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25th Anniversary Mac on January 24, 2009?

Thursday, December 11, 2008 · 1:03 pm · 32 Comments

“January 24, 2009 marks the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh,” Anthony Frausto-Robledo writes for Architosh. “This is a momentous occasion by all accounts but what does Steve Jobs and Apple have planned for this event?”

Frausto-Robledo offers up a few possible ideas a 25th Anniversary Mac:

• All aluminum updated version of the original Macintosh
• Mac Pro Ultra
• MacBook touch

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Note: The Twentieth Anniversary Mac (TAM) was shipped by Apple in March 1997 (US$7,499) to mark the 20th anniversary of Apple Computer, not the Macintosh.

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Wandering joe

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:03 pm · Reply

the TFAM, hopefully more tasteful than the TAM, but then Jonathan Ives would likely be behind the design.
Randian

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:03 pm · Reply

Whatever it is (IF it is), please, oh please, oh for the love of all things holy, let it have a matte screen!
ralph from berlin

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:12 pm · Reply

as far as i remember 5 years ago the 20th anniversary came and went without apple even mentioning it. so i am afraid there will be nothing special on that day eigher let alone a special anniversary mac.
Paul

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:15 pm · Reply

What Apple is already doing is reinventing input.

The keyboard and mouse are going to give way to a highly configurable multi-touch surface that will go so beyond a Keyboard and Mouse it won’t even be funny.

This is what I want for the 25th anniversary…
Al

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:19 pm · Reply

I would like an original Mac with a decent hard drive and no floppy drive.

And a better CPU. The original was a dog when it came to surfing on a 300 baud modem.

Oh, and a display that’s bigger than 9 inches. A color display wouldn’t hurt either.

While you’re at it, change it from a luggable to a portable. With battery power when needed.

And stick on some USB ports.

We could call it the 25th Anniversary Mac Portable or MacBook for short.
FUDsucker Proxy

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:20 pm · Reply

@ralph etc.

Not much of a memory there Ralphy-boy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Anniversary_Macintosh

Also you didn’t seem to notice the references in the article to the 20th Anniversary Mac.
thethirdshoe

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:28 pm · Reply

I don’t see the keyboard going away until you have a DNI, Direct Neural Interface. Or maybe a squid.
kirkgray

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:28 pm · Reply

“• Updated version of the original Macintosh”

I like this one. Should be the same shape and size as the original 128K Mac. And be updated as follows:

• Color LED (9-inch) Screen (matte)
• Latest Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GPU
• Freescale Coldfire Secondary Processor for Original Mac Software support in hardware.
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard
• Mac OS 6.0.9 plus a copy of all Apple / NeXT copyrighted software for the original Mac. (MacWrite, MacPaint, MacDraw, Alice, MacPascal, Hypecard, WriteNow, etc.)
• All the latest standards — USB, iSight, WiFi, Bluetooth, FIREWIRE, etc.
Jimithy

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:28 pm · Reply

@FUDsucker Proxy:

No, he was talking about the Mac’s 20th anniversary. Read the article better. The 20th Anniversary Mac was released in 1997.

@ralph: Acually, even though Apple didn’t release a special product for the anniversary, they did talk about it at MacWorld, and also showed an updated version of the 1984 commercial where the running woman was wearing an iPod.
kirkgray

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:31 pm · Reply

Oh yeah….

And for the love of Jobs — A printer that doesn’t roll the paper backwards before it starts to print. (Yeah, I’m looking at you ImageWriter!)
Rob

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:32 pm · Reply

Speaking of TAMs, I have one in my garage but the screen is damaged and I need replacement, anyone knows what kind of screen I need?
kirkgray

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 2:34 pm · Reply

• A faux floppy drive that takes floppy shaped flash drives.
krquet

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 3:15 pm · Reply

Quite a wicked mind you sport there kirkgray. I don’t know about Ive’s plan, but I’m sold on yours.
mjteix

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 3:17 pm · Reply

If released, it will probably be a:
- LED-BL 24″ (almost 25) iMac
- quad-core 2.53GHz mobile cpu
- nvidia GTX 250 (?) GPU
- 2.5GB RAM (!!!)
- 256GB SSD
- $2499
MichaelD

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 3:22 pm · Reply

Ah yes… the good ol’ days! I did not read in the Wikipedia article about one other interesting note about the TAM: I was fortunate enough to be at that keynote address (Gil Amelio… ewww… [shiver]) and he brought the two Steve’s up on stage to present each of them with a TAM. He announced that it was tough to decide which Steve would get “Serial Number 1″ so Apple created a Number Zero and a Number One (get it?). I think Steve Jobs got Number Zero. That was cute, and the audience ate it up.
I hope my memory has served me well. Cheers!
DWJ

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 3:29 pm · Reply

How about using the best of all the products:

The CUBE with an LCD monitor attached via a SWING arm.

Oh, and throw on Wall•E’s treads, too.
Jubei

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 3:34 pm · Reply

Apple will introduce Copy & Paste!
Jubei

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 3:37 pm · Reply

The TAM was gorgeous, light years ahead of its time in design. Would love to see a 24 inch version of that thing.
Spark

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 3:42 pm · Reply

I don’t care what they do. I’m just glad to finally see some new rumors!
Cubert

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 3:55 pm · Reply

Steve Jobs hasn’t seemed to care about these anniversaries.
Al

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 3:56 pm · Reply

Given the Mac’s up and down fortunes over the years, a 15% market share would be a nice commemorative accomplishment for the 25th anniversary.
Cubert

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 4:01 pm · Reply

DWJ,
You are a genius, sir!
Digits McGee

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 4:03 pm · Reply

Ah… Spartacus. What a great laptop for your desk. Maybe Apple should expand on that idea.
Digits McGee

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 4:06 pm · Reply

See Sparty here:
http://flickr.com/photos/36996637@N00/5289836/
Gosh

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 5:11 pm · Reply

it’s here – peak preview!

http://www.gizmowatch.com/images/future_imac2.jpg