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SpokenTruth said:
Lawlight said:


I'm just going to paste this here since you don't really seem to know that a Mac is not a PC:

"PC" is an initialism for "personal computer". However, it is used in a different sense: It means a personal computers with an Intel x86-compatible processor running Microsoft Windows (sometimes called Wintel). "PC" is used in contrast with "Mac", an Apple Macintosh computer. This sense of the word is used in Get a Mac advertisement campaign that run between 2006 to 2009, as well as its rival, I'm a PC campaign, that appeared on 2008.

Because the marketing departments say so?  

So what is this "Mac" I have that runs bootcamp with Windows on it?  Isn't that an Intel X86-comaptible based computer running Windows?

And how can a Mac not be a 'personal computer'.  Mac owners are usally very personal with their Macs and I'm failry certain they qualify as computers.


Apparently so. Amiga 500, Atari ST, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 etc are also all PCs. None of them have come near a build of Microsft Windows unless they're being emulated.

This is the equivalent of Nintendo deciding that they don't make mere "Game Consoles" and that term just refers to PlayStations...



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