Are Apple computers as good as they think they are? We put one to the test

Thirty years ago Apple fired up their first Macintosh.

With a groundbreaking advert, directed by Ridley Scott, beamed across the globe, the world had never seen anything quite like the Macintosh 128k.

For your £1,500, (£3,300 in today’s money), you were treated to a 9-inch black and white display, floppy disk drive and a new and exciting way of controlling your computer…the mouse.

This little machine was an instant hit with over 70,000 of them flying off shelves in just a few months.

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