I agree with MacCoaster. He/she didn't say it was a bad machine simply that it was very poorly marketed. Way over priced for a desktop box with no display.
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What is Apple's worst product of all time?
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I agree with MacCoaster. He/she didn't say it was a bad machine simply that it was very poorly marketed. Way over priced for a desktop box with no display.
Worsetsts
Almost all Macs carried with them some kind of cool new feature. The eMate is exactly what a lot of people are hoping for from Apple now, only with color, faster, etc. You could do everything a laptop could, plus write on the screen. And it had a handle. But like most Apple products, they added cool features and added at least one thing that made you wonder, wtf? The eMate looked like a butt, or a purse if you were carrying it by its handle. Not masculine. Not something to take to a potential client's place to show off your digerati koolness. Unless you're a girl, of course.
The Clamshell iBook was the first consumer portable targeted, imo, to women. My wife won't buy a new iBook. Too ugly, she says. She likes her 600Mhz Green clamshell.
The iMac was awesome, but no floppy.
The IIvx had the first chipset capable of a bunch of stuff not found on PC hardware except the high end stuff, mainly for video games. Video flopping or something, I forget.
The Newton was incredible. But it was axed just when it started to really get good.
The worst Apple invention, imo, was that puck mouse. I gotta back that one up.
-Chilton
Almost all Macs carried with them some kind of cool new feature. The eMate is exactly what a lot of people are hoping for from Apple now, only with color, faster, etc. You could do everything a laptop could, plus write on the screen. And it had a handle. But like most Apple products, they added cool features and added at least one thing that made you wonder, wtf? The eMate looked like a butt, or a purse if you were carrying it by its handle. Not masculine. Not something to take to a potential client's place to show off your digerati koolness. Unless you're a girl, of course.
The Clamshell iBook was the first consumer portable targeted, imo, to women. My wife won't buy a new iBook. Too ugly, she says. She likes her 600Mhz Green clamshell.
The iMac was awesome, but no floppy.
The IIvx had the first chipset capable of a bunch of stuff not found on PC hardware except the high end stuff, mainly for video games. Video flopping or something, I forget.
The Newton was incredible. But it was axed just when it started to really get good.
The worst Apple invention, imo, was that puck mouse. I gotta back that one up.
-Chilton
Re: Worsetsts
I had absolutely no problem with the puck mouse and I used one for 4 years. In my oppionion it's the best mouse you can get if you want one that moves very very freely on any surface and is very light. It is also very easy to pick and click while holding it without having to put it down.
I had absolutely no problem with the puck mouse and I used one for 4 years. In my oppionion it's the best mouse you can get if you want one that moves very very freely on any surface and is very light. It is also very easy to pick and click while holding it without having to put it down.
Orginal Newton was horrible and cost the company tons of money. If they just would have waited a little longer and not rushed it out the door it could've owned the PDA market today I think.
Duh... Newton people!
It occured to me at the start of the thread, but nobody mentions until the poster before me.
It occured to me at the start of the thread, but nobody mentions until the poster before me.
How could the Newton be the worst? It was the first PDA and there was nothing to compare it to. By the time the later versions came out they were damn good and even comparable to many PDAs on the market today.
I was on the right track. According to LowEndMac, that lime ibook only went up to speeds of 366mhz.
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cach...ok2.shtml+lime+clamshell+ibook&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cach...ok2.shtml+lime+clamshell+ibook&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
But the first generation were awful. Bad handwriting recognition, bulky, slow.
C'mon, they were mocked on the Simspons.
Re: Of course it's true
802.11b wireless was shipping and available before Apple entered the game in 1999. The technology used by Apple was Lucent's WaveLAN which shipped a year earlier (and was installed in my laptop that same year). ALL 802.11b had interoperability issues back then.
I will give Apple cudos for taking the lead in marketing 802.11b. But, the Airport was basically an x86 processor with a Lucent WaveLAN card shoved into it.
Any claim to being revolutionary must be limited to marketing and packaging.
802.11b wireless was shipping and available before Apple entered the game in 1999. The technology used by Apple was Lucent's WaveLAN which shipped a year earlier (and was installed in my laptop that same year). ALL 802.11b had interoperability issues back then.
I will give Apple cudos for taking the lead in marketing 802.11b. But, the Airport was basically an x86 processor with a Lucent WaveLAN card shoved into it.
Any claim to being revolutionary must be limited to marketing and packaging.
I'd vote for the original Mac 'portable.' Thing looked like one of the original Kaypro 'portables', and cost a small fortune.
Ah, the 6200 just confirms my belief that the Performa series was the worst line of computers Apple ever released. The 6200 was one of the first PowerMacs that they dropped the Performa name from but was still a Performa. The worst problem with these computers was the software they shipped with. It was full of bugs including the system and with the early Performa models actually installed AT Ease at a standard installation.
Ah, but once again how can you criticize a product that at one time revolutionized the computer industry. Remember that one button mouse was the first of it's kind. No other OS had input through a mouse and now if you don't have one it's very difficult to even operate the OS on almost any machine.
-Captnroger
Of course <slaps forehead> why didn't I think of that!
It was also 10 pounds due to those nasty lead batteries!
I remember when I was in high school a teacher using on on one of those Armdesk chars and it was bending the supports[i/].
Okay here's one I can agree upon. As much as I would like one of these for collectors sentiments they were a big pile of steaming Elephant crap.
My votes . . .
MacintoshTV - useless feature because the screen was so small
Color Classic - way ugly
PowerMac 61xx - worst form factor ever
PowerMac 8xx/8xxx - most difficult box to work inside
All the annoying proprietary Apple video connectors except ADC - some of these really made life difficult when working on computers
my 2 cents.
- D
MacintoshTV - useless feature because the screen was so small
Color Classic - way ugly
PowerMac 61xx - worst form factor ever
PowerMac 8xx/8xxx - most difficult box to work inside
All the annoying proprietary Apple video connectors except ADC - some of these really made life difficult when working on computers
my 2 cents.
- D
Re: Worsetsts
I hate to break it to you, but there is no such thing as a 600Mhz clamshell iBook. The fastest they ever got was 466Mhz. It was an iBook Special Edition and it came in graphite or lime. It had a DVD-ROM drive, a 10GB HD, and the rest isn't that important.
You sir, are wrong.
And the worst Apple product ever would have to be the Macintosh TV. They nerfed what could've been a really useful computer by putting a 32 bit processor on a 16 bit board and screwing it over with terrible performance. I have one (got it on eBay for $50.) and I use it to watch TV and play crystal quest. It's not good for much else, although it is quite interesting to see GTA3: Vice City on a 1993 Macintosh.
I hate to break it to you, but there is no such thing as a 600Mhz clamshell iBook. The fastest they ever got was 466Mhz. It was an iBook Special Edition and it came in graphite or lime. It had a DVD-ROM drive, a 10GB HD, and the rest isn't that important.
You sir, are wrong.
And the worst Apple product ever would have to be the Macintosh TV. They nerfed what could've been a really useful computer by putting a 32 bit processor on a 16 bit board and screwing it over with terrible performance. I have one (got it on eBay for $50.) and I use it to watch TV and play crystal quest. It's not good for much else, although it is quite interesting to see GTA3: Vice City on a 1993 Macintosh.
A business bomb yes.
A technological bomb, NO.
I still use my Newton 2100. Its still great after 5 years. I show it to people and the can't believe what it can do.
My Palms are lame in comparison.
Palm understood to get the price under $500 so that its easily expensed was the key. But you could also say that the Newton got the ball rolling. Perhaps didn't hang in long enough. ( All academic anyways )
