The PB G3 serieses do NOT have multiple colors. The PB G3 "Wallstreet" and "Kanga" (aka 3500) have black keyboards. The 3500 is gray, and the WallStreet is black.
The PB G3 "Lombard" and "Pismo" have translucent bronze keyboards. The Lombard has SCSI and the Pismo has FireWire. Speeds: 3500- 250MHz WallStreet- 233, 250, 266, 292, 300MHz Lombard- 333, 400MHz Pismo- 400, 500MHz The Blue and White is a POWERMAC G3 not a POWERBOOK. Ranges from 300-450MHz The PowerMac G3 "beige" ranges from 233 to 366MHz and is... beige. The first PowerMac G3s are the "beiges" which come in desktop and tower variants. PowerBook G4 is know as "Mercury" or "TiBook" It's titanium colored, silvery. 400MHz-1GHz Clamshell iBooks are the iBooks that look like toilet seats. They are blueberry, tangerine, graphite, key lime or indigo, and range from 300-466MHz. Snow white iBooks are white and have a much squarer, thinner and lighter shape. 500-800MHz. Tray loading iMacs- have a tray loading CD-ROM drive. When you press the little button, a tray pops out. 233-333MHz Slot loading iMacs- have a slot loading CD-ROM drive. You put a CD into the slot. No external moving parts. 350-700MHz What do you mean by "Do keyboards and monitors have to match?"? They don't HAVE to do anything so long as they exist. Some people are quite compulsive and require everything in their house to match, but for others it's a non-issue. It depends on personal taste. Actually there's plenty of other stuff telling people what Mac model is which. Ports, PCI slots, video cards, AGP slots, RAM slots, case design, and there's always the handy Gestalt ID in the Apple System Profiler. No Mac model since the G3 carries its speed in its name. Many people add them to differentiate between the models. For instance, if I say PowerBook G3/333, the actual name of the computer is PowerBook G3 and the 333 refers to the clock speed. Therefore, the only 333MHz PowerBook sold is the Lombard, so this PowerBook G3 must be of the Lombard family. Colors make computers look better. I personally find my iBook much more attractive than a WIntel gray-box laptop. Apple's merely following it's HIG- make the computer as easy to use and friendly as possible. Plus, since computers can be identified by things other than their specific model number, it's much nicer to have a succinct name like "iBook" rather than "iBook P29 Rev D 800". Macs can easily be identified by features rather than colors. The PC world generally uses nice names like "Compaq EVO 310 desktop" which is WORSE than apple's succinct names. Off topic: People, try to be reasonably clear in your posts. Screeds are... icky. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
