Used eMac purchase recommendations? (long)

I'm looking to buy an eMac for a friend and trying to decide between two options. They're both combo-drive:
1. 1.25ghz with 1ghz ram with about 10 months left on the Applecare warranty;
or
2. 1.25ghz with 256 ram with basically zero mileage on it but no warranty (it's owned by a family friend who I know tried it for about a week and then went back to her old computer.)
Option 2 would be a little more expensive, plus more memory would be needed. I'm leaning toward 2 because hey, it's brand new, but I'm concerned about the lack of warranty.
I've run Hardware Test on it, got online, played around with the applications, and there are no issues. Is this about all I can do to test it out?
Also, how much of a factor is usage? Option 1 has been in use every day with some bigger applications- is it more likely to fail sooner? I realize there's no way to predict longevity, and from my own experience I know that Macs last forever, but I'm not familiar with eMacs and maybe there are some issues that I'm not aware of with them.
Note also that my friend plans to use this for a long time. She had an older eMac for many years that she loved before it got stolen, and doesn't do anything more intensive than email-internet-digital photos.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks so much.
Tracy

I'll second PT's advice; go for the larger RAM and the remaining warrenty. That the other computer was in use mainly means several thousand hours on the hard drive, but the mean expected life for the hard drive is measured in the hundreds of thousands of hours. The one not used much, if it's been sitting on a shelf somewhere, likely needs a replacement PRAM battery by now (although that's a trivially easy replacement; see eMac - Do-It-Yourself)
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