eMac review
I recently purchased a 2nd hand emac for my sister as I am sick of having to keep her Windows 98 PC running and I dont really want to encourage her to continue down the Windows route, its just a path that will be paved with more support nightmares for me.
I decided to write this review based on the experiences that I am having setting it up for her. And they are good so far.
I hate CRT moniotrs and to be honest using this one is not making me love them again, but I am a nitpicky type of person who likes things just “so”. As far as CRTs go however this one is great.
Mac OS X 10.4 : It runs surprisingly well with little to no slowdown now this machine is very humble in its specs – PPC 7450 (g4) running at 700Mhz along with 512MB of RAM. To be perfectly honest it does all the webby and officy stuff that you could want and it does them well, it does not get too much in the way of you doing your job. (Altough text input can be a tad slow in Camino).
Sound: The speakers produce a really nice volume with decent clarity a lot better than I was expecting (a lot better than my ahlah cheapie 2.1 set I picked up for $30AUD when my last set gave up the ghost.).
Annoyances: the HOME and END keys do not work as expected in text input boxes in webpages, toolbars etal 🙁