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- The first solid revision of the original iMac, the slot-load iMac was released as Apple's recovery actions of the past 3 years were gaining traction. In this video, I discuss the confusing nomenclature of the Mac during this time, the iMac releases leading up the slot load iMac and the new iMac, itself! Expect to hear the word 'aesthetic' a lot. I then talk about the iMacs that I acquired to make this video and the fallacy of the iMac's legacy.
The highly accomplished Alexander Brandon helped me out with voice-over and music. Check him out at: www.funkyrusti...
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Additional credits:The Rushton-Suzuki Debate (1989) (TV London)
Rich and Sarah from the Oil Museum Tour (1998)
Glad to be a part of this trip down memory lane! Well done sir.
It was an honor to have you and your music in the video!
@@65scribe Can you tell me which song was used at 20:10 ?
@@verydeadly That was “Welcome Home” by Alexander Brandon. Definitely shows his range as a composer. I didn’t hear that one in Unreal Tournament. :)
Yep. I got the iMac DV special edition for Christmas 1999. Omg was it the coolest thing and is what made me obsessed with Apple to this day. I think I even had that macally mouse.
I really hope Oil tour guide girl is out there doing well, she's brought us so much entertainment over the series.
lol when i saw her pop up again i was thinking "does this lady have any idea shes in these videos?"
I expect she's doing very well. She retired young on the proceeds of the "buy the cup, get a free pop" scam. No way she was ringing that into the register.
I'm thinking that she'll eventually pop up in one of these vids, tbh.
Considering she is now over 20 years older than she was, and was like 18 she is almost in mine age, probably 18 years old kids now :)
Wasn't she pursuing a lawyer's career?
Your videos have a unique style that no other Apple tech channels could ever match.
Thanks Tom! Being unique as possible in the sea of other videos is one of my top goals.
WAY better than all the goofy, in your face, tech bro nonsense with the "Look at this cornball surprised look on my face!" thumbnails.
Especially phrases like "Dude!" or "Just do anything" or "Damn!", always in right time in right place))) Gorgeous! And yeah, the style of this channel just perfect! Sometimes, i don't recognise in what year some of the cuts was shooted, it's from pas, or in present time
Almost 20K views in 2 weeks! Wow! The only video that did better was the Apple Network Server video which got 30K. Of course that was released in the first month of COVID and I had a captive audience. I appreciate everyone who watched, who weathered the ads, and who contributed to the flood of positive feedback. And also those who corrected me on the flute/clarinet thing and my continued mispronunciation of 'Harman Kardon'. Also, thanks to the new viewers bumping this channel over the 10K subscriber mark!
See you in the next video.
It's been such a ride to start watching this channel with only a few thousand subs to over 10K.
It's also been a joy and I want to thank *you* for it.
Dude you are the only youtuber I give likes to because I genuinely want to give you the like. The rest is just a way to quickly playlist music. You're the only one I give likes to and I have over 150 subscriptions to tech youtubers and the like. Let that sink in. You're content is absolutely TOP NOTCH and every time you post a new video I cant watch anything else until I've seen it.
As the cheers and comments have long quieted from the last video and I work on the next, you drop in for a pep talk. Much needed and appreciated!
@@65scribe that's it, I'm rewatching it. Again.
I really love how you blasted the 2037 Mac with the fusion pistol from Marathon.
I love that yourself and others know what a fusion pistol is and recognized it.
@@65scribe I spent way too much time in the 90's shooting aliens in Marathon!
You sure know how to make 37 minutes fly by. Another excellent video!
Thanks Maritime Girl! Good to hear you liked the latest video.
this is the best return of a canadian since yzerman came back to detroit
lol! Thank you!
It's hard to explain how excited I get when I see a new 65scribe video. I feel like a kid at the oil museum.
EDIT: 16:46 Oh snap, face reveal?
Lol! Thanks Cass! Good to see you again.
Sneakily putting the "Bill Gates gets a pie in the face" video in the y2k movie preview was a nice touch!
That was one of those last minute inserts into the video that worked out really well.
In Australia, I used to sell used / second hand / refurb iMac G3s from around 2001-2006, and the most popular colours were Blueberry and Grape. Lime and Tangerine were the least likely, with Strawberry almost impossible to sell. So Apple decided the next generation low end slot-load models to be Indigo, which is a blue/purple hue similar to the popularity of the original Blueberry and Grape iMacs. The sales of the used / second hand / refurb market was similar to the sales of the new market, as per your video.
Wow, that’s great data! Thanks very much for sharing your first-hand experience. I’m glad to know it’s mostly in-line with my information from the USA. And that’s very interesting with indigo, too.
I was just lamenting the lack of new video on here, I had just rewatched most of them over the last week. Then, BAM! The addiction gets enabled. Thanks and looking forward to the next one!
The 65scribe withdrawals can get pretty rough. No idea how many times I've watched the Mac LC one, lol.
I am exactly the same boat. I even have the 6100 video saved on my phone because it is the only way the bloody thing will actually load for me on my mobile device.
With this video out, I can fix that pesky 6100 video.
@@CassandraCarter same here.
I just adore this content, from this creator, and it gets hard in the in-between times.
Woah, was not expecting this! Always good to see an upload of yours.
EDIT: Who turns off Platinum Sounds? Really, man? lol
Psychopaths.
The sounds have a terrible 'cut-off' effect when virtual memory is enabled. Not sure why. It's the reason I never ran virtual memory, so I could clearly hear the sounds.
@@Stryder_The_Nite_Owl Turning off virtual memory is a good idea anyway if you have more than like 256 MB.
Hmm, very interesting!
I went to the effort of making Platinum Sounds on the iPhone back in the day and this guy just turns them off!
I'm a simple man. I see a 65scribe video, I watch. Glad to see you're still at it!
Thanks for watching! Just having supper and good to see comments coming in from old and new viewers.
Looking forward to some oil museum references!
This video is like coming home. Never change!
Thank you !
Still one of my very favorite computer channels on TH-cam. That Money Magazine edition killed me.
Great to hear! Thanks for letting me know that you liked the 637CD mention.
I went into the Apple Store not long after the release of the new iMac 24" with it's similar colours. I asked one of the girls which was the most popular colour.. she said.. BLUE... SOLD OUT!
That’s a great parallel to the original. Thanks for sharing that!
I've never owned a Mac. Heck, I think I've never even seen one in person. But your content is so informative, funny and well presented that I cannot help but love everything you upload here on TH-cam. Thanks for sharing your memories, knowledge and humor with us. Sorry about my English.
Thank you, Marcio! That's great to know you enjoy the videos without much interest in the topic itself.
It’s time to own one Marcio, i bought my first ever Mac last year when the M1 Macbooks were released. Man i’m happy with the switch from Windows.
I can relate. I actually used to be an apple guy through the 80's and 90's back when these units he talks about were new. I have owned several of the units he has now. I switched to windows in the early 2000's and haven't gone back. The prices Apple charges is just too much for me to justify. I came to this channel for nostalgia a few years ago and stayed because I love his calm, informative and funny style while always teaching me something I didn't know anything about.
@@mikedrop4421 actually the current affordable lineup at Apple is pretty solid because if their M1 processors.
The M1 Macbook Air is a powerful and a well built laptop with an amazing screen at 1000$.
The M1 iMacs are kinda affordable too with their almost 4k screens.
The best deals are the M1 Mac minis.
@@Danny-wv8ec that's very good to hear. When they started playing into the new product hype and second hand market by releasing new products missing 2 or 3 key features and then adding them one at a time with each new version drip fed every few months really made me dislike them. When the IPad shipped without a camera or cell modem but the components were on the board but the traces were not connected it really bothered me. The apple loyalists buy the new model every time and sell off the previous model to people who can't afford the new one meaning everyone but the most affluent are always a generation or two behind. It's really gross tactics. Apple could just delay delivery the extra 2 months and release one product with everything they know we need like cameras and modems but they don't. That way they can sell the same product to someone 3 times. It's just gross
I'm impressed that you filmed all these shots of Macs 20 years ago and then saved them till now to upload to the internet.
I’m always curious if he perhaps just films the segments with old equipment which obviously makes it look of the era
Looks fine to me. What version of Real Player are you using to watch this?
I used a miniDV because it was all I had in the beginning. The 4:3 aspect also is more appropriate for what I'm doing. Viewers really started responding positively to the 'feel' and I stuck with it, with the occasional HD piece when it suits the video.
Never stop making these!
haven't even watched the video yet and I know it's gonna be awesome; you're back!!
UPDATE: watched this video from the year 2037...uh... don't change a thing; never stop never stopping
John Titor has returned and he needs a Bondi Blue iMac this time
That's a great reference! lol
I am back to be glad that you enjoyed it!
always a great day when this guy uploads
Way back when some family friends of ours had an indigo iMac and their kids put one of those oblong-shaped Burger King promotional discs into the slot-loader and jammed the drive. Fortunately my dad is really handy with computers, so he fixed it for them and I helped out. He showed me a lot about tinkering with and repairing computers back in the 90s and 00s and now I do it as a hobby as an adult-- thus the love for this channel.
going full marathon with the fusion pistol was [chef's kiss]
Thanks for sharing that personal story from the time, Matt. I can definitely see that happening. Nice to see something good came out of a Burger King disc.
I had an Indigo 350mhz iMac and a tangerine iBook during that period. They were the only Apple computers I've ever owned. My abiding memories were the nice keyboard and mouse on the iMac, the smell of the iBook's rubber coating and the loud crack the Mac made about 30 minutes after turning it off every evening, as it cooled down.
Sold the iBook on eBay for £80 and the Mac went to the the local tip in about 2005. I do regret getting rid of that iMac.
Great video!
Thanks for sharing your memories of those two Macs. Very interesting that those memories stuck with you.
We had these in my elementary school library and a few in the classrooms too. They were such fun computers! What I would give to go back in time to see that again.
Every time you drop a new video you make my day. Today my wife’s mom died but your video was a ray of light. I appreciate your unpretentious humor and knowledge. Thank you.
My condolences to you and your wife. I’m glad the video provided a break in this difficult time.
This series of videos got me back into old Macs. I grew up with a blueberry DV iMac, but I switched to windows when apple went to intel (my thought process at the time is that intel macs are just windows pcs in fancy cases) I recently picked up a 450mhz sawtooth g4 (post speed-dump midrange). Unfortunately the seller only put bubble wrap on the front half of the machine and decided that newspaper and packing peanuts would be enough for the rest of the machine. It, of course, was not. The rear foot was shattered in shipping, so I screwed the remains off. I currently have the rear of the machine held up on a small box. The machine was in amazing condition otherwise. (Although the hard drive mounting bracket was missing… for whatever reason) It came with 10.4.11 installed, and I am waiting for the software install/restore disk set that I ordered to come in so I can get classic Mac OS on it (and so I can hear the strange French music) I’m considering maxing out the ram and upgrading the graphics card to something newer with more vram.
Strange French music? You mean the song Eple by Norwegian duo Royksopp? That was always my favorite part of doing 10.3 installs. Or is it something different?
@@Gold171 the one that plays for machine specific first boot videos in Mac OS 9
@@thevirtualnomad7269 Oh I see, thanks for clarifying.
That's unfortunate about the damage. Maybe you'll be able to get hold of a back foot off a lesser G4. But I'm glad to hear the series got you re-engaged with the hobby.
I can only wonder about what a 65scribe video about the Clamshell G3’s would be like after seeing this again.
Glad to see my favorite Macintosh history video series is still being worked on!
Of course. I had a lot of fun making this one, so I hope you like it.
Sound the trumpets, the king has returned 🎺👑
You’ve come back and just when we needed you most. You bring with you the computer that put the “fun” back in computing, and absolutely one system I must get my hands on someday. Thank you for this, I really enjoyed it. I continue my tradition of this channel being the only one of giving my “like” to. See you in the next one.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed the video. I don’t hit the “like” for many videos either, so I appreciate that I got one from you!
I got the notification, but had to finish up the 6100 video first. I wasn't sure when the next video would be, glad the answer was "soon".
A new 65Scribe video! An early Christmas treat! This.. this is a good day.
*Edit* - the Marathon 2 Fusion Pistol segment is absolute gold!
Thanks very much! Glad you singled out the 2041 marathon segment. I think that took longer to produce than the whole rest of the video. Lol.
Love the content. As I know that you know, there is a real need for an Apple TH-cam channel like yours dedicated to its long history and getting the facts right. Along these lines I think it would be wonderful to do a ‘retrospective’ series on the Mac OS, (up to present day) with lots of historical facts. I also hope to see the TI book on here someday soon.thanks for the great content!
Honestly, at first glance, I thought you were asking for a review of the TI99 home computer, but no, it's the TiBook. Thanks for the feedback! Glad to hear you like the theme. In the 512K video, I did a quick OS retrospective from OS 1-6. They're at OS 12 now, right? So that's half the history (lol).
Glad to see the iMac getting some shine on YT lately. Ken over at Computer Clan is trying to revive a development/prototype rig currently. Oh the days before Apple took over the world and became the huge conglomerate the were founded to battle.
Edit: I didn't know about the appearance options. Those are too cool. The SciFi and Drawing board are somehow completely timeless in their design while also being absolutely identifiable as a piece of late 90's/turn of the century aesthetic
Thanks for commenting, Mike! Great observations on the Appearance themes. I would use Drawing Board as my everyday theme if I could.
Excellent video as always! Unbelievable that you don't have many more subscribers.
It's kind of insane for me to think as how these Macs were basically given away in the late 2000s, I got two DV units from my school district for free. They were being thrown into the garbage! Couldn't imagine this with the 2013 iMacs nowadays (even though the transition to Apple Silicon might bring this back).
Thanks very much! I just hit 10k today, so I’m quite happy with that.
Yes, tech changed so quickly during that time. Flat panels and optical drives and such. Also, the change in mindset from old macs being obsolete trash to vintage treasure has been pretty interesting, too.
I worked in K12 repairing thousands of G3 iMacs (and several other Mac models) during the early 2ks. Could go on for hours about it, but I really should get some sleep instead.
I'm not sure about the color 5-pack thing. The schools got whatever colors we sent them, and I don't even know if we were able to chosen what colors Apple sold us via their edu grand programs. We had mostly blueberry or graphite. Other colors would come in for service, but maybe only 1 for every 5-10 of the other two.
We'd get in 10-50 iMacs for repair every day during the school year. There was only 3 of us and 2 were part time, so our turnaround time was often >6 months. We'd have several hundred of them in at any given time. Best case, only all of the shelves would be full, but often the floor was too. Fun fact, iMacs don't stack unless you put IBMs between the layers.
Tray loader were the most reliable by far. The worst issues we saw was bad connections between the CPU and logic board (a reoccurring issue with Macs prior), and kids/teachers jamming the CD tray (which was usually fixable by re-railing the tray).
Slot loaders.... the list of issues they had was a long one.
The warm smell coming from the CRT vent is likely from the flyback cooking itself, because that was a thing. At least 2-5 a month would have failed flybacks,. Luckily a suitable replacement was cheap. Our board level repair vendor only charged us like $50 a unit if we brought them to in batches.
Very interesting perspective from the mass-deployment end of things. The 5-packs were mostly for larger stores and distributors. Smaller stores would have ordered from distributors and, therefore, would have more choice of colour. It was probably different for education, but I didn't find anything on that when I was researching it. Thanks for putting off sleep to share that!
I always noticed something different between the graphite and the other colour slot loading iMacs, but could never quite pin down what it was, but the plastic being completely transparent on the graphite is what's it, maybe it's why i love the look of it so much, as it's definitely my favourite colour of the iMac, and one of the best looking Macs ever made. It reminds me of the last CRT they made, the one with the eMac looking shell that used a flat faced tube with ADC. Always thought the completely clear case where you could see the CRT looked so elegant and cool.
I agree, Jack. The Ruby and Sage colours look great too in person. And the last CRT you mention also looks amazing.
@@65scribe Yeah I have to say the Sage is right up there with graphite, shame you don't see them as often as the other models.
One and a half years ago, you got me interested in a generation of Macs from before I was born. Last week, I finally found my first classic Mac: a Macintosh SE. I love your videos, and it is always a joy when you release new ones! Thank you for helping this Gen Z'er fall in love with these old beasts!
Hi Xenotiic. Sorry for the delayed reply. I really appreciate you letting me know that the videos helped a 'youngster' gain an interest in old Macs, and congratulations on a Macintosh SE! That was the first Mac I ever used and first video in the series. I thought I had maintained a fairly consistent look and style since that first one, but.. no. Looking back, the videos have evolved quite a bit. I hope you enjoy messing around with the SE or just having it to display is cool, too.
That oil part was the highlight, cool video.
Best Mac channel on TH-cam. You are the only Mac content creator that I would like to be friends with.
That's a great complement! I appreciate that!
I recently found your channel and was in mid-binge when this came out. I was 30 minutes in before I saw the upload date and did a double take. Awesome video!
Thanks very much! Glad you found the channel.
65scribe you are literally my favorite content creator on the internet, another great video!!
Thanks for saying that, Kevin! A great complement!
So excited to see not only a new video, but that you are now on Patreon! Count me in for the SE tier.
This honestly might be the greatest video on TH-cam. Some of the stuff you have access too, like that vhs of the presentation on your mac and your original DV SE unboxing is mind blowing!
I still have my DV SE and it’s box from November 99, but I never dreamed I’d see an actual unboxing video.
Your videos make me want to film the obscure Macs I have access to, but also make me realize I’m decades late to start collecting the footage and obscure side content, even if I had the patience, time and skill to execute anything 1/2 as good as this. (But I probably should post the 4k60fps Mac XL teardown I filmed in July at some point, even with no clever backstory, right?)
Anyway, thanks for being amazing!
Wow! What do I say to that? Glad you enjoyed the old footage and great to hear you have the same unit in the box. I would have never predicted that embarrassingly geeky acts like unboxing a computer on film or recording a QuickTime 4 stream of an Apple Event to VHS would ever be of value to anyone but me. But that’s how I came to making these videos. I made videos I wanted to watch and didn’t care that no one else was watching them. And then over time people were watching them. I’d say put out your high resolution XL video (which sounds amazing) and say to hell with what this 65scribe guy and everyone else is doing and make a video you’d want to see. Anyway, that’s what my experience has taught me.
The Return of the King 🙌
This is the machine that made me fall in love with macs. I still remember the day when I played with a model on display at a book store. I was probably around 6 or 7 year old at the time. Still, I have spent years on windows after that, but the mac was burnt onto the back of my mind
A great memory to share! thanks!
My first mac was the 2007 24" iMac - Great computer and Snow Leopard is best OS ever
Yay! I thought it might be time for an update. Just wait 6-12 months. This is why this is one of the only channels I actually click that notification bell for. Always killer, never filler.
Thanks Andrew! A bit of a wait on my response to your comment, too, sorry :)
You have to be my favourite channel on TH-cam..... thanks for the classic video..... loved the humour! :)
These vids give me 2008 youtube vibes. I love em'.
That's good to hear you like the format.
Glad to see you again!
Two things I'd like to add about the iMac (fact check encouraged) 1. the iMac is the longest running Apple product line. 2. In the Walter Isaacson biography of Jobs; Jobs cried when he saw the first iMac while preparing for it's announcement, he thought it would have a slot load optical drive.
Both great points! I’ll have to work those in to the iMac DV video.
I am so glad you STILL make videos like this. Never change, and you won’t see me unsubscribing anytime soon.
27:56 transported me back to elementary. This was the first time I was a color iMac. Powering on the iMac, at the time, was puzzling. I had never seen such an appliance. Your video, soothing and quietly informative
I’m glad to hear that boot up was nostalgia for you, Cesar. Thanks for sharing your experience with the iMac. Appreciate you sharing your thoughts on the video!
You know it's a good day when a 65scribe video pops up on TH-cam, the king is back!!
Thank you, Marty!
If I see a new 65scribe video, it's like Christmas morning.
Also, if I ever donate a computer to anyone, I'll have to set it up with every field entered as "Damn!"
Good to hear from you, Daniel!
This is so ironic too because im on call this weekend (I work in IT) and you just uploaded it’s the highlight of my weekend 🙌🏽 good to see you again!
That’s great to hear. Hope you enjoy it!
Great video! Thanks for the shout out. And good news, the IT department has sniffed out my ancient servers and it looks like I will have to de-commission them. Well the Intel XServe 2,1s anyway. The G5 decommissioned itself. Hard drives stopped functioning after roughly 14 years of service. I have a spare ADM but haven't been bothered to reinstall. So you can grow your XServe collection sometime soon.
Hi Ian! I'm glad you got to see the new video. I will say that I put a poll up on Patreon asking what Mac they would want to see a video about. The Power Mac G5 tower and the XServe G4 are leading the field by a wide margin. I'm very happy to hear that there is a possibility to fill-out the XServe line-up for a video that is in demand. Stay well, and talk to you again soon.
As an old school Mac fan seeing a new video of yours is like Christmas morning.
Thanks, I’m glad to hear that! I hope you enjoyed it.
you are a great producer director and editor. 10/10
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that!
You forgot "Narration 6/10" lol
This channel is underrated. You make the best videos on vintage Macs! Keep it up!
Thank you! Appreciate that!
Coming back to watch these videos is downright nostalgic. 4:3, limited res, interlacing goodness.
Always a good day when 65scribe uploads
thanks for watching!
The lower res and interlacing artifacts + your voice is a strangely comforting combination. 10/10 for chilled out nerd vibes.
Thanks Mike!
New 65scribe the day after my birthday, I must be dreaming.
Happy birthday +1 !
Wow how did it take 8 days for me to notice this?? Thank you for another great video!
Good to hear from you!
I can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard! Looking to my left on my Mac rack is an iMac Rev A I bought my then-girlfriend (now wife) back in the day, and next to it is a slot-loading graphite iMac DV SE. Basically, you nailed it!
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video. Cool that you have two of the models I talked about within reach!
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Always cool to see another video! The iMac G3 has always been a cool system and it’s fun to use them, I’ve got a couple of them so far. I’d like to find more variants someday considering how many exist. It’s also fun that these videos always seem like Y2K is just about to happen, can’t wait for more!
Great Video! Even after 20 years, I learned something........time to look at the 15 in my store to see what I have!
15! I hope you pulled the clock batteries. I don’t think I’ve ever found an iMac without a dead battery, yet the one in my 1988 Mac SE is still good. Anyway, that will be fun for you to look at and I’m glad you found some things you didn’t know in the video.
Very interesting and well presented. Thanks from Orlando Florida. 👍
Yes! New video AND new oil museum tour stuff!!!
good stuff. i never owned a mac but was tangentially growing up with them as a windows user, so it's nice to know some more history behind them.
Glad you enjoyed watching the video. :)
The optical drive can be fixed if it doesn’t suck in disks well. Open the drive and clean the rubber belt and accompanying gears making sure to get in the grooves, and carefully clean the rubber drive wheel in the front. I did this to the dvd drive in my sage iMac which would not suck in disks and they would always get stuck, and it works great now
Good info! Thanks for sharing. I’ll try that.
Man, you got a like for that beautiful VHS recording of the quicktime streaming haha
I wrote this from an old Mac Mini running Fedora 35.
Yes, we had it pretty tough in 1999 as far a streaming went. And good to hear about someone actually using Linux on an old Mac!
I love that your mum didn’t want the colourful Macs because it would affect her style aesthetics in her house lol. Jony Ive would have to concede!
Ha! Yes, you're right!
your review videos amaze me every time when there is a new episode comes out. It feels like a very well-made old tv show on BBC.
Thanks very much for that!
The best part about this machine was the "Turn Thingy" on it!
What’s so funny is that Korean restaurants do the same thing of playing their ads in their stores too as well as “the making of.” I always thought it was an Apple thing but looking back it was likely an imitation of what was happening in the movie and DVD space.
That’s interesting! Thanks for sharing that.
The iMac G3 is on my list of "Would buy if I had the space and could find one locally in good condition"... I ended up settling on a Mac Mini G4 that I hacked to run OS9 to handle all of my retro Macintosh goodness, so that I could use modern keyboard/mouse/monitors/etc with minimum space taken up, but I've always loved the aesthetic of the all-in-one CRT monitor macs, at least the non-ugly ones! Since your last video, I've moved to a bigger place, and now I theoretically have space for something like an iMac with a bit of rearranging, so if I ever cross paths with one for sale in the future, I might not be able to resist... I think the iMac G3 was the last computer ever made that made me want to own it just because of how it looked.
The last computer you wanted because of how it looks… That’s an interesting way to look at it and something to think about. I might say the Quicksilver G4, myself, with the Graphite G4 tower and iMac DV being the ones preceding it. Thanks for your comment,Adam!
Can't wait to see the full Mac Pro (Early 2037) review
Coming not-soon, summer 2041 and I hope you’ll enjoy it!
Hey! Just stumbled on your video and I just want to say that not only was it informative it was a lot of fun! Thanks for making it!
Glad you liked it! I hope you get to watch the rest of the series.
its been said before but your videos oddly help with grief. Thank you very much.
I’m sorry to hear that you are suffering with loss. I’m glad that my videos help, though I can’t explain why. I can say that making the videos is a great stress relief for me. I hope things get better for you.
Fantastic video, love the humour and style. Refreshing to see some unique content about macs with interesting personal anecdotes that kept me engaged unlike a lot of same same videos on YT that are just people reading off a Wikipedia page.
Thanks for the feedback, Patrik! Uniqueness has definitely been one of the main goals from the beginning. Good to hear when a viewer acknowledges that. So far with this video, none of the occasional comments I used to get asking if I am secretly (insert name of a popular tech TH-camr) doing a second channel.
It's nice to see colors coming back to the new iMacs
I love the how your videos talks about Macs like a fan but always keeping it honest about the annoying things Apple has made.
I have iMac G3 and used it for more time that it should be advised. It has broken long time ago but I cannot trow it away.
Glad you like the impartiality of the videos. That's something I try to maintain. The iMac G3 is sometimes just used as decoration when they break, so you're not alone.
15:08 You forgot about the hand destroying upgrade to the carrying handle. From extreme pain to, bloody palms.
I'm saving that for the Power Macintosh G5 video.
It's interesting to see the aesthetic clash between the late 90's apple intro videos and OS9. Even the online store had the OSX look while OSX was still a pipe dream.
I have a Power Mac G3 AIO I truly love to death ever since I bought it from a recycler last year. It has a Sonnet G4 1GHz processor, 768MB of RAM, 2TB and 1TB SATA drives with a SATA PCI card, USB/FW card, and a Radeon 9200 card with a special ribbon cable to connect to the built in CRT display, and the Wings personality card. I am able to get it to run Leopard. It’s the ultimate AIO Macintosh ever.
Excellent find. I’m glad you are appreciating it!
I'm so happy you're making videos. I've got a older FireWire dv dark blue iMac that I didn't know much about. You told me everything I need to know. Your videos are so unique, I feel like they're made just for me! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed the video and learned some things at the same time. I appreciate the feedback! It sounds like you might have an indigo Mac which is a nice colour.
Really enjoyed this video & there were things I did not know & I once owned 22 Imacs.
Glad you liked the video, George, and that you got some info out of it
I have a strange feeling that this isn't the last we're gonna see of Strange Evil AI Mac Cube...Thingy...
The slot load seemed awesome, but had technical limitations. No fan sounded good, but honestly it got SO hot. Was not suitable in all climates (I'm in Australia where indoor temperatures often go above 30C/86F indoors in summer). The slot was so cool, but the software controlling it often crashed, meaning a bent paper clip sat permanently next to the keyboard to push into the hole next to the CD hole.
Thanks for sharing your experiences with them in Australia, James. That's interesting!
I’m so glad you’ve posted another video! Thanks to you I’ve started buying up old Macs and now my gf is angry.
Sorry to be a bad influence. lol
Thanks for watching, Adam!
Thank you for making this one, its amazing how Apple came back to its roots with even their own custom made silicon. M1 is revolutionary and it will drive the computer industry towards unprecedented performance per Watt ratio.
Thanks! I agree, there is so much potential for their new chip.
@@65scribe Exactly and honestly I can't imagine any other company to be able to achieve such a monumental shift from industry standard x86 processors to ARM based RISC ISA. Apple came back to their own design, which is only possible because of very tight HW and SW integration and unprecedented optimization they can reach because of that. I hope MS as a leader of the PC market will learn something from it as well and start investing more in optimization Windows code with the ARM based chips they created with Qualcomm, however I have a feeling even if they did so, they will most likely never be as efficient and optimized as Apple platforms based on the M1. Apple achieved what they always wanted in order to not look like another PClike company - to be different, you have "think different" and that uniqueness with M1 is now their no.1 selling point.
It's been so long! Nice to see another upload.
(28:21) The theme accent colour also matched. I remember I have a "Tangerine" iMac DV that I bought at a garage sale (missing all of its original accessories), and I reinstalled Mac OS 9, which detected the iMac colour from Open Firmware and automatically applied the Tangerine theme upon first start-up.
That was cool, and that feature would've went away for many years until its return this year in macOS "Monterey", if I recall correctly.
Those are great additional facts! I’ll have to mention that in the iMac DV video. Thanks for sharing that Kevin!
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The thing about iMac colour detection was taken from an old TH-cam video I haven't watched in ages where someone managed to unlock 1024×768 resolution display on the original iBook by clearing some data in Open Firmware.
I always love seeing your videos, just the right mix of information and comedy. Couldn't be better.
Thank very much. Great to hear that.
So glad to see more! I really love the humor and fun in these videos, and even though I wasn't a big Apple fan at the time of these computers, it's really nice to get the history on them. I'm really looking forward to when I get to see more of the Intel Mac Pro line up. I purposely shut down my M1 MacBook Air and powered up my Mac Pro 5,1 with the 30" Cinema HD Display just for watching this video :)
Sorry for my late response! I'm glad you got some laughs and a little historical context from the video, and good to hear you fired up the ultimate Mac (of 2010) to watch it. I'm honored!