Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White G3)

Power Macintosh G3

Power Macintosh G3 desktop or minitower (also known as Blue and White G3 or else B&W G3, Yosemite G3) included the white and blue plastics of the iMac, The Power Macintosh G3 a short-lived series of Apple Power Macintosh line.

Contents

1 A Tour of the Power Mac G3 (Blue and White) [Video]
2 Power Macintosh G3 (Commonly Known As the Blue & White G3)
3 Miscellanea
4 Links

A Tour of the Power Mac G3 (Blue and White) [Video]

Video uploaded by Computer Clan on July 21, 2015.

Power Macintosh G3 (Commonly Known As the Blue & White G3)

The first new Power Mac model after the release of the iMac, G3 B&W used a totally new design (code name El-Capitan), with the logic board on the folding “door”, which swung down onto the desk for easy access, and borrowed the iMac’s blue-and-white color scheme.

Release Date

Introduced on January 10, 1999.

Specifications

Codename: Yosemite.
Processor: 350 MHz, 400 MHz, or 450 MHz PowerPC G3 with 1 MB on-chip L2 cache.
Memory: Motorola MPC106 (codenamed “Grackle”) version 4. RAM: 64 MB, 128 MB. Maximum RAM: 1 GB.
Storage: Hard Drive: 6-12 GB (up to 3 36 GB available BTO) ATA Bus: Ultra ATA.
Zip drive: optional. Optical Drive: 32x CD-ROM, DVD/DVD-RAM available.
ROM: New World ROM. 64 MB, 128 MB* Maximum RAM: 1 GB ( 64 MB standard in M7555LL/A, 128 MB standard in M6665LL/A and M7554LL/A).
OS: Original OS Mac OS 8.5.1. Later revisions shipped with 8.6. The latest version that can be run on this model is Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger 10.4.11). Paddington (100 Mbit Ethernet and power save features). It is possible to run Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard if the processor is upgraded to a G4 and several additional kexts (Kernel Extensions) are installed from Tiger or beta releases of Leopard.
Video card: Rage 128 GL. VRAM Type: SDRAM. All resolutions supported,
Video out: VGA.
Audio: Audio chip Burgundy,
Controllers: for Firewire (Texas Instruments PCI-Lynx), for USB etc. added.
Dimensions: 17.0-inch Height x 8.9-inch Width x 18.4-inch Depth.
Average weight: 28.7 lbs.

Apple Models, Discontinuation, Price

Model Identifier: Power Mac 1.1.

Apple Model Part Numbers:

M7556LL/A (350 MHz Revision B)
M7555LL/A
M7554LL/A (400 MHz Revision B)
M7553LL/A (450 MHz Revision B)

Discontinued:

August 31, 1999. The Power Macintosh G3 was discontinued in favor of the Power Mac G4 line.

Introductory Price:

$1599 – $4999, depending on configuration
$4999 for the fully loaded server configuration

Features

This G3 was the first Apple model to support FireWire, Apple’s new high-speed serial standard. It was also the first professional model to include USB, although it also came with a legacy ADB port for backwards compatibility.
In a controversial move, Apple chose not to include standard serial ports, a floppy drive, or on-board SCSI. Instead the company chose Ultra ATA. An internal Zip was available, however, as were SCSI expansion cards.

Miscellanea

This desktop succeeded the original beige Power Macintosh G3, with which it shared the name and processor architecture but little else.
ThisG3 was the first Apple model to support FireWire, Apple’s new high-speed serial standard. It was also the first professional model to include USB, although it also came with a legacy ADB port for backwards compatibility.
In a controversial move, Apple chose not to include standard serial ports, a floppy drive, or on-board SCSI. Instead the company chose Ultra ATA. An internal Zip was available, however, as were SCSI expansion cards.
The Power Macintosh G3 B&W was the first computer to be equipped with the New World ROM architecture in the Power Macintosh line.
There was a silent release to the G3 line, mid 1999 (see Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White G3). The ATA chip was changed so it better supported slave drives etc. You can recognize the revision B by the hard disk mount space.
The first G3 B&W’s had space to mount a single hard disk to the casing, whilst the second revision had a complete rack laying under the power suply which could easily be taken out and has space to mount 3 or four hard disks.
The fourth generation displays were notorious for faulty flybacks.