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What is it with you guys bashing the beige g3s? I love those things. CRAZY easy to up the ram etc, everything is right there when you slide the case off. Whatever. I guess my least favorite would be the iMac G3. My most favorite as far as form factor goes, LC II.
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But what do I know, I like the G5 Power Mac "I'm a cheese grater crossed with a refrigerator" look.
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But what do I know, I like the G5 Power Mac "I'm a cheese grater crossed with a refrigerator" look.
why the imac g5?
I don't know what some are talking about by saying the iMac G5 is ugly. I bought one and I absolutely love its looks. I think it is a master piece. If you open it up, you can see a very well designed system. Everyone that sees my computer thinks it is awesome looking.
I do agree though, that I like the flexibility of the iMac G4. I never owned one but I thought they were cool.
I owned an iMac G3 and it still turned heads until I threw it out ot the trash a month ago. Very stable and dependable computer. Got me through my first 2 years of college. (bought off ebay for 100 bucks).
Good thread.
I don't know what some are talking about by saying the iMac G5 is ugly. I bought one and I absolutely love its looks. I think it is a master piece. If you open it up, you can see a very well designed system. Everyone that sees my computer thinks it is awesome looking.
I do agree though, that I like the flexibility of the iMac G4. I never owned one but I thought they were cool.
I owned an iMac G3 and it still turned heads until I threw it out ot the trash a month ago. Very stable and dependable computer. Got me through my first 2 years of college. (bought off ebay for 100 bucks).
Good thread.
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the emac for me... it was a step backwards... why go 17inch and be THAT BIG? I understand it being cheap and all but... it's not affordable once you ship it out of the US. Too expensive to ship out due to its weight. its like 60 pounds without the box! at 3 dollars the pound I pay.... man thats a lot of dollars.
They should have just put a g4 processor in the imac g3 enclosure, would have sold like hotcakes, and a little 15 flatscreen CRT, up the ram and the hd and the burner, make it color customizable (sage? flower power? dalmatian???? pleeeease they had better fired the guy who was high on crack when he thought of that) and make it 700 bucks............ would have blown the mac mini away 3 years ahead of time.
the emac for me... it was a step backwards... why go 17inch and be THAT BIG? I understand it being cheap and all but... it's not affordable once you ship it out of the US. Too expensive to ship out due to its weight. its like 60 pounds without the box! at 3 dollars the pound I pay.... man thats a lot of dollars.
They should have just put a g4 processor in the imac g3 enclosure, would have sold like hotcakes, and a little 15 flatscreen CRT, up the ram and the hd and the burner, make it color customizable (sage? flower power? dalmatian???? pleeeease they had better fired the guy who was high on crack when he thought of that) and make it 700 bucks............ would have blown the mac mini away 3 years ahead of time.
RacerX said:
If you thought the Classic II was bad, you would've hated my LC II. It came out a full year after the Classic II but had the exact same processor, exact same crippled ram limit and 16 bit data path. The only difference was the presence of color, although the standard 256k of video ram was only good enough to drive 16 colors at 640x480 resolution. It was pathetic and I was stuck with it for 7 years
Everyone has their own opinion...
To me the "most disliked Mac" is the Performa 5200. A friend of mine had one and it just sucked...Apple deliberately cobbled the thing together and cut lots of corners to to save money.
In my opinion Apple has pretty much never made an ugly computer...the closest they've ever got might be the somewhat ungainly large Mac II/IIfx cases, but in their day they were clean compared to other PCs. Even the G5 tower has a good look, though it's more "techy" beautiful than arty beautiful. Just an opinion.
The best looking Macs: all G4 towers, the Cube, and the TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Mac).
To me the "most disliked Mac" is the Performa 5200. A friend of mine had one and it just sucked...Apple deliberately cobbled the thing together and cut lots of corners to to save money.
In my opinion Apple has pretty much never made an ugly computer...the closest they've ever got might be the somewhat ungainly large Mac II/IIfx cases, but in their day they were clean compared to other PCs. Even the G5 tower has a good look, though it's more "techy" beautiful than arty beautiful. Just an opinion.
The best looking Macs: all G4 towers, the Cube, and the TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Mac).
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Church said:I don't agree with the last part, the TAM is OOGLAY! It's almost like they tried too hard to make it look good.
It came out in '97 for $7,499 when the Mac was 13 years old..
Should have been called a 20th Anniversary Apple.
Do any of the clones count? I used to have one...
Can't remember what it was now... something 'Rome'.
It had a floppy drive, yeah!
Can't remember what it was now... something 'Rome'.
It had a floppy drive, yeah!
jayscheuerle said:
Oh, it's on now: I'm gonna chop you up into a Philly steak sandwich for ripping on my beloved pizza-box.
I hate Performas.Lord Blackadder said:
The Performa 630 (CD) was my least favorite Mac. Not only did it run way slower than the Quadra 660AV my dad replaced it with, but it died completely out of the blue (still under warranty though). When you are ten years old, powering up the family computer and seeing the dead Apple face is scary. And I'm not talking the sad face; I mean the x's for eyes weird things all over the screen face. The Performa 6300 that we got to replace the 630 also died under warranty, so we got a PowerMac 6500 after bringing the old Quadra back for a while.
Performa 6400...
I bit because of the built-in-subwoofer...Basically anything based on the 603 ppc sucked a$$.
I bit because of the built-in-subwoofer...Basically anything based on the 603 ppc sucked a$$.
kingjr3 said:
Too bad too, because the subsequent (and generally excellent) 603e-based Macs got an undeserved bad rap that carried over from the 603.
robbieduncan said:
hey man, my imac's are flower-power'd and i wouldn't have it anmy other way!!! i like it a lot better than the solid colours, although i liked the imac g3's that were sorta see-thru
on that note, i'd like to say that the big boxy shape of the imac g3's was great for its time, but to have it carry on with the emac? thats just absurd, and that makes the emac the UGLIEST mac ever.
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The iMac G3, G4, G5 because it really helped set the standard for apple that consumer desktops don't need to have upgradeable video.
What happened to the days of a range of Powermacs. I just want a G5 tower or desktop with an AGP slot no PCI slots one processor and two ram slots, remember the 6100. So that I can have a cheap G5 that allows me to throw a 6800 in it.
This low upgradeability has finally culminated in the Powermacs by no longer allowing for aftermarket processor upgrades.
What happened to the days of a range of Powermacs. I just want a G5 tower or desktop with an AGP slot no PCI slots one processor and two ram slots, remember the 6100. So that I can have a cheap G5 that allows me to throw a 6800 in it.
This low upgradeability has finally culminated in the Powermacs by no longer allowing for aftermarket processor upgrades.
Lord Blackadder said:
I do believe it was a 603e in the performa 6400 line and it was quite the disappointment for me. Problem was it couldn't even come close to the performance of the 604e powermacs (and clones) of the day and upgradability was non-existent. L2 cache slot CPU upgrade anyone?
Eluon said:
Because the iMac G5 is something that really anyone could have designed. It just doesn't scream apple's "think different" slogan as much as the the g4 predecessor.
Ohh I think I'll take an LCD panel and mount a computer behind it. It looks like a pizza box!
dornoforpyros said:
They put a G5 in that thing! It's an incredible feat of engineering: an entire computer roughly the size and shape of a regular LCD moniter. But to each their own.
kingjr3 said:
Whoops, you're right. IIRC the 603 series was much more energy efficient than the 604 series, but had lower performance. I remember drooling over the Power Mac 6500 when it came out, only to hear a lot of complaints about quirky problems plaguing the type (Ahem, Software Geoport modem...). Then my drooling needs were answered by Daystar's awesome Genesis MP+ dual/quad-CPU clone towers. I still think those are sweet...
Worst Macs: Flower Power and Blue Dalmatian iMacs. TAM. Powermac G3 B&W and AIO (cough, molar, cough cough.) And (do monitors count?) the 15" LCD Display in Bondi Blue.
Best Macs: iMac G3 Graphite (I know, I'm prejudiced.) 20" iMac G4. PowerBook 17". PowerMac G4 Cube.
On the whole iMac debate, I find the 17 to be pretty ugly from the front, due to the large slab of white. It's less noticeable on the 20", but still not the prettiest apple in the bunch.
Best Macs: iMac G3 Graphite (I know, I'm prejudiced.) 20" iMac G4. PowerBook 17". PowerMac G4 Cube.
On the whole iMac debate, I find the 17 to be pretty ugly from the front, due to the large slab of white. It's less noticeable on the 20", but still not the prettiest apple in the bunch.