1980s Apple "Test Drive a Macintosh" commercial

1980s Apple Macintosh commercial

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• Apple
• Macintosh
• test
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• commercial
• retro
• Mac

[lxnthnyv]

Qualified customers only...lol ok....

[nicolunacba]

Woooooow maybe the best ad from 80s

[Stacc001]

I'm going to ask at the store if I can

"Test Drive A MacinTOSSHHHH"

[eriku16]

@TimothyArends Because at that time, the Amiga was vastly superior to any personal computer.

[tonybriz1]

I demonstrated the Mac in London when it was first shown in the UK, June 7th 84 from memory. No printer, MacWrite and MacPaint and a spreadsheet called Multiplan (maybe that came a bit later). Either way ever I am amazed at how far things have gone for Apple. It was and still is the best!

[sonicnumber11]

LOL I like the way he says Macintosh.

[123MrBurg]

3 years ago I went Mac, and I am not going back. Apple rules!

[crocodile2006]

Did anyone realise back in the 1980's that a square block of plastic wasn't ergonomic to the hand, or was it a financial decision to make the mouse so block shaped?

[TimothyArends]

How did this discussion get on the Amiga? The Amiga was a likable computer, but the OS had an "old school" feel to it with it's monospaced system font and lack of interface consistency among applications. The Mac's monitor, while small and grayscale, was extremely high resolution for the time, and the Mac had superb font support, making it the best choice for Desktop Publishing. That's why it survived and prospered.

[MasterNaruto1214]

@VaderNES The machines are cheap because they were crap in the 1st place. The macintosh SE is a low end machine,yet it cost more than a HIGH END workstation grade machine Amiga 2000. Without the Amiga,computers wouldn't be what they are today. The Amiga doesn't need a lot of ram to do things your pos macintosh could never do no matter how ram you can put in it.

[VaderNES]

@MasterNaruto1214 But is it the year 1989, though? If not, then prices do not matter. Today, these machines are cheap.

Also, the Macintosh SE is the lower-end model of those. You cannot expect a low-end model to perform as well as a higher-end model. The Macintosh SE/30 and Macintosh II are the better models, and they can support much more RAM than your Amiga.

And by the way, the reason why Macs are now cheap is because people BOUGHT them. And people are STILL buying used ones.

[MasterNaruto1214]

@VaderNES Oh,and according to every source, the macintosh SE can only handle 4MB of ram.