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is Mac "considered" a PC?
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 909696" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>Simple answer: yes. A Mac is a personal computer and regardless of how you want to define PC, a Mac is a personal computer. I do the same thing on my Mac that I would with a non-Mac. Trying to differentiate a Mac from a PC doesn't make much sense when you consider that both use the same hardware (essentially). The best evidence for this is Boot Camp - you can install Windows and have the installation and operation work no different than if it were done on a Dell.</p><p></p><p>An analogy: It would be like calling all cars on the road cars except for Fords, which would somehow be called Fords (and never cars) despite the fact that the principal means and methods of production and usage are essentially identical.</p><p></p><p>For what it's worth, I call my Mac a PC and that won't change because of a semantic distortion brought about to a great extent by Apple in its quest to differentiate Macs from PCs (at least in contemporary society). Those "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" ads do nothing more that confuse consumers and prop up Apple's reputation by denigrating Windows (that's outside the scope of this argument though so I will leave it at that). It confuses people because Apple differentiates itself from others which makes people think it can't do the same things despite the fact that the machines can do the same things (for the most part) and share 90% of the same "DNA" so to speak. Again, I bring back the example of Boot Camp - if you were to give someone a Mac with Windows installed, took off the Apple logo on the machine and replaced it with a Dell, HP...etc decal, would they be able to tell the difference? No (unless they recognized the design) because they would be using a PC.</p><p></p><p>The real differentiation between Macs and "PCs" is down to software and this has little to nothing to do with how Mac is classified as a computer. People still call Linux boxes PCs so why is a machine that shares the same hardware but a different OS in this case not classified as a PC?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 909696, member: 71075"] Simple answer: yes. A Mac is a personal computer and regardless of how you want to define PC, a Mac is a personal computer. I do the same thing on my Mac that I would with a non-Mac. Trying to differentiate a Mac from a PC doesn't make much sense when you consider that both use the same hardware (essentially). The best evidence for this is Boot Camp - you can install Windows and have the installation and operation work no different than if it were done on a Dell. An analogy: It would be like calling all cars on the road cars except for Fords, which would somehow be called Fords (and never cars) despite the fact that the principal means and methods of production and usage are essentially identical. For what it's worth, I call my Mac a PC and that won't change because of a semantic distortion brought about to a great extent by Apple in its quest to differentiate Macs from PCs (at least in contemporary society). Those "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" ads do nothing more that confuse consumers and prop up Apple's reputation by denigrating Windows (that's outside the scope of this argument though so I will leave it at that). It confuses people because Apple differentiates itself from others which makes people think it can't do the same things despite the fact that the machines can do the same things (for the most part) and share 90% of the same "DNA" so to speak. Again, I bring back the example of Boot Camp - if you were to give someone a Mac with Windows installed, took off the Apple logo on the machine and replaced it with a Dell, HP...etc decal, would they be able to tell the difference? No (unless they recognized the design) because they would be using a PC. The real differentiation between Macs and "PCs" is down to software and this has little to nothing to do with how Mac is classified as a computer. People still call Linux boxes PCs so why is a machine that shares the same hardware but a different OS in this case not classified as a PC? [/QUOTE]
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