Apple Power Macintosh G3 (M7555LL/A) Mac Desktop
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still remains useful
Pros
long-lasting usefulness, upgradeable
Cons
pci graphics
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
someone who is looking for an extra mac as a server, or needing an extra mac for "everyday" home usage, this computer will remain useful for years to come.
i purchased a used b&w g3 400 and the matching 17" studio monitor in march of 2002. it had been upgraded to a 32mb video card, and had 2 hard drives, one at 20 gigs and another at 15. was a dual-boot (os 9 and x.1) also, it has 1024 MB of ram. it ran os x quite well, and when jaguar came out, i zeroed out entire hard drive and switched to a single operating system. 3d games are playable, but not up to par compared to newer agp card systems. this mac did not have the zip drive below the dvd-rom drive, so i put another hard drive in the cage where a zip drive would normally reside, and that was a fairly easy (hard to access cables) job to do. one really couldn't complain about the slowness of a 4 and 1/2 year old computer that can still run a modern operating system. it is not all that much slower at everyday tasks such as word processing and websurfing than my new 1ghz eMac. my only gripe with it was that there were no pci wireless solutions for this computer (there are usb wireless solutions, however). it still remains a handy computer, the monitor is a mitubishi diamondtron tube and matches the computer tower. this monitor still rocks. i used an external cd-rw and that worked well. while its platform begins to age and lack some functionality of the newest systems (airport wireless, agp graphics), a computer that is almost 5 years old and still has yet to have any hardware issues? and runs a resource-hungry operating system that was released just last year at a satisfactory speed? i defy you to find that quality anywhere else.