Using Apple's Pro Desktop... From 20 Years Ago!
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- On January 5th, 1999, Apple released the Blue & White PowerMac G3. Let's try restoring and using one today :) #Apple #PowerMac #G3
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silver button close to you! greetings from Russian subscriber!
My b&w just sit in my closet:)
Look for a cpu upgrade from sonnettech on ebay
You put a lot of effort into your videos. I hope soon you get your 100k
I have really cool apple workgroup servers and one g4 server it was just given to me as a regular g4 they have the workgroup software installed to its very cool.
4:30 *V A C C U M D O N G*
FBI OPEN UP!
Sounds painful
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Yo wtf😂
I bought my Mac back in 1853, and it still runs great! The wood case is very easy to remove and polish, as are the wooden fans!
i was always interested in your videos. like literally the first thing i would look up after 6hrs of absolute torture AKA school, the first thing i do is look up your channel to see if there are any new uploads..like without exaggeration. good luck in future videos!
Nice job restoring it! My dad was an education rep for an Apple dealer, so he was always bringing home computers to try or for the family to use for a little while, so we did indeed have one of these. So glad to see you feature Dark Vengeance. It had a great network play mode that my siblings and I got plenty of use out of.
Whatever Jew boy
I still have my G4 AGP (Sawtooth) tower that also came out in 99 for some reason, I love it. I especially love the graphite color of it that they were using in the late 90/early 00s on the PowerMacs and iMacs
I really like the blue front panel on this Apple Pro PC. Its looks more colorful. I wish the full case color was blue to make it look even more exciting and appealing to users.
I have the successor to the machine in this video. I bought it new in 1999 and it still works like a champ. Kudos to Apple for these machines as they don't seem to ever die.
The quality of your videos is very good
You deserve way more subscribers
I was 1 when that Mac was manufactured.
Wow. This brings back so much nostalgia for where I was in my life early in my graphic design career in 1999 and 2000. I loved the G3 and G4 towers back then.
Awesome video! I still have mine and use it occasionally to play Jedi Outcast and Quake.
Oh man, this brings me back! I remember in my College Art Department, a critical flaw in the design of these machines became apparent... well, less the computer itself, and more just the Zip Drives. See, if you had a broken Zip disk, it would break a drive when it tried to red the disk. If a drive was broken, it would break the disk. You can see where this is leading. The entire Mac Lab would go down at least one a semester because someone would kept trying to use a busted disk in each machine, rendering them unusable. Though since it was a chicken and egg scenario (what was broken first, the disk or the drive), it'd be hard to fault the student who accidentally did all this, especially since they essentially just lost all their work.
But yeah, nostalgia at its finest!
You mentioned/showed a lot of expansion space. About how much do you think this thing could be upgraded? (like, could you get over a gig of ram in there? An SD drive? A dedicated graphics card that still used the old PCI slots?)
I remember a couple of classrooms at my high school used those PowerMac G3 desktops. They were hooked up to Apple's CRT studio displays and they ran Mac OS 9. They kept using them until 2007, IIRC.
Love seeing all those stuff that i never heard of.Keep it up, Psivewri❤️
i was an Apple service tech when these came out , such a dream to work on , 5 minute ram or hard drive upgrades !
if i remember correctly it was the first , or one of the first computers to have USB only as the serial and keyboard/mouse interface . at the time people were unhappy about it because their old stuff didn't connect !
Do you think you could put an SSD in it and run the latest OS ? (I have no idea what that is.)
i won't say it's impossible to put an SSD in a G3 , but it's not going to be simple , the hard drive connections were either SCSI or IDE/PATA . no SATA ports . there may be a card that will add SATA ports but i have no idea if you could boot from it .
it absolutely will not run the latest OS (10.15) , the G3 has a PowerPC processor , the latest OS's are all for Intel based machines . i think even if you could get it to work it would be so slow you'd never want to use it .
the last version to support PowerPC is 10.6 . that might run ok , but many websites are close to not accepting any of the web browsers that run on that version , so usability is limited .
also maximum ram was 1 GB , amazing for OS 9 that it came with , not so cool now .
I believe they were also the first PowerMac with FireWire. I had (actually still have somewhere) an external Sony FireWire DVD drive that had the translucent blue trim to match the computer.
i love seeing these types of videos...Keep em coming!!!!
We found a Power Macintosh G3 and a CRT Apple Studio Display; both of which were brand new and never taken out of their original packaging. About 2 years ago, me and my mom were driving on a warm summer day, and saw two boxes sitting on the curb. A sign said, "Willing to get rid of these. I don't think they're rare." We picked them up and took them home. We powered the computer on, and it worked. My mom gave me the computer since I noticed it first, and now my main computer in my room is a Power Macintosh G3.
Fun fact: Dark Vengeance was the same game that was shown to showcase the G3’s graphics power at MacWorld 1999!
Very nice. I’ve still got our 400MHz B&W G3 my dad bought back in ‘99. It had been stored in the crawl space after we moved on to newer computers. I recently dug it out and freshened it up. Didn’t need much of a cleaning, but was missing the Rage 128 video card and the optical drive bracket and flip down door. Sourced the parts online and it’s back running good as new. Threw an 18GB 7200rpm HD in there, and with the 448MB RAM it had from years ago, it’s a very snappy Mac indeed!
My dad bought one of these in 2000 for his business. He retired this year. The machine operated as new, as expected for 19 years. I would like to see a modern mac last that long!
It's so satisfying that seeing all these dusts being cleaned.
Hey Nathan! I'm Aaron from the UK. I came across your CZcams channel not long ago and I've loved your videos ever since. Keep up the good work Bro
The blue and white across the '99 macs makes them look so much more interesting compared to the aluminium of today.
Woooow, Kid Pix! I used to play that in elementary school also! I remember being creeped out by some of the weird movie files as well.
this and the G4 are still my favorite case designs EVER. they are outstanding.
I bought one of these new. I still have it. It worked the last time I set it up a couple of years ago. I should do a review of it myself.Thanks for the video.
Thank you for reminding me of KidPix, that’s the first time I’ve thought of it since elementary school...
I still remember when our elementary schools got these in the media center/computer lab. The students were so excited about them. Not going to lie I loved them too. Lol Hard to believe these are 20 years old.
Not as dusty as I expected for a 20 year old computer. As for the design of the tower, I rather like it. The frosty clear and blue looked pretty cool.
this guy's so calm & demeanoured, he could be an AI! great vid. I really miss having this machine, back in the day. thanks for the memory lane (& that's not a RAM-Slot).
I remember this from middle school. They worked great back then!
That casing is still sooooo beautiful!
Watching this in 4k and damn! The quality of your video is so good and sharp that I feel like I can even touch everything you're showing.
This case is so beautiful, I want to put a new hardware in one of these
Before you even started cleaning I was like here comes the eucalyptus 😂
oMG when u brought out the kidpix...man i forgot i even played that in elementary school, i'm a bit younger than you i think but that was the coolest thing ever back when i was 6
I still have and love two of these!
I remember my first computer classes back in primary school were in macs, seeing kidpix again brought a lot of memories
Really impressive clean-up of this one. Learned quite a bit for my own clean-up of old electronics.
Wow that's a nice case. Wish they'd go back to this type of styles
Love the cleaning dude. Sathisphaakshuuunn!
Apple is without doubt the king of cool techs.
I was lucky enough to use one of these many years ago as a graphic designer, and then, when the company renewed most of the Macs at the office, I was allowed to carry one PowerMac G3 home, which was very exciting. I used it for quite a while, but unfortunately I replaced it with a G5 iMac as soon as it became obsolete.
So close to 100k my guy!
Completed my Multimedia Engineer Diploma at CMM in Amsterdam in 2001 with this computer... It was awesome
That's a cool bit of history! Thanks for sharing :)
you should buy a extra shell of that mac and put modern mac hardware in the new shell, it would make for an interesting build video
or build a hackingtosh in it with similar specs to a newer mac keep it somewhat upgradable and fixable like the old mac was
You are the best. Tried to smash like button more than once.
I remember the whole colored plastic PCs of that era. Saw this on HP and Dell machines too. They were pretty nifty for their time as it wasn't just a beige box and you could really customize the outside with just the plastic vs a full cut and rebuild case mod back then
when it’s been a minute but there’s been no methylated spirits...
but then you hear RUB IT WITH SOME METHO 😂
This was fun. I was actually just given one of these along with a G5 and a G3 beige tower for free, so I guess it’s time to clean them up!
Nostalgia. I remember these at school with the fat monitors in 2000s
I remember when the Computer Lab back at the U got refreshed with these puppies, which was a SUBSTANTIAL upgrade from the old dusty Pentiums I and II they used to have, also was my first interaction with Mac's back in the day as I used to be only a PC boy with either windows or Linux, can't deny I was charmed by the looks and the OS wasn't that half bad either, but gone are those days. Last time I touched an apple system was a Hackintosh I made installed, Snow Leopard OS to use ProTools, I know I could have gone the easy route of just running a VM, but since I was going for a more "PRO" audio studio setup/build i decided to go to the Hackintosh which it turned out to be pretty decent.
I’ve always loved the looks of the G3’s. I personally just grabbed a G3 from 2001 the graphite version, I had a lot more dust inside lol. The chassis of the computer will make a beautiful sleeper build. Love the videos!
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Actually still have one of those. Still have the matching CRT monitor and keyboard too. Mine has the original version of OS X installed. Haven’t had it on in more years than I care to mention tho. Still have a working original all in one iMac too, as well as a tangerine iBook in working condition.
4:30 you gotta admit, that vacuum between the legs looks a bit funny
I still own this and a Quadra 950. Both still work too. Great video.
That took me back to my old school days!
I used to own this very machine. Absolutely loved it. Sadly the innards were so rusted that the motherboard would short out. Purchased it second hand and by that time it was pretty well very old.
Wow, I remember that version of KidPix very vaguely from primary school! I vividly remember using the later version many many times during my time in primary school.... simpler times.
I remember having one of these. My mother would start loading her email and go put in a load of laundry while it loaded.
such a nostalgia trip
Nobody :
Even Nobody :
Psivewri : *CLEANING*
I have a PowerMac G4 at home that I got a few years ago and installed MacOSX 10.4 and put a Zip 250 I think it was in it and a new DVD drive that thing was pretty cool. It still sits in my garage. It has a 500Mhz PowerPC processor I believe.
3:44 best line in the whole video
This Mac brings back so many memories!
Was waiting for the eucalyptus oil to kick in and it did b4 full time! Ty
Next time use a compressor to blow the dust out works really well, I am doing it for more than 25 years. Protect the fans from spinning using a very small wooden stick or move really quick from left to right over the fans. Don't forget to lube the fans bearings under the sticker with very fine oil, like sawing machine oil reattach the sticker or a bit of tape.
I still have one of those. It was a great computer.
This was my first computer (with the matching monitor) as a graphic design student in '99. I used it until about '05 when the monitor went out. I sold the computer to a friend for $300 and I guess it only lasted about six months for him. It really was way ahead of its time. OSX was light years beyond Windows at that point. I've probably owned about 8 macs and used 10 for work. Of those 18 and I'd say this was somewhere right in the middle. Not the worst but not the best.
Thanks Psivewri! I've bought me a laptop from 1998 I think. I will restore it, when I had never seen your channel I would never make that
oh I used to love playing kidpix on the old imacs back in elementary school (primary school)
G3 g4 and g4 Quicksilver were beautifull machines, the tulip mac also
Still slightly newer than my oldest laptop which is a Toshiba Satelite 330cds with a manufacture date of November 14, 1998. Has a 266 MHz Pentium mmx with 96 MB ram and it's original 4.1 gb hard drive. Still runs fine today on Windows 98 second edition.
Very powerful Mac for its time.. the Rage 128 with 8mb of Vram was a beast and able to play unreal tournament and age of empires very well
4:33 kind of reminds me of something lol
Dude, Kid Pix goes all the way back to the 80s. I remember playing the old free version (called “shareware” in those days, a concept now long dead) in the early nineties. It was black and white and didn’t have any sound.
512x342 pixel glory. 😉
Sheesh, I remember using KidPix 4 on my old schools crappy computers lol, it was quite fun!
I have one of these; g4 actually. I use it in my home studio as a sound box... soft synths I can play live. It works just fine. It can surf the web, tho unit is slow, it still works
Me:mom can I have a new imac
Mom:you already have one at home
The mac at home:
Looks beautiful even 20 years later
even the most simple games back then we enjoyed more than most triple A titles today
i always see ur videos from a macbook mid 2009 and sometimes i want to find good deals like the macs air 2008 u got amazing
Great apple mac pro cleaning process.
Because your restorations are very satisfying to me, you earned a sub from me.
We still have one at my workplace on daily duty hosting the company website for nearly 20 years.
I was pretty much addicted to Kidpics in primary school back in 2007! :)
So glad you didn't use the old "picked this up from a nearby dumpster" line for this one.
Psivewri is Enya for geeks. What relaxing videos!
to be honest, I simply love Your channel - thanx for a good job!
I think someone should use the empty shell of that computer and put regular modern computer parts in it, that would be one hell of an explanation anytime someone sees it
This G3 has a lot of character
"... back on the Macs in *primary school*...?!" The next two words that came from my mouth are unprintable! :D Seriously, you're *really* young to be into vintage computing. You must have an interesting background.
Fire it up and play some Marathon!!
I do remember Kid Pix and that Blues Clues game.
petition to make this a ultimate sleeper pc
Love the color. I’d love one of these.
Just a little factoid: That first card Nathan pulls is actually an *AGP* graphics card FROM ATI on the Accelerated Graphics Port. A type of system bus that differentiates itself from PCI by having access to system memory! 🤙
Do, now you are going for 100K? Keep up the good work! This is one of my favourite of your videos ;)
Me at 3 am: tries to fall asleep
My brain: 8:13
I bought a 300 MHz Blue and white G3 from a friend who is a graphics designer. He had fitted a Sonnet G4 upgrade kit so it was a 450 MHz G4. He also installed a high-end graphics card. I felt it needed more IO so I added a combined USB/FireWire 400 PCI card, this had two USB 2.0 and two FW 400 ports, enhancing the capability quite a bit. Later I added another card with an additional four USB 2.0 ports. I also gave it the maximum RAM of 1 GB.