Conroe Mac Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Apple IIe Whoever says there aren't games for apple hardware, never played Oregon Trail! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigeasy Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 while a stock g4 cube has limited uses these days, you can get some serious upgrades for it. i've seen some with dual 1.8 g4/1.5gb ram/120gb hdd and modern-ish graphics cards (gf 6200/ati 9800) and these have some serious beef! even my lowly 1.2ghz cube with rage128 feels smooth as silk, although it doesnt have QE or CI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickg331 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 don't know if its the best, but i love the intel imac. its beautifully designed (all in the monitor, magnetic remote holder), isight camera, and can be upgraded to be an extremely fast computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 The TAM's got to be it... It might just've been a 5500 in a different case with an LCD attached to it, and it might have cost $10,000, but it was the precursor for all the clean, stylish looking Macs that were to follow, especially reminiscent of today's machines like the black MacBook and aluminium machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted April 1, 2007 Share Posted April 1, 2007 The TAM's got to be it... It might just've been a 5500 in a different case with an LCD attached to it, and it might have cost $10,000, but it was the precursor for all the clean, stylish looking Macs that were to follow, especially reminiscent of today's machines like the black MacBook and aluminium machines. Finally some one who agrees with me. I like the G4 Cube n all, but I guess this started the whole iMac thing. Dont kick me if they had LCD iMacs before this, I actually dont know if they did or didnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerbras Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 No more explanation needed . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some_Person Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 I'd have to say the Mac 128k. It's the one that started it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunLizard Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 My 2cents: * Most revolutionary within Apple - Toss up between 1st Gen MAC or Newton (for breaking how the user interracts with machine.) * Most revolutionary within industry - iPod + iTunes. Bring digital to the masses. (even your mom can do it...) * Best selling - iPod again (no company, outside of Apple, has 60 percent market share of a commercially licensed technology.) * Most technically advanced for the day - Newton * Best industrial design - Apple ][ series . I kicked one down the hall and it booted okay. * Best reviews - Tiger * Best overall quality - Mac Mini (now if only we could get electricity to go wireless...) * Best OS for the time - OsX, open source for the masses? (well almost.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisibl Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 The best Mac ever??? The one(s) you currently own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
track09 Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 I always liked the Apple IIgs. But for Macs, I also liked the Performa 5200s. Anyway, I liked the iMac G4 the most. If they brought back that design, with an Intel CPU, it'd be sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret-Simpson Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 I'd like a return to the coloured days. They do iPods in pink, orange, green. . . Why not computers? I miss th clamshells - I needa more powerful box, so I wouldn't get one now. . . but a clamshell Macbook? Oh HELL yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbrush Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 For general purposes, I will say Mac SE. The Mac were in offices, classrooms everywhere. No Mac has invaded into MS territory that deep ever! Best performance/value? I vote for a LC III w/ a Daystar card, the cheapest Mac you could get at the time while performance exceed any Quadra. Most powerful Mac? I will say Mac II series, they were doing things no computer (in near price range) could do at the time. Photo editing, Pre-press solutions, Sonic solutions, Premiere... you name it! Mac at that time was simply magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 I'd like a return to the coloured days. They do iPods in pink, orange, green. . . Why not computers? I miss th clamshells - I needa more powerful box, so I wouldn't get one now. . . but a clamshell Macbook? Oh HELL yes! if you want color, you could get one of those protective shells and spraypaint it, that's what im doing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superkona Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 what about the poor pippin? actually this idea was too far ahead of it's time. from what i heard (i know one of the people who worked on it) steve killed it -did not want a cheap mac out in the wild so it was limited on purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxfan66 Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 I'd have to say the G4 Cube. It was simply perfect! but a poor seller. Apple ][ would be the most revolutionary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Londonbabe Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 G5s don't do it for me. I mean they are just fast powerful G3s. What's the point of a fast powerful mac anyway? It's not like you can get any software that actually uses the power. Old macs were small, clever, efficient. Little jewels. The best macs are the 512k - which is what the original was meant to be but for the price of RAM in 1984. I've still got mine and I'm never chucking it away. It was truly revolutionary - the manual actually explains the concept behind scroll bars, such was their novelty. I like the Plus, too - still got one of those too. The powerbook 180 - genius design, lovely screen (16 greys - wow!) and System 7.1, the best operating system Apple made until OSX. The original bondi blue iMac - the first PowerPC mac that didn't suck, though the OS is just a terrible bloated slow ugly version of System 7. The one that saved Apple. Finally the blue and white G3. ooh how I wanted one of those. The next legendary mac is still to come. The Mac IIci that I had was fab too - really liked that - very powerful in its day, very expandable, and System 7.1 of course. The Mac classic I had was cute but silly. The color Classics were really nice though, especially when modded to G4s and forced to run OSX! The newest mac I have is a PowerMac 7600 which I absolutely hate. It's rubbish. It was rubbish when it was new. The Hackintosh I'm typing this on is rather fab though. Using OSX has made me seriously tempted by a new Intel Mac Mini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four! Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 Best: PowerMac Dual G4 500MHz Worst: iBook 14' G3 800MHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 G5s don't do it for me. I mean they are just fast powerful G3s. What's the point of a fast powerful mac anyway? It's not like you can get any software that actually uses the power. Just because there isn't any software that you use that would use the power of a G5, it doesn't mean there isn't any software that does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 Worst: iBook 14' G3 800MHz I agree with you there . I really cant talk much about any pre OS X Macs because I thought OS 9 and down sucked compared to Windows. Id say the best modern mac is the MacBook Pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUKKU Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Best: PowerMac Dual G4 500MHzWorst: iBook 14' G3 800MHz I've used both and you're definitely right about the iBook 14". The Powermac though - it's among the best but I don't think it's THE best especially from a design standpoint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 i like my ibook g3 900mhz, it shipped with 10.2 and it ran 10.4 descently. (for the record i liked 10.2 the best) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2k. Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Just because there isn't any software that you use that would use the power of a G5, it doesn't mean there isn't any software that does. very nice said you have my respect _________________________________/ G5 my favourite too. that is the best,the most powerful and the machine with the best case ever from Cupertino . ~R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miramar Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I'll always remember my Mac IIfx. Didn't own it(way out of my budget) but had one at the office. Insanely fast! (at that time anyway) I did however own a Performa 630 with an Apple TV Tuner card. Not a Mac, the original Newton Messagepad was great fun. We used to write our names on it and the OMP would tell us what it thought of us. Handwriting recognition at that point in time was hilarious. The greatest Mac in my office has to be the lone PowerMac 7600 that is still running System 7.5.1 & our invoicing system written by yours truly in 4th Dimension 3.5. I'll take pictures if you don't believe me! Edit: Having just wrote all that & reading through some of your posts, I feel old. You guys are talking about G3s & G4s and here I am babbling about 68030s & 040s & PPC604s & Sys 7.5. I think I'll take a nap now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 The greatest Mac in my office has to be the lone PowerMac 7600 that is still running System 7.5.1 & our invoicing system written by yours truly in 4th Dimension 3.5. I'll take pictures if you don't believe me! Nice. "If it aint broke, dont fix it" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jglavin Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 I was a fan of the cake box macs. I had a IIVX, and centris 650 (same case style) which were pretty okay but both a bit slow. Then a beige g3 which still runs. Nice design on both cases as far as accessibility for upgrades went. The older case though was much more solidly built... real metal on the inside and out. Besides those, the mac Pluses we had in school were simply bulletproof - except for one time. I was playing a game once (Stratego I think), and noticed there was smoke emitting from the top of the computer. It smoked for what seemed like a long time before the computer stopped responding. Honest to god. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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