Mac vs. PC

[Sirrus]

Inb4politicalflamwar

Actually I was poking fun at the Mac vs. PC ads. Kind of portrays the Mac in a more liberal light, or at least the connotations that stereotypical liberals get.

[Ad Bot]

[heedicalking]

A Mac is a loving P.C. Are you all idiots?

A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals


A personal computer may be a desktop computer, a laptop, tablet PC or a handheld PC

[Sirrus]

A Mac is a loving P.C. Are you all idiots?

Are you calling the Apple marketing department idiots? Their commercials start out "I'm a mac, and I'm a PC."

[heedicalking]

Are you calling the Apple marketing department idiots? Their commercials start out "I'm a mac, and I'm a PC."

Yes. P.C. Is a personal Computer. A Mac is a personal computer.

[Volko]

A Mac is a loving P.C. Are you all idiots?

He means Mac vs. Windows. PC apparently reppresents Windows. But yes, I like Windows better than Mac.

[WhatevaGuy]

I'm a Windows.

[Wedge]

Yes. P.C. Is a personal Computer. A Mac is a personal computer.

People have deemed it necessary to abbreviate computers running a particular operating system to a short 2 or 3 letter abbreviation and Windows is now PC and Mac isn't. I'll take a totally random guess here as to why. PC is commonly used because it's held over from computers that follow the IBM PC architecture vs Macs which until a couple of years ago used PowerPC. When the abbreviation came into common usage, nearly every desktop computer that was running on IBM PC like hardware was also running Windows because Macs were running on PowerPC.

We could say Apple's advertising board is wrong, everyone who PC CD or DVD on their games is wrong because they don't run on Macs, everyone in the world is wrong except you. But we don't have to because convention overrules.

[Volko]

I'm a Windows.

I can't quite put my tongue on it, but there seems to be something about that statement that I like less than "I am a PC."

[WhatevaGuy]

I can't quite put my tongue on it, but there seems to be something about that statement that I like less than "I am a PC."

Doesn't flow well?  That'd be my guess.

[JJA0]

I know a person who has a mac and his only defense against me saying PC is better (shut-up) is that mac doesn't get viruses.

[A.R.C.]

[Volko]

Doesn't flow well?  That'd be my guess.

Yeah.

[Jimee]

I like Macs, but I can't afford one....

[A.R.C.]

Why would you want one lol.

[JJA0]

I like the one on the right.