The
Apple Macintosh II is the first personal computer model of the
Macintosh II series in the
Apple Macintosh line and the first Macintosh to support a color display. A basic system with 20 MB drive and monitor cost about $5500, A complete color-capable system could cost as much as $10,000 once the cost of the color monitor, video card, hard disk, keyboard and RAM were added. This price placed it in competition with
workstations from
Silicon Graphics,
Sun Microsystems and
Hewlett-Packard.