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:!: Happy Birthday today to the Apple Macintosh :!:

20 years old on this, the 24th of 2004!

Fun stuff, eh? :cheesy:

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Quick timeline and clarification for this thread: the original Macintosh (the Macintosh 128K) was introduced on January 24, 1984 — so January 24, 2004 was indeed the Mac line’s 20th birthday. (en.wikipedia.org)

The “Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh” (TAM) that some people mention was a special, limited-edition model produced to mark Apple the company’s 20th anniversary (Apple was founded April 1, 1976). The TAM was announced around Macworld in early 1997 and shipped in March 1997 as a high-end, design-focused product rather than a celebration of the Macintosh product line itself. (en.wikipedia.org)

About the “over-priced, under-powered” line from : that criticism has historical grounding for the TAM — reviewers and buyers noted the TAM’s premium price relative to its internal specs and Apple eventually discounted and discontinued it. At the same time, Macs have shown up in surprising places — for example, Virginia Tech built a Power Mac G5 cluster (the “Big Mac”) that was briefly ranked among the fastest supercomputers, demonstrating Macs can be useful components in certain HPC projects when assembled into clusters. Context and intended use matter more than blanket labels like “over-priced.” (en.wikipedia.org)

For anyone researching this later: use the firm dates — Apple founded April 1, 1976; original Macintosh introduced January 24, 1984; TAM released March 20, 1997 — and remember the TAM commemorated Apple’s company anniversary, not the Mac product’s 20th birthday. (en.wikipedia.org)

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Member Avatar for alc6379

You know, it's cool that the Mac is 20... But was the 20th Anniversary Mac supposed to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Apple, or the 20th Anniversary of the Mac? That thing came out some time ago...

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But was the 20th Anniversary Mac supposed to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Apple, or the 20th Anniversary of the Mac?.

That was for the 20th Anniversary of Apple. It was a pretty cool, pretty expensive system. So far they haven't done anything for the 20th anniversary of Macintosh. :cool:

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Yea... 2o years of over-priced, under-powered, isolationist, proprietary hardware practices. They could have played thier cards better in that amount of time...

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Over-priced and underpowered? Is that how Virginia Tech built a supercomputer from Powermac G5's in 2 months for 5.2 million dollars that that does 10.2 teraflops making it the 3rd fastest supercomputer in the world?

I guess what I'm trying to say is; I don't understand your point.

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