No new emacs?

Having just bought one for school and looking into purchasing some more for the new financial year, I can't find any on the Apple store site. Are Apple no longer making them?
I assume I will be able to still purchase them from other places, but I've never had any problem with any item I've bought online from Apple, be it for home or school! So very sad if this is the case...also sad, as I love my emac!

The best thing to do is to call Apple. Some beleave that they are still avalliable to autherised school puchasing agents. If you go to the hardware page on the Apple web sight and scroll down to "Education" it is still listed however, you can't find it on the educational store sight. That is why I beleave you must be and Autherised puchasing agent.
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One of these Apple KBase articles may help, as appropriate -
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http://www.apple.com/contact/phone_contacts.html

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Just picked up an eMac last week. It's my first Mac and I'm really enjoying it so far. I am looking to do a few upgrades though.
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I suppose you could, but the enclosure will run you only about $30 and not only will it make the transfer much easier since it will save you all that time reinstalling the OS, updates, security patches, etc. etc. but will give you a place to continue to use the internal drive you pulled out of the eMac. Otherwise that internal drive will just go to waste.
I don't know if your new Superdrive will just show up natively under the OS and you will be all set and can boot the computer off the install CDs. Hopefully it will.
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New eMac.. Hoarraahhh!!!!! BUT........

Hello
Very excited just bought a new 1.25Mhz eMac off eBay for £300. Super drive 1GB Ram and 80GB Hard drive. Only thing is it was bought in France so has a French keyboard and all documentation is French so wondered if anyone can give me some info on my new machine. I have a few so I will run through them below... any answers are greatly appreciated
1. I can't work out on the eMac Apple Specs page which category my machine falls into... eMac ATI Graphics or eMac USB 2.0 as neither of these seem to have 1.25MHz processor. I would like to know so I can find the full Spec of the Machine.
2. I have installed a new version of Tiger 10.4 in English and I now have English keyboard layout in the OS but the keyboard has French configuration keys. Is it possible to take the keys off and rearrange them to English layout without breaking them??
3. I have a 333mhz iMac with 250GB hard drive init that I want to put in the eMac. At the moment it suffers from the 128GB limit on the hard drive but if I put it in the eMac will it recognise the full capacity or still be limited???
And thatÕs about it
Again any answers would be greatly appreciated
Many Thanks
Andy

Excellent
I have checked the Apple web page "how to identify your eMac model" and compared the last three digits to the list but can't find my one in there. I sit because it is French???
The last 3 digits are QQH???
Anyone go any ideas??

Oh poop. Does this mean I have to buy a new eMac?

Here's the problem.
All my other computers are getting internet connection except my eMac. My router isn't even showing that I have the cables connected to the eMac. While I was gone on vacation last week, we had a lightning storm. The only logical conclusion is that my Ethernet Port got fried.
I've been round and round with Time Warner trying to get the problem fixed, and they've told me the same thing. Fried port. Do I have to buy another eMac!? Or how much would it cost to get it repaired (it's out of warranty)?

> Uhh - which is cheaper? Buying/installing an airport card on the eMac or just getting a new Ethernet port?
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> And my router is a Netgear WGR614 model. It ways it's a wireless cable modem gateway... but on all the PCs we have that are wireless, you have to use these little USB-key looking things (WG111) that you have to have in the USB slot of your PC to use.
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Another option is if your PCs are using the USB things already, you might look for a wireless card for the PCs. These would install inside the computer with an antenna coming off the back of the card and the back of the computer. Those are fairly cheap. Then once you have freed up one of the USB thingies, assuming they are eMac compatible, you can then move it over to the eMac. I often see the PC cards cheap or free after rebate.
> How would I go about setting my Mac up to tap into my wireless router feed? Is that even possible?
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Patrick

Brand New eMac starts but no video

I have a eMac in a classroom that was bought in the summer and imaged and working fine 3 weeks before school. School time comes around and everything starts up but the video... You can hear the HD loading everything and the startup light comes on as well as the chime. But never any video.
I tried resetting the PRAM, booting from a cd, tried the external to see if it would work... and nothing. I just need a way of narrowing down to what it is, so I can replace it.

Just to clarify, when you were trying to boot from a CD, was this the first OS X Tiger Install CD from the Tiger DVD media exchange (which requires the eMac in question to have a CD-ROM or CD-RW drive only, not the standard combo or super drive) or from the OS X Install DVD? If the boot CD was a troubleshooting / utilities homebrew burned disc, have you checked that the disc will boot other late-model eMacs?
Since you're getting the power light and hard drive noise, the main power management has to be working. There have been problems with Macs failing to wake properly from sleep, but booting from the OS X Install disc should bypass that problem. It would most likely be soemthing blown in the CRT/analog assembly hardware. That's not a user-servicable assembly (the voltage on the CRT yoke is dangerous) and a school Mac purchased this past summer will still be under the one-year hardware warrenty. You could contact an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) or more typically in a school setting, contact the school's vendor.
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I am a new Mac user, and I love everything about it!!!

Hi to all fellow Mac users,
That's it, I've finally had enough of Bill Gates and his crappy software. I tell you all now, if I ever saw him on the street, I couldn't guarantee I would say anything nice to him, quite the opposite.
I met a friend from a drama club I go to, and after several playful arguments and games deciding what was better; Apple Mac or Microsoft Windows, I think the Apple Mac seemed to take over everything that Windows can do. Ok, an example, I do subtitled videos for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community... after several months of using Windows Movie Maker (apologies for the foul language) I decided to take my friend up on his offer. After 5 minutes of using Final Cut Pro... I was amazed. 5 simple words sum up my experience of subtitling on a Mac... easy, simple, FUN!, smooth, quick. It was fun to do, a challenge after suffering with another Bill Gates failed program, quicker and easier than I EVER thought it would be, and just to remind you all, that I have been a windows user for 9 years. I loved windows, I thought my Windows PC was my life, the music sounded great, I was happy with virus threats, and pop-ups from everywhere...
I told my kind hearted friend that I have always wanted a laptop, so I could listen to music on the train, whenever I go to visit my folks, I could watch DVD's, videos etc... and he very kindly gave me his old Dell Latitude laptop.. (200MHz, 256MB RAM) It looked like it needed a facelift, and a new battery (the battery charge only lasted 3 minutes on a good day), so it constantly needed to be plugged in. Installed on this laptop was a new piece of Operating System I had never used before. Linux, Ubuntu. My friend told me that it used the UNIX system, and was fairly similar to a Mac. Over the moon, I disappeared never to be seen again, while I figured out how to use this machine. Easy - not bad, fun - ok, however I soon got bored of it. I wanted the Mac... I wanted a mac, REALLY BADLY.
I came into a little bit of money, and now I have bought a second hand iBook G4. I have stopped sleeping with it now... after some strange looks from my girlfriend. (I'm not joking) However, I may have kicked it out of bed, but god I love this thing. No spy-ware... no ad-ware, no pop-ups, no viruses, no 'DLL ****' no goddamned Bill Gates ****-up of a Registry either. I seem to spend more time looking at this, because normally I would be clearing all the goodies that come with Windows... as mentioned above. The mac doesn't have it, it's smooth... even the cat has taken a fancy to it... (keeps sniffing it, it wont be long until he tried to bonk my ethernet port!) Even my grandma could probably use this... and she's 65 something. She doesn't even know how to turn on a computer!
iTunes... iPhoto... iChat... *nods in satisfaction* Open source software, not bad stuff really. The only thing that I have to groan about the Mac is the price of their products... a little on the pricey side, but the one solution to that? Get a better job!
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Hi Kieran,
Welcome to Apple Discussions and the world of Mac!
My 'rebirth' happened about 3 years ago after staying up all one night trying to clear the latest virus from my Windoze lappy. I've forgotten what it was called, there were so many. I do remember, though, that it was a juggling act trying to download the patch from M$ before the virus stopped me. Apparently that particular one was designed to do just that. (It blocked the download site, or was designed to overload it or something…?)
I'd vaguely heard/read that Macs were supposed to be immune to such attacks so decided to explore…
At the time PC World (dreadful place!) had a special offer on, what was then the new, eMacs. We went and had a look but 'er indoors hated the look of them, as I did. They had one poor, lonely iMac left, a 17", ( the model now known affectionately as the iLamp, ET or iGloo - see avatar ) which had been returned for, supposedly, one dead pixel. They had it sadly stowed away underneath the main display still in its box with a tatty handwritten 'Manager's Special' ticket on it with successive reductions marked. Cut a long story short, we got it for a stupidly low price, about 40% off list, & we gave it a home.
I had great fun playing with it and after only 10 minutes felt totally at home with its GUI. After another couple of hours of 'playing' I thought it was time to do some serious stuff and try and get some of our files off the Windows 'thing' onto the iMac. I was a total tyro at networking and didn't even know how to begin so everything got burned to CDs on the lappy and put onto the iMac that way, where compatible. (I've still never ventured into the dark arts of Win/Mac networking, I've never had to.) What shook me though was, even after only two hours on the iMac, how 'kiddy' the XP interface seemed, like it was a FisherPrice toy computer compared to the Mac (Jaguar) interface.
The iMac soon had company when my iBook joined the family. ('Er indoors quickly appropriated the iLamp for her eBay business) Now I prefer the iBook, the iMac keyboard seems so clunky after the iBook's. My only regret is that I didn't go for a larger HD when I ordered it. 30GB doesn't go anywhere these days. Yet my first, very own XP machine only had 3.2GB!
From those early days we've never looked back. I've gone out of my way to learn more about Macs mainly through this forum and other online resources, but there's no way I'd consider myself any kind of expert. I shy away from most things 'Terminal' sticking to sudo periodics and the like. Occasionally I have to 'face' a Windows machine, and hate it. Everything just seems so difficult and non-intuitive, but maybe that's because I am out of practice. To be honest, I don't really care. Windows is not something that I have the slightest inclination to re-familiarise myself with.
Would I change back? I think I've answered that!
Enjoy your Mac and visit frequently. 'Here' is an invaluable, free resource that can answer most of your questions via the search box or just browsing. And if you're still stuck anytime someone will always go out of their way to help.
Take care,
Adrian
ps The iMac's still going strong and I never did find that that 'dead pixel'. His loss, my gain!
pps Watch that cat, they love the warmth of laptop keyboards which, of course, increases the longer the cat lies on it until....poof! Overheated iBook and singed cat. Sometime during the last week or so, someone posted about their cat who, when asleep on the keyboard, could mysteriously activate the password to wake it up! I kid you not, have a scroll back.
ppps I used to live very close to Derby; Ilkeston then later, Heanor

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Moving to a new (shared) Mac without losing my songs

Been reading the support pages & I think I have this straight but I want to ask here just to be sure before I do it. Here's my story:
I'm going to be ditching my old iMac and start sharing my soon-to-be wife's eMac. Her eMac already has an iPod associated with it. I'm not worried so much about the music on my iMac (don't even plan on moving it to the new eMac) but I want to be sure I don't lose the music already on my iPod.
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In my experience you are doing the right thing by setting up a new user and having your ipod set to manual update... makes life easier!.. but even without that if you have your ipod set to automatic update I believe you can still link up to another computer without loosing your tunes as long as you check the right boxes when connecting...
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DreadPirate_Roberts wrote:
...but a lot of the dust seemed baked on pretty good and I didn't have a way of wiping it off very well.
The best gadget for stubborn dust deposits is a pastry brush. Make sure you get one with a wodden handle and natural bristles to avoid static isses. I have close to a dozen in various sizes and shapes in my computer kit.
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hi - the screen on my old emac is gone (just a vertical line in the center of the screen). i got a new emac (used). i want to transfer the files from the old one to the new one. have tried using the migration assistant with firewire but it stalls at "waiting for discs to appear". my old emac is user password protected so that before i get a disc image i would have to log in. i'm assuming that is why the migration assistant stalls out. is there any way for me to proceed with this or will i have to take it to a technician and have him pull the hard drive and the files ? - thanks, beaner

Odd; Patrick's suggestion should work to put the
Mac
with the bad display into Firewire Target Disk
mode;
even in Migration/Setup Assitant stalls, it should
still be possible to get at the hard drive
contents.
even if start up is user id log in protected ? -
thanks, beaner
actually, i just looked at the migration assistant procedures again and it says to hold down the t key until the firewire symbol appears on the old machine. unless the migration assistant overides user id log in protection, i would not be able to see the firewire symbol until i have logged in to an administrator user account even if the screen was working which it is not. unfortunately, the easiest/cheapest way to do this (Mini VGA to Video Adapter) does not work on my emac so i will have to use a mini vga adapter combined with a db15/vga adapter and hope that one of the older monitors i have laying around will accomplish the mirroring and allow me access to the old computer so that i can enable file sharing and make a connection between the two computers. that is unless someone reading this can correct any misconceptions mentioned here or has an easier way of making this happen. - thanks beaner
I do recall several posters reportd trouble with
the
timing of turning on the godd computer (the host)
and
the trohbled one (the client) in the terminology
of
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href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=5
8583" target=_blank>FireWire target disk mode.
You can also double-check the steps in <a
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This is a brand new eMac that has been working for 1 week, now the screen shakes and then goes back to normal, it is not one of the models in the eMac extended coverage program or what ever the name is I have already checked this. I am just wondering if it is motherboard or the display. It does this in every mode no matter what I do.

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