Question: What language replaced Pascal for System 7?
Answer: C++

Question: What was the fuly overhauled successor to Mac OS 9?
Answer: Mac OS X

Question: Upon release, what interface allowed Mac users to sample Apple's new operating system and provide feedback for the actual release?
Answer: Aqua

Question: What is the only mainstream computer platform to successfully transition to a new CPU architecture?
Answer: Macintosh

Question: What is the standard amount of RAM included with almost all current Mac models?
Answer: 8 GB

Question: Which MacBook Pro port can transfer data at speeds up to 10 gigabits per second?
Answer: Thunderbolt

Question: When was the iMac G5 released?
Answer: October 2005

Question: Which interface did Apple introduce that was capable of being operated by an Apple Remote or keyboard for accessing media stored on the computer?
Answer: Front Row

Question: What is the standard amount of RAM shipped with most Mac models?
Answer: 8 GB

Question: What processors are used by the current Mac product family?
Answer: Intel x86-64

Question: How many data transfer ports are included in most current Macs?
Answer: two

Question: According to Apple, how fast can the Thunderbolt port transfer data?
Answer: up to 10 gigabits per second.

Question: Which technique was once used to boot an alternate operating system than Mac OS?
Answer: boot into Mac OS and then to hand over control to a Mac OS-based bootloader application

Question: What was introduced that made using Mac OS alternative operating systems easier?
Answer: Open Firmware-based PCI Macs

Question: What were Open Firmware-based PCI Macs used as a convenience because of?
Answer: bugs in the firmware implementation

Question: Where does Mac hardware boot directly to in all Intel-based Macs?
Answer: EFI

Question: Where does Mac harware boot directly to in most PowerPC-based Macs?
Answer: Open Firmware

Question: Who was brought in to shape the marketing of Macintosh in 1982?
Answer: Regis McKenna

Question: What role did Andy Cunningham and Jane Anderson have in the Macintosh launch plan?
Answer: primary authors

Question: Who introduced the "multiple exclusive" event marketing concept to Apple?
Answer: John Sculley

Question: Which company first used the "multiple exclusive" event marketing concept?
Answer: Pepsi

Question: What did the "multiple exclusive" event marketing concept create around a product?
Answer: a mystique

Question: Who initiated a successful price war among PC manufacturers in 1994?
Answer: Compaq

Question: Who did Compaq overtake in the price war of 1994?
Answer: IBM

Question: What happened to Apple's market share with the release of Windows 95?
Answer: struggled

Question: What unified Microsoft's MS-DOS and Windows products?
Answer: Windows 95

Question: What significantly enhanced the multimedia capability of IBM PC compatible computers?
Answer: Windows 95

Question: What percent of the desktop share in the U.S. did Apple have in 2003?
Answer: 2.06

Question: Who are IDC and Gartner?
Answer: research firms

Question: What was Apple's market share in the U.S. by 2006?
Answer: 6.1 percent

Question: What percentage of unit sale increase did Apple see from 2005 to 2006?
Answer: 30

Question: What was the estimated installed base of Mac computers in 2009?
Answer: 16%

Question: When was the Macintosh SE released at the same time as?
Answer: the Macintosh II

Question: What was the first compact Mac with a 20 MB internal hard drive and an expansion slot?
Answer: The Macintosh SE

Question: What was the starting price of the Macintosh SE?
Answer: $2900

Question: What did the location of the SE's expansion slot potentially expose an upgrader to?
Answer: high voltage

Question: Who did Apple suggest users go to for performing updates on their SE's?
Answer: an authorized Apple dealer

Question: What is partially credited for the significant boost in sales of Macs in recent years?
Answer: the success of the iPod and the iPhone

Question: What allows users to easily sync data between an iPhone and a Mac?
Answer: iCloud cloud service

Question: What consumer trend has hurt many personal computer manufacturers?
Answer: smartphones and tablet computers

Question: Which smartphone has hurt personal computer manufacterers the most?
Answer: Apple's own iPhone

Question: What are the top two computing devices consumers are choosing?
Answer: iPhone and iPad

Question: What did Apple introduce in 1990 to combat competition from smartphones?
Answer: relatively inexpensive Macs

Question: What was the less expensive version of the Macintosh SE that was offered until 2001?
Answer: The Macintosh Classic

Question: Which Macintosh had a distinctive "pizza box" case?
Answer: LC

Question: How many expansion slots did the Macintosh IIsi have?
Answer: only one

Question: How did Apple's profit margin on the lower cost Mac's compare to the profit margin onearlier models?
Answer: considerably lower

Question: When did Apple begin to favor aluminum in their design?
Answer: 2006

Question: Which Mac used aluminum in it's construction?
Answer: MacBook Pro

Question: Which material did Apple add with the 2008 unibody MacBrook Pro?
Answer: Glass

Question: Are aluminum and glass considered to be environmentally friendly or environmentally harmful?
Answer: environmentally friendly

Question: What has Chief Designer Jonathan Ive been able to eliminate in Mac notebooks?
Answer: replaceable batteries

Question: Who began the Macintosh project in 1979?
Answer: Jef Raskin

Question: What was Jef Raskin's profession?
Answer: an Apple employee

Question: What did Jef Raskin envision for a computer to be for an average consumer?
Answer: easy-to-use, low-cost

Question: Why was the spelling of McIntosh changed to Macintosh?
Answer: for legal reasons

Question: What did McIntosh Laboratory, Inc. manufacture?
Answer: audio equipment

Question: Who discussed rumors of a mysterious "MacIntosh" project in 1983?
Answer: John Dvorak

Question: Where was the Macintosh 128K manufactured?
Answer: Apple factory in Fremont, California

Question: How much did the television commercial "1984" cost?
Answer: US$1.5 million

Question: What did the television commercial "1984" introduce?
Answer: Macintosh 128K

Question: What did Regis McKenna call the "1984" ad that was aired during the Super Bowl?
Answer: "more successful than the Mac itself."

Question: When was the Macintosh branded as Mac?
Answer: 1997

Question: Who designed, develped, and marketed the Mac computers?
Answer: Apple Inc.

Question: What did Steve Jobs introduce on January 24, 1984?
Answer: original Macintosh computer

Question: What interface type did the original Macintosh include?
Answer: integral graphical user

Question: When did Apple begin phasing out Macintosh in favor of "Mac"?
Answer: Since 1998

Question: When was the activity of desktop publishing first used?
Answer: 1985

Question: What company was desktop publishing unique to at it's beginning?
Answer: Macintosh

Question: What three things were combined to develop desktop publishing?
Answer: Mac, Apple's LaserWriter printer, and Mac-specific software like Boston Software's MacPublisher

Question: What did desktop publishing enable users to do?
Answer: design, preview, and print page layouts complete with text and graphics

Question: What applications strengthened Mac's position as a graphics computer?
Answer: Macromedia FreeHand, QuarkXPress, and Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator

Question: What year was Raskin hired by Apple?
Answer: September 1979

Question: Who did Raskin immediately hire to help him on the Apple project in 1979?
Answer: his long-time colleague, Brian Howard

Question: Who comprised the original Mac team besides Raskin?
Answer: Howard, Joanna Hoffman, Burrell Smith, and Bud Tribble

Question: Who eventually lead the project on the Mac team?
Answer: Steve Jobs