Apple eMac

The Apple eMac was released on April 29th, 2002, for $1099 USD ($1,979.15 USD, as of September of 2025) as Apple's fore into the education market. Later it was released for general consumers as a cheap alternative to the iMac G4. The eMac name is a combination of Education ('e') and Macintosh ('Mac') and is a play on the iMac naming scheme. It has also been labeled the 'Economy Mac' within online Apple Macintosh community spaces.

The eMac was on sale from late April, 2002 until July 5, 2006, were it was formally pulled from the education market after it's discontinuation from the mass market on October 12, 2005. It was succeeded by a lower-costing tier of the Intel iMac released in 2006.

The 2002 eMac was powered by a PowerPC 7450 processor, clocked at 1.42 GHz, accompanied with 128MB of PC133 SDRA and an NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX graphics processor; later the GPU was upgraded to the ATI Radeon 7500, ATI Radeon 9200, then the ATI Radeon 9600. Also featured is a 40GB, 60GB, or 80GB hard disk as storage as well as a 32x CD-ROM drive at the front of the machine.

Featured is a 17" Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) display at a resolution of 1280x960p. Being the last of the CRT display Apple computers, the eMac is often categorized alongside and as the direct successor to the iMac G3 line of computers.

The front of the machine, below the display, has dual stereo 2" speakers and the CD-ROM drive hidden behind a plastic flap adorned with the Apple logo. On the side of the machine is are two 3.5mm audio jacks, three USB 1.1 (later being updated to 2.0) ports, two Fire-Wire 400 ports, a 56k V.90 dial-up modem connection, Broadband Ethernet, as well as a Mini VGA display output (Mirrored display mode only; unofficial modifications allow for other display modes)

The operating system originally shipped with the machine was Mac OS X 10.1.4 "Puma"; being updated to later versions of Mac OS X throughout the eMac's lifetime.

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