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Migrating to a new Mac

27.12.2010
No two Apple products share a closer parallel history than the computer. Each device was revolutionary for its time. The Macintosh, later known as the Macintosh 128K, was the first mainstream computer to include a graphical user interface similar to the ones we use today. The original Mac OS used movable application windows and included functions such as drag and drop. The 128K also popularized the use of a mouse and was notable for its compact dimensions. The iPhone was the first minicomputer to masquerade as a cellular telephone. It also had an intuitive, exclusively touch-based interface with limited physical buttons and no stylus--a common device for touch-based phones prior to the iPhone.

Both products were also guided by principles of easy-to-use software and cool design aesthetics, and by a willingness to sacrifice functionality (such as multitasking) to boost overall performance.

So how does Apple's original landmark product, the Mac, compare to the current version of the iPhone? Let's take a look.

At the heart of both the iPhone and the Macintosh are two revolutionary processors. The "insanely great" 128K housed the 8MHz Motorola 68000, considered a fast chip for its time because it could handle 16MB of memory at once. The Motorola 68000 went on to power many other Apple computers including the Macintosh , the , and the .

Today, Apple sees its mobile future in the company-designed first introduced with the iPad. The A4 combines into one chip a low-powered central processing unit and a graphics processing unit that can render 720p video. Previously, both the CPU and the GPU were separate hardware pieces.