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all right iMac g3 ShortCircuit we're finally doing it

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screw you Linus this thing's interesting we're gonna have to start this off here

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with a sad story of neglect

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the last time this showed up in a video Linus kicked it off of a desk it was an

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absolute atrocity so you know I absolutely love this things it was my

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first real computer so we're gonna go ahead and you know clean her off have a

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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

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and it's what gave Johnny I've the dude who designed this his job title as the

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chief design officer at Apple it's maybe one of the most beautiful computers ever

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made like just look at that I have no clue who owned this apparently it's been

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with the company for three office moves

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before we started up here we've got the i/o for the time on a PC this was

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considered pretty bad people got really

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angry with the fact that only had a CD drive right here floppy disks were still

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quite popular in like 1999 so it was

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pretty radical that they only included a CD drive here we've also got to fire

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wires I believe that is 56k modem and

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Ethernet we also have only two USB ports that's a bold decision so apparently the

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original version you know the one had the flippy doodle that comes out and then there was a CD drive Steve Jobs

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apparently hated that it was not supposed to be it was supposed to be

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this one right here but they just couldn't get it like totally done in

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time oh yes do we just see if it works I just get right into it

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I'm so excited for the dome yeah that came out weird

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okay we are in macOS 10 which is a bit

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unfortunate because this right here is kind of the last generation of PowerPC

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Macs that's not x86 and you know these

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PowerPC CPUs it's got a single core this one right here is the fast one which

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goes at 400 megahertz but in macOS 10

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she runs like hawk garbage so originally

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this right here came with I think would be 9.2 and it ran really fast and there

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were quite a few applications and then because the PowerPC CPUs were a bit too

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power-hungry bit too hot Apple switched over to Intel and they

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they kind of just drop support for these like one or two years after they started

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existing so we have a 13.8 inch display here and it is a 1024 by 768 display at

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75 Hertz I think every one that actually

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is this would go with the 800 by 600 resolution and you get 95 Hertz just

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look so smooth it's the kind of thing we're like back in the day I didn't even

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know that I preferred high refresh rate monitors but it still is what I went for

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anyway let's go in here what applications do we have iMovie

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oh it's booting into macOS 9.2 inside

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of 10 so that we can open iMovie and I'd

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give it a 50% chance of working nope yep this application our control

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panel is not supported I have no clue what this computer is or where it came

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from oh that's that's legitimately someone's

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tax info let's just close that thing everybody wipe your PC's before you send

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them to places I guess that will have to not show people the audio because we

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definitely don't have any of this Oh

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iTunes is opening it was still green back then that's fun we're gonna have to

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cut the audio soon here but though it's it's pretty funny

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I would say that those speakers are very comparable to that on the MacBook Air

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that we recently reviewed and we were like oh my god these are great how did

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they do it well back in the day you just made them freakin huge and then you had

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great sound no problem they aren't particularly loud like our

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amber that like you can't fill a living room with these speakers but if it's

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just you sitting in front of it it's a pretty great time up the highs fair bit

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of bass I'm pretty impressed especially given how old this poor thing is I

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actually do remember this game it kind of says it's his mom's favorite game I'm

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sorry there were actually like a number of pretty games marathon being the most

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notable that was like what Bungie did before halo halo was actually supposed

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to be a Mac exclusive and then Microsoft

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just came in and was like yeah and all Bobby want that what a different world

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that would have been even though that game right there wasn't particularly

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demanding this did have pretty good graphics for the time so this had the

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ATI rage 128 which as far as raw

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performance goes was really good it was pretty comparable to the 3d effects Vudu

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although according to what I've seen online the drivers support was just hot

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garbage so it never really got the love that it probably deserved I guess that's

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kind of what happened still with like AMD cards that's just get into it as we flipped it

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around here and now we have access to

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just this little slot right here I think this is the only part of the computer

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that Apple wanted you to actually know dig into so we have a look at the RAM

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now are you guys able to see that at all oh there's like no light in there there

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we go can you see that David yeah so we've got

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the RAM right in here and this is about

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all you'd be expected to be able to upgrade so this one's 512 megabytes and

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this one right here is 256 so that is

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definitely upgraded I think this came with up to 64 megabytes of RAM back in

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the day so having what over 700

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megabytes of RAM would have been pretty insane it's like that would be like I

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don't know finding a new iMac with two terabytes of RAM in it like you can but

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no one really is going to until much later yeah so if you want display out I

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don't think I've ever seen like a real person use an extra monitor with these

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but in theory you can it's kind of hidden now oh whoa you

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don't see screws like that in computers anymore that's self-tapping I think so that's

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pretty gross I just realized that I forgot my sublime CD in there I don't

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know if I'm ever getting that back oh geez it didn't break we did it so it

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looks like around all of the computer components here we have a Faraday cage I

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guess that that's to prevent like too much noise from happening from like the

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you know the big CRT that's up here on

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the top so I guess that kind of explains why more people didn't bother making all

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in ones back in the day then again also it was just hard to make all in ones not

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many people do it these days either alright Faraday cage gone wow those are

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definitely exposed capacitors that's cool so if we look here it's any of

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those you touch them and you're gonna be having a really bad time so now we can

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see the logic board not to be confused with a motherboard it's it's actually

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the same thing but Apple just call some logic boards for whatever reason well

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guys I really hope that you like this video cuz there's something about just really old things and when you take them

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apart you don't really know what you're gonna find inside I would like to do

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more of this and I imagine Anthony also wants to do a lot more of this hit us up

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in the comments down below and I don't know basically tell Linus that you want

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more retro stuff because I definitely do look at the size of this battery is that

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the seamos that's hilarious right here's

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the connector for the CD drive and also

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the hard drive you guys may think it looks familiar to an IDE but it's

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actually a scuzzy which is SCSI I don't

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actually really know the difference between the two besides because he's a

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fun name to say I really wanted to do a

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sleeper in this but it turns out that getting a display that fits doesn't

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really exist so if anyone can find a

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display to go in this please let me know I will use it in an instant this right

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here is just the absolute weapon of a CPU that you get in here so 400

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megahertz single core not even x86 but

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it's yeah there's not a whole lot of redeeming qualities of it but it was

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pretty cool at the time what did I have

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for a heat sink here I guess someone yell at me in the comments if I'm wrong

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but as far as I can tell all that you

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get for heat sinking in this is this little block of aluminum that's jammed

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up against the processor and then it goes into this admittedly fairly large

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chunk of aluminum here that is used to you know stop too much interference

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coming in from the CRT on top how under

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Apple switch to Intel they're just they're like Oh PowerPC is way too hot

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meanwhile this is what you've got for a cooler on a good god this is absolutely

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going to suck to put back together I'd be half tempted to not accept that

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my sublime CD is still in the front here and with these right here like you know

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how on a normal CD player you'd have to be able to take like a pin and jam it in

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get your CD out if there's no power no

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such luck on these so here's a CRT I'm

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not going any further because even though there should be a drain resistor

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in here that you know takes away any of

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the high voltage that exists in here it's it's what twenty years old I don't

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trust it and you know there's a big ol

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400 volt capacitor right there it's a

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bunch of other stuff basically I have an electron gun that's very high voltage

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and if I touch any of this I die not quite the ending that I hoped for this

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iMac g3 it's an absolutely beautiful machine and I hope that you guys like

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this video here hit like get subscribed and I need to put this back together so

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I can get my sublime CD back