Which Was The Best Compact Mac Made?

[just.in.time]

But you can add Greyscale on the 9 inch display thru 3rd party hardware with the Micron Xceed Video card and its adapter. 

Too bad it is literally cheaper to buy a new MacBook Air than what people have been asking for those Micron cards w/ adapters the past couple years it seems

My favorite compact Mac has to be my SE FDHD .  I've had it for over a decade.  Just this year upgraded to 4mb of RAM and upgraded the hard drive from the original 20mb MiniScribe due to not enough space for 7.1 and apps/games, and tossed in a new clock battery.  MiniScribe was still going strong.  I wish I could say the same for the Conner drive I found in my Portable.  Its support for ADB and a rock solid logic board, with a floppy drive that can read 1.4mb disks have definitely played a huge part in making it an affordable and usable machine to this day.

The SE/30 and an upgraded Color Classic are also some good contenders, but again aren't true 68000 machines and one requires new caps while the other requires a different logic board.

 

[jsarchibald]

I'd have to go the Color Classic II.  That screen, old school connectivity, in a cute little shape, you could add a IIe card, and it finally had the performance to match.  The SE/30 was a beast back in the day, but the CCII trumps it in almost every way.  Rare as hen's teeth, I only have a Performa 250 and it's certainly no speed demon.

I get the SE/30 love, but B&W just doesn't cut it for me when talking about the best.

 

[just.in.time]

jsarchibald, I may have a cool post coming up in Conquests later that you may find interesting