Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) (ft. It's My Natural Colour) - Vintage Apple Vault #4
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- The Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) was another pivotal piece of Apple's new product strategy. It helped push many new features to the market, and it changed digital video production forever…
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The production quality is off the charts! Excited to see where this series goes. Thanks for having me on board Ken!
And thank YOU for being in it : )
And still showing in my recommended almost 2 years later
Hey mjd
Well you're in the video for sure
Cannot believe you got your Blue & White, a Quicksilver, and a G5 for $60. Talk about right place, right time.
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Good old times weren't they
And still showing in my recommended almost 2 years later
My Blue and White is just a hair faster than IMNCs. I have the even rarer 1.1 ghz Powerlogix Powerforce G3 Zif. rest of specs are in line with imnc. except i have 2 x 1 tb WD Velociraptors in Raid 1, Gigabit Ethernet and PCI Firewire/USB2 Card with an Apple Super Drive from a G5. I also have a 2 x 500 gb ed blue ssd boot drive setup in raid 0. I have the 20' Apple Cinema widescreen and Apple Pro keyboard and mouse
Thanks Ken for featuring Steve from @Mac84 and me in today's video! See you on Mac Yak tonight at 8PM EST bud :D
BTW since this video I upgraded my CPU again to a Sonnet G4 550MHz... it's fun ;)
Back in 2003 I edited a skateboarding video of me and my friends on a PC with footage shot on a Canon ZR45MC miniDV camcorder. I had to learn from scratch how to get the video from the camcorder onto the hard drive. I looked up what IEEE 1394 was and had to go get a card to install on my eMachines PC. I used Microsoft Movie Maker in XP to edit and then render it. I have no disc or file of the finished video, which was ~25 mins, but my friend Jesse’s segment is on CZcams still.
Ken, I absolutely adored the Platinum SFX used with the little bubbles of information.
The emotion that you transmit when speaking is the same emotion that we all feel that we collect these incredible computers. Thank you very much for making this video! Greetings from Argentina!
Awesome to see the Computer Clan, My Natural Colour and Micheal MJD all working on a video together! I love these CZcamsrs, and I hope they can work together again. (yes, I know I'm 2 years late.)
This channel success is amazing. The content deserves more subscribers, however for how fast you grew, it's just pure amazing. Congratulations on the success Computer Clan.
The thing that was funny about the original iMac, is that it had USB ports. Mind you, the Compaq Presario I had in 1996 also had USB ports, but at the time, very little accessories took advantage of them, from my Zip drive through my scanner and printer, almost all of the accessories shy of game controllers either relied on parallel or serial ports. Keyboards and mice were still using the old tried and true PS2 ports. But those two USB ports on the PC? Like teats on a steer.
But then the iMac was released, and suddenly bam, USB everything started hitting the market. After almost a good 2 years of waiting. Of course, the Presario was already obsolete by that time, so the USB ports went unused, unwanted, and probably already obsolete by then.
As for "first computer with built-in FireWire," Sony beat them to market by a month or two, but using the slower 200 Mbps version. (The first release of IEEE1394 supported 100, 200, and 400 Mbps rates. The early add-in cards generally only supported 100 and 200 Mbps.) Sony released a system marketed as a video editing station whose exact name escapes me (Probably PCG- and a few random numbers) that had a 4-pin "i.Link S100" port. Note that even 100 Mbps is fast enough for the original standard-definition DV protocol, which tops out at 25 Mbps. (Later variants went as high as 100 Mbps, but the high-definition HDV dropped the maximum down to 25 Mbps as it added video compression to the standard.)
I remember working for a place that bought the Sony, only to trade up to the G3 on its release.
Anonymous Freak jesus well done
knowing you're probably right on that name
you had a look at Sonys new wireless earbuds yeah the Sony WH3456Z Wifi BT
"whose exact name escapes me" VAIO?
I am glad that I finally got the G3 Tower, and loaded with the Spanish Version of MS Word Si. Love it.... In which that the G3 has dual OS 9.8, and 10.5
I had one of these new in 1999 and I loved it. The original iMac was a decent computer but this thing was just amazing for graphics work, it was the best pro machine Apple has designed in years. I still have mine and it still works a treat in 2021. Firewire was such a big deal.
I have always loved the design of G3, I have never been able to track one down though, it is the design of this thing that I really, really do like
not a fan of the idiom, but its impressive how well the plastics have held up on these twenty years later
i love this era of apple, blending form and function quite well, Shame its no longer the case.
And awesome aesthetic completed the picture!
I dunno if the 2019 mac pro existed when you made the comment but that might be the only thing that's form and function together, but it's super expensive. Even if you account for inflation over the last twenty years.
Can't believe You've done a collab with IMNC!
Tudor Gruian me to!
@@RaygunRonald no he's not, what makes you think that...?
I worked for Apple for 8 years, thanks for the walk down memory lane!
While working at an ad agency in the 1990s, I remember the new Macs we got throughout the years. I distinctly remember the IT guy bringing the blue & white G3 into the design department, putting it onto the work island in the middle of the room, and showing how it opened up. I loved the design. I also realized how much of a pain in the ass my beige G3 now was to open compared to the B&W G3. I ended up waiting until the Quicksilver G4 to come out before I upgraded, which also shared the same flip-down access design. Such great machines. Thank you for a great video and I loved the input from the other guys as well.
I'm watching this with teary eyes. I used to have one of these beauties (the 400Mhz model with zip drive) and loved it! Bought it in 1999. Then 2006 came and got a G5 tower. Since I had to move and didn't have room to keep it, I gave the G3 away. I never forgave myself for it. I wish I had kept it. I would be running Mac OS 8.6 or 9.1 natively with it. 😭
Modded the crap out of mine. 1.2 or 1ghz (can't remember) G3 Sonnet upgrade, 1gb ram, flashed Nvidia 6200 pci 256mb, usb 2.0 pci card, bluetooth 2.0 USB adapter, apple airport and 10.4
It ran Halo full res no lag options turned up.
Halo Beta
@@pyeltd.5457 No, Halo FULL RETAIL
Great Video and looking forward to seeing you on Mac Yak tonight!
I was in a media tech class in High School, and they still had old video editing stuff like a Commodore Amiga with Video Toaster and a dedicated video editing computer called Casablanca. At the end of the semester, they got a mac with Final Cut Pro (this was 2001). I think the whole classroom had only one digital camera with Firewire support (we were still mostly using SVHS cameras).
man rarely do I consider case aesthetics when it comes to hardware but it is a major point of the hardware here, it really is. The build quality, the ruggedness it is just such a cool looking machine. Serviceable and everything.
A couple of the computer labs at my high school had those babies. They were still running Mac OS 9 (I think) as late as 2006 (the year I graduated).
24:12 that ribbon dot matrix cartridge on the right there looks suspiciously like the one LGR just used in his color dot matrix printer video...
The first Mac I've ever used. I'm not kidding. I've found one at a thrift store over a decade ago. I've brought it home and powered it on and Mac OS X booted... into safe mode, and it never booted again, no matter what I tried. While that was a disappointment, that did set me down the path of exploring Macs from this era, especially as that thrift store also had some other old Macs too, including one of my favorites in my collection, an early Revision B iMac G3.
So, thank you Power Mac G3 B&W. Sure, you've crapped out when I tried to use you, but you helped me get into old Macs.
USB, DVD, lots of RAM, ROM, the graphical user interface's stunning "Aqua Interface" was fabulous! A "clicky" keyboard, a comfortable mouse, what a great deal! Thanks to Philip Ruderman's reference(STCC) and Mass Rehab, I had my first Mac. I loved it! Heavy and fast, such a lovely GUI, I am an acronym queen. Now that Apple is at Holyoke Mall, Best Buy, for peripherals, Mac and electronics heaven. Add in a Food court, Waldenbooks/Borders. And Steiger's, Friendly's, a shopper's addiction. USB made life easy. Each mall in this area had a Sears, JC Penney, Radio Shack and toy stores. A whole afternoon in climate-controlled comfort, with music. Barry White's "Love's Theme", David Soul's(Tony Macaulay's) "Don't Give Up On Us" and Captain and Tennille, in the 1970s musical lore, Movie theaters, restaurants, a whole day's entertainment, socializing and convenience, excellent!
I bought a G5, 2008, 17" Tiger OS. I am a nerd, but do not get into the guts of the beast. An iPad, both eBay. All retro glory!
Fun fact about this PowerMac G3, if you turn the machine 90 degrees to the left, you can see something funny in the G3 naming, i don't know if this is intentional, but its so funny! When i first saw the brochure of it, my dad wanted a new mac and whas thinking about the tower or the laptop, he got the powerbook g3 pismo, which i own now, i pointed it out and we were laughing so hard! Good times, and once you see it, its hard to "unsee" it :p The Mouse if you understand what i mean ;) And i found this machine at the local recycling center where i used to live, i asked for it and the dude said "take it man", and it whas only when i brought it home and took a good look at it, that i saw this "Powered By Sonnet" sticker on it, it had a freakin' powerpc g4 400mhz in it, which i whas thrilled about! The one thing that's wrong with my machine, is that 1 of the handles broke off and that its missing all of its hard drive caddy's. I hope to restore this machine 1 day if i can find a cheap one some day
This is without any question, my favorite apple tower computer system. I used to go sleep at night and dream of having a top of the line Blue and White G3 Tower matched with its 19/20 inch Blue and White flat panel display (the 15 inch model display, just always appeared to be a little to small). Back during this time, I did not even know what was the difference between USB 1.1 and Firewire 400 ports.
This brings back memories ... I loved my blue and white thanks for this trip down memory lane
I used to have one of these 10 years ago. As a 9 year old Apple fanboy kid it was so much fun.
I just recently found your channel and I'm sorry this is probably so late you'll never see it, but you never know :)
I remember seeing a few of these things in my middle school for graphic design. Only a few students got to use them. It was one of the few times I used a Mac in my life tbh.
I came from Bremerton Washington, right across the bay from Seattle. So when I was growing up schools used windows 95 and on I think. I remember helping them install it as a kid. Shoot, I've seen more typewriters than macs and I'm not really that much older than you.
Back to the point, the thing was faster than most pc's I'd used. I was quite surprised even the one you did an episode of the eMachines copied was fast. Sorry I really don't know the names.
I always wondered about firewire and how Macs were better at video editing at such a fundamental level and thank you for such a wonderful explanation. I remember Windows programs in the early 2000s and they were really not that great or the systems trying to render just not good enough for it to be efficient. My friend took days trying to make a cut of Aliens set to heavy metal.
I know its three years late but I'm glad I found such a great video. Thanks Ken!
I had this computer in 1999 and next to this computer I had a hard HDD case filled with SCSI drives. This case was as grey as all the computers from that time. I had a visitor in my room and he asked what that beautiful case was next to my computer.
He was amazed when I showed him that it was the computer.
2:18 damn near made me cry the first time I saw that. I had already been messing with PC cases and they were ALL total ass. Here is this (relatively until the Bondi Blue was gone) sexy case you could open with one finger with it STILL ON and have access to everything you needed. This is one of the top ten computer cases ever built. It would be a little higher if it had the 2 5.25 bays like the MDDs.
I'd love one of these beasts in one of the alternate iMac colors. Sad they didn't extend that sweet, sweet personalizaton to the big boy model.
Still Using a Beige PowerPC G3 tower as a gateway for my Apple IIgs Via AppleTalk.
I use my friend's first Mac, he gave me great deal, I bought a g5 from eBay and an iPad. My first Mac, an SE, running 7.5, was my entree into the Mac universe. STCC added to my Mac education, was crucial, I love Macs! Retro Macs!!
My G4, looked the same, cool! A Zip Drive. A DVD/Quick Time and other goodies. Apple Addiction for sure!
I Love your videos, you mentions suggestions, I notice you have only G4 stuff on the cube, when the G4 line had such a long life and 4-5 variants I think it would be interesting if you covered the power mac G4 era and all of its generations.
I bought my brother into the Apple ecosystem for $99, back in 2005, with this very Mac. Boy was I jealous. My next computer had to be a Mac, and I never turned back.
Love Apple’s whimsical design of that era
And nearly as soon as this video was released, Apple released the next computer in this line.
The G4 with the "Cheese Grater" tower, the cool screen, and OS X! Awesome! 2001 was cool
wow that's a nice G3 upgraded Tom has, such a sweet setup :)
Still one of my absolute favorite Macs. I just love the design of it and I've been wanting to own one of my own for SO. LONG.
Yes!
I've been waiting for this, Thanks Ken :D
Wait for a group of 9 year olds to reply with "Omg kxsign i love your music"
@@MiroslavRD lmaooo right?
I had one of those. It was 400 MHz stock and came with a Rage 128. I gradually upgraded it with a Radeon 7000 and a G4 CPU upgrade. I took it to college with me and had some great times playing Unreal Tournament on the LAN in my dorm. I absolutely love the case design, and it was a real powerhouse of a system for its time as well.
I bought a G4 733 MHz upgrade for mine as well, which turned out to be a mistake. The machine definitely was a whole lot faster, but as I later found out, there were higher clocked G3 accelerators in the 1-1.2 GHz range that far outpaced my G4 for the same price. Also, the motorola chipset on the B&W G3 had a bug which only allowed G4 processors to run a 66 MHz front side bus, down from the native 100 MHz bus of the G3 and 133 MHz bus of the G4. This really crippled the performance of the G4 upgrade and made it a whole lot slower than a real G4 Powermac at the same speed.
The G3 and G4 had similar performance at the same clock speed, the only difference is the G4 had an altivec unit. Unless you had applications that utilized altivec (mostly audio/video encoders) then it was pointless to go with a G4. Hindsight is 20/20, but such accelerators are rare today and I'm lucky to have one.
The best video card a G3 can use is a Radeon 9200 or Geforce FX 5500, modified PPC ROMs can be grabbed from Mac Elite and flashed at your own risk.
Dude i really love apples unibody design but i must say the g3 and its monitor look amazing
Got one of these under my desk right now, about time it got more love
My natural hair had a video when he was like a kid. This kid grew up!
Sweet video!! Thanks Ken for allowing me to geek out about one of the coolest Macs ever. :D
It was a pleasure.
I had the G4, same colors, great DVD, Cinema Monitor, Harmon Kardon speakers, yes, the "Cheesegrater" version. OS X "Aqua Interface"
damn the editing and the production on this is amazing
Thank you : )
My skin crawls every time he says, 'buttery smooth'
Hi Ken, I owned a blue and white G3, 350 model for quite a number of years before selling it. It was my favorite mac, over a 68K Macintosh. I used it with Mac OS 8.6 (which it came with) through Mac OS X Tiger. I was able to upgrade the optical drive to a DVD-ROM drive, but back then Apple had a hit and miss drive compatibility list. I was able to get a Lite ON drive that was both bootable, and compatible with Apple DVD player. I never was able to get an internal writer to work though, for the same reasons of compatibility. Apple had a limited list of natively supported drives.
Either way great video. This is the kind of Apple stuff I love to see. Well, any legacy computer topics. Not just apple. Loved the video, have a great day!
My dad has one of those in cold storage. I'm thinking about starting it up at some point and looking at it.
I sae one of these yesterday in my college that they were throwing out... Needless to say it's now set up in my room
I love the B&W G3. A few more things about it: if you upgrade the CPU with any G3 or 500MHz or slower G4, the bus clock can stay at 100MHz but if you go to one of the faster G4s (>600MHz) you have to clock the bus down to 66MHz, which is a little disappointing; the onboard UltraATA controller was bugged but OS X gets around the problem by disabling UDMA which means the drive is stuck at PIO 4 (16.7MB/s) instead of the faster DMA-based 33 or 66MB/s modes, severely degrading drive performance but preventing the corruption problems; these (and the similar Yikes! G4) have one of my favorite features: there are a number of diagnostic LEDs scattered around the board, including one near the CPU that shows CPU activity, with the LED changing in intensity depending on how much work the processor is doing at the time (and also to help determine if it's hanging or crashed).
This was a great computer, spec wise and... it’s really pretty
There's a certain irony to this video mentioning how Apple used to have easy accessibility and upgradeability with their pro linup, and literally half a year later, Apple went back to making their pro lineup easily accessible and upgradeable. Clearly, Apple figured out that their 'trash cans' should've remained icons for doc disposal and disc ejection, rather than turned into pro computers.
None of these people bought the machine when it was brand new in full price, yet they appreciate the beast after 20 years of its release the most
Would like to see the Mac mini covered, both the G4 and early Intel variants. Original iMac as well.
Fantastic episode! I am excited for episode 6 especially (iMac g4). I have an iMac G4 myself, I’ve had it since 2002 brand new, it works like a charm. Definitely the best looking Mac in my opinion. Looking forward to future episodes. :)
Joel Allen I broght one in Peckham and it still has the platsic protection around the metal neck since 2002.
Pye Ltd. Oh wow. They’re beautiful machines, I’ll hold onto mine for as long as I can. It’s great yours sounds in good condition.
For a moment, I thought it was a cat draped over the chair! :-)
2:53 did this guy just walk around in a circle for no reason 😂
Surprised to not see you freak out about MJD's G3/4/5 purchase prive
I have one of these myself they are were ahead of their time for sure 😎
Steve Jobs might as well be the architect of computers. Design ✔️. Power ✔️. Aesthetics ✔️.
Well, Steve Jobs best rise from the dead and start slapping whoever is in charge of Apple now. Sure they are successful. Yet what made Macs great. Does not exist anymore.
man i miss websurfing on a g3 machine
I got my PowerMac G3 for 40$ and it had a 400Mhz G3 384 MB ram and everything else was original, 10gb hdd no zip drive and a cd, i have the first revision.
Awesome vid. I actually have a G3 stored in my greenhouse. After watching, I think I'll go dig it out.
Nice Video squire! I have a G4 which looks very similar to the one that you’re showcasing, It includes the DVD Ram Drive & Zip Drive, It’s all complete & original and I believe I bought it off eBay about 10 years ago or more, It does have a Sticker on it from: “The Open University” here in the UK, The Case has some scratches on it but it works fine although I don’t use it very often, I also have a G4 Quicksilver which is also complete and it’s in better condition and also works but again I don’t use it very often… I also had the older Huge beige G3 9300 & smaller 8200 I think but had to get rid of those due to space constraints although I kept the Hard Drives, Wish I hadn’t now but Hindsight’s a wonderful thing, If only you could Live Life backwards eh! 😂Anthony - Birmingham/UK 🇬🇧
I had a G4 and Final Cut 2. Dem were the days!
I remeber this era I had one (g4) I painted black and red and it was dual 466mhz ppc with 1024MB of sdram, had three addon firewire card to use to push images of a firewire based network to the white mac books as gigabit was not available for the mac laptops it was crazy. Also my mom video camera from jvc actual would allow better transfer and capture only through firewire instead of usb.
I want one so bad! As a fan of old “obsolete” hardware I want as many old macs as I can get
Have one
Do not forget the iconic monitor that chameleon with it and the clamshell
The monitor is covered in the video, and the iBook Clamshell is covered in episode 1. Give it a watch! : )
My G3 was an odd one. It came packaged as an edit machine with Radius Edit DV, but also with the Radius capture board, so it had 4 Firewire inputs. I stuck with Edit DV, which kinda worked.
a timeless design that was way ahead of its time, I prefer Windows for my things but I cant lie that apple makes great looking devices
In 2014 I got 3 powermac G5's (A duel 2.3ghz, a signal 2.0ghz, and a signal 1.8ghz) along with a 20" studio display with DVI to ADC adapter for $100
I just picked up a Full function and full optioned G3. Some guy was selling it bundled with a broken G5 and a broken Mac Pro 2,1. I bought the lot for $20 Canadian only because I wanted the ram out of the broken Mac Pro.
I had one of these, but it was sadly killed by a power surge. Honestly, as great as the new Mac Pro is, this is what I wanted - a tower that was user serviceable, expandable, with internal storage - but about half the cost.
I wish Apple was as game changing of a company as they were when this computer came out. I remember using these bad boys. In a couple of days you could render out credits. Oh this was a great time.
I think they’re still game changing. The new Mac Pro, the new dev tools, Swift’s evolution, new accessibility features... looks like they’re doing great. Not saying they’re perfect, though ; )
@@ComputerClan I worked Mac desktop/laptop support for years. It used to be that buying Apple Care was a waste of money because their machines were just that good to no way you should even consider not buying Apple Care. They stripped most of their reseller partners and authorized repair shops of their partnerships all while trying to get your system services at an Apple Store is a nightmare. Their laptops are poorly built with ventilation systems designed to self destruct after a few years. They making it harder and harder to self repair or even have their products fixed (not have parts swapped). Performance is not all that great. They drop products out of no where making you wonder why you should even invest in their ecosystem (they dropped Shake, Aperture, their storage line, servers, OSX Server which was great). Apple is not the same and neither is Microsoft (or Linux desktop). Other PC companies are making great hardware these days. It used to be that paying the Apple tax was worth it but now they really make you think if it is. The new Mac Pro is nice as is the screen but that's designed for a market that has moved on from Mac. I still like Mac OS but in the future I will either be running on another Hackintosh build or virtualized with GPU pass thought. Apple really needs a shake up. The great think about Steve Jobs (other than his cult leader like personality) was that he had the vision and ability to tell shareholders to piss off and not worry about profits because they were innovating on tech that actually mattered.
Thank you so much for this video! i know i am not the only classic mac freak and user but this brought it home!,hope you guys will do this treatment with the G4!
I have both a Quicksilver dual 1ghz and a Sawtooth 733. Both of course are G4s but same basic form factor and they still work beautifully. Near 20 years old the Digital audio runs Mac OS like a champ. I keep around a 7600 (with an old world rom) too for BeOS and Mac OS 7.6.1 compatibility and that has a Sonnet g3 upgrade card. I think 433 mhz? She's pretty quick anyway. It's geek, we're geeks. Nothing wrong with geeks!
Great video. I'd be more than interested to see an video on the unibody macbook pro. It is almost 10 years old after all.
Thanks. Which unibody MacBook Pro do you speak of? There's loads of 'em.
Went to an Apple seminar and the presenter said NASA had ordered a lot of these and then returned them because they looked like toys. That is supposedly one of the reasons they went with the graphite for the G4.
I have just a beige g3 desktop, however it also has a very satisfying feeling when upgrading components and software. Currently running a 266 with very slight overclock and nice scsi drives using the internal controller. Seems decent enough for classic OS.
2:50 Holy shit, a jump scare moment.
It's a giant Cotton Swab, kill it with fire 😁
I think I realized where the "conference laugh" sound used in Nava Shield came from. See 8:08
Before Firewire we used Truevision Targa cards for video capture - which cost more than a couple of PowerMacs!
Beige plastic -> translucent plastic 2-> translucent plastic 2-> cube -> cheese grater 1 -> trash can -> cheese grater 2
Next new design should be unique, small, and fail before the next tower.
I have got a Powermac G3 B&W from a friend for free. I've insisted to pay him but he has never collected the money from me. I'm going to pick up another one tomorrow if i'm lucky enough. Love this machine for it's nostalgic quality. Might be doing some of the upgrade mods later on which I have a spare unit.
Wow, I didn't knew AVID dropped support at that time. While watching LOTR Extended stuff I saw a couple of G4 Macs in those rooms and Peter Jackson mentions AVID a few times. Huh …
I love Power Macintosh
My favorite Mac or Macs were:
✓ Performa 5300 (OS9(
✓ IBook G3 (OS9)
✓ AIO G3 (OS9)
✓ IMac (OS9)
Well they do say that things were better made in the 90s
I remember that one :) I had Amiga 1200 with MC68040/40Mhz and saw this G3 on one of expos. Damn! This was so fast
I own a really nice DC G5 2.3 that I have maxed out. It runs really well, and is still capable by todays standards. I wouldn't give it up for anything.
I bought the G4 chip sold by Sonnet. It was HUGE increase to performance. I miss my B&W tower and I was coolest 17 year old nerd during that time. Too bad I ended up just throwing it away after 5 years.
Tiger was my first Mac OS I still love it.
I received a blue g3 that he is showing, from a different friend, who would later give me a laptop g3 running Tiger. I am evolving in the retro scheme.
I love the "clicky" keyboard. The Slot-loading DVD player was excellent. Great spekers, Harmon Kardon. Then a G4 in 2001, thanks, Phil Ruderman, my advisor at STCC, I studied Desktop Publishing on such G4s at the time, OS 9/10. "Aqua Interface" Aah! Mass Rehab financed the Mac. With the "Cheese Grater" and cool large, screen.
I used this as a door stop and now it's sides are smahed and has no feet. Still works on Mac OS Panther. It's little bit rusty to. Hoping to find another one so I can fix this one up as the blue and white case is easy to replace and upgrade the HDD and RAM. also the graphics card is currupt when display a video playback so that needs changing to.
I would like to see a episode of the original Macintosh or iMac.
It’s not confirmed yet, but I’d love to show the original Bondi Blue iMac in volume 3. Stay tuned ; )
Avid quickly reversed their decision to discontinue their Mac-based Media Composers, and they definitely got the last laugh when Apple fucked us over with FCPX.