I'm not knocking the Speccy, it was a real bargain in it's day, but comparing it with the Mac is ridiculous.
The Speccy definitely wasn't faster than the 16bit 68K Mac, with it's GUI it was a revolutionary computer, and aimed at a different market from the Speccy.
In the business market at the time, having a high resolution black and white screen was far preferable to low resolution colour. Especially when displaying a graphical user interface, with WYSIWYG display of documents.
The Speccy was a nice and cheap home computer for gamers and hobbyists, but the Mac showed the world the future of business/home computing.
Plus you seem to have forgotten that Apple made most of their fortune from the success of the Apple II; the colour 8-bit computer they released about 5 years before the Spectrum.
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Re: And the '84 Mac Was ONLY B&W and Slower
I'm not knocking the Speccy, it was a real bargain in it's day, but comparing it with the Mac is ridiculous.
The Speccy definitely wasn't faster than the 16bit 68K Mac, with it's GUI it was a revolutionary computer, and aimed at a different market from the Speccy.
In the business market at the time, having a high resolution black and white screen was far preferable to low resolution colour. Especially when displaying a graphical user interface, with WYSIWYG display of documents.
The Speccy was a nice and cheap home computer for gamers and hobbyists, but the Mac showed the world the future of business/home computing.
Plus you seem to have forgotten that Apple made most of their fortune from the success of the Apple II; the colour 8-bit computer they released about 5 years before the Spectrum.