The Data Drop #047
Mac.
43 years. 154 Macs since 1983.
And everything they made possible.
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The Timeline
19 moments.
43 years.
1983
Apple Lisa
$599
The cheapest Mac laptop ever
The Colors
14 years of beige.
Then Bondi Blue.
From 1984 to 1997, every Mac was beige. Then the iMac G3 arrived in Bondi Blue and Apple never looked back. Here's every color of every Mac, chronologically.
The Weight
From 7.2 kg
to 1.23 kg.
The Macintosh Portable (1989) weighed 7.2 kg. The MacBook Neo (2026) weighs 1.23 kg. Here's every laptop Mac's weight, from heaviest to lightest.
Made on a Mac
8% market share.
Most of what you love.
Apple's share of global PC shipments has typically sat between 5% and 10%. Windows dominates. But a surprising amount of what we watch, hear, design, and ship started on a Mac.
The Mac never won the market.
It won the culture.
The Price of a Mac
From $9,995
to $599.
In 1983, the cheapest way into a Mac cost more than a new car. Today it costs less than an AirPods Max. Here's every Mac's launch price, from Lisa to Neo.
154 Macs
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