Kris I disagree completely. The eMac is a good, solid, reliable Mac. A bit heavy but solid.
I put mine through some hard work and it coped fine. I think CRT still have excellent screen viewing. The iMac G3 has one of the crispest screens ever. The eMac is just as sharp, but better as it don't suffer from the bulging effect or titled back angle. I have a TFT monitor and a PowerBook G3 and the iMac G3 screen blows both of them away. The TFT is rubbish, while the PB is pretty good. However, the screen on my Intel iMac was very easy on the eyes and didn't suffer from that bright shiney effect you get on CRTs. Simon --- www.simonroyal.co.uk and www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) -original message- Subject: Re: eMac & Leopard From: Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 23/10/2008 11:05 On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:23 AM, Simon Royal wrote: > I just wondered how Leopard held up on these lovely machines. I disagree with the description "lovely machines". In Jan. 2002 when Steve Jobs announced "the CRT is dead", I said "hurray"! I'd struggled with eyestrain and headaches for years. I now blame CRT monitors for all the pain and also accelerating my need for reading glasses. When I bought my first LCD, I did so specifically because a tech friend had told me about how LCD displays would virtually eliminate the eyestrain and headaches. He knew specific technical reasons for this phenomenon, something about the flicker and dithering of lines in CRTs, and how LCDs had a longer persistence with little degradation which eliminated flicker and dither. He told me the problem had been studied, and that on a CRT your eye never focuses correctly, but rather constantly adjusts back & forth. The eyestrain, bloodshot eyes, and headaches are all related to the overuse of the focus muscles in the eyes. I bought my first LCD just before the Apple announcement that "the CRT was dead". I was amazed at how quickly all my problems with eyestrain and headaches disappeared. It was excellent advice to ditch my CRTs and buy an LCD, and I later thanked my friend for his sage advice. So when Apple announced the introduction of the eMac 4 months AFTER the "death of the CRT" I was shocked and quite frankly outraged at the hypocrisy of selling a CRT Mac for use by children. It appeared there were, and still are, many health reasons that CRTs shouldn't be used by anyone, and especially children. In the years after this whenever anyone has asked my opinion of the eMac (or older CRT AIO and iMacs) I've always told them to avoid these models completely, and get any other Mac that can use an LCD monitor. The only why I could ever see using an eMac would be disassembling it into a generic PC case and using it with an LCD. A typical CRT uses more than double the wattage of an equivalent LCD, so the LCD literally "pays for itself" in energy cost saving alone. A 1.25 GHz eMac may run Leopard perfectly well, but in my mind it's a health hazard that never should have been built in the first place. Steve Jobs himself said "the CRT is dead". It is. Forget about eMacs. Recycle them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
