One of the main reasons the iMac G3 was translucent was so that users could get a close-up glimpse of how the computer worked. Instead of being hidden inside an opaque box, the device’s parts ...

The big changes were on the inside. In place of the consumer-grade ... forward while also harkening back to the venerable iMac G3's cheerful aesthetic. Apple's 2021 update was a huge one for ...

Alongside that, the tech inside has gone from PowerPC chips to ... Engineers and designers at Apple ended up with the bulbous and fun iMac G3 computer that shipped on August 15th, 1998 — 25 ...

The original iMac was also referred to as iMac G3 because the device packed a 233MHz PowerPC G3 processor inside along with an ATI Rage IIc graphics card. It came with a 4GB IDE hard drive ...

Yet, after the bright blue iMac G3 launched in 1998 ... appearances — it had a bunch of brilliant features on the inside too. For one thing, it came with an ingenious hinged panel that let ...

Of course, today’s iMac bears little resemblance to the original G3 iMac. But in keeping the ... not about the components inside. My MacBook Pro runs the same chip that’s in a Mac Studio.

Twenty-five years ago today, the unusual jewel-toned line of iMac G3 desktops came onto the tech scene; shaped like an egg and with a 15-inch CRT display, the intricacies of its hardware visible ...