As discussed on this week’s Connected, I am sharing how I picked my winners on the Mac Madness Bracket. There are some real differences as you will see. For example, I had the 2019 Mac Pro and the 20th Anniversary Mac going further than the public did. However, I was right on the money with the Cube passing the MacBook Air, and the public and I voted the Clamshell iBook along to the same round. You can see all the differences here, and click on the images to enlarge them.
Category: Mac Madness 2020
The Mac Madness Champion
After nearly three weeks and 15,000 votes, you have chosen your favorite Mac:
Coming in with 51.3% of the votes placed in the final round, the Power Mac G4 Cube has won, narrowly defeating the 2012-2015 Retina MacBook Pro.
Here is what the final, full bracket looks like:
Voting in the Final Round of Mac Madness Closes in Two Hours ⇢
Mac Madness 2020: The Final Round
We should get right to it. After nearly 12,000 total votes, we have arrived at the finals of Mac Madness, and it’s the G4 Cube against the 2012-2015 Retina MacBook Pro:
I really thought the black MacBook was going to edge out the Cube, but as you can tell, it fell a little shy in the Semifinals:
2012-2015 Retina MBP — 63.2%
Clamshell iBook G3 — 36.8%
G4 Cube — 53.3%
Mac Madness 2020: Round Quarterfinal Winners & Semifinal Voting Open Now
Wow, we are really moving along now! I’m back to report the winners of the quarterfinals:
As you can see, both Mac Pro models in the bracket lost out this round, as did the Power Mac G5 and the original Macintosh. Tough day for desktops, as there’s only one left in the fight: the Power Mac G4 Cube!
Mac Madness 2020: Round 2 Winners & Quarterfinal Voting Open Now
Voting in Round 2 of Mac Madness has closed, and just shy of 3,000 people voted in this round, picking which Macs were their favorites, sending eight machines into the quarterfinal matches:
Like in Round 1, the raw numbers are at the bottom of this post, but I have to say, I’m sad that both the iMac G3 and G4 have been voted off the island Genius Bar.
Mac Madness 2020: Round 1 Winners & Round 2 Voting Open Now
Voting has closed in Round 1 of Mac Madness. The first round was a huge success, with 3,495 people casting their votes for their favorite Macs.
As promised, I live streamed the results:
The raw numbers can be found at the bottom of this post, but I have to say, I was surprised by several of the totals. As I said, these matchups were selected at random, and that meant that some good machines have already been knocked out.
Mac Madness: Round 1 Voting Closes in One Hour ⇢
If you haven’t voted, consider this the final call for Round 1. I’ll be live streaming on the Relay FM Twitch channel at 3:30 PM Eastern.
Update: Voting has closed.
Introducing Mac Madness 2020
It’s a weird time in the world, so I thought it would be fun to pick — as a community — our favorite Mac.
As it is March, this naturally took the form of a bracket:
Here’s how this works. I’ll be hosting five rounds of voting over the next couple of weeks, and we should have a winner on Friday, April 3. I’ll announce new rounds here on the blog and on Twitter. You can view all the Mac Madness 2020 blog posts in one place, on this page.