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.

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 ...

from a design standpoint the G3 can still hold its own even with Mac OS X. Before the Mac Pro, Apple's flagship desktop towers had an even more authoritative name: Power Macintosh. First launched ...

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 ...