Amaya Toman Apple introduced its new Power Mac G5 on January 1999, 3. The personal computer is known to many as the "blue and white G3", some may remember the joking nickname "Smurf Tower". But it wasn't just the colors that distinguished the new Power Mac G3 from the previous – beige – model.
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The end of the 3s at Apple was marked by colored computers and transparent or translucent plastics – for example, the iMac G3 or the portable iBook G3 saw the light of day, but it was a bit more difficult with the transition of the Power Mac to colors. The first-ever beige Power Macintosh G1997 was introduced in November 3. The introduction took place shortly after Apple launched the now iconic Think Different advertising campaign to announce its return to the limelight of the technology world. It was also the first Mac to be equipped with the PowerPC G1998 microprocessor, which was also found in the blue and white Power Mac. The Power Mac product line became quite successful - in mid-750, Apple could boast of having sold XNUMX units of these computers.
When Apple released its first colorful iMac, Steve Jobs and Jony Ive weren't at all sure if they wanted the same design for the Power Mac. In the end, however, a bold decision was made to give this product line a touch of color, and at the Macworld conference, Steve Jobs, in addition to five new color variants of iMacs, also presented the blue-and-white Power Mac G3. In addition to the new design, it also received a number of hardware improvements - on the right side of the computer body there was a door with hinges for easy access to components, the computer could be conveniently opened even during operation. Interestingly, Apple used the code names Yosemite and El Capitan for the new design of its Power Mac G3, which were the names used for Mac operating systems a few years later.
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