Incidentally, I don't remember the beige G3 shipping with Mac OS X on it. The first blue/whites didn't even ship with Mac OS X.
The Beige G3 is interesting as a transition machine, which it pretty much is. It's got fewer capabilities and less expansion than its predecessor but it's not as capable or quite as expandable as its successor. (ram speed can ultimately have an affect, and firewire on the blue/white was a nice touch.)
Certainly a nice machine, but even for 1999, 1920x1200 isn't particularly surprising. SGI/Sun and Sony were shipping CRTs capable of that res (and higher) in like 1996/1997, and Macs have pretty much always had access to those cards.
It's certainly in nice condition though. It may be worth getting it a dedicated monitor, 1080p is certainly a lot of working room for system 8/9 era applications such as AppleWorks 5, QuarkXPress 4, and Office 98.
The Beige G3 is interesting as a transition machine, which it pretty much is. It's got fewer capabilities and less expansion than its predecessor but it's not as capable or quite as expandable as its successor. (ram speed can ultimately have an affect, and firewire on the blue/white was a nice touch.)
Certainly a nice machine, but even for 1999, 1920x1200 isn't particularly surprising. SGI/Sun and Sony were shipping CRTs capable of that res (and higher) in like 1996/1997, and Macs have pretty much always had access to those cards.
It's certainly in nice condition though. It may be worth getting it a dedicated monitor, 1080p is certainly a lot of working room for system 8/9 era applications such as AppleWorks 5, QuarkXPress 4, and Office 98.