Comments on: Best Mac Ever

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:29:52 +0000

I still it would make a great Olympic game throwing the old Macs, since they have a perfect handle for it. And yeah, I loved my SE/30, too. I wish my old PowerMac could convert to newer files - it was perfect for what I needed to do.

I just subbed in a school in LAUSD in which they had a Mac from 1995 as their primary computer in the classroom. Your tax dollars (not) at work.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:40:21 +0000

Funny. I was just dusting off my Performa 630CD for my 4 year old. Great games for him and it still runs great after almost 20 years!

By: John

John — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:56:55 +0000

I love my new 13-inch MacBook as well. It has better fit and finish than any laptop I’ve ever touched.

By: Mike Prince

Mike Prince — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:15:46 +0000

I loved my Quadra 610. Got it in 94, had it for ten years, still has a bunch of my scripts from my younger days, and absolutely no internet connectivity. Made me free of internet distraction. It was either write pages, or Doom. (Or in some cases, both.)

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:15:21 +0000

My favorite is the pb12″. What a perfect machine.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:33:33 +0000

I just have to pick you up on something because it's been bugging me ever since I read your post. You wrote; 'you love the things of your youth partly because you loved being young'.

WOAH! Not everyone cherishes their youth. My best Mac ever is my MacBook Air and I've been buying Macs for almost twenty years.

After a few 'mods' the SE/30 made a cool aquarium though, I'll give you that.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:15:44 +0000

My favorite Mac would have to be… my iBook G4. I bought it freshman year of college, and while I didn’t even really need it, it was the first time I owned an Apple machine and saw the progress they had been making towards making Windows and Mac’s work together. What a glorious sight.

By: bfwebster

bfwebster — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:43:57 +0000

The SE/30 was great, but — speaking as someone who covered the Mac for seven years (1984-91), first for BYTE and then for Macworld — my vote goes to the Mac IIcx. It had slots and color, was very stable and reliable from both a hardware and software point of view, and pretty much was the pinnacle of Mac architecture. Things started going downhill with the IIci and the IIfx, and then they really went to hell until Jobs came back. IMHO; YMMV. ..bruce..

By: Kristan

Kristan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:56:53 +0000

Aw, I love(d) this Mac too! But I have to admit, I’m completely smitten with my new MacBook.

By: Farley

Farley — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:23:48 +0000

My family still has an SE/30! My younger sister was using it just today. She was playing Cannon Fodder. I started writing on that computer years and years ago. It still works fine.

By: John

John — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:58:20 +0000

@Phillip:

Yup. And yours was the first notice I got of the EW story, so thanks.