Emacs?

[Wewus432]

I just noticed this model Mac. It's got a G4 processor BUT they are a good bit less expensive than the Imac and other models. I'm not sure what the difference between an Imac and an Emac is except price. I've seen them on Ebay for $700.00 to $1000.00 in fairly new condition. Originally developed for the educational market, the new Sweetwater catalog says a lot of audio people are using them. Any Emac owners out there?

[Nraki]

Well,I own a Power Mac G4 in Seattle, and I'm typing this in Japan right now using my granma's eMac. My model(no,my grandma's) is G4 700 with a CD-R drive. <<>>> It could be compared with my power Mac G4 733. Be careful, everyone. I think the new iMac is far quieter than the eMac. Aside from the loudness, this is a very good computer. The 17 flat display is very good. OSX 1.2 seems very smooth. The multiple language system is perfect. The speakers aren't bad. But, let me know if your eMac is quiet...

[not Cereal]

neihbor down the street has a g4 emac. i set up finale on it. went smooth, nice machine, but i wouldnt want one. i dont like all-in-one deals.

[Wrave]

I thought Emacs was the premier text editor in Linux! ;)

[phaeton]

[quote][b]I thought Emacs was the premier text editor in Linux! [Wink] [/quote][/b] Dear god no. vi all the way. EMACS: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping

[progfusion74]

xemacs!!!

[phaeton]

[b]xemacs!![/b] And what does a GTK+ Widget Set on XWindows add to the functionality of any text or line editor, including emacs? :p

[Cowbell]

I think they're cool. The reason it's not that expensive is the CRT display, instead of LCD. Oh well...

[not Cereal]

CRD = Cathode Ray Diode? thats a new one. whats next, LCT = Liquid Crystal Tube? :thu:

[deanmass]

We got a herd of them in over the summer... Good bang per buck, but I hate the design, they are way heavy and appear to have a huge foot print. Side by side vs. an imac, the iMac blows it away for compactness. The iMac swivel screen is also very very cool, and I think a missed feature.

[G. Ratte]

I think eMacs look cool... like a stretched-out iPod or something. Or maybe the LEGO computer. It's funny... I was unpacking an iPod the other day, and was struck by how much the packaging reminded me of newer LEGO stuff. Way Euro-modern, not much text so there aren't translation problems. And how the cables and earphones were packaged up like "astronaut food". That's something neat about buying Apple gear... it might cost a bit more, but you're sure not gonna confuse it with some generic PC stuff either. Some upscale, wine-and-cheese party stuff. Anyways, eMacs are a good deal.

[Chip McDonald]

[quote]Originally posted by phaeton: [b]Dear god no. vi all the way. [/b][/quote]vi - NOOOOOO no no no! Only the most warped unix fiend would "like" that "interface" for an "editor". Somewhere there is probably some unix bozo trying to make a text driven multi-track audio editor. "PT/ASCII" TRACK ARM: trk + tn[track number]tsr[track sample rate]tbd[track bit depth] TRACK RECORD: trkrcd + spt[start point]ept[endpoint]/trk#[track number] TRACK PAN: pan+[track number]l-+[left/right pan amount] TRACK LEVEL: trklvl+[track number]db[track volume]trkoff[track volume offset]trknorm[normalize; db below offset] .....etc.

[phaeton]

[quote][b] vi - NOOOOOO no no no! Only the most warped unix fiend would "like" that "interface" for an "editor". Somewhere there is probably some unix bozo trying to make a text driven multi-track audio editor. [/quote][/b] Command line-driven multitrack recording and chain-based signal effects: http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/ text-based sound mixer: http://jpj.net/~trevor/aumix.html command-line midi: http://www.parabola.demon.co.uk/alsa/pmidi.html I could probably go on and on and list a bunch more, but i'm sure nobody else cares but me. Just remember Chip, just like the saying in music: "everything comes from the blues" In the computer world, everything comes from unix. Some of those unix bozos are some pretty swell guys, i've found. After all, it was real nice of them to help AL Gore invent the Internet. :D

[Chip McDonald]

[quote]Originally posted by phaeton: [b]Some of those unix bozos are some pretty swell guys, i've found. After all, it was real nice of them to help AL Gore invent the Internet. :D [/b][/quote]Sorry, but if you prefer that in the 21st century to a graphic interface... that's pretty warped....

[Dan South]

vi rules!

[phaeton]

[quote][b] Originally posted by phaeton: Some of those unix bozos are some pretty swell guys, i've found. After all, it was real nice of them to help AL Gore invent the Internet. [Big Grin] Sorry, but if you prefer that in the 21st century to a graphic interface... that's pretty warped.... [/quote][/b] Yes. I prefer communicating directly with my computer in its own terms, as opposed to having many layers of metaphors and images trying to hide it from me, all the while impeding the process with the guise of "simplicity". :) To each thier own, i guess.

[Franknputer]

Hey, why waste precious CPU cycles drawing a bunch of pretty pictures when you can use a text-based interface & apply the leftover processing power to DSP? :D

[phaeton]

[quote][b] Hey, why waste precious CPU cycles drawing a bunch of pretty pictures when you can use a text-based interface & apply the leftover processing power to DSP? [Big Grin] [/quote][/b] Excellent! :)

[thisDude]

We have a few older style imacs that the new emac was modelled after. I don't know if they fixed it, but the old imacs were really noisy. I don't think they give you access to any pci slots so you can't really upgrade it and I'm pretty sure they only give you 2 dimm slots for memory. Save up and get a tower.

[Chip McDonald]

You're all just sick, sick. Step away from the keyboard now, gently, easy does it... What does that book say, Knuth? No, stop it, put that down! Easy, easy... repeat after me, "I must learn to use a mouse", "gui is not gnu". So sad....

[Ren.]

[quote]Originally posted by gratte: [b] That's something neat about buying Apple gear... it might cost a bit more, but you're sure not gonna confuse it with some generic PC stuff either. Some upscale, wine-and-cheese party stuff. Anyways, eMacs are a good deal.[/b][/quote]I'm setting up my home studio and the eMac seems like a good deal to me. G4 processor, 1 Gig of RAM, and the best of all, it's made by Apple! :thu: I'm not much of an "all-in-one" equipment fan, but eMac fits my budget and is better for me than a random wIntel computer... I hope they are not to loud...

[progfusion74]

[quote]Originally posted by phaeton: [b] [quote][b] Hey, why waste precious CPU cycles drawing a bunch of pretty pictures when you can use a text-based interface & apply the leftover processing power to DSP? [Big Grin] [/quote][/b] Excellent! :) [/b][/quote]I hate using a mouse anyway ... when so much can be done with keystrokes :D Command line rules!!! Writing this as I am surrounded by bozos.

[phaeton]

[quote][b] You're all just sick, sick. Step away from the keyboard now, gently, easy does it... What does that book say, Knuth? No, stop it, put that down! Easy, easy... repeat after me, "I must learn to use a mouse", "gui is not gnu". So sad.... [/quote][/b] No, it is not Knuth. See, if your poorly rasterized graphics were merely text, you could see that it is actually K&R. Sitting atop the Camel Book, that is.... However, i give Chip +300 cool points for knowledge of the Great Knuth. Either he's been down this road before, or he's been beaten up by a bunch of pale, weakly computer guys like myself. None of us can really fight, so we employ big blunt readily available objects like 12 pound books that cost more than our current automobile.

[Chip McDonald]

[quote]Originally posted by phaeton: [b]you could see that it is actually K&R. [/b][/quote]Ha.. true, 10 pts. [b]Sitting atop the Camel Book, that is....[/b] Actually, I got out of things before the O'Reilly books happend, or Perl for that matter. I couldn't even compile a hello world bit of code at this point. I know some good OS/2 jokes, though. [b]Either he's been down this road before, [/b] Just for mental kicks it would seem I have been down many a dead end...