eMac, Where Art Thou??

Is it still possible to get some description of emac like the 17 inch imacs?? I looked on the education site but i didn't see them.
I hope i can, if not I will be stuck with a mac mini and if i could get a small imac for similar money id much prefer that!

By the way I'm posting from ireland... If that matters!

Sorry if this is in the wrong place..

eMacs have been discontinued for some time now. You can still find some on places like eBay and other auction sites.

The eMac, long out of production was available with G4 processors finally topping out just shy of 1.5Ghz, had a 17 inch CRT display capable of going up to 1280X960, they used various video adapters but the latest ones had ATI Radeon 9200 32Mb graphics built in The 1.25Ghz machines suffered a recall and alas extended repair service (a process I"m undergoing for one of mine).

It has to do with some of the capacitors on the logic board, sometimes the video would go nuts, sometimes it'll lock up etc. Nothing serious until fixed.

More specs, the later ones did come with either a Combo drive (CD-RW/DVD ROM) and some came with Superdrives (CD-RW/DVD-RW) 40 and 80Gb hard drives.....and yes, it's a royal PAIN to get to them too....

All in all, the later ones, great machines, loaded up with a Gb of DDR RAM they will run Leopard pretty darn fine. Hope this gives you some info.

If you require more info, I may point you in the general direction of www.lowendmac.com specs and whatnot on most Mac models. (I am in no way affiliated with lowendmac or it's subsidiaries)

But when apple dropped the emac did it replace it with an imac 17 inch duo core2??

The eMac line, was originally released exclusively to the education market. Later it was released for consumer use.
You can find all the old specs here.