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Re: In your opinion, what is the Greateat Mac of All Time? - Sarcany - 01-24-2019
Three come to mind...
The IIfx because no Mac has inspired such techno-lust in me before or after.
The SE because it just worked with no tinkering, took everything from the plus and smoothed out all of the rough-edges. The SE paired with a LaserWriter was the epitome for DTP workstations well into the 1990s.
The LC because it fit so much in the little pizza-box and started the whole beige-box trend. I had the Apple II card in mine, plus added an expansion chassis which took it to 3 processor-direct slots and two more drive-bays. Had four operating systems running on mine simultaneously (DOS/ProDOS/Windows/Mac). We take it for granted that we can multi-task on the Mac. This machine took multi-tasking to the next-level.
Re: In your opinion, what is the Greateat Mac of All Time? - kahuna1342 - 01-24-2019
The one that I am typing this on right now... The 2012 15" unibody MacBook Pro with the "high-rez" matte screen. Quad core i7, upgraded to 16gb of RAM and a 2TB ssd. Runs Mojave, no problem at all. Anything similar in today's lineup would be somewhere in the $4K range
Second for me would be the blue & white G3 tower. At the time, a pretty revolutionary machine and super easy to work on or upgrade. Especially compared to all of the beige madeness (knuckle busters) from earlier.
Re: In your opinion, what is the Greateat Mac of All Time? - Mike Johnson - 01-24-2019
The iMac. Why should I have to explain that?
Re: In your opinion, what is the Greateat Mac of All Time? - Article Accelerator - 01-24-2019
pRICE cUBE wrote: In your opinion, what is the Greatest Mac of All Time?
Simple—the insanely powerful and capacious iMac Pro.
Re: In your opinion, what is the Greateat Mac of All Time? - Lux Interior - 01-24-2019
PM 7600. It was the first Mac I had the was really powerful.
Probably helped the the PM 7200 (the WORST Mac of all time) was what I had before it.
Re: In your opinion, what is the Greateat Mac of All Time? - msglee - 01-24-2019
Beige G3 Desktop
It was so easy to get your hands inside it.
For some unknown reason I still have it.
Re: In your opinion, what is the Greateat Mac of All Time? - archipirata - 01-24-2019
Another vote for the Mac Pro 1.1
I ran mine for over 10 years as my primary workstation and it was still running fine when I had to finally upgrade due to software support obsolescence.
Re: In your opinion, what is the Greateat Mac of All Time? - tuqqer - 01-24-2019
MacBook Air. Any of them.
The SSD was the technological invention I'd been waiting for since I first waited a minute for an app to open and 2 minutes for a Mac to start up.
Re: In your opinion, what is the Greateat Mac of All Time? - Lew Zealand - 01-24-2019
The Plus (maybe 512k?) or the original iMac were the most important to the platform and the company.
But for me it was the 7500. Shipped with:
100MHz 601 ("G1" chip)
8MB RAM
500MB SCSI-1 HD
10bT Enet
2MB VRAM mobovideo
Upgraded it to:
1GHz G4
1GB RAM
PCI ATA/100 card w/4x300GB HDDs
PCI FW400 + USB2 + Gigabit Enet
PCI 128MB Radeon 9200 video
How many orders of magnitude more performance was wringable from this chassis with these upgrades (observed numbers, not theoretical):
Processor: 0.76
Memory size: 1.1
Storage space: 3.4
Storage speed: 0.8
Network speed: 0.9
Video speed: 1.6
VRAM: 1.8
Total: 10.36 orders of magnitude more capability in 2010 than when this machine was sold in 1995.
Good design.
Edit: I forgot something important. It shipped with System 7.5.3 and at the end it was running Mac OS 10.4.11. Not bad.
Re: In your opinion, what is the Greateat Mac of All Time? - S. Pupp - 01-24-2019
Quadra 840AV, because of the fantastic audio/video performance.
It was awesome even when I bought it in 2000 for $20 or so.
With a SpigotPower input card, it could record excellent video with quality that put a Firewire Mac using a Canopus ADVC-100 to shame. Too bad that, unless you didn't mind 640X240 progressive video and a 2 GB file size limitation, you were stuck with a short interlaced jpeg file that nothing modern could read. Oh sure, you could convert it to Cinepak...if you could spare a few months' worth of processing per video clip.
The A/D audio conversion is said to have been better than Macs that followed it, thanks to its AT&T DSP chip.
Yes, my Mac SE/30 with an overclocked '040 beats some of its specs, but to me, the Quadra 840AV remains a magnificent beast. My intense guilt and regret about throwing it away when I got married is probably why our house is now filled with literally dozens of rescued legacy Macs.