The Complete History of the eMac G4 

Our family got an eMac shortly after they were made available for purchase by non-education I believe. It served my family well for a number of years, until we got a 2007 aluminum iMac. Ours had to have a few repairs over that time though, but there’s still one in my mom’s house, and it still works. The fans were quite loud compared to some other machines. The eMac holds a warm place in my heart all these years later (even though they’re incredibly heavy and hard to move).

I was a senior in high school when the eMac came out and a few appeared on campus. I remember really coveting one. An affordable “pro” update of the candy colored iMac design with the “supercomputer” G4 inside! In college they had iMac G4s which I loved, still wishing I had a display with those ergonomics today. And then the more boring flat G5s. But I always still had a soft spot for those eMacs… something so retro-futuristic about them.

I got 5 if these in my basement, one of them is new in box 1.25ghz model that gonna get a nice setup at some point when I get more space

Loved the eMac that I bought for $100 from a friend. After it finally kicked the bucket, I gutted it and converted it into a sleeper all-in-one VR gaming PC. Only giveaway that it isn't standard is the IO and the display, but other than that it all still looks original.

and eMac was my first machine that ran OS X, first time using garage band and iMovie, life changing!

I have a 1gig eMac in my outbuilding connected to my extensive music library in an external drive connected to two sets of computer speakers with woofers each that I use to do yard work and BBQ. I open the door to my outbuilding, fire up the eMac and rock! Love it.

I had one. Loved it!

We had one at our London based ad agency in 2003. If someone broke their iBook we gave them the eMac for a few weeks as punishment.

The eMac was my first Mac. Loved it. That thing lasted for YEARS. Long after I moved on it was still kicking around for my niece and later nephew.

I worked with these for a number of years and they were tough! It showed how Apple understood their market and what it needed for the time.

These things are built like tanks. I know a local newspaper still using these things until 2015. When they threw them out, all of the units were still working.

My father's eMac still runs. It is slow in anything OSX, but it's one of the last Macs to run Mac OS9, and that is fast.

At least this model DID NOT LOOK LIKE A TOOTH !!!! (re 'Molar Mac' LOL).

I used one in a law office back in 2003.

This was my first experience with an Apple computer, my Elementary School had them and we would play CoolMathGames on them. Was devastated to learn in Highschool they threw them all out, I would have saved every last one and kept like 3. Great machine, I miss that era of Apple

I had one of these in my bedroom as a kid, last-gen model. It was a great computer, and the screen was about as good as CRTs got. I played tons of old games on it, it was my stereo, my slideshow, my book report writing machine… pretty great. Incredibly heavy, though.

"...cut from the same, chunky cloth." 🤣🤣🤣

I remember the architecture school at the university I went to, bought a load of these eMacs to replace the amazing blue G3 / grey G4 towers running OS 9. This was at the time when a lot of students had moved away from using university facilities and bought their own aluminium G4 PowerBooks running OS X - me included. It certainly seemed to be a time when university and its students lost touch with each other…. an eMac for cutting edge architecture students! We weren’t writing essays (we didn’t know how).

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This was the computer I helped pick out for my aunt and uncle back in the day (1 GHz model.) The regret was that we didn't upgrade its RAM-128MB was just not enough for Panther most days (and we kids noticed playing THPS2 and Warcraft 3 on it), but they kept using it (and AOL) until 2011 when we got them an Intel iMac to replace it. Still, I think they were pretty great-looking machines-while I love the color of the iMac G3s, there's no doubt with their flat fronts and less bulbous look that the eMac is a much more refined-looking machine.

My college computer lab was full of these, always unoccupied compared the PCs in the lab, but they were great machines nonetheless. I keep seeing these at swap meets and I have to resist wanting to take one home.

Nice vid. Opening had Better Call Saul energy

I’ve never used one, but I’d certainly love to get one.

I had one for awhile… nice computer but HEAVY 😱

A friend had bought it as a cheaper option, and I was hella jealous. This computer was nice!

Neighbour just gave me one of these. I was able to put a wireless card in it. Not sure what to do with it now lol

I owned one and liked it. Unfortunately it developed a fault that was unrepairable and I had to replace it at short notice. I have owned lots of Macs and it is the only one that let me down

I did in my school district but never owned one

In the consumer market, it was ... there. Never really something anyone actually wanted. Everyone basically wanted a "headless iMac" at the time. In a way, we got there with the Mac mini, but it was underpowered compared to the same-gen iMacs. Now, we're finally there, with the M1 Mac mini being the same power as the iMac 24" M1 - plus no bigger iMac, but the Mac Studio. Something missing in the middle, of course, i.e. a Mac mini with M1 Pro. But I'm guessing we'll get that middle ground fixed in the M2 generation.

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you mean the emac? it only has one name.