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My all-time favorite would still have to be the Apple II GS. Apple's decision to kill off the Apple II line and focus their energy on the Mac soured me on the company for many years. Your article seems to suggest that hardware is the determining factor in a computer's "wow-ness," and that is likely what sold me on the eMac and on my iBook, but the OS and applications available are even bigger, as far as I'm concerned. In this regard, as cool as the Macs looked on the outside, I found them to be vastly inferior to GSOS; only with OS X did I think Apple finally had another computer worthy of being the successor to the Apple II line. But then again, I thought the combination of a kick-ass GUI when you wanted it and the option to boot to an interpreted programing environment when you didn't was a great thing. I never disputed Apple's ability to create the best in graphic user interfaces, but only when the terminal in OS X finally replaced the Applesoft Basic command prompt on the II GS did I seriously consider using another Apple computer.