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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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#27: The 21st Mac
March 26th, 2021 · 33 minutes
Stephen Hackett joins Jason to wrap up the series and discuss all the Macs that didn't make the list.
#26: John Gruber, part 3
March 19th, 2021 · 49 minutes
From November 20, 2020: Titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook Air, the original Macintosh, PowerBook 140/170, and iMac G3.
#25: John Gruber, part 2
March 12th, 2021 · 52 minutes
From August 31, 2020: The Macintosh Portable, Power Computing clones, iMac G4, Power Mac G4 Cube, iBook, Macintosh SE/30, and laying out pages at college newspapers.
#24: John Gruber, part 1
March 5th, 2021 · 69 minutes
From June 12, 2020: The Power Mac G5, PowerBook Duo, PowerBook 500 & 5300, Blue-and-White Power Mac G3, DayStar Genesis MP, Mac mini, Mac IIcx and IIci, and the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.
#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.