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What's your favorite pre-iMac Mac? (self.vintage_apple)

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I’ve always loved the TAM (even though most people seem to hate it) and the Color Classic (even though it is slow af)

What’s your favorite one?

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[–] Steveanonymous 4 points 1 year ago

My sister had a Macintosh performa 450 that I inherited. It was a beast with a 25 mhz processor and 8 mg of ram!!

I was given a power pc shortly after that but my heart still resides in that little Macintosh pizza box

[–] drewx0r 3 points 1 year ago

I really like the original all-in-one form factor, so I guess I’ll go with The Macintosh Plus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’ll always have a soft spot for my old SE/30.

[–] kalleboo 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's really hard to pick just one.

The PowerBook 540c (or really, the 550c) is one of the most beautiful computers ever made, and a complete multimedia powerhouse for it's time.

The favorite Mac that I owned and used myself was probably the PowerMac 7500. I upgraded that one so far beyond original spec, with a G3 600 (G4 upgrades were available too) a PCI GPU and and IDE harddisks...

Another one I have a soft spot for was the Centris 660 I had, built-in video-in and out support on a machine of that vintage was kind of crazy. I used it to watch TV off the SCART output from an old VCR, and me and my friends used it to create title sequences for our "movies" we made with a Video8 camcorder. Many hours spent playing WarCraft II. It lived it's final years as a router for my parents using MacOS 8.1 and IPNetRouter running off a RAM disk (copy OS to RAM disk, set to boot disk, reboot and unplug the HDD during the split second, now you have a Mac router with no moving parts that will run for months)

Definitely love the design of the TAM and Color Classic as well.

[–] thehatfox 1 points 1 year ago

From a design standpoint, I’ve always loved the Quadra 700.

I’m also a fan of the SE/30, and I have been gradually restoring a couple of dead units I’ve acquired.

All of the Snow White style Macs I’m fond of to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My favorite is the SE superdrive--it was my first computer. I still have it and it still works :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had a CoLor Classic But my favorite, pre-iMac, would be The Performa 6400 https://i.imgur.com/RZN4l7a.jpg

[–] Galaticteampokemon 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never used one but I guess I would say the Color Classic based on look, feel and design I guess. it's just so charming. The compact design, the colorful screen. Was it really that slow?