Processor speeds of up to 400MHz are available, with caches running at half the processor speed - up to 200MHz. As mentioned in the News, there are three internal hard drive bays, and two front‑panel slots for CD, DVD, Zip, Jaz or other removable media. There are a few changes inside the new G3s, too. Personally, I wonder what the next Powerbooks are going to look like - the mix of the iMac, new G3s and the eMate should be very strange indeed, if Apple follow the same design path! The world increasingly runs at web speeds these days: soon after the Apple site had the new G3 details and I was thinking how radical the design was, an SOS reader emailed me to say that he had been "expecting something even more radical" from the new G3s. The entire case is polycarbonate, and one side opens up via a handle which bears a strong family relationship to the iMac's door - it has the same soft blue rubber grommet, but instead of just revealing the ports, the whole of the side of the G3 hinges down, giving immediate access to all the internals. When on the G3 page proper, you discover that what looks like a badge is the side view of the computer! The Bondi Blue Apple logo must be 10 centimeters across, and the 'G3' characters are huge! On my first visit, the page showed what looked like a new badge for the G3: a blue apple with 'G3' showing through a translucent cover. Visiting the Apple web site's opening page ( gives you some impression of just how startling the new G3 can be. But the design is fiendishly clever, ridiculously symmetrical, and perhaps even bolder than the iMac. Indeed, the first word that springs to many people's minds on seeing them is "weird".
#BONDI BLUE IMAC MAC#
Of course, Apple may well provide colour‑change kits of just the coloured parts of the case to resellers.īondi Blue hasn't actually gone away, as the brand‑new Power Mac G3 computers (previously code‑named Yosemite) have lots of turquoise‑tinted polycarbonate fittings. Bearing in mind the £200 price drop for any Bondi Blue iMacs that are still around, it's not out of the question that another six months will see some bargain deals on less popular colours, which could be useful for anyone who wants a Mac to act as their Internet machine, and to use for other, non‑music‑related tasks.
If you've read that item, you'll already be aware that the new Macs come in a range of colours (as the name 'Rainbow' would suggest), some of which will inevitably be less popular than others.
#BONDI BLUE IMAC FULL#
Martin Russ looks at the new Bondi Blue G3 PowerMac, and then does some serious Thonking.Īt the annual San Francisco MacWorld Expo, Steve Jobs, Apple's 'Interim' Chief Executive Officer, revealed the Rainbow iMacs - full physical details and internal spec can be found in this month's News pages. Other I/O: 80 GB EIDE HD, 24x EIDE CD-ROM drive (tray-loading), 10/100 Ethernet onboard, 56k modem, 2x USB 1.A badge? Nope, the side of the newest G3 Macintoshes.Processor: IBM PowerPC 750 "G3" 333 MHz (integrated FPU, 512 KB L2 cache).This CRT all-in-one style did not disappear entirely afterwards, but reappeared with G4 power in the form of the educational Mac, the eMac (although it was first marketed exclusively for the education market, it soon was also sold to "standard" consumers). Later (20) G3 versions had clearer cases (and an array of different colors and patterns to choose), DVD and CD-RW drives, and even FireWire ports. This one has a faster 333 MHz G3 processor, and had both its internal hard drive and memory upgraded by the previous owner. The iMac I have here is not the first version (the first 1998 version only came in this color, Bondi blue, but the later 1999 revisions came in five different colors, Bondi included.).
#BONDI BLUE IMAC PROFESSIONAL#
Steve Jobs did in 1998 (after returning to the company he founded) a sort of a contingency plan in order to "save" Apple: besides the widely known "alliance" with Microsoft, he killed a number of side-projects, and converged the chaotic product lines into only four lines: consumer desktop (iMac) and laptop (iBook) and professional desktop (PowerMac) and laptop (PowerBook). USB floppy drives were available for those who wanted them, in matching colors. It was presented in an "all-in-one" package, and marketed for the masses - some criticized the lack of a floppy drive (it only has an optical drive and network connections) - however, floppies were already being phased out (and more than 10 years later, it is getting increasingly difficult to spot a new computer which still has a floppy drive!). The iMac marked a turning point at Apple, in a similar fashion as the Mac, 15 years earlier.
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