The difference is a Mac works better than Windows does. In fact it looks like any other UNIX-based OS works more efficiently than an MS-DOS one does. BUt not only is it more productive, it's also about the experience. It's a pleasant one on a Mac vs horrible experience on Windows. It's evident and I don't understand why people keep arguing about this. But it doesn't matter. Use whatever you prefer. Anyone is free to choose what they want.
It's more expensive now than other PCs. They've lowered the price of a MacBook Air, which is good, but it is still aimed at the upper-ish market or students / designers / musicians. Reducing their price will increase market share. As long as build quality and high after sales service standards are not compromised somewhere along the transition.
I never had any issues with PC's that were mentioned in the movie. I'd stick the CD in, goto Program Manager, open the folder, double click the icon, and boom. Game/multimedia. I guess when you forget to put a CD in... That'll cause tons of issues :P
@supergamer1122 HOW OLD R U?? 12? Maybe you are. 10??? You would personally attack me when I said nothing to your little pimply pizza faced idiot ass. Windows sucks and I'm sorry if hurts you. Shut up you worthless person. I know you don't have a GF, no girl would ever want you.
@macuser5555 21 to be exact birth date aug 16 1989. must be that time of the month? AND TAKE A FUCKING JOKE!! and no it does not hurt me I just don't have 2000,00 for a apple that the PC can do the same thing! Oh and your the one that said windows sucks well OK that's your opinion But keep it to your Self! I wasn't bashing apple I just think there computers are way to expensive.
@macuser5555 Oh your birthday is in August too, mines on the 4th? Let us Leo's rejoice and be friends and not foes. So with that I apologize for any insulting or put downs. :-)
@supergamer1122 You're just a hopeless PC fanboy that secretly wants a Mac like the rest of them but can't afford one so they trash it. Go to your PC and hit that Start Orb and enjoy pressing START-GETTING-FRUSTRATED...haha. Also have fun cleaning out your Registry and constant reformatting and the retarded way of extracting files. That's why Windows users are as retarded as Windows 7 itself, cuz they don't know any better.
@supergamer1122 You are ANGRY. Weren't these your words? "Mac just pisses me off". You're weird. Get yourself a GF and stop being angry over a computer you can't afford.
@macuser5555 O.k First off what does this have to do with a girl friend? and I can afford a mac I just dont want one! I just built a $1000.00 PC with blu ray burner AMD 4 core possessor a 2gb of graphic memory 1tb hard drive Why would I want a mac that does less then the pc! I cant use my dazzle on the mac I cant watch blu rays on the mac Oh but wait you can make movies!!! Well guess what you can do that on a pc too!
@supergamer1122 In terms of the GF, your post just answered your own question. Shameful you're too stupid to see what you wrote. Ahhhh, the age old defense from the PC Fanboys. "I build my own PC with better specs than any Mac and my PC can do anything". LOL. You don't find the Mac community constantly defending themselves to PC users. If your PC was so good you wouldn't need to tell me how great it is. LOL. Now, go clean out your Registry so your PC will boot in less than 15 minutes. LOL.
@supergamer1122 Do you know the difference between an opinion and a blanket statement? You said, "Mac just pisses me off" "They charge you in the price tag you can buy a good PC for $500.00 or go and spend $1299999.99 on a mac that has the same specs". Those aren't opinions, you're making blanket statements which is why I asked you if you were angry much? Who in hell gets pissed off by a computer they don't even own? Retarded. Just to clarify, it's YOU that's retarded, not your "opinion".
@macuser5555 Ok look I have F.A.S and its hard to understand things sometimes BUT please dont call me a retard I dont mean to sound stuped! If I go out and buy a mac will that make you happy? Im already buying a car next year. so i guess the mac is out of the picture :D
@supergamer1122 Okay, honestly I don't like to insult people but almost daily I encounter so much Mac hate from Windows users and there's really no just cause for it. I used to be a dedicated Windows user and I used to say bad things about Mac for no reason. It's not until you actually own one (not play with one) that you appreciate the system. Lack of Blu-ray on a computer isn't a big deal. Streaming is where it's at. Most people don't maximize the specs on their computer. Do you truly????
@macuser5555 I played with a mac in bestbuy and it was pretty fast but then I looked at the price tag and it was 1299.99 That was too much at the moment. I might get the Ipad are a mac laptop only because mine is crap. But my pc is running flawless.
@supergamer1122 See that's exactly my point. Most people that hate on Mac have only played with one and then saw the price tag and backed up and said it was overpriced. Then they look at the fact that Apple uses the same Intel CPU and ATI/Nvidia GPU and a hard drive and think it's nothing but another PC with the Mac OS installed and that's simply not true. As I said, you have to OWN a Mac to understand what you are getting. Simple as that. See I've owned many PC's and now I've switched to Mac.
I say Windows 7 is a good thing (I hated my 95, 98 and XP family PC's) so I've bought my first iMac a few years ago and it was so extremely easy to use (that is not just a advertising slogan).
The thing about PC's back then is their operating systems weren't as easy to use. Nobody cared though because developers weren't making software for them.
Apple apesta, uso y usa durante años el codigo de UNIX, windows es tb una mierda, el mundo informatico se monopolizo, sino, todo seria libre y mejor con GNU/LINUX!!. Mierda Apple, mierda microsoft.
@LordThanathos Put the CD player in upper mem, no lower, no i mean disable the floppy drive from memory i mean AHHH
I remmeber trying to get CDs to work back in the day as a 9 year old :D
MAC failed then due to it being locked in a state choosen by MAC, and still to this day, if i want a java app on my iphone, i cant do it!!! I have to PAY MAC to let me put iton!
@viper19861986 Well if you get something from the App Store, you pay the developer more than you pay Apple. And it is Apple, not MAC. Mac is a cosmetics company :)
@app0the Windows 95 was the best OS ever made. The last one that was properly tested before release, and the perfect balance between usability and program-ability. Its all been downhill from then.
I have a 6115CD laying around, and it's slow and I can't figure out anything to do wit h it. I have a Win3x/DOS machine from the same era, and it's blazing fast and I can find thousands of programs to use with it - perhaps it's just a matter of "PC people" preserving stuff better, but yeah.
Back then, I remember these types of ads backfired and plenty of people thought Macs were for novices/idiots. I guess the computer market back then was also much smaller.
Now (thanks to many blunders of MS, and the fact that nearly everyone owns a computer) their quacky "I'm a Mac" ads have made droves of jackasses claim they have a superior machine just because of a name. So Lame.
(Note: I enjoy PC/MAC/Linux. I never knew why I had to choose a side?) They alienated me.
Anybody remember a bundled game for this series that had something to do with geography trivia, and each time you got some questions right, it showed a plane traveling around the globe, and whoever got around first won the game? What game was that?
could that game have been carmen sandiago for a chance i have a similar game to what ur talking about on my vintage performa? When you get it right you travel on and it shows the plane. I'll Make a video soon and post it and see if its what ur thinking of. @meshlife88
i hate how apple thinks they're so original considering they stole their first GUI from xerox along with the mouse and they think microsoft copied them....
Ok, study the way the user interacted with the Xerox PARC and then study the way the user interacted with the Macintosh. While the Apple Lisa DID borrow heavily from interaction concepts introduced by Xerox the Macintosh was entirely different.
Next, compare every version of Windows from 1.0 to Win 95 and you will find Microsoft not creating their own interaction routines but heavily favoring concepts created by Apple and others later.
There simply was no original thought put into Windows...
ya mac is easy, but its for the idiots that dont know how to use a real computer, so they use instead an overpriced kids toy. terminal codes and ms dos promt is not hard at all to learn, and for lots of pc users its common knowledge, i like how apple has always dissed microsoft while microsoft never said anything bad about apple
this was in the 90s, command promt was common knowledge and it was highly used at the time. windows 3.1 was designed like that for a reason, windows 95 was much easier to use yet you can still fully use commands just the same as you did in 3.1
that's still my point...just because it was common knowledge doesn't mean I liked it...again I'd prefer to click and go, what part of that don't you understand
i understand perfectly, thats when windows 95 came in. it didn't come in the 90s until computers were more used for personal use. back then it was mainly business. thats when 95 came in and made personal use much easier. apple tried looking advanced but even then they made barly any sales. even to this day they only have 15% of the computer market. apple was never more advanced they're probably about 2 years behind
That's like saying "ok we COULD take a straight route to the store.. but let's take a bunch of twists and turns just for the hell of it, even though we don't have to." Give me a break, it's ridiculous how people who "know how to use real computers" talk crap about people who just.. want to do things more efficiently as opposed to doing all this other crap first. Why, so you can brag to all your geek friends that you can? If Apple is for dummies, whyd Microsoft copy their OS design? Done.
microsoft copied macs OS design? hmm ok then, i'll use mac os x as an example. for starters the whole interface of mac os x is ripped off from FreeBSD and the Mach Kernals, which are both free and open source. the dock isn't original either, after all it rips off the KDE environment. funny how apple has to rip off something thats open sourced to get ideas. Windows is probably the most original OS out there. doesn't look anything like GNU/Linux
I'm talking about the original Microsoft Windows, moron. I'm talking WAY before Mac OS X. I'm talking early 90's. Windows did not come out until after the Macintosh did. Why? Because they saw how retarded they were in making such a needlessly complicated OS. They ripped off just about everything that made Mac's interface so unique and slapped their name on it. Granted that's the way it was back then, but Microsoft did not come up with the Windows design on their own, that was Apple's.
i could see how you would believe that. but just making a point and click OS is not ripping off. if you just look at screenshots of old macs and compare them to windows 1-3.1 they don't look anything alike besides that they're both point and click. and even w/ up to 3.1, you still needed ms dos codes which allows you to do more. mac didn't even have one so what you visually see is all you have. just keep it coming, i can own you all day
"Own" me? You aren't owning anything nerdboy. The fact you think you are just shows you need a life. Your stupidity goes up every response. You obviously know nothing of either OS. Microsoft copied Apple's design. Its a fact its not something up for debate. Its like debating whether or not the sun is hot or whether or not your are retarded. Microsoft needed something to compete because their early OS's were complete shit. Get over it. This argument is done. You're done. Kill yourself.
right now you just gave me nothing for a comeback, you have nothing to say because you obiously lost. you just keep blabbing on, your last reply had absolutly no info. the only thing you say is microsoft ripped off apple, you can't win w/out evidence, if you really believe your statement is true, prove it
You didn't give me anything either. You reference stupid shit that has no relevance, you talk like a politician, try to sound intelligent but say NOTHING. The proof is in the OS's. What you say means shit because no matter what you say, the similarities are far too great for Microsoft not to have copied Apple's idea's. So shut the fuck up. You have no proof that they DIDN'T steal Apple's OS design either. You just want to win so bad so you can brag to your geek friends. Get over it. You're done.
i think we have a case of butthurt here. i can tell you have no knowledge of computers, i starting working w/ computer hardware since I was 11. you keep blabbing the same things over and over saying they're very much the same. ok then besides that they're both point and click, give me one similarity. also btw, in 1977 apple made a computer called the Apple II. It was I believe one of the only macs to use only command codes.
continued: it would like me be saying apple ripped of MS-DOS because they both used a dos promt interface. dos came out in 1966 created by IBM. a point and click OS is NOT A COPYRIGHT. there's absolutly no similarities in the both OS's in fact using command promt still needed to be used in 3.1. if you really believe your serious about the "ripoffs" please actually state them
Simply put, most of what you see in Mac OS X was introduced by NeXT Step and later OpenStep. UNIX and Later Linux windowing systems became more robust AFTER NeXT Computer introduced their version of a BSD windowing system. Mac OS X is the direct descendant of NeXT Step.
Look up screenshots of OpenStep and you will see where a lot of MS "original" ideas for the Win 95 interface came from.
blabing out random computer crap and and talking w/ correct punctuation doesn't mean u know more. i don't know a whole lot about openstep, and yes it does look a little like windows 3.1, but it still doesn't mean its a copy or ripoff. i do know freebsd and mach are not interfaces, i meant it by their design. back to topic. the only thing openstep looks anything like is 3.1 but doesn't look or act like any other OS. i'm not saying this cus i support windows but just over usuage and common sence
What ever you do, do NOT look into Macintosh APIs in Windows versions 1 & 2. Many of these APIs were not even used, but they were there. Have you ever read about the signed agreement between MS & Apple that was only supposed to cover Windows 1?
The head of the Windows project at MS was ALSO the head of Macintosh development. Why would they do that?
But hey, don't let these facts get in your way. You are right because you say so...
BTW, I visited your YouTube page. When do you turn 13? :-)
copying and pasting wikipedia info does not win and argument. and btw if you try to claim i'm 13. 1. you obviously didn't look at my page, and 2. you already lost
I had a performa back then and it was easy to use, but the speed was horrible fompared to a pc. I use to go to my friends house to play video games on his pc. it had a 80486 processer when my mac only had a 60036..I think thats the right number....either way, a huge difference, and the pc had twice the ram, 8mb....lol, that was alot back then.
8MB was the standard in 1994. It wasn't until late 1996 that 16MB became standard in mid-range systems. In 1996 I got a great deal on a 20MB SIMM. That great deal was $220.00. Yes, that was a great deal. RAM was that freakin' expensive...
I find 1994 as the last "old school" year in computer technology, as 1995 would see the Internet's breakthrough into mainstream culture. Apple was still using their same logo/fonts throughout the '80s/early '90s, and early '90s computers were simply an extension of '80s rules with more color and somewhat faster speed; 1994 was also the last year that floppy discs (mainly the smaller size) were common as CDs were quickly gaining ground to dominate the 1994-2004 or so era of PC gaming.
This was actually an infomercial that aired in the mid-90s in the US. It featured a family who needed a new computer. The guy at the store (who was obviously Mac-biased) introduced them to the Performa, and the whole program had the family using it for various needs (homework, business, etc.). At the end, the Dad decides that it IS a worthy investment after all and tells them that they can keep it :)
my bad... you're right. About the Motorola 68000, it was a good architecture for that time. I think it was better than x86 (in that time) for multimedia. So, I prefer Performa :D
mmm yeah, this looks expensive. Let see, 1995. My 486:
8 MB ram
No CD-ROM
512 hard drive
Modem no.
14'' Sony SyncMaster 3 (maxres: 800x600)
I think it's different, but yeah, expensive. Remember: it used a PPC. It was more powerful than 80486 (never compare with Mhz). Mmm, more expensive, but, It was better ... If I had bought it.
I'm sorry but Microsoft deserved to have their a**es kicked! windows 3.1 was s***, but windows 95 and 98 was the PCs Golden Era! (95 was a bit painful but way better!)
i think computers got a lot cheaper after windows xp came out... but yeah, that computer was overpriced and a 250 megabyte hard drive was shit in even in 1994.. by dad's first computer from 91 had a 200 meg hard drive and it was still cheaper
It's amazing that the whole "I'm a mac/I'm a PC" mentality exsisted way back then as well.
I always LOVED how complicated they always made PC's seem compared to Macs. Anyone remember the commercials with the kid wanting to see dinosaurs on the PC and his dad had stacks of programming manuals on the table with the open PC, mumbling something about dipswitches, and the kid asked, "what's a dipswitch" then he finally gave up and went over his friends house cause he had a mac. Ridiculous!
@forkball68 What, are you kidding me? You never bought one of those huge multimedia upgrade kits? You were *lucky* if you got dip switches. You usually got little plastic jumper blocks to select your IRQ. That commercial wasn't far off the mark.
This is very rare. Apple now avoids this kinds of advertising, if you may notice, they also do not put their ads into nascar race cars, bus stops, radio, newspapers. They use some thing much more powerful - the world wide web. although, third parties slip some Mac advertising in newspapers.
Wow, even back then Apple acted like a bunch of douchebags.
Is it possible for Apple to make a commercial without rapidly attacking any and all competitors (who usually offer the same functionality for lower prices)?
I remember back then a Intel Pentium 60 Mhz PC system cost around $2000 or higher.However the early Pentium based systems had the FDIV bug (defect) in the floating point unit.These systems (Macs or PC's) were still useful for several years.
Just like now any computer will become obsolete in a couple of years.
just trying to get a little info,im starting a graphic design course,and somebody said ill need a mac ? can anybody tell me what graphic design software it is that you get built into a mac ?
Is this the same guy who used to narrate the old Macintosh commercials? I miss this guy, he was great. He had a unique voice that showed how Macintosh was a serious computer. In the commercials, he marketed the Macintosh very good. Remember the first Macintosh commercial? It was a great commercial. In the end, he introduced the Macintosh and said that 1984 won't be like 1984. I wish to bring that old narrator back in today's new Macintosh commercials, even maybe in iPod and iPhone commercials :P
wow 5 mbs of ram and 250 mb hard drive at 60 megahertz. I remember i had a performa, it was very good for its name, later i bought an imac g3, remember the candy colored ones?
and now, just recently bought the all new imac, 2.66 ghz, 320 gbs hd, and 2 gbs of ram, all sleekly packed, its the best.
I have a 1997 tower perfoma. I wanna upgrade it to a modern day thing after I do that to the iMac G3 xD on a MacBook right now, will always be one of our fastest :P
It wasn't part of the monitor, it was a real tuner card for the computer. On a later Mac model, I remember there being a software application letting you watch TV & change the channels, etc.
heck yeah, i have my performa 575 still and it's wonderful. classic. of course i have the direct competitor, the compaq presario all-in-one.. don't prefer either, both have their ups and downs
Please remember this is from 1994. Yes, Windows 3.1 running on top of DOS did not like CD media. I think the mammanager command entered from the prompt solved a of of problems, but the user still had to know to enter it.
None of this was necessary on the Macintosh. The 630CD was my first Mac...
I remember this
nintendonick 3 hours ago
like if tried to call the number
Randomguy578 2 weeks ago
Why bother with all that??? Because Apple doesn't have anything on CD-ROM anybody wants to use.
tharock220 4 weeks ago
This was part of an AWESOME infomercial with the family getting a new computer! OMG I miss ClarisWorks!!
JameyNicholas 1 month ago
The first PC I ever used was a Performa 575 - man, we got that before I turned 5.
benjamindbailey 3 months ago
Blazing speed: 8MB RAM and 60MHz PowerPC! lol :D Still faster than Windows Vista tho haha
stephthestar90 3 months ago
Description:
APPLE MACINTOSH'S NEW PERFORMA HOME DESKTOP!!!
Yeah sure. XD
Windows7Fan1 3 months ago
If it wasn't for apple everyone would be hackers knowing all sorts of commands for their computers.
HagenTheMaster 4 months ago
thumbs up if you tried to call it :)
Ipodtouchappsrule 5 months ago
The difference is a Mac works better than Windows does. In fact it looks like any other UNIX-based OS works more efficiently than an MS-DOS one does. BUt not only is it more productive, it's also about the experience. It's a pleasant one on a Mac vs horrible experience on Windows. It's evident and I don't understand why people keep arguing about this. But it doesn't matter. Use whatever you prefer. Anyone is free to choose what they want.
andreipetunin 6 months ago
It's more expensive now than other PCs. They've lowered the price of a MacBook Air, which is good, but it is still aimed at the upper-ish market or students / designers / musicians. Reducing their price will increase market share. As long as build quality and high after sales service standards are not compromised somewhere along the transition.
andreipetunin 6 months ago
birth of powerpc :)
kiwi20069 7 months ago
1:57 He just doesn't know how true that is....
jourdy288 8 months ago
I never had any issues with PC's that were mentioned in the movie. I'd stick the CD in, goto Program Manager, open the folder, double click the icon, and boom. Game/multimedia. I guess when you forget to put a CD in... That'll cause tons of issues :P
kirbyyasha 8 months ago
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supergamer1122 8 months ago
@supergamer1122 your just jealous...
NO1MACFAN 8 months ago
@NO1MACFAN No trust me I'm not. I don't hate apple I just hate there computers.
supergamer1122 8 months ago
@supergamer1122 WINDOWS SUCKS!
macuser5555 7 months ago in playlist APPLE
@macuser5555 YOu Sucks your mommas cocky doodle doo. :P
supergamer1122 7 months ago
@supergamer1122 HOW OLD R U?? 12? Maybe you are. 10??? You would personally attack me when I said nothing to your little pimply pizza faced idiot ass. Windows sucks and I'm sorry if hurts you. Shut up you worthless person. I know you don't have a GF, no girl would ever want you.
macuser5555 7 months ago
@macuser5555 21 to be exact birth date aug 16 1989. must be that time of the month? AND TAKE A FUCKING JOKE!! and no it does not hurt me I just don't have 2000,00 for a apple that the PC can do the same thing! Oh and your the one that said windows sucks well OK that's your opinion But keep it to your Self! I wasn't bashing apple I just think there computers are way to expensive.
supergamer1122 7 months ago
@macuser5555 Oh your birthday is in August too, mines on the 4th? Let us Leo's rejoice and be friends and not foes. So with that I apologize for any insulting or put downs. :-)
macuser5555 7 months ago
@macuser5555 At least you're not Virgos.
sbrooks187 7 months ago
@sbrooks187 haha
macuser5555 7 months ago
@supergamer1122 Angry much? And over a computer for that matter? Wow, just wow. Pathetic. Something's wrong with you.
macuser5555 7 months ago
@macuser5555 I'm not angry just saying my point of view. just like you would!-AppleFace
supergamer1122 7 months ago
@supergamer1122 You're just a hopeless PC fanboy that secretly wants a Mac like the rest of them but can't afford one so they trash it. Go to your PC and hit that Start Orb and enjoy pressing START-GETTING-FRUSTRATED...haha. Also have fun cleaning out your Registry and constant reformatting and the retarded way of extracting files. That's why Windows users are as retarded as Windows 7 itself, cuz they don't know any better.
macuser5555 7 months ago
@supergamer1122 You are ANGRY. Weren't these your words? "Mac just pisses me off". You're weird. Get yourself a GF and stop being angry over a computer you can't afford.
macuser5555 7 months ago
@macuser5555 O.k First off what does this have to do with a girl friend? and I can afford a mac I just dont want one! I just built a $1000.00 PC with blu ray burner AMD 4 core possessor a 2gb of graphic memory 1tb hard drive Why would I want a mac that does less then the pc! I cant use my dazzle on the mac I cant watch blu rays on the mac Oh but wait you can make movies!!! Well guess what you can do that on a pc too!
supergamer1122 7 months ago
@supergamer1122 In terms of the GF, your post just answered your own question. Shameful you're too stupid to see what you wrote. Ahhhh, the age old defense from the PC Fanboys. "I build my own PC with better specs than any Mac and my PC can do anything". LOL. You don't find the Mac community constantly defending themselves to PC users. If your PC was so good you wouldn't need to tell me how great it is. LOL. Now, go clean out your Registry so your PC will boot in less than 15 minutes. LOL.
macuser5555 7 months ago
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supergamer1122 7 months ago
@supergamer1122 Do you know the difference between an opinion and a blanket statement? You said, "Mac just pisses me off" "They charge you in the price tag you can buy a good PC for $500.00 or go and spend $1299999.99 on a mac that has the same specs". Those aren't opinions, you're making blanket statements which is why I asked you if you were angry much? Who in hell gets pissed off by a computer they don't even own? Retarded. Just to clarify, it's YOU that's retarded, not your "opinion".
macuser5555 7 months ago
@macuser5555 Ok look I have F.A.S and its hard to understand things sometimes BUT please dont call me a retard I dont mean to sound stuped! If I go out and buy a mac will that make you happy? Im already buying a car next year. so i guess the mac is out of the picture :D
supergamer1122 7 months ago
@supergamer1122 Okay, honestly I don't like to insult people but almost daily I encounter so much Mac hate from Windows users and there's really no just cause for it. I used to be a dedicated Windows user and I used to say bad things about Mac for no reason. It's not until you actually own one (not play with one) that you appreciate the system. Lack of Blu-ray on a computer isn't a big deal. Streaming is where it's at. Most people don't maximize the specs on their computer. Do you truly????
macuser5555 7 months ago
@macuser5555 I played with a mac in bestbuy and it was pretty fast but then I looked at the price tag and it was 1299.99 That was too much at the moment. I might get the Ipad are a mac laptop only because mine is crap. But my pc is running flawless.
supergamer1122 7 months ago
@supergamer1122 See that's exactly my point. Most people that hate on Mac have only played with one and then saw the price tag and backed up and said it was overpriced. Then they look at the fact that Apple uses the same Intel CPU and ATI/Nvidia GPU and a hard drive and think it's nothing but another PC with the Mac OS installed and that's simply not true. As I said, you have to OWN a Mac to understand what you are getting. Simple as that. See I've owned many PC's and now I've switched to Mac.
macuser5555 7 months ago
5 MB RAM
CD-ROM
250 MB HDD
Dialup modem
My cell phone has more power than that dinosaur. We've really come a long way with computers...
DracoAzule 9 months ago
I wanted one of these so bad back in the day! LOL
opinionated99 10 months ago
Um, wow. Apple was really struggling back then.
Xteaphn 11 months ago
I should call that number, I would have then
stydel311 11 months ago
I say Windows 7 is a good thing (I hated my 95, 98 and XP family PC's) so I've bought my first iMac a few years ago and it was so extremely easy to use (that is not just a advertising slogan).
sry my english is not perfect
DildoSurround 1 year ago
The thing about PC's back then is their operating systems weren't as easy to use. Nobody cared though because developers weren't making software for them.
tharock220 1 year ago
once upon a time 8gb hard drive was the shit not a comp with 8gb hard drive is shit cuz I can't play l4d on it :( oh how times have change
hkfan1980 1 year ago
LOL back when "multimedia" was THE buzzword. Man, I haven't heard anyone say that in years.
EmperorofCartoons 1 year ago
i wonder how much a WHOLE gigabite one would cost lol right???
manoli8989 1 year ago
Ughhh... Thank god Steve Jobs was brought back, this is like a HP or IBM advert, no imagination behind it at all.
img0rdonfreeman 1 year ago
I think this information was o.k. until Windows 95 came, lol....
MedelProductions 1 year ago
mac prices haven't changed much in 20 years lol
thejunkman81 1 year ago
can you believe what has happen in 10 years, can you imagine 30 years from now where computers will be
newballin 1 year ago
5 mb of RAM :D
martinmodig 1 year ago
I called this number, and some random guy picked up. Didn't say anything about Apple, just said hello.
ynkno13 1 year ago
Apple apesta, uso y usa durante años el codigo de UNIX, windows es tb una mierda, el mundo informatico se monopolizo, sino, todo seria libre y mejor con GNU/LINUX!!. Mierda Apple, mierda microsoft.
cyberpunkarg 1 year ago
"You have to configure the computer's memory. Over and over again." Yeah, I hate that too.
LordThanathos 1 year ago
@LordThanathos Put the CD player in upper mem, no lower, no i mean disable the floppy drive from memory i mean AHHH
I remmeber trying to get CDs to work back in the day as a 9 year old :D
MAC failed then due to it being locked in a state choosen by MAC, and still to this day, if i want a java app on my iphone, i cant do it!!! I have to PAY MAC to let me put iton!
viper19861986 1 year ago
@viper19861986 Well if you get something from the App Store, you pay the developer more than you pay Apple. And it is Apple, not MAC. Mac is a cosmetics company :)
Hildron101010 1 year ago
Cinco!
xiec 1 year ago
Windows 95 sucks! Microsoft sucks at all!!!
app0the 1 year ago
@app0the Windows 95 was the best OS ever made. The last one that was properly tested before release, and the perfect balance between usability and program-ability. Its all been downhill from then.
EmperorofCartoons 1 year ago
And 1 year later Windows 95 came out, and blew all of that away. Wow $3000 with 8MB of RAM. 60Mhz.
Mgamerz 1 year ago 9
I called that number is it is still in use! Some one answered but I hung up.
bagintheback 1 year ago
and for a years to come.
Yeah right I LOL
Heartagramerz 1 year ago
"To play CDROMs your have to configure the computer's memory over and over again" = LIEEEEEES
As always Apple lying. Even when referring to the shitty Win 3.1 loool
isthisnickvalid 1 year ago
I have a 6115CD laying around, and it's slow and I can't figure out anything to do wit h it. I have a Win3x/DOS machine from the same era, and it's blazing fast and I can find thousands of programs to use with it - perhaps it's just a matter of "PC people" preserving stuff better, but yeah.
T6600C 1 year ago
Back then, I remember these types of ads backfired and plenty of people thought Macs were for novices/idiots. I guess the computer market back then was also much smaller.
Now (thanks to many blunders of MS, and the fact that nearly everyone owns a computer) their quacky "I'm a Mac" ads have made droves of jackasses claim they have a superior machine just because of a name. So Lame.
(Note: I enjoy PC/MAC/Linux. I never knew why I had to choose a side?) They alienated me.
anomalousclouds 1 year ago
ಠ_ಠ
Seigg 1 year ago
60MHz PowerPC Vs. my 3060MHz intel :)
RangeTDV6 1 year ago
i allmost got this thing i got webtv instead
jasonhdvideoman 1 year ago
Anybody remember a bundled game for this series that had something to do with geography trivia, and each time you got some questions right, it showed a plane traveling around the globe, and whoever got around first won the game? What game was that?
meshlife88 1 year ago
could that game have been carmen sandiago for a chance i have a similar game to what ur talking about on my vintage performa? When you get it right you travel on and it shows the plane. I'll Make a video soon and post it and see if its what ur thinking of. @meshlife88
stpworld 4 months ago
@stpworld It could be, I would like to see the video if you do make it. :) I just thought it was a cool game but I can't remember the name.
meshlife88 4 months ago
@stpworld Actually I just found it. It's the Around The World Game built into 3D Atlas. But thanks though!
meshlife88 4 months ago
Carmine?
bigkahunaburger55555 1 year ago
HOW OLD
mcataa 1 year ago
Apple was alot more simple but him saying you had to config memory to read CD's is total bullshit.
Im not supporting PC's but i'd rather hear real facts...
R33Racer 2 years ago
Oh man, the 575 was my first computer, it actually still works.
Great machines.
tapo 2 years ago
i hate how apple thinks they're so original considering they stole their first GUI from xerox along with the mouse and they think microsoft copied them....
jackomaco 2 years ago
Ok, study the way the user interacted with the Xerox PARC and then study the way the user interacted with the Macintosh. While the Apple Lisa DID borrow heavily from interaction concepts introduced by Xerox the Macintosh was entirely different.
Next, compare every version of Windows from 1.0 to Win 95 and you will find Microsoft not creating their own interaction routines but heavily favoring concepts created by Apple and others later.
There simply was no original thought put into Windows...
macpipkin 2 years ago
You're not wrong, but original thought is certainly not a requisite for power and influence in any field you care to name.
Saavykaas 2 years ago
I loved the multimedia craze of the mid 1990s.
NitekMuscle 2 years ago
ya mac is easy, but its for the idiots that dont know how to use a real computer, so they use instead an overpriced kids toy. terminal codes and ms dos promt is not hard at all to learn, and for lots of pc users its common knowledge, i like how apple has always dissed microsoft while microsoft never said anything bad about apple
BZF 2 years ago
why would I want to camand prompt everything when I can just click..duh simple as that...I'd rather not waste time and be on my way...
silenteyesspy 2 years ago
this was in the 90s, command promt was common knowledge and it was highly used at the time. windows 3.1 was designed like that for a reason, windows 95 was much easier to use yet you can still fully use commands just the same as you did in 3.1
BZF 2 years ago
that's still my point...just because it was common knowledge doesn't mean I liked it...again I'd prefer to click and go, what part of that don't you understand
silenteyesspy 2 years ago
i understand perfectly, thats when windows 95 came in. it didn't come in the 90s until computers were more used for personal use. back then it was mainly business. thats when 95 came in and made personal use much easier. apple tried looking advanced but even then they made barly any sales. even to this day they only have 15% of the computer market. apple was never more advanced they're probably about 2 years behind
BZF 2 years ago 4
Now that's something we can both agree on
silenteyesspy 2 years ago
That's like saying "ok we COULD take a straight route to the store.. but let's take a bunch of twists and turns just for the hell of it, even though we don't have to." Give me a break, it's ridiculous how people who "know how to use real computers" talk crap about people who just.. want to do things more efficiently as opposed to doing all this other crap first. Why, so you can brag to all your geek friends that you can? If Apple is for dummies, whyd Microsoft copy their OS design? Done.
Akujitsu 2 years ago
microsoft copied macs OS design? hmm ok then, i'll use mac os x as an example. for starters the whole interface of mac os x is ripped off from FreeBSD and the Mach Kernals, which are both free and open source. the dock isn't original either, after all it rips off the KDE environment. funny how apple has to rip off something thats open sourced to get ideas. Windows is probably the most original OS out there. doesn't look anything like GNU/Linux
BZF 2 years ago
I'm talking about the original Microsoft Windows, moron. I'm talking WAY before Mac OS X. I'm talking early 90's. Windows did not come out until after the Macintosh did. Why? Because they saw how retarded they were in making such a needlessly complicated OS. They ripped off just about everything that made Mac's interface so unique and slapped their name on it. Granted that's the way it was back then, but Microsoft did not come up with the Windows design on their own, that was Apple's.
Akujitsu 2 years ago
i could see how you would believe that. but just making a point and click OS is not ripping off. if you just look at screenshots of old macs and compare them to windows 1-3.1 they don't look anything alike besides that they're both point and click. and even w/ up to 3.1, you still needed ms dos codes which allows you to do more. mac didn't even have one so what you visually see is all you have. just keep it coming, i can own you all day
BZF 2 years ago
"Own" me? You aren't owning anything nerdboy. The fact you think you are just shows you need a life. Your stupidity goes up every response. You obviously know nothing of either OS. Microsoft copied Apple's design. Its a fact its not something up for debate. Its like debating whether or not the sun is hot or whether or not your are retarded. Microsoft needed something to compete because their early OS's were complete shit. Get over it. This argument is done. You're done. Kill yourself.
Akujitsu 2 years ago
right now you just gave me nothing for a comeback, you have nothing to say because you obiously lost. you just keep blabbing on, your last reply had absolutly no info. the only thing you say is microsoft ripped off apple, you can't win w/out evidence, if you really believe your statement is true, prove it
BZF 2 years ago
You didn't give me anything either. You reference stupid shit that has no relevance, you talk like a politician, try to sound intelligent but say NOTHING. The proof is in the OS's. What you say means shit because no matter what you say, the similarities are far too great for Microsoft not to have copied Apple's idea's. So shut the fuck up. You have no proof that they DIDN'T steal Apple's OS design either. You just want to win so bad so you can brag to your geek friends. Get over it. You're done.
Akujitsu 2 years ago
i think we have a case of butthurt here. i can tell you have no knowledge of computers, i starting working w/ computer hardware since I was 11. you keep blabbing the same things over and over saying they're very much the same. ok then besides that they're both point and click, give me one similarity. also btw, in 1977 apple made a computer called the Apple II. It was I believe one of the only macs to use only command codes.
BZF 2 years ago
continued: it would like me be saying apple ripped of MS-DOS because they both used a dos promt interface. dos came out in 1966 created by IBM. a point and click OS is NOT A COPYRIGHT. there's absolutly no similarities in the both OS's in fact using command promt still needed to be used in 3.1. if you really believe your serious about the "ripoffs" please actually state them
BZF 2 years ago
Man, where to start...
Simply put, most of what you see in Mac OS X was introduced by NeXT Step and later OpenStep. UNIX and Later Linux windowing systems became more robust AFTER NeXT Computer introduced their version of a BSD windowing system. Mac OS X is the direct descendant of NeXT Step.
Look up screenshots of OpenStep and you will see where a lot of MS "original" ideas for the Win 95 interface came from.
BTW, FreeBSD and Mach are not user interfaces...
macpipkin 2 years ago
blabing out random computer crap and and talking w/ correct punctuation doesn't mean u know more. i don't know a whole lot about openstep, and yes it does look a little like windows 3.1, but it still doesn't mean its a copy or ripoff. i do know freebsd and mach are not interfaces, i meant it by their design. back to topic. the only thing openstep looks anything like is 3.1 but doesn't look or act like any other OS. i'm not saying this cus i support windows but just over usuage and common sence
BZF 2 years ago
What ever you do, do NOT look into Macintosh APIs in Windows versions 1 & 2. Many of these APIs were not even used, but they were there. Have you ever read about the signed agreement between MS & Apple that was only supposed to cover Windows 1?
The head of the Windows project at MS was ALSO the head of Macintosh development. Why would they do that?
But hey, don't let these facts get in your way. You are right because you say so...
BTW, I visited your YouTube page. When do you turn 13? :-)
macpipkin 2 years ago
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copying and pasting wikipedia info does not win and argument. and btw if you try to claim i'm 13. 1. you obviously didn't look at my page, and 2. you already lost
BZF 2 years ago
Please, please, start addressing people this way in real life...
Way to not answer anything and then declare yourself the "winner." Well, if I "lost" what exactly did you win?
Ok, I guess all of that was a bit much for a little fella' like you, so try just this one question:
Why was the head of Macintosh application development at MIcrosoft ALSO the head of Windows development?
macpipkin 2 years ago
I had a performa back then and it was easy to use, but the speed was horrible fompared to a pc. I use to go to my friends house to play video games on his pc. it had a 80486 processer when my mac only had a 60036..I think thats the right number....either way, a huge difference, and the pc had twice the ram, 8mb....lol, that was alot back then.
Cambria2007 2 years ago
HaHA 2,700 for a 350 MB harddrive
LordHK007 2 years ago 2
I was thinking 1994 had 16MB of RAM as standard...
iCamiloTV 2 years ago
8MB was the standard in 1994. It wasn't until late 1996 that 16MB became standard in mid-range systems. In 1996 I got a great deal on a 20MB SIMM. That great deal was $220.00. Yes, that was a great deal. RAM was that freakin' expensive...
macpipkin 2 years ago
Call the number. I got some lady named shaquella.
appleinfl 2 years ago
blazing 8 mb ram!
Vertson 2 years ago 29
For ONLY $2,700!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NESMeister 2 years ago
It's not upside down. It's just a blank top so Apple wouldn't have copyright issues and people wouldn't get distracted by the disc.
WindowsAndMacintosh 2 years ago
Ooooh... shiny @.@...
impossiblemission4ce 2 years ago
I find 1994 as the last "old school" year in computer technology, as 1995 would see the Internet's breakthrough into mainstream culture. Apple was still using their same logo/fonts throughout the '80s/early '90s, and early '90s computers were simply an extension of '80s rules with more color and somewhat faster speed; 1994 was also the last year that floppy discs (mainly the smaller size) were common as CDs were quickly gaining ground to dominate the 1994-2004 or so era of PC gaming.
pannoni1 2 years ago
This was actually an infomercial that aired in the mid-90s in the US. It featured a family who needed a new computer. The guy at the store (who was obviously Mac-biased) introduced them to the Performa, and the whole program had the family using it for various needs (homework, business, etc.). At the end, the Dad decides that it IS a worthy investment after all and tells them that they can keep it :)
fivebearrugs 2 years ago
my bad... you're right. About the Motorola 68000, it was a good architecture for that time. I think it was better than x86 (in that time) for multimedia. So, I prefer Performa :D
nicolunacba 2 years ago
i got the 575
Mycatisbigfoot 2 years ago
1800 dollars for this 94 mac when it was brand new!!? WTF!?
Evaseven 2 years ago
I owned an LC and worked on a Performa at my job back in the 90s. It was a good machine for its time.
blicksflicks 2 years ago
That was pretty average back then.
SlightyDisturbedNBK 2 years ago
mmm yeah, this looks expensive. Let see, 1995. My 486:
8 MB ram
No CD-ROM
512 hard drive
Modem no.
14'' Sony SyncMaster 3 (maxres: 800x600)
I think it's different, but yeah, expensive. Remember: it used a PPC. It was more powerful than 80486 (never compare with Mhz). Mmm, more expensive, but, It was better ... If I had bought it.
nicolunacba 2 years ago
In that time it was the most advanced Apple computer.
maclancer 2 years ago
I'm sorry but Microsoft deserved to have their a**es kicked! windows 3.1 was s***, but windows 95 and 98 was the PCs Golden Era! (95 was a bit painful but way better!)
bobjoe212x 2 years ago
I was satisfied with my Windows 98 SE. It was a good OS. Windows 2000 too. But I always wanted to buy a Macintosh anyway. Now I have ;)
nicolunacba 2 years ago 2
Also, I agree with forkball68.
"To use a CD-ROM on a Mac you simply click and play"
Yeah, for the whole 12 CD-ROMS that were compatible with Mac back then.
LOLInAHat 2 years ago
"Yeah, for the whole 12 CD-ROMS that were compatible with Mac back then."
1994 ad and Windows 95 is not yet out. And Apple dominated the GUI from 1984. There thousands of title including Microsoft office for mac.
rmbgi 2 years ago
Wow.. 14" monitor and all that BS for... $2800?!?! Even way back then, PCs could get that for like $500
LOLInAHat 2 years ago
i think computers got a lot cheaper after windows xp came out... but yeah, that computer was overpriced and a 250 megabyte hard drive was shit in even in 1994.. by dad's first computer from 91 had a 200 meg hard drive and it was still cheaper
uckerf123 2 years ago
um no.. PCs were still damn expensive even then... 500 dollar PCs that were even capable of much didnt come out until fairly recently
brianchris4 2 years ago
It's amazing that the whole "I'm a mac/I'm a PC" mentality exsisted way back then as well.
I always LOVED how complicated they always made PC's seem compared to Macs. Anyone remember the commercials with the kid wanting to see dinosaurs on the PC and his dad had stacks of programming manuals on the table with the open PC, mumbling something about dipswitches, and the kid asked, "what's a dipswitch" then he finally gave up and went over his friends house cause he had a mac. Ridiculous!
forkball68 2 years ago 27
@forkball68 What, are you kidding me? You never bought one of those huge multimedia upgrade kits? You were *lucky* if you got dip switches. You usually got little plastic jumper blocks to select your IRQ. That commercial wasn't far off the mark.
jakeharvey 8 months ago
LOL 60MHz PPC CPU and 8MB Ram Was Considered "Blasing Fast"
Koman92040 2 years ago
Yep. That was my first computer right there, actually.
That computer had cream of the crop hardware at that time. We replaced it in 1997 with a Gateway Petium I running at 133 MHz and 32 MB RAM.
After all the roundabout, I'm back on a Mac...this time a black MacBook with 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 320 GB HD, and 2 GB RAM.
bagpiper2005 2 years ago
also, the PPC was brand new in 1994.
kargaroc386 2 years ago
rofl blazing speed processor...
ForgottenSouls666 2 years ago
This is very rare. Apple now avoids this kinds of advertising, if you may notice, they also do not put their ads into nascar race cars, bus stops, radio, newspapers. They use some thing much more powerful - the world wide web. although, third parties slip some Mac advertising in newspapers.
EuroCarfan00 2 years ago
Wow, even back then Apple acted like a bunch of douchebags.
Is it possible for Apple to make a commercial without rapidly attacking any and all competitors (who usually offer the same functionality for lower prices)?
chunksloth 2 years ago
i agree with you today, but back then the functionality was NOT the same haha
merrylunatic 2 years ago
damn times have changed for 2700 dollars i get 8mb RAM and 350MB HDD, shit .
arm4life87 2 years ago
Ahh, the "Apple without Jobs" era.
jpowell180 3 years ago
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I CANT BELIEVE they are running microsoft down in a commecial, how can they do that legally. microsoft windows could sew
TURBODORK2 3 years ago
this isn't at all like a mac ad
smedly500 3 years ago
It's more like a Teleshopping Ad where they are trying to get you to buy something like a Knife which happens to be THE WORLD BEST!
thomashome05 2 years ago
Damn $2700! "Blazing speed" lol. Ain't worth nothing now! "Years to come"...they had to know that was bull lol.
greenblue1979 3 years ago
I remember back then a Intel Pentium 60 Mhz PC system cost around $2000 or higher.However the early Pentium based systems had the FDIV bug (defect) in the floating point unit.These systems (Macs or PC's) were still useful for several years.
Just like now any computer will become obsolete in a couple of years.
m9078jk3 3 years ago
just trying to get a little info,im starting a graphic design course,and somebody said ill need a mac ? can anybody tell me what graphic design software it is that you get built into a mac ?
a280281 3 years ago
Well you will need to buy the software.
thomashome05 2 years ago
Lies right from early on
ohgodmyorgans 3 years ago
I have a Performa 638CD with the TV Tuner.I even have a external CD-RW for it which surprising works good.
I love that little machine even though it's obsolete.
m9078jk3 3 years ago 2
i should call that 800 number
digitalpretzel 3 years ago 2
We had an Apple Performa 6300 for 19 years never had any problems! Apple Rules!!!!
crawford6099 3 years ago 2
I have a Performa 476 ''pizza box'' and it runs smoothly the powerful MAC OS 7.6 system.
GalleonWatcher 3 years ago 3
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Wow even in 1994 Apple was completely lying about the usability of Windows.
chunksloth 3 years ago
Apple users; the most polite society! The most pleasant company!
shafty1968 3 years ago
and the most lieing and deceitful one
hankparish 3 years ago
on windows 3.1 that WAS true
kochkochkoch 2 years ago
i have a performa 600 and i am pretty sure it still works. if anyone wants it make me an offer
QideoQaster 3 years ago
I liked the feel of this commercial.
Very warm and friendly, unlike a lot of the stuff on tv nowadays.
sys74657 3 years ago 2
OMG 5MB of RAM? I gotta get one!
puffpet 3 years ago
haha i tried calling the phone number is this commercial asking for info on the performa.. number no longer belongs to apple.
thewhitestpony 3 years ago 2
350Mb harddrive OMFG Thats tight man
iPhonePianist 3 years ago
350MB Hard Drive!!!!! thats like less than my USB drive!!!
drucejnr 3 years ago
For $10, you can get a sansdisk USB drive with 2GB.
Its just incredable how much we have progressed in the last 10 years
ZoomBFX 3 years ago 4
i got 4gb sd card for $10 :)
Bloodwiper2 3 years ago 3
8 mb of ram is "blazing speed"? lol. how we've come a long way!
((yay vista!!))
jesusfreakrkg 3 years ago 2
yeah vista? Come on... you can't be serious.
penguin10916 3 years ago
holy crap apple had infomercials?!
mudkipNDS 3 years ago
They've come a loooong way...
yaintime21 3 years ago
Is this the same guy who used to narrate the old Macintosh commercials? I miss this guy, he was great. He had a unique voice that showed how Macintosh was a serious computer. In the commercials, he marketed the Macintosh very good. Remember the first Macintosh commercial? It was a great commercial. In the end, he introduced the Macintosh and said that 1984 won't be like 1984. I wish to bring that old narrator back in today's new Macintosh commercials, even maybe in iPod and iPhone commercials :P
crashdbest 3 years ago 3
wow 5 mbs of ram and 250 mb hard drive at 60 megahertz. I remember i had a performa, it was very good for its name, later i bought an imac g3, remember the candy colored ones?
and now, just recently bought the all new imac, 2.66 ghz, 320 gbs hd, and 2 gbs of ram, all sleekly packed, its the best.
bunandcheese1 3 years ago 2
ATE
Charmolution 3 years ago
What? In school the mac was the computer everyone avoided...they were shit! haha
Aggiesgigem 3 years ago
yeah well in my elementary school those same macs were "the" shit!!!
mudkipNDS 3 years ago
I have a 1997 tower perfoma. I wanna upgrade it to a modern day thing after I do that to the iMac G3 xD on a MacBook right now, will always be one of our fastest :P
Animalpalace 3 years ago
1:17 they even had tuners then or was it part of the monitor!
mockstoday 3 years ago
It wasn't part of the monitor, it was a real tuner card for the computer. On a later Mac model, I remember there being a software application letting you watch TV & change the channels, etc.
jadetraveler 3 years ago
heck yeah, i have my performa 575 still and it's wonderful. classic. of course i have the direct competitor, the compaq presario all-in-one.. don't prefer either, both have their ups and downs
phreakindee 3 years ago
Omg they already started with that "we're better than windows" crap
greengear5 3 years ago
hey, what about linux?
donkeyguy111 3 years ago
Yes but they don't know that keep quiet make them charge thousands of cash thinking they cannot get a better deal!
mockstoday 3 years ago
What does that mean, having to configure the computer's memory to use CD-ROMs? haha - I wonder if that guy knew what he was talking about.
jadetraveler 3 years ago
Please remember this is from 1994. Yes, Windows 3.1 running on top of DOS did not like CD media. I think the mammanager command entered from the prompt solved a of of problems, but the user still had to know to enter it.
None of this was necessary on the Macintosh. The 630CD was my first Mac...
macpipkin 3 years ago