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What Macs have you always wanted?

AC Rempt said:
PowerBook 540C. I used to dream about that machine, and even now, I'd love to get my hands on one. Such a groundbreaking design.
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I am in search of the ultra-rare PowerBook 550c. Supposedly Apple only made these for the Japanese market. They are like a 540c except they are all-black (not grey), they have a 10.4" active matrix screen (larger than the 540c's 9.5"), and they have a full 66/33MHz 68040 processor (not the slower 68LC040 in the 540c). They also come with the PC card cage built-in, I believe. They are super hard to find, and in the 12 years I have been on eBay I have only seen one up for auction, ever. Here are some photos:



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(see the Japanese characters on the keyboard??)
 
I remember reading about the 550. That would be a cool machine to own, but I bet it'd cost a bundle.
 
I'll take a macIIfx. I seem to remember the editor of Aust Macworld buying one of these back in the early 90s' I think it cost him about $10,000 and he had all sorts of plans to use it around the home. I wonder how long he hung on to it for and what he ended up doing with it?
Failing that I'll take a se30. Matter of fact nearly did but the ebayer only accepted pick up no postage :)
 
well...
mac pro(oh yah)
imac g4(such a awsome desgin)
powermac g5 (quad)(very nice, very fast)
rev. b, b&w powermac g3(had one but it was rev a)
powerbook 1400(apprantly best keybord, also it looks cool)
mac se/30(best classic aio)
titanium powerbook g4 (1ghz)(love the desgin)
12inch powerbook g4(good portability)
any non unibody 15in macbook pro(school work :p)
powermac 9600(i love the desgin, the wow factor, and its pretty cool)
many many many apple moniters(22in and 23in cinimas, 15in studios, 30in cinima hds, and some of the crt studios (oh and those cool blue ones they are sweet)
 
I've wanted to have the original Mac, the G4 Cube, one of the colourful iMac G3s, the Pismo PowerBook, and the "lamp" iMac G4, at various times. Apple has gone through so many amazing form factors over the past thirty-odd years.
 
I've always loved the PowerBook 100 series. And like everyone else I absolutely love the G4 iMacs, and the incredible G4 Cubes.
 
I own:

Powerbook 170: I bought it for 40$, pristine condition. Ironically, the most reliable computer I own. I want another one, so I can cram in netbook guts, and have a Snow Leopard 170. The one I own right now is maxed out.

iMac G3 Indigo: Also in great condition.

PowerMac G4 FW800 2X1.25 My main computer, paired with 23" Cinema HD Acrylic.

I want:

20" G4 iMac
17" Powerbook G4
Xserve Any generation
Xserve RAID.
Pretty much any pre-G3 PowerBook

My old Mac ideology is to have one original, pristine, and then have another modded to the extreme in modern technology. :D
 
G5 quad
1 GHz TiBook
1.42 GHz mdd
G4 cube 500
Original Macintosh
iMac G3 snow
PowerBook G4 17"
MacBook Pro 17" (non unibody)
MacBook amateur (unibody)
TAM
iMac G4 20"
 
i just want the 20th anniversary Mac. I remember playing with it at the UCLA student store back in the day and always wanted one...but it was like 8000 dollars at the time...
 
The old Macintosh towers looked awesome. Very powerful looking machines.

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The 9600's with the 'power bulge' on the side are even better. And there will always be part of me that wants the pizza-box case 6100.
 
Power Mac G5 without the innards because I can use the case for my home-built PC! I can have form and function at the same time :D
 
Re:

I have 3 imac g3s, one of them is the tray loading CD. I have several Apple laptops needing parts. and an ipod nano 16gb.

Growing up, I always wanted a Pizza Box.

And now I want to add to my collections more ipods, some ipads, and any g3 machine, preferrably laptops since they take up less space and many have SCSI ports. I like g3 imacs also because the tray-loading can load OS 9 very well, and slot-loading can still load OS 9 and they have Fire Wire. I like to use OS 9 as much as possible, but I use Tiger because Opera internet browser is available on it. OS 9 is my favorite Mac OS and also iOS.
 
robvas said:
The old Macintosh towers looked awesome. Very powerful looking machines.

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The 9600's with the 'power bulge' on the side are even better. And there will always be part of me that wants the pizza-box case 6100.
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I always wanted one've these too.

I had a 6100av with the nubus video card driving a second display at one point.
They had a different startup chime, more of a "ding" guitar chord ... opens Mactracker to hear it again :)
 
I love the G4 and G3 iMacs and the PowerBook G3, own none of them sadly.
 
There are people still waiting for the G5 PowerBooks. Until those machines are out, threads like these should commemorate those heroes in lines in front of Apple Stores...


(I'm kidding, they are freaks.)
 
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