Poll: (w/o list) What is your shortest lived/mistake Apple purchase?

[Buzz]

Original Tangerine iBook here.
Had a PB3400 that may have been the all time most productive laptop ever in the stable... then got caught up in the hype, but found that the clamshell/toilet seat club was just not for me. IIRC, it didn't last a full week after I bought it. I lusted after Wall Streets and Lombards, but held out for a Pismo, which I still have. The faster second gen clamshells w/ FW seemed better, but still couldn't hold a candle to the then "real" contemporary Powerbooks IMHO. I had better success w/ the later model, all white G3/G4 iBooks, which were more of a 'standard' laptop.

There have been a few other Apple products w/ short lived tenure around here, but fruitbook made the fastest exit. Keyboard was mushy, it lacked connectivity, and just didn't perform up to its looks or hype at the time.

What's your shortest Apple relationship? Product and circumstances please.

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[RAMd®d]

Haven't had one.

[DRR]

Magic Mouse.

Edges too sharp, interpreted natural hand movement as scrolling. I'm not one of those giant pawed mouse users who demand 8 buttons and 3 scroll wheels either, I did fine with a puck mouse for years. I bought the Magic Mouse hoping it would be a suitable road replacement for my small bamboo tablet which I had been carrying around (Intuos at my desk). It wasn't.

[(vikm)]

I can't think of one either. Not a one, really. Maybe a "refurb" charging cable that may or may not even be a "real" Apple cable to begin with lol.

[cbelt3]

Bought a Pizza Box Performa when Circuit City stopped selling Macs. I bought all their 'old Macs' for $50 each. Never used the Pizza box.. I didn't have the right video adapter thingy for it. Traded it to a colleage for a monitor.

A few years later bought two G3 Beiges for $10 each that contained all kinds of confidential data on various CEO's, and stressed about it here. Still trying to find a home for one of them. 'Traded' the other one to a colleague for a busted up Windows 95 system that went right to the scrap heap.

[SteveO]

Interesting thread. For me, it would be two. I went from a PB 1700 to a lime iMac. The iMac was a fine machine, but I thought I'd like the tradeoff of bigger screen vs. portability. A big mistake. Normally I have a Mac for 2-5 years before upgrading. Had that one about 7 months before selling to a work associate. I replaced with Pismo. Ah, sheer joy that Pismo was and remains.

The other mistake (for me, at least) was going from my iBook 900 to a PB 17". Again, a fine machine...and I thought I needed the real estate. I did not; not especially portable for me. Had that one about a year before selling to a photographer buddy and replacing with the 15" last G4 PB. Another fine machine.

[IronMac]

Magic Trackpad.

[OWC Jamie]

Centris 650.

Not me at least. Friend that was a teacher bought it and like 3 weeks later suddenly it was a Quadra 650

[DRR]

DRR wrote:
Magic Mouse.

Edges too sharp, interpreted natural hand movement as scrolling. I'm not one of those giant pawed mouse users who demand 8 buttons and 3 scroll wheels either, I did fine with a puck mouse for years. I bought the Magic Mouse hoping it would be a suitable road replacement for my small bamboo tablet which I had been carrying around (Intuos at my desk). It wasn't.

I should probably add, that is the one and only entry on my list.

[jardster]

I purchased an Apple TV 2 weeks ago. Needless to say it's getting returned for a new version.