“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.
Twentieth Anniversary Mac Unboxing and First Boot:
the TFAM, hopefully more tasteful than the TAM, but then Jonathan Ives would likely be behind the design.
Whatever it is (IF it is), please, oh please, oh for the love of all things holy, let it have a matte screen!
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.
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…
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.
@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.
I don’t see the keyboard going away until you have a DNI, Direct Neural Interface. Or maybe a squid.
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“• 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.
@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.
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!)
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?
• A faux floppy drive that takes floppy shaped flash drives.
Quite a wicked mind you sport there kirkgray. I don’t know about Ive’s plan, but I’m sold on yours.
If released, it will probably be a:
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– LED-BL 24″ (almost 25) iMac
– quad-core 2.53GHz mobile cpu
– nvidia GTX 250 (?) GPU
– 2.5GB RAM (!!!)
– 256GB SSD
– $2499
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!
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.
Apple will introduce Copy & Paste!
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The TAM was gorgeous, light years ahead of its time in design. Would love to see a 24 inch version of that thing.
I don’t care what they do. I’m just glad to finally see some new rumors!
Steve Jobs hasn’t seemed to care about these anniversaries.
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.
DWJ,
You are a genius, sir!
Ah… Spartacus. What a great laptop for your desk. Maybe Apple should expand on that idea.
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See Sparty here:
http://flickr.com/photos/36996637@N00/5289836/
it’s here – peak preview!