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Macintrash
New Member
Australia
68 Posts |
 Posted - 12 May 2003 : 05:06:45
What are the top 10 Apple machines (in your opinion)?
1 being The best, and 10 being worst.Cheers. |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 05:13:00
10. Performa 5/6xxx
9. PowerBook 5300
8. Dual USB iBook (quality issues....
7. Slot loading iMac (quality issues, again....)
6. Pizzabox LCs
5. IIci
4. Mac II
3. TiBook/1 Ghz
2. First gen PowerMacs
1. Power Macintosh 9600/350-------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5
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Macintrash
New Member
Australia
68 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 05:24:30
Interesting... Nice selection though.
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shaktiman
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 05:32:05
From relativley limited experience & bearing in mind that I'm not even sure that I know the names of 10 different types of mac(unless you count 7100, 7200/132, 7600/132, 7600/180, etc & even then I wouldn't be sure if I might be accidentally making new ones up)10 performa 400
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8
7
6
5 Pentium based pc running Gemulator/Softmac
4 Quadra 650
3 Powerbook duo 280c
2 PowerMac 7600/132
1 Quadra840av
shaktiman
Quadra 840av, prettymuchmaxedout8xcd drive
os 8.1
128 meg ram, 500 meg hard drive
PPC7600/132, 4.23Gig & 500 Meg drives, 8X cd
os 8.6
Performa400(deadintheattick)
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catsdorule
Senior Member
Canada
1627 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 06:32:18
10- Powerbase 180
9- Classic
8- Powerbase 180
7- iMac 500
6-
5- LC
4-
3-
2- Powermac 8600
1- iMac G4 -800-danny
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 07:17:40
quote:
What are the top 10 Apple machines (in your opinion)?
1 being The best, and 10 being worst.
Ordering them is too ordered for me :) but put the following somewhere in the list of top macs Quadra 605, Powerbook 540c, NuBus Powermacs, Beige G3 MT, Quadra 950, SE/30, 6360, icebooks. As for the worst, well, even the traditionally worst-macs have served me well, and I'm not too fussed - probably because they cost me next to nothing. That includes an original LC (the most personality of any of my macs - she talks to herself with whistles, clicks, pops and hissing that sounds like R2D2), a 6300 which was the first mac I spent any real time with, and introduced me to photoshop, and a Classic (the first one) which was still neat despite what it wasn't.
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 12:34:26
WHY is TiBook GHz only number THREE?????I'd say that the top ten macs in my world are 10 - First Gen pMacs/Performas (I've never had one NOT DOA)
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5 - PowerMac 6500 (I have one so why not)
4 - Quadra 840AV (had one and want it back... borked [:'(]
3 - PowerMac 7300/200 (have one and it's WONDERFUL)
2 - PowerMac 8600/300 (want one SO BAD!!!)
1 - TiBook/GHz I don't dislike enough macs to put any under slot#5 other than #10... "I love all macs, and they all love me" Official 68k videographer
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emaq123
Junior Member
USA
258 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 15:28:17
quote:
What are the top 10 Apple machines (in your opinion)?
1 being The best, and 10 being worst.
Most of these lists are Mac only, the question states "Apple machines". I defined "top" as: Being the most important or significant. I can flip my numbers around a bit but these are the machines in my opinion.
1.......Plus............Defined Macintosh - Longest shipped Mac
2.......PB100...........Introduced in 1991 and still looks current
3.......Apple II........Helped define 'Personal Computer'
4.......PM 7500.........Great case, master of expansion
5.......TiBook..........Widescreen notebook
6.......SE/30...........Powerhouse of a computer
7.......Newton (120 or 2100)..Defined PDA
8.......iMac............Not the 1st all-in-one but hugely successful
9.......Qudara 840av....Solid AV on 68k
10......LCD iMac........A computer that adjusts to people
The forum software hates me. How do I do tabs?
emaq123
SE/30 and system 6.0.8 Now we're talking POWER! Edited by - emaq123 on 12 May 2003 15:39:13 |
cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 15:32:44
I see that yours are mostly "the top-10"that's what I tried to do... except I didn't fill in slots 9, 8, 7, and 6 Official 68k videographer
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Gothikon
Full Member
Australia
537 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 15:51:20
I'm not going to put mine in order (I don't think I could!)soG4 Cube
9600 233 (I'll explain why this is better than the 350 in a min)
Colour Classic
Quadra 840/AV
iMac CRT
Duo 2400
PBook 3400
Original TiBook
Dual USB iBook
Mac + I own or have owned most of these apart from the PowerBooks and the 840/AV. Well i think that covers most of my favourites I would have liked to stuff a 7x00 in there too. Anyway this is a bit of a personal rant but can I just explain to everyone that the 9600 is not better than the 233, it is in fact worse. If you compare two stock Macs the 350 will blow the 233 away. However it only beats the 233 because of the processor speed. So If you upgrade both to G3 400's they would be equal. Well you'd think so but the 350 will actually be significantly slower. It seems the last gen Mach V x600's had some funky bus issues that causes them to lose about 10-15% performance using modern graphics cards (and other upgrades) cards compared to the 233's. Seeing as these days very few people are going to stick with the stock configuration especially when good G3 upgrades are going down to 50 USD in the second hand market, the 233 (or lower even) is the machine to go for. There is far better explanation of this at www.xlr8yourmac.com --------
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 16:04:18
I like the 8600s and proabbly wouldn't upgrade it to a g3 or g4... I just like things 'stock'  Official 68k videographer
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 19:36:36
Hmm, I was half asleep when i did that other list, so here i go again:10. Original Macintosh (128k)
9. Slot loading iMac
8. Power Mac G4
7. First Gen PowerMacs
6. Mac II
5. iMac
4. Quadra 840AV
3. Quadra 950
2. TiBook 1Ghz
1. Power Macintosh 9600/350 -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5
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The Lightning Stalker
Full Member
USA
747 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 19:36:47
quote:
The forum software hates me. How do I do tabs?
You don't. It also truncates double spaces after sentenses into single spaces (Yuck!). All double spaces, for that matter. How iLove top ten lists! Top ten lists and forums have an etherial connection dating all the way back to the dawn of CPU time. Now, as for my top 10 Apples, seeing that I don't even own 10, well, I have used over ten in the past, I guess, so I'll make a stab at it. Apple //e (there's just something about that Apple //e)
Apple //c (Luggability!)
LC III (first Mac I ever used)
Cat Piss Performa 631CD
Quadra 650
Performa 6400 (built-in subwoofer makes a great jukebox!)
Power Macintosh 7600
Power Macintosh 4400 (I just like it because of the startup chime, otherwise it's real slow. You need a sub for the full effect.)
iMac
Quadra 610 (Pretty fast 68k pizzabox) |
llamaboy487
Full Member
USA
516 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 19:42:14
dont forget the SE FDHD... first 1.4meg disk drive-------------
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Brett B.
Junior Member
USA
105 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2003 : 22:44:41
10. 52xx/62xx/72xx
9. LC/LCII
8. rev_a iMac (the trayloading one)
7. 6100/7100
6. Beige G3
5. LC575
4. Quadra 700
3. Classic II
2. LC630
1. SE. 'twas a hard choice between the 630 and this
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Top 10 Macs???
68k of the Week: kastegir's PowerBook 180.