Apple Power Macintosh G3 (M7104LL/A) Mac Desktop

Pros: Flawless speed, beautiful video,
Cons: USB for data transfer is SLOW

Okay, I started working here about 7 months ago and the machine I got to work with was almost an antique. An old PMac 7100. It reminded me of working with Commodore 64's in grade school. Anyway, I convinced by boss to purchase a new B&W G3 for me....

Pros: Fast, rarely crashes
Cons: No SCSI

I depend on my Macs so much, it's less than coincidental that I name their hard drives after great literary heroines: First was "Phoebe," next was "The Rachel," and now my third Mac is "Madame Psychosis." Again and again,...

Pros: Ease of operation, quality of design
Cons: Nothing is compatible!

I have been a firm lover of Mac's for years. But ever try buying software for them? Let's face it, this is an IBM - compatible world and the Mac owners are getting the short end of the stick. I think it is time for the Mac to conform to IBM-PC...

Pros: Cool design
Cons: No floppy drive

We recently purchased two new G3's at work. I am in charge of the "Technoweenie Team" and ordered these. Lo and behold, when they arrived, there was no floppy drive. Being as a lot of our software is on floppies, we were disappointed that we...

Pros: good machine, good looking
Cons: horrible keyboard and mouse

When the first batch of macs came out, they included a tiny li'l screen and a truly horrible keyboard. No question they represented a great advance in computing paradigms, but lord almighty, the keyboard was bad!

Now the blue and white g3s are...

Pros: Only way to go for music and graphics
Cons: none

If you are thinking about writing music using a computer,do yourself a favor and go the Macintosh way.It is dependable,easy, icon based,and things are always where you expect to find them.
Earlier in my career I first started writing music with a...

Pros: Fast. Way Fast.
Cons: Industrial design makes it hard to stack peripherals.

Toss all your floppy disks. That's step one when you step up to a new 'Yosemite' Powermac. Many of the familiar components of a typical Apple system have gone the way of PowerTalk, OpenDoc and other late, lamented Apple technologies. So there's no more...

Pros: Pretty, fast, cool
Cons: Questions about upgradability?

The bondi and white G3 is an incredibly fast machine, even at only 300 MHz. The bus speed seems to make all of the difference, as the G3 upgrade I have at work is much slower on Photoshop filters and such. The case, which is never represented well in...

Pros: Fast, powerful backside cache, stable OS
Cons: buggy fax software, back-ordered modem

Before the new blue and white G3s were off the assembly line, I ordered one. If you admire the iMac but need more power and the option of a big monitor, the G3 is for you. For the first time in a while, the Macintosh prices looked really...

Pros: Good power
Cons: Faulty hardware

My experience with a G3 has been good and bad. It's a great machine to begin with. Lots of power...lots of options. But, on the other hand, I recently had to replace the hard drive. It had a bad spot which was making the machine crash. The service people...

Pros: Fast, easily expandable, very current technology.
Cons: Original keyboard and mouse. Didn't ship with internal modem.

I bought this 400mhz G3 w/DVD to replace my 8100/100AV. I had over $7,500 tied up in the CPU, scanner etc. but it gave me 5 years of flawless service and I got $500 back out of it. Anyway, after upgrading every component, I have about $2,500 in my...

Pros: Ease of use, great online support
Cons: None that I can find.

I have been a MacAddict since I started with an SE back in 1991. I particularly love its ease of use; not a lot of language, file names, forward slashes, back slashes etc to get to where I want to go. Sherlock is a great new feature that makes your...

Pros: very usable, very fast
Cons: no written documentation

The 400mhz G-3 is easy to set up and connect to peripherals. It is easily upgradeable and expandable. A child could almost put the memory expansion and pci cards in their proper slots.

The CPU fan is surprisingly quiet and efficient, and the...

Pros: quick response
Cons: bad keyboard and mouse

I work with a G3/400 with 512 meg of ram (graphics intensive job) and I'd have to say, it's a fine computer. Photoshop runs smoothly and quickly, Illustrator is good, though it's not noticeably faster than the 8600 I was using prior to this. The best...

Pros: powerful and fast hardware
Cons: not a lot of software available

When I generally buy a computer I know that no matter what I buy my machine will be obsolete by the time it gets to my house. So when I buy a computer I always would like to have the feeling that I know what I'm buying will last me for a couple of years....