What's your most HATED PowerPC?

[eyoungren]

Why would you prefer the 6+ over the 6s+? The change in thickness/weight is a tiny one, made to accommodate 3D Touch and the added functionality.

I don't really use 3D Touch so there's that.

But the best way I can explain my preference is to liken it to the same reason that most of us in here prefer PowerPC Macs. There was just something about the 6+ I liked better.

It felt somewhat better in my hand than my 6s+ does. Maybe my dislike for iOS 9 figures in to that to, IDK.

 

[gavinstubbs09]

iMac G5. Owned two will never own another... First was an iSight that lasted a month and a original iMac G5 that was stupid loud no matter what you did.

 

[Nermal]

iMac G5 that was stupid loud no matter what you did.

I forgot about that! I remember getting the first Intel iMac and being astounded at how quiet it was. On the other hand, the hard drive was made next to impossible to access, because the back panel no longer popped off easily. That's "progress" for you...

 

[Gamer9430]

I forgot about that! I remember getting the first Intel iMac and being astounded at how quiet it was. On the other hand, the hard drive was made next to impossible to access, because the back panel no longer popped off easily. That's "progress" for you...

It was nice and quiet until you wake it up. Then the Optical drive makes an annoying loud noise and the fans rev up for a second.

It's annoying to me when I can't get it to stay asleep, so every 5 minutes I hear it make noises...

 

[fuchsdh]

The iMac G3 is one I have never warmed to. Made with the cheapest, most curved and unacceptably fuzzy screens ever foisted on an unsuspecting public. No amount of bright plastic and Rolling Stones adverts could rescue something that belonged in a skip at launch.

Not much improved with the eMac, either. A 17" screen that could not even output a 1280x1024 picture. The whole range was an exercise in cutting corners to reach a level below expectations.

We got my aunt and uncle a 1GHz eMac and it lasted a good 8 years. I really loved it, honestly, but the failing wasn't really the screen but that it shipped in late 2003 with only 128MB of RAM, when really you needed double that to make Panther a good experience. Even AOL would turn into a stuttering mess.



As for designs, I'm going to agree with above posters as I think the unibody MacBooks show in retrospect how crummy the aluminum PowerBooks (and early Macbook Pros) were. The tops were flimsy and it was easy to strip the paint from them; the latch and power connector look barbaric compared to the magnetic options we're spoiled on. I'm sure they were fine for the time, but going back to them is painful compared to other old Macs for me.

 

[spf2]

Due to the complexity of swapping out a hard drive in an iBook G4, it is on my least favorite to work on so far.

 

[SkyBell]

I really dislike the Snow iBook G3's, because of the multitude of issues they had, and because the keyboard was a squishy POS.

 

[iModFrenzy]

G3 Beige, just ugly, doesn't even look like a Mac more like a crappy Windows 95 computer.

 

[bunnspecial]

G3 Beige, just ugly, doesn't even look like a Mac more like a crappy Windows 95 computer.

I knew Windows 95 computers. Windows 95 computers were friends of mine.

The G3 beige, sir, is no Windows 95 computer.

 

[Resplendent]

I'll vote for the Snow G3/G4 iBooks. They take everything good about the aluminum PB's, and remove it. I suppose the only plus is at least the plastic is easier to restore to looking decent than the alu cases are.

 

[128keaton]

HO ho ho iMac G5

 

[fuchsdh]

HO ho ho iMac G5

It is really the kind of ugly in-between evolutionary link from the 20th Anniversary Mac and the Intel Macs. I guess the lampshade design wouldn't have supported the larger screen sizes or been good for the G5's heat dissipation, but it was still such a regression.

 

[iModFrenzy]

I knew Windows 95 computers. Windows 95 computers were friends of mine.

The G3 beige, sir, is no Windows 95 computer.

Never said it was a Windows 95 computer, I said it looked like one .

The G3s:

Here's some Windows PCs:

 

[bunnspecial]

The G3 is still far better looking

 

[0248294]

They're all a bit ugly to me. The beige 90s boxes were begging to get replaced by something else. Apple put them out of their misery when Steve came back

 

[CooperBox]

My opinion: I just hate the colorful clam shell iBooks. Ick.

Strange isn't it. I just love 'em! One of the most exciting laptop designs in recent years imho. And that is what's lacking today in current designs - excitement! My RMBP and iMac 27" do a good job, but lack that thrilling je ne sais quoi.

 

[0248294]

I love the coloured iBooks as well!

 

[CooperBox]

Whenever I have to get to the hard drive of my 12" PowerBook, it becomes my most hated device.

I have a love/hate relationship whenever I have to change a hard drive in an iMac G4 'Sunflower'. I've now done several, and each time I think 'it should now be simple', but it rarely is. Fabulous design though, hence the perverse love relationship.

 

[comda]

I have a love/hate relationship whenever I have to change a hard drive in an iMac G4 'Sunflower'. I've now done several, and each time I think 'it should now be simple', but it rarely is. Fabulous design though, hence the perverse love relationship.

Id rather that over replacing the Emacs HDD. Or even an imac G4. Im sure many of you know the emacs HDD is placed behind the flipping board and with the imac you need to reapply thermal paste. GAH
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Never said it was a Windows 95 computer, I said it looked like one .

The G3s:

Here's some Windows PCs:

UGH. we had these ugly compaq's in grade school. They would freeze in windows 98 and it took the network 15 minutes to figure out i was not logged in anymore.

 

[fuchsdh]

Never said it was a Windows 95 computer, I said it looked like one .

The G3s:

Here's some Windows PCs:

Ah, can't say anything bad about the platinum G3 minitower. My parents had a 266MHz model with a 28.8b modem that I remember fondly. So many games of StarCraft and Age of Empires were played on it...

 

[MagicBoy]

Oh the young!

In period the SpindlerPlastic™ Macs of the dark days got far more admiring glances from the consumers at the big box PC Store I worked in than any of the Packard Bell / Compaq / Apricot / IBM PCs.

"Can't I have something that looks like that <Points at PowerMac 5400 or 6400> but runs <names bit of Windows 95 software>?"

Look past the beige.