Unboxing a SEALED iMac G3 with MKBHD!
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- Опубликовано: 10 окт 2019
- Marques Brownlee and Quinn Nelson open the first iMac after 20 years of sitting in a box.
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MKBHD and Snazzy Labs have been making tech videos for over a decade but you know what's even older than us? Well... a lot of things, but like, do you know what's older than our 10-year-old RUclips channels? This 1999 iMac G3 because 2019-1999=20 and 20 is more than 10. This is the first iMac that has been sitting in a box for nearly two decades and we couldn't let it suffocate in there any longer. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this 22 minute retro unboxing experience you'll never forget-until tomorrow or maybe next week. 
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The Bondi Blue color was only available on the 1998 tray loading iMac (the first revision).
This is correct. And I hereby resign and forfeit my tech credentials.
Wow, I never knew this information!
@@snazzy I have 4 of these, and I really enjoyed this video. The G3 iMac is one of my favorite computers of all time.
Jamie Champion I had an original Bondi I bought at a garage sale around 2008. It was still pretty usable then after some upgrades.
I was gonn say this doesnt look... blue! haha looks like a Seafoam Green but idk the model color name offhand
Ah man, that rubber degradation is really becoming a huge problem for collectors of late 90s/early 2000s tech. It sucks and it's everywhere!
Especially bad on old laptops since so many of them used that soft material for the wrist rest area.
Indeed it is. :( Thanks so much for watching, Clint. Big fan!
Why has this only got 5 likes?
Hello LGR!
LGR! Love the channel!
hi Clint !
Open it to replace the drives. I hear Macs are easy to work on.
😜
Louis please lol
So much shade, we've entered a global winter. OOF
Your the person to yet stuff to that’s broken, nice!
In his mind Marques was thinking, "He is peeling my freaking stickers! Why in the hell did I have this ass here during the unboxing. He is destroying everything!"
"i don't even wanna touch it"
Immediately touches it.
lol i was just about to comment this
loll that part was epic!
10:20
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Words you don’t want to ever hear; “look at that power cable, it’s moist”. 😂
Rubbers break down very quickly, that's why soft touch materials are just a bad choice if you want something lasting. That's why mouse is sticky and rubber on cable is just breaking down to oil from which it was made. TPU on keyboard cable is yellowing but at least it's not sticky.
@@cinialvespow1054 ABS (kind of plastic used to manufacture all of those) just oxidizes. It's not bromine (fire retardant) as some say. If you have valuable electronics made from this plastic just protect them from UV. You can also retrobrite them, if you're interested The 8-bit Guy did find a good method and has some videos.
I've never realized how tall Quinn is until he stands by Marques' side.
Quinn 6'4, Marques 6'3
Scar maybe even 6’5
Sadly, I'm 5'7". (5'11" with my elevator shoes).
But I married a tiny lady who's 4'8", so I feel tall). LOL
@@MikeFuryTech I'm glad for ya
@@Scarlet_Soul try quinn 6ft 3 marques 6ft 2
10:20 “I don’t even want to touch it”
2 seconds later: touches it
Marques: So I've been using this for the past 30 years...
underrated comment 😂
@@Drummer52895 no
Yes but you won't be watching RUclips on it.
I still have a lot of old macs and they won't browse a lot of the internet properly due to to updates that made them redundant.
@@jeremytravis360 ok...
Knows fuck all about it
3:35 Why is there Mario dancing in the right side of the background? 😂
yeah, noticed that too and took off to the comments here to see if anyone else noticed xD
Noticed the same thing
Same
Easter eggs!
Théo Schneider also at 20:59 Steve Jobs moves his hand
iMac stands for "internet Macintosh" it was designed to connect to the internet straight out of the box! Fun fact :)
Younworked in the apple development team?
@@ilikeipods.mp3240 No, but it was all over the media those days.
pixeley87 why you gotta be that guy?
Morgan Pollard
Im 13...
@@ilikeipods.mp3240 right?
3:42
The intimate finger touch
Lol the hesitation, something sparked that day
“Two giant men unbox old computer”
sounds like a weird pornhub video
@@AbdAbdAbdAbd - 😂 "looks like we're going to get a little sticky here" was uttered.
Quinn: We need to let the viewers know, like we use CD's we're not that young.
Me: *cries in a corner, looking at my old floppy disks*
5 inch!
@@sermelipharo 8 inch! (Am I that old?!)
@@Fifury161 don't broke your dried bones, grampa
Floppy disks? I still have software cassette tapes and at one point had a stack of punch cards. First computers I used had teletype terminals - not screens!
Rolomir Fenrir I just got a brand new usb floppy drive 😂
Awesome guys.
I was smiling almost the whole way through, my wife was watching me . “ what the hell are you looking at?”
I said “ you would not understand.... two nerds, saying and doing exactly what I would, in the same situation “
Classic !
This is literally the coolest thing ever... this brings back SO many memories! I miss all the personality of those early machines. I am so jealous you got to relive this moment, how freakin FUN!
The oil in the plastics is deteriorating. That's why they're sticky.
I used to work on these. If the temps got above 98F this happened to all the cords. It isn't the packaging. It's the coating on all the flexible wiring they used at the time. As long as it stayed cool this never happened. They fixed this issue a couple years later.
@@Maxxumless even at 21c my TV remote control go sticky over 5 years because it also had that soft touch plastic rubber coating ,its the worse coating to put on anything
@@Maxxumless I want to eat an imac g3
You know your old when marques is looking at the phone wire like ??? Is this for the keyboard ???
Was thinking the same thing. He's probably more used to using devices rather than exploring the hardware, unlike Quinn
Right
@@andrewrobotbuilder Y'all too young to realize early keyboards (Model M for example) used rj11 (phone line) cables
@@josephupholstery1416 Y'all too young to realize early keyboards (Model M for example) used rj11 (phone line) cables
it,s Them Nah I’m familiar with those connections
The inner shells of these things were made with an especially cheap plastic that turns extremely brittle over time. Being sealed in two layers of plastic inside the box might have helped it avoid the bulk of the exposure to the elements that would cause degradation-the fact that it's not _already_ cracking is a good sign, at least-but it's only a matter of time. I heard that the MacEffects guy was looking for a pristine G3 to use as a template for making replacement shells; you might want to see if you can get in touch. I can't imagine you have much of anything better to do with it.
"We're not that young!" You assumed it has a 2x reader as if you were unboxing a computer from 1992. You are that young!
Yeah, it has a 24x CD drive.
Marques was confused by a standard RJ-11 phone cable for the modem
Everyone from Low End Mac on Facebook are yelling it their screens the whole time.
This was the product that launched Jony Ive’s career with Jobs.
Ironically Ives career end a month a go ( now he's independent
@@jeff._.6262 He still designs for Apple as a freelance designer.
shame mac os 9 is a pile of wank so outdated to windows
@@girlsdrinkfeck compared to Windows 98 not really. Win 98 and OS9 both didn't have memory protection or privilege separation. OS9 has the better user experience in my view. But if you mean Windows NT, then I agree. Most didn't use NT 4.0 at that time, however. I don't know why. At least some games didn't work.
jeff ._. You know a career is your profession right? Not where you work, but what you do.
So his career never ended, he never stopped working
3:37 Mario in the background 😂
21:00 actually thought it was a real wall hanging until it moved lmao
3:34 look at the shelf on the right most of the screen! I see you, editor... 😏😏
Wow! You are tall! And the super mario at 3:35. 😂🤣
13:30 Happy Mac noise! Such a joy to hear again!
Just hearing that power on sound takes me back man. I went to this brand new build elementary school in the mid 90’s and we got a ton of these computers. We got the laptops too. These machines were my first experience with computers. I feel lucky that I went to that school on its first year it open its doors and got modern tech for the time. Man... thanks for the nostalgia.
The most important question is. Who's taller?
It's so close. Without hair, I think I just barely have Marques beat. With hair... he's got me easy. lol
@@snazzy How tall actually?
Zarkex Tech Snazzy Labs is definitely half and inch to an inch taller, probably because of his bigger head. 😂
both manlets
@@viniciusalucas he's 6'4
Your right Apple was the First to have USB on the Keyboard
in 1998, with the release of the iMac, Apple became the first to include USB as the only plug on its computers. It was Apple, not Intel, that would become the first prominent computer company to be associated with USB
it was intel (along with other's like Compaq, IBM, NEC, Microsoft but NOT apple) who created the usb standard; apple was the first to implement it on a consumer computer
Juan Fonseca I don’t think anyone said they created it
@@alerey4363 he was talking about the USB where you plug the mouse in there's one on each side Apple was first to do that not the First USB Keyboard I looked it up and that's what it said sorry
One of the best parts of this was the feelings of nostalgia this unboxing brought up. My first experience with tech was this desktop. I loved its design: sleek, futuristic and pretty.
Decades later I’ve found my way back to the Apple family and fallen in love with their phones and other products, but you can see how even ingenious and forward thinking they were with the ibook and the G3
21:00 steve jobs in the background rub his fingers together then disappear off the entire wall lol
You have to remember computers where traditionally beige, even Macs before the imac. So to go transparent and multi colour was rather bold and eye catching.
The second button in the cubby is not power. It's the "programmers" or "interrupt" key that would drop you into the built in debugger (MacsBug). Great for if you wanted to look like a h4x0r in 5th grade computer lab.
Nope. MacsBug was discontinued when the New World Macs were introduced. What replaced them was Open Firmware. That can be invoked by restarting your G3-G5 Mac, then Command+Option+O+F on the keyboard.
The 2 hidden buttons in the panel are the system Reset and Interrupt button. You pressed and held that in whenever there was a firmware update.
@@minty_Joe MacsBug and OF did different things. You could run MacsBug on New World machines just fine, right up through the G4 I believe.
@@bostonia I'll have to do some experimenting on mine to confirm that for me. All I know is that MacsBug existed on Old World Macs. I wasn't aware it exists on New World Macs.
I'm in the later half of my 40's, this is all nostalgia for me. My first apple was a woz edition 2gs.
I remember when my Elementary school library used to have a couple of these computers until my 3rd grade year in 2013, Brings back a lot of memories.
2 thousand and freaking 13? That's long...
"It still looks pretty new"
Yeah it's never been opened
I think he meant that it didn't have any discoloration or disintegration by that
Lots of things deteriorate in boxes, look at shoes for example
Quinn : everything you touch is sticky .
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First computer I ever had, still remember hauling that huge box up to my apartment in the snow. I had an original, loved it to bits
KidPix was my favorite “game” ever!!! You could design, draw, animate, do lots of fun stuff with it. My favorite part were the “stamps” that had sounds according to the image. It was awesome!
Unfortunately it is not the first iMac, it is like an “S” upgrade to it. This is an iMac G3 DV, which can be differentiated from the original by the fact that only the original has a pop out tray. Still very cool!
Didn't the DV have FireWire though? (DV standing for Digital Video, part of the whole "digital hub" strategy, ironically I don't think it had a DVD drive standard)
yeah i was wondering why my moms old mac had a pop out tray
Best thing of the upgrade was that being fanless it was very silent and the audio was fantastic.
Favorite Snazzy comment of all time. “I don’t generally mind dying”
that was my first Mac. My first overall computer was a Packard Bell bought in mid-1995. It died in '98 and when I went to replace it I saw the iMac in the Mac section. Back then Mac's were in their own section in the way back of the computer stores almost like in a closet. I've been using macs ever since. The colors they offered just lent an air of fun to them. Also, unlike many people I loved the hockey puck mouse. It was just so different but I loved it. After OSX came out I pretty much all Mac Laptops for the longest time. I still have my TiBook.
TiBook. One of the best designed computers of all time.
"There's like a big massive heat sink in here. I don't know what for."
For dissipating heat. You're welcome.
He was referring to what component the heat sink was cooling
@@iktn132 power supply
Don't laugh about the stand snazzy, apple charges a premium for that now
Wasn't expecting steve jobs to start moving on the wall.
The two buttons on the side next to the USB ports, one was the hard restart button (for when OS 9 crashed... which it did often), the other was the Open Firmware button (aka Developer button) for installing firmware updates and such
I love the Mario dancing in the corner 3:40
It hurts to see it being opened, but to have such a high quality unboxing of something from 1998 is it's own blessing.
nice mario gif
Think that a lot of people grew up using an early CRT based imac in primary school (1st through 3rd grade), elementary school (4th through 6th grade), Junior High (7th through 9th grade), Senior High (10th through 12th grade), or college. This is the reason why, they have a warm place in their memory.
But, I am older and there were no small desktop computers even in my college's school of engineering. We only had main frame computers or mini computers (which at the time were about the size of an office desk). When the imac was new, I preferred the G3 All-in-One because it had the same processor but also included a built-in floppy drive, zip drive, CD-ROM, and ethernet port, and had three open internal PCI card bays for expansion (i.e. USB 2.0 ports, Fire-wire 400 ports, etc.).
"I don't even want to touch it." Immediately grabs it and moves it. - Quinn
3:42 Don't fight it, we all know yalls love be blossoming
Hahahaha
lmao
"I generally don't mind dying, I just don't want to embarrass myself in front of Marques as I'm dying" - Quinn 2019
Oh. Wow. The optical drive sounds when it was spinning up gave me a huge wave of nostalgia. I was the first kid to have a CD burner in my school and I made mixtapes (mixdiscs?) for everyone. I used to make mixtapes for people on cassette from the radio, then I upgraded to this beast. I probably went through over 1000 blank CDs over a few years. I later upgraded to a fast windows gaming PC, but still had the blue wonder on my desk to make CDs. Probably used this thing off and on for 8 years or so.
"I don't even want to touch it..." *He then proceeds to touch the iMac*
Kids pic deluxe:
Snazzy: yeah, we're keeping that!
kidpix was my childhood
@@squirtle88 it is my life right now :D - Me, 57
"Two millenials scratch their heads perplexed looking at a phone cable"
23Brodieman só I’m like 12 and even ik what one is thnx to my hunt at a car boot to look for an old computer
what the fuck did you just say?
lmfao!!
@@nit-Inundate hahahahaha
@@-riya6696 English only please.
Steve Jobs was absolutely at Apple at this point. I remember watching the keynote where he introduced it the same way he introduced the original Macintosh.
Adobe page mill then adobe GoLive and in 2007 adobe acquired Macromedia Dreamweaver - get your facts correct
Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005. GoLive was discontinued in 2008.
20:26 Did anyone else see Steve Jobs randomly show up and? He even moved his hand!
That was a cool Easter Egg in the video. Especially the hand movement. At first I was like, "Hey, I didn't notice the Jobs portrait there before...."
CJC 3636 Same! I noticed that it didn’t exactly fit on the wall lol
It was a nice touch. Jobs did a lot for the computing world and beyond so it's nice to see these two tech RUclipsrs give him a wink wink.
Jose Baldizon I agree. He was definitely a great guy!
Mario as well jumping on the table to the right in the background
I remember seeing an AD about this being introduced when I was looking at my highschool yearbook of the 1998 to 1999 school year.
3:36 - in the background on the right side on the table - why is Mario jumping up and down? That or I have spotted a prize :-p
It scared me 😂
Finally both of them standing with someone of same height as theirs
My first computer was an Acorn A3010. Fun fact Acorn called themselves Acorn to be before Apple in the phone boom. Acorn also worked with apple to supply ARM chips for the newton ( Acorn developed the first ARM)
I worked in the Mac department of an art college in '98, we bought 100 of these at launch..we got the unbox, RAM upgrade install and start up install disk running down to under 3 minutes by the end, and took one apart and found you COULD take out the processor for an upgrade!
I had one of these at work a long time ago and felt like the KING!! Cheers lads
“I don’t even wanna touch it”
**touches it while finishing the sentence
I really enjoyed this Collab! You should do things like this more often!
I remember when I worked on one of those iMacs at the company I worked in at that time, this was in 2003. Also, we had the older versions of Macintosh :)
I acquired a 1999 graphite slot-loading iMac late last year, and upgraded it with a 128 GB Compact Flash card for a hard-drive and 1 GB of RAM (which is double the official maximum).
I also just acquired a 1999 graphite clamshell iBook G3 and upgraded it with a 64 GB CF card (and boosted it to 320 MB of RAM, but I intend to bring it to the maximum 576 MB soon).
Both Macs run very well, and I'm extremely happy with how they turned out.
“I don’t even want to touch it.” *immediately touches it without hesitation* 😂
Wow. Great chemistry you two. Smooth episode. Should do more together.
I liked how you waited the timing to rips off your side of the plastic to match Marques ripping of his side. Those small things that makes you considerate is part of the charm of why I enjoy hearing you talk about tech :p
Nice, I scored one of these from a neighbours naturestrip a few years back as part of a hard rubbish council cleanup, I'm now tempted to go and power it to see if it still works.
The coupons were for back when they were charging for every single update
Dude, a translucent iPhone would be super dope!
Philson There were some mod kits people made for the iPhone 4 that made the back translucent. I wanted to buy one, it was so sick. But I was too scared to take apart my iPhone.
I remember getting one of these when I was about 11. It was my only computer at the time, we got it second hand off eBay, and I loved it. Still many fond memories of playing Warcraft 3 on it in particular
"Check out the video we made on Apple's potential move to ARM"
Damn, I would've thought you were HIGH back when this was released.
"Titanium iMac G3" 😂
Alex Tirrell heaviest iMac to date 😂
The Bondi Blue was the very First iMac and it hat a tray loading CD trail, the one that you have is the later blueberry with the slot loading CD trail.
Great info!
Great video! I have a blue and white G3 desktop from 99 that still works with everything original, and I'm typing this on a G4 keyboard (plugged into a modern iMac) which has the USB ports. They still come in handy.
Super nostalgic! My family never owned one of these, but I remember my school did back in Kindergarten. I remember as part of play time we could go on and play this old Arthur computer game (based off of the Arthur tv show) as well as fool around on paint.
2:39 I had these games but for Windows. I remember Pajama Sam, Freddy the Fish, Backyard Baseball... Wow this brings back memories.
I don't remember the hockey pock shaped mouse but I remember the mouse being more... bubbly and round.
Thanks for making this video! Brings back great memories!
The 2 tallest people on the planet next to each other. Never realized just how tall you both were
"I generally don't mind dying"
But I don't want to do it in front of Marques. No one what's to do so man. Haha
They all sound like that. I’ve had mine for 15+ years. I love the G3 and G4’s
I have never owned iMac, but I was tinkering with my computers for years to keep them alive and usable as long (and as low cost) as possible. I liked it and guys, this video throw me right back into these fun times.
The steve jobs picture randomly moving scared the shit out of me
21:22 quick reminder that austin looks like a hobbit next to quinn
We had a ton of these in my first SysAdmin job - I was more of a PC/Windows guy (still am) but these got me started with Macs and Mac OS. Macs always remind me of the Amiga.
I remember those power cables being sticky when I unboxed my family’s first iMac in 1999. I remember the keyboard cables being a weird shade of yellow too. I was in a city where the average high in the summer is. 43C / 110F, so it could have been degradation there, but I thought they just always came that way.
Early 2000’s was the clear marketing era . Clear sodas, clear beer clear Zima drinks clear mp3 player’s and so o
3:35 whats with mario doing jumping jacks for?
I personally sold the first Bondi Blue iMac in San Francisco when it went on sale August 15, 1998 for $1299. Seems like an eternity ago now.
Wow this video was a flash from the past. Our computer lab in elementary school was outfitted with these iMacs, and my first mac at home was one as well. Also, I just recently picked up on of those Ravpower chargers, and its been great so far. So 11/10 on this video
How do you tech guys seem to have no idea about this classic computer, “oh, there is a handle on it”. WTF!
Scott Opper Agreed... Thank you for this comment!! I was thinking the same thing screaming at them through my phone!!
@Christ W you mean old school pcs
Quinn did know. Marques was surprised by it. If you watch it back you can see Quinn isn’t surprised by the handle and actually remembers a lot about the machine in general.
N. Ahmed yes, Quinn knows but this was not the only instance Marques seemed to have little idea about this machine. Otherwise I would not have said anything.
Scott Opper I know I agree
Maybe that's an "educational" version of the iMac and came w/o hard drive; instead, they use "Net booting" from a Mac OS X Server machine to drive the "dumb machines" on the lab and concentrate the storage and CPU power on the server itself.
Just a hypothesis
Unfortunately; it does indeed say 6GB HDD on the box.
@@snazzy Well... that's unfortunate :/
Nah , there was the eMac
I just spent a while restoring an eMac (the education version). It was mostly fine, though I did (similar to this) have to replace the hard drive. They're solid machines for the most part and, plus it was a free and it's for my 4 year old kid to learn typing and play a few oldschool games on. The disassembly is pretty arduous once you're inside but so much better than modern apple gear that you don't care.
This was the first computer I bought with my own money. Blast from the past. Loved this machine.
Some tasteful LEDs would look amazing on this machine. Mounted on the bottom aimed up and some near the front aimed back to make the back glow and make the hardware more visible.
That's already the third generation of iMac, the two first came with Mac OS 8.6 as far as I remember, and the Bondi Blue, the 233MHz had a tray.
Oops, someone already mentioned it, sorry.
Earliest ones had Mac OS 8.1