Another look at the 'new' iMac and eMac

As always, let's have a better look at the newly released machines.
Let's start with the eMac. This machine, dedicated to a fairly specialized market, has seen its sales cannibalized by the Mac mini. But the eMac is now back in the race. In fact, if you don't have aesthetical imperatives or space constraints, the latter is more interesting:
- Its video card is way better than the one of the Mac Mini.
- Its uses 3.5" hard drives and 5.25" Optical drives. Both Better performers than those of the Mac Mini (and cheaper components to exchange).
- The eMac is less expensive than a Mac Mini plus keyboard, mouse and display.
Now that it has been updated, its place in Apple's Lineup should allow it to find a new market.
The iMac represents an important share of Apple's sales. Even with a CPU frequency increase of only 200 MHz, the new iMac is much more interesting than the one it replaces. In Fact, setting aside the FireWire 800 connector [TR: and the dual digital display output], it has nothing to envy the PowerMac line. It even manages to include the Bluetooth 2.0 update its bigger brother lacks.
If the Radeon 9600 cannot be considered a proper video card for the PowerMac G5, it has its place in this family-oriented machine with limited screen resolution. On top of that, Apple has had to entirely redo the motherboard in order to integrate this new video card. This, we hope, will solve once and for all the past problems encountered with iMac G5s.
On that level, the iMac becomes a real alternative to the PowerMac G5. Evolutivity is limited indeed, especially in terms of integrated video card, but one can wonder about the ability to find, two years from now, a faster mac-compatible video card that would still be in AGP 8x format...
Conclusion: the evolutions of the iMac seems very satisfactory to us, in just the same way the PowerMac G5 evolution left us unsatisfied.