Year: 1990

Status: Semi-Working

Condition: Fair

I picked up my IIsi for $50 at the VCF East Swap Meet in June of 2023. It had been recapped already, logic board and PSU, and was sold as working, though it was missing a hard drive. It did in fact work when I got it, albeit with flaky soft power. Unfortunately though, the PSU is now failing, so I need to ATX swap it.

Year: 1991

Status: Working

Condition: Excellent

I had wanted a PowerBook 100 for years, but thought for a while that I'd probably never have a working one, as getting one working requires soldering and recapping skill, which I didn't have for a while. I do now though! And at the end of 2022, I bought a dead one off eBay, and was indeed able to bring it back to life. And I love this laptop! One of my favorite PowerBooks for sure.

Year: 1991

Status: Working

Condition: Excellent

My 170 was my first 68k mac. I bought it off of eBay in late 2021, and it may in fact me my number one favorite 68k mac laptop. Since getting it, I've done some refurbishment work, even though it already was working. Mainly, I installed 3D printed hinge-mount replacements, and I've also replaced the original 40MB hard drive with a BlueSCSI V2. It's fully working (with no LCD Tunnel Vision too!), except for the internal speaker. I believe the interconnect cable is going bad, as the speaker tests fine and the sound is fine out of the headphone jack.

Year: 1992

Status: Working

Condition: Good

I bought my 145 off of eBay at the very end of 2021 as my first real vintage restoration project. To get this one running again, I had to recap the LCD, replace the keyboard, install a hard drive, and replace the damaged hinge mounts with 3D printed ones. All that's done now though, and this one's up and running great!

Year: 1993

Status: Working (Mostly)

Condition: Excellent

I got this one in a trade with a friend of mine. It's in excellent condition, fully working*, and isn't really even yellowed much. So far, the only maintenance I've done is a logic board recap. It even booted with the original caps, but they were leaking. The only issue it has is that it sometimes just won't chime or boot. Not sure why, but it happens, usually after it's already been started a few times recently. It's a relatively minor issue, so I'm not too bothered as long as it doesn't get worse. I am going to recap the power supply soon in an attempt to fix it, although I somewhat doubt that the PSU has any problems.

Year: 1993

Status: Working

Condition: Good

I found this one at the VCF East Swap Meet in Feb. 2022. It was sold as working, but needed a screen recap, which I've now done. It works just fine now, except for an annoying contrast drifting issue with the screen that I haven't been able to solve. It starts out with really dark contrast (not backlight brightness), and then fades to normal over a couple minutes. That and a missing hinge cover aside, it's working great!

Year: 1994

Status: Working

Condition: Good

I probably overpaid for this one off of eBay, but ah well, I wanted a 150. It is 100% fully functional, and in good cosmetic shape, but the hinge plastics are in terrible shape. I've taken care of the mounts themselves, but other bits broke before I got it, and I'm going to need a parts donor at some point from the looks. That aside though, a working 150 is a working 150. And they're getting harder to find due to display failures and leaking PRAM batteries (the 150 uses a VARTA, not a lithium cell like other 100-series models).

Year: 1994

Status: Working

Condition: Excellent

This was another eBay purchase. I was after a grayscale 540, as they're rather uncommon laptops, and the only PowerBook (and maybe laptop in general) to have a 6-bit (64 shades) grayscale Active-Matrix LCD. And that screen is pretty cool, but mine does have tunnel vision that I need to address, and for whatever reason, parts of the backlight diffuser layer have gone yellow. That aside, this 540 is fully functional and in great shape. I've also reinforced the hinge mounts with epoxy to prevent them from breaking.

Year: 1994

Status: Working

Condition: Poor

This one came from the same swap meet that the 180c came from. It works perfectly, but the plastics are in rough shape with cracks everywhere. It's just one parts donor away from being a really nice 540c though, the screen is in great shape on mine.

Year: 1994

Status: Working

Condition: Fair

I bought this one for $35 at the 2023 VCF Swap Meet, and I got it up and running again with a logic board recap. It works great and is a sweet system! I like it.

Year: 1995

Status: Working

Condition: Excellent

This laptop was my first pre-steve jobs mac. I bought it off of OfferUp in March of 2021, and it ended up fully working. I accidentally broke the LCD cable back in late 2021, and for 2 years had to fall back on a 640x480 5300c LCD. Now, it's back up to 800x600 again with a replacement cable I got out of a junker unit.

Year: 1996

Status: Working

Condition: Good

Both my 1400s were assembled out of three imperfect units. From these three, I was able to build two working ones, a low-end 117MHz unit, and a high-end 166MHz unit. This is said 117MHz unit. It's got the base specs - 117MHz chip, 16MB of RAM. It does however have a special upgrade card - the Newer Tech VIEWpower video card, which outputs better video than the Apple video out card. I forget if it's more resolution, more colors, or both. Pretty neat though.

This one I'd consider "partially restored". I've installed a hinge shim to hopefully prevent the cracking issue, although a small crack is present on the left side already. That and a sensitive trackpad aside though, it works.

Year: 1996

Status: Working

Condition: Good

The other of the two. This one has its RAM maxed out and has the fastest processor option. The hinges on this one are also less stiff than my other, and I installed the hinge shim before any cracks had formed, and so far there aren't any forming. I really hope it stays that way.

Year: 1997

Status: Working

Condition: Fair

This 3400c was originally a 240MHz unit that I lucked out on and got for free from a recycler. It was missing the HDD cable though, and was in worse cosmetic shape than my other one, so I swapped the boards between them, so now this is a 200MHz unit. It's still missing that cable, but it works otherwise.

Year: 1997

Status: Working

Condition: Excellent

And here's the main 3400c. It's a high-spec 240MHz unit, in good shape, and mostly recapped. I still have to change out the single cap on the logic board. It's working great and is probably my most used PowerBook of all of them.

Year: 1998

Status: Working

Condition: Good

This one works just fine except for the hinges, which have gone floppy. I'd really use it more if the hinges were good, but I've yet to find a parts unit, despite owning this thing since 2021. The battery's still good though!

Year: 1999

Status: Working

Condition: Excellent

I bought this iMac off of OfferUp locally in 2020. Unfortunately it's a high hour unit (despite being practically mint), and needs a full analog board recap. I'm delaying that as I'm not looking forward to taking this one apart. It does work right now, but has some wonky geometry issues.

I currently have it in its box (see photo).

Year: 1999

Status: Working

Condition: Poor

A real cheap OfferUp find, just $9. It's in rough shape, and seemingly might need an analog board recap too, but it does work.

Year: 1999

Status: Semi-Working

Condition: Good

One of my two Clamshell iBooks, which were some of my first vintage macs, bought off eBay in a lot in 2018. This one's logic board appears to be failing though. It boots inconsistently.

Year: 1999

Status: Working

Condition: Excellent

In a bit better condition than my Blueberry unit, but it's got a line in the screen.

Year: 1999

Status: Working

Condition: Good

Not much to say on this one. It's a Power Mac, and it works. Pretty nice system!

Year: 2001

Status: Working

Condition: Good

One of my favorite laptops. I was lucky enough to find one in pretty good shape too! It's a Gigabit Ethernet revision, 667MHz. Not the best out there, but it's nice enough for my needs.

Year: 2002

Status: Working

Condition: Good

A pretty underrated laptop in my opinion. These are very nice to use, and the 1024x768 resolution actually looks pretty crisp on a 12" screen. I really like this one!

Year: 2003

Status: Working

Condition: Fair

One of the uncommon 900MHz iBook G3s. These were the fastest clocked G3s Apple ever made, and are rather tricky to find nowadays, as these suffered from rampant GPU failure. Mine's still ok for now though.

Year: 2003

Status: Working

Condition: Good

The first PowerPC Mac I ever owned! I really love this one too. eMacs are great.

Year: 2003

Status: Working

Condition: Fair

The beastly G5. I had the misfortune of having to replace the logic board in mine once. Never again.

Year: 2005

Status: Working

Condition: Good

The other beastly G5, of the iMac variety. I got this one for free from a family connection a while back. It works fine and is a revision that shouldn't have cap failure like some of them do.

Year: 2005

Status: Working

Condition: Poor

This one used to be one of, if not my most used OS X PowerPC laptop. I still do really love this thing, but I have to admit that it hasn't seen much use since I got my PowerBook G4s.

Year: 2005

Status: Working

Condition: Excellent

This was the first of my two DLSD laptops that I got. If you don't know, these were the fastest PowerPC laptops that Apple ever made. It's in pretty good shape, and works great.

Year: 2005

Status: Working

Condition: Near Mint

And here's the real lucky one. Not too long after I got the 15", I found a 17" one for sale for around the same price ($110 on Mercari) I paid for the 15". I snatched it up right away as this is the best PowerBook ever made, objectively by specs. Even better, it arrived in near perfect condition. I absolutely love this laptop. It's just so great in every which way.

Year: 2006

Status: Working

Condition: Fair

The original MacBook Pro. This one's pretty much max-spec. Fastest processor option, max RAM, SSD, it's nice!

Year: 2006

Status: Semi-Working

Condition: Good

The Semi-Working is because the board's kind of corroded and for SOME REASON, I have to hold the MagSafe plug half-way out of the socket while spamming the power button to get it to start. After that, it's FINE. It ISN'T a loose connection at the MagSafe plug because otherwise it wouldn't stay on after. No clue. Probably going to replace the logic board at some point. Or just get a better one.

Year: 2006

Status: Working

Condition: Fair

Works fine. Has the typical palmrest cracks but is otherwise in good shape.

Year: 2006

Status: Working

Condition: Good

The first 24" plastic iMac. This one had a strange display artifcating issue that suggested failing GPU, but it doesn't really show up anymore so I have no idea.

Year: 2008

Status: Working

Condition: Good

The final revision black MacBook. I managed to get this one for free, which is pretty neat. It's crack-free on the palmrests too!

Year: 2008

Status: Working

Condition: Poor

I'm convinced this thing is unkillable. First off, this was my first Mac, got it off eBay in 2017. These are very well known for chronic GPU failure. This one has been hammered HARD in its life. I edited 1080p video off this thing for the first year of so of my YouTube channel. It's seen quite a lot of use. Somehow, with all that, the GPU lives. My only guess is mine is one of the rare fixed revision chips, which I'll see whenever I get around to taking it apart to replace the thermal paste (and probably one of the fans which has been problematic for years). It's in poor shape, full of scratches, has had the display housing replaced once due to a hinge failure, but I'm keeping it forever. Maybe I'll try to find new case parts someday. But that board is staying.

Year: 2008

Status: Working

Condition: Excellent

This is that one weird non-pro aluminum unibody MacBook that they released for a while before replacing it with the pro version. This is a nice one for the collection.

Year: 2009

Status: Working

Condition: Excellent

This thing is huge. That's about all I've got to say about it.

Year: 2010

Status: Working

Condition: Good

The final revision of the plastic MacBooks. Found this one for free at the VCF Swap Meet. It needed a new keyboard, but otherwise worked fine. Now with an NOS one fitted, it's great. I quite like these.

Year: 2011

Status: Working

Condition: Fair

Pretty worn, but works which is what matters. I bring this one out when I need newer mac software. I should try to get something a little newer though.