In 1983, Apple licensed the rights to the Macintosh name from audio equipment manufacturer McIntosh Laboratory, and in 1986, bought the trademark outright. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak stated in a 2013 interview that he and Raskin had been leading the initial design and development phase of the Macintosh project until 1981 when Wozniak experienced a traumatic airplane crash and temporarily left the company, at which point Wozniak's early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Jobs took over. The Macintosh name was conceived in 1979, when Apple employee Jef Raskin envisioned an easy-to-use, low-cost computer for the average consumer, and wanted to name the computer after his favorite type of apple, the McIntosh ( / ˈ m æ k ɪ n ˌ t ɒ ʃ/ MAK-in-tosh). Steve Jobs with the original Macintosh, January 1984 Today, Macs share the same ARM-based Apple silicon architecture as iOS devices the performance and power efficiency of Macs with Apple silicon chips have been universally praised by critics.
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The Mac has undergone four major transitions: from Motorola 68000 to PowerPC processors, from Classic Mac OS to Mac OS X, from PowerPC to Intel x86 processors, and from Intel to Apple silicon processors.
The first Mac was released in 1984 under the name Macintosh, and was advertised with Apple's now-famous 1984 ad. The current Mac lineup consists of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops, and the iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio and Mac Pro desktop computers. Macs have been popular among students, creative professionals, and software engineers. Macs are known for their ease of use and distinctive aluminium, minimalist designs. The Mac (called Macintosh until 1999) is a family of personal computers designed and built by Apple. The MacBook Air, Apple's best-selling Mac model
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