Petey typically apple to piss of the consumer forcing us to purchase their stupid over priced product telling us go fuck yourselfs we can do it and be jerks about it . i remember how they pissed of every one with the original iphone with itsh nearow headphone jack. damn MOFOS
I bought 10 of them for $50 apiece. The color imac was coming in, and everyone was getting rid of these machines fast. This was a awesome machine for it's time, and was faster than the colored Imac.
+drMINDdamage They both are the same just different layouts on the software. And you can get PCs faster than a mac at the same price. But usually the one you use is the one you stick with and if you used the PC first for a week you would have known how yo use it :)
TheLinkzGamer I have only used PC's for about 10 years and I can't stand Microsoft's nonsence anymore. I am getting a Mac as soon as possible and will probably install linux on my current laptop.
Yep. Which is why the audio jack is pointless. I honestly think the aux jack should have been removed earlier on. But also, it will push audio companies to develop better lightning products now that they won't have access to aux any more. And all android companies are following apple and starting to remove headphone jacks too. I think tech just moves forwards, and this is a part of that. :)
The lack of a thing that is universal and cheap is not moving forward. It's taking a step back. And I'd like to know why you thing that royalty fees for using lightning and more expensive products because a DAC now has to be in every pair of headphones. This does not push technology forward and it damages the entire industry. The only reason Apple removed the jack was because they knew that they could make a hell of a lot more money that way.
From the perspective of a music producer, aux is incredibly awful. Lightning is a way we can finally have audio quality levels on par with XLR audio and optical audio. Plus, the fact the DAC is in the headphones means manufactures have more control over how the audio sounds. And companies like Sennheiser are extremely openly excited about having control over the DAC.
The G3 All-In-One had "personality" cards similar to it's bigger brother, the G3 MiniTower. Basically (as you mentioned) there was no audio input on the Mac. Therefore, these "personality" cards let you choose what type of personality your Mac would have. Video input capability, audio input, or even DVD playback, your choice. The cards had names, "Whisper" was the name of the audio-only card, "Wings" was the name of the A/V input/output card, and "Bordeaux" was the name of the video card which supported DVD-Video playback (it had an MPEG decoder chip inside). [The DVD playback card was only shipped with the G3 Desktop or Minitower] I actually like this All-In-One model. It's more expandable and on-par for processing speed iMac. (You say it's a 333MHz CPU, but only 233MHz or 266MHz speeds were available on the All-In-One, so maybe a typo, or somebody upgraded the CPU) It has the legacy I/O (including SCSI, which is interesting for a Mac with an internal IDE drive), and provides easy-access to the motherboard and easy expansion via PCI slots. It even had a monitor out jack, something that the iMac did not gain until the "Special Edition" slot-load DV models.
Yeah, those AV ports were not unique to the G3 AIO at all. My Power Mac 7600/132 had all those in 1996. IIRC they started popping up on all the PCI based Power Macs.
The G3/4/5 Towers, the Mac Pro tower and even the Mac G4 Cube had fairly simple "Pull tab, remove motherboard" features. Hell, even the trashcan Mac Pro is wildly easy to open up. When intended to be worked on from the inside, Apple industrial design will do the cleverest things to help you inside there. When not, well, it's all glue and pentalobe bits.
+taitaisanchez Not even just apple, the Compaq Pressario 425, and a number of other all in ones, had the same drawer thing. And the Performas and the LC's also let you do that too.
+taitaisanchez I mean heck, every Apple AIO I had owned before the G3 days pulled out like this. And their towers were even better, with doors and whole sections folding out of the way! It was fantastic!
IIRC the IIv series and their Performa successors had some kind of a hinged duplex motherboard system. the outer case is pull tab removable, then 2/3rds of the insides could be lifted to open up the bottom layer for replacing parts. back in the days Macs were amazing machine. then they ignored the spiritual successor BeOS and went with OS8, the Mac equivalent to the heaping pile of crap that is Win 8.
+Sam Gates Hey, as a fellow teen who is in school myself, you are just making us look bad. I agree with Will. Please stop making the people's average look of a teenager as we are immature and uneducated.
Sam Gates It's not an exam. It's a section where people can start conversations and talk about the video that they all just watched. However, If you want to make a comment, make it so that people can understand it. I'm fine with people not putting capitals or spelling a few words wrong, but when you literally can't understand it, that's bad.
holy siht... this is THE BEST case design of any computer ever made. just slide out the bottom and instant access to the motherboard. its freaking brilliant. Open Air case dissipates 90% of the heat, YES!. 3 Legacy Drives for loading your old storage media, YES!. built in Capture Card integrated into the OS, YES!. .. oh apple, what happened?, how could you go so wrong?, 20 years later and now you have removed the headphone port from iPhone 7 !!. dammit apple... no... just NO!.
"built in Capture Card integrated into the OS" Mister, you just said one stupid thing. You said that the capture card is integrated into the operating system. WTF
If they manage to see breasts in that plastic, I'd argue they're the ones with the problems. They probably had classroom rules of the minimum allowable separation between two round objects. "Two oranges shall not come closer than six inches from each other to avoid boob mirage."
Actually, sorry to burst your bubble (AND I KNOW THE VIDEO IS FROM 2015 BUT.) The Power Macintosh G3 AIO was not the first and only Macintosh to support video capture by stock configuration, as the Power Macintosh 7500 had a built-in video capture solution on the board, and also recorded in real time. For the release dates sake, the 7500 released in 1995, and the G3 AIO released in 1998. Sure it didn't record in 480i like the G3, but it still can be classified as the first.
Also there were a number of Performa models that came with video capture... I had a 6400/180 that did it. BTW, many of the Performas had a slide-out motherboard much like the AIO
Far from being one of the first Macs with ATA/IDE instead of SCSI for the hard drive. There were Quadras, Performas, and PowerMacs use ATA/IDE more than 3 years before the G3 AIO and the Macintosh TV had an IDE drive back in 93. The 8600 and 9600s also had translucent green plastics (albeit, not as much as the AIO) a good year before these too.
How is the removable tray 'unlike Apple'? They did similar things with the later PowerMacs and the Mac Pro, Apple were actually kind of well known for it.
+Haz Hartridge It's because today, Apple decides to solder all the components down. If the MacBook Pro's of today had upgradeable parts, I could justify upgrading my MacBook.
+Haz Hartridge Heck, even their consumer grade products had upgradeable parts. But I do agree. I was just stating how I could see why someone would say it.
+Haz Hartridge He talks about the general image that Apple has TODAY. Ask any normal Apple user, or normal PC-user for that matter, if they think of Apple as a brand that stands for smart solutions for easy access to components? I bet you non. His comment is more of an ironic nudge that Apple USED to be practical, but have now left that practicality in the past.
The CD-ROM drive being only read-only (as implied by the term CD-ROM) was not really a drawback in 1998. I can't really remember a lot of computers having a CD-R drive in 1998. So an optical drive being read-only was pretty standard.
I guess I worded that poorly. I wasn't saying that Performa model was the first because I didn't feel like looking it up. I was just using it as an example as it came out well before the G3 AIO.
ooooo, I remember this thing!!!!! My mind was blown as a child when I saw this sitting in my classtoom, I would always look for the "tower" and try to figure out how the damn thing worked.....this was the fastest PC in our class at the time....the rest of the systems were old power macs that were in the lower 100Mhz.
Yes. As recent as the Powermac G5 (perhaps later), Apple computers were easy to service, and Apple even commonly showed off how easy their new computers were to take apart and service during their product introducions.
AIO inc. I’m so sick of the whole „and then they claim they invented it“ argument because it’s almost never the case. Apple usually doesn’t say they invented it or that it’s the first of its kind.
We called them Ferengi Macs. Weird, unique and damned useful. SCIS, IDE and floppy controller in 1 machine. Can upgrade to Zip 250 and DVDR Superdrive. Analog video I/O (not the first BTW, I'd owned a 7600 years prior). Upgradeable video card, separate from the AV board and 3 PCI slots. Upgradeable ZIF processor. RJ-45 Ethernet and RJ-11 modem. Can multiboot OS9, OSX, LInux, BeOS. So I can use one machine for reading and formatting legacy disks, patching between phone and ethernet, video capture and DVD authoring, and it sits quietly in the corner working as a file server. The hard part is taking the CRT out and replacing it with an LCD...
I literally had a closet full of these things at one point. My dad would get old Macs from schools and colleges and he managed to get quite a few of these molars. I loved them. We used them for Starcraft lan parties. We would wipe them, install Starcraft and Brood War, leave a copy of the game in the CD drive, and keep the lot of them in a closet. When it was time for the lan party we would pull out a folding table, set up the Molars (which is so much easier using AIOs), plug them all into a small ethernet switch, and play Starcraft until the wee hours of the morn while my dad would make dozens of cheese quesadillas and gallons of Cool-Aid. When we were done they would all go back into the closet and wait for another day. :D And man were they heavy...
I remember when this hit my elementary school...I would record a phrase like "eat my shorts." and then it'd play it when ever someone pressed the spacebar..
Hey dude I watched your advanced mac tricks video and it was really cool. I love the caffeinate thing I tried it for a little bit and it worked wonders, but I have found an even easier way to prevent your mac from sleeping in the OS X operating system. It is called HOT CORNERS (not mad just trying to emphasize lol) 1) Go to system preferences 2) Click desktop & screen saver 3) click screen saver tab 4) click little button on bottom right that says hot corners 5) Pick any corner you like and hit the blue button and click "disable screen saver" 6) now whenever you put your pointer in the corner where you put "disable screen saver" it keeps the mac from sleeping until you pull the pointer out of that corner then it will go back to sleep based on your normal setting. I found this trick to be extremely handy and easier than opening terminal and typing all that. Plus you don't have to calculate how many seconds you want it to last. You can turn it off anytime you want by simply moving the pointer. P.S. I would also like to mention sticky which I used to use on my Windows computer all the time but it always turned off so quickly and wasn't worth it most times. But I got my new Mac and instantly fell in love with the Sticky keys because it makes all those command, option, control, keyboard shortcuts a lot easier because you don't have to hold down all the keys at the same time. Just some opinions I had that I thought you might be interested in. Thanks for your time hope you took the time to read all this.
I was on the waiting list for the original iMac for the company I worked for when a friend of mine (who worked at a school) said she already had an all-in one Mac G3. I was flabbergasted. I went to her office to see it, and this is what it was. The only time I'd ever see one. I was just trying to remember what it was called, but it's not an eMac. What a trip down memory lane.
I used this PC in Elementary and Middle school And found one in one of my High School class And the High School one has Adobe Flash and the browser was Netscape Navigator and I streamed a music video Cool Mac from 90s Well Apple is smart. Too smart
I remember the computer lab at my middle school had 4-5 of these things, and they were actually really easy to use. For 1998, they were definitely the quietest computers in that whole lab. A 100 MB ZIP drive was massive in 1998. Plus, while CD-RW drives did exist in 1998, they were RIDICULOUSLY expensive. It's not surprising this computer only had a read-only CD-ROM drive.
I had several people at the university I work at who had it, most of them loved the expanding ability of the system. Our communication depart got one to use for making video clips for marketing. It worked well for what they were doing. I still have my Mac Plus I got in 1985, and my SE30 I got several years later.
+MASCULINE MCGAINS I really don't mean to get political and you are, technically, correct. However, Taiwan is the Republic of China (the ones who aren't communists). I think that makes them Chinese.
That tray holding the motherboard is actually exactly like mid 90's apple. Almost every macintosh of the 90's was INCREDIBLY easy to get into. Actually until the most recent redesign the PowerMac/Mac Pro lines were famous for how easy it was to get at the components. In the Jobs era though it was the consumer lines and laptops that were made difficult to get into.
My elementary school had a computer lab full of these things. I have no idea what kind of software they had installed on these things but it made them super slow. doing more than a double click on the mouse would freeze the things up and was such a pain in the ass for the technician they started giving out detentions if you froze one.
I learned to program on one of these in High School. Coming from a school that only had Apple IIs from the 80s and Mac LCs, this thing was manna from heaven.
Maybe I misunderstand what you mean by "video capture by stock configuration" at 6:10 but I owned a Quadra 840AV and it was the first Mac to offer those features stock and on a 40Mhz 68k cpu in 1994. Your videos are fantastic! Thanks for all the great content and exceptional quality.
Very well presented, despite some minor historical & technical inaccuracies: * G3 Beige tower had the same video connectivity options as a standard price package, * 7600 had the same video input options as standard, * 6360 had the same video card as standard & completely removable pull out board, .....To name a few: there are even machines from the 68k range of computer products that featured these video ports as standard, but never mind... Furthermore: * E-Mate by apple is the 1st translucent plastic molding case on an Apple product (introduced March 7, 1997, thereby predating the 'AIO' G3). But hey, don't feel bad: I've been doing repairs on Mac Hardware since the mid-80's, & I've disassembled & reassembled most of Apples products since then, I doubt the majority of the current Apple user base would want to know everything about every configuration layout ever made by Apple. You make great videos, whereas I merely reminisce about my tech experiences. This was a great machine, Very Quick in it's day, & absolutely no fun to move from one desk to another - & repairing anything in the CRT / PSU section was a real pain in the ass. Enjoyed the Vid - Keep up the snazzy presentation!
The Power Macintosh G3 Mini Tower had a translucent handle on the top. That came out 6 months before (November 1997) . But this one is the first to have large translucent parts of the external case.
This was an excellent computer. It was the logical replacement for the older 5400 and 5500 all-in-one apple computers with 15 inch CRT's that used the much slower 603e processors. However, with the exception of an internal zip drive most of the items you highlighted were also available on the 5400 model that, I owned along with the 5500 model. They both had an internal floppy drive, CD ROM drive, apple video card, apple TV/FM radio card, internet card, and Sony 15 inch CRT. What made this G3 all-in-one extra special was that it used a G3 processor and had three (3) open PCI expansion bays for a USB card, Fire-wire card, faster graphics card, etc. It had the same power as the tan G3 tower for professionals but in an all-in-one design.
I've supported Apple products my entire working life in IT...and I love, love, LOVE stuff like this. Instant subscribe. I've never even seen one of these molar macs in real life, tho I've known about them for years. Fun fact: When you asked us to guess where the LB was made I shouted "Ireland!" and I was right! Years ago I delved into where my Mac IIsi was made and sure enough...Ireland.
CD writers hadn't really gone mainstream at the time and ZIP disks were a godsend. The beige G3's had built in ZIP drives as well. To transfer artwork a ZIP was a much better idea than burning a cd at 1x speed and preying it got to the end without a buffer underrun of whatever it was called. The beige G3, transparent G3 / G4 and the G5 / Powermacs all had nicely designed cases which let you easily get to all the components. The G3's / G4's all had folding out parts to access the logic board and the G5's were quite modular. A lot of graphics cards in the Macs at the time were different to PC versions and Apple ran sound, usb and power through some of them. It was a great way of connecting a monitor.
I bought one of these back in 2004 and made some upgrades plus I painted the entire case. Man playing with this computer was so much fun. This thing was huge and heavy though. At that time I was learning video editing and when I tried to edit a small clip on this mac, oh boy was it sloooow. Eventually I gave it to the goodwill
Had one of these for almost 10 years, had usb 2x card, Av in and out, 128mb Pci ati vid card, 500gb ide hd, zip 100, dvd burner and best of all a speaker phone modem :) One of the best macs i ever owned :)
Worked a project for a school district around the turn of the millennium, and they had a bunch of these systems. Upgrading the memory on them was a breeze, and they were also much faster than many of the older Macs that the school district still had.
Oh man, I had one of these growing up. It was a decommissioned model that we acquired because my grandpa worked in the school district. I never knew it was so special and full of firsts. I have fond memories of playing black & white shufflepuck cafe on it, good times ^^
After looking at most of the comments I need to add my 2 (or 3 cents). This is machine was part of a bigger family the Beige G3 family (desktop, Tower and All in one) these 3 machines have the distinction of sharing the same motherboard with easy of access (specially the tower). One of the first AV machines Apple Release was the Mac Centris (later Quadra) 660 AV and the Quadra 840 AV both machines where the bases of the original PowerMac cases. As translucent Macs, in 1986 there were 20 cases and 10 machines (only 8 are known to survive) that was a translucent case. This Mac SE units are the first know clear Macs. There was a Mac Color Classic II (code name Orchard, that was green) And there are the Mac Portable Prototype from 1989 and the Apple Iic from 1984 (I know technically Prototypes).
2:10 I was going to argue that the Apple /// must weigh more, but I checked, and it turns out that an Apple /// system unit (with a cast aluminum chassis that weighed something around 20 lbs even without hardware in it), Monitor /// and ProFile 5 MB hard drive come in at a featherweight 53 lbs. You win, Snazzy Labs.
I thought myself a Machead but I'd never heard of this computer. Fascinating video! Thanks for opening it up and showing + talking about the internals.
I had one of those around 2000 and I upgraded mine to the max ram and added a dvd drive and a USB card. Also had it connected to some Hardon kardon sound sticks. It was a beast back then. I still have it in my attic.
My elementary school had a lab full of these things, I still remember blasting through our lessons so I could play Nanosaur for the rest of class. You played a raptor from the future with a fucking jet pack and laser strapped to one arm, thank you whoever included that in the default software.
I worked in a design and animation school at the time, and installed a whole lab of these. I loved the design; thought they were awesome. They were pretty controversial, though, in a school filled with traditional PC's. Mostly, they hated the idea of a monitor that's hard to replace if it goes out.
OMG my elementary school used to have these computers!! I completely forgot about them, thanks for posting this! I spent many a happy class period with Type to Learn!
“Not only was this the only Mac to ever support video capture by stock configuration…” AHEM. The Centris/Quadra 660AV (1993), Quadra 840AV (1993), Performa 6400/200 Video Editing Edition (1997), and many others would like a few words with you, sir.
I disagree that just because the appearance is very unusual that it's "the UGLIEST Apple Mac Ever Made". I thought these machines were very cool. You make the strong case for that here and you're right. I felt like I could do just about anything back then on these. Ah, the glory days of OS9!
I have to say, the reason the original iMac was able to look this good was because Steve threw out all those storage formats and expansion slots, which were probably not something the old Apple was willing to sacrifice. For that reason, I wouldn't really blame the industrial design team.
My university bookstore was trying to sell these for YEARS, even after the iMac came out and long after this was discontinued. Somehow they had trouble moving any of them.
This has probably been said many times in the comments but I thought i'd mention that the Performa macs (or atleast many of them) also had slide out motherboards like this one back so far as the early 90/mid 90's. Many performas and quadras could also be configured with video capture cards. These performas also came with IDE hard drives in many cases. My 6360 had one, but it also had SCSI on board for the CD-rom and external devices.
And again, It was NOT the first Apple computer to have video capture capabilities. I had a Performa 5200CD with a pre-G3 PowerPC CPU with one installed stock that could record in real time.
I think you're right on all these points, this machine was really the G3 successor to the Power Mac/Performa 5x00 series. Wikipedia has a good graphical timeline of the various Mac lines.
This was not the only Mac to support video capture by stock configuration. Any of the early ‘90s Centris or Quadra AV series Macs (the Quadra 840AV was very popular), and some of the PPC 7000 series Macs had both RCA and S-Video input and output. There were several other special edition PPCs too. I owned several of these back in the day.
Scsi kicked ass. The problem was ATA , ESDI, etc used a precious IRQ for each pair of drives. If you had a hard disk and a cd rom connected as a master and a slave, then it took over that IRQ, and it wasn't available for other devices. This was how serial ports worked. If you had COM1 through COM4 then they had to be on separate IRQs. building computers was a mess, because if you had a mouse , a modem, a sound card, a video card, then there was really no more room for a second printer port because the IRQs were all used up. SCSI allowed up to 15 hard disks and it used up Only one IRQ. Thanks to the newer Intel CPUs and Windows 95 and IRQ steering and usb , those days are long dead. another cool thing about scsi was that it was bus mastering when the other hard disks didn't have it. copying a file over ide requires the computers cpu. copying a file over scsi does not require the computer's attention, because the drives can copy and read and write on their own.
Not bad... except: Having the Logic Board slide out of the machine was common in Apple AIOs, all the way back to the LC575, and continued through the PowerMac AOIs. The ease of access was also continued on the B&W G3s, and the entire PowerMac G4 line. ATA Hard Drives (or IDE as they were called then), had been common since the PowerMac AOIs (5200 series), and were a standard feature by then. Most PowerMacs (and Performa) towers included Zip drives as standard by this point. The Floppy was not outdated. It was actually quite surprising, and maddening, when Apple dropped the Floppy on the iMac. CD-R Drives were in existence, but there were few people who took advantage, but the G3 AOI's drive could be made to be a CD-R as an option when ordering, or replaced at any time. The Video Capture cards were common on many Mac Desktops and Towers. The PowerMac 6100/7100/8100 all had capture card options, and most had at least S-Video Input. It was the first AOI that had the capture card.
