Back in the day I had to look after a lab full of these lads. Honestly, they were just ... good. Low maintenance, no drama workhorses that basically just kept on trucking despite what the students threw at them every day. I liked them.

I never will forget when I was in 4th grade in 2005 seeing the librarian unbox and set one of these up in my classroom. It was the 1.42ghz model and my first experience with OSX as all the other schools computers were g3 iMacs with os9 or apple performa machines on os 7-8. It was like something straight out of the future. So white pretty and cool looking. And ran so fast. I miss those days

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an eMac with its stand. Didn’t even know that was a thing. It really elevates the look of the thing.

This was my first mac. Throughout the 90s I was unix/freebsd person and was excited to have Unix with a good UI once MacOS X had matured a bit. MacOS also had Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer (this was before Safari) - two things the Unix world was lacking, the open source equivalents weren't very good at the time. I had considered G4 iMac (iLamp) but was drawn to the CRT - it was larger, bright, could handle different resolutions. The G4 iMac screen at the time was only 1024x758 15" kind of limiting. So as soon as the eMac was available to consumers I went up to CompUSA and bought one and the stand! It got me hooked on macs - I eventually sold it for a TiBook and have been using macs since, all because the eMac.

I LOVE my old Emac. It could do everything: HD video editing, snappy audio editing, and a super-sharp CRT-screen that looks better than most LCDs today.

I worked at a newspaper when the emac came out, great machines for writing on.

The eMac was the first apple computer I ever owned. I still have it and use it as a media player

I remember I went on a field trip in fourth grade to a local university (which I ended up graduating from lol) and they had a computer lab FILLED with eMacs. It was the first time I’ve ever used a Mac and I wasn’t really sure what it was (although I knew about stuff like iBooks and iMacs) and I was blown away at how futuristic Tiger looked, and I wanted one SO BAD. I also loved the vent on the back, the whole computer was gorgeous. To this day I absolutely love the eMac, and it’s a shame they’re so large because I would love to have one!

9:49 All quality work requires swearing.

The amount of engineering involved in this eMAC to design such a "curved" stuff inside is really impressive.

Just picked one up for $45. Can’t wait to dig in and restore it to its glory.

Great video! The eMac is a great system, especially the fastest model (like yours). The stand really ties them all together. I'm glad you were able to rescue it! Sadly some of the earlier units had capacitor issues that caused odd display patterns and glitches. But there was a recall program, so hopefully those systems were mostly serviced. I look forward to seeing what you'll be doing with your eMac!

I thought maybe the case for the eMac was damaged and you were going to build a new case to house it. I was stupidly excited for that. Haha. Oh well.

I remember hanging out in the Apple store at a time as a kid when these were around.. I think they had them setup with beanbag chairs for kids. Always wanted one, unfortunately haven't fallen into one just yet. Nice to see they're pretty serviceable!

I LOVED my eMac. In Aus they were a retail computer.

My eMac had the stand also, and you are right it just looks much better. Miss my eMac I do.

I came here via the link on Mark’s birthday video, and am glad I did. Very entertaining, so I subscribed. I am ancient, so at secondary school in England in the ‘60s my “computer” was a slide rule.

My first-year roommate at university had one of these - his mother was a schoolteacher so he got one at a discount through the Apple education program. It was an absolute turd. It was broken nearly as much of the time as it was operational. Never did manage to get the CRT to work right. He ended up dumping it halfway through the year and buying a cheap Dell.

Reminds me, I need to attend to the caps on the power distribution board of mine. They are known to go bad

I had one before a house fire, it was definitely one of my favorite macs ever. It was great in every way except expansion.you need the base, the base was awesome. This was no cheap mac, it was better then the imac except for the size. I used it for watching dvds, and I modded it to use it as a minityfor my video game systems as well with the great speakers it was perfect

Disappointed not to see BJ Blazkowicz grace the screen of that old Mac :-)

Love the eMac! Me and 2 other Genii in the DC region Apple Stores were the only 3 who did. All of the other Maryland, DC, and Virginia area stores would send customers to us to do the repairs because we were always quick with them and were comfortable with them. We also had a private school in Bethesda that essentially used the Genius Bar as their Mac Support department and they regularly would bring us 2-3 eMacs at a time. It was a sad day when the last of the eMacs went onto the Vintage list and we could no longer to repairs on them. One of my co-Genii took home the CRT Discharge Tool when we were told that we no longer had a need for it.

IMHO, there are some many much more interesting looking and up-gradable G4 Macs. The Lump=stick -and-square G4 is much more collectable as are the MDD models.

My favorite "iMac", actually.

eMacs were wonderful machines. The school system in which I taught in the early 2000s had these as the teachers computers. They were solid machines. I bought one a couple of years ago for the nostalgia of it. It was a solid machine in the day, and remains a solid machine to this day. As you indicate, it is simply an iMac G4 "flower pot" with a CRT. And it is a beautiful CRT. Yes, I've been inside as you showed, and I have upgraded it.

Love the eMac, it's CRT is one of the best. And agreed, it really looks proper with it's stand

That somewhere between free and dirt cheap has probably gone up considerably due to this video :D

Huzzah! I have a couple myself. Add an air card and you have a lovely industrial grade all in one that just gets cooler with time. And ooh the gorgeous CRT!

I have one (with the stand), and I absolutely love it! I love the screen, and I use mine for period applications and also use it to remote into more modern machines allowing to do modern tasks on a vintage machine. And again, display is amazing! It definitely needs more appreciation.

15:50 Yes! The stand, pain as it was to keep scratch free, made the machine way more majestic. Sadly not even half of the eMacs I ever serviced had the stand attached; most people used it in "G3 iMac" mode.

The hard drive can be replaced pretty easily without removing the whole mainboard, after disconnecting a few items; but after you have the mainboard all the way out, it is a good idea to replace the electrolytic caps on there (and on the power board for the crt) - they both tend to be on their way out after this much age and the poor airflow these machines had. Best wishes.

I agree. I have no idea why nobody wants these. Its kind of like when the 8-Bit guy sold his Lisa for $5 because nobody wanted it back in the 90's. One day this will also be sought after. Probably not Lisa expensive but they are awesome!

i've honestly never even heard of the eMac.. how bizarre

That is a major score, dood.

That is a comically long screwdriver. Love it. Oh the eMac is kinda cool too! Kinda miss the days when Apple products were (somewhat) meant to be opened...

I would recommend a Meowtoast with a CR3032 battery instead of another barrel battery. The mac looks nicer screen down, until the stand went on.

I have some of these… they were reasonably powered and yet underrated. I worked in a school and I was told they were being recycled. So I saved the school some money by saving them from the recycler. The biggest issue was that the IT guy never maxed out the RAM. I need to check them out and fix them up to max them out.

04:33 - those components are TIGHT 😂

I have been tempted to pick one up and turn it into an Amiga.

It's my "gaming rig", C64, Amiga, Mame, Snes, DOSBox, Source ports, OS9, OS X etc... Perfect Retro machine coupled with a Roland MT-32. It comes with a CRT, a keyboard and a mouse, for free or just a couple of bucks. Pick a 1.25 or 1.42ghz model though.

I think a lot of the reason for this Mac was how comfortable educational facilities had gotten with the original iMacs. By the time it came around that they needed upgrading, you could simply pull out your 300 mhz iMac and simply plop the eMac into the workstation, and all your software would just work. Easy-peasy.

$99 from cashies - 15 years ago, upgraded it to osx - first mac i owned, last one too until i got a 2nd hand macbook air that i keep around incase needed to access a mac's hdd windows user for most things

Yeah, I do love my eMac, but it's just _so heavy!_ I felt like I had to spend a week laying flat on my back after pulling it apart to upgrade the memory and hard drive (and clean out the dust). It was too big for my workbench, so I had to do all the work on the floor, which was not much fun. Everything worked after I reassembled it, but my copy of Tiger refused to install. Thankfully the Macintosh Garden came to the rescue. I've never seen one with the stand. That really makes it impressively massive. EDIT: Actually, that's probably my best guess as to why they're so unloved, because they're just so massive and heavy.

It cleaned up nicely. I really like how when looking at the machine straight on it looks like an early iPod. So cool! I'm not actively looking for this machine, however after watching your video if I come across one now, I wouldn't mind LOL.

Found one at a local Cashies for $50 a few years back and I had to buy it. It was in great condition! The staff all gave me a weird look when I let slip how excited I was for buying it. Took it home, cleaned it up, powered it on, everything worked great! Few minutes later I'm playing eDuke32 on it and having a blast. The CRT is extremely clear and the colour reproduction on it is amazing. Yes, it is heavy. So what, I say to those naysayers! It looks really funky next to my iMac G3 (which honestly feels like a toy in comparison!) Great video, as always!

I have mine setup on my desk its the best looking computer i have owned and still very functional. I actually use mine for documents and some gaming.

The Emac was my favorite machine, that sony triniton flat screen was beautiful and the sound was amazing...... wish I still had one.

I bought 2 of these from an e-waste recycler about a month ago with the intentions of getting at least one of them working. You are absolutely correct in the Titanic weight of these machines and they do seem to be very nice. I have yet to get around to completing my own eMac project, though. There's a possibility that I might be getting a couple more for the purpose of reselling. Fingers crossed!

Awesome video ,I also love the stand on the emac I need to find me one for my emac

I really like your "new" eMac! Brilliant!

My father's eMac still runs good -- I put an SSD and dual boot to OS9 and Leopard. It's slow as a OSX machine, but it's screaming fast for an OS9 machine.

This is wonderful, it makes me want to dig out my emac. I have the stand with mine as well and I wanna say I have it upgraded to 1GB of ram. I love older tech

Great machines, nice G4 CPUs and graphics options, great flat tube and image, great speakers and DVD drive options. Modern white look. I've never understood why people don't want them, I was trying to shift 12 of them. The iMac G4 with its poor quality flat screen display pales in comparison, I'd rather have an eMac!

Nice I wish I would have kept mine !

I'd be curious to know if the monitor connections can be adapted to turn the machine into just a CRT monitor? Could probably fit a MiSTer in there once the CDROM is taken out. Would make a nice all in one retro games machine.

Hi Jason Those eMac’s overclock quite well and it give a good bump in preference my 1ghz runs flawlessly at 1.4ghz all day running Minecraft 1.9 and it just the jumpers on the main board to do it

I happen to have this very Mac.

Great video on this eMac. There is one flaw with one of your statements. You mentioned that these were one of the most robust machines. I purchased a large number of these from (wait for it) University of Canberra! The last lot I got happened to be similar to the 1.25Ghz model that you have in this video, and they were plagued with dodgy capacitor issues, similar to the dodgy caps that were used in the early iMac G5s. I had to recap about 2/3 of them, giving my tech a good workload with the amount of caps he had to replace in all the eMac G4s and iMac G5s. Anyway, I may do a video on the recapping of these eMacs one day.

How interesting, never seen this one before!

I got mine from FreeGeek. Besides the weight and the fragile power button they aren't too difficult to repair and run pretty well. Honestly despite the size being an all in one makes it more convenient to pull out and setup than my PowerMac G4.

I used these things in highschool and if I knew they were so undesirable, I would have been actively looking for them getting thrown out! Love this era of Mac, just can't afford to get the Powermac G4 MDD I had back in the day. Hope you haven't caused them all to go up in price now! xD

That's the same eMac version I've got! Nice machine to have even if you don't get those for free/almost free in my neck of the woods (they are more like 60-100 Euro). Neat display and good sounding speakers, too! Also quite a decent performance. A bit of a pity that (like every other Mac of its time, mine was manufactured in '04) the shift to Intel shortened a bit their lifespan as a "modern" computer.

bit of an overclock on the 9250 since you have the education model really springs it back to life . a 50 mhz oc on the gpu and ram yeilds another 10 to 20 fps in some games . :) i recommend repasting or using good pads on the gpu also look for the one with the 9600 ati .

And now I wish I had have bought that one a few years back for £20. They are picking up value though, granted still only about £50, so still a good machine for the cost. It might even make for a really good Amiga if you dropped Morphos on there.

The eMac was actually a better machine than the lamp was at the end. The last 2 versions had USB 2.0 and pretty high end ATi Radeon graphics in them, and the last model even had a 1.42ghz G4 in it, which the lamp never came with. They are good looking machines, and the CRT is actually really nice especially since its a Mitsubishi Diamontron which is just a copy of the Sony Trinitron. I still have my 1.25ghz model with USB 2.0 and Radeon graphics and its a good old school gaming machine. Sounds great, looks good, its just heavy as all &^@$!

I installed a school room full of eMacs and upgraded their RAM. They were fine. The worst thing was the rather immature version of OS X that existed back then (eg it had issues with transferring files over ethernet).

Can’t believe you didn’t at the least hit the motherboard and fan with compressed air to lift the dust off

hi can you tell us how to connect the emac to internet

I have a 1.25gz emac with stand I love it. It was literally a barn fine. The only thing is I installed Leopard and not tiger trying to get a copy of it so. Ps. I lived of of unreal 2004 so if you do I'm in..

Hi, I have a G3 ibook PPC and G4 Macbook (core2duo), and my son has a core2duo Imac Yes they are old, but still work fine with vintage software. The core2duo are dual boot with Linux Mint 17 so modern youtube is fine But the 2 laptops are used because they still work, they have MS office plus the Apple office version - ( i cant recall the name because i have not used those apps in 5 years Apple iworks or similar it is a seperate dvd to the osx install ) Regards George

That cd-rom drive doesn’t have the magic paperclip hole?

The power supply likes to blow, but otherwise all of the TV style iMacs were fine.

Lovely keyboard. I don't have an Emac, but I do have a keyboard like that. If only it was mechanical I would probably make it my daily driver.

Darn, I had one of these, 50$ from a cash converters store (pawn shop) magical picture, did photo's really well. Unfortunately Apple cut off the last of it's support, and I had no Apple software, nor knew anyone into Apple so it went to the tip. Pity However I have now recanted and acquired a Bondi blue iMac, so I should get that out and see if any of the stuff shown here is applicable. (It's just sitting pretty in the corner, I know it powers on and that is it)

‼️There’s only one reason I dismiss eMacs: NOISE!!!

It has WiFI??? worked with those for years at a school and never knew, now need to find one in new zealand :)

I don't get it. I've been trying to find one of these for years. I guess people are throwing them away instead of selling them for cheap :(

I'm down for playing on that UT2K4 server

Where is the new case? Or I am wrong?

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I don’t know if it works with that model, but you used to be able to hold down the mouse button on power up and that will eject the cdrom drive.

The only thing I didn't like was the lack of handles. Slippery and heavy.

Yet another computer I’ve never heard of. Nice addition to your collection. Did they ever appear in government schools or were they the domain of private schools and universities?

Spent some years giving people Tech Support from one of Australia's biggest Telcos. Sorry, but it was really a piece of silicon rubbish. You'd have more luck getting the DreamCast working (I gave that support as well)

Unfortunately these things have capacitors that like to turn into resistors. Including thr "analog" board, which is HORRIBLE to try to get to.

I loved it so much I owned 2

At first I was going; yeah, but an iMac doesn't look good and you can't use a better screen, the screen is the computer after all... Oh, eMac... it's even worse!

mmmm...yes. Im glad youre doing a teardown as these beasts are AWFUL to take apart. My emac was beloved by my little girl a decade+ ago, then wouldn't turn on this year, and the mobo is a mofo of overly complex miniboards ontop of a baseboard where hardly a website or vid exists to troubleshoot this- even though its prob a blown cap (of which there are easily 40 spread out all over) even though none look leaky. so... INTO THE BIN IT GOES!

i am still useing and emac

Ever played Kingpin?

Doesn't even look as bad as the usual design outbursts edit: i stand corrected. from behind it looks like something my mom's hair dresser would use to torture people

Ha, my eMac was also free

I think for me the eMac was the precursor of the rather bland design Apple has been doing for years. It didn't have the funky colors of the earlier iMac and it isn't insane looking like the molar Mac. It's the Toyota Camry of Macs. And that's not bad at all - I have one - but it's nobody goes crazy over a Camry.

running games in classic under os x is pretty poor performance wise for gaming. Unreal Tournament and many of those games that came out just before OS X was released ot games that didnt get official O X ports from OS9 often have unofficial of beta versions that will run under OS X...

Lack of handle...case closed. If it had a handle it would be loved way more. Of course minus the capacitor plague.

Apples are landfill material. Because you can’t do anything with them. They are hard to upgrade/repair and there was software but a limited amount. Old IBM compatibles can still be upgraded/repaired and there’s truckload of software for it. My wife uses apples and goes through them 4 times as fast as my window machines. My last Windows machine went through 3 video cards updates, 1 one power supply, and 1 Hard Drive update, and it still works. But after 9 years technology advances had just required a new PC to do what I want.

Too damn heavy, not that easy to work on and when the crt goes out it’s done for.

What a horribly designed computer.

I might have been interested, had you actually built a case to put an eMac into, as your illiterate title suggests. As it is, Apple haven't done anything worth my attention since the Apple II, so thanks for briefly wasting my time.

great video really enjoyed