The iMac G3 is an absolute icon of industrial design, as (or perhaps more) era-defining than the Mac Classic before it. In ...

It’s difficult to believe then, that the first Apple Mac to be designed with a USB interface was shipped without it; but that’s the case with 1997’s grey Power Mac G3. On the personality ...

This means that the computer could be pushed back against a wall or desk with all of its accessories plugged in, without damaging the cables. That’s clever. All of these features did come at a cost.

Power Mac models were designated first with numbers from 5200 to 9700 and then G3, G4 and G5. What seems paltry today, the first Power Macs came with 8MB of RAM and used the 601 PowerPC CPU chip ...