20 Macs for 2020
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Jason Snell and a collection of long-time Mac watchers count down Jason's list of the 20 most notable Macs of all time, one per week. Hosted by Jason Snell.
- 27 minutes 16 seconds28: Performa Month
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
27 August 2024, 1:15 pm - 33 minutes 48 seconds27: The 21st Mac
Stephen Hackett joins Jason to wrap up the series and discuss all the Macs that didn't make the list.
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26 March 2021, 4:00 pm - 49 minutes 26 seconds26: John Gruber, part 3
From November 20, 2020: Titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook Air, the original Macintosh, PowerBook 140/170, and iMac G3.
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19 March 2021, 4:00 pm - 52 minutes25: John Gruber, part 2
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:
12 March 2021, 5:00 pm - 1 hour 9 minutes24: John Gruber, part 1
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.
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Joe Posnanski's Baseball 100
5 March 2021, 5:00 pm - 1 hour 3 minutes22: John Siracusa, part 2
From September 1, 2020: The Macintosh Portable, Power Computing clones, iMac G4, Power Mac G4 Cube, iBook, and Macintosh SE/30.
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19 February 2021, 5:00 pm - 1 hour 8 minutes23: John Siracusa, part 3
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.
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19 February 2021, 5:00 pm - 1 hour 44 minutes21: John Siracusa, part 1
Two interviews with John Siracusa used for the 20 Macs for 2020 podcast, discussing the first nine entries in the series.
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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.
12 February 2021, 5:00 pm - 24 minutes 7 seconds20: iMac G3 (#1)
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
31 December 2020, 5:00 pm - 14 minutes 14 seconds19: The Original PowerBooks (#2)
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
24 December 2020, 5:00 pm - 21 minutes 44 seconds18: Original Macintosh (#3)
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
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