PowerMac G3 Beige 

This is my all time favorite Mac.

Oh yeah? I'd love to see that video.

yeah. i ended up just putting macmame on it and turning it into an arcade machine. i might make a video of it soon

using powermac g4 500, works like a treat and didn't cost a dime

Yeah, sometimes people don't realize what they're throwing out! There's nothing better for me than finding a collectible computer on the side of the road.

Hmm, interesting, that would explain a lot, since this one has added firewire ports. And contrats on your g4!

@ashthepokemonmaster Wow! How neat, those seem to be really hard to come by nowadays. I remember they used to use those kinds of Macs in some offices in my college (before I became a student there).

Usually it tells you in the "System Profiler". I think system profiler is in the Apple menu somewhere.

the control strip halfway up the screen can be fixed by ressetteing the PRAM

You need 4 partitions. 1. Where you want OSX to be 6.5 gb max 2. Bootstrap (XpostFacto calls them 'Helpers' to boot the kernel initially as beige will not boot a CDROM from OF alone sadly. Hence the BootX portion of the app. Make this 500 mb 3. OS9. Copy your OS9 here. I use two HDD's one just as a backup to copy files accross when I repartition the main drive. 4. Big space to use for file storage which will be mountable from OS9 and OSX.

Any windows computer made past the early ninety's should have a 1.44 mb floppy drive. If it is a rare 2.88 mb floppy drive (which are only in IBM PS/2's) it'll say 2.88 mb on the floppy drive eject button.

Oh yeah? I feel your pain, my friend and I spent about 7 hours trying to get it to work one day and we had no luck. It's a shame too, the thing has more RAM than some of my more modern computers. Using it with Mac OS 9 is like using an Intel Core Due @ 3.0 GHz just to run Windows 95.

@Tamanozke Hmm I've actually never heard for that before! But that'd be pretty cool. I'm sure those things are rare and hard to find these days though

Oh yeah? What OS do you have on it? This is a wonderful computer, but I don't think I could survive in the Classic Mac OS environment too long.

to get mac os x you need mac os 9.2.2 with all of its firmwear updates

@TommyA1912 I've tried to install Mac OS X before, but I couldn't get it to work.

Oh yeah? I'll have to try that. 640 mb was a bit much for 1997.

@WinVistaUser2 Maybe; I've tried installing MAC OS X with xPostFacto before without any luck

I've got very similar spec only mine is a sonnet G4 400mhz. I managed to get osx 10.4 on there - I had some issues with xpostfacto not booting the damn install cd/dvd but this was solved by replacing the PRAM battery with a new Maxwell er3s. I also ran into random freezing in osx but put this down to the battery being weak as its stopped doing it since. I haven't tried Leopard and wont bother as tiger is fine as a webserver. (cont.)

no problem. i had to reset my iMac when it ran 9.2 and it was fixed as a side effect ;)

@93axele Oh, that's the monitor turning on.

@simon1234simon If I used it more often I would, but I hardly ever use this computer. I just set it up to make this video, I'm not even sure if I've used it since!

You might want to remove some of the ram if its freezing on install, thats a known issue. Just leave the one smallest dim in and remove the others and also any extra pci devices installed. Also, I found that having a cheap pci usb hub solved the USB requirement nicely. ;)

What about 10.1 puma?

@HTPtheFirst Haha yeah so true. I think Apple was just trying to be different because at the time all computers were beige or black.

Actually I've tried that, and unfortunately it'll only work like one out of every 10 times I try it. When it does work, Mac OS X freezes upon booting.

0:40 what was that sound???

I just got one of these but in the rare All-In-One version :) (266MHz)

lol i just found that, and its option btw, control re-aranges the items

@halomasterchief14 At my last job i took couple of 350 and 400MHz G4's to be scrapped. But i saved the 500MHz one for myself.

I already made it so I'll just post it in a day or two...

alt=option, control=ctrl, and ignore thet control aranges the icons, its option too (control does nothing)

i just got 2 of these insted of the all in one and 7600 mac im useing them as my main computers

i upgraded the crap out of my powermac 8500 (g3 processor, 300mb RAM) and I couldn't get it to work with xpostfacto and mac os 10.1

I Bought one of these from my local dump for $10 Runs MAC OS 9.2.2 40 GB Hard Drive 300 Mhz G3 Processor

Haha, thanks. That's probably the most annoying thing I've ever had to deal with.

I could try that, but it'd be just about as useful as 9.x and much slower. (Most programs nowadays are built for at least 10.2)

mac os x works only if mac has internal firewire i think..

this mac cant boot from USB... but i did have to do that with linux and my laptop...

this is much to powerful for just a file server :P i have one thats the next generation (G3/400MHz) and it has plenty of power for all but flash apps

@kasm279 Do not type a wink!!!!

put a bigger hard drive in it = mac osx