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i *LOVE* the iMac G3

Good god, they're SO GORGEOUS! They're other worldly! They're...perfect :eek:

I bought a Blueberry 350mhz last year for $50. The guy left OS9 on there with a LOAD of stuff in his trash bin. I guess he thought that pressing Delete deleted the folders instantly XD. Either way, the disturbing pictures will, sadly, never leave my head.

After 9 months, I sold her for $100. The keyboard, the mouse...so wonderful. I can't stand it when people complain about the mouse, it's all spectacular. The power button on the keyboard, the fine feel of the keys...*sigh*.

I can't say one bad thing about the iMac G3. I was so envious of the guy that brought me two of his iMacs, one of them was RUBY! I always wanted the Ruby iMac! I tried to trade, but he said it matched his room so, no luck :( broken hearted because of a mac. His other was the Bondi Blue original. He simply denied when I told him it had a fan on the CPU. He didn't understand that the Slot loading versions were the convection cooled ones.

The iMac G4's are spectacular but...they're not the G3 for sure.

Some day, I'll have a ruby iMac with matching keyboard and mouse. I really couldn't believe how well my 350mhz performed with 10.4! These machines were WAY before their time! I've noticed the same with my PowerMac G4 MDD.

 
yes they had been well ahead of their time because of their design (just cute and beautiful), and especially the slot loading models , because of the convection cooling , back then , if you bought a pc there had been fans roaring inside , and even on the powermacs you had fans roaring inside , the cute little imacs instead got rid of the fans without overheating ,
and i sometimes think the engineering was better then .
if i just think about my 700mhz one from 2001 , it has a 60gb harddrive inside still the original it was shipped with (dates match) and it was been in daily use since it was bought .
it was owned by a small design company which used it until 2009!!! daily and never caused any problems they told me it was just working and it still does, trouble free and makes so much fun , every time i switch it on i get a smile on my face

ok i changed the original harddrive for a bigger one ,but use this old rugged harddrive for backups in a firewire enclosure ,
as i checked it with several tools you can get , but no problems with it whatsoever , its still like new after nearly 10 years of use

and for usability , they are still fully usable , ok some may have trouble showing you flash content ,
but if you look in that forum there are even brandnew iMac i7 which have problems showing flash content :)
 
Well, my iMac was so horrible at ANY video! Life is so much better with Quartz and Core Image. The thing couldn't even play 360p .Mov's in Quicktime.

But when it came to moving files, playing music, and running all other apps that didn't involve video, it was just perfect. I used it as an alarm clock for some time, I would let it sleep all day so the loud az hard drive wouldn't be buzzing. Then at a preset time, it would either wake up or power on and play a random song from a certain playlist in iTunes.
 
Lol people are selling iMac G3s for one actual dollar in New Zealand! Pretty much the deal is: If you can get it to your place, you can have it. Free pretty much. I already have a G3 iMac, though if I had enough room in my house I'd pick those machines up:D
 
mrsir2009 said:
Lol people are selling iMac G3s for one actual dollar in New Zealand! Pretty much the deal is: If you can get it to your place, you can have it. Free pretty much. I already have a G3 iMac, though if I had enough room in my house I'd pick those machines up:D
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Wow that would be awesome. Maybe sometime I'll have time to go to the dump and head to the section that they keep the thrown away computers and maybe find something awesome that someone was trying to throw away.
 
Our first iMac was a Grape one, with a slot load, I believe.
Over the years growing up, we've had 2 Bondi Blues, Ruby, Tangerine, Snow, and Indigo iMac G3s. They're absolutely amazing!

I currently have the Indigo one in my room, and my sister has the Snow one. Too bad she doesn't use it.
And actually, mine is out of commission right now since when I install something, it crashes the Finder. :/

I still can't believe that it starts up in under 45 seconds though. That's faster than most PCs, even now.
 
I love my iMac DV. It is a work horse. Still going after 9 years of hard running. It's only problem over the years has been overheating. I fixed it with a fan and cardboard mod. It heats my whole work shop in the winter playing iTunes and running my LAN website. It will always amaze me how much heat they make. Don't get me started on how hot my Cube gets. I could roast marshmallows over that thing.
 
My Graphite 600mhz blew up a couple days ago (thats my cousin's version of events) so i just picked up a Snow G3 iMac. However this one is a little different, it has a 7200rpm Hard drive and was fitted with a 550mhz G4 upgrade:cool:

I've always secretly wanted a Snow but i didn't wanna mention it in earshot of my Graphite incase it got jealous...dont have to worry now:D
 
Doctor Doom said:
My Graphite 600mhz blew up a couple days ago (thats my cousin's version of events) so i just picked up a Snow G3 iMac. However this one is a little different, it has a 7200rpm Hard drive and was fitted with a 550mhz G4 upgrade:cool:

I've always secretly wanted a Snow but i didn't wanna mention it in earshot of my Graphite incase it got jealous...dont have to worry now:D
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how is it performance wise in comparison to the g3 600mhz?
could you maybe do a geekbench test if you are running tiger?

http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/
 
Doctor Doom said:
My Graphite 600mhz blew up a couple days ago (thats my cousin's version of events) so i just picked up a Snow G3 iMac. However this one is a little different, it has a 7200rpm Hard drive and was fitted with a 550mhz G4 upgrade:cool:

I've always secretly wanted a Snow but i didn't wanna mention it in earshot of my Graphite incase it got jealous...dont have to worry now:D
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AWESOME! I looked into that G4 upgrade. $199 seems reasonable to extend the life of a great computer with tons of sentimental value. I love my 600mhz Snow to death, although it's no screamer. I bet the G4 would do wonders. I'm going to try and install Ubuntu on my iMac in the near future. I once ran Xubuntu 6.10 on a 466mhz Clamshell iBook with just 64mb of RAM, and it ran pretty well! Things were responsive and fairly snappy.

Let us know how the G4 runs!
 
it scored 361 on Geekbench:

Integer:
Processor integer performance
381

Floating Point:
Processor floating point performance
475

Memory:
Memory performance
239

Stream
Memory bandwidth performance
140

System Information:
Operating System - Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Model - PowerMac2,1
Motherboard - PowerMac2,1
Processor - PowerPC
Processor ID - 800ch
Processors - 1
Threads - 1
Cores - 1
Memory - 1.00 GB* PC100-322S SDRAM
Processor Frequency - 550 MHz
Bus Frequency - 99.9 MHz
L1 Instruction Cache - 32.0 KB
L1 Data Cache - 32.0 KB
L2 Cache - 512 KB
L3 Cache - 0.00 B
BIOS - N/A
 
nice one , so its worth to upgrade if the old board is broken ..if you can get hold of a g4 upgrade board that is :)
now we need to find one with one of these 900mhz G3 and other upgraded boards to compare all the upgrade boards available ,
there was even a G4 400mhz upgrade board for the original tray loader iMac g3
 
I just joined here, because I picked up an iMac G3 Snow. It's my first Mac and I love it. It has 600MHz, 1GB RAM, slot loading (duh), 40GB HD, and came with OS 10.3.9 installed.
Picked it up for $80 with Pro mouse and keyboard about a week ago. It was under a reign of terror from the old couple I picked it up from; the keyboard was gross and the iMac was all marked up :(
I brought it home and removed the marks on the iMac with some car polish and disassembled the keyboard to clean it. Now I'm running OS 9.2 and OS 10.4.11 on dual boot. It does everything beautifully (except youtube, but I don't expect it to), and it's so shiny, sleek and simplistic. I just can't get enough of it. I'd like to get a fruit colored slot loading one if I could find one.

I'm hoping to upgrade the HDD to 120GB, possibly. I've read on the internet that it may overheat from a bigger HDD, any confirmations on this?
 
FoxMac said:
I'm hoping to upgrade the HDD to 120GB, possibly. I've read on the internet that it may overheat from a bigger HDD, any confirmations on this?
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Congratulations! I have the exact same iMac and as long as you don't expect miracles from it, you'll be very pleased. Don't even worry about upgrading to a larger HD, there is no difference in the heat generated at all. (Hard drives generate barely any heat at all, no matter what their capacity.)
 
FoxMac said:
I'm hoping to upgrade the HDD to 120GB, possibly. I've read on the internet that it may overheat from a bigger HDD, any confirmations on this?
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I have a 333Mhz imac replaced the original 6Gb hdd with a 80Gb 7200rpm one, don't use it much, but i have never had it overheat
 
FoxMac said:
It was under a reign of terror from the old couple I picked it up from; the keyboard was gross and the iMac was all marked up
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It's sad that such undeserving people have such lovely machines and treat them like a Rent-a-Kid, I'm sure there are plenty of people that would simply LOVE an iMac and baby it until they got a new mac.

Overheating because of...a hard drive? Reminds me of that time my car was spewing black smoke because of a busted tire, XD
 
Thanks for letting me know, guys. Can't trust everything you read on the internet. Used hds look pretty affordable, so I'll probably upgrade soon.
 
i just picked up a graphite G3 600Mhz, no OS yet, but i'm looking for my 10.4 discs as we speak, only cost me 27 quid, came with matching keyboard ( looks like a doggy bed ) and a puck :O cant wait to get it up and working :D will post some pictures up later :D
 
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Must...must create new thread! Link it up!!

Something about these things...they're irresistible!

As a matter of fact, even eMacs are becoming a commodity like the iMacs. They are stocked in every local pawn shop and flea market. Just last week I found a man about an hour south of me that is selling his 1.25ghz eMac in great condition for $20!

Keyboards are the abused step-mule of most families :( from cigarette ashes to...things not appropriate in these forums :x
 
That was before my PowerMac G4 and G3 and my white MacBook :p

*sigh* Oui, zay are ze 20th anniversary SS 150's.

BUT! I was at the Dollar Store near the end of last summer, and they had the old XP70! I bought it for $15! It was EXACTLY like the one I had way back when. Oddly, though, the handle said "Laramie Ltd. 1998" 0.o

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I have an iMac G3, too. 600 mHz, 256MB RAM (which I REALLY need to update), slot loading, running 10.4.11. All for the low low price of free.
Sadly, it is actually faster than my 2006 Windows XP laptop with 1GB of RAM. :p

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I don't care how many macs I've owned, I can't help but be jelluz :(

Oh well, at least I haz a graphite iBook to learn OS 9!! Gawd...I hate OS 9...I would have simply died if I had to use it back years ago.
 
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