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Wow, this is very interesting. I had no idea the two were this close.

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It's a shame he doesn't give a little more history. He mentioned the PowerPC processor Apple used before the Intel, but he completely overlooked the Motorola MC68000 that Macs were first developed and sold on.

In other words, Apple haven't changed hardware platform and architecture once, but TWICE...

He also fails to mention that OSX is unix. Developed from BSD IIRC.


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A couple years ago, one of my sons brought a cheapo intel lappy over to our house, and I noticed he was running some type of MacOS on the thing. I said "Ben, bad dog." and he grinned at me. It was a hackintosh.

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Several years ago I bought a Dell mini 10 for $100 that had been converted into a "hackintosh". It runs all of my Mac programs including Band in a Box. (Separate purchase of BIAB software of course)
Everything works well but the trackpad cannot compare to my Macbook. I don't think the newer Mac OS can be installed on it however and I don't want to take a chance of messing up what already works. It is a good backup for my music programs.

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Playing "The Devil's Advocate" here.

In my mind, Macs are not PCs.

My wife's 1978 Jeep came new with a Ford Bronco engine, Jeep used to get whatever they could from whoever they could, but it doesn't make her Jeep a Ford.

Smart phones are phones and not PCs. Tablets, even those running Windows are not PCs. They are computers, but they are phones and tablets.

Technically Macs and PCs are both Microcomputers.

And I do remember my first Mac running on a Motorola chip, years before the Power PC chip, which I believe was built by IBM, the same people that built the first PCs (IBM branded their microcomputers, "Personal Computers" thus the PC.)

Now it doesn't matter to me if the Mac guys want to think they are PCs, but I still like one noun to tell the difference.

For years you could say PC and you knew you were talking about Intel Chips and Windows - and you could say Mac and you knew you were talking about a computer that is running the Mac OS.

Why change that?

So if it's OK calling a Mac a Personal Computer (IBM trade name for a computer running Microsoft on Intel chips) then you should be able to call my ThinkPad a Mac. Pretty stupid.

We use names to tell the difference.

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I like his last sentence: Macs are PCs — nice and expensive ones, but PCs nonetheless. Not all PCs are Macs, but all Macs are PCs. Later, Ray


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Sounds like it was written a Mac lover.

Me? It doesn't really matter, they're just tools. Whichever tool does that job I want done better is the tool I'll use for that job.

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