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Jason Snell and a collection of long-time Mac watchers count down Jason's list of the 20 most notable Macs of all time, one per week.
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#23: John Siracusa, part 3
February 19th, 2021 · 68 minutes
From November 20, 2020: Titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook Air, the original Macintosh, PowerBook 140/170, iMac G3, and to his great dismay, John learns Jason's final rankings.
#22: John Siracusa, part 2
February 19th, 2021 · 63 minutes
From September 1, 2020: The Macintosh Portable, Power Computing clones, iMac G4, Power Mac G4 Cube, iBook, and Macintosh SE/30.
#21: John Siracusa, part 1
February 12th, 2021 · 104 minutes
Two interviews with John Siracusa used for the 20 Macs for 2020 podcast, discussing the first nine entries in the series.
#20: iMac G3 (#1)
December 31st, 2020 · 24 minutes
It was the late 90s and Apple was on the ropes. Steve Jobs knew the company needed a lifeline, fast. And 10 months after Jobs took back control of the company, he announced the product that would fund Apple's resurgence and change its future forever.
#19: The Original PowerBooks (#2)
December 24th, 2020 · 14 minutes
After the failure of the Macintosh Portable, Apple took a different approach to designing a laptop. The result helped tip the balance of power between humans and computers.
#18: Original Macintosh (#3)
December 18th, 2020 · 21 minutes
The first Mac followed in the Lisa's footsteps and had a lot of limitations--but it changed the course of the computer industry forever.
#17: MacBook Air (#4)
December 11th, 2020 · 21 minutes
Apple's first attempt at the ultimate thin and light laptop was overpriced and underpowered. The second attempt resulted in the definitive Mac of the 2010s.
#16: Titanium PowerBook G4 (#5)
December 4th, 2020 · 12 minutes
Apple's first metallic silver laptop set the company on a path that it's been on for two decades and counting, but it also proved that the company still had a lot to learn.
#15: Mac SE/30 (#6)
November 20th, 2020 · 13 minutes
What's the best Mac of all time? It's an impossible question to answer. Yet three well-known Mac commentators all have the same answer.
#14: iBook G3 (#7)
November 13th, 2020 · 14 minutes
After a lot of speculation, Steve Jobs finally filled in the Mac's fourth product quadrant with a consumer laptop that was one of a kind. But what's a "consumer laptop," really?