Worst Apple products
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Worst Apple products
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#2... OF ALL TIME
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#3> OK, we can all have a giggle at 'portable' computers from the early days of computing but at nearly 16 pounds the Mac Portable really was taking the piss.
My first computer-of-my-very-own was my beloved Compaq Deskpro Portable (autoexec.bat ftw). It weighed in at just under 30 lbs.
Edit: I still have it some 25 years later, and it still works.
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#4Wow. How could they forget the AppleTV?
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#5> OK, we can all have a giggle at 'portable' computers from the early days of computing but at nearly 16 pounds the Mac Portable really was taking the piss. My first computer-of-my-very-own was my beloved Compaq Deskpro Portable (autoexec.bat ftw). It weighed in at just under 30 lbs. Edit: I still have it some 25 years later, and it still works.
In my first job I had a portable III http://oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.html - considerably lighter at a mere 20lbs!
It was great - when there wasn't a seat on the train or at the station I could sit on it.
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#6Wow. How could the forget about Mighty Mouse?
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#7OK, that is a pretty bad article, showing how little about Apple the writers know.
They only touched tangentially on the Performa line; what made the Performa so horrendous, was that certain models were actually slower than the models they replaced. For example, the Performa 5200 had a crippled IDE bus, and the motherboard was based on a Quadra 605 board, giving the 75Mhz PPC 603 chip less performance than a PPC601 running at 88Mhz. See http://lowendmac.com/ppc/performa-5200.html
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#8OK, that is a pretty bad article, showing how little about Apple the writers know. They only touched tangentially on the Performa line; what made the Performa so horrendous, was that certain models were actually slower than the models they replaced. For example, the Performa 5200 had a crippled IDE bus, and the motherboard was based on a Quadra 605 board, giving the 75Mhz PPC 603 chip less performance than a PPC601 r…
Wow. This hadn't occurred to me before, but it also goes to show you how bad they were at naming. I mean, "Performa"? If that doesn't scream "budget line", I don't know what does.
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#9With the exception of the hockey puck mouse, these were Sculley's monsters.
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#10Wow. How could they forget the AppleTV?
Is the Apple TV a particularly bad product? It seems to remain a profitable hobby, whereas most of these were lambasted from the start, and fairly short-lived.