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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28: Performa Month | 27 Aug 2024 | 00:27:16 | |
| 27: The 21st Mac | 26 Mar 2021 | 00:33:48 | |
Stephen Hackett joins Jason to wrap up the series and discuss all the Macs that didn't make the list. | |||
| 18: Original Macintosh (#3) | 18 Dec 2020 | 00:21:44 | |
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. | |||
| 17: MacBook Air (#4) | 11 Dec 2020 | 00:21:42 | |
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. | |||
| 16: Titanium PowerBook G4 (#5) | 04 Dec 2020 | 00:12:33 | |
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. | |||
| 15: Mac SE/30 (#6) | 20 Nov 2020 | 00:13:50 | |
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. | |||
| 14: iBook G3 (#7) | 13 Nov 2020 | 00:14:33 | |
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? | |||
| 13: Power Mac G4 Cube (#8) | 06 Nov 2020 | 00:24:56 | |
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. | |||
| 12: iMac G4 (#9) | 30 Oct 2020 | 00:17:33 | |
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. | |||
| 11: Power Computing (#10) | 23 Oct 2020 | 00:23:42 | |
For a couple of years in the mid-90s, the Mac market was enthralled by a clonemaker with great deals and riotous marketing. | |||
| 10: Mac Portable (#11) | 09 Oct 2020 | 00:24:11 | |
Thank goodness there are second chances, because Apple's first attempt to make a portable Macintosh was as inauspicious at it gets. | |||
| 9: Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (#12) | 02 Oct 2020 | 00:21:59 | |
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. | |||
| 26: John Gruber, part 3 | 19 Mar 2021 | 00:49:26 | |
From November 20, 2020: Titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook Air, the original Macintosh, PowerBook 140/170, and iMac G3. | |||
| 8: Mac IIcx and IIci (#13) | 25 Sep 2020 | 00:15:50 | |
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. | |||
| 7: Mac mini (#14) | 18 Sep 2020 | 00:12:40 | |
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. | |||
| 6: DayStar Genesis MP (#15) | 11 Sep 2020 | 00:16:41 | |
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. | |||
| 5: Blue and White Power Mac G3 (#16) | 04 Sep 2020 | 00:16:48 | |
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. | |||
| 4: PowerBook 500 and 5300 (#17) | 28 Aug 2020 | 00:13:04 | |
Apple follows up its groundbreaking original PowerBooks with a new set of laptops that ushered in perhaps the ugliest period in Apple laptop history. | |||
| 3: Xserve (#18) | 21 Aug 2020 | 00:13:27 | |
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. | |||
| 2: PowerBook Duo (#19) | 14 Aug 2020 | 00:13:14 | |
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. | |||
| 1: Power Mac G5 (#20) | 07 Aug 2020 | 00:21:36 | |
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. | |||
| 0: Introduction | 03 Aug 2020 | 00:02:10 | |
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. | |||
| 25: John Gruber, part 2 | 12 Mar 2021 | 00:52:00 | |
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. | |||
| 24: John Gruber, part 1 | 05 Mar 2021 | 01:09:02 | |
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. | |||
| 23: John Siracusa, part 3 | 19 Feb 2021 | 01:08:43 | |
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. | |||
| 22: John Siracusa, part 2 | 19 Feb 2021 | 01:03:11 | |
From September 1, 2020: The Macintosh Portable, Power Computing clones, iMac G4, Power Mac G4 Cube, iBook, and Macintosh SE/30. | |||
| 21: John Siracusa, part 1 | 12 Feb 2021 | 01:44:09 | |
Two interviews with John Siracusa used for the 20 Macs for 2020 podcast, discussing the first nine entries in the series. | |||
| 20: iMac G3 (#1) | 31 Dec 2020 | 00:24:07 | |
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. | |||
| 19: The Original PowerBooks (#2) | 24 Dec 2020 | 00:14:14 | |
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. | |||
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