Apple eMac G4 Desktop with 17" M9834LL/A (1.42 GHz PowerPC G4, 256 MB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive)

by Apple

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.9 x 18.2 x 15.9 inches ; 51 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 63.4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007OW5CK
• Item model number: M9834LL/A
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 3, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Have It All
With a new eMac, you get Mac OS X Tiger, the entire suite of iLife applications and a powerful G4 processor for a song. Speaking of songs, choose an eMac with the new SuperDrive and you'll be burning up to 2100 of them (or up to 4 hours of MPEG-2 video) on a single double-layer DVD.

A Five-Star Lineup
Feeling creative? You don't have to search very far to find the tools you need. Just open your Applications folder, where you'll discover a true digital treasure trove: iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie HD, iDVD and GarageBand. Individually, the five iLife '05 applications offer powerful yet easy-to-use options for purchasing and managing music, organizing digital photos, editing videos, creating your own top-ten tunes and authoring DVDs you can share with friends and family. But it's when you use them together that iLife '05 really shines, providing a suite of tightly-integrated tools that work together seamlessly and place no limits on your talent or creativity.

All-in-one design, plug-and-play simplicity, great performance and an affordable price tag.

Options to Burn Choices, choices. Maybe you prefer this eMac with a Combo drive, which lets you read DVDs and read, write and burn CDs. Or perhaps you want to opt for the eMac model equipped 8x SuperDrive-equipped eMac, which gives you double-layer DVD burning support -- doubling the disc storage capacity to 8.5 GB over traditional, 4.7 GB single-layer discs. Either way, you'll find lots of ways to enjoy your all-in-one digital hub. Take watching movies, for example. Both models play Hollywood's finest movies on DVD, and the DVD Player, an application included with Mac OS X Tiger, is as easy to use as the remote controls on your living room remote. Both eMac models also allow you to burn CDs. In iTunes, for example, you can create your own playlists -- "Music to Drive By," "Gotta Dance," "Late Nite Tunes" -- and then burn audio or MP3 CDs to play in your car or home stereo. You can also burn data CDs -- right from the desktop; that's a simple way to back up important documents or share projects with colleagues at work.

Affordable G4 Power
The impressive 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 processor provides all of the power you need. Whether you create complex Excel spreadsheets or large Keynote presentations, eMac won't miss a beat. And you'll really enjoy eMac's performance when you're scrolling through thousands of digital photos in iPhoto or applying transitions between clips in iMovie HD. In fact, thanks to the PowerPC G4 processor with Velocity Engine, eMac even lets you create DVDs with iDVD.

Flat's Where It's At Like the brilliant 17-inch (16-inch viewable) flat CRT display you'll find on eMac? It's a real stunner, and you'll be able to work on eMac longer without your eyes getting tired. That's because there's less glare: the flat CRT produces less image distortion than curved CRTs. And since it offers nearly 40% more viewing area than a 15-inch CRT, the display provides plenty of space for large images, several web pages or numerous documents. Blistering 3D Effects To power this brilliant CRT, we've included an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics processor with 64MB of dedicated Double Data Rate (DDR) video memory. The Radeon processor offers dazzling 2D, 3D and video performance, a feature you'll really appreciate when editing footage in iMovie or while playing the hottest new games. The fact that eMac even has a dedicated graphics processor sets it apart from many computers in its price range. Many other computers that are as affordable as eMac come with "integrated Intel graphics." That means that to draw graphics on the screen, they steal power from the main processor, siphoning off memory from system-level RAM. Think that doesn't have an effect? If a PC with integrated graphics has 256MB of RAM, it needs to divert a big chunk of that memory to draw complex 3D images or pump ever-changing video to the screen, leaving whatever memory remains to keep up with all of your other computing demands.

The Radeon processor offers dazzling 2D, 3D and video performance, a feature you'll really appreciate when editing footage in iMovie or while playing the hottest new games.

Fast Memory
The ATI Radeon 9600 processor packs its own memory punch: 64MB of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory. The result? It pumps out millions of triangles per second (the standard way to describe graphics performance), ensuring compatibility with the latest generation of graphics-intensive 3D games. As its name implies, DDR memory transfers data to video memory at twice the speed of SDRAM, enabling the eMac to process twice the graphics information per clock cycle, resulting in sizzling frame rates.

Not only does the Radeon 9600 processor give you fluid 3D graphics, but it boosts eMac performance significantly, as well. How? By handling all graphic-intensive operations, it allows the PowerPC G4 processor to complete its own tasks unimpeded. So you realize even more power at your fingertips.

What makes eMac an out-of-the-box sensation? What's in the box, of course. Every eMac comes with Mac OS X Tiger and the full suite of iLife applications. One puts power at your fingertips, the other gives you power over your digital life. Both help make eMac the most affordable way to do it all. At once.

The World's Most Advanced Operating System
Mac OS X Tiger changes the way you work, play, search and share on your eMac. Can't find what you need? Spotlight makes fruitless system searches a thing of the past. Want timely information from the Internet right now? Take Dashboard for a spin. Want to share media with friends and family? Tiger's integrated features make it simple. In fact, Tiger offers a feature for every reason you use your eMac. And then some.

Enjoy iLife '05
Make a movie of baby's first steps, graduation or wedding, instantly. Just plug in your camcorder and iMovie HD does the rest. Share it with the family via email, the web or DVD with iDVD.(1) Or play it on your HDTV. Download songs from the iTunes Music Store. Make a mix playlist for your next house party or let iTunes deejay by using the Party Shuffle feature. Design your own iPhoto coffee-table book using the photos from your parents' 25th wedding anniversary. Email photos of your graduation to the entire family. Record a song for that special someone in your life -- then burn it to an audio CD as a gift. Play your latest guitar riffs at a party, backed by GarageBand and your Mac. Create a soundtrack for your iPhoto slideshow or iMovie project. Post your iMix of love songs on the iTunes Music Store for the world to enjoy. Back up an entire season of soccer photos on CD or DVD.

Product Description

Includes: Apple Keyboard, Apple Mouse, modem cable, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, iLife '05, Safari, iChat, AppleWorks, Quicken 2005 for Macintosh, 2005 World Book Multimedia Reference Suite, & more. Apple M9834LL/A eMac Desktop Computer - The eMac is an easy and affordable solution to getting a high quality Macintosh computer in your home. The whole family will enjoy the comprehensive software suite that's powered by the latest Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system. It's perfect for games, creative tasks, personal finances, business applications and much more. Just look at all of the great features you get with this eMac all-in-one desktop computer: DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo Drive Built-in 17 flat screen CRT display 56k v.92 Fax Modem Integrated Stereo Speakers Ports - 10/100 Ethernet, 2 FireWire 400, 3 USB 2.0, 2 USB 1.1 (1 on keyboard), VGA Out, S-Video, Composite Video Out, Headphone Jack, & Audio Line-In Unit Weight - 50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good machine... with its share of small problems, May 19, 2005

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Simon Laprise (Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apple eMac G4 Desktop with 17" M9834LL/A (1.42 GHz PowerPC G4, 256 MB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) (Personal Computers)

Got this new 1.42 GHz eMac a week ago. I won't tell you all the advantages of switching from PC to Mac (stable OS, no viruses, free softwares...) as they are well known. Instead, I'll start with the little annoyances. Don't get me wrong : I really like my new eMac and wouldn't trade it for a cheap PC, but there are a few tiny problems here and there... And tiny problems are always what you notice first. Let's just see the small things Apple should change to make the PC to Mac transition less annoying.

The first thing I noticed once the (heavy) computer was out of the box is the cable Apple is giving to plug your modem to your phone line. It's about one foot long, too short to ever use it. Why are they giving this useless thing ? Give a proper one (at least a few feet long) or just give nothing. It's not very important, but this little copper wire is a fine example of the "cutting around the edges" method Apple is unfortunately using more and more.

One of the reasons I chose a Mac is GarageBand, part of the ILife line of softwares included with every Apple computer. I took a cheap microphone to test this award-winning application, plugged it in the line in jack... and nothing happened. The reason : the line in is not powered (it doesn't give the electricity the microphone needs to work), so the mike wasn't working. What does it mean ? It means that you'll have to buy something like an Imic, a device using an electrified USB entry as a "real" line in or mic in on your computer. The line in works great with any electrified (or pre-amplified) machine (as a walkman to transfer your songs from tape to CD, etc.) but still, a fully working line/mike in is available on any PCs and should be there. And what's the difference in the manufacturing cost Apple ? 50 cents ? But if you're a serious musician, or if you just wanna record a few songs in your spare time, you'll need to get some USB devices anyway, whatever the system you're using.

Talknig about sound, the Harman Kardon speakers previously used on the eMac are now gone. The speakers Apple is now putting instead are not very good. Not very loud neither. Even a cheap PC has better sounding ones, or at least louder sounding ones, so it tells a lot. As said, the volume is not very loud (in fact, it seems to vary from an application to another), and if you crank it to the (very ridiculous) max, you'll see waves in your screen, resulting from the interference produced by the speakers on the very near screen. Only positive point : there's a bit more bass on these speakers than you'll get on most free PC speakers.

A strange one. I was thinking about getting an IPod Shuffle, both as a MP3 player and memory device. But guess what ? You can't plug the Shuffle on an eMac without a USB extension cable! There's not enough space to plug the shuffle in a USB 2.0 port on the Mac (the USB 1 ports on the keyboard are not sufficently electrified). Two Apple products! I know, the Shuffle wasn't existing when they designed the eMac, but still...

All these things (and a few others) are very minor problems on an overall very nice computer... except for the one button mouse... Very reliable, lots of options and configuration possibilities, strange but cool Space Odyssey design, excellent line of softwares included, more than sufficient G4 processor, nice 16 inches viewable flat screen. real graphic card (64 MB), adware-spyware and viruses free, firewall included (activate it!) and an overall excellent machine for the price (considering that it's an always more expensive than it should be Apple product). If you're a student with a small budget (like I am) and/or you doesn't need the G5's muscle, this is the way to go. The small problems described above keeps the eMac out of perfection, but still, I give it a very strong four stars.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars User friendly and virus free, now with faster processor, May 30, 2005

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D. R. Schryer (Poquoson, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apple eMac G4 Desktop with 17" M9834LL/A (1.42 GHz PowerPC G4, 256 MB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) (Personal Computers)

Apple is, quite simply, the best and most innovative computer manufacturer. A recent article in Consumer Reports identified Apple computers as the most reliable computers and PC Magazine user surveys have reached the same conclusion. Furthermore, Apple computers -- including this new, more powerful eMac -- are impervious to the viruses which regularly plague Windows-based PCs.

Yes, most people use Windows-based PCs, but do you really want to be just another member of the PC herd -- with all of the problems and frustrations presented by Windows-based computers, including regular virus attacks -- or are you looking for a computer which is user friendly, seldom crashes, and is virtually impervious to viruses? If these virtues are more important to you than being one of the crowd, please seriously consider buying an Apple computer. This new eMac is Apple's latest and fastest iteration of its eMac series of compact, user friendly computers at reasonable prices. This new budget priced eMac is a surprisingly fast computer -- more than twice as fast as a Pentium 4 with the same clock speed. If you're looking for a fast, versatile, easy to use computer, want to stop worrying about frequent crashes and virus attacks, and are willing to try something off the beaten path, you'll love this elegant and now faster new eMac. If you want an even bigger bargain get the eMac with a combo disc instead of the SuperDrive and an 80 GB rather than 160 GB hard drive in this version.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars GREAT WHEN IT WORKS, August 8, 2005

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SBrasher (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apple eMac G4 Desktop with 17" M9834LL/A (1.42 GHz PowerPC G4, 256 MB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) (Personal Computers)

Functionality of great when the computer works, but we've had it in the Apple store twice already and now it is broken again, all within 6 months of buying it. The computer will not turn on and this problem is somehow evading the Apple people - it is really a pain in the butt now. Love the machine but will not buy another until hardware quality is better. I do have a Powerbook and a Mac Mini as well, and the Powerbook has given me hardware problems as well. Mac Mini okay so far. Sort of like driving a Jaguar - feels good, looks good, very functional, but you never know when it is about to break down.