Later he also said that developing software for the Apple Macintosh computer led Microsoft into graphics-intensive software, setting the stage for Microsoft applications and its breakthrough Windows 95 operating system.
However, Apple's Irish subsidiaries date back thirty years, to the time when the Macintosh computer was Apple's banner product, and its profits were a fraction of 1 percent of today's figure.
Four years later in 1984, when Apple released its Macintosh personal computer, Omidyar started to see that the computing giant and its late founder Steve Jobs were offering something truly revolutionary: user-friendliness.
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Back then it was called AppleLink, a project commissioned by Apple Computer and a company called Quantum Computer Services to connect Apple II and Macintosh computers.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh.
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Tests were performed used a Macintosh computer running Apple's operating system (OSX Lion) and Web browser (Safari version 5.1.3) with the default settings enabled.
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The Apple Macintosh was designed as a computer for everyone.
This chart compares the performance of 12 VMs. Except for Apple Computer's Macintosh Runtime for Java (MRJ), all of the JVMs were tested on the same hardware and with the same Java application code.
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Apple Computer gave her a Macintosh as part of a study in the late 1980s.
Twenty-five years ago this month, publisher Michael Tchong, and a few others, launched MacWeek, a newsweekly magazine focused on all things Apple and the developer community around the Macintosh computer.
Apple's top desktop computer, the Macintosh G5, designed to edit videos and magazines like this one, suits up with a pair of IBM 2.7 gigahertz processors.
Despite these successes, three decades after its founding and 22 years after it introduced the Macintosh, Apple remains the underdog in a personal computer world dominated by Microsoft.
Despite these successes, three decades after its founding and 22 years after it introduced the Macintosh, Apple remains the underdog in a personal computer world dominated by Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
Apple is promising to reveal new software for the Macintosh personal computer, as well as its line of portable devices.
Mr. Clow was one of the creators of Apple's landmark "1984" Super Bowl commercial, which introduced the Macintosh personal computer.
Canon touts both the favor its video recorders have found with Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Macintosh users and its strategic partnerships with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
She's a dedicated Apple Computer aapl (nasdaq: aapl - news - people) Macintosh user who just bought her first handheld, a Handspring hand (nasdaq: hand - news - people) Visor.
When sharing broadband, it supports both PCs and Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) Macintosh.
And it works with both Windows-based PCs and Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) Macintosh.
It will not support Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Macintosh computers, at least not at first.
The other thing we have to ding Tapwave on is lack of support for Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Macintosh line.
Sculley believed heavily promoting Macintosh meant its price could not be lowered and also required sales of the aging Apple II computer to remain strong for as long as possible.
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It will also work with most of Apple Computer 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people) Macintosh computers, as long as they're running a version of the operating system that is 8.0 or higher, but not the upcoming Mac OS X, at least not yet.
And, two decades ago, that was certainly the case when Apple paired up a quirky all-in-one computer with a breakthrough graphical user interface for the original Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984.
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