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tux08902
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I've noticed this for a while, but why do Mac users differentiate between a Mac and all other computers (namely PC)? A Mac is a PC, so I don't really understand.
What about Shuttle mini-PCs? Those have proprietary Shuttle hardware...it's something to think about. I don't like the distinction. I don't care if the Mac platform is exclusive to Apple computers. A PC is a PC and just that. Maybe I'm reading too much into this.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this.
To be fair, the reason Apple went to Intel was not so much because Steve Jobs told them to, it was because there was nowhere else to go. The PPC chips weren't clocking where they needed to in order to compete with Intel/AMD, and neither Motorola or IBM were in a position to release new ones. There was no "G6" on the horizon, so Apple had to make the only available choice. This was likely to happen regardless of who was at the helm.Then Steve came back and turned all that around. He brought his NeXT OS in to bring Mac OS up to something much more modern (even if it was based on UNIX, which is actually older than even the first Mac OS though it has been modernized) and then furthermore got Macs on Intel processors.
When I took a required computer literacy class as a high school freshman (although this was in 1988, mind you), the teacher insisted that "PC" didn't mean "personal computer" but "professional computer." Man...I can still hear that in my sleep, coming from that wrinkly turkey-neck...maybe that has something to do with it, I dunno...really, think of the word "professional," and you probably get a vision of a corporate suit. What do you see a corporate suit using? Mac or an IBM-compatible?
To be fair, the reason Apple went to Intel was not so much because Steve Jobs told them to, it was because there was nowhere else to go. The PPC chips weren't clocking where they needed to in order to compete with Intel/AMD, and neither Motorola or IBM were in a position to release new ones. There was no "G6" on the horizon, so Apple had to make the only available choice. This was likely to happen regardless of who was at the helm.
Who cares? They're all computers.