Yesterday, January 24, the Mac turned 20.
Chris Hanson shows how the price point is the same. Rather than just repost his table, here’s mostly the same info with increases added:
| In 1984 | In 2004 | Increase |
| Macintosh 128 | Power Macintosh G5 | A lot! |
| 8 MHz 68000 | 2 GHz PowerPC 970 (two) | 512x |
| 128KB RAM | 512MB RAM | 4096x |
| 400KB floppy | 700MB CDRW/4.3GB DVD | 1792x |
| No hard disk | 160GB hard disk | infinite |
| 9-inch black and white display (512×342 pixels) | 17-inch LCD color display (1280×1024 pixels) | 7.48x |
| 21.375K screen RAM, shared | 64MB screen RAM, dedicated/td> | 3066x |
| 230.4Kbps LocalTalk | 1Gbps Ethernet | 4551x |
| One mouse button (it’s all you need) | One mouse button (it’s all you need) | 1x |
| $2495 (1984 dollars) | $2533 (1984 dollars) | 1.015x |
Meanwhile, Andy Hertzfeld and the rest of the original Mac gang are collaborating to write the definite, unsurpassable Mac Folklore website. Not to be missed by any Mac fan! It even has a RSS feed 
! (Thanks to “Daring Fireball” John Gruber for the link.)
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