Moddy Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I've come into posession of an old Powermac G3 (Blue and White). As far as I know its all stock, and just been stored in a spare room for years! Now I need some ideas to pimp it out! So here's some questions! - Original hardware or not? Should I try and somehow mount my PC inside that sexy looking case? Or stick with the apple goodness?! - Which Operating System? This thing can run Mac OS X Puma (10.1), or Tiger (10.4) with some added RAM. Or should I perhaps look at a linux distro? - To mod, or not too mod? I'm wondering if some little LEDs and El Wire would look good on this old school casing! I'm not sure yet though... Any other ideas or suggestions? Cheers guys! (Oh, and if anyone can help me get my hands on Mac OS X Puma, it'd be much appreciated!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinji ikari Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 You might as well destroy it and post the movie on youtube. The only uses that i got out of my b/w was bad errors running 10.4 because lot of the b/w had ide chipset errors if u got the rev 1, plus had problems trying to install linux distros on it you can case mod it to your liking i personally would think putting a light behind the side logos would be neat probably a light color not but thats just my taste tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moddy Posted August 27, 2009 Author Share Posted August 27, 2009 You might as well destroy it and post the movie on youtube. The only uses that i got out of my b/w was bad errors running 10.4 because lot of the b/w had ide chipset errors if u got the rev 1, plus had problems trying to install linux distros on it you can case mod it to your liking i personally would think putting a light behind the side logos would be neat probably a light color not but thats just my taste tho haha, Well I want to try and get some use out of it! We'll see though. I'm assuming its a rev 2 as its CK0050***** - so unless they've changed the serial number system, or unless I'm having a slow day - its 50th week of 2000. It also says its a Power Mac G4 on it.. I was sure these things were G3?! (400mhz though) I'm thinking of a little el-wire in there, or some LED's behind the logos! Nothing overly spectacular as the casing is pretty cool as it is. Although this has been heavily neglected in a shed for a while! So needs a good clean and a bit of vacuuming! Looks like I might have quite a project... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 If it says a G4, someone upgraded the processor. It's easy to do that on those G3 towers because of the ZIF socket. Here are the specs from Mactracker (wall of text): Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) Codename: "Yosemite, Yosemite 1.5, Silk" Introduced: January 1999 (Revision A) June 1999 (Revision Discontinued: August 1999 Machine ID: PowerMac1,1 Model Number: M5183 Order Number: M6670LL/A (300 MHz), M6668LL/A, M6666LL/A (350 MHz), M6665LL/A (400 MHz), M7556LL/A (350 MHz Rev. , M7555LL/A, M7554LL/A (400 MHz Rev. , M7553LL/A (450 MHz Rev. Initial Price: $1,599 (M6670LL/A) $1,999 (M6668LL/A) $2,499 (M6666LL/A) $2,999 (M6665LL/A) USD Support Status: Obsolete Processor: PowerPC 750 (G3) Number of Cores: 1 Processor Speed: 300, 350, 400, or 450 MHz Benchmarks: 350 MHz: 207, 400 MHz: 221, 450 MHz: 449, 500 MHz: 248 Cache: 64 KB L1, 512 KB L2 (300 MHz), 1 MB L2 (350 MHz+) System Bus: 100 MHz Hard Drive: 6, 9, or 12 GB Media: 24x or 32x CD-ROM, 5x DVD-ROM, or DVD-RAM, optional Zip 100 Peripherals: Apple USB Keyboard, Apple USB Mouse Weight and Dimensions (US): 30 lbs., 17" H x 8.9" W x 18.4" D Weight and Dimensions (Metric): 13.6 kg, 43.2 cm H x 22.6 cm W x 46.7 cm D Original Mac OS: Mac OS 8.5.1 (Mac OS ROM 1.2) Later Mac OS: -- Maximum Mac OS: Mac OS X 10.4.11 Hardware Test: Not Supported Firmware: Open Firmware Firmware Update: PM G3 (Blue and White) Firmware Update 1.1 Firmware Update URL: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58374 Logicboard RAM: None Maximum RAM: 1.0 GB Type of RAM Slots: 4 - PC-100 3.3v, unbuffered, 8-byte, non-parity 168-pin SDRAM Minimum RAM Speed: 125 MHz (8 ns) Interleaving Support: No Graphics Card: ATI Xclaim VR or ATI Rage 128 GL ATI Card Model: ATY,Rage128 (Rage 128 GL) Graphics Memory: 4 MB (Xclaim VR) 16 MB (Rage 128 GL) Built-in Display: None Display Modes: Single display only Display Connection: 1 - VGA Expansion Slots: 3 - 33MHz, 1- 66MHz PCI Expansion Bays: 3 or 4 - internal 3.5" ATA drive bays, 1 - optical drive bay, 1 - Zip 100 bay Hard Drive Bus: Ultra ATA/33 (ATA-4) Large Drive Support: No (Maximum of 128 GB per drive) Optical Drive Bus: EIDE (ATA-3) Backup Battery: 3.6 V Lithium (922-1262) Max Watts: 200 W Line Voltage: 115V AC (90V to 132V AC) or 230V AC (180V to 264V AC) Liquid Cooling: None AirPort: None Bluetooth: None Ethernet: 10/100BASE-T (RJ-45) Modem: Optional 56k ADB: 1 Serial: None SCSI: None USB: 2 - 12 MBit/s FireWire: 2 - 400 MBit/s (15W total power) Audio In: 1 - 3.5-mm analog input jack (16-bit 44.1 kHz sample rate) Audio Out: 1 - 3.5-mm analog output jack, Built-in speaker (16-bit 44.1 kHz sample rate) Created by Mactracker, copyright 2001 - 2009 Ian Page http://www.mactracker.ca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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