The eMac, often the forgotten sibling in Apple’s product lineup, is the first Apple product to receive an upgrade in three months. Price: $1,049 or $1,299 (Cdn), depending on the optical and hard drive options. Though it now has the same processor speed as my 17-inch iMac (1.25 GHz, up from 1 GHz), it’s actually more powerful in two aspects: the processor has a 512-KB L2 cache, which means it’s a 7457-class G4, previously only found in PowerBooks (the iMac has a 7455 with 256 KB of L2); and the DVD burner in the $1,299 model is an 8× drive, whereas those found currently in iMacs and Power Macs are only 4× (the PowerBooks’ DVD burners are 2×). That at least suggests where some things may be going with other models.