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If you could bring back any old Apple product...
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topicolo said:The Apple Quicktake 100 Digital Camera photos
It had the most awesome high-tech-binoculars-like design ever. I used one of those 10 years ago and thought it was soo cool--especially with the amazing 640x480 resolution photos
Never had a chance to use the 100 but I had the QuickTake 200 and it rocked! It was built like a tank! In fact, my parents still use it
I loved the 200, when I was in collage I would hook it up to my VCR and use it as a video camera.. So my vote here would be the indestructible QuickTake 200, hehe.
Marky_Mark said:^^ After posting my comments, I dragged the PB Duo out of a cupboard while I was over at my parents' house today. I remembered it was tiny (seriously, a magnitude smaller than the competition) when it first came out, but it's about the same size and thickness as my 12" iBook. I couldn't believe I thought it was so small! And blimey it was heavy, too!
I had a similar experience a couple of months ago with a Powerbook 170 I found in a client's closet. That was one hot little machine back in the day, but it looked and felt like a total brick when I put it side-by-side with my 12" Powerbook, whose full closed height barely came up to the level of the keyboard/trackball on the opened Powerbook 170.
Imagine how thin and light a modern day Duo could be. If only Apple would take all the best elements of the old Powerbook Duo and the IBM ThinkPad X series, we'd really have something special.
So here's my list:
1. Powerbook Duo
2. Newton
3. Power Macintosh 9600
4. eWorld
OS9 Skin on Mac OS X
I liked OS 9 and it's traditional Mac look. It would be fun to skin OSX to OS 9 for fun.
I liked OS 9 and it's traditional Mac look. It would be fun to skin OSX to OS 9 for fun.
This is exactly what is wrong with the mac community (semi-rant)
This might deserve a thread of its own but here it goes:
Everyone here says "i want this back" or "i want this old computer with THESE new innards". WELL? why dont you?! you could probably buy the old cases off ebay or a garage sale somewhere. so why dont you do a little MODIFICATION! make it into a project! it'll be fun and exciting! This is what teh Mac community is lacking, it seems the most modification anyone does to their computer is adding more RAM, and even THEN they are sweating out every moment of it. i would LOVE to see someone put a G5 in an old G4 or whatever they want to do. i've seen some AMAZING things done with a PC even if they are PCs the people who built/moded the cases are real craftsmen. Dont get me wrong, i love macs and the mac community. but there is deffinately something it is lacking....
End RANT
This might deserve a thread of its own but here it goes:
Everyone here says "i want this back" or "i want this old computer with THESE new innards". WELL? why dont you?! you could probably buy the old cases off ebay or a garage sale somewhere. so why dont you do a little MODIFICATION! make it into a project! it'll be fun and exciting!
This is what teh Mac community is lacking, it seems the most modification anyone does to their computer is adding more RAM, and even THEN they are sweating out every moment of it. i would LOVE to see someone put a G5 in an old G4 or whatever they want to do. i've seen some AMAZING things done with a PC even if they are PCs the people who built/moded the cases are real craftsmen. Dont get me wrong, i love macs and the mac community. but there is deffinately something it is lacking....End RANT
The Mac IIci/IIcx box was one of Apple's most perfect designs. One screw and it all came apart. Great box.
I'd have to say the Newton. That PDA was ages ahead of all the other PDAs back then. I'm actually considering buying a Newton MessagePad 2000. I'm new to the Apple scene, and it would be my second Apple product.
JSchwage said:
The Newton was my third Apple product. And while it is cool, you must go into it accepting that it is a project to get it to work with any semi modern equipment. It is very capable, but a LOT of work to get it started. And if you're going to get a Newton, get the 2100. More internal memory, slightly better processor.( And by the time you get everything you need, you'll realize you could have bought a top of the line Blackberry)
A modern newton all the way. upgrade the guts but leave the original software (maybe do some dule booting so you could run OS X Mini and NewtonOS)
Fun to look back on threads like these -- gives a real snapshot of MR over the past seven months.
Also gives a sense of both the permanence and the fluidity of our community.
Also gives a sense of both the permanence and the fluidity of our community.
- Resurrect the Cube.
- Do a new all-in one that is based on the original 128k Macintosh shape and footprint.
This thread shall live on!
- Do a new all-in one that is based on the original 128k Macintosh shape and footprint.
This thread shall live on!
The iMac G4 looked awesome and a lot more futuristic, and you could move the display to almost any which way you wanted to. The G5/CD/C2D design just goes up and down . It's also a shame that the iMac G4 had a shorter era of its own (1/02-8/04) compared to the iMac G3 (8/98-1/02) and the G5/CD/C2D (8/04-who knows). I read a thread a few weeks or a month ago on here about this guy who was trying to put Intel Mini innards into a iMac G4 case, but I haven't heard how that turned out.
. It's also a shame that the iMac G4 had a shorter era of its own (1/02-8/04) compared to the iMac G3 (8/98-1/02) and the G5/CD/C2D (8/04-who knows). I read a thread a few weeks or a month ago on here about this guy who was trying to put Intel Mini innards into a iMac G4 case, but I haven't heard how that turned out.
It's a useful feature. Have it on my Dell Latitudes - only the docking mechanism doesn't break. The Duo was a nightmare. My experiences with the Mac on my last outing ('90~'96ish) were generally very positive, but the Duos I had were hopelessly unreliable. Excellent idea though.