Guillaume Gete8h ago
Guy English

RE: https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/116326493397767894

The Power Mac G3 was a thing of beauty. It was a fashionable and ground breaking design while being unapologetically a computer. It went so far beyond the aesthetics of PC cases of the time to address the functional requirement to be able to open it up and add things to it. This aspect was shared with earlier Power Mac towers but never so beautifully realized as in the Power Mac G3. A truly innovative design and product and a self assured early first step on Apple’s decades long run.

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Show threadJames Baker 🍁15h ago
@Gte Crikey, I loved mine. About a week after I brought it home, I came in after work and my then girlfriend immediately shouted "Don't worry, the computer is safe!" Why wouldn't it be, I wondered, until I went into the office room and saw water raining down from the apartment above… Fortunately we had a hutch over it to keep the weather out, such as it was…
Show threadJack Wellborn14h ago

@Gte @marioguzman My desire for a Power Mac G3 stemmed from my experience with the Power Macintosh 7100, which required a shocking amount of disassembly just to upgrade the RAM. The ease of G3’s door is why it made my most notable Macs list.

Side note: Someone once told me those desktop Power Macs had a cool hinging feature. It was certainly possibly dumbass teenage me missed it, but it turns out the hinge came with the 7500 (probably because the 7100 sucked so much.)

https://wormsandviruses.com/2020/08/my-three-most-notable-macs/#:~:text=Power%20Mac%20G3%20(Blue%20and%20White)

My Three Most Notable Macs – Worms and Viruses

Show threadGed Maheux14h ago
@Gte @marioguzman i loved mine so so much.
Show threadLitha Soyizwapi14h ago
@Gte I love mine. It still boots up in OS 9 and OS X. 😎
Show threadMichael Fey 14h ago
@Gte @marioguzman This was the first computer I bought for myself with my own money as I headed off to college. Absolutely loved that machine.
Show threadGryphon13h ago
@Gte I was lucky enough to see it in person at the Macworld expo (I think?) in which it was released. Up until then I’d had a PowerMac 7100, which was such a pain to get inside of. I saw the entire side of the G3 just unfold with a latch and went straight home and ordered one. Amazing engineering.
Show threadK. Langoso 🇧🇷🔴🐷🇳🇬🏡😷13h ago

@Gte the iMac was absurdly cute.

This thing shouted “THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED”.

Show threadMichael Cook13h ago

@Gte @marioguzman I was in PCs at the time. I waited *years* for some case manufacturers to copy the fold out idea, and they never did. At least not before I gave up on build your own.

I had already resigned myself to an ugly beige box thing. That wasn’t going to change.

Those machines amazed me.

Show threadgok13h ago
@Gte @marioguzman also kind of crazy, it was replaced the G4 less than 9 months after intro. Computers really did move fast back then.
Show threadmikeash12h ago
@Gte Smurf tower!
Show threadAnthony Sorace12h ago
@Gte The first time I opened one blew my mind. A big “holy crap, of course, why aren’t all cases like this” moment.
Show threadSven A. Schmidt7h ago
@Gte @marioguzman That and the TiBook were the best
Show threadDan Moren4h ago
@Gte @marioguzman Mine’s in my closet. One of my favorite computers of all time!