Mobile phones & tablets thread

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Originally Posted by henners88

With a market so big, I don't think there is any right or wrong answer with what computer is better for you. Its the same with mobile phones even if we often have the 'my phone is better than your phone' discussions. I don't think you can go much wrong with either a PC or a Mac. :)

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I wish people would stop describing as an own type of computer because it's not. :angryfire :p
A Macinstosh IS a PC just as much as a computer with a Windows or Linux. :dork:

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Originally Posted by BleAivano

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Originally Posted by henners88

With a market so big, I don't think there is any right or wrong answer with what computer is better for you. Its the same with mobile phones even if we often have the 'my phone is better than your phone' discussions. I don't think you can go much wrong with either a PC or a Mac. :)

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I wish people would stop describing as an own type of computer because it's not. :angryfire :p
A Macinstosh IS a PC just as much as a computer with a Windows or Linux. :dork:

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Life is too short to get hung up on technicalities!

God it annoys me when people say they are going to Hoover the house. Its a vacuum cleaner, Hoover is a brand!!! Ahhhhhh!! :angryfire :p

Sorry I grew up when the Mac vs PC debate of the 90's hit an all time high so the term 'PC' has stuck as a way of describing a Windows computer for me. I apologise in advance because I will keep referring to them as a PC. :)

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Originally Posted by BleAivano

I wish people would stop describing as an own type of computer because it's not. :angryfire :p
A Macinstosh IS a PC just as much as a computer with a Windows or Linux. :dork:

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Have to disagree, the 'PC' is a shorthand for IBM-PC Compatible and has long been established as meaning a machine running a Microsoft operating system. You may describe a Mac as a PC if you want, but that's not the general usage of the term.

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Originally Posted by Mark

Have to disagree, the 'PC' is a shorthand for IBM-PC Compatible and has long been established as meaning a machine running a Microsoft operating system. You may describe a Mac as a PC if you want, but that's not the general usage of the term.

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I disagree in return to some extent.

A PC is a (personal) computer that is designed to be able to use at home by regular people.
Unlike servers or main frame computers that is operated by expert staff.

Once upon a time there was some differences both regarding the hardware and the software.
Mac's were mostly used by advertising firms, graphic bureaus, Printing companies and etc.,
not so much be regular people.

Nowadays the difference between a MacBook and an Asus laptop is almost none.

Different OS and some minor aesthetic difference but if you like you can use Windows on
your MacBook and MacOs on the Asus since both uses the same hardware.

Both is used by regular people at home and by people who is at their work.

So I'll stick with my claim that a Mac is just as much a PC as a computer with Windows.

I think calling one a Mac and the other a PC saves confusion regardless of the historical links.

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Originally Posted by henners88

I think calling one a Mac and the other a PC saves confusion regardless of the historical links.

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Exactly. Since "PC" generally describes every variant of computer which generally just runs Windows and "Mac" describes (only) Apple products which run the Mac OS, it's simply a way to avoid confusion. Sure, the Mac is a personal computer. But if one wants to be broad about it, so are most tablets and even a great many phones these days.

If PC's are Windows machines and Macs are Macs, what are Linux machines? Other than near extinct? :D

Geek computers? :p

tell me about it :dork:
I spent most of this weekend scouring log files and setting up rss feeds, iptables and fail2ban on my donkey pi, and I still can't putty to it from my work computer :dozey: