The Mac was designed to provide users with a natural, intuitively understandable, and, in general, 'user-friendly' computer interface. Many of the user interface ideas in the Macintosh derived from experiments at the Xerox Parc laboratory in the early 1970s, including the, the use of s to represent objects or actions, the point-and-click and click-and-drag actions, and a number of window operation ideas.
Microsoft successfully adapted these user interface concepts for its first operating system. The Macintosh runs on its own operating system, (currently Mac ).
The Mac originally ran on Motorola's 68000 series microprocessors and then moved to the processor. Current models use Intel processors. The Macintosh product line includes:. Mac Pro tower. MacBook. MacBook Air. MacBook Pro laptops.
Mac OS is considered the pioneer of GUI based operating systems, as it was launched when MS-DOS was the industry standard. Mac OS is a completely capable OS that provides functionality and services similar to Windows or Linux OS. Some of the code base and features of Lisa OS have been incorporated in Mac OS. Mac OS is designed to operate on Apple manufactured PCs and by default, does not support x86 architecture. As of 2012, Mac OS released several versions, including Macintosh 128k, Mac OS 7, Mac OS X and Mac Mountain Lion.
