[Kerrigan]

What was your favourite Mac that you've ever owned (or wished you could own)?

In its day, I thought that the 2AM/TAM was the best computer on the market. Of course I was quite a young kid when that thing was released so the only experience I ever had with it was at some high end electronic shops and then I saw a few went I went to Disneyland (don't ask me why they had them).

The second best Mac IMHO would be the original iMac, which was pretty amazing when it was first released.

Of course there are hundreds of other Mac models out there, so post which is your favourite.

[scaught]

mine

[Kenneth]

Mdd

[Lateralus]

PowerPC Desktop: The 9600
680x0 Desktop: The IIci
PowerPC Notebook: The Pismo
680x0 Notebook: The PowerBook 100

[Salty]

I really love the 12 inch Powerbooks, and the iMac G4s were pretty awesome when they first came out... that said a G5 PowerMac with a 30 inch Cinema...

[Maflynn]

My G4 Cube

Best design, worst marketing.

I suppose after that word be the lampshade iMac

Mike

[Salty]

Also I still have people who say they want one of the coloured iBooks... I would have sold my soul for a keylime iBook when they were new.

[nredman]

the original iMac, not my favorite but i think its the best & more important mac ever.

[rickey939]

Titanium PowerBook G4 (DVI model)

[Railroader]

500 MHz Pismo.

I had a 400 MHz and the only thing I wanted was a 500 MHz one.

They should use the form of the Pismo as a starting block for the next PowerBook.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by Maflynn

My G4 Cube

Best design, worst marketing.

Mike

Maybe aesthetically, but not functionally. A mixture of the Cube and a Mac Mini would be ideal as a desktop machine.

[Pendergast]

My Powerbook 12inch, 1 GHz, with Superdrive and the 20" Cinema Display.

[iDriveX]

Aluminum 12" PowerBook - I heard rumors that in the next PowerBook revision this model would be going bye-bye along with the Intel books. I hope this isn't true. It's the perfect little laptop with Power.

G4 Cube - Upgrade this thing to the hilt and it's a thing of wonder to look at and not too shabby to work on.

[Salty]

The only reason I could see them doing away with the 12 inch is if they want to start offering high end features on the 12 inch iBook as options. They probably make a killing with the mark up on the 12 inch PowerBook. Right now it's not such a hot buy but once they get into Intel land I imagine there'll be more things to distinguish them apart.

[teney7]

I liked the G4 cube best.. that said, I've never actually used one..

[JMan09]

My first Mac will probably be my favorite(hopefully soon), but I always liked the colored iBooks when they came out. And I also like the Al PBooks.

[Tesseract]

TiBook. Especially the first DVI revision.
But I never owned one.

[TailsToo]

PowerBook 170 - the first laptop that everreally kicked ass.

[iMOTOR]

Originally Posted by iDriveX

I heard rumors that in the next PowerBook revision this model would be going bye-bye along with the Intel books.

How long will spare 12in pb's keep if I put them in the freezer??

[macaddict0001]

pismo blue and white g3 and cube.

[iDriveX]

I liked the color iBooks too, they should have kept them around, but they should have just evolved them, slimmed down the HUGE monitor framing and increased the resolution to 1024x768. I had a Key Lime iBook. It was fun.

[Paco500]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned:

Original Mac 128k
IIFX
SE/30
PowerBook 2400 <-- My favorite laptop (in it's time)

[Cubeoid]

I have always liked the ol' Apple Mac.

[angelmb]

All we have now is due to this cute baby:

[OreoCookie]

PowerBook G3 Kanga. Just because it was my first Mac

[analogika]

Originally Posted by Lateralus

PowerPC Desktop: The 9600
680x0 Desktop: The IIci
PowerPC Notebook: The Pismo
680x0 Notebook: The PowerBook 100

Add to that:

All-in-one: Macintosh SE/30

And nice to see the IIci in that list. That thing on 6.0.7 and hooked up to a portrait monitor is simply wonderful.

[analogika]

Originally Posted by Salty

I would have sold my soul for a keylime iBook when they were new.

I hope you've talked to Jesus about your urges...

[FulcrumPilot]

Another vote for Pismo. Apple design at its best!

[scaught]

ya. i had always lusted for the pismos. i really like my 12" powerbook though. small footprint. power to do whatever i need it to do. very nice looking. MADE OF METAL!!! so good.

[zizban]

The mdd G4 I have is the best Mac I've ever owned. I would love to have a Color Classic II.

[finboy]

Originally Posted by Railroader

500 MHz Pismo.

I had a 400 MHz and the only thing I wanted was a 500 MHz one.

They should use the form of the Pismo as a starting block for the next PowerBook.

Yup. Still useful after all of these years, and user-upgradable w/o worry. Can't beat 'em.

[tooki]

The Performa 475 (=LC 475, and the near-identical Quadra 605) is, in my opinion, the epitome of brilliant design.

It was sleek, small, power-efficient (it uses less power than an iBook!), with a beautiful internal design. It also was the most cost-effective Mac so far. This $999 model from 1993 had more computing power than the $10,000 Mac IIfx from just 3 years before.

It was also quiet, reliable, and not finicky.

tooki

[Tesseract]

Quadra 950.
Oh, you said best, not loudest... my bad.

[rambo47]

Yeah Pismo! My first Mac was a Wall Street PowerBook, the 292 MHz G3 processor / 83 MHz system bus. Man, I loved that thing. I upgraded to a Ti G4 PowerBook and sold the old Wall Street, but years later I wanted it back. Gone, of course, so I did the next best thing, I bought a pristine Pismo. I figured that was the ultimate model in that form factor, the last and greatest G3 PowerBook. I'm running Max OSX (Panther) and Yellow Dog Linux 3.1 in dual-boot fashion.

My other great love is my Blue & White G3 PowerMac. I still have that one, no mistake made selling it like my Wall Street PowerBook! I upgraded the processor to a Sonnet G4 500 MHz, slapped in dual hard drives (it's a rev. b) and a Cisco AeroNet wireless card (for Mac OSX and AirPort compatibility in an unsupported machine). It's got Panther and OS9 running, happily crunching SETI and Folding data.

[teknopimp]

Originally Posted by Pendergast

My Powerbook 12inch, 1 GHz, with Superdrive and the 20" Cinema Display.

i agree. my pb12/1.33/sd + og cd.

[ogun]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

What was your favourite Mac that you've ever owned (or wished you could own)?

In its day, I thought that the 2AM/TAM was the best computer on the market. Of course I was quite a young kid when that thing was released so the only experience I ever had with it was at some high end electronic shops and then I saw a few went I went to Disneyland (don't ask me why they had them).

The second best Mac IMHO would be the original iMac, which was pretty amazing when it was first released.

Of course there are hundreds of other Mac models out there, so post which is your favourite.

The best 680x0 Mac was the IIci. No question. I had one in active use until it was killed by a lightening strike which also nailed the UPS and a 7600 plugged into that UPS, in 2000. The IIci did everything I asked of it, did it well, and rarely gave trouble. Next best 680x0 was the Plus (once the power supply was fixed); I had a Plus which had been upgraded from the original 128 and it was still doing useful work in 1992 when I sold it.

The best pre-G3 PPC was the 7600.

The best G4 is the eMac. My eMac 1.42 simply hammers my old graphite and quicksilver G4s.

The best G5 is the dual 2.7 (so far as I can tell, from afar, that is...)

There is no good G3, though the beige tower came close.

[wdlove]

Of course my current Power Mac G4 dual 450, it has given me 5 loyal happy years.

It's also the Mac that I don't own yet.

[sek929]

I'll throw in a vote for the QS 733, damn reliable and has taken all upgrades without any issues. Now with Panther and iTunes5 CDs rip 2x faster than ever before (sustained speeds of 11x-12x, before was 9x-10x). and the OS is works quicker than ever before. Who knew after 4 years it would be better than ever

My iMac 333 was sweet at first, but the paperclip reset button got alot of use, and then the capacitor blew. After it was repaired the screen had a green tinge to it.

[Cadaver]

SE30
LC III
Wallstreet/PDQ/Lombard/Pismo Powerbook line
Original iMac
Cube
G5
Mini

[PookJP]

Mac IIsi!!


But I'd probably say the original iMac was the most significant.

[MM-o4]

20th century.
that was some full on ish at the time. But you did pay for it.

MM

[Stogieman]

Originally Posted by rickey939

Titanium PowerBook G4 (DVI model)

Seconded. Bought my Titanum PowerBook (800 Mhz DVI) back in May of 2002. When I use it in public it still turns heads. I took it to work with me the other day and my co-workers couldn't believe it was a 3 year old notebook.


It's funny but my PowerBook feels faster now than it did 3 years ago. Thank you Panther/Tiger!!!

[OpenStep]

500mhz Pismo

[k squared]

I had a Lombard, which I miss (I'm on 12" PB currently) and can only imagine the Prismo was a worthy upgrade (AirPort and FireWire).

I know this thread is about individual computers, but what about an Apple design era? The Macworld when the optical mouse and Cube were introduced was a really special time for Apple design IMHO. The exploration of convection cooling in the Cube and iMac and transparency in the iMac, mouse, Cube, and iBook have really set the stage for what we are seeing today: the subtle layering and depth of plastic of the iPod and iMac resulted from these examples. Apple has come a long way from the butt crack on top of the 3400.

[KeriVit]

Pismo gets my vote and the 17"PB.

But really, I think Apple needs to get back to computers... My purchase for a dream system is coming up in December and if I can't have some new schizit to show off, it's pointless.

[JoshuaZ]

iiVx. The first CD drive, fastest depressiation of any Mac. Ever. Our dog peed on it while it was stored in the basement. No one cared.