Mastodawn

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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Jack Wellborn 1d 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

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Aaron Priven

@jackwellborn @Gte @marioguzman my recollection is that the 7500 case was slightly better to work on than the Blue & White G3 case because it was easier to have the main board be stable on the bottom of the machine rather than moving on the door. But both were so much better than anything else around.

(I bought a used 8500 once after only working on 7500 type cases. So hard to open, such a disappointment.)