PowerBook G3 Quattro Four Operating Systems

The PowerBook G3 Quattro was fitted with four 300Mhz PowerPC G3 processors, enabling it to boot four operating systems at once. A favourite of admins who wanted to show off, working examples rarely appear for sale – most are still in active use.

A black PowerBook G3 Quattro sits on a desk beside a telephone, monitor, speakers, and office supplies, displaying four operating system windows at once. The joke is that this rare, overpowered vintage laptop is so useful to system administrators that working examples are still actively used instead of being sold, making it a humorous piece of retro-computing bragging.

• @right_wing_dev_squads / 9903 2024-06-24