Classic Macs. Original Mac , Mac Classic (pictured), Mac Plus, Mac SE.
Pros: The original style of Mac. Retro casing.
Cons: Older, unimpressive specs and black and white screen |
|
Mac Portable.
Pros: First Mac portable
Cons: Heavy, not particularly successful |
|
Mac Quadra 950.
Pros: Biggest and Most powerful MC680x0 machine
Cons: Not the most stylish Mac |
|
Performa 6200 series.
Pros: Great looking beige desktop case.
Cons: Badly engineered motherboard
|
|
Twentieth Anniversary Mac.
Pros: Innovative design, loads of bells and whistles, bose subwoofer, unlike anything else.
Cons: Stupid name - it was 1 year late for 20 years of Apple and 7 years early for 20 years of the Mac. |
|
PowerMac 8500 (pictured), 8600, Platinum G3.
Pros: Best looking Beige tower case
Cons: No noteworthy points. Dated now |
|
iMac G3 (Graphite DVSE model shown)
Pros: Gorgeous - the machine that turned around Apple's fortunes
Cons: Original models had rubbish specs and did not have the cool completely transluscent back. |
|
PowerMac G3 (Blue and White)
Pros: Cool new design - funky G3 logo on the side
Cons: Colour is maybe too vibrant. |
|
iBook G3 (clamshell)
Pros: Funky clam shaped designs and multiple colours
Cons: Tiny screen and rubbish specs |
|
PowerMac G4 Graphite, QuickSilver (pictured) or Mirror Drive Doors
Pros: Toned down cool case with sexy curves.
Cons: Pointless lens thing on the case |
|
PowerBook G3 Wallstreet (pictured), Lombard, Pismo
Pros: Lush professional case. Very sexy design
Cons: Low battery life and specs compared to today's iBooks |
|
PowerMac Cube G4
Pros: Tiny, cool, incredible design. No fan and packing the power of a contemporary G4 tower into a space 4 times smaller. More cool features that you can shake a stick at.
Cons: Discontinued due to lack of demand |
|
iBook White G3 / G4 (pictured)
Pros: Cool funtional white case, best consumer laptops on the planet
Cons: Not as cool as the PowerBook G4. |
|
eMac.
Pros: Brilliant starter machine, all in one design.
Cons: Not Apple's coolest case design. |
|
iMac G4 (15" model pictured)
Pros: Amazing innovative design, flatscreen on chrome arm.
Cons: Expensive, and low specs next to the iMac G5 |
|
PowerMac G5
Pros: First true 64-bit desktop - most powerful computer in the world. Cool aluminum casing.
Cons: Casing not as sexy as G4. |
|
iMac G5
Pros: Thinnest desktop in the world. Great design touches. Powerful and up to date.
Cons: Erm, get back to me on that one. |
|
Mac mini.
Pros: Tiny design - 4 times smaller than the cube.
Cons: Apple's cheapest Mac, bottom of current line-up |
|
PowerBook G4 (15" Aluminium pictured)
Pros: World's best notebook computer. Super thin. Aluminium / Titanium case. World's first 17" laptop. Gorgeous and powerful.
Cons: Not as sexy as PowerBook G3. Early models had rubbish specs compared to PowerBook G3. |
|