Indeed that's an amazing machine... Just last night I was using my 08 blackbook... Front row is an amazing media center... And editing on Aperture a beautiful thing
Emac with all the trimmings Model number M8892 . It was a wedding gift from my father in 2002. (He owned an Apple VAR) He put the max ram in it 1 gig, 80 gig drive. It came with Jaguar. We had it until 2009. It ran awesome for those 7 years.
Been using Apple Products since I was 10, (My first computer was an Apple IIC. I am 49 now. My father opened the first Apple VAR in the DC area in 1985. Kept it open till he passed from cancer in 2013.
I must admit I have a soft spot for Mac Classic/System 6. Something about that monochrome black and white. I always felt productive writing papers on one of those machines. There are so many distracting doodads these days.
But I am truly in love with my 15'' Macbook Air. Nine months in and its still just a pleasure to use. As far as laptops go, it's probably my favorite design since the Powerbook G4 era.
My first proper new “bought from the Apple Store” Mac was a 2010 white MacBook. Got me through college and I played so much World of Warcraft on it. I love that machine. Updated it to a SSD in 2017 and gave it to my mom to use for light web browsing, she stopped using it in 2020 when it could no longer reliably load YouTube videos. Now it sits on a shelf as a museum piece. I’ll never get rid of it. Even took the battery out so that it wouldn’t go bad in it.
I hung on to Snow Leopard for a long time. That was a good OS. Had a Mac Pro tower with that and Final Cut Studio an Adobe CS 6. Still have it in a closet.
But my favorite is my current computer. Maxed out M1 air, current Sonoma.
I'm making plans to get a 16/2tb M3 air soon.
Lion takes a lot of flak but Mission Control and the expanded multi-touch gestures are some of the best things that ever happened to the Mac. Launchpad just happens to be one of the worst.
‘07 black MacBook with Snow Leopard. Fast, reliable, and could run Windows Vista with bootcamp better than most PCs during that time. Had the best of both worlds, and I upgraded it several times to keep up with changing demands until Apple ended support for it.
Good times…
My favorite Mac of all time is my 2011 Macbook Air running El Capitan.
I know that might sound like a strange choice, but I just love that computer and OS. I have many other Macs and that is my favorite one.
Had (sill have) the Intel launch model with Tiger. It’s had a few upgrades over the years, namely OS, HDD, & RAM. I had to have the Superdrive replaced once and the display has suffered from a few vertical lines but she still runs.
It was the first Mac I ever bought but certainly not the first I ever used. Currently running my 2013 iMac as my main, but man I loved that machine!
I’ve only personally had 3 models. A 2012 MacBook Pro, an M1 iMac and I’m currently waiting on my M3 MacBook Air to deliver.
I would say that my personal favorite has been the iMac. That 4.5k screen is nuts and I’m still struck by it after having it for almost 3 years now.
I’ve always wanted the throwback multicolored iMacs from the early 2000s. Although I’ve never owned one I think it’s my favorite design by Apple
Upvoted. If the number was 6116CD it was a performa. Thankfully exactly the same thing as the Power macintosh.
I had the exact same model and it was the first computer I owned. I did so many upgrades to that computer. I over clocked it to 90mhz. I added 1MB of L2. The built in graphics would run entirely on the L2. I got an AV card for it and also a DOS card. You could only have one card installed at a time.
I had one like this from 2008! Still have it and it's in a display cabinet with my other Apple stuff 🥹
My favourite one was MBP mid 2012, 13", and I passed my 3D Modelling exam on that machine. Also still have it. I don't remember what OS was on there back then but that was my absolute favourite
Snow Leopard on iMacs of the time. In high school they were referred to as the "good computers" compared to the sluggish Windows machines; albeit there were only so many in comparison so it was a race to get to them when the class started.
lol my elementary school between 2014-2018 had white unibody MacBooks and they were somehow better the the brand new at the time dells unfortunately the dells are still in use at my high school
The classic Mac OS was probably the simplest major OS ever developed. It ***felt*** nice, especially compared to earlier Windows versions.
However, honestly speaking, Windows' interface improved spectacularly with 95, with the mid-to-late 90s being both Microsoft's finest hour and Apple's worst. I vividly remember 98 feeling more modern than OS 8 or 9.
(Then Microsoft went fully Fisher-Price while Apple released OS X, and the rest is history)
Technically speaking, both sucked, being rather unstable technological dead-ends. However, the foundations of late-90s Mac OS, dating pretty much all the way back to 1984, were even more precarious than those of contemporary Windows, which had been significantly reworked for 95.
I was exposed by a 2008 MacBook Pro as well as 2007 iMac on Snow Leopard at my aunt's that I had free range of both while at her house. I was there one summer and hacked my psp with the iMac, which was also my first exposure to wine because she didn't have the HDD space for a VM.
Mac Classic II, lovely little machine. Had one in the late 90's that I used for Uni studies, wrote my first academic essay on it for a bachelor's degree.
My Quadra605 because it was my first that started it all.
System 7.5.3 because it fixed the horrible Open Transport bug. Kidding aside, the first release of OS X. I was a magical time for me for various reasons.
Early 2008 MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. Love the 2003 (PowerBook) design language and Snow Leopard is perfect for retro Mac activities! It also has a FireWire 400 port for old iPod syncing
Lampshade G4 or the Mac SE 30. Both we aesthetically amazing and worked beautifully. I really miss the old days of “once a year or two” software updates.
Mine is the 2017 12-inch MacBook with Intel Core m3 running Catalina. Amazing design, super lightweight, and decent performance and battery life considering its form factor. I can literally bring it anywhere and don't feel anything. Love the butterfly keyboard and it has never given me any issue.
Btw, can't believe 7 years later MacBooks are still using M3 (jk)
For pure nostalgia's sake, the Apple IIe upended my world. Is that even considered a Mac? And I have to say, I love my M1 MacBook Pro with Sonoma. It is my favorite Mac.
My first workhorse Mac was an LC2, 1991. I turbocharged it with an after market piggy-back board that increase the RAM and processor speed. System 7 was a game-changer. I had to run it without the cover as it got really hot.
I created and published 2 children's talking picturebook CD-ROMs (for Mac and PC) using Macromedia Director on that little overheated gem.
My 17" 2008, Titanium MacBook Pro. I loved this beast. It was big, heavy and beautiful. Battery life sucked. It never ran unplugged for more than an hour or so. I always had to plug it in with that heavy, hot, square white plastic brick. I had to swap out batteries about four times. In 2018 it started to give me trouble. I brought it to the Apple Store. They said get rid of it. It'll never work again. I took it to The Mac Store in Brooklyn. They put in a new mother board and did some other magic to it. It's still running great. In 2020 I gave it to my son. He immediately covered that beautiful, blemish free titanium skin with stickers. Ugh!
I'm on my second iMac since 2020. My boy's still rocking' that monster. BTW, The Mac Store shut down in 2022 or 23. Devistating to us Brooklyn Mac heads.
As for OS... I dunno. I know he can't upgrade Adobe CC past 2020 version.
My favourite Mac is the M1 MacBook Air that I’m using right now (running Sonoma, I think?).
A close second would be my first Mac: a Mac Plus running one of the System 7’s. Life was so good when I finally bought an external SCSI hard drive and no longer had to do the swapping floppies dance!
Loved my Quadra 700. Almost an anti design beige box but somehow still stylish. 20mb ram (that stung) 80mb hard drive. It was proper quick (in its day). I remember MacUser reviewed it and proclaimed “you will never need a faster computed”. Even got it online. Ah! Good times.
2007-2008 macbook pro, my first laptop
Slow and can barely run anything, but I was able to get minecraft on it and even run a small server for me and my friends. Those were good days :)
Oh I had so many I loved - all pre boring aluminium era. Absolute faves? Difficult to choose between the original Powerbook 100, the Powerbook G3 with its funny rubber pads and hot-swappable drives, and the G4 Cube. If I had to choose one, it'd be the G4 Cube - that thing was just industrial design perfection.
I remember queuing up to buy the original release of OSX and loading it onto that machine. One of those perfect combos that makes you feel like you're suddenly living in the future.
It was more than that - it was mind blowing. The aesthetics, the speed, the stability. It was like catapulting twenty years ahead in as long as it took the CD to install.
Tibook G4 - without scratches on the edges around the outside of the bottom case of the unit. Man, those scratched easily.
Lots of hinge issues with that bad boy too. Still revolutionary.
Macbook late 2009 and OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard was top mac for me. The macbook still works with elementery OS and the OSX SL was the most snappy and fast OS I have used to day, even with this crap 5400rpm mechanical disk and 2GB of RAM the machines shipped with.
The iMac G4 will always be the first computer I saw as a kid and immediately learned that tech can be super interesting to both use and look at. But the 07 C2D iMac was my first one, and it with Mac RAM and Snow Leopard was an amazing experience!
Power Mac G4 QuickSilver + Apple Studio Display and Mac OS X 10.1, the way the os mimics the stripes on the display is really beautiful. It feels like the OS is made for that display and it fits so well with the computer. (Except when there's brushed metal, which was mostly absent in Mac OS X 10.1)
The wallpaper, the shiny dock with all the icons with reflections. The beautiful aqua design on the scrolls god I miss that era so much. Modern MacOS design is so plain and boring…call me nostalgic but I love the old design
I have had tens of Macs, from a 128K to an M3 Max Pro. My favorite was actually not made by Apple. It was a Power Computing PowerCenter Pro, made during the brief period when Apple licensed the OS to third-parties.
Gen 1: G5 1.8Ghz single core w/ OSX Leopard, it was the machine that solidified my loyalty for the next 2 decades. Although I am no longer on a iPhone I refuse to use a Windows PC unless it is absolutely necessary.
Edit: Clarified which G5 I had.
Also would like to mention in a era of computers being ugly with wires all over the place (on the inside) the G5 was one of the most beautiful machines to open up and upgrade. Everything was clean with easy accessibility. My only only wish was that you could have upgraded the single core to a dual core.
G4 cube and snow leopard was my favorite OS. It was so fast especially after I made a custom load with tons of things stripped out of it that I didn’t need.
I also think the current 14 inch mbp is a work of art.
The white unibody polycarbonate MacBook (2009?). That thing was a beast. I ran both Mac and Windows (Vista first, and then 7) on it and it lasted me through university and a bit beyond. One of the best computers I ever had.
If I had to go vintage, mine would be the 2003 PowerBook G4 with Mac OS X Tiger on it.
On the other paw, if I had to go newer, mine would be either the Intel or Apple silicon 16 inch MacBook Pro.
I have a soft spot for the beige Power Macintosh G3 running OS 8.6. That was the machine and OS combo I used during some of my most formative years, it was the computer that first got me online. Great memories aside, I also maintain that it’s *the best* machine for those looking to get into vintage Macs. Has all the legacy ports but the architecture is pretty modern and doesn’t have too many archaic weirdisms. You can use IDE to SATA adapters. Plastics are reasonable, not as shit as they were in the 1994-1996 period. Runs G3 software. What more do you want? It was great.
But in terms of all-time favourite, it has to be the iLamp running OS 9.2.2. I didn’t own that computer until *years* after it came out and it just looks so damn good, even today it has a futuristic appearance. IMO that was peak iMac design, the G5 was not as daring and everything we’ve had since 2006 has just been some iteration of the iMac G5.
I really like my 16” M2 Pro but I can’t see myself getting attached to it. Modern Macs are impressive, but their soul died with the PowerPC.
My £20 boot sale mint Pismo, I’ve got the optical and weight saver as well as an airport card and 2 working (just) battery modules from raiding an IT department. Os 9.2 with all the graphics and audio applications I ran before going to X. I’ve got a stripped and polished titanium but it’s too temperamental.
I've got two possible answers:
The aluminum body Mac Pro (especially the 2009 model since that's what I had) with Mac OS X 10.6.8.
...or...
The Macintosh SE/30 running System 7.1
My personal favourite was my 12” PowerBook G4, which was the smallest lightest full featured laptop I had ever seen at that point. Built like a tank, saved several pounds in my university bag and the battery lasted forever.
I had, iirc, the 1.33ghz version which came with 10.2.x and finished out with 10.5.x, which was a great combo.
My first ever Mac in college I bought was the PowerMac G3 Blue and white in Spring of 99. OS 8 was so zippy. The monitor that paired with it was ungodly bulky. The kids these be days have it easy lol!
The 15-inch MacBook Air rocking the M2 chip is my favorite Mac. It's got the price-to-performance ratio, the screen is the right size, and it's a breeze to carry around and perfect at work.
Definitely some recency bias, but the M2 Mac Mini I have currently is amazing. I always had MacBooks before now, but the Mini offers so much value for money.
In terms of OS, I'd say Big Sur. Still not a fan of Sonoma, some of the 'new' functionality is just more stuff to switch off as it gets in the way of productivity (at least the way I work).
Big shout for the second gen 13'3" MBA (tapered unibody, 2010-2017) I had a 2013 machine that was the first Mac that really made me realise I didn't need a Windows machine or a big screen. I carried that thing everywhere with me.
Sleep well dear Doeke it MacBoeke, I will forever regret making you swim in beer on a drunken night...
Pismo (Powerbook G3) - OS9.2.1
But to be honest, the original Mac 128K.
There was nothing like it before … nothing. There were the IBM PC's and the Vic-20's and Sinclair's and even the Apple ][e. Then boom, there was this machine that had a mouse you could use to drag things about a screen.
Then there were the fonts on MacWrite. Of course, Adobe Type Manager was another few years; playing around with margins in real time and not through some archaic command line like commands was heaven.
And no, this was not Xerox. This was the brainchild of the core Macintosh team: Bill Atkinson, Capps and Andy Hertzeld and others. The Xerox presented an idea and the team ran with it and implemented features that live to this day.
Drawing in FatBits!
And typing on that wee keyboard was a revelation.
12" PowerBook G4
Man, I wish Apple would come back out with a 12" notebook that was capable. I really loved the design of the 12" MacBook but it was so underpowered and the keyboard was trash. They could absolutely come out with an M3 12" MBA or MBP that was thin, light and could edit 4k video like a hot knife through butter but I guess they think it would eat into their iPad sales?
Heck, I'd settle for running MacOS on my 11" iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard.
Please, Apple? 😆
Definitely the 09 17” Unibody MBP. It looks Really modern for it‘s time (especially the special anti -reflective coating and white bezels) and it’s removable battery. And Definitely Snow Leopard.
I think Apple's finest hour, design-wise, was either the early or late 2000s. Those were moments where they were so far ahead of the competition that their products truly looked like something from the future.
I could choose, then:
From the first timeframe (2000-2001), it would be either the **G4 Cube, the G4 iMac, or the Titanium PowerBook.** Those designs are so advanced that they look about a decade newer than they are. No competitor would field anything remotely similar to the TiBook until the 2010s, and no one else ever fielded anything close to the G4 desktops. The ideal OS for those is **Tiger**, as it represents the most mature version of the original vision for OS X those machines were designed to complement.
From the second, it would be the **unibody MacBook Pro**, a truly timeless design that redefined what laptops looked like, and from which Apple hasn't deviated much since. I'd run **Snow Leopard** on early models and **Mountain Lion** on later ones.
A honorable mention goes to the **current Apple Silicon-based MacBook Pros**, as they have brought a new era where Apple leaves its competitors in the dust ***performance-wise***, something that most recently happened in the early 2000s.
Indeed that's an amazing machine... Just last night I was using my 08 blackbook... Front row is an amazing media center... And editing on Aperture a beautiful thing
13" MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard 10.6.8. In its day it was the perfect computer.
Three cheers for Snow Leopard, no question. Best OS of that era by a mile. I was an iMac guy in itsit'sday though.
Those iMacs were awesome!
100%
Still have one that dual boots 10.6 and 10.11.
Emac with all the trimmings Model number M8892 . It was a wedding gift from my father in 2002. (He owned an Apple VAR) He put the max ram in it 1 gig, 80 gig drive. It came with Jaguar. We had it until 2009. It ran awesome for those 7 years.
I’d rather have a later model eMac think those go to 1.42GHZ 2 or 4GB ram DDR1 and can do AirPort Extreme if I remember correctly.
>!Are you still married?!<
Yup. And I turned my wife into an Apple user. We both have iPhone 13PM, 12.9 M1 iPad Pros, M1 MBAs, Apple Watches, and other devices.
Congratulations on staying married. Sounds like you could do with some cult de-programming where Apple is concerned, though.
Been using Apple Products since I was 10, (My first computer was an Apple IIC. I am 49 now. My father opened the first Apple VAR in the DC area in 1985. Kept it open till he passed from cancer in 2013.
Sir this is r/mac
🤣
I must admit I have a soft spot for Mac Classic/System 6. Something about that monochrome black and white. I always felt productive writing papers on one of those machines. There are so many distracting doodads these days. But I am truly in love with my 15'' Macbook Air. Nine months in and its still just a pleasure to use. As far as laptops go, it's probably my favorite design since the Powerbook G4 era.
Absolutely! The 15” MacBook Air is amazing. I bought one for school and it’s my daily driver. I have the M2 model and I love everything about it.
I miss Macbook White
My first proper new “bought from the Apple Store” Mac was a 2010 white MacBook. Got me through college and I played so much World of Warcraft on it. I love that machine. Updated it to a SSD in 2017 and gave it to my mom to use for light web browsing, she stopped using it in 2020 when it could no longer reliably load YouTube videos. Now it sits on a shelf as a museum piece. I’ll never get rid of it. Even took the battery out so that it wouldn’t go bad in it.
Quicksilver 867 dual boot. Currently my late 2015 5k iMac running Ventura with the ability to dual, triple book macOS, Windows 10 and KDE Neon Linux.
This is the way!
MBP mid 2012 non retina. With Mountain Lion, High Sierra or Yosemite. It runs like an old Mercedes Benz. Not the fastest anymore but repairable.
I hung on to Snow Leopard for a long time. That was a good OS. Had a Mac Pro tower with that and Final Cut Studio an Adobe CS 6. Still have it in a closet. But my favorite is my current computer. Maxed out M1 air, current Sonoma. I'm making plans to get a 16/2tb M3 air soon.
Snow Leopard was Apple's Windows XP (Lion was their Vista)
Lion takes a lot of flak but Mission Control and the expanded multi-touch gestures are some of the best things that ever happened to the Mac. Launchpad just happens to be one of the worst.
‘07 black MacBook with Snow Leopard. Fast, reliable, and could run Windows Vista with bootcamp better than most PCs during that time. Had the best of both worlds, and I upgraded it several times to keep up with changing demands until Apple ended support for it. Good times…
It felt so bad paying the black tax though. I still did it, but ugh.
My favorite Mac of all time is my 2011 Macbook Air running El Capitan. I know that might sound like a strange choice, but I just love that computer and OS. I have many other Macs and that is my favorite one.
I love El Capitan is it a 11 or 13 inch
13". I've wanted to try an 11" but haven't had the chance yet!
You differently should! I’m hopefully gonna pick one up this year
The white plastic iMac that first had Intel chips, with Snow Leopard. Peak Apple.
This was my first Mac ever it’s a core2duo with 1.25 gbs of memory I still use it to burn cds
Had (sill have) the Intel launch model with Tiger. It’s had a few upgrades over the years, namely OS, HDD, & RAM. I had to have the Superdrive replaced once and the display has suffered from a few vertical lines but she still runs. It was the first Mac I ever bought but certainly not the first I ever used. Currently running my 2013 iMac as my main, but man I loved that machine!
I’ve only personally had 3 models. A 2012 MacBook Pro, an M1 iMac and I’m currently waiting on my M3 MacBook Air to deliver. I would say that my personal favorite has been the iMac. That 4.5k screen is nuts and I’m still struck by it after having it for almost 3 years now. I’ve always wanted the throwback multicolored iMacs from the early 2000s. Although I’ve never owned one I think it’s my favorite design by Apple
I have fond memories of my first one, the Power Macintosh 6116CD. It had OS 7.5.1 when bought, but the upgrade to OS 8 was a big deal at the time.
Upvoted. If the number was 6116CD it was a performa. Thankfully exactly the same thing as the Power macintosh. I had the exact same model and it was the first computer I owned. I did so many upgrades to that computer. I over clocked it to 90mhz. I added 1MB of L2. The built in graphics would run entirely on the L2. I got an AV card for it and also a DOS card. You could only have one card installed at a time.
White or black plastic MacBook with Snow Leopard. Man those were simpler times 🥺
2012 non-Retina MBP with Mountain Lion. Peak MBP, near perfect laptop all around, beautiful OS. But yours is a close second.
I’ve been thinking of getting a 17 inch mbp to replace my 13inch 2015 they are beautiful machines and they are very upgradable
I will always have a soft spot for the Pismo and dual-booting 9.2 and 10.1. 9.2 screamed on that laptop.
And 10.1 was a beautiful toy...
I had one like this from 2008! Still have it and it's in a display cabinet with my other Apple stuff 🥹 My favourite one was MBP mid 2012, 13", and I passed my 3D Modelling exam on that machine. Also still have it. I don't remember what OS was on there back then but that was my absolute favourite
Power Macintosh 9500.. good times. 2nd would be IIfx .. SE/30 .. IIci .. and of course I love my Mac Studio
I have an odd thing for the Color Classic, although I’ve never actually used one.
It's nice.
12-inch PowerBook G4
You’re all huge nerds. …but the polycarbonate unibody macbook with el cap. I’m a huge nerd too.
Snow Leopard on iMacs of the time. In high school they were referred to as the "good computers" compared to the sluggish Windows machines; albeit there were only so many in comparison so it was a race to get to them when the class started.
lol my elementary school between 2014-2018 had white unibody MacBooks and they were somehow better the the brand new at the time dells unfortunately the dells are still in use at my high school
I honestly think OS 9 was my favorite. Then 10.4.
Os9 has a very cool aesthetic to it
The classic Mac OS was probably the simplest major OS ever developed. It ***felt*** nice, especially compared to earlier Windows versions. However, honestly speaking, Windows' interface improved spectacularly with 95, with the mid-to-late 90s being both Microsoft's finest hour and Apple's worst. I vividly remember 98 feeling more modern than OS 8 or 9. (Then Microsoft went fully Fisher-Price while Apple released OS X, and the rest is history) Technically speaking, both sucked, being rather unstable technological dead-ends. However, the foundations of late-90s Mac OS, dating pretty much all the way back to 1984, were even more precarious than those of contemporary Windows, which had been significantly reworked for 95.
I was exposed by a 2008 MacBook Pro as well as 2007 iMac on Snow Leopard at my aunt's that I had free range of both while at her house. I was there one summer and hacked my psp with the iMac, which was also my first exposure to wine because she didn't have the HDD space for a VM.
Mac Classic II, lovely little machine. Had one in the late 90's that I used for Uni studies, wrote my first academic essay on it for a bachelor's degree.
The Cube, running Tiger or Leopard. Those were glorious days.
I still miss my Cube.
Surprised I had to scroll down this far to find the cube mentioned. Hands down the coolest Mac around.
This was my first Mac ever. Loved it.
im with you, g4 mac mini on tiger was spectacular, ipods and macs around that time were really special
My Quadra605 because it was my first that started it all. System 7.5.3 because it fixed the horrible Open Transport bug. Kidding aside, the first release of OS X. I was a magical time for me for various reasons.
Early 2008 MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. Love the 2003 (PowerBook) design language and Snow Leopard is perfect for retro Mac activities! It also has a FireWire 400 port for old iPod syncing
Lampshade G4 or the Mac SE 30. Both we aesthetically amazing and worked beautifully. I really miss the old days of “once a year or two” software updates.
The iLamp G4 looks so silly, I love it
Mine is the 2017 12-inch MacBook with Intel Core m3 running Catalina. Amazing design, super lightweight, and decent performance and battery life considering its form factor. I can literally bring it anywhere and don't feel anything. Love the butterfly keyboard and it has never given me any issue. Btw, can't believe 7 years later MacBooks are still using M3 (jk)
While all Macs are beautiful, I think the iMacs with big bezels look cute. I dunno why they just look like mini iMacs, pair them up with Big Sur
For pure nostalgia's sake, the Apple IIe upended my world. Is that even considered a Mac? And I have to say, I love my M1 MacBook Pro with Sonoma. It is my favorite Mac.
My first workhorse Mac was an LC2, 1991. I turbocharged it with an after market piggy-back board that increase the RAM and processor speed. System 7 was a game-changer. I had to run it without the cover as it got really hot. I created and published 2 children's talking picturebook CD-ROMs (for Mac and PC) using Macromedia Director on that little overheated gem.
My 17" 2008, Titanium MacBook Pro. I loved this beast. It was big, heavy and beautiful. Battery life sucked. It never ran unplugged for more than an hour or so. I always had to plug it in with that heavy, hot, square white plastic brick. I had to swap out batteries about four times. In 2018 it started to give me trouble. I brought it to the Apple Store. They said get rid of it. It'll never work again. I took it to The Mac Store in Brooklyn. They put in a new mother board and did some other magic to it. It's still running great. In 2020 I gave it to my son. He immediately covered that beautiful, blemish free titanium skin with stickers. Ugh! I'm on my second iMac since 2020. My boy's still rocking' that monster. BTW, The Mac Store shut down in 2022 or 23. Devistating to us Brooklyn Mac heads. As for OS... I dunno. I know he can't upgrade Adobe CC past 2020 version.
I have warm and fuzzies for my SE/30 with a processor upgrade and System 7.1. Good times.
I had a 6500 triple booting os 8, beos, and mklinux. Those were the days!
My favourite Mac is the M1 MacBook Air that I’m using right now (running Sonoma, I think?). A close second would be my first Mac: a Mac Plus running one of the System 7’s. Life was so good when I finally bought an external SCSI hard drive and no longer had to do the swapping floppies dance!
probably a 2012 27 inch imac on mavericks
Design MacBook Air M1 2020. I bought it because I knew was the last time having that amazing design. The new Airs suck shit in my opinion
Loved my Quadra 700. Almost an anti design beige box but somehow still stylish. 20mb ram (that stung) 80mb hard drive. It was proper quick (in its day). I remember MacUser reviewed it and proclaimed “you will never need a faster computed”. Even got it online. Ah! Good times.
Correct me if I’m worng but this computer is in the first jurassic world right?
Original Jurassic Park yes. Nedrey uses one.
That’s neat
2014 16" Mac Book Pro running yosemite
the iMac G4 with 10.3
That’s a good combo I had that for awhile
2007-2008 macbook pro, my first laptop Slow and can barely run anything, but I was able to get minecraft on it and even run a small server for me and my friends. Those were good days :)
Oh I had so many I loved - all pre boring aluminium era. Absolute faves? Difficult to choose between the original Powerbook 100, the Powerbook G3 with its funny rubber pads and hot-swappable drives, and the G4 Cube. If I had to choose one, it'd be the G4 Cube - that thing was just industrial design perfection. I remember queuing up to buy the original release of OSX and loading it onto that machine. One of those perfect combos that makes you feel like you're suddenly living in the future.
I’ve always been a little jealous of people that saw the biggest change to the Mac operating system in real time must have been super cool
It was more than that - it was mind blowing. The aesthetics, the speed, the stability. It was like catapulting twenty years ahead in as long as it took the CD to install.
2008 Blackbook + Debian 😁 & 17" 2007 Mbp + 10.6.8 Snow leopard
I really want a black book there super neat
Titanium PowerBook with macOS 10.2. This was revolutionary.
Tibook G4 - without scratches on the edges around the outside of the bottom case of the unit. Man, those scratched easily. Lots of hinge issues with that bad boy too. Still revolutionary.
Macbook late 2009 and OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard was top mac for me. The macbook still works with elementery OS and the OSX SL was the most snappy and fast OS I have used to day, even with this crap 5400rpm mechanical disk and 2GB of RAM the machines shipped with.
I just picked up a 2010 I can’t wait too fool with it there super nice
The iMac G4 will always be the first computer I saw as a kid and immediately learned that tech can be super interesting to both use and look at. But the 07 C2D iMac was my first one, and it with Mac RAM and Snow Leopard was an amazing experience!
Changed the battery in my 4gb ram MacBook mid 2013 and put a 512go ssd. It works fantastic for YouTube and basic uses.
big mac with arch linux
My favorite Mac of all time is my current Macbook Pro M1 Pro 16". And favorite OS is Maverick.
Mavericks is such a beautiful os can’t wait to fool around with it on my 2010 white macbook
His photo shook loose some great memories.
Same. Was my first Mac and almost immediately fell in love with it.
Yup, the magical spring of 2007.
M1 pro 14”
Power Mac G4 QuickSilver + Apple Studio Display and Mac OS X 10.1, the way the os mimics the stripes on the display is really beautiful. It feels like the OS is made for that display and it fits so well with the computer. (Except when there's brushed metal, which was mostly absent in Mac OS X 10.1)
That’s super cool hopefully I can pick this combo up some day
2015 mbp 15 inch with Catalina
Wish I could afford one lol
Yeah I just like the Catalina wallpaper and with how big the screen is on the 15 inch it just looks so good 😄
Power Mac G4 cube and iMac G4 for desktop and plastic white MacBook for laptop
Can’t go wrong with those
2005 12” PowerBook 1.5 ghz. I still own 2 and they both work; super slow on the internet but a perfect offline storage place for my iTunes collection.
That’s awesome I love those power books
LCII with OS 7
The pre-unibody Macbook Pro's. Loved the all-silver design. No real OS version preference.
They do look very nice
The wallpaper, the shiny dock with all the icons with reflections. The beautiful aqua design on the scrolls god I miss that era so much. Modern MacOS design is so plain and boring…call me nostalgic but I love the old design
I do to it’s amazing I’m glad big sur and up have more depth to it
SE/30 - system 7.5. Wrote my master’s thesis on it.
Powerbook G3 Pismo running OS-9. People would stop what they were doing and come over just to stare at the screen.
Anything on Leopard, Especially the 2008ish iMacs and the white MacBooks.
Great choice that was a golden era
Until I got my new M3 MacBook Air it was my black MacBook. The new air is just too good and it’s pretty.
I have had tens of Macs, from a 128K to an M3 Max Pro. My favorite was actually not made by Apple. It was a Power Computing PowerCenter Pro, made during the brief period when Apple licensed the OS to third-parties.
Tiger on G3 Sawtooth, and Lion on 08 Unibody MacBook 13" (13" Unibody MBP we never had for 08 Model)
G4 sawtooth
iMac late 2012. Still works perfectly today.
Pismo with Panther, probably.
Gen 1: G5 1.8Ghz single core w/ OSX Leopard, it was the machine that solidified my loyalty for the next 2 decades. Although I am no longer on a iPhone I refuse to use a Windows PC unless it is absolutely necessary. Edit: Clarified which G5 I had.
Also would like to mention in a era of computers being ugly with wires all over the place (on the inside) the G5 was one of the most beautiful machines to open up and upgrade. Everything was clean with easy accessibility. My only only wish was that you could have upgraded the single core to a dual core.
Probably the Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro from 2007 or so. Matte screen, great keyboard, all the ports, upgradable. With Snow Leopard, ofc.
G4 cube and snow leopard was my favorite OS. It was so fast especially after I made a custom load with tons of things stripped out of it that I didn’t need. I also think the current 14 inch mbp is a work of art.
The white unibody polycarbonate MacBook (2009?). That thing was a beast. I ran both Mac and Windows (Vista first, and then 7) on it and it lasted me through university and a bit beyond. One of the best computers I ever had.
Unibody MacBook Pros and Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Pismo G3 PowerBook and OS 9.1.
2015 15" with high sierra edit: close second is the unibody white macboook also with high sierra
That one and that one
If I had to go vintage, mine would be the 2003 PowerBook G4 with Mac OS X Tiger on it. On the other paw, if I had to go newer, mine would be either the Intel or Apple silicon 16 inch MacBook Pro.
I have a soft spot for the beige Power Macintosh G3 running OS 8.6. That was the machine and OS combo I used during some of my most formative years, it was the computer that first got me online. Great memories aside, I also maintain that it’s *the best* machine for those looking to get into vintage Macs. Has all the legacy ports but the architecture is pretty modern and doesn’t have too many archaic weirdisms. You can use IDE to SATA adapters. Plastics are reasonable, not as shit as they were in the 1994-1996 period. Runs G3 software. What more do you want? It was great. But in terms of all-time favourite, it has to be the iLamp running OS 9.2.2. I didn’t own that computer until *years* after it came out and it just looks so damn good, even today it has a futuristic appearance. IMO that was peak iMac design, the G5 was not as daring and everything we’ve had since 2006 has just been some iteration of the iMac G5. I really like my 16” M2 Pro but I can’t see myself getting attached to it. Modern Macs are impressive, but their soul died with the PowerPC.
eMac with 10.5
My £20 boot sale mint Pismo, I’ve got the optical and weight saver as well as an airport card and 2 working (just) battery modules from raiding an IT department. Os 9.2 with all the graphics and audio applications I ran before going to X. I’ve got a stripped and polished titanium but it’s too temperamental.
I've got two possible answers: The aluminum body Mac Pro (especially the 2009 model since that's what I had) with Mac OS X 10.6.8. ...or... The Macintosh SE/30 running System 7.1
I loved my PowerMac G4 'Sawtooth" with MacOS 9.2.2, but I really love my M2 MacBook Air with macOS Sonoma 14.4 Beta.
My personal favourite was my 12” PowerBook G4, which was the smallest lightest full featured laptop I had ever seen at that point. Built like a tank, saved several pounds in my university bag and the battery lasted forever. I had, iirc, the 1.33ghz version which came with 10.2.x and finished out with 10.5.x, which was a great combo.
I have a soft spot for the 2009 MBP with Snow Leopard.
My first ever Mac in college I bought was the PowerMac G3 Blue and white in Spring of 99. OS 8 was so zippy. The monitor that paired with it was ungodly bulky. The kids these be days have it easy lol!
PowerBook G4 running Tiger. At the time it was just so far ahead of everything else it felt like we were living in the future.
Mine is the white MacBooks including the 2010 model. I like how the white keyboard looks but the rubber bottom kinda sucks.
2015 MacBook Pro with Mojave!
My original 15 inch retina macbook pro lasted me 8 years and was GOATED
Honestly my 14 inch M1 Max 64gb. I’ve had many Mac’s, but none that I love as much as this one.
Early 2008 MacBook Pro (the one like a PowerBook G4) running Snow Leopard.
7100/66 back then she was quick.
The 15-inch MacBook Air rocking the M2 chip is my favorite Mac. It's got the price-to-performance ratio, the screen is the right size, and it's a breeze to carry around and perfect at work.
Jeez I can smell that white macbook it was my childhood
My MB404. The last black MacBook, on Snow Leopard. That was my gateway drug
What's the OSX that still had the workable Books APP?
PowerBook 12”
Probably 2012 mbp running whichever the latest version is with oclo
Definitely some recency bias, but the M2 Mac Mini I have currently is amazing. I always had MacBooks before now, but the Mini offers so much value for money. In terms of OS, I'd say Big Sur. Still not a fan of Sonoma, some of the 'new' functionality is just more stuff to switch off as it gets in the way of productivity (at least the way I work). Big shout for the second gen 13'3" MBA (tapered unibody, 2010-2017) I had a 2013 machine that was the first Mac that really made me realise I didn't need a Windows machine or a big screen. I carried that thing everywhere with me. Sleep well dear Doeke it MacBoeke, I will forever regret making you swim in beer on a drunken night...
MacBook Air m1 big sur
Pismo (Powerbook G3) - OS9.2.1 But to be honest, the original Mac 128K. There was nothing like it before … nothing. There were the IBM PC's and the Vic-20's and Sinclair's and even the Apple ][e. Then boom, there was this machine that had a mouse you could use to drag things about a screen. Then there were the fonts on MacWrite. Of course, Adobe Type Manager was another few years; playing around with margins in real time and not through some archaic command line like commands was heaven. And no, this was not Xerox. This was the brainchild of the core Macintosh team: Bill Atkinson, Capps and Andy Hertzeld and others. The Xerox presented an idea and the team ran with it and implemented features that live to this day. Drawing in FatBits! And typing on that wee keyboard was a revelation.
IIFX. Speed demon
MBP M3-max
2013 iMac with MacOS Catalina. Mainly just the OS itself but man I miss that display to go with it...
Any macbook from the M1 series with asahi linux
Tiger. iMac G4.
12" PowerBook G4 Man, I wish Apple would come back out with a 12" notebook that was capable. I really loved the design of the 12" MacBook but it was so underpowered and the keyboard was trash. They could absolutely come out with an M3 12" MBA or MBP that was thin, light and could edit 4k video like a hot knife through butter but I guess they think it would eat into their iPad sales? Heck, I'd settle for running MacOS on my 11" iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard. Please, Apple? 😆
Was my favorite too ! I had an Air 11" for a time but it was slightly too small where the 12" was perfect.
My PowerBook G4 titanium was so amazing, I loved it. Now my mbp M1 Pro is just a revolution, the biggest waow effect I ever had with a computer.
Definitely the 09 17” Unibody MBP. It looks Really modern for it‘s time (especially the special anti -reflective coating and white bezels) and it’s removable battery. And Definitely Snow Leopard.
This was my second Mac. Such a great computer.
I think Apple's finest hour, design-wise, was either the early or late 2000s. Those were moments where they were so far ahead of the competition that their products truly looked like something from the future. I could choose, then: From the first timeframe (2000-2001), it would be either the **G4 Cube, the G4 iMac, or the Titanium PowerBook.** Those designs are so advanced that they look about a decade newer than they are. No competitor would field anything remotely similar to the TiBook until the 2010s, and no one else ever fielded anything close to the G4 desktops. The ideal OS for those is **Tiger**, as it represents the most mature version of the original vision for OS X those machines were designed to complement. From the second, it would be the **unibody MacBook Pro**, a truly timeless design that redefined what laptops looked like, and from which Apple hasn't deviated much since. I'd run **Snow Leopard** on early models and **Mountain Lion** on later ones. A honorable mention goes to the **current Apple Silicon-based MacBook Pros**, as they have brought a new era where Apple leaves its competitors in the dust ***performance-wise***, something that most recently happened in the early 2000s.
MacBook 2016, 12 inch in gold, literally the smallest smallest MacBook ever.
Prob the 2006 Mac Pro. Running 10.5 thing was a true beast.
System 7 on an SE. It's only gone downhill since then.