what impact did it have? what were the benefits of having one for designers? did it make life easier? how and who invented it?
2006-10-15 10:27:11 · 5 answers · asked by allgiggles1984 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
Steve Jobbs invented the Apple Mac, before that there were o menus, no desktop, no icons, just dos commands and strings of commands, without the Apple Mac there would be no Windows operating systems as we have today
2006-10-15 10:31:31 · answer #1 · answered by Rob 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Mac was the follow on product from the Apple Lisa and was produced by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (hope I've spelled that right). In 1976 Rank Xerox had produced their own system using a remote device to move a pointer around a graphical user interface but they weren't interested in developing it commercially. Jobs and Wozniak stole the idea for the Mac and were subsequently sued by Rank Xerox.
As far as design is concerned god yes it's easy with a Mac. Stuff that took two days to do in graphic design now takes an afternoon. It's put typesetters out of work, it's putting process photographers on the dole too.
In Electro-mechanical design, consider this: Ships used to be designed in a ship loft using large templates. The loft was immense and employed lots of men. Now you can do it with 5 men in a small office and the models change instantly. I can render a drawing of a new product in 30 minutes and print out as many copies as I like whereas it used to be a day's work to do one. If the people who commissioned it dont like the colours in the rendering I can change them instantly.
Autocad design means you can print out copies of a technical drawing in permanent ink. Before, to get multiple copies, you needed a tracing office. They're out of work too now.
Spreadsheets were a boon not only to designers (you can write ones that do complex calculations instantly) but also to accountants, marketeers and budget controllers.
So the benefits are in speed and labour costs. It's good for a designer to concentrate on creative tasks rather than be spending his or her time working out technical details, and good for companies to sack people as it keeps their costs down. And that's the drawback- computers have put more people out of work than any other technical advance since the motor-car did away with the village blacksmith.
2006-10-15 11:51:52 · answer #2 · answered by prakdrive 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It actual relies upon on your budget and what you opt to do with it. once you're in simple terms finding to browse the information superhighway, watch some video clips, and consider some eBooks then i could get an iPad. in case you opt to play some truthfully video games, in lots of cases write essays for college, and greater extensive use then i could get a working laptop or computing gadget. pills like the iPad are actually not computing gadget replacements, yet. they are very limited in what they are able to do, and have no actual keyboard which will make it confusing to type for long classes of time. in case you needed a sort of blend between a working laptop or computing gadget and a pill, i could tremendously advise the ASUS best which will come out in some days. It has the processing capability of a working laptop or computing gadget with its Quad center processor (two times as many an and iPad2 or 4 cases as an iPad1), it runs the maximum recent version of Android which will make issues slightly much less complicated once you're a pupil because of the fact it enables you to connect data to emails, browse data like on a working laptop or computing gadget, and upload data like a working laptop or computing gadget (I even have many cases uploaded a final minute essay or homework project to my college's on line "dropbox" utilising my Android telephone which i could not do with my iPhone 4S) and here comes the computing gadget blend, it has an elective keyboard dock which will fold up and make it look as though a working laptop or computing gadget. The keyboard dock will additionally upload approximately 6 hours of battery existence making it approximately 18 hours finished. and because this could be a pill, it quite is going to be very very easy and skinny. And, you need to do away with the keyboard in case you ever in simple terms had to apply the pill itself. i could check out it in case you needed a compromise.
2016-11-23 13:22:55 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It simplified computing
A big impact
Versatility
Yes.
Steve Jobs/Wasniack
Carpe Diem!
2006-10-19 20:15:38 · answer #4 · answered by afrodyzyak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-23 03:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋