First Mac Laptop

1. First Mac Laptop Released
2. First Mac Laptop Unboxing

Jan 24, 2017 Steve Jobs ­unveiled the first Apple Macintosh computer, with its nine-inch screen and $2,500 price tag, on Jan. It was a marvel of technology then and more than 30 years later, Apple. The Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers, manufactured by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984, by Steve Jobs (see the lower photo) and it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two old known then, but still unpopular features—the mouse and the graphical user interface, rather than the command-line.

Correction appended, Sept. 22, 2014, 10:55 a.m.

Twenty-five years ago Saturday, on Sept. 20, 1989, Apple released its first 'portable' Macintosh computer — and 'portable' belongs in quotation marks, because Sisyphus might as well have been made to lift this thing up a hillside for eternity.

Coming in at a hefty 16 pounds — that's more than five MacBook Airs, and about four of IBM's rival product at the time — Apple's Macintosh Portable had a price tag to match its weight: $6,500 got you the machine, loaded with super-modern features like an 'active-matrix screen' and a 'cursor-control device called a trackball,' as TIME described it in the Sept. 25, 1989, issue. The computer could also only run on a wall outlet when batteries were installed, unlike desktop computers.

'Apple is taking pains to call the machine a portable rather than a laptop, but computer industry wags have already dubbed it a ‘luggable,'' reads TIME's article about the Macintosh Portable, revealing that tech writers' penchant for adorable nicknames ('wearable,' 'phablet' and so on) is well-rooted in our trade's history. 'Even so, experts believe the Mac is likely to be a walkaway success.'

Clever pun, but we (or those experts!) were way off base: Customers greeted the Macintosh Portable like a sour apple; PCWorld would eventually deem it the 17th worst tech product ever made. Hp print service plugin for mac.

Read the most recent TIME cover story about Apple here: Never Offline How remove presets adobe premiere mac.

Correction: The original version of this post incorrectly stated the power needs of the original Macintosh Portable.

First Mac Laptop Released

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