Going Full Fruity with Apple’s 1999 High-End Power Mac G3
Going Full Fruity With Apple’s 1999 High-End Power Mac G3 No comments by: Maya Posch August 6, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Back in the late 90s, Apple was definitely a pretty fruity company, with its aggressively translucent shades of colored plastic that often got described in terms of such fruit variants. Although the iMac steals a lot of the glory here, the Power Mac series and associated hardware deserves that spot in the limelight as well. Recently [Dan Wood] put together a full Power Mac G3-based setup, including the appropriate LCD monitor and other peripherals as someone with some serious disposable income back in 1999 might have owned.
- ▪Going Full Fruity With Apple’s 1999 High-End Power Mac G3 No comments by: Maya Posch August 6, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Back in the late 90s, Apple was definitely a pretty fruity company, with its aggressively translucent shades of
- ▪Although the iMac steals a lot of the glory here, the Power Mac series and associated hardware deserves that spot in the limelight as well.
- ▪Recently [Dan Wood] put together a full Power Mac G3-based setup, including the appropriate LCD monitor and other peripherals as someone with some serious disposable income back in 1999 might have owned.
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Going Full Fruity With Apple’s 1999 High-End Power Mac G3 No comments by: Maya Posch August 6, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Back in the late 90s, Apple was definitely a pretty fruity company, with its aggressively translucent shades of colored plastic that often got described in terms of such fruit variants. Although the iMac steals a lot of the glory here, the Power Mac series and associated hardware deserves that spot in the limelight as well. Recently [Dan Wood] put together a full Power Mac G3-based setup, including the appropriate LCD monitor and other peripherals as someone with some serious disposable income back in 1999 might have owned. Why Macs are better than PCs.
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