Macintosh vs. IBM

nted it to be easily set up out
             of the box and up in running in 15 minutes. The developers of the Macintosh
             made it so that you could not upgrade it for they did not think that you needed
             to open your computer. In 1984, they launched the Macintosh for $2,495. The
             advertisements for it cost around $500,000 and more than $1.5 million to play it
             on Super Bowl Sunday in 1984. They decided later that if they wanted to keep up
             with IBM they would have to make the Macintosh cheaper and easier to upgrade in
             order to appeal to the business market. In 1991 Apple's desktop computing
             business was going down hill, and Motorola, who was their chip manufacturer, was
             being known as the company that was always one step behind Intel. So Apple lost
             developers for their personal computer.
             This is the label on many of the current chips that are being shipped today. One
             thing that is different between the IBM and Macintosh is the type of CPU
             architecture they are using. The IBM computers have been using the same chip
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