iMac G3 rentals for startup launch videos

Take a closer look.

Real hardware, real translucent plastic. Every angle photographs beautifully.

Grape · front Grape iMac G3 front

Grape · angle Grape iMac G3 three-quarter view

Grape · profile Grape iMac G3 side view

Green · front Green iMac G3 front

Green · angle Green iMac G3 three-quarter view

Green · profile Green iMac G3 side view

Get the highlights.

Camera-ready, every unit.

Cleaned, tested, and photographed before it ships. No scuffs on your hero shot.

Your content on screen.

Composite your own UI in post over an on-screen green screen, or hand us a USB drive and we play it live on the display.

Bay Area only. Any time.

A local service for San Francisco and the Bay Area, available any day. We don’t ship.

Put your content on screen.

Two ways to showcase your product on a real vintage display. Bay Area only, available anytime.

On-screen green screen

The display shows a solid chroma-key green. Shoot the iMac as your prop, then CGI your own UI, app, or video onto the screen in post. Your content looks pixel-perfect and you control every frame.

Best for CGI and polished launch videos

Bring your content on USB

Hand us a USB drive with your files. We load and test them, and your content plays live on the vintage screen, so the real glow and scanlines are in camera.

Best for practical, in-camera shots

What can play on Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X?

Video

QuickTime movies (.mov) and older MPEG-4 and MPEG-1 files play well, and DVDs play on the G3 and G4. A modern 1080p H.264 file will stutter on a G3, so we re-encode it to a lighter format, around 640×480.

Images and slideshows

JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and PICT open fine. For slides, send them as images, a PDF, or a QuickTime movie rather than a modern PowerPoint or Keynote file.

Documents and web pages

PDFs, plain text, and simple old-style HTML pages work. Modern websites, web apps, and anything that needs a current browser won’t load.

Apps and demos

Current software can’t run on this hardware. To show your app, send a screen recording or mockups and we play them on the display, or use the green screen option.

Display notes: the iMac G3 shows 1024×768 on a CRT and has USB 1.1 ports, so big files copy slowly. Please send files a few days before your shoot so we can test them. The Macintosh SE is black and white (512×342), and the iMac G4 has the best video playback of the three.

Keep it simple.

Pick a machine

iMac G3 in Grape or Green, Macintosh SE, or iMac G4.

Choose your content

Green screen for post, or a USB drive with your files.

We set it up

Locally in the Bay Area, ready for your shoot.

Shoot, then wrap

We collect it afterward. Available anytime.

Previous work.

A look at the props in action.

Two Macintosh SEs and an iMac G3 displaying birthday messages in front of a chalkboard backdrop

A birthday party for the child of an early Google team member.

Two Macintosh SEs and an iMac G3 set the scene, each running its own on-screen birthday message, with a chalkboard backdrop and colorful notes behind them.

The guests got a hands-on trip back to the early days of personal computing, and every screen played custom content loaded locally before the event.

Private event2 Macintosh SEs + iMac G3Custom on-screen contentBay Area

Simple pricing.

Sample rates. Every shoot is a little different, so ask for a quote.

Day

$149

One iMac G3, one shoot day.

Available anytime, Bay Area only.

Week

$449

Multi-day shoots and reshoots.

Green screen or USB content.

Project

Custom

Multiple units, multiple colors.

Styling and on-set support.

Keep exploring.

iMac G3

Mac OS X

A colorful all-in-one desktop designed for the internet age. Perfect for bold, playful launches.

From $149 a day

Macintosh SE

Classic Mac OS

The classic compact all-in-one in beige. Ideal for retro, founder-garage, and “where it all began” stories.

From $129 a day

See Macintosh SE rentals ↗

iMac G4