Macintosh G3 vs. a 45-foot cliff
Have you ever gotten to the point where you just wanted to take your out-of-date Macintosh and toss it over a cliff? Bill Detwiler over at TechRepublic decided to just that. In a series of pictures that he calls "G3 versus the cliff", Detweiler reveals how the G3 stood up to a 45-foot fall. Unfortunately, the G3 didn't sustain nearly as much damage as one might have hoped. A 45-foot cliff isn't in the same league as, say, a steam roller or a blender.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jeff said 4:34PM on 2-16-2007
ha, Greenpeace is gonna love this one!
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Victor Agreda Jr said 7:19PM on 2-16-2007
My B&W G3 is a RevA, meaning it has an inherent defect (accessing drives or somesuch-- memory fails me now)... AND the darn thing must have a bad CPU (as I've swapped all the RAM out) because it'll freeze up every few hours. Used to drive me batty trying to video edit back in OS 9. But it would panic 10.1, and even freeze up Yellow Dog Linux. The firewire died eventually too... after it was swapped out once by Apple.
Possibly the biggest POS I've ever owned, but it still lives (in our garage), waiting for the day it'll become a serviceable MAME cabinet...
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Nate LaCourse said 10:49PM on 2-16-2007
Conspicuous destruction.
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Kunal said 2:20AM on 2-17-2007
Such a waste. There are plenty of non-profits and other organizations that could have used a G3.
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Colin said 4:27AM on 2-17-2007
"Such a waste. There are plenty of non-profits and other organizations that could have used a G3."
Oh please. B&W G3s are obsolete. They'd much rather you sell a B&W on eBay and use the money to buy them 4 Pentium 3-based machines.
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brad said 5:08AM on 2-17-2007
"Oh please. B&W G3s are obsolete."
Thanks. Thanks very much. I'm sitting here, using my B&W to browse the web and reply to your post. Seems adequate for that task to me.
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alex_lucas said 6:46AM on 2-17-2007
I do not understand why people would thoughtlessly wreck stuff that could have been put to good use. I'll have to agree with Kunal on this.
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oshawapilot said 8:39AM on 2-17-2007
Obsolesence is in the eye of the beholder.
I know people that are still surfing the net on 486's running Win3.1 because they can't afford anything better.
This machine was light years ahead of that, and someone *could* have used it for the basics at least.
Total waste, IMHO...but hey, his perogative.
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Alex said 10:05PM on 2-17-2007
WHAT A WASTE!@#$ You could have modded it!!
Alex
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Howard Jeffrey said 6:49PM on 2-18-2007
My Red IMAC G3 333 mhz still lives on my home network. I use it to write on if I feel like looking out THAT window. Why throw away a computer that still is better than a lot of windoze boxes....
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marcello said 6:03AM on 2-19-2007
i really hope that the idi... ahemmm... creative guy at least managed to retrieve every single piece of the maching.
bah...
M
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Joe Blow said 6:50PM on 3-11-2007
if you couldn't find a use for it you're probably pretty useless - I'd bet more useless than the puter. I KNOW I could've put that machine to use but I know how to use computers pretty well.
Anyways, next time, consider throwing yourself off a cliff and have someone document that! If you hate the machine so much maybe strap one on your back before your jump.
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