Someone Threw Out This Apple eMac! 

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That high quality CRT, and PPC Based CPU are one of the reasons it's my favourite Mac Releases, as I tend to use them for a lot of legacy applications.

We had the original iMacs in school when I was young, I always thought they looked so futuristic 😂😂

Question time! Do you prefer the thumbnail of this video as opposed to my older ones? I used to add lots of colourful bokeh and edit them extensively in photoshop. I personally prefer the simple, clean look of the thumbnail for this video. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated :)

Dude! I found one of these sitting on the side of the road around the corner from my old house about 7 years ago. Took it home and turned it on and it worked great. They are so bloody heavy though.

Great Video. Its good to see these machines getting a bit of coverage now. Through watching your video and others it has inspired me to do a video on the E-mac as I feel it is the neglected 'Mac' and it needs a bit of air time.

Even this ancient mac has a higher resolution than the iPhone Xr

Keep the good work up i just started watching your channel as i was looking to buy an old mac book so i typed in the 2009 Mac book and your channel popped up so i checked it out and you make awesome videos keep the good work up

Wow...so envision a hack of this unit, and installing a single board computer so some retrogaming can come forth!

I remember upgrading from the iMac G3 to one of these and it was a huge improvement. Screen was much better and even with the same memory, it was very responsive with that G4 in there. I wish I would have kept my eMac.

I love your videos! I'm generell interestend in Technology, especially old Technology and your videos are the best!

What a cool little Mac! Wow!

I was driving on my way to piano class and drove past this house that had a bunch of junk out front I took a look and found a E Mac in the pile! And works great!

I really want to get A hold of some old machines, the nostalgia factor for playing old games is amazing.

I am glad that you rescue every computer that ends in bins and car boot sales. At least those computers are refurbished by your expert hands to be transformed as brand new working computers once again.

These are great machines. I used one as a daily driver for a long time and they were great for photo editing. With some open source software you can still do a fair bit with them. My old one is still being used by my nieces mostly as a simple game machine.

You know it’s funny I found one I had a thrift store for $15 I think it’s still available should I get it LOL I have no purpose for it UPDATE: I went to the thrift store and I plugged it in and it doesn’t work:( so I didn’t walk out with it also if it was working I would’ve have had the space

Amazing, got one recently and I love it!

I love how you have every odd/cool CRT computer out there!

Looking good as always! 👌👌

Excellent video! However, back in 2013, what I really wanted was a 20 inch G4 iMac and noticed that this eMac computer did have the same ports.

My University had these for our Graphic Design Lab. I used them shortly before they switched them to the first-generation flat screen ones.

I still use one of these for scanning documents and edit images for items on eBay. I run Linux on mine and have no issues with it. RU-vid even works in terminal mode but, is slow in web browser.

I doubt they threw it , slowly and surely walking it out I would believe. Damn things are freaking heavy.

Lovely bit of kit that one!

Can't believe how many people remember this thing fondly! I just remember it losing my work projects and constantly freezing/ not working properly (these replaced the classic beige macs in my elementary school, they worked wayyyyy better than the eMac).

A couple years ago my intermediate school had a storage room that had tones of these on shelves and behind one was another one I wish I was still at this school and should have taken one without a doubt

I remember my Year 2 teacher ordered an eMac for our class, in 2003. She must have been a fan because we were the only classroom in the school to have an eMac for some reason. I remember being amazed at the shiny white design, and the aqua interface. The class would take turns playing Otto-Magic. So much nostalgia. Our computer rooms were filled with the iMac G3’s, which were discarded around 2006 unfortunately. I remember them being kind of unreliable. We had 1 of the graphite DV iMacs, and my friends and I somehow knew it was the fastest one despite not knowing anything about macs back then. Fun times.

Congrats on getting your monetisation back

I've been waiting for a video for a very long time: now it's here and it's really good as always --> or like we in germany say: Passt scho!

Done a few of these. The build quality is IMMENSELY satisfying to me, as an engineer. All the rubber fan mount grommets in the world won't save you from the VERY, VERY loud, CONSTANT fan noise! Whoops! Love the eMac though - gave my brother one about 10 years ago, and he used it for his business (he still has it!)

Hay, just a question please, I have a similar eMac 2006. What is the command to open the DVD/CD tray? I ejected a game and closed the door. How to open it again? thanks !

i have an iMac G3 (2nd or 3rd series) and iMac G4 (lamp); but I've always liked the look of these. I need to grab one. (I also want to get an old Mac G3 AIO.) I love old Apple machines. They were so cool and futuristic looking.

Do you think you can make a video on how to connect to internet via Airport on old PowerMac? Because i'm connected to My PowerMac G4 QuickSilver but on internet explorer, safari, and fire fox says "Server Not Found"

I have one of these; it's such a beautiful computer. I have limited space and want to use it for composite or via input for my retro consoles so I won't need to be crowded with a tube TV any ideas for adding av inputs of any type. Thanks.

Changing the PRAM battery has always been a bit of a headache with these all-in-one machines. The earlier 5500 and similar models are much easier with a slide-out logic board.

You connect video game consoles into these? (Like ps3 or Nintendo switch?)

I remember playing “I Spy” on this bad boy in the computer lab in 4th grade 😂

I think they had these in some of the student computer labs at my university back around 2004-2005 and they were pretty slow machines even back then. They looked amazing though.

Love the design!

Still have one with the stand, on my desk. Takes up so much room, but I can't bring myself to get rid of my childhood mac.

Can it run Rise of the Tombraider at ultra settings?

Would you make a review and upgrade of a Compaq Presario CDS 520?

That Mac boot chime is beautiful 👌

Hey does eMac support for wireless networks?

i have the very similar model. it came from a university in berlin and the hard disk wasn't formated. i found a whole lot of educational programs and research results. i didn't understand most of it but its interesting.

I worked on these machines for a few years when they came out. Worked fine but the dvd rom was stuck a lot of the time.

Yay tech videos

We had one of these in first grade. It was the slowest thing on earth. And my uncle has one in the garage. These things can be pretty slow on newer softwere.

I love those things ! Used one all the time !

I saw these in the JLS Middle School, CA, that I attanded in 2004 as exchange student. At that time they seemed like machines from the future.

That teardown was cool

What, you only have 50k subs. Bruh I thought you would have more. Nice vid.

It's very appealing. I don't know why but that looks like real Apple machine when compared to new ones

I recently bought one of these for $40. Really cool machine.

wow, I would love find one of those. they are very heavy buying only the transportation would be huge expensive.

I would like to know what brand and model is your watch and please keep up the good work.

You are one of my favorite you tubers

I remember the disc drive would always get stuck lol Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 was WAYYY ahead of its time for the early 2000s. Like seriously. Its so nice

Now throw the 4k panel, gtx 2080ti, core i9, and liquid cooling inside of it. While you disassembling it.

loving these videos! keep up the good work!

I have some personal history with this model. I went to elementary school in 2001, first IT lesson had in 2002. Back then we had only one class equiped with computers, very old PCs running Win 95 or 98, nevermind. During lesson one computer had to be shared by two students. Then in 2005 suddenly our school received a substantial amount of these eMacs. For us it was a great upgrade! Different environment, one computer per user, wow factor was very big then. As I observed many other school in Poland also used eMacs, even I met them at the end of my high school, but as secondary PCs in library. It was in 2013 and then eMacs was already veeery obsolete, but still working unlike PCs from the same year. I even saw them rotting in storage. Probably I would be able to get one fo free then (but didn't have any room for one then). Many other people 5-7 years older and younger from me knows eMac, so this model was for nearly all of us a first contact with Mac at all. From another perspective - I felt that these computers didn't have enough power. Sometimes operating in spreadsheet or vector graphics was painful. Despite this in 2005 it was enough to browse Internet and play flash games (extinct right now, but man! we spent hours on them).

hitting volume up, volume down over and over to make it get stuck on the popping noise for an extensive period of time was me and my classmates favorite thing to do back in 2005 to drive the computer teacher bonkers

It’s so pretty! I agree that the design still holds up. If Apple was still building a CRT Mac, I feel like this is what it would look like.

I got one for $5 at a garage sale. Q tips are good tools to clean the exhaust port.

2:44 there's something satisfying about unscrewing those really wide screws.

My old school music class still uses those for garage band 🤯

Sitting here with a eMac that I did the LCD mod to, and scarred my finger doing it, and still have no use for, but now there’s all these RU-vidrs are doing videos on it telling you it’s also useless xd

Cool! I just found a 2007 iMac yesterday and it works!

I wonder if it’s possible to convert one to LCD

I have fond memories of these in elementary school for testing

Just once I want to find something neat like this.

How difficult is it just to get at the Hard Disk? while this video is now pushing about 4 years old, i just got one of these about a month ago and i think the hard drive is beginning to fail,

I like these but for space reasons I just use my Quicksilver G4 and a LCD monitor...

I remember messing with these multiple times in 2003 during elementary school. Eventually our school ditched these and went with iMac G5 computers.

We had one of these in my fifth grade classroom. I never saw the teacher or anyone else use it but I was always so intrigued by it. I wanted one but I don’t really know what I would have done with it.

I had one like this when I was 14, I played SNES emulator on the mac

Try to find the 2005 model.. Its quite a beast!!

im still running a imac 2011 maxed out, i love macs, speccialy cuz i edit photos and vds

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I just realised that Australians seem to pronounce “assume” as ashoom 😁

could you mod this computer to act as a monitor for old consoles?

I wanted one of those back of the day!

i still had one of those that my grandpa gave me but the CRT died sadly it was really cool

REALLY GREAT!

I primarily used the eMac in high school, although it wasn't hard to find an iMac either. A lot of students abused the heck out of both computers and would punch out the speakers on the eMacs with a pen or pencil.

Ugh. We had a ton of these in the IT suite at my uni in the early 2000s. It's one of the reasons I learned to laugh at idiots who claimed "Macs don't crash".

I was just using my eMac today. Even though I have a 2017 iMac 27 inch screen I go back to the eMac to convert files, such as .cwk files I made a long time ago.(AppleWorks). I convert them into a .png files to work on my newer iMac, and I convert old QuickTime music. The best thing about it has both system Mac OS X and 9 on it. That's the way it came.

i had this during my childhood and g3 so cool

The literal only thing that kills mine for me is the PPC cpu because it's difficult to find real good applications for it. For me at least. It just feels like any version of any photo editing software you could use would be junk, it couldn't handle HD video editing, et cetera. Pro Tools would be the only thing I could conceivably see these being useful for these days, and maybe vintage emulation. SNES emulation looks fantastic on these, and the sound cards are actually top quality.

"School friendly" is a term we will never hear from Apple again

Did that possibly have 2 accounts on it? Did you reset it? Because my family threw one of thoes out because it was worthless to us :/

I never got to use these or the G3. I still want one 😂

Not sure about the very early release models of this eMac. But the 1.25/1.42Ghz models will definitely need a recap for the caps used on the logic board. These were definitely impacted by the capacitor plague of the early 2000s. Saw two blown caps on my 1.42Ghz eMac while cleaning it out. Despite 2 caps having completely vented tops, the machine still runs fine. It's definitely something I want to fix though so I don't use the eMac very much as running it with bad caps can cause more problems. So I only run it when I really need to. Not sure on the analog board, but it's mainly the motherboard that needs the recap. My model used mainly thru hole mounted caps so it's not one of the more difficult machines to recap unlike some older Macs that used SMD mounted caps. (those caps had leaking issues with age so not related to the defective capacitor issues the 2000s era machines had)

I have one of these, i have one of the high end models and have upgraded it

I have EXACTLY THE SAME (specs) but I upgraded the RAM (256mb->768mb)

My mum bought one for $50 on Facebook, turned out the RAM is dead, so it's just sitting in my cupboard, I'll buy RAM soon

It supports 1gb of ram and if you put more than 1gb will it be able to run

Has your monetisation been reinstalled?

would be cool to put an new imac hardware on the old case.