Best designed Apple product


What is the best designed Apple product?  

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  1. 1. What is the best designed Apple product?

    • iPod 3G
      22
    • iPod Original
      1
    • iBook (white)
      13
    • Clamshell iBook
      2
    • G5 tower
      28
    • G4 tower
      2
    • Ti Powerbook
      8
    • Powerbook G4
      9
    • Pismo & Powerbook G3
      3
    • OS X - Operating System
      34
    • Something else
      21


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Um... I can't be the only person here to have owned a newton. The handwritting recognition wasn't too shabby after you played that writting words that turn into bombs to exploded batteries for a week or two. The cost of keeping it in batteries was kinda painful too, and it was a little too large to sit in a pocket very nicely but damn was it ever slick. Give that it was out before palm shipped their first unit I think we can forgive those quirks: this was before Windows 95 had even seen the light of day!

My second choice would be the iPod (2G). I really like the old layout for scroll wheel/buttons, but I much prefer the touch sensitive wheel to the analog monster on the original 5gb iPod. I haven't had a chance to play with an iPod mini but from the images I think I'll prefer it over-all to my 30gb 3G iPod: I'll reserve judgment until July or whenever they finally ship in Canada and I can get my hands on one.

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I voted for the Pismo, since it is easily the most upgradable, expandable PowerBook ever made. It is by far the easiest model to work on, and can handle up to (currently) a 1Ghz G3 and 1GB of RAM. I just wish someone would come up with a way to upgrade the video chip in it, since that is the one thing that is stuck in the past.

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We all know that on the outside, Apple products are very sexy. :wub: But the part that makes the Mac is Mac OS.

My second choice would have been the 3g iPod though. :wub:

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I voted for the Pismo, since it is easily the most upgradable, expandable PowerBook ever made. It is by far the easiest model to work on, and can handle up to (currently) a 1Ghz G3 and 1GB of RAM. I just wish someone would come up with a way to upgrade the video chip in it, since that is the one thing that is stuck in the past.

Wallstreet / PDQ was arguably more upgradable.

2 drive bays, and 2 PC card slots...

You can get a cardbus video card, or a PC Card --> PCI expansion cage.

Kind of removes the portability though.

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I used to have a Wallstreet, and I thought it only had one drive bay, not two (although it did have 2 PC Card slots). However, Wallstreets cannot generally use internal hard drives over 8GB without partioning them, they cannot use FireWire or USB without taking up at least one of those PC Card slots, and they cannot be upgraded to Panther without resorting to using XPostFacto (and even then there are still some random video problems). Also, there are no CPU upgrades available for them past a 500Mhz G4 that I am aware of. The only thing that a Wallstreet has over a Pismo is SCSI, and the importance of that is all but gone with FireWire. Wallstreets also required an extra card to play DVD's, and did not have an AirPort card slot (which is what takes up the space of the second PC Card slot in the Pismo and Lombard models).

As for the video, I was referring to something that would make use of the internal display.

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