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New eMacs From Bill Mather Hi Charles, I am finally considering of making the switch over to OS X after a long time with an original iMac which I love. My question is I have read that Apple has updated the eMac lately and I would like to know if you know what the updates were on it and what you think of it. Thanks for you help.
Best,
Hi Bill;
Apple released a minor update of the eMac last week along with the G4 iBook announcement. The main changes are lower prices, termination of OS 9 dual booting, and preloading with OS 10.3 Panther.
The eMac comes with a 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processor, either a Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) drive or a SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW), ATI Radeon 7500 graphics with 32MB of VRAM and hard drives up to 80GB.
eMac also includes a built-in antenna and card slot to support AirPort Extreme 802.11g wireless networking, 10/100BASE-T Ethernet and 56K V.92 modem, five USB ports, and two FireWire ports.
Bundled software includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD and iTunes plus AppleWorks, Quicken 2004 Deluxe, WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 Edition and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4.
The two available eMac configurations are:
The 17-inch flat CRT eMac at $799 includes: • 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processor;
The 17-inch flat CRT eMac at $1,099 includes: • 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processor;
Since you like your CRT iMac, the eMac is a logical system upgrade for you. The eMac is really the true successor to the classic iMac -- a 17" iMac for all inteents and purposes. Dan Knight runs the Low End Mac Website form an eMac and says he likes it.
It's hard to argue with those prices.
Charles My Safari experience has not been a charm... From Alex Mathew Hi Charles: I use Mozilla 1.5 and wanted to try Safari - primarily for its Apple Services support. However, my experience with Safari (1.0 V85.5) has not been the best and so I am back to Mozilla. Other than crashes every half hour or so of surfing, the other irk has been the lack of "One-Click-and-Hold" Contextual Menu's for links etc. Mozilla supports this and it saves me time over the Ctrl-Click method. I use the trackpad exclusively and so a two button mouse is not an option. If anyone knows of a utility or hack that would enable this, please let me know. FruitMenu enables it for the Finder but not for applications. I also tried to import Mozilla bookmarks in Safari with the help of Safari Enhancer (SE) but it failed because SE could not find Mozilla bookmark files. With over 100 bookmarks, I have to get my bookmarks into Safari to use it as my primary browser. On another side note, I am enjoying the 10.3 like Onscreen Command-Tab switching in 10.2.8 brought about with the help of PullTab (disables Apples Cmd-Tab) and Keyboard Maestro (KM even in Lite/Free mode is fantastic). The added ability of KM to switch between Application Windows - especially in Mail (customizable but mine is Cmd- Tilde~) is a time saver. Mac OS 10.2.8, PB G3 400 Pismo
Thank you
Hi Alex;
Sorry to hear that Safari hasn't been a good trip for you.
In my own (heavy) use over the past six months or so, I've founf Safari to be very stable. I don't recall the current version ever crashing on my rig. Must be something on your Pismo that it isn't getting along with.
I also had no problem importing my Mozilla bookmarks using Safari Enhancer, although that was a couple or three versions ago for all three programs.
I don't know of any hacks that address the contextual menu issue you mention. Perhaps readers can suggest something.
Charles From Alvin Chan Thank you for your time. I haven't used OS X but I would love to use XCode and some additional 512 RAM for my iMac 350/128 which is sort of a friend, like a guardian angel. I can't believe this stories are true even I'm getting into it, this Macs becoming like your friends and I'm not into emotional stuff usually -- it definitely has personality or better yet love when they were made. By the way any tips on how to earn with a sucessful website like yours? Do I have to write my complete name on the articles or can I just use my alias? I won't have .com yet but I might just apple homepage. Btw, what program or utility would you like to see developed?
God bless,
Hi Alvin;
Making money on the Mac Web these days? Not the easiest thing to do. Hard work, perseverence, consistency, content people want to read, succes at selling advertising and solid business management all are part of the equation.
You can use your own name or an alias. There's no restriction on that. I've done both, in print and on the Mac Web. I once wrote for a magazine that had eight contributors' names on the masthead -- six of whom were me. I think I wrote 26 articles for one issue.
I'm not sure I catch your drift on the question about what program or utility I'd like to see developed? Do you mean something that's not currently available?
Charles
From: Walt Hello Charles, I appreciate the sound advice you give regarding all manner of Apple laptops. I was hoping you might be able to shed some light on a problem that has surfaced on my trusty Lombard. I bought the Lombard back in July 1999 and it has weathered a lot of travel and use these past few years. All pretty much without major problems. Recently I took it on a trip and I'm afraid the laptop may have been jostled a bit during the conference. Since the past month, it now has a video problem where the screen elements become distorted (very big or out of vertical sync or extremely fuzzy). Strangely enough it seems to "fix" itself when I move the LCD screen hinge back and forth. Unfortunately, doing so sometimes makes a normal screen exhibit the problem. A little wiggling seems to fix it most times. But I'm afraid the condition will worsen. Any ideas as to what is its cause? And where such a problem could be sent for a hopefully inexpensive repair? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Walt
Hi Walt;
I'm 90+ percent certain based on your description of the problem that you have a chafed or worn video ribbon cable. This happens on Lombards much younger than yours. My son repaired one that was less than a year old.
As I recall, the part itself is not terribly expensive, but you're looking at a couple of hours labor for installing it. The repair could be done at a local repair facility or sent away to a PowerBook repair facility. Check out his article for some alternatives: http://www.macopinion.com/columns/roadwarrior/03/09/02/index.html
Charles
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