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maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 17 Mar 2003 : 03:56:36 I've got two machines that are the best Macs I've ever had: My LCIII - It was my first Mac, and it helped make me the Mac lovin guy I am today My iMac - That thing helped me make it through Hell (Grade 12) last year. Using it put my mind at rest while the War was going on outside my dorm room. This was also the very computer I would send SOS signals out of my room via email when things really were taking a turn for the worse. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 17 Mar 2003 : 05:06:32 Probably my iMac. It works perfectly and has never failed at anything. I use it daily for word processing, music composition, the Internet, and whatever else needs to be done, and it handles them all. It has never kernel panicked, nor has it given me any hardware problems. In fact, I'm using it right now! Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert Macs Liberated: SE (2), LC, IIsi, PB 145b, Quadra 700 (2), LC 575, 6100 (2), PB 5300, PowerMac 5400/200, Performa 6400/180 PCs liberated from Windoze: 3
Alien Junior Member Netherlands 269 Posts	Posted - 17 Mar 2003 : 05:32:35 In the words of the late Enzo Ferrari: "The next one." ,xtG .tsooJ -- RTFM
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 17 Mar 2003 : 08:24:11 My G4 imac, and my DIA Colour Classic, my G3 imac has caused me nothing but grief with all it`s breakdowns. -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 17 Mar 2003 : 09:07:45 I'd have to say, without any kind of hesitation, that for me, the 7300 and the TiBook have been the best macs.... the CRT iMac has been alot of greif (under classic) and now it's Grandpa's OSX machine.... from what I hear, the 7300 ran OSX pretty well too.... although even as this may be, it runs Mac OS 9.0 very well... I will probably try to recover my OS9.0 CD one of these days, as GoMac was supposed to give this one back eto me Even when it only had a VGA 640 by 480 monitor, the 7300 was one of the most reliable macs, did everything I wanted to, except when I realised I didn't have a printer or, the first time around, a modem... this time around, with a 15" MultiScan monitor and an apple keyboard, it's even better.... and now it has 2 hard drives, a 1.2 GB and a 3.2 GB... this was going to be my classic running PowerPoint presentation Meister.... (refer to the projectors thread) Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
tmtomh Junior Member USA 172 Posts	Posted - 17 Mar 2003 : 09:45:18 Every Mac I've ever used as my primary computer has been great. I would say my current machine -- a 15" flat panel iMac -- is the best, becuase it is the fastest, it never crashes, it looks great, the screen adjusts to my every whim, and it cost less than my previous main Macs (SE FDHD, PB180, PM7300). Matt No rank Permanent 68k roommates: - "PowerMystic" Color Classic, 66MHz PPC601 card, full '040, 36/1.2G/enet, OS 8.1 - "Mystic" Color Classic, full '040, 36/700/enet, OS 8.1 - Q605 overclocked to 33MHz, full '040, 36/1.2G/enet, 8.1, Debian Woody
boredomconquersall Full Member Canada 613 Posts	Posted - 17 Mar 2003 : 10:16:52 prolly my mac IIsi, the first mac I ever used back in like '94. still goes, still has all it's old hardware (exept the four PDS slot riser card; my teacher was insane, don't ask.) it still even has all of my old simcity files! mind you, the sys folder was killed in a tragic stupidiy accedent (damn you little kids!) but that's what external HDs ar4e for, right? THNxnx "I'll give you 10 cents to eat 60 marshmallows" *I'm watching this feat right now, it's really funny! 10000Th poster and 1000Th topic creator in lounge. and remember, if you try and install mac OS 10.2 on an early G3, you will go insane, and aquire a thirst for blood!
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 17 Mar 2003 : 11:05:50 yeah myIIsi is real nice too... I have a dualie internal HDD setup a 500 and a 250... or was it a 500 and a 120MB... either way it's a nice A/UX machine Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
Gothikon Full Member Australia 537 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 01:55:29 My upgraded 9600 was my fave Mac. 9600 G3 480 1Mb cache. 64 MB Voodoo 5, Wired 4DVD decoder, USB card, VST Dual Channel IDE card. 450+ MB of interleaved RAM. 18.2 GIG SCSI boot Disk, 40 GIG IDE app and game disk. Pioneer DVD drive and SONY 24x internal burner. Unfortunately we are now seperated but he went to a good home and is well looked after. i've kept the best of the upgrade though, I'm saving them for the day when I buy another 9600! Apart from that my Cube which replaced it has been has been great, I really need to replace the flakey 512 MB Dimm though. Even then I've had very few KP's in the 6 or so months I've had it. My g/fs iMac hasn't crashed once in the same amount of time though. I couldn't finish without a 68k mac! My perforama 630 was the first Mac I actually owned (I've been using them for much longer though). My dad and I went 50/50 and over the years it's been pretty much maxed out with a TV tuner ethernet and AV card and 56 MB of RAM. It still serves as a useful machine today. My sister now uses it with photoshop 3 for art college. If I had to choose one it'd be the 9600 though. -------- LC 2, LC 3, Q605, Perf 638, Colour Classic (160 603e) 6100, 7200, PTP 225 (Quad 604), PM 9600, G4 Cube
foetoid Full Member USA 554 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 06:03:21 Best Mac I've ever had??? Tough choice. I think I'll have to say my PB 520c, even though it doesn't ever seem to work the way I really want it to, I stay focused when I use it, and my mind doesn't wander fof. I think it may have something to do with having no screen space to utilize. I'm using it to write my movie now. It's good for my movie writing it seems.... ________________ foetoid, that's (fee-toy-duh) http://www.foetoid.doesntexist.com
shaktiman Senior Member United Kingdom 1226 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 08:42:11 Well it has to be my 840av.......... I've had st, pc & mac. The Quadra is the best because it is the most reliable. The st was more familiar to me & so appeared friendlier, but just wasn't up to the task spec wise. The pc promised to do alot but I just had crash after crash. Every day I go into my computer room & check my email & surf a little & every day my 840av does the job. It is not perfect, & like yesterday I had ethernet working, I havn't conciously changed any settings, but today it wont work! It isnt the master of the universe, but it does the basics for me. My Performa 400 was worse than my st The Quadra 650 is doing well & is looking to make itself a permanent home. I love my PSOne, not cos it's the best but I don't have to spend loads upgrading it & again it does the job I need it to. shaktiman Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive,3 monitors 15" & 14" & 14" os 8.1 , 12 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive Performa400(asleepintheattick)
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 09:03:59 My old Mac II was the best Mac that I ever owned. Bought back in fall of 1987, I used it fulltime for nearly 7 years. I took it to work with me and infected the company that I worked for (they started buying Macs for other people). It started out with only 1 MB RAM, then got another 1 MB, then was pushed to 5MB and finally had 8 MB at retirement. The 40 MB HD (a 5 1/4 half-height monster) filled up and developed stiction, so it was replaced with a new fast 200 MB HD (which cost $1600 at the time!). I still fondly remember the start-up chime of the Mac II -- it sounded so much bigger and more "sophisticated" than the simple BONG of the older macs. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way Reserve Officer in 68kMLA Cantankerous Coot Contingent
danamania Official 68k Muse Australia 1193 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 10:50:21 I have 3 I'm quite attached to. The first is the 8100, the mac I owned before any others. I only used it as a main machine for under a year, but it was my introduction to messing about with the mac world. I used to use macs in pre-press at my sister's place and my work, but never had a chance to really break the OS in the way that let me see how it all worked. It's still doing its thing too, as my fileserver now. The next of course, is the Quadra 605 I use as my everything-linux-server. It does a bit of everything and just sits there turned on all the time. Never crashes, and handles what I throw as it. snif. I love reliability. And last - the machine I use as my main box, the Jaguar-powered indigo iMac 400. It's the fastest one I own, and apart from doing -everything- I need, it too is rock solid. The rest - they're all neat playthings. Sometimes I wish I had the room & need to get more of them working in the background constantly... dana
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 11:30:03 MicroQuadra ServerFarm? I've always wanted a..... I've always wanted an 8600... that would be really fun, get a HUGE apple monitor with the AV and play playstation and do all the other junk like that.... really a "workstation" type of mac.... 7300 is still one of my all around general purpose favorites though... Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
MacLC Starting Member Sweden 24 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 11:50:30 Yes, I use a 8600/250 with 128 MB RAM and 3x4 GB HD as my "standard" Mac. Together with a 20" Apple Multiscan and the Apple Desktop Powered Speakers it is my favorite. (The children can play with the two iMac/350's). LeifC "one more makes 100"
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 12:08:12 cool... those era macs are before apple made them crashy in OS9 and even 8 Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 14:52:34 It wasn't apple that made them crashy it was that they added all those 3rd party features into the os that made it crashey. -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 15:38:22 well really, what happens is that OS9 runs best on non-USB macs... it's all the newer hardware that makes OS9 bad (IMHO) Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 15:49:37 quote: well really, what happens is that OS9 runs best on non-USB macs... it's all the newer hardware that makes OS9 bad (IMHO) Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide I agree even 8.6 was better. -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 15:52:15 ONLY OSX runs reliably on this iMac :-\ Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 17:04:16 Ah lol, do you have the latest firmware upgrade? -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
Bugsi Starting Member USA 38 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 17:14:41 My LCIII was the greatest computer on earth, back when I bought it new in 1993 or around then. I could do things with it that would cause my PC using friends to stare in open-jaw disbelief. After that, the greatest Mac I owned was the PowerMac 8500. Its expandability kept it my main Mac up until last year, when I replaced it with a massively upgraded Beige G3 and a new 17" G4 iMac. Of those, the iMac looks like it will win the next "best Mac" award from me. Honorable Mention: The venerable SE/30. SE, Classic II, SE/30, IIcx, IIci, IIx, IIfx, LCIII => Q605 (the mega-upgrade) PB190cs, Duo2300c PM6100, PM8100, PM8500, Beige G3, 17" G4 iMac
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 18:06:43 quote: I agree even 8.6 was better. It was nice for the few days i had it on the iMac (I got it second hand in 2000 and one of the first things i did to the imac was upgrade it to OS 9), but it was absolutely shocking on the PB1400. Dunno why, but in my experience, Mac OS 8.6 just really doesn't like PowerBook 1400s. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 7
appleseed Starting Member Australia 40 Posts	Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 21:56:24 I still love my colour classic. But for ease of use screen wise, I prefer using my LC-475's. No complications, no sweat. They never seem to miss a beat. Definition of Happy Confusion. A dog with two tails .
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 19 Mar 2003 : 11:00:30 that's the way I feel about my 7300, always it will be there for me to fall back onto.... I hope to get the bugger set up one of these days... no matter how much my dad says "there's not enough room" I'm sure that there is... I'll have to make that vertical stand for it and sit it on the ground under a small desk or something like that That's the other thing I love... those Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II things NEVER die completely... I just today had a MS balled mouse die... and I need to get a new mouse for my PowerBook.... I'm thinking about a cheap Logitech Optical Scroll mouse Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 19 Mar 2003 : 12:38:34 My iBook will be awesome once i get it.... -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 19 Mar 2003 : 12:46:49 yeah... if only you actually had it actually... if you could get one of the Key Lime ones with the AV out and junk... HUGE TV and run PowerPoint Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 19 Mar 2003 : 12:56:35 quote: yeah... if only you actually had it actually... if you could get one of the Key Lime ones with the AV out and junk... HUGE TV and run PowerPoint Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide But that would be more money. -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
brad_k New Member Canada 63 Posts	Posted - 19 Mar 2003 : 13:28:36 The LC III was my all time favourite Mac, though I didn't own one when it was new. At the time I had an accelerated SE with a 16Mhz 68000 card. I even ran MacTCP with PPP on it using Mosaic. That was in 1991-92. <sigh> Those were the days. -Brad
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 23 Mar 2003 : 10:52:41 quote: The LC III was my all time favourite Mac, though I didn't own one when it was new. At the time I had an accelerated SE with a 16Mhz 68000 card. I even ran MacTCP with PPP on it using Mosaic. That was in 1991-92. <sigh> Those were the days. -Brad Have you heard of the "shortlegs classic mac server" on hotline, it runs on a se/30 . -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 23 Mar 2003 : 11:21:25 hehehe... I'm thinking that this PowerBook is becoming the best... we all know that I've only had one problem I call it 'the battery fiasco' Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
MrLynn Junior Member USA 394 Posts	Posted - 23 Mar 2003 : 11:46:06 My 020-accelerated SE, bought used in 1987; still running System 6.0.8. Don't use it now, but it occupies an honored place next to my similarly ancient QMS Jet+ laser printer, which still works fine via LocalTalk. There's nothing I couldn't do on that SE, except for color work (it was before the Web and e-mail exploded)--with Berkeley's wonderful Stepping Out utility, the 9" screen became a virtual monitor of any size. /Mr Lynn The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. --Larry Niven
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 23 Mar 2003 : 11:54:42 Stepping Out? I have not heard of this... does it let you scroll around a larger screen? Official 68k videographer Official MLA TourGuide
llamaboy487 Full Member USA 516 Posts	Posted - 23 Mar 2003 : 12:53:09 hmm... Performa 578. I have all kinds of games and stuff on it, sys 7.5.5 with clarisworks 5, all the Spectre games, and a whole lot more (MYST!) ------------- Grand Leader, Apple /// Revolutionary Council Apple ///'s Liberated: 29477 Visit http://www.kevcave.tk (my Forum) ...because no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 23 Mar 2003 : 13:33:21 Those are the same form factor as the cc arn't they? -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
The Lightning Stalker Full Member USA 747 Posts	Posted - 23 Mar 2003 : 13:46:29 All the ones I've owned have been my favorite. I love the powered subwoofer in the 6400/180. I love the LCIII because it's so small and perfect for a mail server. I love the 631CD because you can plug in a full 68040 in there and it still works even after a cat peed in it. Then there's the 7600/233 that's got the "fast" video card and AV inputs. It even plays MacQuake pretty well. OS9 even runs really stable on it. I guess from not having USB? The only one I didn't really like was the 5200CD. It's still pretty good for teaching my mom how to use a computer, though. And it can display 800x600 @75Hz. Such a waste. Then there's the Beige G3 motherboard that's just sitting in my bedroom waiting for a processor. Poor little thing. I love that one, too. quote: I'll have to make that vertical stand for it and sit it on the ground under a small desk or something like that Sounds like good protection in case of bombing raids. quote: I just today had a MS balled mouse die... Yeah. Those things had really crappy construction. They didn't even bother to deflux the circuit board. That's what kills them a lot of times, I think. All the dirt that gets in there just sticks to the flux and messes everything up. Same thing witht the voltage regulators on the beige G3's. The Lightning Stalker Performa 631CD, 7.5.5 LC III, FPU, 20/80/enet, 7.5.5, Mail Server 6400/180 40/1.6G/512k L2/enet/video-in/TV 7600/120 '604/233, 80/1.2G & 1G/512k L2, 9.2.2 (Main Mac) Lady Smith Apples: Apple IIc 5.25" 2 Apple IIe
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 23 Mar 2003 : 13:52:12 But I have to say the Ball less MS mouse is good. -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3

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