Post #933656
2026-04-01 00:13 UTC
Replies (20)
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@GrumpusNation@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 00:18
@Gte Crikey, I loved mine. About a week after I brought it home, I came in after work and my then girlfriend immediately shouted "Don't worry, the computer is safe!" Why wouldn't it be, I wondered, until I went into the office room and saw water raining down from the apartment above… Fortunately we had a hutch over it to keep the weather out, such as it was…
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@jackwellborn@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 00:45
@Gte @marioguzman My desire for a Power Mac G3 stemmed from my experience with the Power Macintosh 7100, which required a shocking amount of disassembly just to upgrade the RAM. The ease of G3’s door is why it made my most notable Macs list. Side note: Someone once told me those desktop Power Macs had a cool hinging feature. It was certainly possibly dumbass teenage me missed it, but it turns out the hinge came with the 7500 (probably because the 7100 sucked so much.) https://wormsandviruses.com/2020/08/my-three-most-notable-macs/#:~:text=Power%20Mac%20G3%20(Blue%20and%20White)
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 00:59
@Gte @marioguzman i loved mine so so much.
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@LithaJozi@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 01:07
@Gte I love mine. It still boots up in OS 9 and OS X. 😎
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@MrRooni@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 01:22
@Gte @marioguzman This was the first computer I bought for myself with my own money as I headed off to college. Absolutely loved that machine.
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@gryphonwandering@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 02:11
@Gte I was lucky enough to see it in person at the Macworld expo (I think?) in which it was released. Up until then I’d had a PowerMac 7100, which was such a pain to get inside of. I saw the entire side of the G3 just unfold with a latch and went straight home and ordered one. Amazing engineering.
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@klangoso@ursal.zone 2026-04-01 02:17
@Gte the iMac was absurdly cute. This thing shouted “THE FUTURE HAS ARRIVED”.
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@foobarsoft@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 02:40
@Gte @marioguzman I was in PCs at the time. I waited *years* for some case manufacturers to copy the fold out idea, and they never did. At least not before I gave up on build your own. I had already resigned myself to an ugly beige box thing. That wasn’t going to change. Those machines amazed me.
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@doctorgoktor@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 02:43
@Gte @marioguzman also kind of crazy, it was replaced the G4 less than 9 months after intro. Computers really did move fast back then.
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@mikeash@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-01 03:12
@Gte Smurf tower!
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@a@pdx.social 2026-04-01 03:32
@Gte The first time I opened one blew my mind. A big “holy crap, of course, why aren’t all cases like this” moment.
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@finestructure@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 08:16
@Gte @marioguzman That and the TiBook were the best
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@dmoren@zeppelin.flights 2026-04-01 11:00
@Gte @marioguzman Mine’s in my closet. One of my favorite computers of all time!
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@Kitone@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 19:06
@GteI I loved and admired the progression of form and materials from iBook G3 to iMac G3 and Power Mac G3 — and the bold way the all-black PowerBook G3 cut through the colorful and happy lineup like an untamed predator, while honoring the curvy, organic visual style of the entire range. What a show of absolute design mastery. What a tsunami in the world of boxy beige anonymous machines.
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@Eric_Neue@indieweb.social 2026-04-02 00:57
@Gte to this day they still make ATX boxes and NONE of them are this will designed. I thought the “smurf” box looked dumb then and looks dumb now, but I’m flabbergasted by the fact that nobody took this design and ran with it.
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@Jasonact@mastodon.social 2026-04-02 01:16
@Gte @marioguzman That was a often-encountered objet d’art at the campus store and many computer labs at my university in the late-90s.
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@dgiffin@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-02 12:16
@Gte @gruber @marioguzman I had one, loved it
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@manniK@mastodon.nz 2026-04-02 22:00
@Gte The G3 with Firewire and FinalCutPro was mind blowing.
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@yesh@tech.lgbt 2026-04-03 07:00
@Gte @marioguzman Ahh, memories - this was “my” first Mac, in my job as IT and layout clerk for my community college newspaper. So many memories! It was fun dealing with multiple generations of Power Macs and Performas, while learning AppleTalk, transitioning from PageMaker to InDesign, and setting up a digital image pipeline (no more scissors, wax, and grease pencil for us!)
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@mrpommer@mastodon.social 2026-04-05 02:42
@Gte @marioguzman So sexy. The rendering of the processor name in bold unapologetic type *behind* that frosty plastic was such a confident statement. Also, that latch. Fabulous.