Apple's current line of computer products is called Mac, ranging from MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, to Mac Pro. But do Apple fanboys know the meaning of the name Mac and its origins?
This Mac was originally called the Macintosh, first appearing in the early 1980s, when Steve Jobs first released the Apple Macintosh to the public. The name Macintosh was coined by Jef Raskin, who was inspired by a variety of apples.
The apple in question is actually named McIntosh, which is an apple from Canada. The skin is red and green in color, has a sour taste, and is usually harvested in September.
According to Raskin, this name is suitable for Apple products, and Jobs agreed. Besides being matched with the word Apple, Mac is also a common term in the computer world, an abbreviation of Media Access Control.
However, Raskin and Jobs' plan to use the word McIntosh was not smooth, because another company already used it, namely McIntosh Laboratory. Apple could not fight the patent, so Jobs turned it into a Macintosh.
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There is also another reason for choosing this name, namely the Apple Macintosh is a computer that is completely different from other computers on the market at that time, including other products that Apple has released before. This is "A different kind of Apple" and deserves a different name.
The first Apple Macintosh was the first commercially available home computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). Equipped with a 3.5-inch diskette, and running an operating system centered on user experience (UX).
The goal is to make this Macintosh easy to use so that users can focus on unleashing their creativity. Not busy learning about the technical use of computers. So that computers are not only used by geeks and engineers, but everyone can use computers.
From Macintosh to Mac
It is not known what was the reason for changing the Macintosh to a Mac, but it is clear that the change occurred when Jobs returned to work at Apple.
Yes, Jobs was fired by Apple's board of directors in the early 1990s, and then he created Pixar -- which Disney bought -- and created another computer company called NEXT. It was at this time that Apple slumped and continued to lose money.
Apple went from being an innovative company to a joke in the computer industry. With an obscure product line, including printers.
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Then Jobs returned to Apple in the early 2000s, bringing many of his employees to NEXT. He completely changed Apple's product line, especially the ones that failed, and focused on creating new products, which marked the arrival of the Mac era with the iMac.
During this period, Apple made the Macintosh name and changed the name of its computer products to Mac. Apple is no longer a joke, and is back to being a big name in the technology industry.
So, now you know that Mac comes from the word Macintosh, which comes from the name McIntosh, a variety of apples from Canada, or rather the national apple of Canada. That's what the name Mac means.