Macintosh - Insanely Great

Would you buy a Mac for $2495? What if it wa in 1984 dollars?! Here's a video I saw at youtube, Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984, introducing Macintosh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KkENSYkMgs

Oh, and while I'm new to Mac ownership, I used one of the first generation Macs, with MacWrite, MacPaint, and MacDraw. Good memories.

Enjoy. :mac:

Nice find, that was really weird to see how amazing a computer like that was back then.

Just think if you could go back in time and bring your Macbook with you They woudln't believe it!

bring back aq computer from 8 years agoa nd they wouldnt belive it, its crazy.. "400K of storage...CHEER" thats crazy

There is an old saying that "the computer you want is always at least $4000.00". I wonder if the current value of those $2495 1984 dollars is close to a today value of $4000.00? Probably more actually, but hmmm...

Alternatively, I wonder how much it would have cost in 1984 to get the amount of computing power in a modest MacBook. It's rhetorical obviously. May the next generations of computers make comparable advancements.

Makes you wonder what the next generation (1 - 2 years from now) will have. I predict:

- Flash Based system boot disk drives in the 100 GB range, able to achieve sub 10s cold boot up times

- Multi terabyte hard disks

- 16 core CPUs, running at 5 GHz or higher

- Bluray/HDDVD media reader/burner

- Combined computer/AppleTV functionality in same box

- What comes after WiFi standard "n"? In one to two years, that may be coming out too.

What else? What do others think?

I wonder how many gigs of ram will become "standard" in about 5 years?

Yes, I missed that didn't I? My guess: 4 GB in the next 1-2 years, based on current trends.

3D chips. That is, multi-layer chips. Going multicore allows the fabricators to process more data; layering them preserves real estate. This is probably 20 years away, and I'm not quite sure how it would be used, though you'll probably need it for MS Word 2027. :tusks:

Hmmm... language processing, speech processing, visual perception processing. Yeah, I could think of some uses for a 16^3 core processor (4096 cores total), but that might not be quite enough.

kman445 said:

bring back aq computer from 8 years agoa nd they wouldnt belive it, its crazy.. "400K of storage...CHEER" thats crazy

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same statement made in 2006: "400k of storage...BOOOOOOO" then apples stock disappears.

ah, some classic lines in that movie. Insanely Great! Never trust a computer you can't lift. Hefty price tag for the time, but he's one heck of a convincing speaker.

And I never realised until just now that this ad was the ad Futurama made a spoof of. Of course, I was only 1 when this was made...well, not even that actually.

What a world of difference and quite refreshing/classy after seeing hysteria like this...

heck, i just picked up a couple year old copy of popular science and found an ad for a 256Mb flash drive. It's price? oh, only about two-hundred bucks.


My dad had one of those classic macs, might have been the macintosh II? it was new around 1986 or 87. kind of fun to mess around with paint and such, but i didn't really get into computers until about 1996.

MacHeadCase said:

What a world of difference and quite refreshing/classy after seeing hysteria like this...

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Oh my. That was stranger than fiction. Thanks for, well, the contrast.

yeah, that makes my man howard dean look completely civilized.

eric said:

yeah, that makes my man howard dean look completely civilized.

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!