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Product name	Apple eMac	Apple iMac G4 1.25GHz	Apple eMac (Combo Drive)	Apple eMac	Close Apple iMac (24-inch, 2.8GHz)
Price	Check Prices	$359.00	Check Prices	Check Prices	$1,748.99 to $1,949.00
CNET editors' rating	3.5 stars Overall score: 7.7 (3.5 stars)	3.5 stars Overall score: 7.8 (3.5 stars)	stars Overall score: ( stars)	3.5 stars Overall score: 7.7 (3.5 stars)	4.0 stars Overall score: 8.5 (4.0 stars)
Average user rating	4.0 stars	4.0 stars	3.5 stars	4.0 stars	4.0 stars
Release date		September 08, 2003	May 03, 2005		April 28, 2008
The Bottom Line	The eMac delivers an attractive, adequately speedy, easy-to-use PC without the flat-panel iMac's relatively high price.	Home users will appreciate the eye-catching, wide-screen iMac and its new, faster 1.25GHz G4 processor.		The eMac delivers an attractive, adequately speedy, easy-to-use PC without the flat-panel iMac's relatively high price.	A slight bump to the specifications for the same price in addition to a much appreciated option to upgrade the graphics means the 24-inch iMac keeps the Editors' Choice it earned last year when the brushed-aluminum-and-glass design was first introduced.
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Graphics Controller	AGP 4x - ATI Radeon 7500 - 32 MB	AGP 4x - NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra - 64 MB	AGP 4x - ATI Radeon 9600 - 64 MB	AGP 4x - ATI Radeon 9200 - 32 MB	PCI Express x16 - ATI Radeon HD 2600PRO - 256 MB
Storage Removable	None	None	None	None	None
Floppy Drive	None	None	None	None	None
Optical Storage (2nd)	None	None	None	None	None
Storage Controller	IDE ( IDE ) ; None	IDE ( ATA-100 ) - PCI ; None	IDE ( ATA-100 ) ; None	IDE ( ATA-100 ) ; None	Serial ATA ( Serial ATA-300 )
Type	Personal computer	Personal computer	Personal computer	Personal computer	Personal computer
Hard Drive (2nd)	- None	- None	- None	- None	- None
Printer	None	None	None	None	None
Optical Storage	CD-RW / DVD-R	CD-RW / DVD-ROM combo	CD-RW / DVD-ROM combo	CD-RW / DVD-R	DVD?RW (?R DL)