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What's your Favorite Apple Product of All Time?

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Of all the Apple products you've ever used, which was your favorite?

Not the best or fanciest or anything, just the one you LOVED the most.

Mine is the Power Macintosh G3 desktop. My family got it when I was a freshmen in high school. It wasn't our first computer (our first Mac was a Performa 400), but it was my first computer with a CD-ROM drive and access to the internet (56K modem). Played a lot of Warcraft, Starcraft, and the Sims. Made a geocities website for the high school band. It was also the first computer I installed my own RAM in.

My 2nd favorite would be the iPhone 6. It was such a dramatic leap from the 4s I had before it. I still have a memory of holding it and thinking "it won't get better than this."

Does anyone else have a device they think of as their favorite of all time?
 
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1st: soooo long ago.. but I loved the iPod with the clickwheel. What a wonderful piece of hardware, the wheel was so great to use. The great iPod and also the iPod Nano with the wheel. Truly lovely hardware.

2nd: iPhone X - suddenly so much was changed. It was so "wow".

At present it is the MBP M1 Pro 16" laptop. The apple silicon made such a difference. It is the best computer I ever used. This thing is a work machine, I love it.
 
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13" MBP Early 2011, bought July 1st 2011. 8GB RAM, 512 GB SSD. Super durable and sufficiently fast&powerful for my needs (light picture editing, office). Worked flawlessly until summer 2016, when I spilled beer over the keyboard. It fried parts of the logic board, but thanks to "Victor's ramblings" I could still use it for another year as stationary computer. The Samsung SSD is still doing fine in my wife's 2012 cMBP (bought 2015), now over 11 years old.
 
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2003 17" PowerBook G4 1.0Ghz (A1013). The very first (and so far only) laptop that attracted me to Apple.

I finally got one in December 2010 through eBay. Several parts and case replacements later I got a brand new (to me) one in 2014 I think. Still have this one (still working and in very good condition), 2GB ram and a 128GB mSATA SSD.

Apple released later versions of the 17" PB, but I was never much interested in those. Plus, the first 17" is the only one of the line to have L3 cache.
 
iSuzan said:
At present it is the MBP M1 Pro 16" laptop. The apple silicon made such a difference. It is the best computer I ever used. This thing is a work machine, I love it.
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I love my current 1Tb Macbook Air M1, but not as much as I loved that Power Mac G3 at the time!
 
iPhone 13 is what I think is Apple's best product because I've only used the iPhone 13 and I think it's great.:D
 
The Mac SE/30. It was first Mac I ever bought. I got it from a guy upgrading to a Mac IIci. He left all his software on it to boot which gave me my first taste of PhotoShop, Aldus Freehand and Quark XPress.😎

That machine will forever hold a special spot in my heart.
 
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The Mac SE/30. It was first Mac I ever bought. I got it from a guy upgrading to a Mac IIci. He left all his software on it to boot which gave me my first taste of PhotoShop, Aldus Freehand and Quark XPress.😎

That machine will forever hold a special spot in my heart.
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There were a couple times I got some high dollar software by getting to on a used computer. Too bad those times are over.

My first Mac experience was a Performa 200 (basically a Mac Classic II) that my older sister got for college. Used it to type out stories and also the ClarisWorks drawing application. I still have documents I created on it!
 
First would be the iPad, it revolutionised my travelling with work.
Note taking, music, video and books became much easier to access and use whilst travelling.

Second would be my first iMac, it was a breath of fresh air when I moved from a PC at home.
 
Mousse said:
The Mac SE/30. It was first Mac I ever bought. I got it from a guy upgrading to a Mac IIci. He left all his software on it to boot which gave me my first taste of PhotoShop, Aldus Freehand and Quark XPress.😎

That machine will forever hold a special spot in my heart.
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Those were two of the best Macs ever built.

One provided new levels of power in the classic form factor that started it all.

The other had the power, and expandability in a form that was simple to maintain, and still compact.

And the ][, without which none of it would have ever followed.
 
Out of the stuff I've used, probably the Mac Pro. You know it's good when even the act of opening and replacing internal parts is awesome

For stuff I've bought and owned, probably the 2012 MBP I'm typing on right now
 
I'd probably say the Power Mac Tower. Besides the MacOS which is a given, the outside was different, unique, the guts were a piece of engineering art.

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I'd probably say the Power Mac Tower. Besides the MacOS which is a given, the outside was different, unique, the guts were a piece of engineering art.
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I never liked the exterior looks of that case and I'm not sure why really.
 
I liked the 8+ and like our ATVs. Never was much into iPads or iPods, and can't afford MBPs
 
Has to be the Color Classic, which I still lust after to this day. Only used it a few times at a friend of the family's place, and in hindsight it's grossly underpowered and flawed, but damn do I want one! Of those products that I've personally owned, the original Bondi Blue iMac G3. It was my first 'own' machine, and I have fond memories of building a music library thanks to Napster and Limewire over an ADSL connection.
 
Would have to be my iPod classic 5th gen ("iPod Video") which was my first Apple product and the only one I really get nostalgic for. I liked my iPhone 4, which came out when new iPhones still had a lot of excitement around them and I remember my friends crowding round and cooing at it, and my 1st gen iPad Air, but since I've replaced them with very similar devices, I don't get that nostalgic about them. I spent an ridiculous amount on my first ever Mac, a 2009 MacBook Pro, just because I had the money and thought I might as well max it out, but I'm more annoyed with that one about how much money I wasted on power I didn't need and the fact that it only lasted me a couple of years before the battery swelled up and the machine slowed to a crawl.

The iPod classic though ... nothing can replace the cool and tactility of that.
 
Tough call...I've owned a lot over the years. I think it comes down to two:

  • 12" PowerBook G4 - that was the ultimate in power and portability in its time
  • Apple Watch Ultra - the battery life is incredible, even when I leave my phone behind and use cellular. It' amazing how far the Apple Watch has come in 7 years.
 
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