Comments on: B&W G3: When Schiller was thin and Jony, not so much

By: Red

Red — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:23:44 +0000

The blue and white G3 was a beautiful design. The translucent case with the G3 imposed on the sides, the apple logo all shiny and blue, and if you look closely there is a horizontal line pattern in the darker blue plastics on the front of the case … Seriously this desktop got more admiration on my desk than the first generation G4 that was released a few months later. I have used every G3, G4, and G5 powermac desktop model that came out during the powerpc days and Apple didn’t score a nicer desktop until the quicksilver G4’s came out a few years later. No one remembers the first G4, but they do remember the blue and white G3.

By: JC

JC — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:28:14 +0000

Ahhhh… my first Mac. It and the 17″ monitor (unfeasibly dense and wide – like a cannon ball) cost me £3500 in instalments. Yup the mouse was a disaster and the candy keyboards initially cost £70 to replace, but
I liked the translucent Kevlar, and the squishy latch and nifty opening case. The handles however were agony to wield, as it weighed a ton. It was also (unofficially) upgradeable. Mine made it all the way to a 500 G4 and a 3DFX Voodoo only for them to can Half Life & Halo. It even ran OS X. We’ve come a long way.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:03:00 +0000

Actually I thought the B&W G3s were very nice. They introduced color at a time in the marketplace when all desktops were bland beige. That helped them to stand out at the time and sell a ton of units. But you are right, that hockey puck mouse sucked!