It seems a fitting day for this to happen. On the day that Apple releases the iMac – a beautiful computer, a friend of the family gave us it’s older cousin, the eMac. The eMac is really the CRT version of the iMac. It looks like something out of 2001 A Space Odyssey – I think it’s more a piece of art than a computer.
It’s a pretty swift little (big) computer, though! I’m impressed. We’re going to upgrade it to 512Mb of RAM and find a place to show it off in out house. My home is fast becoming an Apple museum – with an AppleTV, a couple of iPod Shuffles, a G3, a G4, an eMac and a MacBookPro. Yikes. (The G3 and G4 aren’t up and running yet).
One of the missing pieces to the eMac is the ability to add a Wireless Network Card. Apple sold AirPorts back then and you could connect to those via an Ethernet Cable. They still have AirPorts now, but in true Mountain Dew spirit – they are AirPort Extremes – running the latest and greatest 802.11g. I already have a great Netgear wireless network so I don’t want to upgrade yet.
picture of us streaming a movie via the XBox wireless ethernet bridge.
No, we’re not going to keep things this way. Mixing Mac and Microsoft feels a little dirty to me (though I do it a lot!). My good friend, Bill, had an extra Linksys WET11 wireless ethernet bridge that I configured and got up tonight. The XBox wireless unit is going back to it’s rightful owner… the XBox.
I’m going to need a server room soon.
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