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About & Sources

One Infinite Fruit is an independent, unofficial tribute to four decades of Apple hardware. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple Inc. “Apple,” “Macintosh,” “iPhone,” and related marks are trademarks of Apple Inc.

Who made this

My name is Kelvin. I was born in 1976, the same year Apple was founded in a garage in Los Altos. I grew up alongside the company, thanks in large part to my dad, who brought home an Apple II, then an Apple IIe, then a Mac 512, and somehow always managed to have the next Apple thing before anyone else did. One Infinite Loop was Apple’s legendary Cupertino address for over twenty years, and the inspiration for the name of this site.

My MacBook Air open on a café table, One Infinite Fruit on the screen — My current Mac, out in the wild with the site open.

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My own Apple machines

These are some of the Apple machines I actually lived with (the first iPod, the Power Mac G5 that ran my desk, the iMac G5, the laptops I edited photos on), photographed at the time. Several of them also turn up on their own pages in the archive.

My original 2001 iPod — My first-generation iPod (2001), with the mechanical scroll wheel that actually spun.

My 20GB iPod — The 20GB iPod that finally held my whole music library.

A white click-wheel iPod of mine — Another of my iPods, out in the wild.

My Power Mac G5 on the desk — My Power Mac G5: aluminium tower, Apple display, a very necessary mug.

My iMac G5 at its welcome screen — The iMac G5, booting to its Mac OS X welcome screen.

My iMac G5 on a desk — The same iMac G5 on my desk, an old CRT still keeping it company.

Editing photos across two MacBook Pros — Editing photos across a pair of MacBook Pros.

An iPod nano beside a MacBook — An iPod nano and a MacBook: my kit for a good while.

All eight photos are my own.

The name

“One Infinite Fruit” is a nod to One Infinite Loop, the street address of Apple’s Cupertino headquarters from 1993 until Apple Park opened in 2017.

The Apple Campus sign at One Infinite Loop, Cupertino — The sign at One Infinite Loop. Photo: Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0.

How the numbers are computed

Every figure on the site is derived from a small set of canonical, numeric fields stored per device (RAM in KB, clock in MHz, storage in MB, launch price in USD, year). The comparison engine then computes the relatable figures live:

Memory multiplier. A fixed modern reference (a 16 GB Apple Silicon MacBook Pro, 16,777,216 KB) divided by the device’s shipping RAM. The 1984 Macintosh’s 128 KB yields ≈ 131,000×.
Speed multiplier. One modern performance core (nominal 3.2 GHz) divided by the device’s clock. This is clock-only and approximate; it deliberately ignores cores, instruction width, IPC and architecture, all of which widen the real gap enormously. The UI states this everywhere the figure appears.
Storage in photos. Base storage divided by ~4 MB, the size of a typical modern phone photo.
Price today. Launch price multiplied by an approximate US CPI inflation factor for the launch year (BLS CPI-U annual averages, missing years interpolated). Rounded and labelled approximate.

On approximations. Cross-architecture performance and historical pricing are genuinely hard to make exact. Where a figure is an estimate, we say so rather than implying false precision. Spot something wrong? It lives in one file, data/devices.js, and is easy to correct.

Data sources

Apple: official archived technical specifications and newsroom.
EveryMac.com: comprehensive Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad spec database.
Mactracker: community-maintained detailed model data.
Wikipedia: launch dates, prices and historical context.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: CPI data for inflation adjustment.

Emulation & software

The “Live emulators” exhibit lets you boot a range of real operating systems: System 1.0, System 6.0.8, System 7.1, Mac OS 8.1 and Mac OS 9.0.4 via Infinite Mac by Mihai Parparita (an open-source WebAssembly build of classic Mac OS), plus an Apple II / DOS 3.3 emulator hosted by Will Scullin (apple2js). Each one downloads only when a visitor explicitly opts in. The “Apple II · BASIC”, “System 7” and “Aqua” exhibits are original HTML/CSS/JS recreations built for this site, including a small working Applesoft-style BASIC interpreter. We use only legally distributable system software and credit its provenance.

Advertising

The “Apple, Advertised” gallery documents sixteen landmark campaigns. Clicking a poster plays the ad inline via an embedded YouTube player (privacy-friendly youtube-nocookie.com; nothing loads until you click), with an “Open on YouTube” link as a fallback. The advertisements themselves remain the property of Apple Inc. and their respective agencies and uploaders; they are embedded here for historical and educational purposes.

Portraits

Founder and CEO portraits are free-licensed photographs from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY / CC BY-SA), self-hosted in assets/people/. The executives without suitable free portrait photos use original archival-style SVG portrait illustrations, also self-hosted in assets/people/.

Imagery

Product photography comes from Wikimedia Commons (free-licensed images). The photos are downloaded and self-hosted in assets/devices/ so the site loads fast and works offline. The original source URL for every image is recorded in assets/devices/credits.json for attribution. Where no suitable free photo exists, the site falls back to an original in-browser vector silhouette, so nothing ever breaks. Photos remain the property of their respective authors under their Commons licences.

Built with

Vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript: no framework, no build step, no third-party runtime dependencies. Open index.html and it runs. See the README.md for the data model and how to add a device.

Affiliate disclosure

One Infinite Fruit is a participant in the eBay Partner Network and the Amazon Associates Program. When a device has a “Find one on eBay” or “Search Amazon” link, those are affiliate links: if you buy something after following one, the site may earn a small commission, at no additional cost to you. This never affects which products are featured or what the archive says about them; the catalog is editorial and independent.

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Last updated: June 2026