The Blue and White G3 400 Apple Mac is a PowerPC 750 based Powermac system. It was shipped with an apple stock 10 gig hard drive and 64 megs of 168pin memory. The units were shipped with Apple standard 24 speed CD rom drives and floppy drives.
All our G3 systems are supplied with the power chord to make sure it’s ready for use straight out the box. You just need the monitor, keyboard and mouse.
Apple Blue & White G3
If you do need a monitor to go with this mac, or are looking for a unit to let you use your existing computer, please get in touch, we have an extensive range of refurbished units in stock. The beauty of these powermacs is that they have 2 x internal IDE buses but was the first to come without SCSI as standard. It does of course have USB and firewire. They’ll even play DVD videos and run Tiger. If you need a monitor for this mac, Computer Displays sell high end CRT computer screens that are both low cost and high quality.
The Apple Power Macintosh G3/400 (Blue & White), based on the Yosemite architecture, features a 400 MHz PowerPC 750 (G3) processor with 1 MB of backside cache, 64 MB or 128 MB of RAM, a 9 GB Ultra2 SCSI, 6 GB Ultra ATA/33, or 12 GB Ultra ATA/33 hard drive, a 32X CD-ROM drive or a 5X DVD-ROM drive, and an ATI Rage 128 GL graphics card with 16 MB of SDRAM.
There are three modestly different configurations of this model. The first version (M6665LL/A) — shipped on January 5, 1999 with 128 MB of RAM, a 9.0 GB Ultra2 SCSI hard drive, and a 32X CD-ROM drive for US$2999.
On June 1, 1999, the original version was discontinued and replaced by M7555LL/A — configured with 64 MB of RAM, a 6.0 GB Ultra ATA/33 hard drive, and a 5X DVD-ROM drive for US$1999 — and M7554LL/A — configured with 128 MB of RAM, a 12.0 GB Ultra ATA/33 hard drive, a 32X CD-ROM drive and an internal Zip 100 drive for US$2499.
The Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White) series unveils a dramatically different translucent “blue and white” enclosure with a “fold down door” on the side that makes the system extremely easy to upgrade. It also introduced Firewire — a then new high speed peripheral connection standard — and was the first “pro” system to include USB (along with an ADB port for “legacy” use). It dropped traditional Mac serial ports and onboard SCSI.
Compared to earlier Power Macintosh G3 models, the Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White) line — in addition to the even easier-to-upgrade case — uses generally faster processors, a faster motherboard design with a faster system bus (100 MHz compared to 66 MHz), faster RAM (PC100 compared to PC66), and a faster hard drive standard (Ultra ATA/33 compared to IDE/ATA-2).
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In the default configuration, this model has three open 33 MHz PCI slots and a 66 MHz PCI slot occupied by the graphics card.
It has four 3.5″ drive bays (three are internal and intended for hard drives, and one is external and intended for a Zip 100 drive). With a single drive installed — and no internal Zip drive — two internal 3.5″ bays are free as is the external 3.5″ bay. The system also has an external 5.25″ drive bay occupied by the optical drive.
The ATI Rage 128 GL graphics card with 16 MB of SDRAM occupies a 66 MHz PCI slot.