It's been a long battle of PC VS Mac. Mac has always had these commercials and FINALLY PC responds! I'm a mac user but DANG... this is funny...
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Omni_Skittles
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Smoke signals ftw!
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I am a mac user, gotta say I love em! 
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Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
Pc Vs Mac
What mostly annoys me is that Microsoft are trying to make PC mean Microsoft.
Mac vs PC means what it says, that's fine.
I'm a PC but there's not one Microsoft product running on my computer.
I'm a PC Slackware 12.1 fluxbox.
In my opinion, "PC" doesn't include all Personal Computers, it's just all derivatives of the IBM PC from 1981.
Mac vs PC means what it says, that's fine.
I'm a PC but there's not one Microsoft product running on my computer.
I'm a PC Slackware 12.1 fluxbox.
In my opinion, "PC" doesn't include all Personal Computers, it's just all derivatives of the IBM PC from 1981.
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Pc Vs Mac
If I could afford a MAC I would get one they are a pretty flawless piece of machinery. You have to admire a machine of that quality. My consultant has one he paid $4,000.00 for it a bit out of my price range. 
I love the commercials ...!!
I love the commercials ...!!ALOHA!!
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MOTTO TO LIVE BY:
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, champagne in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming.
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Omni_Skittles
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spot;994543 wrote: What mostly annoys me is that Microsoft are trying to make PC mean Microsoft.
Mac vs PC means what it says, that's fine.
I'm a PC but there's not one Microsoft product running on my computer.
I'm a PC Slackware 12.1 fluxbox.
In my opinion, "PC" doesn't include all Personal Computers, it's just all derivatives of the IBM PC from 1981.Very valid points... exactly where did the PC come from?
Mac vs PC means what it says, that's fine.
I'm a PC but there's not one Microsoft product running on my computer.
I'm a PC Slackware 12.1 fluxbox.
In my opinion, "PC" doesn't include all Personal Computers, it's just all derivatives of the IBM PC from 1981.Very valid points... exactly where did the PC come from?
Smoke signals ftw!
Pc Vs Mac
A personal computer (PC) is any computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator.
They started making them in the early 70's. The introduction of the microprocessor, a single chip with all the circuitry that formerly occupied large cabinets, led to the proliferation of personal computers after about 1975. In the beginning there were no MAC'S, or Apples as they were called back then just IBM's and a few others. Apples, Macintosh or MAC'S as we call them wasn't founded till I think 1977 they weren't friendly to most users back then. Basic concept was a machine that an individual could use and call their own.
I'm sure Spot and a few other can give many more details but I tend to keep in simple. They were big ugly and not very functional for the every day user.
[QUOTE]Very valid points... exactly where did the PC come from?[/QUOTE]
They started making them in the early 70's. The introduction of the microprocessor, a single chip with all the circuitry that formerly occupied large cabinets, led to the proliferation of personal computers after about 1975. In the beginning there were no MAC'S, or Apples as they were called back then just IBM's and a few others. Apples, Macintosh or MAC'S as we call them wasn't founded till I think 1977 they weren't friendly to most users back then. Basic concept was a machine that an individual could use and call their own.
I'm sure Spot and a few other can give many more details but I tend to keep in simple. They were big ugly and not very functional for the every day user.
[QUOTE]Very valid points... exactly where did the PC come from?[/QUOTE]
ALOHA!!
MOTTO TO LIVE BY:
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, champagne in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming.
WOO HOO!!, what a ride!!!"
MOTTO TO LIVE BY:
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, champagne in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming.
WOO HOO!!, what a ride!!!"
Pc Vs Mac
Omni_Skittles;994818 wrote: Very valid points... exactly where did the PC come from?
The timeline's in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... The_IBM_PC
What you need to consider is the volume of machines sold, I think. If a machine didn't sell extensively then it's just a sidetrack.
From 1977 you could go into high street stores and buy usable machines which would let you run an office if you got someone to write programs for your needs. There were three competitors, the Apple II, TRS-80 and Commodore PET. Each of them could take a pair of floppy drives and a printer and a modem. Before 1977 there was no practical PC, after 1977 there was. The Apple is the only one which survived, it morphed into the Apple Macintosh in 1984 and that's where your Macs come from.
IBM decided to join the PC market in 1981 with a computer which felt very like the Apple II (right down to its operating system which was a version of CP/M. The TRS 80 and an Apple add-on used that too). By 1983 IBM had got MSDOS and the PC/XT was the father of the entire IBM PC Clone family, all of which can still run programs written for the IBM PC/XT. That's where the notion of PC = Microsoft came from, Microsoft made MSDOS which was the only operating system on the IBM PC and the IBM PC was the only computer which ran any Microsoft operating system. That ten years from 1983 - 1993 were the only years when both those statements were true.
By 1984 other companies besides IBM were making IBM PC lookalikes which could all run the same programs. That set of machines ended up called IBM PC Clones which got shortened to PC in contrast to all the other desktop computers of the 80s. There were dozens. None have survived in any bulk practical sense apart from the Macs and PCs.
Apple machines got a mouse and a graphics monitor in 1984, the PC got them around 1990 when Microsoft Windows 3.0 came out (version 1 and 2 were seriously unusable and GEM was a futile backwater). IBM cut themselves out of the mainstream PC market by creating a business line of incompatibles called the PS/2 range which was the kiss of death to their ambitions of staying top of the heap. The Clones won the PC war and the Mac won the Graphics market.
Nothing changed until around 2000 when a non-Microsoft mouse-and-graphics operating system grew almost good enough to run PC hardware, the Linux flavours. They've spent the last ten years getting better. They're good enough today to go into a shop and buy off the shelf.
The timeline's in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... The_IBM_PC
What you need to consider is the volume of machines sold, I think. If a machine didn't sell extensively then it's just a sidetrack.
From 1977 you could go into high street stores and buy usable machines which would let you run an office if you got someone to write programs for your needs. There were three competitors, the Apple II, TRS-80 and Commodore PET. Each of them could take a pair of floppy drives and a printer and a modem. Before 1977 there was no practical PC, after 1977 there was. The Apple is the only one which survived, it morphed into the Apple Macintosh in 1984 and that's where your Macs come from.
IBM decided to join the PC market in 1981 with a computer which felt very like the Apple II (right down to its operating system which was a version of CP/M. The TRS 80 and an Apple add-on used that too). By 1983 IBM had got MSDOS and the PC/XT was the father of the entire IBM PC Clone family, all of which can still run programs written for the IBM PC/XT. That's where the notion of PC = Microsoft came from, Microsoft made MSDOS which was the only operating system on the IBM PC and the IBM PC was the only computer which ran any Microsoft operating system. That ten years from 1983 - 1993 were the only years when both those statements were true.
By 1984 other companies besides IBM were making IBM PC lookalikes which could all run the same programs. That set of machines ended up called IBM PC Clones which got shortened to PC in contrast to all the other desktop computers of the 80s. There were dozens. None have survived in any bulk practical sense apart from the Macs and PCs.
Apple machines got a mouse and a graphics monitor in 1984, the PC got them around 1990 when Microsoft Windows 3.0 came out (version 1 and 2 were seriously unusable and GEM was a futile backwater). IBM cut themselves out of the mainstream PC market by creating a business line of incompatibles called the PS/2 range which was the kiss of death to their ambitions of staying top of the heap. The Clones won the PC war and the Mac won the Graphics market.
Nothing changed until around 2000 when a non-Microsoft mouse-and-graphics operating system grew almost good enough to run PC hardware, the Linux flavours. They've spent the last ten years getting better. They're good enough today to go into a shop and buy off the shelf.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.