a new one.

[vlekkietwinnie]

They work with leopard and can still do some things but if you want a realy fast mac than you have to buy a intel mac.

[AJComixII]

You could use an eMac with Tiger, and it works great.

[jackalarrr]

yh there great, still very fast for the price and excellent for general computing ie listening to music, word processing, web browsing etc and maybe a bit of ilife/photoshop

[aaaaplay]

There reasonable but id get at least th 1.25 but the best was the last because they came with wireless and bluetooth.

[nisto95]

Their good but your better off with an old G5 or a new Mac Mini.

[claudiokun2007]

eMac did very well... I own one at work since August 2004 and it never failed... just once decided to reinstall after a bad update to Tiger 10.4.

Now I am tempted to try it out with Leopard. Just a bit afraid it will get sluggish, but from your video it seems to do fine.

[Macuserppcintel]

look at this

[Macuserppcintel]

the vid responce my boot time

[Macuserppcintel]

sry for all the replys but mins using 512 with 1ghz 40gb

[mustangman442002]

eMacs are solid computers: i think Apple made a mistake by stopping their sales. Besides, that design is classic, and I still think it looks great!

[sonic3243]

@mustangman442002 yeah, and especially for education and students.

think... a cart of 23 macbooks that wear down fast and cost $999 each

$999x32 ~ $32,000

while an emac has fewer moving parts and is great for a class env. - $699 each

$699x32 ~ $22,400

A savings of $19,000 because the eMacs will last twice as long!!!!!

[macprorocks]

@mustangman442002 Not when you have to fix them...

[uberrubystein]

i have an emac running 10.3.9 and it can get tiger but not leopard with out a ram upgrade. we are getting rid of it cuz we have 3 new mac's anyway

[shmitshamilton]

thanks for that

[asc13nt1st]

only off by like 10 seconds. not bad for e macs.

[jsk14jeca]

What mods were you doing to your Mac mini?

I noticed that the top cover was taken off and you forgot to plug in the fan controller.

[Rjnicko]

how well does the mac mini run the DVD player feature s it needs a 1.6 ghz cpu and core solo is 1.5ghz. My mac mini is an upgraded 2.33ghz 2GB ram 160GB hard drive with a super drive it runs awesome