Apple eMac

Get the power, performance and value you're looking for in an all-in-one desktop computer that's as easy to use as it is to afford. The eMac now features a more powerful processor, a faster optical drive, and Apple's integrated iLife applications for making the most of your music, photos and movies.Among the reasons the eMac is so popular is that it features a blazingly fast 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor, and it's Apple's most affordable G4-based system. The PowerPC G4 with Velocity Engine is uses the same 128-bit vector processing technology featured in scientific supercomputers - just what you need to accelerate intensive multimedia calculations, import audio files and create video transitions in iMovie. In fact, the eMac's 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor lets you encode DVDs in real time. The bottom line is that the eMac G4 processor makes digital media creation faster - which in turn means that you can spend more time playing and creating and less time waiting.Pop in a DVD movie - made on your eMac - sit back and be entertained. The eMac now comes with your choice of the revolutionary SuperDrive - now at 4x speed for burning DVDs twice as fast - Combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW or CD-ROM drive. With a SuperDrive-equipped eMac you can burn your iMovie productions and iPhoto slideshows to a DVD that plays in almost any consumer DVD player. Optical discs are also ideal for backup, because they offer enormous capacity in a small package that's easy to store and that lasts a long time. DVDs - the kind you can burn on your new SuperDrive-equipped eMac - can store a mind-boggling 4.7GB of data - the equivalent of 3200 floppy discs or 7 CD-R discs or CDs - store 650 MB of data, the equivalent of 450 floppy discs. Plus, iTunes lets you mix and burn CDs with either the Combo drive or SuperDrive models.The iLife software application suite that comes on your new eMac, includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD. The apps let you do fun, creative things with your pictures, music and movies - and share them with family and friends - in ways that PC users can only dream about. And whether you're creating your own music CDs, publishing your digital pictures online, editing digital video, or authoring DVDs, you can do all these things and more quite nicely without thumbing through a manual. It's all part of the iLife experience.You can put your new eMac anywhere in your house, not just where the phone jack or broadband connection happens to be, because the eMac ships AirPort Extreme-ready for wireless networking. The AirPort Extreme Card is user installable and allows your eMac to communicate wirelessly with other computers and link to the Internet (through the AirPort Extreme Base Station). The AirPort Extreme Base Station can support up to 50 simultaneous users (Mac and PC), all sharing a single Internet connection. Each base station has a built-in Ethernet (RJ-45) port.Not only will you do more (and faster) with the eMac, you'll see more, too. The eMac sports a 17-inch (16-inch viewable) flat CRT display. The display offers nearly 40% more viewing area than a 15-inch CRT, so you'll have almost 40% more workspace - perfect for viewing large images and multiple web pages and documents. Since the screen is flat (with less image distortion than curved CRTs), there's less glare, making it easier on the eyes.The eMac comes with five crisp screen resolutions. Setting the screen to a higher resolution means there's more workspace for viewing large documents, two-page spreads and websites without having to waste time scrolling to see the rest of the document. Less scrolling means more time for working and playing.The eMac all-in-one design has some tremendous advantages. For instance, there aren't a lot of extra cords, so setup is simple - and desktop clutter is kept to a minimum. And in addition to the stunning 17-inch display, the AirPort Extreme-ready eMac comes with a built-in 10/100BASE-T Ethernet port for high-speed Internet access, FireWire, USB and amazing stereo speakers - all in one compact computer that's smaller than most stand-alone PC displays. The eMac design is about the same size as the 15-inch-CRT-based iMac - (8mm shorter, actually), which makes it ideal for limited desk space in the classroom or at home. And its body is made of polycarbonate plastic, the same material used to manufacture bulletproof glass.