I'd have to say my favorite computer ever was the Power Mac G4 867MHz running 8.6 (or was it 9.1?). Basically Mac OS 8-9 just ran obscenely fast on PowerPCs as

I'd have to say my favorite computer ever was the Power Mac G4 867MHz running 8.6 (or was it 9.1?). Basically Mac OS 8-9 just ran obscenely fast on PowerPCs as it was essentially in maintenance mode while they built OSX, so we got years of little more than stability patches and cosmetic changes without bloat while Apple's hardware was overtaking Wintel (temporarily). Heck you could run the entire OS and applications off RAM Disk and still have plenty of RAM left over. Aside: the 1400 was a great model (especially after the 5300 debacle) and had an upgradeable CPU daughtercard (ah back when the engineers were running the asylum). The big problem with it was lack of space for RAM, so when you did upgrade the CPU you had a kind of fast but cramped machine.