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Macintosh (other)
Macintosh (renamed Mac in 1999) is a family of personal computers designed by Apple Inc. Macintosh may also refer to: Macintosh computers * Macintosh 128K, the first computer produced under the Macintosh line, originally known as Apple Macintosh * History of the Macintosh, from 1984 to 1997, before its rebrand to "Mac" * List of Mac models, a comprehensive list of all Macintosh models produced by Apple Inc. ** Compact Macintosh, line of all-in-one Macintosh computers produced from 1984 to 1995 ** Macintosh II family, line of high-end Macintosh computers produced from 1987 to 1993 ** Macintosh LC family, line of entry-level Macintosh computers produced from 1990 to 1997 ** Macintosh Quadra, line of high-end Macintosh computers produced from 1991 to 1995 ** PowerBook, line of Macintosh laptop computers produced from 1991 to 2006 ** Power Macintosh, line of high-end Macintosh computers produced from 1994 to 2006 * Mac operating systems, operating systems developed for Macintosh comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macintosh
Mac is a brand of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 1984. The name is short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), a reference to the McIntosh (apple), McIntosh apple. The current product lineup includes the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, and the iMac, Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro desktops. Macs are currently sold with Apple's UNIX-based macOS operating system, which is Proprietary software, not licensed to other manufacturers and exclusively Pre-installed software, bundled with Mac computers. This operating system replaced Apple's original Macintosh operating system, which has variously been named System, Mac OS, and Classic Mac OS. Jef Raskin conceived the Macintosh project in 1979, which was usurped and redefined by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1981. The original Macintosh 128K, Macintosh was launched in January 1984, after Apple's 1984 (advertisement), "1984" advertisement during Super Bowl XVIII. A series of increment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mac Operating Systems
Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc. in a succession of two major series. In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known as the classic Mac OS with its release of the System 1, original Macintosh System Software. The system, rebranded Mac OS in 1997, was pre-installed on every Macintosh until 2002 and offered on Macintosh clones shortly in the 1990s. It was noted for its ease of use, and also criticized for its lack of modern technologies compared to its competitors. The current Mac operating system is macOS, originally named Mac OS X until 2012 and then OS X until 2016. It was developed between 1997 and 2001 after Apple's purchase of NeXT. It brought an entirely new architecture based on NeXTSTEP, a Unix system, that eliminated many of the technical challenges that the classic Mac OS faced, such as problems with memory management. The current macOS is pre-installed with every Mac and receives a major update annually. It is the basis of Apple's curre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macintosh (surname)
M'Intosh, McIntosh, MacIntosh, Macintosh, or Mackintosh (Gaelic: ') is a Scottish surname, originating from the Clan Mackintosh. Mac an Tòisich means (son of) leader/chief. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan McIntosh (born 1939), Welsh footballer * Alastair McIntosh (born 1955), Scottish writer, academic and activist * Andrew Mackintosh (born 1960), actor in ''The Bill'' BBC series * Andrew McIntosh (other), several people :* Andrew McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey (1933–2010), British Labour politician :* Andrew McIntosh (physicist) (born 1952), Professor of Thermodynamics and director of Truth in Science :* Andrew McIntosh (Australian politician) (born 1955) :* Andrew McIntosh (cricketer) (born 1980), from Papua New Guinea :* Andrew M. McIntosh, British academic psychiatrist * Andrew McIntosh, Baron McIntosh of Haringey (1933–2010), British Labour politician * Basil McIntosh, Bahamian politician * Bradley McIntosh (born 1981), English-Jamaican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McIntosh (apple)
The McIntosh ( ), McIntosh Red, or colloquially the Mac, is an apple cultivar, the national apple of Canada. The fruit has red and green skin, a Taste#Astringency, tart flavor, and tender white flesh, which ripens in late September. It is considered an all-purpose apple, suitable both for cooking and eating raw. In the 20th century, the McIntosh was the most popular cultivar in Eastern Canada and New England and was widely sold in the UK. However, after holding 40% of the Canadian market share in the 1960s through to 1996, its market share declined to 28% in 2014 and is expected to continue to do so, in part due to production cost and in part due to consumers favoring sweeter, crisper, and less tart apple varieties. John McIntosh (farmer), John McIntosh discovered the original McIntosh sapling on his South Dundas, Ontario, Dundela farm in Upper Canada in 1811. He and his wife cultivated it, and the family started grafting the tree and selling the fruit in 1835. In 1870, it ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacIntosh Forts
The MacIntosh Forts are a group of seven observation posts built in Hong Kong between 1949 and 1953 at the border with China, to safeguard the border against Illegal immigration, illegal immigrants, when there was an influx of refugees from People's Republic of China, China due to political instability. The Forts were named after Hong Kong Police Commissioner Duncan Macintosh (in office 1946–1953) who decided to build a chain of observation posts guarded day and night. They have been listed as List of Grade II historic buildings in Hong Kong, Grade II historic buildings since 1997.Brief Information on Proposed Grade II Items Description The MacIntosh Forts were built along the Sham Chun River when an influx of Chinese refugees was ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mac OS Roman
Mac OS Roman is a character encoding created by Apple Computer, Inc. for use by Macintosh computers. It is suitable for representing text in English and several other languages that use the Latin script. Mac OS Roman encodes 256 characters, the first 128 of which are identical to ASCII, with the remaining characters including mathematical symbols, diacritics, and additional punctuation marks. Mac OS Roman is an extension of the original Macintosh character set, which encoded 217 characters. Full support for Mac OS Roman first appeared in System 6.0.4, released in 1989, and the encoding is still supported in current versions of macOS, though the standard character encoding is now UTF-8. Apple modified Mac OS Roman in 1998 with the release of Mac OS 8.5 by replacing the currency sign with the euro sign, but otherwise the encoding has been unchanged since its release. Character set The following table shows how characters are encoded in Mac OS Roman. The row and column heading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacOS
macOS, previously OS X and originally Mac OS X, is a Unix, Unix-based operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple since 2001. It is the current operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. Within the market of Desktop computer, desktop and laptop computers, it is the Usage share of operating systems#Desktop and laptop computers, second most widely used desktop OS, after Microsoft Windows and ahead of all Linux distributions, including ChromeOS and SteamOS. , the most recent release of macOS is MacOS Sequoia, macOS 15 Sequoia, the 21st major version of macOS. Mac OS X succeeded classic Mac OS, the primary Mac operating systems, Macintosh operating system from 1984 to 2001. Its underlying architecture came from NeXT's NeXTSTEP, as a result of NeXT#1997–2006: Acquisition by Apple, Apple's acquisition of NeXT, which also brought Steve Jobs back to Apple. The first desktop version, Mac OS X 10.0, was released on March 24, 2001. Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Mac OS
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Mac (computer), Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9. The Macintosh operating system is credited with having popularized the graphical user interface concept. It was included with every Macintosh that was sold during the era in which it was developed, and many updates to the system software were done in conjunction with the introduction of new Macintosh systems. Apple released the Macintosh 128K, original Macintosh on January 24, 1984. The System 1, first version of the system software, which had no official name, was partially based on the Lisa OS, which Apple previously released for the Apple Lisa, Lisa computer in 1983. As part of an agreement allowing Xerox to buy Share (finance), shares in Apple at a favorable price, it also used concepts from the PARC (company), Xerox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Macintosh
The Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc., Apple Computer, Inc as the core of the Mac (computer), Macintosh brand from March 1994 until August 2006. Described by ''Macworld'' as "the most important technical evolution of the Macintosh since the Macintosh II, Mac II debuted in 1987", it is the first computer with the PowerPC CPU architecture, the flagship product of the AIM alliance. Existing software for the Motorola 68040, Motorola 68k processors of previous Macintoshes do not run on it natively, so a Mac 68k emulator is in System 7.1.2. It provides good compatibility, at about two-thirds of the speed of contemporary Macintosh Quadra machines. The Power Macintosh replaced the Quadra and was initially sold in the same enclosures. Over the next twelve years, it evolved through a succession of enclosure designs, a rename to "Power Mac", five major generations of PowerPC chips, and a great deal of press co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macintosh 128K
The Macintosh, later rebranded as the Macintosh 128K, is the original Mac (computer), Macintosh personal computer from Apple Inc., Apple. It is the first successful mass-market All-in-one computer, all-in-one desktop personal computer with a graphical user interface, built-in screen and Computer mouse, mouse. It was pivotal in establishing desktop publishing as a general office function. The motherboard, a Cathode-ray tube, CRT monochrome monitor, and a floppy drive are in a beige case with an integrated carrying handle; it has a keyboard and single-button mouse. The Macintosh was introduced by a television commercial titled "1984 (advertisement), 1984" during Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984, directed by Ridley Scott. Sales were strong at its initial release on January 24, 1984, at , and reached 70,000 units on May 3, 1984. Upon the release of its successor, the Macintosh 512K, it was rebranded as the Macintosh 128K. The computer's model number is M0001. Development 1978â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PowerBook
The PowerBook (known as Macintosh PowerBook before 1997) is a family of Macintosh-type laptop computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from 1991 to 2006. It was targeted at the professional market; in 1999, the line was supplemented by the home and education-focused iBook family. During its lifetime, the PowerBook went through several major revisions and redesigns, often being the first to incorporate features that would later become standard in competing laptops. The PowerBook was replaced by the MacBook Pro in 2006 as part of the Mac transition to Intel processors. 680x0-based models PowerBook 100 series In October 1991, Apple released the first three PowerBooks: the low-end PowerBook 100, the more powerful PowerBook 140, and the high end PowerBook 170, the only one with an active matrix display. These machines caused a stir in the industry with their compact dark grey cases, built-in trackball, and the innovative positioning of the keyboard tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macintosh Quadra
The Macintosh Quadra is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Inc., Apple Computer, Inc. from October 1991 to October 1995. The Quadra, named for the Motorola 68040 central processing unit, replaced the Macintosh II family as the high-end Mac (computer), Macintosh model. The first models were the Macintosh Quadra 700, Quadra 700 and Macintosh Quadra 900, Quadra 900, both introduced in October 1991, with the latter discontinued after six months and replaced by the Macintosh Quadra 950, Quadra 950. The Macintosh Quadra 800, Quadra 800 was added in February 1993 (succeeding the Quadra 700), followed the multimedia-focused Macintosh Quadra 840AV, 840AV at the end of July 1993. The Macintosh Centris line was merged with the Quadra in October 1993, adding the Macintosh Quadra 610, 610, Macintosh Quadra 650, 650 and Macintosh Quadra 660AV, 660AV to the range. The Macintosh Quadra 605, 605 (also sold as the Performa 475 or LC 475) was also introduced in Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
