To me, my B&W looked like it was a Fisher-Price invention.  I much preferred its industrial look after removing all that plastic cladding and selling on eBay any cladding that had no cracks.

I have to mention that the original polycarbonathe handles cracks way sooner than all G4 handles.

My B&W has Quicksilver handles because originals were beyond repair.

Hardware modders love the G3 B&W look, but only slim mATX boards can get room there, and the heat generated shows it is a ´90s machine not designed for 600W+ modern CPUs. In the end if you mod it you finish with a gruyere machine that can make 2-3 youtube videos just to show off.

I can see myself in 6 years taking a Mac Mini (2018-2023) inside the blue box, just to have the gorgeous blue thing near and give me the good vibes it should gave me years ago.

I can be biased by the fact that it was my first Mac.

It needed the 3.6 volts battery more than the duracell bunny.

From time to time the PRAM gets corrupted and you have to boot via firmware. (Set defaults...)

The boot picker you get pressing "Option" on new world macs was not working most of the time.

Are tremendously finicky about jumper positions on HDD, not to mention the optical drives that are even harder to make them recognized. If a optical drive is not "blessed" it cant boot installers.

You can change the cable to add a 2nd drive (even on rev.1) but the next morning both drives got corrupted. 

Well… it’s the second weekend of the Poll now and only 15 respondents so far.

   •FIVE of which still have and / or use a B&W.
   •Four, wishing that they still had one.
   •And FIVE declaring that the B&Ws were possessed by demons.

Maybe more respondents this weekend? Hope so anyway.

Have been “tandem testing” different setups / configs with mustagcoupe, V.Yakob
(and also awaiting some input from Borgmac’s possible contributions).

V.Yakob and I have been exploring back-to-the-past installations of OS 8.51 and OS 8.6.
Next slated to try the actual original B&W G3 Installer disc (also intended for the G3 MiniTower.)

And I’m waiting to post results from all of this “through-the-past-darkly” F-U-N.
*Only one poll choice noted for “Quit posting about B&Ws” …and that was me.

Interesting note on Rev.1 possessed by demons motherboards:
mustagcoupe uses his with the SiL3112 cards to avoid the antics of the Rev.1
and focuses on use of OS X. (OS 9 devotees might also consider this!)

So there’s a creative & productive workaround for you Rev.1 owners.
Thinking about various design-build scenarios w/ alternative power supplys & home-built case designs.
And this, inspired by mustagcoupe’s plywood-encased G5 project. (Like I really need another project.)

At any rate, weekend #2 of the B&W Poll coming up. May we have more than 15 respondents please?
Even if your selections might boost the “Quit posting about B&Ws!!!” choice.

Thank you.

Well, retrospect did a good job cloning the disk onto another one. Even the stuff on the Desktop is there. The "kickstarter" still gives the error of the missing alias. Only had to bless the system folder by hand.

But the cloned disk wont boot on any G4 I have here. On the original 6500 both copies are working. I still have a G3 B/W to test the disk. Maybe I need to upgarde the OS, but according to everymac they should be capable of running even 9.0.x