Macintosh ! You Have To Know About Macintosh.

Macintosh ! You Have To Know About Macintosh.

The Macintosh branded as (Mac since 1998) is a family of private computers planned, developed and sold by Apple Inc. The original Macintosh was the company's 1st mass-market personal computer that featured a graphical user interface, built-in screen and mouse. Apple Inc. sold the Macintosh side by side its popular Apple II family of computers for almost ten years before the latter was cancelled in 1993.

Macintosh models were costly, obstructive its competitiveness in a market already dominated by the Commodore 64 for consumers, as well as the IBM private Computer. Macintosh systems still establish godsend in desktop developed and kept Apple as the 2nd biggest PC developer for the next decade. In the early 1990s, Apple introduced models such as the Macintosh LC II. The introduction of Windows 3.1 and Intel's Pentium processor gradually took market share from Apple Inc. and by the end of 1994 Apple was relegated to 3rd place as Compaq became the top PC manufacturer. Even after the transition to the upper PowerPC-based Power Macintosh line in the mid-1990s, the falling prices of commodity PC components, poor inventory management with the Macintosh Performa.

Apple consolidated nearly twenty models in mid-1997 down to four in mid-1999. The Power Macintosh G3, iMac, 14.1" PowerBook G3, and 12" iBook. All four products were commercially effectual due to their high performance, competitive prices and aesthetic designs. Apple phased out the Macintosh name in favor of "Mac", a pet name that had been in usual use since the improvement of the 1st model. 


Apple Inc. has also open a series of Macintosh operating systems; initially this operating system had no name, but came to be known as the Macintosh System Software in 1988, Mac OS in 1997, Mac OS X in 2001, OS X in 2012, and macOS in 2016. Now present version is macOS High Sierra. Intel-based Macs are capable of running non-Apple operating systems such as Linux, OpenBSD, and Microsoft Windows with the aid of Boot Camp or third-party software.

The Macintosh project was started in 1979 with Apple employee Jeff Rosskin, who designed the computer for low-cost, easy-to-use, average users. He wanted to name the computer after his favorite kind of Apple, Macintosh, but the spelling was changed to legal reasons instead of "Macintosh" because the original was the same spelling used by Macintosh Laboratory, Inc., audio. Equipment manufacturer. Steve Jobs replied that the Macintosh laboratory gave Apple an application to name changes with modified spellings so that Apple could use it, but this request was denied, because Apple finally received the right to use the name.(According to the Article of 1984 Byte magazine, "Macintosh" was the "first user" spelling mistake after the "Spanish user". However, Jeff Ruskin adopted the "Macintosh" spell in 1981, when Macintosh Computer Still prototype machine at single lab. This explanation is further compounded with the first explanation that "was created for legal reasons.