- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Xeniczone
Apple (distinguishing themselves as always,) began calling theirs the Mac.
What is this suppost to mean.
Meaning that Apple has a habit of purposely distinguishing themselves from the Microsoft crowd. They could also call their computer a PC, the generic term, but they decided it was too reminiscent of M$, and therefore created the term Mac to distinguish themselves completely from M$. We see this pattern again and again. Apple could've called their MP3 player an MP3 player, but decided to give it its (now well known) own name, "iPod."
I'm neither a Windows nor a Mac fanboy, but currently remain a Windows user only because of the variety of programs that run on Windows instead of Mac. I'm pretty sure we're both well aware of the problems with Windows (oh god Blue Screen of Death!!!), so here's my reasoning about the Mac side of computing...
I do appreciate the beauty and simplicity of design in the Mac both aesthetically and OS-wise. Much better than the ugly looking boxes that most Windows computers are housed in. The only problem is, for all my life, I've used a Windows PC, and many documents and stuff will be lost if I switch to Mac. Besides, Macs are a tad out of my price range, and I wouldn't utilize the Mac the way Apple intended it to be used, as an artist's computer. Another point that's both a flaw and an achievement is Apple's we'll-do-it-all-ourselves theology. They design or have a hand in designing everything about their computers from the housing down to the processor. Although this provides for seamless integration between the parts (and therefore less crashing), this also conversely means that the technology will advance slightly slower than on Windows PCs. In other words, processors on PCs are made not by M$, but by AMD and Intel. This provides for competition, which provides for one company striving to get ahead of the other, leading to accelerated technological advances. Apple, however, designs its own processor, meaning not as drastic technological advances simply because of a smaller pool of knowledge to draw from and not as much competition.