Apple puts eMac G5 on hold

By Barb Dybwad

Despite earlier plans to develop a new line of eMacs with the G5 processor before the end of the year,
Apple has now placed the eMac G5 on hold. Production of the G4 eMacs has been restarted to keep up with demand for the all-in-one desktop model geared towards the education market.

The holdup appears to be the lack of availability of the IBM PowerPC 970 G5 processor. Apple's current inventory of the chips is apparently being used to meet demand for new low-end iMac G5.

The chips are down now, but not for long; the new eMac revision is expected to be introduced by early 2005.

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