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The Macintosh at 40 Years
This January marks 40 years since Steve Jobs unveiled what he believed to be the future of the personal computer. It was expensive and underpowered but the paradigm shift it introduced is unmistakeable. Instead of command line interface with directories you had pictures of folders that contained pictures of documents and all you had to do was move this mouse thing and click on them. Crazy.
Recently the Upgrade podcast had a few guests and they went through an informal ranking of various Macintosh models, including their first models, their favorite models and also models that were duds. If you are of a certain age, ahem, then a good bit of their conversation will resonate with you, it did with me.
For the record, the Apple Performa 6116CD was my first personal Macintosh that I owned. I was exposed to Macintosh computers in my last year at the Art Institute and I knew I would want one for myself. Thinking back on that computer, it was nothing really special in comparison to what was available at the time but it started me down a path that continues today of an Apple evangelical. I definately drank the kool-aid as they say.
I am currently writing this post on an Apple Mac Mini that contains an Apple M2 processor that roughly clocks at aproximately 3.49 GHz and contains 16 GB of RAM and storage on an incrediably fast 500 GB SSD internal drive. That Performa… had a PowerPC chip that clocked at 60 MHz, contained 8 MB of RAM and files stored on an internal 700 MB SCSI hard drive.
Happy Anniversary Macintosh and I look forward to see what your next 40 years have in store.
Apple Vision Pro First Steps
Apple Taking More First Steps
I am very curious to see how well received/reviewed the new Apple Vision Pro being released by pre-order from Apple starting today. It looks amazing and yes, there have been VR glasses out for a while now but Apple as usual takes what is out there and usually makes a new version that does things the others just don’t. I am particularily intereted in the productivity aspects and features.
Let also all remember, this is the first version and whatever shortcomings it may have, remember the first iPhone didnt even have cut and paste.