Macintosh

The Apple Macintosh Plus was first released in 1986 which means that getting your hands on a brand new one today is either impossible or going to be very, very expensive. But what if you really want one and don't want to spend the kinds of sums a new, boxed original would likely cost? Well, you make yourself one.That's what Kevin Noki did when he bought a Macintosh Plus from eBay. The problem? It had a broken power supply and floppy drive which just wouldn't do, so he set about creating the Brewintosh. It's like a…

"He was so hilarious we started writing more and more dialogue for him. He soon stole every scene he was in," co-creator Stephen Merchant says in tribute Ewen MacIntosh, the British comedian who played the accountant “Big Keith” on the original U.K. version of The Office, has died at the age of 50. The BBC reports that MacIntosh died at Willow Green Care Home in Darlington, England; no cause of death was provided. The Office co-creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant both took to…

This week on The iMore Show, Daryl and Karen reminisce about the Macs they first used and owned as the Mac recently turned 40, and they share their all-time favorite Macs. With Killers of the Flower Moon scooping 13 Academy Award nominations, Karen shares her thoughts on the movie and whether Daryl will watch it after being disappointed with director Martin Scorsese's previous work, The Irishman.At the time of recording, it was rumored that Apple may charge for some developers to roll out their own App Stores — but…

Forty years ago this week, on 22 January 1984, a stunning advertising video was screened during the Super Bowl broadcast in the US. It was directed by Ridley Scott and evoked the dystopian atmosphere of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Long lines of grey, shaven zombies march in lockstep through a tunnel into a giant amphitheatre, where they sit in rows gawping up at a screen on which an authoritarian figure is intoning a message. “Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the information purification…

Apple’s Mac just turned 40 years old! This week, Devindra chats with Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham about his Mac retrospective. We focus on how much has changed since Apple’s disastrous 2016 lineup, why the Apple Silicon chips feel so revolutionary, and look back at our earliest Mac experiences. Also, we review the Framework Laptop 16, a wonderfully modular miracle of a laptop, but one that we wish had more graphics power for gaming. (But hey, at least you can replace the GPU eventually!).Listen below or subscribe on your…

The Mac, formerly the more austere Macintosh, turns 40 today, putting Apple’s longest-running product squarely in middle age. But like someone who sees the back half of their life approaching and gets in marathon-runner shape, the Mac is in the strongest place it’s been for decades. From a revenue perspective, Mac sales declined precipitously in 2023, but that came on the heels of four years of growth that was likely the product of pent-up demand for an improved Mac lineup.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErwS24cBZPcIn…

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Image used with permission by copyright holder Today marks 40 years since Apple released the very first Mac, upending the entire computer industry and sowing the seeds for four decades of success for the company. Dubbed the Macintosh 128K, the device was an unprecedented success for Apple, and it quickly became one of the most important Macs ever. It also has curious parallels to the company’s situation today. It’s easy to look back now with fondness at the impact the product made — a familiar piece of tech history…

Forty years ago today, one of the most iconic home computers ever was released and it helped cement Apple as the tech giant it is today. On January 24, 1984, the Apple Macintosh 128K was introduced to the market — an all-in-one computer with a whopping 128 KB of RAM weighing in at 7.5KG. It ran Apple’s own System Software 1.0 OS and was equipped with a beefy Motorola 68000 CPU. In raw power, today’s cheapest M1 MacBook Air has about 62,500 times the amount of RAM found in the 128K. It sold for $2,495, which equates to…

Yes, it was 40 years ago today… that the Apple Macintosh was introduced, although by today’s standards, it looks quite modest: It was a beige, rather boxy-looking device that also came with a keyboard and single-button mouse. On the inside, it included an 8 MHz processor and 128 KB of RAM. There was also a single 400 KB floppy drive for storage and a 512-x-342 pixel black-and-white display. However, although its physical design might not have been groundbreaking, another aspect of the computer was: It came with a…