Susan Kare, “Sketches for Graphic User Interface Icon” (detail) (1982), ink on graph paper, on view in ‘This Is for Everyone’ at MoMA (gift of the designer, 2015, photo by the author for Hyperallergic ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Did you have an original Macintosh from 1984? Well, going by recent eBay and other auction sites listing vintage Apple computers, you could ...

Dunno if you’ve noticed, but a little meme has been spreading across Twitter during the last few days. It’s called “#firstmac”. You can guess what happens. You announce details of your first ever Mac, ...

After a somewhat tame 2025 that was largely marked by processor upgrades, 2026 is poised to be a huge year for the Mac, possibly the biggest since Apple unveiled the very first Macintosh in 1984. It ...

We Cult of Mac writers are lifetime Apple users. And our expertise goes way back. We remember 9-inch monochrome screens, and know what SCSI stands for. We didn’t just read about Apple’s struggles in ...