Mac+vs+PC

MAC Computers


Macintosh, commonly known as Mac, is a [|brand name] which covers several lines of [|personal computers] designed, developed, and marketed by [|Apple Inc.] Named after the [|McIntosh] variety of apple, the [|original Macintosh] was released on [|January 24], [|1984]. It used a [|graphical user interface] (GUI) and [|mouse] instead of the then-standard [|command line interface]. The current range of Macs varies from Apple's entry level [|Mac mini] [|desktop], to a mid-range server, the [|Xserve]. Mac systems are mainly targeted at the home, education, and creative professional markets. Production of the Mac is based upon a [|vertical integration] model in that Apple facilitates all aspects of its hardware and creates its own operating system that is pre-installed on all Macs. This is in contrast to most [|IBM compatible PCs], where one vendor provides the operating system and multiple vendors create the hardware. In both cases, the hardware can run other operating systems; modern Macs, like other PCs, are capable of running operating systems such as [|Linux], [|FreeBSD], [|Windows], etc. Original Macintosh computers used the [|Motorola] [|68k] family of [|microprocessors], but later models switched to [|Motorola] and [|IBM]'s [|PowerPC] range of [|CPUs] in 1994. Apple began a transition from the PowerPC line to [|Intel]'s [|x86 architecture] in 2006, which for the first time allowed Macs to run native operating system binaries for the x86 architecture. Current Macs use the [|Intel Core 2] and [|Intel Xeon] 5100 series microprocessors. All current Mac models come pre-installed with a native version of the latest [|Mac OS X], which is currently at [|version 10.4.10] and is commonly referred to by its code name of "Tiger". Apple has announced that [|Mac OS X v10.5], codenamed "Leopard", is set to be released in October of [|2007].

PC Computers!!!


A personal computer (PC) is a [|computer] whose price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals. We may never know who coined the phrase with the intent of a small affordable computing device but [|John W. Mauchly] described such a device in a [|November 3], [|1962] //[|New York Times]// article entitled "[|Pocket Computer] may replace Shopping List". Six years later a manufacturer took a risk at referring to their product this way when [|Hewlett Packard] advertised their "Powerful Computing Genie" as "The New [|Hewlett Packard 9100A] personal computer"[|[1]]. This advertisement was too extreme for the target audience and replaced with a much drier ad for the [|HP 9100A] programmable calculator. [|[2]] [|[3]] [|[4]] During the next 7 years the phrase had gained usage so when [|//Byte// magazine], published its first edition it referred to its readers as being in the "personal computing field"[|[5]] while [|Creative Computing] defined the personal computer as a "non-(time)shared system containing sufficient processing power and storage capabilities to satisfy the needs of an individual user." [|[6]] Two years later when the [|1977 Trinity] of preassembled small computers hit the markets, the [|Apple II][|[7]] and the [|PET 2001][|[8]] were advertised as 'personal computers' while the [|TRS-80] was a [|microcomputer] used for household tasks including "personal financial management". By 1979 over half a million microcomputers were sold and the youth of the day had a new concept of the personal computer. [|[9]] Personal computers can be categorized by size and portability:
 * [|Desktop computers]
 * [|Laptop or notebooks]
 * [|Personal digital assistants] (PDAs)
 * [|Portable computers]
 * [|Tablet computers]
 * [|Wearable computers]
 * [|Cell Phones]

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