Jason talks to Stephen about his recent deep dive into the world of the Macintosh Performa line, which was sold from 1992 to 1997. Over that time period, nearly 50 models were sold wearing the name. Things got messy. Links and Show Notes: Performa Month – 512 Pixels Steve Jobs' Grid of Four – 512 Pixels Mac Performa Specs: EveryMac.com Performa Month: The 560 ‘Money Magazine Edition’ – 512 Pixels The Performa at Sears 20 Macs #20: iMac G3 (#1) - Relay FM Macintosh LC - Wikipedia...
Aug 27, 2024•27 min•Ep. 28
Stephen Hackett joins Jason to wrap up the series and discuss all the Macs that didn't make the list. Guest Starring: Stephen Hackett
Mar 26, 2021•34 min•Ep. 27
From November 20, 2020: Titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook Air, the original Macintosh, PowerBook 140/170, and iMac G3. Guest Starring: John Gruber
Mar 19, 2021•49 min•Ep. 26
From August 31, 2020: The Macintosh Portable, Power Computing clones, iMac G4, Power Mac G4 Cube, iBook, Macintosh SE/30, and laying out pages at college newspapers. Guest Starring: John Gruber
Mar 12, 2021•52 min•Ep. 25
From June 12, 2020: The Power Mac G5, PowerBook Duo, PowerBook 500 & 5300, Blue-and-White Power Mac G3, DayStar Genesis MP, Mac mini, Mac IIcx and IIci, and the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. Guest Starring: John Gruber Links and Show Notes: Joe Posnanski's Baseball 100
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 24
From November 20, 2020: Titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook Air, the original Macintosh, PowerBook 140/170, iMac G3, and to his great dismay, John learns Jason's final rankings. Guest Starring: John Siracusa
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 23
From September 1, 2020: The Macintosh Portable, Power Computing clones, iMac G4, Power Mac G4 Cube, iBook, and Macintosh SE/30. Guest Starring: John Siracusa
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 22
Two interviews with John Siracusa used for the 20 Macs for 2020 podcast, discussing the first nine entries in the series. Guest Starring: John Siracusa Links and Show Notes: From June 9, 2020: The Power Mac G5, PowerBook Duo, Xserve and Apple Network Server, PowerBook 500 & 5300, Blue-and-White Power Mac G3, DayStar Genesis MP, Mac mini, Mac IIcx and IIci, and the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. From August 21, 2020: John takes a deeper dive on multiprocessing....
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 21
It was the late 90s and Apple was on the ropes. Steve Jobs knew the company needed a lifeline, fast. And 10 months after Jobs took back control of the company, he announced the product that would fund Apple's resurgence and change its future forever. Guest Starring: Dan Moren , John Siracusa , Shelly Brisbin , Stephen Hackett , Harry McCracken , James Thomson , and John Gruber Links and Show Notes: 20 Macs for 2020 at Six Colors...
Dec 31, 2020•24 min•Ep. 20
After the failure of the Macintosh Portable, Apple took a different approach to designing a laptop. The result helped tip the balance of power between humans and computers. Guest Starring: Andy Ihnatko , John Siracusa , and Harry McCracken Links and Show Notes: 20 Macs for 2020 at Six Colors...
Dec 24, 2020•14 min•Ep. 19
The first Mac followed in the Lisa's footsteps and had a lot of limitations--but it changed the course of the computer industry forever. Guest Starring: John Siracusa , Shelly Brisbin , Harry McCracken , James Thomson , John Gruber , and Rick LePage...
Dec 18, 2020•22 min•Ep. 18
Apple's first attempt at the ultimate thin and light laptop was overpriced and underpowered. The second attempt resulted in the definitive Mac of the 2010s. Guest Starring: Dan Moren , Christina Warren , John Siracusa , Shelly Brisbin , Stephen Hackett , Harry McCracken , James Thomson , John Gruber , and Rick LePage Links and Show Notes: 20 Macs for 2020 on Six Colors...
Dec 11, 2020•22 min•Ep. 17
Apple's first metallic silver laptop set the company on a path that it's been on for two decades and counting, but it also proved that the company still had a lot to learn. Guest Starring: Christina Warren , John Siracusa , John Gruber , and Rick LePage Links and Show Notes: Slide projector sound by Paul Michael Browne via Freesound....
Dec 04, 2020•13 min•Ep. 16
What's the best Mac of all time? It's an impossible question to answer. Yet three well-known Mac commentators all have the same answer. Guest Starring: John Siracusa , Adam Engst , and John Gruber Links and Show Notes: SE/30 chapter art by Wikimedia Commons user Danamania. 20 Macs for 2020 on Six Colors Macworld: Best Mac Ever?...
Nov 20, 2020•14 min•Ep. 15
After a lot of speculation, Steve Jobs finally filled in the Mac's fourth product quadrant with a consumer laptop that was one of a kind. But what's a "consumer laptop," really? Guest Starring: John Siracusa , Shelly Brisbin , Stephen Hackett , Harry McCracken , James Thomson , and John Gruber Links and Show Notes: 20 Macs for 2020 at Six Colors...
Nov 13, 2020•15 min•Ep. 14
There may have never been a Mac more aligned with Steve Jobs's personal quirks than the Power Mac G4 Cube. It was a spectacular failure. Guest Starring: John Siracusa , Quinn Rose , Shelly Brisbin , Stephen Hackett , Harry McCracken , James Thomson , and John Gruber Links and Show Notes: Tim Cook at Oxford Foundry CNET: Apple expected to sell 3x more Cubes Macworld: 10th Anniversary of the Cube Steven Levy on the 20th anniversary of the Cube Apple Puts Power Mac G4 Cube on Ice (PR)...
Nov 06, 2020•25 min•Ep. 13
One of Apple's greatest design triumphs was meant to set the company up for the next decade. Instead, it became a false start--and a rejected design direction ended up being more functional, if less inspirational. Guest Starring: John Siracusa , Shelly Brisbin , Stephen Hackett , Harry McCracken , James Thomson , John Gruber , and Paul Kafasis Links and Show Notes: 20 Macs for 2020 at Six Colors...
Oct 30, 2020•18 min•Ep. 12
For a couple of years in the mid-90s, the Mac market was enthralled by a clonemaker with great deals and riotous marketing. Guest Starring: John Siracusa , Shelly Brisbin , Mike Rosenfelt , James Thomson , John Gruber , and Rick LePage Links and Show Notes: 20 Macs for 2020 at Six Colors...
Oct 23, 2020•24 min•Ep. 11
Thank goodness there are second chances, because Apple's first attempt to make a portable Macintosh was as inauspicious at it gets. Guest Starring: John Siracusa , Shelly Brisbin , Stephen Hackett , Harry McCracken , and John Gruber Links and Show Notes: Brian Hamilton provided postproduction help. Thanks to Paul Kafasis for the inspiration for the Space Shuttle deep dive. 20 Macs for 2020 at Six Colors Mac Portable Unveiling Liftoff Podcast STS-43 Ejecting a floppy disk in space...
Oct 09, 2020•24 min•Ep. 10
In an era where Apple liked to show concepts from its design lab in public, one weird Mac prototype somehow became a real product, and was unveiled at the end of the worst Apple keynote in history. Guest Starring: Andy Ihnatko , Christina Warren , John Siracusa , Stephen Hackett , James Thomson , John Gruber , and Rick LePage Links and Show Notes: 20 Macs for 2020 at Six Colors "Batman and Robin" on The Incomparable Batman's UWCARNY keyboard Christina Warren shames Hulu Alfred uses a TAM Stephen...
Oct 02, 2020•22 min•Ep. 9
You know about the Macintosh, but do you know about the sequel? The Macintosh II was huge--literally. But its compact successors might be the pinnacle of late 80s/early 90s Apple design. Guest Starring: Andy Ihnatko , John Siracusa , Quinn Rose , Shelly Brisbin , Adam Engst , and John Gruber Links and Show Notes: 20 Macs for 2020 series page...
Sep 25, 2020•16 min•Ep. 8
The popularity of the iPod led Apple to create a Mac designed specifically to tempt people to switch from Windows. It didn't go as planned, but the result was a Mac model that's been with us for fifteen years and counting. Guest Starring: Andy Ihnatko , Christina Warren , Dan Moren , Shelly Brisbin , Stephen Hackett , James Thomson , and John Gruber Links and Show Notes: Post production help from Brian Hamilton. 20 Macs for 2020 at Six Colors...
Sep 18, 2020•13 min•Ep. 7
One of the most important developments in the history of the Mac was not created in Cupertino, but by a Mac clonemaker in a tiny town in Georgia. Guest Starring: John Siracusa , John Gruber , Irvan Krantzler , Andrew Lewis , and Rick LePage Links and Show Notes: Post-production help by Brian Hamilton. 20 Macs for 2020 at Six Colors...
Sep 11, 2020•17 min•Ep. 6
Professionals were dragged out of their beige towers by an iMac-inspired Power Mac that featured a drop-down door, big plastic handles, and a raft of new technologies. Guest Starring: John Siracusa , Andy Ihnatko , Christina Warren , Dan Moren , Shelly Brisbin , Stephen Hackett , James Thomson , and John Gruber Links and Show Notes: 20 Macs for 2020 at Six Colors...
Sep 04, 2020•17 min•Ep. 5
Apple follows up its groundbreaking original PowerBooks with a new set of laptops that ushered in perhaps the ugliest period in Apple laptop history. Guest Starring: John Siracusa , Quinn Rose , Andy Ihnatko , and John Gruber Links and Show Notes: 20 Macs for 2020: #17 - PowerBook 500/5300 (Six Colors)...
Aug 28, 2020•13 min•Ep. 4
Apple had made numerous attempts to sell server hardware, including a strange non-Mac server that Steve Jobs likened to a bizarre dream. But in the early 2000s, Jobs decided to take another crack at it, and vowed that this time things would be different. Guest Starring: John Siracusa , Shelly Brisbin , Stephen Hackett , and Andy Ihnatko...
Aug 21, 2020•13 min•Ep. 3
The very first time Apple made a laptop that compromised in numerous ways, all in the question of being as thin and light as possible. Guest Starring: Andy Ihnatko , John Siracusa , Shelly Brisbin , Adam Engst , John Gruber , and Tonya Engst Links and Show Notes: Errata: The original iMac came out in 1998, not 1997. #19: PowerBook Duo...
Aug 14, 2020•13 min•Ep. 2
The classic "cheese grater" design of the Power Mac G5 influences the design of the modern Mac Pro, and also represents (in the worst way) the last time Apple embarked on a chip transition. Guest Starring: Andy Ihnatko , John Siracusa , Shelly Brisbin , Stephen Hackett , Adam Engst , and John Gruber Links and Show Notes: #20 - Power Mac G5 (Six Colors) #20 - Power Mac G5 (YouTube)...
Aug 07, 2020•22 min•Ep. 1
Jason Snell introduces 20 Macs for 2020, a project that will count down his list of the 20 most notable Macs of all time, one per week, with a little help from his friends.
Aug 03, 2020•2 min0
