So it’s very natural that there have been some really great modern updates to this machine. These days, we place the Mac SE into the Vintage Computing class – a machine that, if we run it, it’s out of love and respect. Sporting every bit as much horsepower as the phenomenally expensive Macintosh IIx, the SE/30 was like a V12 engine shoehorned into a Honda Civic. The Macintosh SE/30 came along very close to the end of that era, representing the apex of the original Macintosh form factor. There was a time when every new Macintosh equaled or bettered all aspects of every previous model. When I think of the original Mac era, the machine in my mind is the SE/30. But like any great Mac, the SE/30 wasn’t a terrific system just when it debuted it remained eminently usable for years to come. The specs seem silly by modern standards-like the 40MB hard drive and the 9-inch black-and-white screen with only 512 by 342 pixels. It looked much like its predecessors, but it was far faster-the first all-in-one Mac where the software could really sing. The Macintosh SE/30 was the pinnacle of the original Mac hardware design. Some folks, like Wired Magazine and MacWorld, have even written about the SE/30 being perhaps the best Mac of all time. This week the iconic Mac SE/30 turned 30 years old.
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