Cool blast from the past, an almost complete Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh is acquired and run by Snazzy Labs. Some cool history. (Moderators please move if this is not a PowerPC, I have no idea)
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Snazzy Labs "unboxes", runs an Apple TAM
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LOVE my TAM... even if it's silly. Good video! Most of the Mac Youtubers have done the TAM now... not Luke Miani though?
I am waiting for Action Retro to do one. He showed a glimpse of one in his moving video
It is PowerPC! It is funny how Apple had to slash prices to move them and now they are worth some big bucks!
Just imagine how annoyed those that had bought a TAM before the slashing presumably were… But that’s life.
I feel like I’d be equally upset about the fact the TAM was underpowered compared to other Macs, and the ones that came shortly after.
And it was such a cool design you’d think they would’ve made a G3 model later. But maybe it would’ve cost too much.
Why would that be? As a computer it was utter crap in every sense and it made no sense buying it even at clearance prices.
Hence they sold few which is the basics for every proper collectors item. Just look at the most sought after classic tech gear or cars and notice how many of them were total flops when new.
This is what I meant by it being under powered. For its price it should've been the fastest computer Apple built to date. But it wasn't. It didn't even have a 604 which was available at the time. And the G3 coming out just next year. The TAM is the perfect example of what was wrong with Apple back then. No targeted audience, under powered and over priced. For half the price you could buy a Power Mac 9600 with a 350MHz 604. According to MacTracker the TAM tops out at 128MB of RAM, and the 9600 1.5GB. It was closer to a PowerBook than a Power Macintosh at the time.
But you aren't wrong. How many people want G4 Cubes now and how much they are.. Back when they were new nobody wanted one. Whats funny now is its more up-gradable than new Macs..
That's basically all it is. A PowerBook opened to 180º with some additional expandability that notebooks didn't normally get and a subwoofer.