Six Colors is doing a series, 20 Macs for 2020, on the most significant Mac models in history. I haven't read the series but from that idea here are my favorite five early Macs.

Macintosh SE/30. One of my college roommates had a Mac Plus and won an SE/30 in a raffle or something. A cute all-in-one machine with crips greyscale graphics and Hypercard. It's what made me fall for Macs.

Macintosh IIsi. My first Mac was a low-cost color model. 5 MB RAM and 80 MB hard drive. I also bought the math co-processor card which made screen savers scream.

Macintosh Performa 6100. I think this was part of the first lineup with the new PowerPC chips. I bought an Orange PC card to use with a modem but that part didn't quite work out and I never used the co-processor card for DOS.

Macintosh PowerBook 500. Not sure if this is the one. For a while I had a notebook and a desktop through a couple of refresh cycles. Eventually PowerBooks got fast enough that I ditched desktop Macs and it was either this one or a PowerBook 5300 or maybe even the MacBook Pro.

MacBook Pro. The first Intel notebook Mac. Very sexy.