Appears so.. New eMac specs:

- 17-inch flat CRT display
- 1.42GHz PowerPC G4
- 512MB DDR333 SDRAM
- 160GB Ultra ATA drive
- 8x SuperDrive (double-layer)
- ATI Radeon 9600
- 64MB video memory
- 56k internal modem

Seems lower-end model is unchanged.

No difference appearance-wise but inside there's the 1.42GHz CPU and ATI 9600 64Mb GPU on both models.

The top spec model has dropped in price and now has an 8x Dual Layer DVD SuperDrive plus a 160Gb HD.

Obviously Tiger is the included OS.

I was hoping that Airport would be included as standard at least with the SD model. Oh well, still not a bad upgrade.

The Mac mini now has serious competition

[EDIT] SD model has 512Mb RAM, base model retains 256Mb

It keeps both lines alive though.. they needed to be seperated a little bit more.. it appeared they were sharing sales demo's.. Mini will never be meant for much at least right now other than getting people to initially switch. Of course down the road the possibilities are endless but for now its just meant to entice I think.

Along with new iMac G5 systems, Apple today quietly updated it's eMac educational desktop systems with faster PowerPC G4 processors.

A $799 model includes a 1.42GHz PowerPC G4, 256MB DDR333 SDRAM, an 80GB Ultra ATA drive Combo drive, ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card with 64MB video memory and a 56k internal modem.

A $999 model doubles the SDRAM and hard disk space and includes a double-layer 8x SuperDrive drive.

Both models ship with Apple's new Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" and include built-in 17-inch flat CRT displays.

BTO SDRAM Price Reduction

To coincide with both the new iMacs and eMacs, Apple today also dropped the price of its built-to-order RAM upgrades. An upgrade to 512MB of RAM now costs $50, while a boost to 1GB will set you back $225. This represents a reduction of $25 and $100, respectively.

Nice upgrade Apple.

I'm liking the iMac even more now

AP/BT built in
Faster processors
Gigabit(This means they can be used in an Xgrid network now)
More standard memory
DL Drives.

I'm guaranteed to by a Rev C next year. I'm going to be looking at 2.2Ghz or so and possibly 16x DL Burner. Thank you for the Gigabit Apple. I'm wanting to run my future network at Gigabit the whole way through.

nice to see the mini now has tiger and a 9200, even though it is only 32mb.

So-so G4 attached to a boat anchor of a display... Yawn.

CRT, BOOO... HISSS....

Time to kill the eMac for consumers, and drop the iMac entry level to $999 -- no reason for it to be otherwise, and jazz up the mini.

This should be the last rev of eMac to be made available to consumers.