Apple introduced the Macintosh personal computer in 1984.
The Macintosh debuted on January 24, 1984, after a memorable television advertisement directed by Ridley Scott. Apple presented it as a radically easier-to-use computer because it used a graphical user interface, windows, icons, menus, and a mouse rather than relying primarily on typed commands.
The original Macintosh included a 9-inch black-and-white display, 128 KB of RAM, and a built-in 3.5-inch floppy-disk drive. It was designed by a team led by Steve Jobs, although Jobs was not the Macintosh project's original creator.
A common mix-up is confusing the Macintosh launch with the Apple II, which Apple introduced in 1977, or with the iMac, launched in 1998. The 1984 Macintosh became the first successful mass-market computer to popularize a graphical desktop interface and mouse control.