Best Mac Ever? Duh. SE/30.. 
The best Mac ever | Editors[base '] Notes | Macworl I knew what the near-consensus would be before the page opened. Everybody knows. The SE/30 (with a hard drive) was, pound for pound, the best Mac ever made. Not only was it when the Mac arrived as a serious tool for normal (albeit deep-pocketed) people, but it felt faster than homemade snot, and still had the awesome old-school form factor. I liked using Ci[base ']s and Cx[base ']s and Fx[base ']s and Quadras and whatnot, but no Mac ever brought the total package like the SE/30. In 1991, I laid the shit out of some PageMaker on my SE/30 and a big-ass Radius monitor. Good times. If I could get away with it, I[base ']d probably still be writing on one right now. [via Daring Fireball Linked List: The Best Mac Ever] This is the first computer I ever bought. My parents bought an SE; two in fact, the first one upgraded in a matter of months. My brother had a IIcx which was colour and cool and fast, but the SE/30 was a IIcx in the carriable form factor of the original Mac. Sex on legs.
After years of service, giving me pleasure and making me money writing music for computer games and multimedia products, I replaced it with a Umax Mac clone (remember them?). I continued to use the SE/30 even then, but, alas it eventually failed. I could probably have had it fixed, but the cost would have been prohibitive. So I bought a new board for $25 sand tried that out. Couldn't get it to work. If I had I still would use it, because there is software that I would like to run (Music Publisher, Orlando Poon's Toxic Ravine) that won't run on anything I have now. Sigh.
Shit it started up fast.
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