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So think about this...the top-of-the-line iMac display currently supports 2560x1440 (or 3686400 pixels) while the original mac supported 512x384 (or 196608 pixe
by iambateman 13y ago
So think about this...the top-of-the-line iMac display currently supports 2560x1440 (or 3686400 pixels) while the original mac supported 512x384 (or 196608 pixels).
If you spread out that increase over the course of 30 years, you are adding 10.5% more pixels each year, while cutting the price by ~60% (from Macintosh to present iMac)
It's been a crazy 30 years!
- acqq 13y agoAdd to that that the starting bit depth was 1 vs 24 bits today (you miss the factor of 24). The memory was expensive then.
- joezydeco 13y agoThe original Mac had a screen buffer of 24KiB, which isn't enough to even hold half of a Retina-scaled iOS icon.
- eschaton 13y agoThe original Mac's display was 512x342, not 384.