Apple announced the Macintosh 41 years ago today, introducing the first widely successful personal computer with a graphical user interface. The Macintosh revolutionized personal computing by ...

Significant innovations often require “epistemological ruptures,” a notion introduced in 1938 by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard that was recast as “paradigm shifts” by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 ...

In an interview with CNET, Apple executives Bud Tribble, Craig Federighi and Phil Schiller share their thoughts about the impact of the Macintosh as it turns 30 today. This article is part of a CNET ...

This article is part of a CNET special report on the 30th anniversary of the Macintosh, looking at the beginnings of Apple's landmark machine and its impact over the last three decades. The Macintosh ...

Nineteen eighty-four was not like 2014. When Steve Jobs launched the Macintosh, he had to generate excitement about a product—a computer—that was unfamiliar to most people, if not downright scary. His ...

March 7, 1989: Apple introduces the Macintosh Portrait Display, a 15-inch vertical grayscale monitor designed to show full pages on a single screen. Intended for word processing and desktop publishing ...

In a world in which music videos can be shot on an iPhone, and more design is seemingly done on screen than off, the idea that computers can shape how artists and designers create things seems obvious ...

In a world of beige-colored boxes, this one stood out. Powered by a 32MHz Motorola 68030, the Macintosh TV was painted black and paired with a black keyboard and mouse. It was an all-in-one computer ...

This month is the 20th anniversary of Apple's Macintosh. To mark the occasion, Wired News is running several stories this week about the groundbreaking machine, the people who created it and the Mac's ...

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak wasn't a fan of the first Macintosh computer. He thought it was a "a lousy product." In an interview with The Verge's Chris Ziegler, Woz reminisced about the early days ...

“Hello, I’m Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag. Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, I’d like to share with you a maxim I thought of the first time I met an IBM mainframe: NEVER ...

The Macintosh 40th anniversary isn’t actually until tomorrow, but the celebrations are underway, with Apple execs sharing their own perspective on the machine which ultimately transformed not just how ...