On the 25th anniversary of Macintosh, I found a PowerMac G3 All-in-One on the curb. It's in the trunk of my car even now. Is it worth keeping? All the cables, etc., were included with it...
Not only *can* you, but some run it well. I had 10.3 running on a 500MHz G3 iBook and it was pretty great.
To pyat: any idea of the relative speed? If it's pre iMac, it'll be 233MHz at the most, probably. EveryMac (http://www.everymac.com) is a good place to look for specs.
well, if it does, it could be a good computer for general surfing and the like... maybe a computer for the girls?
if it doesn't work, well, you could always call apple support, see what options there are... (though, if you fear the rep is being lazy, ask to be forwarded to a product specialist.. you are allowed to and afaik, they have to honour that request.)
There is nil chance that it's still under AppleCare, so Apple will talk to him, but they'll charge him for it and their answer will be "buy a newer Mac."
Well, it might be a bomb, or full of contraband lost mid-delivery, or a box of stolen goods waiting for pickup. It's probably NOT, I'm just saying you should look a gift horse in the mouth if it's delivered by fairies, and in the tummy if it's delivered by greeks.
Cool beans! Definitely worth bringing up, or at least trying. You may want to furkle around with XPostFacto, to get a reasonably recent version of OS X in place - I had Tiger (10.4) on a PBG3/266, which worked quite nicely. Leopard isn't an option for it, as that requires a G4, but Tiger's pretty well supported by current applications.
If it works, toss Yellow Dog Linux on it and... I dunno, you can use it as a router, low budget web server, there's so many possibilities. The first enterprise web systems I developed were hosted on Mac G3s under Mac OS 7.x or something. The experience pretty horrible, but that was due to OS and database backend choices rather than hardware. In absolute sense, they were pretty capable systems. By current standards, well, we're spoiled nowadays aren't we. Not sure about the All in one models though.
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Date: 2009-01-25 09:33 pm (UTC)From what I've heard, you CAN get OSX to run on a G3 so if it works at all, it may be worth resuscitating.
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Date: 2009-01-25 09:36 pm (UTC)if it doesn't work, well, you could always call apple support, see what options there are... (though, if you fear the rep is being lazy, ask to be forwarded to a product specialist.. you are allowed to and afaik, they have to honour that request.)
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