all right iMac g3 ShortCircuit we're finally doing it
screw you Linus this thing's interesting we're gonna have to start this off here
with a sad story of neglect
the last time this showed up in a video Linus kicked it off of a desk it was an
absolute atrocity so you know I absolutely love this things it was my
first real computer so we're gonna go ahead and you know clean her off have a
nice old time and have a bit of a nostalgia as well but before we get into
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know this is the iMac g3 it's maybe one of the most iconic computer designs ever
and it's what gave Johnny I've the dude who designed this his job title as the
chief design officer at Apple it's maybe one of the most beautiful computers ever
made like just look at that I have no clue who owned this apparently it's been
with the company for three office moves
before we started up here we've got the i/o for the time on a PC this was
considered pretty bad people got really
angry with the fact that only had a CD drive right here floppy disks were still
quite popular in like 1999 so it was
pretty radical that they only included a CD drive here we've also got to fire
wires I believe that is 56k modem and
Ethernet we also have only two USB ports that's a bold decision so apparently the
original version you know the one had the flippy doodle that comes out and then there was a CD drive Steve Jobs
apparently hated that it was not supposed to be it was supposed to be
this one right here but they just couldn't get it like totally done in
time oh yes do we just see if it works I just get right into it
I'm so excited for the dome yeah that came out weird
okay we are in macOS 10 which is a bit
unfortunate because this right here is kind of the last generation of PowerPC
Macs that's not x86 and you know these
PowerPC CPUs it's got a single core this one right here is the fast one which
goes at 400 megahertz but in macOS 10
she runs like hawk garbage so originally
this right here came with I think would be 9.2 and it ran really fast and there
were quite a few applications and then because the PowerPC CPUs were a bit too
power-hungry bit too hot Apple switched over to Intel and they
they kind of just drop support for these like one or two years after they started
existing so we have a 13.8 inch display here and it is a 1024 by 768 display at
75 Hertz I think every one that actually
is this would go with the 800 by 600 resolution and you get 95 Hertz just
look so smooth it's the kind of thing we're like back in the day I didn't even
know that I preferred high refresh rate monitors but it still is what I went for
anyway let's go in here what applications do we have iMovie
oh it's booting into macOS 9.2 inside
of 10 so that we can open iMovie and I'd
give it a 50% chance of working nope yep this application our control
panel is not supported I have no clue what this computer is or where it came
from oh that's that's legitimately someone's
tax info let's just close that thing everybody wipe your PC's before you send
them to places I guess that will have to not show people the audio because we
definitely don't have any of this Oh
iTunes is opening it was still green back then that's fun we're gonna have to
cut the audio soon here but though it's it's pretty funny
I would say that those speakers are very comparable to that on the MacBook Air
that we recently reviewed and we were like oh my god these are great how did
they do it well back in the day you just made them freakin huge and then you had
great sound no problem they aren't particularly loud like our
amber that like you can't fill a living room with these speakers but if it's
just you sitting in front of it it's a pretty great time up the highs fair bit
of bass I'm pretty impressed especially given how old this poor thing is I
actually do remember this game it kind of says it's his mom's favorite game I'm
sorry there were actually like a number of pretty games marathon being the most
notable that was like what Bungie did before halo halo was actually supposed
to be a Mac exclusive and then Microsoft
just came in and was like yeah and all Bobby want that what a different world
that would have been even though that game right there wasn't particularly
demanding this did have pretty good graphics for the time so this had the
ATI rage 128 which as far as raw
performance goes was really good it was pretty comparable to the 3d effects Vudu
although according to what I've seen online the drivers support was just hot
garbage so it never really got the love that it probably deserved I guess that's
kind of what happened still with like AMD cards that's just get into it as we flipped it
around here and now we have access to
just this little slot right here I think this is the only part of the computer
that Apple wanted you to actually know dig into so we have a look at the RAM
now are you guys able to see that at all oh there's like no light in there there
we go can you see that David yeah so we've got
the RAM right in here and this is about
all you'd be expected to be able to upgrade so this one's 512 megabytes and
this one right here is 256 so that is
definitely upgraded I think this came with up to 64 megabytes of RAM back in
the day so having what over 700
megabytes of RAM would have been pretty insane it's like that would be like I
don't know finding a new iMac with two terabytes of RAM in it like you can but
no one really is going to until much later yeah so if you want display out I
don't think I've ever seen like a real person use an extra monitor with these
but in theory you can it's kind of hidden now oh whoa you
don't see screws like that in computers anymore that's self-tapping I think so that's
pretty gross I just realized that I forgot my sublime CD in there I don't
know if I'm ever getting that back oh geez it didn't break we did it so it
looks like around all of the computer components here we have a Faraday cage I
guess that that's to prevent like too much noise from happening from like the
you know the big CRT that's up here on
the top so I guess that kind of explains why more people didn't bother making all
in ones back in the day then again also it was just hard to make all in ones not
many people do it these days either alright Faraday cage gone wow those are
definitely exposed capacitors that's cool so if we look here it's any of
those you touch them and you're gonna be having a really bad time so now we can
see the logic board not to be confused with a motherboard it's it's actually
the same thing but Apple just call some logic boards for whatever reason well
guys I really hope that you like this video cuz there's something about just really old things and when you take them
apart you don't really know what you're gonna find inside I would like to do
more of this and I imagine Anthony also wants to do a lot more of this hit us up
in the comments down below and I don't know basically tell Linus that you want
more retro stuff because I definitely do look at the size of this battery is that
the seamos that's hilarious right here's
the connector for the CD drive and also
the hard drive you guys may think it looks familiar to an IDE but it's
actually a scuzzy which is SCSI I don't
actually really know the difference between the two besides because he's a
fun name to say I really wanted to do a
sleeper in this but it turns out that getting a display that fits doesn't
really exist so if anyone can find a
display to go in this please let me know I will use it in an instant this right
here is just the absolute weapon of a CPU that you get in here so 400
megahertz single core not even x86 but
it's yeah there's not a whole lot of redeeming qualities of it but it was
pretty cool at the time what did I have
for a heat sink here I guess someone yell at me in the comments if I'm wrong
but as far as I can tell all that you
get for heat sinking in this is this little block of aluminum that's jammed
up against the processor and then it goes into this admittedly fairly large
chunk of aluminum here that is used to you know stop too much interference
coming in from the CRT on top how under
Apple switch to Intel they're just they're like Oh PowerPC is way too hot
meanwhile this is what you've got for a cooler on a good god this is absolutely
going to suck to put back together I'd be half tempted to not accept that
my sublime CD is still in the front here and with these right here like you know
how on a normal CD player you'd have to be able to take like a pin and jam it in
get your CD out if there's no power no
such luck on these so here's a CRT I'm
not going any further because even though there should be a drain resistor
in here that you know takes away any of
the high voltage that exists in here it's it's what twenty years old I don't
trust it and you know there's a big ol
400 volt capacitor right there it's a
bunch of other stuff basically I have an electron gun that's very high voltage
and if I touch any of this I die not quite the ending that I hoped for this
iMac g3 it's an absolutely beautiful machine and I hope that you guys like
this video here hit like get subscribed and I need to put this back together so
I can get my sublime CD back