Gail Vass wrote: > * So Origional G3's are beige and 333Mhz ?
Actually, depending on the time during the model life, they were either 266 Mhz, 300 MHz or 333. > PB G3/333 , PB G3/400 , PB G3/450 is that too hard for Apple now? > If this is true it's a sad state of affairs. I thought the colors were a > gimmick to sell more Macs to the young in-crowd ! Part of the deliberate simplification of the model line from the chaos of the 'Jobs-less Interregnum' at Apple. > * Powerbook G4 is a TiBook [Hey, what color is that? > Is there more than one color?] > > *Clamshell iBooks with funky colors [funkier than the four above PB G3's?] > * Snow white iBooks [perfect for Spring but how about Fall?] I'll take one any time of year ;-) > Trayloading iMacs ...... ? CD trays ? > SlotLoading iMacs ....... ? .Zip slots? Trayloading: you eject the cd, it slides out on a cup-holder, like on your 6500. Slotloading, the CD slides into a slot allby itself, like expensive (at the time) car stereos. No place to rest your cup ;-) > Do keyboards and monitors have to match? > > It's a sadddd state of affairs if you are color blind, eh? No, because the form factors are all different. The Beige G3 series had the same case as the desktop 7x00 series, the Blue and White was the new tower with the swoopy handles design. iMacs are pretty obvious no matter what color they were. The three later models of Powerbook G3 are harder to tell apart...the earliest had the old Powerbook design that the 540 inaugurated, the later models were the sleeker thinner models, and are largely differentiated by differences in configurations. Besides, people can generally tell 1956, from 1966, from 1976 Cadillacs apart, can't they? > I hope there is more substance to this color issue, because getting away from > numbers that meant something in the real world and changing to colors and shades of > colors is really insulting on Apples part. Actually, it was part of Steve Jobs' plan for fixing Apple(and it worked). At one point Apple had about 4,567 different models: "Oh, you have the Performa 6532CD-A don't you? Well that's a completely different machine than the Performa 6532CD-B..." he simplified it to: PowerMac, iMac, PowerBook, iBook....one reason the Cube, though gorgeous and a stunning piece of design, didn't work...it didn't fit... Here is a good place to start: <http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.legacy/index.html> You want insanity? There were *71* models of Performa over the years. There were 12 different Centris and Quadra models. There were *74* different Power Macintosh XXXX systems made. Many of them were being sold *at the same time*. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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
