#OMNIPRESENCE FOR MAC MAC#
And its edge-to-edge keyboard wouldn’t really be replicated until the 12-inch MacBook hit the scene.Ģ006’s original MacBook wasn’t quite as small as the 12″ PowerBook G4, but it was the smallest Intel-based Mac laptop for quite a while, and introduced the chiclet-style laptop keyboard that remains on Apple keyboards to this day. Until the MacBook Air hit the scene, it was the ultimate small Apple laptop. The 12″ PowerBook G4 was my favorite Mac of all time for a long time. Limiting myself to 20 meant that some of them were left on the outside looking in. In any event, as the project rolled along, there were a few Macs that people asked me about that just missed making the list. (When I decided 20 Macs for 2020 would be a multimedia extravaganza, I dramatically increased my workload.) I’m sure I could’ve written essays about each one of them, though I’d probably end up repeating myself a bit-and there’s no way I could’ve written 40 more essays and produced 40 more podcasts and edited 40 more videos.
My initial list of possible contenders for my top 20 list was much larger-there were more than 40 items. The Power Computing entry allowed me to write a story about the strange couple of years when Mac clones were for sale.) (For example, my essay about Xserve is really about Apple’s quixotic quest to be a player in server hardware. Some of the earlier entries were a bit esoteric, but I enjoyed unearthing strange corners of Mac history and using them to tell larger stories about Apple. The truth is, my biggest consideration when I picked my final list of 20 Macs in early January (and yes, they appeared in the same order that I chose back then) was if there was a good story to tell about that particular model. I’m not ranking the best Macs (because some of the ones I picked are real stinkers!) or even my favorite Macs. With the project complete, I thought I’d address one of the most common questions I got while I was spooling out my list: “How could you not include ?” Of course, as I explained back in August, my list is based on my ranking of Macs in terms of the squishy category of notability, and is intended to be completely subjective. The pandemic derailed my plans, though I kept working on it and launched it with 22 weeks left in the year, giving me a couple weeks of headroom that I would end up needing. So the project really bracketed the year, though originally my intent was to launch it in the spring. While I had been noodling over the idea in late December of 2019, the moment that the project officially started was when I made a new document in BBEdit and titled it 20 macs.
#OMNIPRESENCE FOR MAC ARCHIVE#
Note: This story has not been updated since 2021.Īs I filed my final entry in the 20 Macs for 2020 project, I decided to dig around in my document archive to see if I could find when the project really got started.
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