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PowerMacMan wrote:

SchmoBurger wrote:

PowerMacMan wrote:

1GHz, actually.

Serious!!!!????? EGAD!

Oh yes...

Wow.

Makes me wish I'd've kept my s900.

wow I remember seeing first macs or the old ones with the little screen and the one floppy drive and the big mouse with the big button.

The original 128K mac.  It was the one that  turned on a new evolution of home computing.  Even the superbowl commercial has never been outdone in my opinon.

ed724

Last edited by ed724 (2005-03-30 10:48 am)

Why? Considering you're not contributing anything?

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Whatever it is, I haven't had one yet. I do have to say though, I have a soft spot in my heart for how quick and snappy OS 9 was with opening windows and drop down menus compared to OS X. Maybe it's like that on a new Powermac, but I still haven't even seen a G5 tower in person let alone used one to find out.

Tallgeese wrote:

Quadra 840AV

Amen, the startup sound....ahhhh

My favorite desktop is my current Mac--a grphite "Last of the G3 700" iMacs with 768 MB of RAM.

My favorite laptop was my last laptop--a TiBook G4 500 with 512 MB of RAM.  Wish I never sold that thing, but now I have a 900 MHz G3 iBook (overclocked with iCooked).

In a chronological order of acquizition. these are just my favorites, there have been more:

IIfx: I had this one in a IIx case that I had hacked the front open so I could have a built in cd rom. It was ugly, but it worked great!

Umax c500/180: Much faster than the fx, and a lot better looking! LOUD built in speaker.

Quadra 950: An absolute dream. Stable as a rock. And the case... ohh... the case! just push two tabs and you're in! IMHO THE pinnacle of ease of repair was set here. This one will never leave my possesion. heck, I might just have it buried with me. Whenever I need an example of elegance through simplicity I just give her a once over. I bought this one just to have it.

iMac DV+ sage: The bad; The OD crapped out twice. A PITA to work on. the screen size got old  in a hurry. No real upgrade path. The good; beeaauuttiiffuull. 5 years of service before retirement, and she is just starting to feel sluggish.

B+W G3 300: Case second only to Q950. Within 12 hours I had her running at 400mhz for $0.00, and five minutes of my time! I wanted one of these when I bought the iMac, but they were NLA.

With my average I'll get a G5 in 2009-2010! woo-hoo!

Sigh... where to begin?

After the first Mac I owned (a Mac Classic), I would say the first Mac I fell in love with was my PowerBook 160. My company bought it for me to help write reports on the road to save time. It had 4MB of RAM, an 80MB HD, and a built-in Supra 19.2KB modem. God that machine was slick! I told my boss at the time that if I had to choose between my wife and the PowerBook, I would really have a hard time choosing.

The next computer I really loved was the G3 desktop. That thing was built like a frickin' tank! The company I work for had spare parts for these things available, so I was able to create a Frankenmac out of one. By the time I was done, I had a 333 Mhz ZIF daughterboard overclocked to 400 Mhz, with 512 MB RAM, 20GB HD, CD-RW drive, firewire and USB cards, and a Rage Pro 16MB card. Once I was able to get a hold of a B&W G3, I transferred all of the 'goodies' from the beige tank into the tower.

Now, my joy is my Aluminum 15" 1Ghz. It's getting a little long in the tooth, but with 1GB of RAM and a recent upgrade to a Superdrive from a combo drive, it still has a lot of mileage left in her. Plus, like almost every one of my Macs, I didn't have to spend a dime.

I own you all, my father in law STILL uses his two, never serviced, 512k Macs, one at home and one at his office. Hi only writes legal documents (he is a bloodsucking lawyer) printed on a Image Writer II, and his perfectly clean spelling and grammar (at 61 it should be) cares less about auto correcting software. All using system 4 with MacWrite and floppys like hell (backups everywhere, though he still files every document on printed paper, not disks.

He is so used to them, that I helped him track down a couple more in perfect condition to keep them on the side in case one needs service (still never happened), also some external floppy drives for replacement (these models don't have SCSI, 400K floppy only). I tried to give him my old but perfecly working SE/30 but this model can't run his old 68000 software (it has to be 68030).

We once tried to have him switched to a new Mac, we gave him a first generation eMac for Xmas and it drove him crazy. It ended up with me for a few months until I found a person who truly needed it. At least it helped my fiancee switch. This guy was not made for e-mail, CD-Rs, USB, MP3 or even a color screen, believe me. I'm surprised he even tried a computer back when 512k Macs were new and give up his typewriter. But he is a fascinating old man, smart and full of knowledge. He only plays chess on his 512k Macs (and ocassionaly beats it!).

My favorite Macs ever?

Owned: The PowerMac G4 Gigabit that lasted me almost 5 years non-stop without a glitch. Fully expandible. Also my SE/30, so much power into such a little machine. And last, my Beige G3/333 tower, man talk about smoking performance and expandibility for the time (I donated it to a cousin who is still using it).

Never owned: B&W G3, sexy and beauty combined with power and flexibility. PM 9600/MP, first time I ever drooled so bad for a machine (that's why a loved the Beige G3 tower so much, it looked so much like the 9600 only shorter). 20th Anniversary Macintosh, techno-porn if you ask me.

That's it.

P.D. Special place for a trusty PM 6500/225, it was a great Marathon machine, if you know what I mean. And a special place for a non-owned G4 Cube, always wanted one, if only to look pretty cool on my desk.

Last edited by Barton (2005-11-07 9:02 pm)

My favorite mac would be my blueberry iMac, though I love my G4 tower.  It is missing a few things in terms of speed and its a bit noisy, but I still enjoy seeing my reflection in its drive bay doors.