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    • Loved my Power Mac G4....this is when Apple was fun and actually worked properly.utopian
    • This is when you had to his Save every few minutes because their machines crashed that often. How could you forget?monospaced
    • 1997 right here I suppose. Yeah. Not really the good old days of apple reliability.monospaced
    • Blue pill? Red pill?grafician
    • I remember the "Smurf" G3 launched with buggy ATI drivers that locked up OS9 all-the-time. Was patched quickly, but Classic macOS never had protected memory.evilpeacock
    • ... yet decades later I had regular GPU-driven kernel panics on my Big Sur Mac Pro for 6ish months before a patch was issued.evilpeacock
    • lol that's some rose tinted glassesinteliboy
    • The old school clear speakers are so cool.Frosty_spl
    • I wonder where all that plastic is now? Landfill? Recycled? Burned?shapesalad
    • At my first workplace as a GD operator I had a PowerMac then I was moved to a subsidiary to do webdesign and got an iMac, that is when I started to hate Apple.sted
    • Macs were way less stable before OSX which is still a year or two away.CyBrainX
    • Those were good times except for that mouse. Kensington Trackball ftw :-) CRT weighed a ton lol.Squiddy
    • i still have my cube, and an old g4 kicking aroiund somewhere (the g4 tower doesn't work - i think the pram battery died. the cube works fine)hans_glib
    • Still have my 2400c and Lombard G3prophetone
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