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What is Apple's best product of all time?
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It's difficult for me to have a fair judgement on this, because I joined Apple very late in its history (I do remember some English lessons where we used a Macintosh Classic though) and the 12" PowerBook is the only Mac that I've spent much time with.
So I'd have to say the 12" PowerBook! Best product though? I think, other than the original Macintosh, we'd have to say that Apple's best products have happened since Jobbs came back, i.e. the last 5-6 years. I think the iPod is up there (innovation - why didn't anyone else think of it?). Hmmm, let me think... I guess the Power Mac G5 is good too because it shows Apple's glorious future. And then Mac OS X has to be one of their best products too. Too hard to say.
My favourite: 12" PowerBook
Most innovative: G4 Cube? iPod, AirPort Express?
So I'd have to say the 12" PowerBook! Best product though? I think, other than the original Macintosh, we'd have to say that Apple's best products have happened since Jobbs came back, i.e. the last 5-6 years. I think the iPod is up there (innovation - why didn't anyone else think of it?). Hmmm, let me think... I guess the Power Mac G5 is good too because it shows Apple's glorious future. And then Mac OS X has to be one of their best products too. Too hard to say.
My favourite: 12" PowerBook
Most innovative: G4 Cube? iPod, AirPort Express?
All imacs, I am more partial myself to the G4 and to a lesser point G5 imacs. But the original saved apple computers.
powermac666 said:the one button mouse, of course
I agree I could not live with out a scroll wheel..
By far, the iMac G4. An outstanding computer with a revolutionary way of holding the display. Sadly, the G4 is being replaced, which makes this beauty a gonner. Not that I'm dissing the iMac G5.
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Boy the Cube is getting high praise in this thread and hamerend in the "Worst" thread. I would never have guese the Cube as such a dividing product.
TiBook. When it first came out, looks and specs were just sensational. Often copied, never matched. (And thinner than the AluBooks! )
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I love my 1st Gen TiBook.
I miss my Cube.
I want a 17" Albook.
Ooh and the iPod is nice too.
And the 30" Cinema display...
Ooh and the G5!
And the iMac generations...
and.. er.
*looks around*
er.. this is a hard question... Which is nice to know. /props Apple
I miss my Cube.
I want a 17" Albook.
Ooh and the iPod is nice too.
And the 30" Cinema display...
Ooh and the G5!
And the iMac generations...
and.. er.
*looks around*
er.. this is a hard question... Which is nice to know. /props Apple
hmmm
God so many.
Classics of course in the MacIntosh Plus - longest selling Mac product in the name "Mac" lineup to date. Also I personally fell in love with Apple with the IIc design another model was the one with the wrap-around sreen with tilt-control (back in the days with 5 1/4" Floppies -no color screen though).
But My first BEST Apple product I'd have to say its a toss up between the 20th Anniversay Mac - pure innovation first personal home computer to have panel speakers & LCD screen! 2nd toss up is the PowerBook G4 Titanium Original - don't get me wrong I'm after the 12" 1 Ghz AlBook but that baby had every man, his daddy, grandpa and his grandma droooling for one!!!! It sent "/" (yes Backslashes!) to PC laptop manufacturers....so badly to Sony that it took them 3 yrs to finally come up with something thinner.
Although the PowerMac G5 deserves an honorable mention.
God so many.
Classics of course in the MacIntosh Plus - longest selling Mac product in the name "Mac" lineup to date. Also I personally fell in love with Apple with the IIc design another model was the one with the wrap-around sreen with tilt-control (back in the days with 5 1/4" Floppies -no color screen though).
But My first BEST Apple product I'd have to say its a toss up between the 20th Anniversay Mac - pure innovation first personal home computer to have panel speakers & LCD screen! 2nd toss up is the PowerBook G4 Titanium Original - don't get me wrong I'm after the 12" 1 Ghz AlBook but that baby had every man, his daddy, grandpa and his grandma droooling for one!!!! It sent "/" (yes Backslashes!) to PC laptop manufacturers....so badly to Sony that it took them 3 yrs to finally come up with something thinner.
Although the PowerMac G5 deserves an honorable mention.
Best design: Cube hands down
Best size: 12 " Powerbook
Best Processor: G5
Best CEO of apple: Steve Jobs(no duh)
Best thing that has ever happened to apple: The return of Jobs
Best Apple saving product: iPod (unless you count the 2nd feature of the iMac G3).
Best Apple product: Cube
Best size: 12 " Powerbook
Best Processor: G5
Best CEO of apple: Steve Jobs(no duh)
Best thing that has ever happened to apple: The return of Jobs
Best Apple saving product: iPod (unless you count the 2nd feature of the iMac G3).
Best Apple product: Cube
Software-wise, either OSX or the iMovie - iDVD combo. The former is just too cool, and the latter did for video editing what the word processor did for text. Easy, clean, fun, and produces a truly professional looking product.
Hardware-wise, it's a toss up for me between the Apple //c (boy, those were fun), the Cube (I never owned one, but every time I see one I marvel at it), and the iMac line--all of them.
I say the entire iMac line because I had just been thinking about its progression through the years:
With the original iMac, Apple changed the computer from a utilitarian box into something friendly, cute, and personal.
Then, with the slot-loading design, they increased the transparency and made the two upgradeable parts (RAM and Airport) really easy to get to, demystifying the guts of the computer a bit--it said "Yes, I'm technology, but don't be afraid".
With the G4 iMac, it shed the traditional shape of the computer entirely, introducing people to a computer that doesn't look like a computer at all.
Finally, with the G5 iMac, all that comes together--it doesn't much look like a computer at all, now more of a minimalist piece of furniture, and its design is such that anybody can pop the back off and do maintenance on it. It is simultaneously invisible as a computer while allowing even novice users to perform fairly heavy-duty maintenance on their own system.
More technical and less technological, all at the same time. Neat.
Hardware-wise, it's a toss up for me between the Apple //c (boy, those were fun), the Cube (I never owned one, but every time I see one I marvel at it), and the iMac line--all of them.
I say the entire iMac line because I had just been thinking about its progression through the years:
With the original iMac, Apple changed the computer from a utilitarian box into something friendly, cute, and personal.
Then, with the slot-loading design, they increased the transparency and made the two upgradeable parts (RAM and Airport) really easy to get to, demystifying the guts of the computer a bit--it said "Yes, I'm technology, but don't be afraid".
With the G4 iMac, it shed the traditional shape of the computer entirely, introducing people to a computer that doesn't look like a computer at all.
Finally, with the G5 iMac, all that comes together--it doesn't much look like a computer at all, now more of a minimalist piece of furniture, and its design is such that anybody can pop the back off and do maintenance on it. It is simultaneously invisible as a computer while allowing even novice users to perform fairly heavy-duty maintenance on their own system.
More technical and less technological, all at the same time. Neat.
os x hands down,
a lot of us mac users wouldn't be mac users, including myself, had it not been for os x.
and i'm talking about 10.0~10.1 here. it didn't take jaguar to get me hooked.
a lot of us mac users wouldn't be mac users, including myself, had it not been for os x.
and i'm talking about 10.0~10.1 here. it didn't take jaguar to get me hooked.
The sheer variety of different responses to this post says something amazing about Apple. It's a testament to their desire to innovate with good design.
AGREEDBlue Velvet said:
I was at CompUSA last night and a 16 or 17 year old kid was playing with a G5. Then I heard "Whoa! When did the Mac OS get UNIX?!" Coming from someone so young the comment sort of surprised me. Hehe. OS X is a beautiful thing