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Loaded BW G3 With OS 9.2 490mb RAM!!!!!
That Makes me kinda glad to own my Powermac G4/500! By the way, were G4 macs released in 1999 or 2000?The upgrades that are available for the G4 machines are also better and the G3 is being dropped in Leopard. No advantages, indeed.
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The 400 MHz Yikes! was released in August 1999, according to MacTracker. Wow, that actually makes them really old when you think about it! In my mind a G3 is a "modern" Mac, while a G4 is like brand new and cutting edge! Any PC from that era has been a giveaway for years now, whereas G4s still seem to cost about £50 >That Makes me kinda glad to own my Powermac G4/500! By the way, were G4 macs released in 1999 or 2000?The upgrades that are available for the G4 machines are also better and the G3 is being dropped in Leopard. No advantages, indeed.
just shows how amazingly great a G4 still is...Those G3's, ehhh. I am getting an iBook g3 for my birthday though 
No it just shows how expensive Macs are in the UK compared to other places. Just for fun I did a search of buy it now PCs and buy it now Macs for 50 pounds or less on ebay.co.uk a few weeks ago and came up with plenty of PCs on the trailing edge of usable but couldn't find anything newer than a 601-604 based Mac. That's with monitor, by the way.just shows how amazingly great a G4 still is...Those G3's, ehhh. I am getting an iBook g3 for my birthday though
I remember seeing several of those graphite G4 towers at Fox Studios in Sydney in 2000 and thinking what amazingly powerful machines they must have been to be able to generate special effects for the movies.
Same machine I now have sitting idly in my room, used as an occasional backup to my Mini for sound recording, and nothing much else!
I suppose those octo-core Mac Pros will be propping up wobbly tables in another 7 years' time.
Same machine I now have sitting idly in my room, used as an occasional backup to my Mini for sound recording, and nothing much else!
I suppose those octo-core Mac Pros will be propping up wobbly tables in another 7 years' time.
Anything G3 or older is easy enough to find in the UK for free, especially pre-G3 as no-one wants OS9 these days. Of course used Macs that still have some value ie G4+ will be slightly more expensive over here though, given that they cost a lot more new and the new machines now also cost a lot more than they do elsewhere.No it just shows how expensive Macs are in the UK compared to other places. Just for fun I did a search of buy it now PCs and buy it now Macs for 50 pounds or less on ebay.co.uk a few weeks ago and came up with plenty of PCs on the trailing edge of usable but couldn't find anything newer than a 601-604 based Mac. That's with monitor, by the way.just shows how amazingly great a G4 still is...Those G3's, ehhh. I am getting an iBook g3 for my birthday though
Yes, the G4s would have been amazing in 1999 compared with the Pentium II and III/Windows 98 systems that they were competing against, but I still think a free G3 is infinitely better than a £50 plus shipping G4 - G3s are so awesome that the extra £50 (£70 with shipping) just isn't worth it, at least not to me.
Ne’er were truer words spoken, sir. Anyway, it was only English that I desecrated. Had I disgraced the Language of Love then, true Frenchman that I am, I should have had to fight a duel with myself to satisfy honour.Nooooo! Don't kill yourself! you have so much to live for! :'( [