Comments on: Apple Products as Collectibles

By: Stephanie Guertin

Stephanie Guertin — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:19:08 +0000

I fell in love with those the moment it stuck its ‘tongue’ out in the commercials. My sweetheart has a 1.25GHz version of the big-screen ones (20″? 24″? Something like.) and I just acquired an 800MHz beauty that’s going to get a hardware upgrade.

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By: kyle

kyle — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:40:56 +0000

Speaking of the 17″ iMac G4: was there ever a hack to turn the monitor from landscape to portrait and the software necessary to accompany the conversion?

By: Kendall Tawes

Kendall Tawes — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:16:08 +0000

I would love to see a reissue of some of Apple’s better designs. I have started to buy a few retro relics from the past too. For $30 bucks I bought a PowerBook 165c, a PowerBook 180c, and a PowerBook Duo 230. The Duo isn’t working but the 180c and 165c both work great. I don’t know why but I like the design of the 100 series PowerBooks. Even today as ancient as they are I think they look really classy and professional. The ball mouse and two mouse buttons were genius and put together very nicely.

As for the era of Steve’s return I would love to see something like the Cube or Clamshell iBook brought back but that iMac was just wonderful and if I could find a broken one I would like to modernise the hardware but still would have to run OS X of course. I will just have to wait untill I have some extra money for a project that large. For now I’m going to go back to my 165c and play some Lode Runner or Tetris.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:15:24 +0000

I can’t imagine Apple themselves releasing a classic design line of products (too niche, too much R&D for little return) but I reckon there might be enough of a market out there for a third party company to offer super-upgraded old machines.

I know I’d shell out a fair bit of cash for, say, an old compact Mac with 2007 innards - imagine an SE/30 Intel Core Duo!

By: Wayne Johnson

Wayne Johnson — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:35:33 +0000

I have a 17″ iMac G4 which is on loan to my mother-in-law. I know, you’ll all agree that I am the possibly the world’s kindest son-in-law. I have an AirPort card here ready for its return to our guest room since home is now wireless. For me, the design is still something unique and not just a computer. MIL uses it for mail and word processing although The Carpenters have taken most of memory thanks to iTunes. My only concern is that since she was responsible for an aesthetically pleasing daughter, she may insist that the piece of art stay in her study so that the beauty is equally shared among households.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:18:47 +0000

I still have a 17″ iMac G4 that I just gave to my wife. Hard to do as I love the floating screen and the whole design. Could not live with USB 1 anymore and I needed the speed bump for Video and Photos so I bought a MacBook Pro. Will probably keep it as a museum piece when it is no longer practical to use, but it is still as cool today as it was 4 years ago when I bought it.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:10:03 +0000

This is a fantastic idea. I always thought the G4 cube was one of Apple’s smartest designs. I would love to have one of those over the mac mini if the performance was up to par. And the graphite ibooks…sigh.