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The eOne: At Less Than a Grand, Love Is Grand Indeed, Chicago Tribune, 8/20.

eMachines eOne/Future Power E-Power, Benj Edwards, Macworld, 2013.01.11.

Imitation Apple: Hardware Knockoffs Through the Years, Benj Edwards, Macworld, 2013.01.11.

Apple did sue eMachines later in August 1999. Update: The eOne did not sell well in the few months it was on the market.

If the concept of “trade dress” (distinctive appearance) exists in the computer industry, Apple certainly has grounds to sue eMachines over the eOne. On the other hand, putting your own brand of cola in a bottle shaped like Coke’s will land you in court for design infringement. In some ways, eOne buyers who think they’re getting an iMac get what they deserve: a cheap rip-off. I looks even more iMac-like from the back than from the front! Unlike any Wintel computer I’ve ever seen specs on before, there was no maximum RAM listing. Unlike the iMac, you can’t open up the eOne to upgrade memory.Īnd then I visited their site to confirm it. Then that little gem near the end of the article: the sealed case. But the raves in The eOne: At Less Than a Grand, Love Is Grand Indeed ( Chicago Tribune) were more than I could handle. I’d fully intended to ignore the eOne here, as I do most Wintel computers. You can’t replace the hard drive if you need a bigger one, replace the CD-ROM with a DVD drive, or even upgrade memory from the stock 64 MB. The Wintel world is beginning to see the importance of networking.īut the eOne has a sealed case. And, unlike many Wintel computers, it has ethernet as a standard feature. The iMac survived without PCI expansion slots, so I suppose the eOne can do the same.

Ports on right side of computer, not the back.

10Base-T ethernet (although iMac also supports faster 100Base-T speed).

15″ (14″ viewable) monitor supports resolutions to 1024 x 768.

Parallel, serial, game, and PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports.

No memory expansion (iMac can be expanded to 384 MB).

It has more standard memory: 64 MB vs.

128 KB level 2 cache, compared with 512 KB L2 cache on the iMac.

It sounds faster than the iMac’s 333 MHz G3.

It’s only $799 – or $399 after a $400 ISP rebate.

The eOne runs Windows98, not the Mac OS.

There are many similarities and differences between the iMac and the eOne. 1999 – It doesn’t just look like an iMac from the front, although the blue-and-white coloring is certainly reminiscent of the iMac. So is the compact keyboard. At least the mouse has the more traditional hand-fitting shape.