chanson

It's hard to believe that the Mac is now 20 years old.

What's even more amazing to me is that someone whose only computer experience was with a Macintosh 128 running that first release of the Macintosh System Software would be right at home with a dual-2GHz PowerMac G5 running the latest release of Mac OS X.

It's also interesting to see how Apple has maintained their price point:

Macintosh 128	Power Macintosh G5
8 MHz 68000	2 GHz PowerPC 970 (two)
128KB RAM	512MB RAM
400KB floppy	700MB/4.3GB optical
No hard disk	160GB hard disk
9-inch black and white display (512x342)	17-inch LCD color display (1280x1024)
No dedicated graphics hardware	64MB graphics accelerator
230.4Kbps LocalTalk	1Gbps Ethernet
One mouse button (it's all you need)	One mouse button (it's all you need)
$2495 (1984 dollars)	$2533 (1984 dollars)

That's adjusting for inflation over the past two decades, of course.