have an internal hard drive.

The Macintosh didn’t even have a

cooling fan as Jobs belie for the failure of the Macintosh.
Problems with Macintosh
But a steep price tag wasn’t the only reason the early Macintosh
failed. According to Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, “The
problem was a fundamental one: It was a dazzling but woefully
slow and underpowered computer, and no amount of hoopla could
mask that.”
Isaacson also noted the the Macintosh had only 128K of memory,
compared with the 1,000K RAM in the Lisa. the PC also did not
ved that it “distracted from the calm of the computer.” Issacson
somewhat drily points out that “This caused many component
failures and earned the Macintosh the nickname ‘the beige
toaster,’ which did for the failure of the Macintosh.
Problems with Macintosh
But a steep price tag wasn’t the only reason the early Macintosh
failed. According to Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, “The
problem was a fundamental one: It was a dazzling but woefully
slow and underpowered computer, and no amount of hoopla could
mask that.”
Isaacson also noted the the Macintosh had only 128K of memory,
compared with the 1,000K RAM in the Lisa. the PC also did not
not enhance its popularity.”
Macintosh led the way
Its problems notwithstanding, the Macintosh led the way in terms
of the design of the modern PC. Steve Jobs constantly preached
the importance of tight integration between hardware and software
as critical for usability, and he has been proven correct.
Furthermore, the basic graphical user interface of the Macintosh
and, of course, the mouse, became the standards of personal
computing.

Why did the Macintosh fail?

2 Answers

Doug Garnett, Specialist advertising product innovations to drive

exceptional retail impact.
Updated 81w ago · Author has 1.6k answers and 1.4m answer views

I was involved at the time. Had built General Dynamics’ first

network of Apple II’s in 1992 and evaluated the Lisa as part
of a corporate effort.
When the Mac first came out I loved it. But the screen was
small, applications were limited & expensive, and it just
wasn't up to what I needed to do. So I bought a PC
compatible from ATT.
The choice was right for me. I worked with the early Mac
and with people who had them. It just wasn't ready for for
the failure of the Macintosh.
Problems with Macintosh
But a steep price tag wasn’t the only reason the early Macintosh
failed. According to Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, “The
problem was a fundamental one: It was a dazzling but woefully
slow and underpowered computer, and no amount of hoopla could
mask that.”
Isaacson also noted the the Macintosh had only 128K of memory,
compared with the 1,000K RAM in the Lisa. the PC also did not

Tom Foale, Working on taking disruptive innovations to market

Answered 81w ago · Author has 619 answers and 448.3k answer views

The original Macintosh was pretty, had a nice interface, but

failed in comparison to the IBM PC in the crucial area of
jobs that it helped users to do. It was short on memory and
lacked useful programs. It wasn't until the arrival of the Mac
III with more memory than the PC and Aldus Pagemaker
that the Mac found its niche and took over as the lead
product from the Apple II. For many years after that the
Mac’s market was the media/design industry and it was
rarely found as a corporate productivity tool.