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This model, sometimes referred to as an Outrigger Macintosh due to its ease of access, was the last horizontally-oriented desktop model offered by Apple until the introduction of the Mac mini in 2005. The 233 and 266 MHz desktop models shipped with 4 GB hard drives, and the 300 MHz with a 6 GB drive, all at 5400 RPM. The Desktop model inherited its enclosure directly from the Power Macintosh 7300. As a late addition there is known that exactly this type of a processor (Motorola PPC 750 CPU at 200 MHz) is currently operating in the "Perseverance" rover system which is exploring Mars.
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It is the earliest Old World ROM Macintosh model officially able to boot into Mac OS X, and one of only two Old World ROM models officially able to boot into Mac OS X, the other model being the second-generation (Wallstreet I/II) PowerBook G3. The Power Macintosh G3 was originally intended to be a midrange series, between the low-end Performa/ LC models and the six- PCI slot Power Macintosh 9600.
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Mac OS X 10.5 can be run only if a G4 processor upgrade is installed.
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Support for newer versions is possible with the use of third party software solutions such as XPostFacto. The G3 officially supports up to Mac OS X 10.2, although some devices will not work under Mac OS X, such as the floppy drive, the video features of the "Wings" personality card, and the 3D graphics acceleration functions of the onboard ATI Rage series video.
Initial units were shipped with Mac OS 8.
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Despite demand from high-end users for more PCI slots in a G3-powered computer, Apple decided not to develop the prototype (dubbed "Power Express") into a shipping product, leaving the 9600 as the last six-slot Mac Apple would make for over two decades, until the 2019 Mac Pro which has eight.
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Each bus could support a maximum of 7 devices.Īpple also developed a prototype G3-based six-slot full tower to be designated the Power Macintosh 9700. A Fast SCSI internal bus is still included with 10 MB/s speed, along with the proprietary out-of-spec DB-25 external SCSI bus which had a top speed of 5 MB/s. Equipped with a 233, 266, 300, or 333 MHz PowerPC 750 (G3) CPU from Motorola, these machines use a 66.83 MHz system bus and PC66 SDRAM, and standard ATA hard disk drives instead of the SCSI drives used in most previous Apple systems. The All-In-One model was shaped like a human tooth, and thus earned the moniker Molar Mac. Its replacement, the Power Mac G4, was introduced in August of the same year.Īpple sold three beige Power Macintosh G3 models: a horizontally-oriented desktop, a mini tower enclosure, and a version with a built-in screen called All-In-One ("AIO"). The second generation, known officially as "Blue and White", was introduced at MacWorld San Francisco on January 5, 1999. The first generation, known colloquially as "Beige" was introduced at a special event on November 10, 1997. Two generations of the Power Macintosh G3 were released. Magazine benchmarks showed the G3/266 CPU outperforming the 350 MHz PowerPC 604ev chip in the Power Macintosh 9600 as well. As a result, these machines benchmarked significantly faster than Intel PCs of similar CPU clock speed at launch, which prompted Apple to create the "Snail" and "Toasted Bunnies" television commercials. The Power Macintosh G3 is named for its third-generation PowerPC chip, and introduced a fast and large Level 2 backside CPU cache, running at half processor speed. Apple's move to build-to-order sales of the Power Macintosh G3 also coincided with the acquisition of Power Computing Corporation, which had been providing telephone sales of Macintosh clones for more than two years. The introduction of the Desktop and Mini Tower models coincided with Apple starting to sell build-to-order Macs directly from its web site in an online store, which was unusual for the time as Dell was the only major computer manufacturer doing this. It represented Apple's first step towards eliminating redundancy and complexity in the product line by replacing eight Power Macintosh models (and the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh) with three: Desktop and Mini Tower models for professional and home use, and an All-In-One model for education. The Power Macintosh G3 (also sold with additional software as the Macintosh Server G3) is a series of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. The Power Macintosh G3 Mini Tower (left) and Power Mac G3 Blue and White (right)
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