I have an e-Mac, G4, PowerPC, 1.25 Ghz, 1GB, 80GB HD, Superdrive.
It was purchased in February 2005 and came only with 256K RAM. I insisted on adding another 256K before I would buy it. The local Apple Store sold me the additional stick and installed it. It came with i-Life 05.
I did not change from Panther to Tiger until it was a week too late to even buy Tiger locally.
I purchase OS X-Leopard, i-Life 08 and i-Work 08 and installed Leopard on my e-Mac. Something went wrong and I could not fix it. I had problems getting help or service at the local Apple Store. A man at the Genius Bar told a salesman and me to take it someplace else. This was wrong. He must have had a bad day although there were only two Geniuses there, they were not that busy. I took the Mac to Fry's, bought two sticks of 512K and had them installed. This did not help. I left a note here on C-Net and got some good advice. I made an appointment online (using my Windows computer) for the Genius Bar and telephoned the manager. I showed up, another Genius said that it was the motherboard and, since it was under warranty with Apple Care, it was replaced and installed free ($400.).
I installed the other programs and the computer is working perfectly and I am really happy. Time Machine automatically backs up to an extended hard drive (I should have purchased a humongous external hard drive, though) and I am so glad that I finally changed OSes. I also purchased a new European keyboard since I write to friends and family in different European languages and the new keyboards are wonderful compared to my original keyboard that came with the e-Mac. Nice machine and soooo much less hassle than my Windows XP-Home Sony. lol