So i saved up 100 dollars and bought a used powermac g3 blue and white around 2007. The operating sytems (10.3 and 10.4) felt fluid, intuitive and just nice to use even on those old imacs. But at school we had macs, mostly imac g3s and emacs and i liked using those to, i was impressed with how they tolerated constant abuse from tech illiterate teachers and stupid angry kids and hardly ever crashed, the school had no air conditioning and the imacs had no fans and would still run perfectly fine on the 85-9o degree days. I saved up and bought it when i was in middle school. My first computer that i owned was a Toshiba satellite a135, a windows laptop with a core duo and windows vista. Unix based os was not a thing yet as I understand. Prior to that the only power Macs I played with were then7200/7500s.
All I remember is the unix l I me startup routine. Apple did a far better job with the thermal design of the G5s and a well maintained one doesnt seem to care about the heat it just gets louder and keeps going instead of crashing. The quicksilver did not appreciate being run in a 90 degree room and crashed after about 20 minutes. I dont use my quicksilver in the summer and i wont use my MDD in the summer either because i dont have air conditioning. They packed to much stuff into the old g3 case and they started to have heat problems. The later quicksilver and MDD models seem to be more difficult to keep running. The older ones are slower but i would say more reliable. I just got a 2002 Mirrored drive doors model for 40 bucks and it came with the original keyboard and a 17 inch apple studio display. Id pay up to 100 for one in really good condition. A G4 is definitely worth getting for a good price. The Powermac G4s were grey, the G3 was the blue one. With windows it was like once or twice a year cause she would download dumb stuff and get viruses. My mom has a 2016? macbook air and i hate the thing but i have to give it credit that she hasnt managed to break either the computer or the operating system yet.
I will give the operating system credit for still being harder to screw up than windows. Its missing something that started disappearing after 10.6 that made osx so great to use. Im not a huge fan of modern macs and anything past os 10.11 pisses me off. So my interests in Macs is strictly nostalgic. These days you have to spend 1000$+ easily and have something the size of a netbook. I'll always have a soft spot for the early Macs, in particular the Mac II line and the Lisa/Mac XL. I'll never understand the need to run a mac once they started using intel.
No desire to run a semi modern Mac, anyone that pays that kind of money is unhinged IMHO. I know all about ddr2 server memory and how hot it runs. I no longer have any desire to own anything other then a cheaply had blueberry? G4.
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