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hello and welcome to another episode of
the IVA guy now because I run a channel
which is primarily focused on Apple
products I am often criticized and
called an Apple fanboy told that I'm
biased or not objective in regarding
Apple products and that's just not true
in fact I'm often critical of Apple
products and including Steve Jobs as
well who I do respect but he most
certainly didn't do everything right so
I thought I would create a little
miniseries showing some of the things
that I think Apple has done that are
mistakes and I'm going to start with a
big one all the way back in 1986 which
is the Macintosh ok so this is the
Macintosh Plus now this is almost
exactly like the original 1984 Macintosh
the only difference is just a slight
memory upgrade now this was Apple's
flagship product this was the platform
that was supposed to take their company
into the future ok now this is the Apple
2 yes this is essentially the upgrade
from Apple's aging Apple 2 line of
products which had been around since
1977 alright now get ready for me to
blow your mind with a fascinating
conspiracy theory both of these machines
are on the market at the same time in
1986 let's do a little comparison first
let's take a look at the raw hardware
specifications ok so both machines had a
16-bit CPU now the max CPU had almost
three times the clock speed though
alright now what might surprise you is
that the Motorola chip used in the Mac
was not as efficient per cycle as the
WDC chip used in the Apple 2 GS but not
only that the Apple 2 GS could actually
run a lot faster but Apple specifically
limited in order to make sure it didn't
compete with the Macintosh not crazy as
that as for RAM the Macintosh could
support up to 4 megabytes whereas the 2
GS could support up to 8 megabytes
making the tgs the clear winner here
let's look at the graphics the Mac had a
monochrome screen and let me be clear it
literally had only 2 colors black or
white there were no shades of gray at
all fine for text I suppose but this was
what some common games looked like on
the Mac they weren't very pretty
on the other hand the two gs had
full-color graphics with 4096 colors
similar to other 16-bit machines of the
era you can clearly see a huge
difference here the two Gs is also the
clear winner in this category what about
sound the Mac has a single 8-bit DAC for
playing samples now this was okay for
putting little sounds into your programs
but synthesizing any sort of music
required the CPM to do a lot of work the
TGS on the other hand has a very
advanced of the size of chip which can
offload most of the work so the CPU
doesn't have to do it again boosting the
overall speed of system despite the
slower clock speed again the two Gs is
the clear winner okay so what about
expandability well the Macintosh had
essentially no internal expansion slots
it had the basic ports like serial
external drives etc but that was about
it
the two GS on the other hand had those
same external ports but also had eight
internal card sockets that can be used
for all sorts of things once again the
two GS is the clear winner in this
category okay so if the two GS can do
all of these things surely it must be
the most expensive product right well
you'd be wrong the Mac sold for 2,500
ninety-nine dollars whereas the two GS
sold for 999 now you might say that
comparison isn't fair because the Mac
had a built-in monitor where the two GS
customer would need to purchase that
separately okay no problem the monitor
costs 499 to das at more than a thousand
dollars less expensive than the Mac I'll
also point out that the two GS was the
first to introduce the a DB keyboard and
mouse bus where the Macintosh was still
using a proprietary keyboard and mouse
at this point in time all right so let's
bust two more misconceptions now one
thing one person might say is I said
well what you were paying for with the
Macintosh is the extravagant graphical
operating system that was revolutionary
and that the hardware in the Mac it was
specifically designed around this
software and what you're going to see is
that's not entirely true and yes that
was certainly the Mac's defining quality
in the marketplace but let me show
you the two GS running its own graphical
operating system known as GS OS not only
does it look exactly like the Mac's
operating system but it was also in full
color
so I dare say it looked better and
provided a better overall experience to
the user it can also mount Network
shares from a Macintosh server as well
as read and write to Macintosh formatted
loppy disks so somebody might say well
the Apple 2 GS is just a continuation of
the Apple 2 line and Apple really needed
a fresh start with a new platform in
order to drop all of the you know the
legacy stuff holding them back from
advancing the platform a little more
well let me introduce you to this thing
called the mega 2 chip this chip is a
complete Apple 2e system integrated into
a single chip this is the same chip that
used in the Apple 2e card that was later
used to give the macintosh LC backwards
compatibility with apple 2 software so
this same chip is essentially what gives
the apple two gs backwards compatibility
with the apple 2 because otherwise it is
a completely new platform ok so here's
what I've been building up to in this
whole video why did Apple go ahead and
dump and neglect this system and
discontinued at a few years later and
instead focus the entire company on
advancing this product when obviously
this product was overpriced and
underpowered compared to this one now
the only conclusion I can come up with
is Steve Jobs now if you know the
history of Apple you know that he was
essentially fired from the company or at
least kicked out of his job and
eventually they brought him back in and
let him take over the Macintosh project
now the Macintosh was supposed to be a
low-end consumer device it was actually
kind of supposed to be a side project
but he kind of took it over beefed it up
and essentially made it into Apple's
flagship product probably in order to
gain more control back in the company
again now by the time that the this
product the Mac plus and this product
Apple 2 GS where all the market Steve
Jobs has already gone again however I
think what we're seeing is and we're
still seeing the influence from from
when he was at the company so I guess
what I'm trying to say is I think the
entire Macintosh line was a mistake
from the very beginning Apple should
have been working on this product and
advancing and I think during the 1990s
they would have been far more
competitive than they were because they
kind of got thrown back lost a lot of
their customer base because of this
product now I think today if they were
still in business the products that
would might be making today would
probably be very similar to what they're
making now and they would probably still
be using Intel processors and so on they
would have essentially came back to
where they are now but I think the
company would have done better during
the time that Apple almost went bankrupt
if they had followed the path of this
machine instead of instead of this one
so that about wraps this up so yeah the
first mistake I wanted to point out that
Apple made was of course building the
Mac line now I've got some other
mistakes that I think they've made over
the years and I'll point those out in an
upcoming video until then I'll see you
later
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