Had to post the second I picked it up. Its a g3 700 with os9. Absolutely perfect condition with all the goodies. Best 40 bucks I ever spent. Will post pics when I get it up and running tonight.
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Picked up a sweet G3 blue iMac on craigs
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Interesting. AFAIK, the 700 only shipped in Snow and Graphite.
Of course, it's possible that somebody has swapped a 700 logic board in or overclocked a 500 Indigo to 700.
Or it's one of those logic boards sent in to have the BGA CPU swapped by a third party vendor.
Pics, if you please!
IIRC, some late 600mhz logic boards actually had a 700mhz CPU clocked down. The last slot loaders were brought down to 600 when Apple began shipping the iMac G4.
Interestingly, there seems to be some way of finding out what case "colour" the logic board was fitted to. I was always amazed how the original restore image managed to set the desktop picture to the correct colour on first boot-up of the classic OS. It must have been a cleverly crafted "Appearance Preferences", but I never investigated exactly how it was done.
Of course, it's possible that somebody has swapped a 700 logic board in or overclocked a 500 Indigo to 700.
Or it's one of those logic boards sent in to have the BGA CPU swapped by a third party vendor.
Pics, if you please!
IIRC, some late 600mhz logic boards actually had a 700mhz CPU clocked down. The last slot loaders were brought down to 600 when Apple began shipping the iMac G4.
Interestingly, there seems to be some way of finding out what case "colour" the logic board was fitted to. I was always amazed how the original restore image managed to set the desktop picture to the correct colour on first boot-up of the classic OS. It must have been a cleverly crafted "Appearance Preferences", but I never investigated exactly how it was done.
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Yes, I'm pretty sure the 700 was only in Graphite / Snow, although I've seen mistakenly call the graphite models 'blue' at times.Interesting. AKAIK, the 700 only shipped in Snow and Graphite.
Of course, it's possible that somebody has swapped a 700 logic board in or overclocked a 500 Indigo to 700.
Or it's one of those logic boards sent in to have the BGA CPU swapped by a third party vendor.
Pics, if you please!
IIRC, some late 600mhz logic boards actually had a 700mhz CPU clocked down. The last slot loaders were brought down to 600 when Apple began shipping the iMac G4.
Interestingly, there seems to be some way of finding out what case "colour" the logic board was fitted to. I was always amazed how the original restore image managed to set the desktop picture to the correct colour on first boot-up of the classic OS. It must have been a cleverly crafted "Appearance Preferences", but I never investigated exactly how it was done.
And, yes, I've always noticed how the color would match to the OS installed. The same thing happened on the original iBook, I think. I've assumed it was some kind of identifier on the ROM, but come to think of it, maybe the OS was programmed to change it based on the serial numbers, if it was organized according to color?
Colour was coded in serial number. I don't remember which character exactly it was, but serial decoding sites such as chipmunk.nl are deciphering colour too.
I recently 'renovated' a G3 350 Mhz installing Panther and 512 MB of ram, it works like a charm for emailing and scanning documents !
Great find! I see G3's on craigslist all the time, usually in good condition. I have a indigo 500mhz about 3ft. to my left. The speakers are very crisp on it, at least compared to my Powermac's speakers.
its funny it seems that in my town people are giving them away for free i picked up one (free) two weeks ago and a special edition went on craigslist but i don't have room for it
Nice deal! Wish I could come across a 700MHz model. I have a 600MHz Snow, and its amazing. I would love to have the fastest G3 iMac ever made.
no the logic board was certainly not swapped, they did the same as i ,i had a white 600 model in perfect condition and a graphite 700 also in perfect condition , but i did want the 700 to be white so i just swapped the casing as the white looks better surrounded by my eMac's , and its a lot easier to swap the cases instead of the logic boards
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Ok well the guy told me it was a 700....however once I got it sorted out and running we found it was a 350 I guess I cant be mad cause I only gave him 40 bucks for the whole shooting match. However here are the long awaited and very late pics..This thing looks like it was never used.
Thing is amazingly stable and quick considering it's age and speed. It only has 64 megs of ram..lol. Now here is the million dollar question.?? Can I upgrade the ram and hard drive to run OS X? Now be specific here cause I am a tad on the duh side with old hardware. Going to try to pick up the necessary stuff at the used comp store tomorrow if possible. Also which version of os x will I need? I assume 10.3 correct.
Ok well the guy told me it was a 700....however once I got it sorted out and running we found it was a 350
I guess I cant be mad cause I only gave him 40 bucks for the whole shooting match. However here are the long awaited and very late pics..This thing looks like it was never used.
Thing is amazingly stable and quick considering it's age and speed. It only has 64 megs of ram..lol. Now here is the million dollar question.?? Can I upgrade the ram and hard drive to run OS X? Now be specific here cause I am a tad on the duh side with old hardware. Going to try to pick up the necessary stuff at the used comp store tomorrow if possible. Also which version of os x will I need? I assume 10.3 correct.
Wow, that really sucks. I'd really consider seeing if he'll give you your money back and return it. 350MHz iMacs are literally just about worthless these days. Paying money for a 600 or 700MHz model is one thing, but older 400MHz or slower is a different story.Ok well the guy told me it was a 700....however once I got it sorted out and running we found it was a 350
Thing is amazingly stable and quick considering it's age and speed. It only has 64 megs of ram..lol. Now here is the million dollar question.?? Can I upgrade the ram and hard drive to run OS X? Now be specific here cause I am a tad on the duh side with old hardware. Going to try to pick up the necessary stuff at the used comp store tomorrow if possible. Also which version of os x will I need? I assume 10.3 correct.
You can put up to 1Gb of PC100 and/or PC133 ram in it, at 512Mb per stick. As for the hard drive anything that's IDE/PATA and under 128Gb will do. Once nicely upgraded they make amazing machines. Depending on which version of the 350Mhz you have, you could put an Airport card in it and have WiFi. Of course you'll need an original Airport card and the G3 iMac adapter thing.
Hey 40 bucks is nothing...besides it's too cute to get rid of..lol Looks awesome in my office, and I wasn't really planning on using it as a regular computer so it's no biggie.
Besides that I was picking up a project car at a guys house the other day and he saw my apple sticker on the back of my car. He asks me if I wanted an ol Mac? I said sure...turns out I got a fully functioning 700 eMac with all the accessories for free. I still plan on upgrading the the ol iMac just for giggles.
Besides that I was picking up a project car at a guys house the other day and he saw my apple sticker on the back of my car. He asks me if I wanted an ol Mac? I said sure...turns out I got a fully functioning 700 eMac with all the accessories for free. I still plan on upgrading the the ol iMac just for giggles.
Yup, what Intell said.
Actually, 10.4.11 doesn't run too badly once you get a 7200RPM drive and 1GB of RAM.
That said, the earlier motherboards were only ATA33 so HD access isn't that good, so maxing out the RAM is a good idea as it will hit the HD less often for VM.
The "Summer 2000"s came in 350-500Mhz and were the first to have ATA66.
Also, there are different types of PC133 512MB sticks. They must be Low Density Double Sided 16 chip modules (as a generalization). Single sided 512MBs that work in later AGP G4 towers will only show up as 256MB on earlier machines and some of the cheap 512MBs won't work at all.
Oh... Please make sure you update the firmware to v4.1.9 BEFORE you even BOOT from a 10.2 or later install.
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