Geez. I remember these iMacs from my middle school. I think ours were mostly red and blue ones... And they often could be seen with floppy discs shoved into the disc drive in front. >< Doh! haha.
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Custom iMac G3 - "The Black Mac"
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I didn't like the front at first, but when its all set up I think it looks really good with the black pro keyboard! 
Very professional finish
Very professional finish
I have an iMac G3 (Summer 2000) 400Mhz GRAPE.
Managed to get OS X 10.2 on to it, might attempt 10.3 as that's the newest you can get on it.
I am also spraying it black, but I think I might spray the whole thing black, and painting the apple silver.
I'll upload the piks when I'm done.
Managed to get OS X 10.2 on to it, might attempt 10.3 as that's the newest you can get on it.
I am also spraying it black, but I think I might spray the whole thing black, and painting the apple silver.
I'll upload the piks when I'm done.
Actually 10.3 is not the newest os you can run on it. The black mac pictured in this thread is identical to yours (summer 2000, 400mhz, 128mb ram, and it was originally grape) and it is now running 10.4.11
Since i didnt have any apple install cds, the way that i got it on there was to use a program called SuperDuper. It lets you copy everything on one hard drive to another. Makes an exact copy.
You need two things to do this. 1. You need a hard drive with the os you want already installed on it, and 2. You need a mac that you can hook up 2 hard drives up at once. I used a powermac g4 tower i had lying around. Then you just run SuperDuper and copy it, then pop the hd back in your G3 imac, and it should work.
I'll be honest dude.
I got my info straight of the apple website. I'm completely new to Mac.
This is my little project, as I got the iMac off an old Teacher of mine for a tenner, and has been sitting in my garage for about a year.
I saw this post, as I had an idea of spraying it, and the confirmed it looks awesome.
Already bought an Airport Card and Adapter for it, hope that's easy to install, and need to upgrade the RAM...
I don't actually have any specific use for the iMac, just a bit of fun and to learn a different OS.
The iMacs had a handle on them with little pimple things on them? I never knew that.
Yes, and the handle is quite sturdy too.. Even though it rattles like all hell as you carry it.
I'm wondering, how did you handle the speaker holes? How did you prevent paint from blocking them?
Brilliant neat work! I'd buy it !!
As other people say...people usually do a horrible job with painting their computers...but yours came out perfect
As other people say...people usually do a horrible job with painting their computers...but yours came out perfect
I'm going to give my honest opinion, if you didnt paint the whole bottom case and only painted the colored plastics, It might've turned out better, even if the bottom was dinged up. Aside from that, the purple color on the imac is one of my favorites along with Indigo.
Again, just my opinion, people on here seem to like it. Just my 2 cents.
Again, just my opinion, people on here seem to like it. Just my 2 cents.
I think you should paint the translucent white parts and make them solid white to match the solid black of the rest of the body. (you would have to think of a way to keep the iMac logo on it though.) Then Paint the CD drive surround and the speakers white as well. I think it would look really nice like that
The way that i handled the speaker holes was i held the spray paint can father back than usual and made serveral light passes. I used this technique for the whole front section because i was affraid that i would get too much paint in the cd slot. Inside the slot there is some white fabric, to keep dust out (i assume) I figured that if i got any paint on the fabric that it would scratch all the discs inserted. So i was especially careful to mask it off properly. The slot and the power button are the only parts that i masked off.
Thats definitley something to consider. i have 3 other g3 imacs (1 slot load and 2 tray loaders) and im thinking that ill paint them as well. Where i live it just snowed, so im gonna have to wait until it warms up before i can spray again.
I also had a few crazy ideas for color schemes. One idea is to make it look like the colors that are used in commercials for the show "its always sunny in philadelphia" (awesome show btw!). The colors are bright yellow and black, and i think it would be pretty eye catching.
Another idea was to make it "fear and loathing" themed, which would be totally black, with a diagonal splatter of red accross the front. But im not sure what ill do, i have a while to think about it before it will be warm enough to paint anyways...
You're teetering on the verge of greatness with this, but you've got to do something with the original "Snow" front. Pick the brightest, most neon-glowing color you can find and hit it without about a dozen coats. Fluorescent orange, green, yellow, even a bright teal green would look awesome. Or try painting it all black (for the Darth Vader look) and then drill a hundred little holes in the plastic surrounding the screen, and put a bunch of tiny little pinhole LED's. Now that would look cool.
Ah, I see. By the way, I like the way yours came out! It looks so bad-ass!
You're teetering on the verge of greatness with this, but you've got to do something with the original "Snow" front. Pick the brightest, most neon-glowing color you can find and hit it without about a dozen coats. Fluorescent orange, green, yellow, even a bright teal green would look awesome. Or try painting it all black (for the Darth Vader look) and then drill a hundred little holes in the plastic surrounding the screen, and put a bunch of tiny little pinhole LED's. Now that would look cool.
That reminds me of those Alienware computers with flashing lights all over the body, I honestly find that odd. It reminds me of those flashing lights you see on airplanes in the sky...I have painted the entire thing black.
Found some primer and spray paint in POUND LAND (UK)!
I've done the Mouse and Keyboard too, now applying lacker, then I'll upload my pictures in next few dats. Don't think my compares however, looks a bit too black?
Found some primer and spray paint in POUND LAND (UK)!
I've done the Mouse and Keyboard too, now applying lacker, then I'll upload my pictures in next few dats. Don't think my compares however, looks a bit too black?