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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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#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?
#13: Power Mac G4 Cube (#8)
November 6th, 2020 · 24 minutes
There may have never been a Mac more aligned with Steve Jobs's personal quirks than the Power Mac G4 Cube. It was a spectacular failure.
#12: iMac G4 (#9)
October 30th, 2020 · 17 minutes
One of Apple's greatest design triumphs was meant to set the company up for the next decade. Instead, it became a false start--and a rejected design direction ended up being more functional, if less inspirational.
#11: Power Computing (#10)
October 23rd, 2020 · 23 minutes
For a couple of years in the mid-90s, the Mac market was enthralled by a clonemaker with great deals and riotous marketing.
#10: Mac Portable (#11)
October 9th, 2020 · 24 minutes
Thank goodness there are second chances, because Apple's first attempt to make a portable Macintosh was as inauspicious at it gets.
#9: Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (#12)
October 2nd, 2020 · 21 minutes
In an era where Apple liked to show concepts from its design lab in public, one weird Mac prototype somehow became a real product, and was unveiled at the end of the worst Apple keynote in history.
#8: Mac IIcx and IIci (#13)
September 25th, 2020 · 15 minutes
You know about the Macintosh, but do you know about the sequel? The Macintosh II was huge--literally. But its compact successors might be the pinnacle of late 80s/early 90s Apple design.
#7: Mac mini (#14)
September 18th, 2020 · 12 minutes
The popularity of the iPod led Apple to create a Mac designed specifically to tempt people to switch from Windows. It didn't go as planned, but the result was a Mac model that's been with us for fifteen years and counting.
#6: DayStar Genesis MP (#15)
September 11th, 2020 · 16 minutes
One of the most important developments in the history of the Mac was not created in Cupertino, but by a Mac clonemaker in a tiny town in Georgia.