4:50, your fan does not agree with your choice of computer 😂😂😂

God my elementary school had an entire computer lab full of these. Ahhh such good memories.

Not that this machine can push such frame rates, but the CRT also does 112Hz at 800x600 which is a nice bonus.

Got my eMac for free behind bestbuy at the dumpster, cleaned it up and it works great. Definitely one of my favorite Macs

I loved mine. Had it from from 2002-2008. Great machine

I am not an Apple fan, but I will say the older models are pretty cool!

Next Vid: "Can you game on a Vauxhall Astra"

Being somebody who uses a PowerBook G4 1GHz a few times a month, I'd say that there are better ways to use the full potential of this machine. First of all, slap in a larger HDD, something about 100-160GB is the sweet spot for later G4 machines IMO. You should also max the RAM to 1GB As for operating systems, I'd suggest you install Mac OS X 10.5.8 and Mac OS 9.2.2 dual-booted. Mac OS 9 runs extremely well on later G4 machines and it's great for playing older games since Classic Environment found on Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier just doesn't cut it. Furthermore, the Radeon 7500 may perform better under OS 9 as it's more of a late OS 9 card than an OS X card! By installing Mac OS X 10.5.8, you'll be able to use a key piece of software called 'Leopard Webkit'. This is a browser engine based on the latest version of Safari (yes, latest as of 2018) that runs with the native Safari UI and performs much much better than TenFourFox. It's so good that it even allows me to watch 360p video on my PowerBook without any lag whatsoever. Another piece of software that makes these machines shine is CorePlayer (can be found on MacintoshGarden) which is a media player that uses AltiVec instructions to their maximum potential. For example, through it I can play 720p with little to no framedrops on my 1GHz PowerBook G4 which I simply find mind-blowing :) To make OS X Leopard more bearable (does a huge difference on my Mac), use tips from this link: ppcarchive.dyniform.net/tuning-a-g4-for-leopard.html On a concluding note, great video and I wish to see more PowerPC stuff on this channel. If you have any questions, ask on the MacRumors PowerPC forums as the folks there are extremely friendly. P.S: To make your life easier while installing Leopard, I could send you a DMG I use which has Intel code stripped down and lots of junk removed. It can be restored to your HDD in around 3 hours with a USB pendrive and an OS X Tiger install disk.

The emac is the most beautiful mac creation to date, even Tim Cook is astonished by its processing abilities. Its monitor is honestly perfect for some budget gaming. Great vid, keep making this AMAZING content. I really appreciate it, thank you.

Those Minecraft figures bring me back to when I'd wake up every morning at 6am and play in the dark on my dad's laptop with around 8-20fps. Anyways, these old Macs are nice, especially the G4 ones. Just gotta get to filming mine. Keep it up man, this video turned out fantastically

"And it's better than the kind of PC you could pick up for ten pounds" I've literally pulled Core 2 machines out of the trash.

I got a powermac g5 for free from freecycle which I use for recording and editing my music which is pretty awesome :) all it needed really was cleaning up

As soon as you started testing the inbuilt speakers I was just waiting for an Oasis track haha

Thanks for making this. This was one of the first computers I ever used and was the only Mac I have ever used until in a few weeks when my M1 Pro MacBook comes in the mail. So crazy to see how far the operating system and hardware have come! It'll definitely be a HUGE leap from my Mac experience 17 years ago!

Dude, it's amazing seeing you hit 100,000 subscribers. I think it was at like 64 when I found this channel and knew it'd be a gem. Genuinely happy for you, man!

I've never used an eMac before, but it seems like a really cool computer, especially with that nice CRT display.

Good stuff

I got one a few years ago for £15, mine appears to be a bit newer with a 1.42 Ghz CPU, DDR RAM (upgraded to 2GB) and a radeon 9600, runs Mac OS X really well, internet is ok, Quake 3 runs really well!

Great video! I love this era of macs, I have both a PowerBook and a powermac with g4 processors. These were the machines I grew up with

I do not turn on notifications for any channel except for this one, your videos are so entertaining and I love your budget builds keep posting!!

Thanks for making a video on my favorite incarnation of the Mac! I still have my 1.25ghz model with 1gb of ram and it still works really well! With Spotify working and a modern web browser selection between Webkit, TenFourFox, and Roccat, and a DVD drive, I still find it really quite useable even today!

Never did have the eMac but a few G3 iMacs which we still have a couple kicking about, as well as 2 G5 towers. Loved the old PPC's. My favourite Mac was the dual 1.25 MDD which I still regard as the most beautiful computer ever built. I put that baby through hell and back. Hmmm.. I might just have to buy one and put an ATX inside. Love the channel :-)

I have a vague memory of my grandmother having one

3:14 your fan is dancing, nice vid btw!

Love the Unplugged Nirvana casette!

My elementary school had dozens of these. By the time I entered high school they still had them but most of them were put into storage and replaced. Looking at these specs I would love to have one of these, not too bad!

You are one of my favorite channels i always look forward to all your uploads

Thanks to a local repair shop, I now own one myself. It isn’t one that can boot OS 9 natively though but it is the faster 1.25 GHz USB 2.0 Combo drive model released in mid-2004. It is one of the first working PowerPC Macs I’ve owned as the PowerMac G5 2.0 DP from the same time period needed repaired at the time.

I have the highest spec eMac in my colletion! The CRT on it is still one of the best screens I have seen in person. Mine has the 1.42GHZ G4, 2GB DDR, ATI 9600 and a 160gb HDD, AirPort Extreme 802.11b/g running Leopard.

I'd love to see a follow up, this is very interesting. I wonder if the older versions of Final Cut will work better with that eMac, Photoshop CS2 might actually be usable considering it was a widely used Mac application during the PowerPC G4 era and from what I can tell emulation on it might not actually be insane (No 3D consoles obviously).

Yes! I hoped from the thumbnail this would be an eMac. I used to have a couple and regret getting rid of them. Also, sweet cassettes dude :-D

Great video, keep it up. Also thank you so much for helping me with my computer. Cheers

We had a music room full of these when I was in school - I loved them, was wonderful for logic.

i really liked the sound demo, wow, good machine :3

Anybody else appreciate the majora's mask references?

just watched this video on a 03/04 emac, not the smoothest ever but still amazing for 15 years later.

CONGRATS ON 100K AND THE FANCY CHECKMARK!

Awesome video man!

The G4 was a beast, Nanosaur (Dinosaur game) and Marble Blast Gold ran great on these computers

7:07 Again, always nice to encounter a fellow Oasis fan through unrelated browsing. Standing On The Shoulder of Giants is a criminally underrated album.

Dang that fan is going ham!

I love and recognize the use of Sim Copter hanger music in this video. I feel like that game doesn't get enough attention despite how fun and innovative it was at the time it was released! I wish someone would make a similar game with modern graphics in 2018.

Nice review :) Im waiting for PowerMac G4 Dual cpus ;)

The eMac made for a darn nice office machine with its 17" flat CRT screen. It was like an "upgraded" gumdrop iMac. For its time it was great. Apparently it's also possible to get Mac OS 9.2.2 running on it natively. More info on the MacOS9Lives forums.

Dad came home with two of these, a 700 and an 800. the 700 was prone to flyback errors. we had it swapped for an 800, and the other 800 was swapped for a 1.25 later on. the "computer room" had the 800 on one desk and the 1.25 on the other. then the iMac G5 came into the picture and the 1.25 went to a third desk. I sold off the 800 at a yard sale about ten years ago but kept the 1.25. Common problems these have include the build-up of dust inside the back shell, the speaker surrounds deteriorating, and the plastic protectors for said speakers breaking from age. the CRTs are some of the best shipped in or with any Apple product, and it was the last product to have such a thing. The fact that I got to experience one daily in my home when they were new is something I am happy about. These were also among the last PPC Macs to support running MacOS 9. Dad was interested in solely this for reasons of having a fast all in one machine that wasn't an iMac to get multiple of for use in the family printing company's prepress department. That seemed to go down the drain, since dual-1.25 MDD2003s started appearing on desks instead.

I recently bought one of these and I love it.

I had one of the later generation ones. Great little computer. My niece has since inherited it.

I remember using that in early elementary school. So nostalgic. I feel old now. I also remember prying open the CD tray door and letting go to see and hear it snap shut again because I guess that was a fun thing to do as a kid to annoy a teacher. Lol

Great video as always! I would love to get an eMac, but I wonder how difficult they are to get into and upgrade? Those speakers sound terrific for a 16-year old computer!

I love how I just was humming the tune to passport.mid and then I hear it in the background!

100k subs good job!😃

I remember using these in school, it made me buy my first Mac, a second hand G4 iMac!

i watch 5 ads and click on them just to help you pay for that eMac :D Fantastic video. Convince me to get a mac just mess with it.

Interesting Video :) I still use my older macbook from 2016. And it has perfect screen compared even to todays budget laptops

While 10 2009 iMacs were running Snow Leopard and Photoshop in my last post, a single eMac running Tiger was the only Mac capable of scanning from an A3 scanner with a SCSI to USB adaptor. Tiger was the last OS for which drivers were available. Compared to the iMacs, it was very slow but it still performed a vital function. That’s all it did. Files were copied using thumb drives. I salvaged it and I’ve picked up a few others for free. Still have them. Would love to do a mod with a 17” screen and a MacMini on one, or on a G3 iMac shell.

I used one of these from about 2003-2007. It was great.

I still have one of these in my garage collecting dust. Mine has the Power PC G4 at 1.25 GHz though. I used it as a back up computer/music playing computer for years though. And the one I have I remember playing Warcraft 3 and even Vanilla WoW worked nicely at the time.

I replaced my 1999-2000 era iMac with an eMac around 2004-5 - except it was from the last production modules, a 1.25ghz with what I believe was a quicker drive. I used it up until mid-2009 when I upgraded due to PPC Macs getting completely left behind. The machine then became my kid's first computer and dedicated DVD player (next generation was DVD) - and it served in that capacity until probably 2016 or so. It still runs flawlessly, and I keep thinking about sprucing it up, but I've collected several other PPC era Macs that are ridiculously more powerful (and way too expensive for me to have ever bought when they were new). One of my favorite things to push these old systems to do is emulation - they do great with it. I'm actually working towards an online "play by chat" Dungeons and Dragons game using one of my PPC G4 towers with a flashed GPU. I'd love to see you do more with these sort of budget systems - but, sadly, since the pandemic they have skyrocketed in price due to hobbyists. I was lucky to sneak in years before they went up. Love all of your stuff, I was poking around in your older videos tonight - including ones I hadn't seen yet (which are few, LOL). Thanks, hope to see more soon.

So all macs aren't bad then. Sort of a nostalgia trip for me there with a CRT screen, I took ages to change to an LCD. And damn you spent a poop load of time on that video.

wow, over 100,000 subscribers, congrats!

awesome videos as always and would love to see more vids running at 15 mins if possible. can i make a suggestion too ? every time you test an old computer, any chance you can test the emulation side of it aswell. i know halo struggled but it makes me wonder if super mario 64 can run on it as i think it will. be nice if you done all computer tests with emulation aswell :-) just a thought :-)

I loved this series mac In school, nanosaur and internet games :) also I would try marble blast ultra, that was the smoothest running game from my memory

Great video as usual but i was more focused on that fan turning super fast in those fast forward bits lol

The black and white Macintosh models, the original Imac and the first all aluminium Imac's are my personal favourites

I absolutely love PowerPC macs and the eMac was one of my favourites. Unfortunately, it's far too big and heavy for me in my flat. I use a Mac Mini G4 as a file server, with Mac OS Server 10.4.11 :) I love making use of older hardware. I feel like Apple lost its mojo once PPC was phased out, never felt the same again and have been a PC guy since. Linux ftw!

Thank you for emphasizing the GPU. Most other "tech" channels don't , which tells me they really know Sweet Fanny Adams. And yes the number of sites to download PPC games are disappearing fast. Thank you for not just telling us what it comprises of but info on how best to use it and where to get programs for it. You are, by far, the best presenter I've come across yet. But most people wont appreciate that. They like snazzy names over content. But you know that already.

Love the sim city music !

That's cool, I was actually planning on picking something like this up (I think it's the g3 though), to see what it's like, and to maybe mod into a Windows PC Another great video, as always!

My eMac turned into my main SNES and Gameboy emulation station for years. I got rid of it in 2014 and regretted it. That CRT was perfection. I never had luck with USB drives with the eMac. The constant disconnects drove me insane. Firewire drives worked perfectly and installed dvd apps a hell of a lot faster.

Worth the wait :)

My middle school still used those in the library as library catalog machines along with a few iMac G3's and a G4. The G3's were between 400 MHz and 600 MHz with 512 MB of RAM and the G4 machines were 1GHz with 256 MB of ram. Not sure if they're there now but they were in 2014. I no longer go to that school so I'm unsure.

I bought a G3 iMac in the early 2000s in order to hop on the Apple bandwagon (it was a companion to my main PC). It was definitely a lot of fun learning the ways it was different from Windows.

I got an early 2009 iMac for free from my dad's friend's mother when she was upgrading. She also gave me her new Magic Mouse and wireless keyboard because she preferred her old ones. It's a very capable machine, and I was able to get it running High Sierra with a little fiddling.

Nice video, it's great that machines like this still exist! Unfortunately, I'd want to get something newer and better on the hardware/software front, as a single core CPU won't run very well for anything (yes, it was possible, as seen in the video, but it wouldn't be fast enough), apps such as Spotify wouldn't work (nor would the latest iTunes), and the gaming performance was so poor that my Windows XP era laptops, from 2006/2007, would vastly outperform it.

Love these computers. I had 3 at different points. Even had the Lucite clear stand for one.

Your desk fan looks like it's going nuts.. If only they rotated at that speed in real life 🤔 time to overclock?

Good video, I would suggest disabling the dashboard and completely closing every single app except for the one your using to get the best performance out of it.

We had these in my secondary school. Good times playing Those online arcade games.

3:03 i audibly gasped and said that's so cool at that cd bay drive, such a brilliant location

That's a fast fan you have there .

i had to subscribe due to the great taste in music

I have Apple IMac G4 1.25 17-Inch flat screen its my fav it still works great

My university had a Mac Lab full of these (they upgraded it to iMac G5s the year I graduated). I always thought they were very cool and clean looking little computers.

I remember seeing several of these back in elementary school. I'd get one but I'd have to make some room for it.

I'm always impressed with these mac screens and you can't grumble for a tenner.

When it's better then anything apple makes today lmao

This is also my favourite mac. Lovely Machine it was

nice! I have a g4 powerbook 1.5ghz I was given by my dad. I upgraded the ram from 512mb to 1.5gb and upgraded it from tiger from panther. i still use it because it has adobe photoshop and adobe illustrator. I even have games such as return to castle wolfenstein that's really fun.

my boi rockin haircut from 1992 4:24, no hate my dude

I have an old eMac ( i think its the first model), what i found interesting is that at lower resolutions, the refresh rate gets very high, at 640x480 for example it can run at 120hz (or somehere close to it), so i tried ports of older games such as Quake 1, but my model is just not powerful enough to get the game above 50/60 FPS to really take advantage of the high refresh rate, you should try that if you are going to make another eMac video.

cool vid keep it up

Finally he’s back

Used to have one of those was a great computer

I remember the receptionist of a small local art gallery was still using a eMac back in like, 2014-ish. But I guess they probably didn’t need high performance for that kind of job.

My top-spec computer from 2003/4. I paid a ton for it back then. I upgraded everything. I used it until 2007. I even played vanilla warcraft/TBC on this lol. The speakers were great. I must have had the later model. It had a gig of ram,80 gig hard drive, 1 gig GPU.

We had these in my school for video editing and webdesign, hated it lol.

This was the first computer I got, My mum got it for my 6th birthday in 2008 and I thought it was the best thing I had ever seen, it still worked long after I stopped using it though. Ended up throwing it out as it was taking up too much space. I remember it stuggling to run BBC Iplayer and sites alike, I got an upgrade to the G5 a few years later but it started crashing heavily after a week and ended up getting an old dell and I instantly fell in love with windows edit: I remember OpenTTD running well but im not too sure as I was so young. I would also try using an older version of VLC as I used that for playing DVDs and movies off of my dads file server

I have a couple of the 1.42GHz variants of these machines. The 1.42 versions run DDR memory and can run 1GB or 2GB unofficially. Those are AMAZING machines

oh, simcopter music. what a coincidence, i've been playing that a LOT lately.

I had one of these they were amazing, I had the 2006 model