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Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made

25 points by mariuz 3y ago

mxroeoek 3y ago
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bitxbitxbitcoin 3y ago
I clicked hoping to read about feral McIntosh apple cultivars.
DakotaR 3y ago
Interesting, only a 10-year gap between the 68k portable Mac and the 68k TI-89
vanchor3 3y ago
I'm surprised the Portable is counted as "rare", it's much cheaper and easier to get than most of those (even with recently rising prices). That and I own far too many Macintosh Portables...
- Paul-Craft 3y ago
  I think they were dipping a little deep in the pool for "rare" machines toward the end. I'm literally writing this comment on a trashcan Mac that I paid $400 for less than a year ago. One interesting fact regarding that price though is that until Apple officially stopped supporting it with new OSX releases, you'd probably have had to have paid at least $1000-1500 for the same machine. It's a solid machine (I got mine with 8 cores and 64GB ram, and it comes standard with dual GPUs). These machines even have a pretty decent following still. See, for instance, https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-mac-pro-2013-trashcan-guide.html https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-ma...
  - poulsbohemian 3y ago
    >One interesting fact regarding that price though is that until Apple officially stopped supporting it with new OSX releases, you'd probably have had to have paid at least $1000-1500 for the same machine. This is a great point and kinda stings given my situation... I've got a 5 year old iMac that is still a beast by its specs, but is ancient by Mac standards. No OS updates anymore, so functionally obsolete for anyone who wants to use it as a Mac. Wondering if I should install linux and give it a second life.
    - Paul-Craft 3y ago
      In case it wasn't entirely obvious, that's what I'm doing with my trashcan Mac. The choices at this point are basically to install Ventura via an unsupported hack[0] or Linux. I chose Linux, because when the inevitable problems arise, I'd rather have the volume of resources for troubleshooting Linux s to able to me rather than just forums dedicated to said unsupported hack. --- [0]: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/SONOMA-DROP.html https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/SONOMA-DR...
CharlesW 3y ago
I’m stunned that this list overlooks the amazing PowerBook Duo and it’s Duo Dock, which mechanically injected and ejected the Duo like a VHS tape. https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Duo_Dock https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Duo_Dock
brailsafe 3y ago
The JLPGA PowerBook 170 would be a sweet random find at some thrift store or estate sale. I could imagine it'd be overlooked easily by people who don't know what it is. Would it be worth buying? Nobody knows.
pjmlp 3y ago
I guess it shows one's age, when I remeber to see magazine ads and reviews to most of those models.
TMWNN 3y ago
My nomination for weirdest: The Power Macintosh 6100. <https://blog.pizzabox.computer/img/powermac6100/front.jpeg https://blog.pizzabox.computer/img/powermac6100/front.jpeg> See that button below the floppy drive? It's not an eject button. One guess on what people used to PCs routinely did.

25 points by mariuz 3y ago

mxroeoek 3y ago

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bitxbitxbitcoin 3y ago

I clicked hoping to read about feral McIntosh apple cultivars.

DakotaR 3y ago

Interesting, only a 10-year gap between the 68k portable Mac and the 68k TI-89

vanchor3 3y ago

I'm surprised the Portable is counted as "rare", it's much cheaper and easier to get than most of those (even with recently rising prices). That and I own far too many Macintosh Portables...

Paul-Craft 3y ago
I think they were dipping a little deep in the pool for "rare" machines toward the end. I'm literally writing this comment on a trashcan Mac that I paid $400 for less than a year ago. One interesting fact regarding that price though is that until Apple officially stopped supporting it with new OSX releases, you'd probably have had to have paid at least $1000-1500 for the same machine. It's a solid machine (I got mine with 8 cores and 64GB ram, and it comes standard with dual GPUs). These machines even have a pretty decent following still. See, for instance, https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-mac-pro-2013-trashcan-guide.html https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-ma...
- poulsbohemian 3y ago
  >One interesting fact regarding that price though is that until Apple officially stopped supporting it with new OSX releases, you'd probably have had to have paid at least $1000-1500 for the same machine. This is a great point and kinda stings given my situation... I've got a 5 year old iMac that is still a beast by its specs, but is ancient by Mac standards. No OS updates anymore, so functionally obsolete for anyone who wants to use it as a Mac. Wondering if I should install linux and give it a second life.
  - Paul-Craft 3y ago
    In case it wasn't entirely obvious, that's what I'm doing with my trashcan Mac. The choices at this point are basically to install Ventura via an unsupported hack[0] or Linux. I chose Linux, because when the inevitable problems arise, I'd rather have the volume of resources for troubleshooting Linux s to able to me rather than just forums dedicated to said unsupported hack. --- [0]: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/SONOMA-DROP.html https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/SONOMA-DR...

CharlesW 3y ago

I’m stunned that this list overlooks the amazing PowerBook Duo and it’s Duo Dock, which mechanically injected and ejected the Duo like a VHS tape. https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Duo_Dock https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Duo_Dock

brailsafe 3y ago

The JLPGA PowerBook 170 would be a sweet random find at some thrift store or estate sale. I could imagine it'd be overlooked easily by people who don't know what it is. Would it be worth buying? Nobody knows.

pjmlp 3y ago

I guess it shows one's age, when I remeber to see magazine ads and reviews to most of those models.

TMWNN 3y ago

My nomination for weirdest: The Power Macintosh 6100. <https://blog.pizzabox.computer/img/powermac6100/front.jpeg https://blog.pizzabox.computer/img/powermac6100/front.jpeg> See that button below the floppy drive? It's not an eject button. One guess on what people used to PCs routinely did.