Blizzard hopes to release Macintosh beta client sometiem in April.

Apple/Macs are not PCs. Here's the offical definition:

Plus, they're not considered personal because you cannot customize them in the way you can a PC. They're close to being consoles in how uncustomizable they are.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer

So by that definition Apples, Dells and all of the other computers we use are personal computers. So you saying Apples are not PCs is wrong. They are a different brand of PC.

And Apple computers are mentioned many times in that article from wikipedia I linked.

 

wow, you seem to take this pretty personally. it's as if you feel mac rights should be up there among black rights or something.

 

Ever seen a Mac commercial? You know the "Hi, I'm a PC." and "Hi, I'm a Mac." They are very different things. Apples have never been considered PCs. Only in the literal, it's a computer that you own kind of way. A Mac has never been called a PC or else Apple would not try to bring down the name of PC if it was in the category.

This is similar to how Cokes became used to describe all sodas and how a Nintendo was used to describe any game system. Or, how the term "car" is used to describe a compact car and a truck or SUV is not considered a car. A car is any automobile yet when you talk about a minivan, you say minivan instead of car. Hope I made myself clear. If not here's some more links:

http://technologizer.com/2010/02/27/pc-or-mac/
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/tests/4258725
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEAGmBRC1dc

The list goes on and on. Google is filled to the brim with such links.

What you're doing is going by the literal definition of PC. As in personal computer, as in if you own it then its yours and its a computer. That's not the issue here. PCs have always been called PCs because the user can do whatever customization they want with it meanwhile with a Mac you cannot.

@asdf: He's always been defensive of Macs. I don't really know why.

 

lol yeah seriously why defend something that crashes so often?

 

I have both PC and Mac.
My mac has never crashed and it is actually very important for separate reasons.
As a video editor, I rely on Final Cut pro and many other Mac only programs for my work.

Don't even compare other video programs for PC with Final Cut Pro.
Final Cut Pro alone is enough to produce a full length movie, has a VERY easy interface, and runs very smooth. By this experience alone, provides respect for BOTH.


BUT this is wayy off topic.

Now on track for my post:
SC2 on Mac, can't wait, I'd love to test it out when it's available.

 

I don't really like this attitude in today's youth that says "If it crashes, it's the OS fault and had nothing to do with me."

If you have a Mac or a PC that crashes a lot, then it's probably your fault. Download less porn.

 

Agreed. Any OS is pretty crash free if the user knows how to take good care of it. If your computer crashes a lot, either:

1. get it fixed
2. learn to use it better and look after it better.

 

PC = personal computer. All home computers that are not consoles are PCs.

When we say PC nowadays, we usually mean hardware that runs windows, but what we really mean to say is an "IBM compatible PC", because our PC is one that is derivative of the original x86 IBM specification.

The term PC goes back to the 1970s with the likes of the Commodore PET Personal Computer, long before microsoft and IBM compatibles existed.

But around 1990, people stopped using the term "IBM compatible PC", and started calling them PC for short.

Every other machine available at that time had it's own name, like "the Amiga-1200 personal computer", which everyone simply called it the Amiga-1200 for short.

IBM compatible PCs were the only ones that didn't have a proper name. They never have. So for short they were referred to simply as PC.

Understand now?

"Hi, I'm an IBM compatible."

 

I don't want to say anything bad to you. So I'll just say this.

Have you ever seen a Windows 7 commercial. They claim windows 7 is their idea, when it's clearly not the person it the ad's idea. Same as the Mac ads you are talking about. It's just advertising. People always bend the truth in advertising. Apple are notioriously bad for bull****ting in their advertising.

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Yes I understand your point. But most computers today are IBM compatable and none are IBM PCs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible
I read all of that.

So I agree the term PC came to mean IBM PC eventually but it started off as any computer. And I think it has evolved back to any computer. With the fact IBM do not make computers anymore.

So the switch to intel by Apple made it a IBM compatible PC too. Before then it was a PC just not an IBM compatible PC.

 

Well I need the OS X client and a beta key to play SC2. Because I'm not interested in bootacmp. I got the beta key now. And now I just need to wait for the OS X beta client.
*Taps foot impatiently while waiting for Blizzard to hurry up and release it*