Favorite in what sense?
You can probably gather more about the people answering this poll than about the various machines.
When I tend to pull one of these machines off the shelf, it's usually to actually use it for a specific purpose. From that perspective, the functionality of the machine becomes the most important aspect. My two go-to systems are the 540c, as a fast-ish 68k machine with onboard ethernet and color active-matrix LCD, and the 170 as the fast System6 powerbook with active matrix screen. Usually I'm using these two machines for programming or testing. The 100 is a #3 due to plain 68000, which can be important in some testing.
I tried to get into the Duos. The size & concept appealed to me. I've got all the tricked out accessories, the whole deal. But the Duo keyboard is just terrible. I just cannot use them for typing, which is the main thing I do on a computer. So they're pretty useless to me, regardless of everything else they have going for them. Which is a shame, but kind of insurmountable.
I can get by with a passive matrix display, but if given the choice between passive and active, there's just no comparison. That's mainly why I use the 170 as the System6 laptop. I would prefer the 100, but the passive matrix is just not that great to stare at.
I've not had much of a need for an FPU in a 68k portable. It's necessary for running something like netbsd, but for regular macos stuff, it is fairly unusual to really need it. For the rare occasions an FPU is needed, there's always the softfpu extension.
The other 68k powerbooks seem like pure (dust?) collector material at this point. They may have sentimental/aesthetic/etc value depending on the individual, but from a functional perspective of someone who has the choice of systems and actually wants to use them, I don't really see it.
I have seen reports that desodering the LC040 on the pb5xx's and replacing them with full 040's works. But last I checked, getting a full 040 in that formfactor is crazy expensive.
You can probably gather more about the people answering this poll than about the various machines.
When I tend to pull one of these machines off the shelf, it's usually to actually use it for a specific purpose. From that perspective, the functionality of the machine becomes the most important aspect. My two go-to systems are the 540c, as a fast-ish 68k machine with onboard ethernet and color active-matrix LCD, and the 170 as the fast System6 powerbook with active matrix screen. Usually I'm using these two machines for programming or testing. The 100 is a #3 due to plain 68000, which can be important in some testing.
I tried to get into the Duos. The size & concept appealed to me. I've got all the tricked out accessories, the whole deal. But the Duo keyboard is just terrible. I just cannot use them for typing, which is the main thing I do on a computer. So they're pretty useless to me, regardless of everything else they have going for them. Which is a shame, but kind of insurmountable.
I can get by with a passive matrix display, but if given the choice between passive and active, there's just no comparison. That's mainly why I use the 170 as the System6 laptop. I would prefer the 100, but the passive matrix is just not that great to stare at.
I've not had much of a need for an FPU in a 68k portable. It's necessary for running something like netbsd, but for regular macos stuff, it is fairly unusual to really need it. For the rare occasions an FPU is needed, there's always the softfpu extension.
The other 68k powerbooks seem like pure (dust?) collector material at this point. They may have sentimental/aesthetic/etc value depending on the individual, but from a functional perspective of someone who has the choice of systems and actually wants to use them, I don't really see it.
I have seen reports that desodering the LC040 on the pb5xx's and replacing them with full 040's works. But last I checked, getting a full 040 in that formfactor is crazy expensive.