E is not for everyone: should you care about Apple's education-only eMac? (From the Editor's Desk).

MOST MACWORLD READERS WON'T EVEN SEE AN eMAC, let alone be able to buy one (for now, anyway). But this new model is more important, in its own way, than the flat-panel iMac introduced in January.

Just look at the sum of its parts. Some people have already complained that the eMac is what Apple's customers were asking for back in 1999, and there's truth to that. And the eMac certainly doesn't win many style points: it looks like a slightly warmed-over, bulkier, first-generation iMac. But it's the right machine at the right time and the right price for a market that has had an ...

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