While catching up on blogs, i came across this beautifully written tribute the Apple's original G3. i fondly call mine 'Big Beige', and he faithfully serves our entire family at my father's place at Fife Lake. Beige shows occasional sleepytime problems, and can't journey past OS X.2 in its current, nearly original, configuration. i did add a USB/Firewire card a few years back, and someday i will replace nearly everything inside that huge box and turn him into a SCREAMER for 15 minutes! Why?
My husband bought BB for me right around the time we married several years ago. The computer was brand spankin' new, and he paid a breathtaking amount of cash for it at CompUSA because my ex had the Quadra and i had nothing. (So you don't fret, the ex now has a nice, newer iBook himself.) It was a heartfelt gesture of love on Jim's part, as he doesn't use my computers unless he has to and says REAL computers aren't named after fruit. The kids in the Apple sales department followed the machine out the door with us expressing deep envy, while i thought 'i'm not worthy!'.
Years later, i have a secondhand G3 Wallstreet, an iMac 266, and the 900MHz iBook i'm using now, all working to their hardware capabilities. But the Beige is special, and it's not only sentimental. The piece linked above says it very well. They're built the way things should be, to last and be loved, and even when they were new, we knew it. The fact that we waited too long for OS X doesn't diminish the G3, and i guess i want to honor it. Who knows? i may even give BB a colorful new paint job.
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