The Power Macintosh G3 Minitour was launched in November 1997 accompanied by the models Desktop. As are name indicates it, it is appeared as a case turn, a little smaller than that of the Power Macintosh series 8000 and 9000. Thanks to the new G3 processor, even the model with 266 MHz hitherto outclassed the elite of the range Macintosh of office, the Power Macintosh 9600 with 300 MHz, for a largely lower price. This speed was partly due to the news Mémoire hiding place of the type Backside given rhythm with half of the frequency of the processor, against 40 or 50 MHz for old Power Mac. It used as memory SDRAM much faster, but used a Hard drive to standard IDE, slower as the old SCSI equipping Power Mac with series 7000,8000 and 9000. The Minitour models had out of standard a chart AV with video and audio inputs/outputs

Only one model was available to the beginning (266 MHz). A model with 300 MHz and equipped of more than memory hiding place and hard drive appeared in March 1998, then finally a model with 333 MHz appeared in August of the same year.

Common characteristics

• processor: PowerPC 750 given rhythm with 266,300 or 333 MHz
• addressing 32 bit
• Mother chart drunk Gossamer
• system 64 bit given rhythm with 66 MHz
• ROMANIAN: 4 Me
• RAM: 32 Me to 128 Me, extensible to 384 Me (or 768 Me with more recent bars not supported by Apple)
• Mémoire hiding place level 1: 32 Kio or 64 Kio
• Mémoire hiding place level 2: 512 Kio or 1 Me, given rhythm with half the speed of the processor
• Hard drive E IDE (Ultra ATA 33) or Ultra Wide SCSI
• reader of Diskette 1,44 Mo 3,5"
• reader CD-ROM 24x ATAPI
• reader Zip on certain models
• video Chart ATI 3D Rage II+ or 3D Rage Pro equipped with 2 Me or 6 Me of video, extensible Memory to 6 Me
• slots of extension:
• 3 slots of extension NCV
• connector COM slot for chart Modem
• 3 connectors report of the type SDRAM PC66 (minimal speed: 10 NS)
• 1 bays of extension 5,25" Free SCSI
• connector industry:
• port SCSI DB-25
• 2 ports series Mini DIN-8 Geoports
• 1 port ADB
• port Ethernet 10 Basset hound or 100 Basset hound
• video out DB-15
• stereo audio input/output 16 bit
• for model AV:
• audio inputs/outputs RCA and entered video composite, S-Video DAV
• , STAKE, SECAM and NTSC
• videos out STAKE and NTSC
• Loudspeaker mono
• dimensions: 38,6 X 24,4 X 45,2 cm
• weight: 15,0 kg
• food: 240 W
• supported systems: Mac OS 8 .0 with Mac OS X 10.2.8

Various models

• November 1997:
• G3/266 , 32 Kio of L1 mask, 512 Kio of L2 mask, 32 Me of RAM, ATI Rage 3D II+ with 2 Me of VRAM, hard drive E-IDE of 6 Go, Zip reader, reader CD-ROM, chart AV, Ethernet 10 Basset hound
• G3/266 , 32 Kio of L1 mask, 512 Kio of L2 mask, 128 Me of RAM, ATI Rage 3D II+ with 2 Me of VRAM, hard drive SCSI Ultra Wide of 4 Go, reader CD-ROM, Ethernet 10 Basset hound
• March 1998:
• G3/300 , 64 Kio of L1 mask, 1 Me of L2 mask, 64 Me of RAM, ATI Rage 3D II+ with 6 Me of VRAM, hard drive SCSI Ultra Wide of 4 Go, reader CD-ROM, Ethernet 10 Basset hound
• G3/300 , 64 Kio of L1 mask, 1 Me of L2 mask, 128 Me of RAM, ATI 3D Rage II+ with 6 Me of VRAM, hard drive SCSI Ultra Wide of 2x4 Go, reader CD-ROM, Ethernet 100 Basset hound
• G3/300 , 64 Kio of L1 mask, 1 Me of L2 mask, 128 Me of RAM, ATI 3D Rage II+ with 6 Me of VRAM, hard drive SCSI Ultra Wide of 2x4 Go, reader DVD-ROM, Ethernet 100 Basset hound
• August 1998:
• G3/300 , 64 Kio of L1 mask, 1 Me of L2 mask, 64 Me of RAM, ATI 3D Rage Pro with 6 Me of VRAM, hard drive E-IDE of 8 Go, Zip reader, reader CD-ROM, chart AV, Ethernet 10 Basset hound
• G3/333 , 64 Kio of L1 mask, 1 Me of L2 mask, 128 Me of RAM, ATI 3D Rage Pro with 6 Me of VRAM, hard drive SCSI Ultra Wide of 9 Go, reader CD-ROM, Ethernet 10 Basset hound