Road ApplesApple has produced a few computers that could have
provided more performance -- and should have, based on the
CPU they used. However, they were hobbled by other design
considerations: keeping costs down. These are Apple's most compromised hardware designs. For
the most part, they're not really bad -- simply designs
unable to provide all the performance they should have. The number of bullets ranks Road Apples from not really
bad (•) to compromised (••) to fairly
compromised (•••) to avoid at all costs
(••••). For the best in used computers, visit our Best Buys
page. - Portable •
introduced September 1989
- IIfx • introduced March
1990
- IIsi • introduced
October 1990
- LC •• introduced
October 1990
- Classic II ••
introduced October 1991
- LC II •• replaced
LC in March 1992
- Color Classic ••
introduced February 1993
- IIvx •••
introduced September 1992
- Mac TV ••
introduced October 1993
- Quadra 800 case
•• introduced February 1993
- Centris (the name) •
February to October 1993
- PowerBook 5300 ••
introduced 1995
- 5200-53xx and 6200-6320
•••• introduced April 1995 and
later
- AppleVision 1710 monitor
•••
- Power Mac 200 •
introduced March 1996
- Power Mac 4400 •
introduced February 1997
- PowerBook 1400/117
•
- PowerBook G3/233, no cache
•••
- PowerBook 150
•
Other Apple hardware and software - PowerBook Express
Modem •••
- GeoPort "Modem"
•••
- Apple Adjustable
Keyboard ••
- The Round iMac/G3
Mouse •••
If you would like to nominate another model as a Road
Apple, send me an
email explaining why. Thanks! Road Apples is intended as a good natured look at
Macintosh bloopers, not as an indictment of Apple Computer,
Inc. I'd rather have the worst of these than one of those
confusing Windows machines any day.  
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