Category: Apple History
Bill Atkinson and Me
A personal tribute from a MacNerd team member/advisor, Charlie Salazar. I discovered my first Mac in high school. I don’t remember the model, but I...
OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive’s AI Hardware Startup
Breaking news today for Apple enthusiasts of a potentially groundbreaking collaboration between OpenAI and legendary industrial designer Jony Ive. Jony is best known as the...
Mac Origins – The Lisa
The Apple Lisa: A Pioneering Step Toward the Modern Mac Before the Macintosh took the world by storm in 1984, Apple had already laid the...
MacBook (2000–2011) History – Part I
💻 Post-Millennium Apple Laptop Timeline Steve Jobs returned to Cupertino in 1997; became permanent CEO in 2000 Between 2001 and 2003, Apple was determined to...
Why 2003 changed the high end laptop landscape and set up Apple for domination
Introduction In early 2003, Apple released the PowerBook G4 17″, a machine that seemed almost impossibly advanced for its time. At a time when most...