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Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface. Through the second half of the 1980s, the company built market share only to see it dissipate in the 1990s as the personal computer market shifted towards IBM PC compatible machines running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Apple consolidated multiple consumer-level desktop models into the 1998 iMac all-in-one, which was a sales success and saw the Macintosh brand revitalized. Current Mac systems are mainly targeted at the home, education, and creative professional markets. They are: the aforementioned (though upgraded) iMac and the entry-level Mac mini desktop models, the workstation-level Mac Pro tower, the MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, and the Xserve server. Production of the Mac is based on a vertical integration model in that Apple facilitates all aspects of its hardware and creates its own operating system that is pre-installed on all Mac computers. This is in contrast to most IBM PC compatibles, where multiple sellers create hardware intended to run another company's software. Apple exclusively produces Mac hardware, choosing internal systems, designs, and prices. Apple does use third party components, however. Current Mac CPUs use Intel's x86 architecture; previous models used the AIM alliance's PowerPC and early models used Motorola's 68k. Apple also develops the operating system for the Mac, currently Mac OS X version 10.5 "Leopard". The modern Mac, like other personal computers, is capable of running alternative operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, and Microsoft Windows, though other computers cannot normally run Mac OS X. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License How can I get software to my Macintosh Plus ? Q. How can I get software to my Macintosh Plus ? It can only read 800 K Diskettes. I have a Macintosh Performa 6360 with a CD Drive and Diskette drive. But my Macintosh Plus sometimes needs to initialize the diskette for it to read. Once initialized the Performa won't read them. Asked by carsonloveridge - Wed Jul 8 19:22:19 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments Can one build a Macintosh computer on their own? Q. I hear more and more people are building their own PCs. You put in it what you want, and it costs cheaper to build it from parts. Now that Apple's Macintosh computers use Intel processors, I wonder, can one build a Mac on one's own? Asked by Avaldemon - Sat Nov 15 15:53:39 2008 - - 2 Answers - 1 Comments A. Yes, pretty much all intel based computer would run any version of mac compiled for the intel processor. A large array of drivers already exists made my porting from linux. It is a lot cheaper, more realiable and sometime you even get quartz support from the videocard. Answered by Jmn D - Sat Nov 15 16:14:23 2008 How do you fix a macintosh when the screen is BLUE?
Q. I hav a macintosh and currently the battery went out and the screen is blue.. i cant fix it... wat do i do? how do i stop it? AHH! will taking the batteries out restart it? Asked by Josie - Thu May 14 18:47:51 2009 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments From Yahoo Answer Search: "Macintosh"
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