I've owned a Macintosh computer, a SE, since 1988. I liked the design from the very beginning but until the MacPLUS they were like "premies", just not viable for real life. But with the introduction of the SE, and bigger brother II, I was sold.

Regardless of what you think of it as a platform, the Mac has made a unique impact on the world and history of personal computers. Here is my list of Mac sightings.

Movies

"Air Bud" ('97)

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"Assasins" ('95)

Stalone and Banderas use PowerBooks. The female lead uses a minitower Mac in the basement security room.

"Batman and Robin" ('97)

Lots of Macs and an e-mate.

"Bird on a Wire" ('90)

A Mac II (or smilar) on the desk of Gibson's "handler".

"Blade" ('98)

PowerBooks. Interestingly the logo on one PB is reversed on the lid to show correctly when opened.

"Blank Check" ('94)

Brian Bonsall uses a Mac to forge checks. He says that he gets his checks from "Mr. Macintosh".

"Creepshow" ('?)

The guy with the cockroach infested apartment had a disguised Apple ][+.

"Crimnal Behavior" ('92)

Farrah Fawcet uses a Mac Classic.

"Demolitionist, The" ('96)

There is a Mac Classic in the surveilance van. "Favor, The" ('?) Bill Pullman plays the harmonica while working on a compact Mac.

"Fear Stalk" ('89)

Jill Clayburgh uses a Mac II.

"Firm, The" ('93)

Tom Cruise and his office all use Macs.

"Flubber" ('97)

Dr. Brainerd (Robin Williams) has a Mac Plus or Classic on his kitchen counter.

"Forest Gump" ('94)

??

"Foxfire" ('96)

Hedy Burress uses a ?

"Hackers" ('95)

Many PowerBooks, even though the dialog refers to Pentiums!

"Haunting of Sarah Hardy" (89)

Sela Ward, Morgan Fairchild There is a prominant Mac Plus/Classic on her home office desk.

"Heat" ('95)

Amy Brenneman uses a ?

"Independence Day" ('97)

Jeff Goldbloom uses a PowerBook. Others were IIci, IIfx and Quadras.

"Jurassic Park ('93)

Several quadras, towers and minitowers can be seen in the control room.

"Leap of Faith" ('92)

Jane (Debra Winger) uses a Mac laptop on the bus in the first scene.

"Little Man Tate" (')

The teacher had a Mac Portable on her desk.

"Mission Impossible" ('96)

Tom Cruise and the team used PowerBooks

"Net, The" ('95)

Sandra Bullock uses a PowerBook. Also powermacs, mostly 8100s. The final chase scene is at the San Francisco MacWorld.

"Primary Colors" ('98)

There is a MacII in the campaign headquarters and a brief glimps of an Apple mousepad.

"Ransom" ('96)

Gibson, the FBi and the kidnapper used a PowerBook.

"Sanctuary" ('00TV)

Melissa Gilbert's character uses a powerbook.

"Saint, The" ('97)

Val Kilmer uses a PowerBook.

"Search for Grace" ('94)

Lisa Hartman Black has a Mac Plus in her home.

"Second Arrival, The" ('98)

A Quadra or PowerMac on the desk of the programmer in the first scene.

"Shadow Men, The" ('98)

Eric Roberts has an AV monitor on his desk.

"Short Circuit" ('86)

In Crosby's lab in the beginning, a wire-fram graphic is superimposed onto a blank 512k screen.

"Smart House" (TV'99)

The fully automated house has an iMac.

"Star Treck IV: The Voyage Home" ('86)

James Doohan (Scotty) uses a Mac Plus, saying "Computer, hello computer" to the mouse.

"Vanishing, The" ('93TV)

Nancy Travis uses a Performa or LC to read the kidnapper's files.

"Vendetta II: The New Maffia" ('93TV)

Hank Parnell (Michael Ontkean) uses a compact Mac (seen from its back) at his desk.

"Visitor, The" ('97TV)

The Pilot - John Corbett uses the boy's Mac.

"Wag the Dog" ('97)

PowerBooks and Thinkpads, but ALL with MacOS screens!

"Zoolander" ('01)

Ben Stiller tries to get into an apricot iMac.

TV

"Ally McBeal" (may 8th, 2000)

Discussing computer dating a friend says, "you can't walk down the isle with an IMac".

"Angel"

He has an undisguised iBook.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

Willow uses a PowerBook.

"Drew Cary" 10/28/98

Mimi has an iMac on her desk.

Drew has a disguised cube on his desk, but the gray Apple logo on the front is just a gray circle.

"Earth: Final Conflict"

PowerBooks, Newton, 20th Anniversary.

"FreakyLinks"

An undisguised Cube

"Hangin' with Mr. Cooper"

Vanessa has a Classic?

"The Highlander"

Duncan used a PB2400.

"Home Improvement"

Sons use PB145 "still has the old '030 chip, so not a lot of power". Also Performa, 5300. But the one near the front door was a Wintel box.

"Just Shoot Me" 2000

Fitch has a tangerine iBook on his desk

"Millenium"

The first season featured a lot of Mac screen shots. Later episodes show a screen of a mixture of OS types.

"Moonlighting"

Cybil Shepard had a Classic behind her desk in the office.

"Newsradio" 11/11/98

An iMac in the outer office.

"Night Court"

The judge, Harry Anderson, always had a Mac in his office, usually a laptop.

"The Pretender"

Sydney uses a 20th Anniversary.

"Remington Steele"

Zimbalist used Macs in her office.

"Roswell"

Imac in Max's room

"Saved by the Bell"

A Mac compact in the college dorm room.

"Seinfeld"

Jerry had a Classic, Duo with dock and 20th Anniversary.

"Sex in the City"

Carrie (a newspaper writer) uses a Powerbook.

"Simpsons"

Many Macs, including a Lisa. And a Newton with less than perfect handwriting recognition.

"The West Wing"

Sam Seaborn uses an undisguised Powerbook.

"Work With Me"

There's an iMac in the office.

"Working"

Matt Pyser has a Mac in his apartment in the episode with the environmentalist and her bird.

"X-Files"

Scully uses many PowerBooks.

Music Videos

"Cradle of Love" (Billy Idle)

The guy had a Mac II in his aparttment.

Commercials

Apple Computer "1984"

(Jan 1984) The famous "1984"-takeoff introduction of the Macintosh ran only once during halftime of the Superbowl.

E A (Ethan Allan) Kids commercial '99

First little boy says: " My furniture needs can be summed up in one word: storage" There's an IMac in the bookshelves behing him.

Buy.Com commercial ('99)

The green aliens are using a Classic/SE

HGTV.COM ('02)

commercial - an iMac

Mercedes Benz (Spring '01)

The commercial where animals and all other things fine, like Mozart works, grand pianos, and Mercedes E-Class autos line up two-by-two to enter Noah's ark. Included in the line are two iMacs.

Walgreens Pharmacy

Commercial about Walgreens photo to disk service shows a young boy at a Mac tower system.

Comics

Doonsbury

Appearances of and references to Newtons.

Hi and Lois

06/27/99 Chip and his friends launch their band's website on his blueberry iMac.

(12/24/99) On Christmas Eve, the first panel reads, "T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house ..." , " I can't find the mouse!", says Hi in the second panel while trying to set up his new Imac.

Foxtrot

10/21/98 The little guy Jason goes trick-or-treating as an iMac (and it's scarry because ... it does not have a FLOPPY)

? Jason's mom falls in love with an "iFruit"

Sally Forth (12/26/99)

Ted helps her find directions to a pharmacy on the internet on an blue Imac.

Other

CNN

Story about John Glenn showing what appears to be an iMac in the graphic.

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