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Apple IIgs. I know, it's not a Mac, but I'd have to say that it was hands down the BEST computer Apple ever made. It had a longer lifespan than any Mac (Sold from 1986-1993, I believe). It had some incredible potential for the hardware used. The monitor eventually burned out on mine, but I still run Bernie II the Rescue for emulation. Ah, the good old days. Dungeon Master, Bard's Tale II, the great classic games...

without a doubt, my Pismo.  it gets the job done and is just so damn nice to look at

AACK!! Beaten to the punch!!!

I grew up on a IIgs. That lil machine ruined me back then on using IIe machines at my school. Used to play Wings Of Fury all the time on the IIgs. Now I play that on my Gameboy but its not as good as the old Apple version cause they took out the stuff where you can strafe the lil guys running on the ground in the Gameboy version .

Yeah, I remember Wings of Fury. My older brother was more into it than I was. My dad still has the old one, we just don't have a monitor to put on it. We could hook it up to the TV, but it doesn't have anywhere near the resolution. Emulation works well enough, although sometimes you have to play with the settings and use the original 3.5 inch floppies.

Dood, I didn't know Thexder was ported to Mac! I played that plenty on the IIgs (gotta love that cheesy techno music). I don't think it had any kind of save feature, so it would get a bit monotonous playing the first several levels over and over again.

My dad got a Pismo, but the damn thing has been a real lemon, almost worse than the 5300cs he traded in for it. The DVD drive has been replaced several times and still screws up. He cannot send email from Mail in OS X, and this is after a complete reformat/fresh installation of OS X. Hardware tests didn't bring up problems, though. It's been a pain.

The Power Mac (or performa) 5500/275.

All in one, graphics acceleration (well it was ok in 1997), fast CPU, PCI and TV with remote!!!!

I have Thexder for IIGS, and I still haven't quite figured out how the damn game works or what's going on. (yes, 95% of my IIGS games are on generic disks that have been passed around for years.  Including Spy Hunter!)

My first Mac was a Mac SE Dual Floppy. Imagine having the system folder and MS Word on one floppy and work files on the other floppy! Still love that computer. Blew an opportunity to buy a Lisa several years back but I do have the original Mac OS and applications disks.

I also still have my Mac IIcx. I still love the case design. So simple. Same with my Power Mac 7500 and trusty Blue and White G3. Now it is time for a G5.

Aside from these, I have used just about every Mac out there (thanks to my days working as a computer sales rep, CE Software and Apple Computer in Cupertino).

Instead of listing my favorites, I'm going to list the ones I don't like just to be different

My least favorite Macs:

- Macintosh II series (looked like a PC, case was too huge)
- Macintosh IIsi (ugly and problematic)
- All of the Performas

You'd think I'd list the original Mac "laptop" but I actually liked it. I think it was a victim of overzealous bad press.

Oh what the heck, my favorites:

- Blue and White G3 and G4 case
- LCD iMac
- Macintosh IIcx (the G5 gets back to its simplicity, relatively speaking)

Roger

I hate to say this... but I used my Mac Plus for 10 years straight as a professional, and even after donating to a friend 4 years ago, it still works great! I have NEVER taken it to a shop for anything, and I'm glad to say the same thing about my 266 G3 Tower, even though I can't use AfterDark Deluxe anymore! SYSTEM 5 ROCKS!!! AND IT ROCKS HARD!!!!!!

512ke

For the fun of it my old 512ke it was a great word processing and how about that ImageWriter ooohhhhh the noise of the printer a 2am in the morn.

No doubts here ... Mac ci ... that 25mhz processor was a screamer!    But the prior SE with a Radius accelerator boosting the chip to double its stock speed! Wow ... 8mhz to 16! (and I got a full page blue and white display to boot on the same upgrade card!)

Those were the good ol' days when Mac was 'almost' the only graphics game in town.

Uh, I have an original Apple Laptop, aka, the Luggable. The damn thing was huge and 16 pounds. It ran okay, but you wouldn't want it on your lap, that's for sure. The battery is so utterly dead right now that you can't get it to start up.

Got you beat ... I have the original "luggable." The Singer Sewing machine model "Compaq" original. Green screened Dual Floppy (when they were really floppy) 28 lb portable! 

My absolute favorite is the Wallstreet G3 PowerBook.  That rig has been the epitome of a professional laptop to me for a long time.

The iBook 500 is possibly the best laptop I've ever owned, Mac or PC.  It's a near-perfect design.

Lastly, the TAM.  It's just a repackaged PowerBook 3400c, but the overall design is pretty revolutionary.  A TAM may be slow by today's standards, but it'll still look avant-garde even next to the newest Macs.

A sentimental favorite is the original bondi blue iMac...the machine that turned me into a Mac user.  Back in August 1998, I sold my Pentium II-300, and bought an iMac on the very first day they were available for sale.

Macs I have owned since then: iMac 350, PowerBook 520, PowerBook 190, PowerBook 3400c, Color Classic, Performa 630, Mac Plus, and iBook 500.

CaptKevMan wrote:

Ultimate Mac collector's item: Clear SE/20

What is THAT ???