eMachines eOne: 1999 Apple iMac Knockoff
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Pete
The correct software from ATi would allow full screen! I do not recall what I used the inputs on my for. Yes, taking it apart was extremely difficult but not impossible. I remember having to have it upside down to get to the mother board to upgrade the ram which I believe it was 64 mb on board and I was able to get a 128 mb laptop stick installed! I hated the USB which was 1. 0 and the system only had a 8gb HDD that I filled up quickly! I remember finding another larger hard drive and even starting the installation of Windows ME but during the set up, I'm guessing I was able to set a resolution that CRT could not handle? The screen looked like it was under water and it slowly faded away going upwards! Sadly, it was completely dead and I could never get it working again! I still have it but never bothered putting it back together. I'm thinking I still have all the pieces scattered around in storage boxes including the restore disc. I'm hoping sometime this year, I'll be able to empty the storage rooms and perhaps I'll find some stuff!
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The correct software from ATi would allow full screen! I do not recall what I used the inputs on my for. Yes, taking it apart was extremely difficult but not impossible. I remember having to have it upside down to get to the mother board to upgrade the ram which I believe it was 64 mb on board and I was able to get a 128 mb laptop stick installed! I hated the USB which was 1. 0 and the system only had a 8gb HDD that I filled up quickly! I remember finding another larger hard drive and even starting the installation of Windows ME but during the set up, I'm guessing I was able to set a resolution that CRT could not handle? The screen looked like it was under water and it slowly faded away going upwards! Sadly, it was completely dead and I could never get it working again! I still have it but never bothered putting it back together. I'm thinking I still have all the pieces scattered around in storage boxes including the restore disc. I'm hoping sometime this year, I'll be able to empty the storage rooms and perhaps I'll find some stuff!
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Grim
The power on buttons looks the same but that's about it.
Imagine some smartphone manufacturer cries and sues cause this other company made a -product like theirs- except cheaper
Just imagine. I think that's how you get hated on and not have much of a good reputation under your belt but idk much. What i do know is that apple was never -good guy-. there to improve, to make people better, smarter, wiser, more appropriate with what they spend, say, write, think
If someone does what i do at a cheaper price then i shouldnt be in business. i shouldn't be sueing, i shouldnt be trying to advance the technology, i shouldnt be anything.
Business men think 1 thing. How they can win over you. Its not about making everything more accessible to you, its not about making u smarter, its not about opening your mind, its about none of that.
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Looking forward for their ARM cpus since that's actually the future of tech.
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The power on buttons looks the same but that's about it.
Imagine some smartphone manufacturer cries and sues cause this other company made a -product like theirs- except cheaper
Just imagine. I think that's how you get hated on and not have much of a good reputation under your belt but idk much. What i do know is that apple was never -good guy-. there to improve, to make people better, smarter, wiser, more appropriate with what they spend, say, write, think
If someone does what i do at a cheaper price then i shouldnt be in business. i shouldn't be sueing, i shouldnt be trying to advance the technology, i shouldnt be anything.
Business men think 1 thing. How they can win over you. Its not about making everything more accessible to you, its not about making u smarter, its not about opening your mind, its about none of that.
$ - $ - $
Looking forward for their ARM cpus since that's actually the future of tech.
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No
Honestly, I find it a bit odd eMachines lost this lawsuit. Sure it's obviously styled after the iMac, but it's also a very distinctly different machine. Last I checked, it wasn't a crime to stylistically mimic another product (since I see it all the time, but apparently I'm incorrect. Loss aside, seems like eMachines could have easily resolved their issue and continued to sell the product by simply ditching the two-tone color scheme. Now you just have a generic all-in-one, and I'd definitely call foul if Apple tried to sue over that.
I'm also just picturing this type of lawsuit happening today in the smartphone market: -His solid black rectangle looks just like _my_ solid black rectangle. Rally the legal team! -
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Honestly, I find it a bit odd eMachines lost this lawsuit. Sure it's obviously styled after the iMac, but it's also a very distinctly different machine. Last I checked, it wasn't a crime to stylistically mimic another product (since I see it all the time, but apparently I'm incorrect. Loss aside, seems like eMachines could have easily resolved their issue and continued to sell the product by simply ditching the two-tone color scheme. Now you just have a generic all-in-one, and I'd definitely call foul if Apple tried to sue over that.
I'm also just picturing this type of lawsuit happening today in the smartphone market: -His solid black rectangle looks just like _my_ solid black rectangle. Rally the legal team! -
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Charles
Just something you overlooked/missed when talking about the spring loaded tray CD-ROM drive in the eMachines One, but the original Bondi Blue iMac G3 also had a similar spring loaded tray mechanism too. Steve Jobs had wanted to have a slot loading CD-ROM drive like the 1999 iMac would get but that technology wan-t ready in time for the original iMac and so the engineers convinced Jobs to release the original iMac as is with the promise that the 2nd gen of the iMac would get a slot loading CD-ROM drive which it did. So given that this knockoff was based on the original IMac G3, having a spring loaded drive tray makes perfect sense.
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Just something you overlooked/missed when talking about the spring loaded tray CD-ROM drive in the eMachines One, but the original Bondi Blue iMac G3 also had a similar spring loaded tray mechanism too. Steve Jobs had wanted to have a slot loading CD-ROM drive like the 1999 iMac would get but that technology wan-t ready in time for the original iMac and so the engineers convinced Jobs to release the original iMac as is with the promise that the 2nd gen of the iMac would get a slot loading CD-ROM drive which it did. So given that this knockoff was based on the original IMac G3, having a spring loaded drive tray makes perfect sense.
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Deus
There was an episode of felicity where this computer was mentioned. I warned one because I couldn-t afford the original iMac - when joy came out in the 1990-s. Several years later I bought one that was on sale and damaged accidentally (purchased an extra keyboard on a flea market) and then finally destroyed by a neighbor who incinerated our home and it was abandoned. I Did manage to salvage a Mac mini purchased before that crime and later a Mac book pro.
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There was an episode of felicity where this computer was mentioned. I warned one because I couldn-t afford the original iMac - when joy came out in the 1990-s. Several years later I bought one that was on sale and damaged accidentally (purchased an extra keyboard on a flea market) and then finally destroyed by a neighbor who incinerated our home and it was abandoned. I Did manage to salvage a Mac mini purchased before that crime and later a Mac book pro.
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Rob
Funny how Apple got away suing eMachines, but also got away from getting sued by Xerox 2 decades earlier. Had eMachines done away with the highly-similar iMac look but still incorporated this All-In-One design, this machine would probably have made money, just on its features alone. And then eMachines as a company might have still survived longer than it did because of the success of a non-Apple-looking machine like this.
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Funny how Apple got away suing eMachines, but also got away from getting sued by Xerox 2 decades earlier. Had eMachines done away with the highly-similar iMac look but still incorporated this All-In-One design, this machine would probably have made money, just on its features alone. And then eMachines as a company might have still survived longer than it did because of the success of a non-Apple-looking machine like this.
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Paul
I saw one of these in a crate at the tip, and thought it looked kind of nice, at the time I kind of regretted not trying to score it. (and getting into trouble) so thanks for the review, now I know I was not missing anything.
Actually hearing it power up was enough to confirm I did the right thing by leaving it there.
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I saw one of these in a crate at the tip, and thought it looked kind of nice, at the time I kind of regretted not trying to score it. (and getting into trouble) so thanks for the review, now I know I was not missing anything.
Actually hearing it power up was enough to confirm I did the right thing by leaving it there.
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giko!
Regarding the other clone: Th-- That's the same Daewoo that made car parts and firearms? Guess I shouldn't be surprised, South Korean conglomerates result in my household having a phone, tablet and washing machine from the same brand, and we'll likely have more appliances from them as the current ones break.
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Regarding the other clone: Th-- That's the same Daewoo that made car parts and firearms? Guess I shouldn't be surprised, South Korean conglomerates result in my household having a phone, tablet and washing machine from the same brand, and we'll likely have more appliances from them as the current ones break.
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Eric
This was my first PC as well!
Back in the beginning of middle school for me (2002, a friend's brother in law upgraded the hardware enough to run Windows XP smooth!
LGR stated on this video that it's a nightmare trying to open it up and I'm beyond grateful that my friend Alex was able to do it!
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This was my first PC as well!
Back in the beginning of middle school for me (2002, a friend's brother in law upgraded the hardware enough to run Windows XP smooth!
LGR stated on this video that it's a nightmare trying to open it up and I'm beyond grateful that my friend Alex was able to do it!
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Rising
When I was younger, my friend had one of these.
He then took a picture of his friend doing a kickflip on his Mavica and photoshopped it so it looked like he was kickflipping off the roof of his house, then set it as the desktop background in Windows 98.
His mother was not impressed.
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When I was younger, my friend had one of these.
He then took a picture of his friend doing a kickflip on his Mavica and photoshopped it so it looked like he was kickflipping off the roof of his house, then set it as the desktop background in Windows 98.
His mother was not impressed.
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