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Macintosh IIvx
“The last of its family, and it carried a CD-ROM drive to the grave.”
“Brief of tenure, big of heart: the only II to moonlight as a Performa.”
The Macintosh IIvi, also sold as the Macintosh Performa 600, arrived in September 1992 as Apple's budget-minded member of the II family. It shared the stage with its faster sibling the IIvx, yet on some benchmarks the IIvi actually beat it. It remains the only Macintosh II ever to wear the Performa badge, a distinction it carried with quiet pride.
By February 1993 it was gone, discontinued just four months after introduction when the Centris 650 landed at a similar price point. Those who bought a Performa 600 got the IIvi with the IIvx's 34 MHz CPU, and a machine that outpaced its own sibling. Short-lived, yes — but never unloved.
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“The last of its family, and it carried a CD-ROM drive to the grave.”
“It bulged so your classroom didn't have to.”
“Low Cost, Low Color, full heart — the Mac that let everyone in.”