Even if you don’t have a single bit of developer in you, this is a fascinating look at an Apple product that never made the official catalog.
A taste, from the beginning of Stephen Hackett’s MacStories writeup:
In his keynote introducing the switch to Intel, Steve Jobs introduced the weirdest Mac of all time: the Apple Developer Transition Kit.
After announcing the change, Jobs revealed a secret. The Mac he had been using to demo software all morning actually had a 3.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor inside.
Needless to say, the crowd went wild.
Great read.
Certainly laughable, when viewed next to the original G5, but it got the job done.
I remember being interested in this, but $999 for a rental seemed a bit much.
As I recall, though, when they asked for those machines back they replaced them instead of just taking them back.
The weirdest Mac of all time was the Macintosh XL.
I’ve seen people drop various varieties of Intel boards into defunct G4 and G5 cases to make Hackintoshes, or even just regular windows boxes…
He said during he keynote that he was running on a Pentium.