The 8500 is my all time favorite Macintosh tower computer, followed closely by the Beige G3 tower. Sadly my 8500 died a few years back. What I wouldn't give to acquire another one. There's just somethng about the design of the tower, it's aesthetics and its hardware that just calls to me. Seriously. Like no other machine on the planet ever has, the 8500 knows me. It knows that I destined to forever be in love with it. It is, pure. Machines come and machines go. Speed, ever increasing. Specs always climbing. New GUI's, new paradigms. Yet in the cold of the night I always hear the startup chime of the 8500. Come to me. Yes, thats it. Love.

/Looks around at the suddenly quiet room...

What? :O