That's exactly my thoughts mate... I see these things getting thrown in dumpsters by the dozens, well at least I used to. It looks like these days, most of them have already ended up as landfill or been melted down to make cheap Taiwanese iPod docks and car batteries.Nice work! I really appreciate the care you've taken in your restoration. Without some preservation there won't be any left down the road.
My two best G3 iMacs still have a place on my desk; a Snow and Graphite, both of are 600 MHz. They serve little purpose in their current roles, but at they're just too neat to let collect dust on the basement shelves.
Anyway, keep up the awesome work!
At the end of the day tho, they are still an important part of Apple's history... having been the machine that made Apple an actual viable competitor in the mum-dad personal computer market via some out of this world styling, innovative yet simplistic technical design, and some great marketing. They were obsolete nearly 10 years ago now, but theyre still handy little machines, and they look great... you can put an iMac anywhere and it's as much a stylish looking part of the decore as it is a computer. I use a very basic one simply as a jukebox in my loungeroom because it takes up very little space, requires one cord and a mouse to run, and it looks good... it still gets peoples attention just like they did 15 years ago.
Always wanted the Graphite and Snow since they were new so they were the first I went out of my way to restore, now that Ive got them however, as well as an Indigo, a Blueberry is next on the cards, and then some of the more unusual colours such as Sage, Ruby, Tangerine and Strawberry. Wouldnt mind a Blue Dalmation 700 either
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