Apple's 15 Most Audacious Product Designs


#13 Macintosh: 1984

Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh on January 24, 1984. It became the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface, rather than a command-line interface. Its revolutionary design immediately became talk of the town. Driving home the point, Apple advertised the Macintosh with what is now considered one of the greatest television commercials in history, taking liberally from the "Big Brother" theme in George Orwell's dystopian novel, "1984."

#12 Macintosh Plus: 1986

The Macintosh Plus computer was the third model in the Macintosh line, introduced on January 16, 1986.  As an evolutionary improvement over the 512K, it shipped with 1 MB of RAM standard, expandable to 4 MB, and an external SCSI peripheral bus, among smaller improvements. it was the first Macintosh model to include a SCSI port, which launched the popularity of external SCSI devices for Macs, including hard disks, tape drives, CD-ROM drives, printers, and even monitors.

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