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What's your favorite Mac of all time?
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This depends on the individual machine. Mine has a really sharp edge...so much so that I might sand it down a bit like some people have done to take the bite off...I was in a shop with about 5 unibodies in a row and some were really sharp and some more smooth. There was a massive difference in how they felt but you couldn't tell by looking at them at really.
I've always been a fan of the Mac IIcx/IIci/Quadra 700 form factor. Clean lines and easy to upgrade. My favorite was the IIci w/cache card. Nearly as fast as the $10,000 IIfx at half the cost.
Yes, I had one of those. A very clean system and fast for its time. I wish I had kept mine if only for nostalgia's sake. Some people actually still manage to find uses for them.
I cannot get around my first portable, the Powerbook G3, aka Pismo:
It was a gorgeous machine with excellent performance (for its day)
Ditto! The PowerBook G3 Pismo.
No laptop could match it's performance, style and expandability. I still have mine which I use solely as a legacy OS9 machine.
I've had various Macs both before and after. The Pismo is, by far, tops. In fact, the Pismo will probably go down in history as one the best designed laptops ever created.
What's so great about this Pismo? :/ Am I missing something, because it looks quite ugly...
The Pismo was the last series of laptops designed by Apple that was fully expandable 1. It has the capability to go on the battery for up to 10 hours of usage. Using both bays with fully charged batteries.
2. This laptop is very easy to upgrade the hard drive, memory, or processor by taking off the keyboard and swapping out the desired components.
3. Airport card (802.11b, although older technology would have greater range then 802.11g) was fully integrated inside this laptop.
4. big 14" screen in relation to the size of the laptop.
5. using the PCMCIA slot on the left you could use practically anything that fit in that card slot such as USB 2.0, current wireless cards.....
6. Parts for this laptop is very easy to acquire and is very easy to repair.
What other laptop (cira 2000) can you name that you can still use today?
Since 2000, my "Pismo" has been upgraded with the G4 550Mhz processor, 1GB ram, and 120GB hard drive. I also have the high capacity battery which lasts just over 5 hours. I can stream my music over to my Apple TV, surf the internet or go over my documents using Microsoft Office suite... What other laptop today can do that on a consistent basis? (Keeping in mind you want to compare other makes from the same year (2000)...)
My MBP didn't even last near 5 hours when the battery was new....the only gripe I have with it. Even today you can't get a high capacity battery for this computer.... but you can for the Pismo
Although my Pismo is now dated compared to the current offerings, I'm still running OS 10.4.11 with absolutely no issues whatsoever. For what I need this trusty Pismo has been a great computer. Show me any other brand of laptop that was produced in 2000 that can do what the Pismo can do. This is what makes the Pismo unique and loved by so many IMHO
I hope I am able to explain what all the hub bub concerning Pismo is all about...
1. It has the capability to go on the battery for up to 10 hours of usage. Using both bays with fully charged batteries.
2. This laptop is very easy to upgrade the hard drive, memory, or processor by taking off the keyboard and swapping out the desired components.
3. Airport card (802.11b, although older technology would have greater range then 802.11g) was fully integrated inside this laptop.
4. big 14" screen in relation to the size of the laptop.
5. using the PCMCIA slot on the left you could use practically anything that fit in that card slot such as USB 2.0, current wireless cards.....
6. Parts for this laptop is very easy to acquire and is very easy to repair.
What other laptop (cira 2000) can you name that you can still use today?
Since 2000, my "Pismo" has been upgraded with the G4 550Mhz processor, 1GB ram, and 120GB hard drive. I also have the high capacity battery which lasts just over 5 hours. I can stream my music over to my Apple TV, surf the internet or go over my documents using Microsoft Office suite... What other laptop today can do that on a consistent basis? (Keeping in mind you want to compare other makes from the same year (2000)...)
My MBP didn't even last near 5 hours when the battery was new....the only gripe I have with it. Even today you can't get a high capacity battery for this computer.... but you can for the Pismo
Although my Pismo is now dated compared to the current offerings, I'm still running OS 10.4.11 with absolutely no issues whatsoever. For what I need this trusty Pismo has been a great computer. Show me any other brand of laptop that was produced in 2000 that can do what the Pismo can do. This is what makes the Pismo unique and loved by so many IMHO
I hope I am able to explain what all the hub bub concerning Pismo is all about...
I see, thx. But it does look ugly IMO
Didn't know it was capable of using Airport! I thought that was a newer technology that debuted AFTER the iMac's and the colour iBooks??
If true then it makes your 5th point all that much more important since back in prior to 2002 just about EVERY PC laptop did NOT have wireless built-in without an expensive add-on via PCMCIA expansion.
Note that this slot enabled the PowerBook to have an external video card to drive either Internal LCD or External monitor (CRT/LCD), one of the FEW laptops that could do this!! The slot had this in Type II/III natively supported in the chipset, even with other cpu's by win-based PC's but it NEVER panned out (maybe a few companies made cards for this but they never lasted long).
Of note, has anyone noticed that expansion for MacBooks are pretty much dead and long gone now; save for the 17" ?!! PC laptops as well but there are quite a few options left. Kind of odd how just 7yrs ago many mobile professionals NEEDED/PLEADED for expansion (beyond just storage memory) to be done within the laptop to make them lighter for mobile carrying, and now we rely on external boxes ever growing larger in size to be carried in the laptop bag, lol.
I see, thx. But it does look ugly IMO
Find us another laptop by ANY manufacturer that looked any better up till 2002?! The one I found that came close was the Compaq E500, only if you squinted your eye - and the performance was horrible.
I see, thx. But it does look ugly IMO
I thought the same thing until I got mine. Now I love it all because of everything my Pismo can and still does. I can even load OS 10.5 which makes this laptop one of very few that can still run the current OS. Let's see any PC from (2000) that can run Vista or Windows 7..........
What I mean by integrated is that there's an Airport card (PCMCIA type) that fits inside it's own seperate slot right under the left side of the keyboard. There's a dedicated slot for this Airport card in every Pismo. Not every Pismo came from the factory with this card so you will have to seperately order (through ebay) this card. This is what I did for my daughter's and my Pismo. These days the original Airport card is not as expensive as they were let's say 5 years ago.
Imac G4 - The best design apple ever made
Imac 27 - gorgeous screen and unibody. Not to mention that monster i7
Macbook Pro 13" unibody - Great built quality with great portability backed up by pro guts
Imac 27 - gorgeous screen and unibody. Not to mention that monster i7
Macbook Pro 13" unibody - Great built quality with great portability backed up by pro guts
Airport was announced at MWNY in July 1999. Pismo was released February 2000.
10.6 is the current OS.
Yep, it actually debuted on the colored iBooks. The Pismo was the next model IIRC.
As for my favorite Mac, It's the iMac G4, PowerBook G3, the Clamshell iBook and iMac G3. I know, I haven't made a single choice.
Airport was announced at MWNY in July 1999. Pismo was released February 2000.
10.6 is the current OS.
Thanks, I didn't know that. I was into the PC back then because well the Pismo was just so unattainable for me back then.
@applefan1997, thanks as well.
I got a sub-concious voice telling me to hold off on saving for the 13"MBP or 13"MB_Aluminum Unibody (used) and get a Pismo just for fun.
My favorite is the iBook Clamshell G3 466Mhz. Graphite.Not only because I own one but because it's a awesome performer and it surfs the web great!I'm typing this on my 466Mhz. Graphite right now,I'm using it for web serfing as my Power Mac is trasfering GB's of data at the moment and the processor is fulling loaded right now.
my second favorite is torn between the Power Mac G4 Quicksilver and the 15in Uni Macbook Pro.
my second favorite is torn between the Power Mac G4 Quicksilver and the 15in Uni Macbook Pro.
10.6 is the current OS.
You're right. What I meant is that the Pismo can run OS X up to tiger on G3 and you can get Leopard to run on a G4 Pismo with alittle help. Even though Snow Leopard is now the current OS.
