This month, in my column over at iMore:
This month’s old Mac is the weird cousin of the iMac G4 we looked at in February. Introduced only months after the iMac G4, the eMac mashed up old ideas with new tech: It retained the all-in-one design defined by the iMac G3, but it shipped with a larger 17-inch CRT display and used the same G4 chipset found in the LCD-equipped iMacs.
Priced at $999, it looked like a great deal — but you couldn’t just walk into a store and pick one up when it launched in April 2002. You see, the eMac wasn’t for the average user: It was for the education market.