What's the WORST Apple product? (Past or Present)

Yeah, I still have my LC III - maxed out as well. My first Mac, several years after manufacture. :p

The IIsi was a 68030 though, and a sprite little performer and really nice looking machine. Given its cost though when new, its lack of expandability was a deal killer for a lot of people.
 
First macbook airs

Overpriced/Underquality/Underspeed

The new airs though.. want want want.
 
Present: Time Capsule or Airport Extreme

Past: I'd have to go with the green and orange clam shell iBook. They were revolutionary when they came out but now they just look ridiculous. Imagine carrying one of those bad boys down the street today.
 
Lisa, Newton, Airport Extreme, macbook outer shell design on model about 4 years ago (the magnet cracks the case constantly) Ipod Touch (lets be honest its an iPhone without the phone part, might as well just get the phone) puck mouse, & mobileme. Before I am labeled a troll I own many Apple products but realize the serious limitations they have. I still have to use my 2 windows based machines often because of limitations on the Apple be it programs or other issues.
 
vincentharris said:
Lisa, Newton, Airport Extreme, macbook outer shell design on model about 4 years ago (the magnet cracks the case constantly) Ipod Touch (lets be honest its an iPhone without the phone part, might as well just get the phone) puck mouse, & mobileme. Before I am labeled a troll I own many Apple products but realize the serious limitations they have. I still have to use my 2 windows based machines often because of limitations on the Apple be it programs or other issues.
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That last sentence sums up my Apple experience. There is constantely some type of gotcha with anything they make. I'd seriously put OSX on the top of my list because it lacks so many simple things that Linux and Windows both have options for. I need to have a script just to mute the volume on shutdown and turn it back to normal on boot up so I don't have to listen to the startup noise on full blast. Then there is a really bad mouse sensitivity curve which also requires other software just to make the mouse usable. Lack of a real maximize button even though there are plenty of buttons to do so.
 
How often do you shutdown and reboot your computer? I don't particularly care for the startup noise, and if there was an option to silence it I would do it, but is it really THAT annoying? I do agree that it seems like a simple thing that should be an option somewhere, but it's such an insignificant detail that I never even gave it any thought. Now I will wish you never mentioned it, I will start to hate it too :)
 
DId anyone here actually OWN a Newton? I did and at the time it was pretty spectacular. I had a US Robotics Palm originally and then was given a Newton by my employer. Usability, handwriting recognition, connectivity - it was all better than most anything else available at the time.

In terms of sales it wasn't spectacular but it was a great little device.
 
Anybody who slams the Newton is a twat. It was, indisputably, the first PDA and was the better part of a decade ahead of its time.

BUT ITS NOT AS GOOD AS THE SAMSUNG GALAXY LOLozzzzz
 
santaliqueur said:
Windows user? Silky smooth on a Mac.
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Same issue on my mac. 2011 imac. Performance is the same on both platforms, poor. It probably depends on how many things you use itunes for. I use it for a ton of music, books, podcasts, ripped movies, etc. and performance is lacking on both platforms. No better on my imac than windows.
 
Centauri said:
Anybody who slams the Newton is a twat. It was, indisputably, the first PDA and was the better part of a decade ahead of its time.
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Really, a decade? I was part of a pilot program using those at my company to go paperless. They weren't even a year ahead of their time.

I personally owned, two years later, a windows based PDA that was lightyears ahead of the newton.
 
Archer75 said:
Same issue on my mac. 2011 imac. Performance is the same on both platforms, poor. It probably depends on how many things you use itunes for. I use it for a ton of music, books, podcasts, ripped movies, etc. and performance is lacking on both platforms. No better on my imac than windows.
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Not sure what your issue is then. Size of library means nothing, or my library would have horrible performance. My library is well over a terabyte, and my performance isn't any worse than when I started out. I have an older iMac than you (2009 i7, 16GB ram), so machine speed isn't the issue. Memory? Other applications using lots of CPU? Do you have updated iTunes and OS X patches?
 
santaliqueur said:
Not sure what your issue is then. Size of library means nothing, or my library would have horrible performance. My library is well over a terabyte, and my performance isn't any worse than when I started out. I have an older iMac than you (2009 i7, 16GB ram), so machine speed isn't the issue. Memory? Other applications using lots of CPU? Do you have updated iTunes and OS X patches?
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Always updated. 16gb of ram. Performance has always been poor. It's a common theme amongst users.

The difference is likely how we define "poor performance". It works, but it could be better.
 
Might just be my experience, but I hated the Magic Mouse. Tried it for a month. Never got used to it. Returned it and bought the external Trackpad instead for my iMac. Works great.
 
schapman said:
Iphone4 may have some issue, but seeing as I have a work issued blackberry the iphone4 land seems like a magical place of fairies and unicorns
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yea but I just dont see how the price justifies the quality when I can get everything I want from android for way cheaper with way more options on how the phone looks and hardware.
 
syn3rgyz said:
yea but I just dont see how the price justifies the quality when I can get everything I want from android for way cheaper with way more options on how the phone looks and hardware.
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I've yet to see another phone built the same way the iPhone 4 is - it's like holding a solid slab in your hand. Any Android phone I've used simply doesn't feel the same, they can feel pretty solid but it still very plasticky in your hands. However, because there are so many vendors for Android phones you DO get many more options for UI and hardware.

You just have to go with whatever floats your boat. For some people it's Android and for others it's Apple.
 
Before my time but I hear OS 6 (er, System Software 6) was a real dog. I first worked with Macs around 7.6.3 IIRC, and that brings me to my point:

The Apple IIci sucks. I still have scars from changing the memory on those sonsabitches. (They were solid little workhorses though.)

System errors 1 & 3 could also eff off, back in the day, along with rebuilding your desktop. ;)
 
Yeah, you hear incorrectly. System 6 is still worshipped by old-school Mac heads as some of best software Apple put out during the first decade of the Mac.

And IIci machines are going for well over $100 on eBay for a reason; possibly the best of the Mac II line. Disliking the specification clips on a RAM slot is a hell of a reason to say a machine 'sucks'.

You are not a nerd.
 
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eggrock said:
Before my time but I hear OS 6 (er, System Software 6) was a real dog. I first worked with Macs around 7.6.3 IIRC, and that brings me to my point:

The Apple IIci sucks. I still have scars from changing the memory on those sonsabitches. (They were solid little workhorses though.)

System errors 1 & 3 could also eff off, back in the day, along with rebuilding your desktop. ;)
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If you think the IIci blew, you don't remember the IIcx :p
 
Present: Time Capsule. Why do you need an Airport Extreme with a HDD built in? Just connect one to the USB port!

Past: Hockey puck mouse. No one likes it.
 
Puck mouse sure was horrible but i think mighty mouse is the worst. The scroll sphere breaks constantly (about 2 go down a week at work) the side squeeze button is unnatural and they're not comfortable. Reason why they suck more than pucks well there are millions more of them then there ever were pucks.
 
Pippin, their failed gaming / multimedia console thing.

$10,000 20th Anniversary Mac with equivalent specs as their own $2,000 machines.

Every apple mouse, ever. How do they mess this up so bad? At least they make great trackpads.

Runner-up for looking ridiculous now: Toilet seat iBook.
 
From my limited experience of Apple products the worst thing I've owned is the Mighty Mouse. It just feels weird in the hand, and build quality isn't great (it creaks, the scrollball doesn't work on mine). I'm loving the Magic Mouse so far though, even though it looks like it'd be uncomfortable it isn't, and I love the touch scrolling.
 
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