Quiz Of The Week: The Apple Macintosh

Apple‘s iconic Macintosh has been around for thirty years, and this week saw a major update to its Mac OS X operating system. This week’s quiz looks at the history of the hardware and software favoured by people who Think Different.

Launched in the 1980s, the Mac won the creative industries because its graphics and text handling software made the best use of its tiny monochrome display. Under the guidance of Steve Jobs – and later designer Jonny Ive, the platform succeeded, waned, and then grew again.

Mac to the future!

The Mac has taken its users on an odyssey, shifting across three completely different processors, while Windows pretty much sat on just the Intel x86 family.

The operating system has also morphed to make use of free BSD Unix, along with the NextStep OS pioneered during Steve Jobs’ years in exile from Apple.

The platform pioneered a lot of things – abandoning floppies and CDs before the rest, and adopting different network and expansion technologies. Apple users still swear by their Macs no matter what.

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History of the Apple Mac

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1989: Macintosh Portable

The Macintosh Portable was Apple's first battery powered computer, but weighed a hefty 16lb. It was the first laptop to be taken into space, and sent the first extraterristrial email, but there was just one problem - if the battery wasn't able to hold a charge, you couldn't power it, even from the mains.

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