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Poll: Best and Worst Apple products of all time.
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Best: iPod Mini - It brought iPod's home to people that once considered it a high end niche product. It was this iPod that really expanded the youth appeal and actually let kids own iPods.
Worst: These stupid one button mice! All of them! I mean common the $2000 powerbooks still are handicaped by having one button... I could rant about this for a week but I guess its just personal preference... Whenever I can I hook up my mx510 and its all good...
My favorite Apple product that I own is my 30gb iPod photo because I drive way to much for my own good and it always manages to have something I can't remember listening to.
Worst: These stupid one button mice! All of them! I mean common the $2000 powerbooks still are handicaped by having one button... I could rant about this for a week but I guess its just personal preference... Whenever I can I hook up my mx510 and its all good...
My favorite Apple product that I own is my 30gb iPod photo because I drive way to much for my own good and it always manages to have something I can't remember listening to.
Best: Power Mac G5, iMac G4, iMac G5, PowerBook.
Worst: Hockey Puck Mouse, 20th Anniversary Mac, Clamshell iBooks.
Worst: Hockey Puck Mouse, 20th Anniversary Mac, Clamshell iBooks.
I have around 70,000 mp3's between my three machines and I switch the iPod's library around between them.
I saw the thread title and the puck mouse was the first thing that came to mind. And reading through the thread, I see plenty of others agree.MacTruck said:
If you were to ask me for my favourite Apple product – I'd say whichever Mac I own at the time.
Best: I'd have to say OS 1.0.
Without this groundbreaking work, there would never have been a "Mac Experience". Everything else just built on this ingenuity.
I also still have tremendous respect for the Blue & White G3 towers. They were just among the most solidly built Macs ever. I've had one running 24/7 for 6+ years or so, without any problem, and it's still running as if I had just taken it out of the box.
Worst: Probably the eMate (for those who remember it -- idiotic idea all around), Mac Portable, and G3 all-in-one (education only; released 6 months before iMac -- shows just how crappy Macs would be without Ive. Basically the way iMacs would have looked if Jon Ive hadn't come along).
I personally think Apple would not exist today if Jonathan Ive hadn't joined.
Without this groundbreaking work, there would never have been a "Mac Experience". Everything else just built on this ingenuity.
I also still have tremendous respect for the Blue & White G3 towers. They were just among the most solidly built Macs ever. I've had one running 24/7 for 6+ years or so, without any problem, and it's still running as if I had just taken it out of the box.
Worst: Probably the eMate (for those who remember it -- idiotic idea all around), Mac Portable, and G3 all-in-one (education only; released 6 months before iMac -- shows just how crappy Macs would be without Ive. Basically the way iMacs would have looked if Jon Ive hadn't come along).
I personally think Apple would not exist today if Jonathan Ive hadn't joined.
Best-iBook Clamshell 466 lime-great color, had a DVD drive, had the clamshell look I really want, etc, with a hockey puck mouse(the later ones that came with b&w power macs with the indentation are ok...)-they are just so cool! too dang bad they are a cult item and still command 600-800 dollars on ebay! Think different, right?
Worst-I dunno, I've only been a Mac fan for about a year and a half...and I haven't owned one yet. so, I dunno. But I never liked the power mac/performa 5400's my school has. Old, and crash a lot.
Think different, right?Worst-I dunno, I've only been a Mac fan for about a year and a half...and I haven't owned one yet. so, I dunno. But I never liked the power mac/performa 5400's my school has. Old, and crash a lot.
Best: ipod (all Gen) OS X
better: powerbook G4, ibook
Worst: the boxed mouse, the colorful imac, the 20th ann. did suck
nuff.
better: powerbook G4, ibook
Worst: the boxed mouse, the colorful imac, the 20th ann. did suck
nuff.
very optimistic aren't we...macmanmatty said:Worst: The New Intel Machines
im surprised nobody has mentioned the Cube as a worst..sure it was cool to have that case but it was a rip off for the price, slow, and sold terribly meriting the "worst" notion for its sellability.
You don't know $h¡t about the Intel Mac. With that said, how can you say they are the worst if they aren't even releasedmacmanmatty said:Worst: The New Intel Machines
I HATE comments like these
But anyway:
Best: PowerBook G3 (WallStreet, Lombard, Pismo)
Worst: Quadra 630 ~ Took 13 minutes to load
Best: PowerBook G3 (WallStreet, Lombard, Pismo)
Worst: Quadra 630 ~ Took 13 minutes to load
Best: iMac G4 (much better than the "box G5) Power mac G5, iTunes, iPod shuffle (finally a iPod that I can bike with!)
Worst: USB pro speakers (sound like crap, work like crap, break like crap!), iPod nano, (I know people will kill me for this but...) the magical, overpriced piece of juck we call the Mac Mini.
Worst: USB pro speakers (sound like crap, work like crap, break like crap!), iPod nano, (I know people will kill me for this but...) the magical, overpriced piece of juck we call the Mac Mini.
Just remembered another worst apple product:
Quicktake digital camera 150.
Sucked down batteries like crazy, pain in the butt to get pics off of it, bulky, expensive at $900.
Quicktake digital camera 150.
Sucked down batteries like crazy, pain in the butt to get pics off of it, bulky, expensive at $900.
How about the good, the bad, and the ugly?
The good: TiBook. Made the Powerbook cool again.
The bad: Powerbook 5300cs, original PowerPC powerbook, super unstable, looked like garbage.
The ugly: Apple Laserwriter. Worked like a tank though, I used mine for years.
The good: TiBook. Made the Powerbook cool again.
The bad: Powerbook 5300cs, original PowerPC powerbook, super unstable, looked like garbage.
The ugly: Apple Laserwriter. Worked like a tank though, I used mine for years.
best: the new wireless mighty mouse that doesnt require you to lift yourleft finger to register a right click and treats any clicks that have no finger presense sensed as a left click (a la holding the mouse funny at the back because you're standing up doing something quickly and cant be bothered getting the right hand position), and has better working exposé buttons (that actually mouse).
worst: isync. it worked with like 2 phones and ipod, now it doesnt even work with ipods and the phones are old and not in use (may be just because I haven't updated but come on, the PhoneDirector people can do this better and they suck).
worst: isync. it worked with like 2 phones and ipod, now it doesnt even work with ipods and the phones are old and not in use (may be just because I haven't updated but come on, the PhoneDirector people can do this better and they suck).
Best: Ipod, 60GB of music in your pocket! I could put a whole HMV store on it!
Clamshell ibook, beautiful industrial design, although the kind of thing that only a female would want to be seen with
G4 iMac, the best looking desktop mac ever, great design.
Powerbook G4 its a fine solid looking thin laptop, the best looking laptop in the industry.
Dashboard: Wow what a cool feature, fast access to information that you regularly need, best implamentation of the idea as well, konfabulator can suck it.
30" CinemaHD the size and resolution is amazing, actually I'd say extreme, more than what anyone should need for a while. Although what really impresses me is the quality of the color reproduction, it's the best LCD in terms of color quality I've seen.
Worst: Os8/9 What, co-operative multitasking in the late 90s? Absurd. OSX should have been around much earlier. Os8 was already sort of aged with it's old kernel and old style UI without anything comparable to a dock or task bar. Macos fell behind the competition in this peroid.
Mice: I can't think of an apple mouse properly designed for ergonomics. Apple mice are more likely to give you RSI than a logitech or microsoft one, and yes even mighty mouse. It's too low, doesn't properly support the hand as good as it's other features are.
23" Cinema Hd: My god what terrible red error is has, it'd be like living next to a neon sign.
Clamshell ibook, beautiful industrial design, although the kind of thing that only a female would want to be seen with
G4 iMac, the best looking desktop mac ever, great design.
Powerbook G4 its a fine solid looking thin laptop, the best looking laptop in the industry.
Dashboard: Wow what a cool feature, fast access to information that you regularly need, best implamentation of the idea as well, konfabulator can suck it.
30" CinemaHD the size and resolution is amazing, actually I'd say extreme, more than what anyone should need for a while. Although what really impresses me is the quality of the color reproduction, it's the best LCD in terms of color quality I've seen.
Worst: Os8/9 What, co-operative multitasking in the late 90s? Absurd. OSX should have been around much earlier. Os8 was already sort of aged with it's old kernel and old style UI without anything comparable to a dock or task bar. Macos fell behind the competition in this peroid.
Mice: I can't think of an apple mouse properly designed for ergonomics. Apple mice are more likely to give you RSI than a logitech or microsoft one, and yes even mighty mouse. It's too low, doesn't properly support the hand as good as it's other features are.
23" Cinema Hd: My god what terrible red error is has, it'd be like living next to a neon sign.