5/11/2023 0 Comments 2017 mac pro 2 conceptIn 1990 Apple went back to their roots and released the Mac Classic, it retailed for $1000, hitting the price mark that the original Apple team had been aiming for. ![]() ![]() The 1990’s saw a continuous stream of Apple Macintosh releases, between 19 at least one new product a year was added to the Apple Mac family. This model was discontinued in January in 1990, in the two years previous to this Apple released the Macintosh IIx and the Macintosh IIci. It had 8 RAM slots and 6 NuBus Expansion slots. It ran on a Motorola MC68020 CPU with a speed of 16MHz. The basic system cost $3,898, and for $5,498 you could buy a version offering 1 MB of RAM, one 800K floppy disk drive and one 40 MB internal SCSI hard disk drive ( Source). It offered, for the first time, colour capabilities a graphics card could be installed that was capable of handling up to 16.7 million colours. It can be argued that the Macintosh II, released in March 1987, was revolutionary. With rumours circulating about the potential release of a 2017 Mac Pro update, we thought we’d take a look back at the evolution of the Mac from its humble beginnings as the Macintosh II to the present day. ![]() But before the official Mac Pro, there were generations of other Macintosh modular desktops from Apple. The first Mac Pro was officially born in 2006, and 2013 saw the introduction of a completely brand new design with the release of the ‘Trash Can’, this new design much like marmite, was loved by some and hated by others. Their design followed the revolutionary atmosphere that surrounded Apple, but it was Steve Jobs in 1997 who brought about a dramatic design overhaul. Since the release of its first modular desktop in 1987 Apple has created a host of innovative and technologically advanced Mac computers.
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