Not all of them were home runs, but they all made a big splash. This gallery accompanies our story “Opinion: The Top 10 Standout Macs of the Past 25 Years.” Click through to that story for details about each product. The original Macintosh computer, released in 1984, featured a compact all-in-one design, innovative mouse and user-friendly graphical user interface. It came with 128KB of RAM and zipped along with an 8-MHz processor.