the 'oldies' (Score 1)

For what it's worth: The iMac and further apple products most certainly have a thrill factor, but my personal favorites are not as up-to-date and lack of G4-i-ness. The G3 Powerbooks look much smarter than the TiBook and are milestones of design compared to the plastic-case imacs amd ibooks (both old and new).

In fact, I'm really want to get one on ebay as soon as I have enough cash at hand. If your not so much into high-end graphics and gaming applications, these are quite usefull. Running with 350/400/500MHz G3 processors,(depending on the model) they would work for everything I need to do. That is basicly web/email/irc and textprocessing. (I plan to run either OSX with fink or a PPC linux distro, so I can get my fellow emacsen/latex package back ;-)

Additionally the later models include hardware mpeg2 (=DVD) decoding, which means that I would get even better dvd playback than on the 350MHz PentiumII I dumped just 2 month ago in favor to a damn cheap Athlon XP 1900+ and a crapy motherboard with an nvidia nforce chipset (onboad graphics), that took me a long time to get even Xfree86 running.

Anyway, I've got a soft spot for inferior (speak: apple) hardware, that's why I'm still using an apple newton handheld (officially known to suck), that does almost anything: HRW, email, etc. I just doesn't brew coffee ;-) So the way I see it Apple's for the people who enjoy the coolness factor, so I keep on keeping the newton/wanting the Powerbook until there's something cooler.