The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Macintosh

Reader's favourite Mac poll

Please vote for your favourite model of Macintosh.

If your favourite machine is not on this list, then please feel free to contact me at hhgttm@mac.com

regards,

Rick Tanner.

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.

 

Which is your favourite Mac?
Classic Mac. eg: Original Mac, Mac Classic, Mac SE
Mac Portable
Mac Quadra 950
Mac Performa series
Twentieth Anniversary Mac
Beige PowerMac eg: 8500, 9500, G3
iMac G3
PowerMac G3 (Blue / White)
iBook (Clam Shell)
PowerMac G4 (Graphite / QuickSilver / MDD)
PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet, Lombard, Pismo)
PowerMac G4 Cube
iBook (white G3 / G4)
eMac
iMac G4
Power Mac G5
iMac G5
Mac Mini
PowerBook G4 (Titanium / Aluminium)
My favourite Mac is not on this list...
  
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