Macintosh Facts for Kids

Macintosh, Mackintosh, or McIntosh can be:

Macintosh and similar spellings is a surname:

Charles Macintosh (Scottish inventor)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish architect and designer)
Donald McIntosh, Canadian-born officer in Custer's 7th Cavalry, killed at Little Big Horn
The Scottish Clan MacKintosh
Winston Hubert McIntosh, better known as Peter Tosh

Images for kids

Clockwise from top: MacBook Air (2015), iMac G5 20" (2004), Macintosh II (1987), Power Mac G4 Cube (2000), iBook G3 Blueberry (1999) and original Macintosh 128K (1984)
A prototype of the Macintosh from 1981 (at the Computer History Museum)
The Apple Macintosh Plus at the Design Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden
The Macintosh II, the first Macintosh model with color graphics
The Macintosh SE, updated Compact Macintosh design using Snow White design language
The Macintosh Portable, Apple's first battery-powered Macintosh
The Macintosh LC II with a Macintosh 12" RGB Display
The PowerBook 100
The iMac G3, introduced in 1998. Though it led Apple's return to profitability, its associated mouse was one of consumers' least favorite products.
2006 MacBook Pro
The 15-inch late-2016 MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar
2020 MacBook Pro
An iMac G5 with its back panel removed
The original Macintosh introduced a radically new graphical user interface for personal computers. Users interact with the computer using a metaphorical desktop with icons of real life items, instead of abstract textual commands.