i am noky » apple http://www.iamnoky.com these are my random musings... Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:02:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Terms That Need to Die #2 http://www.iamnoky.com/2009/07/26/terms-that-need-to-die http://www.iamnoky.com/2009/07/26/terms-that-need-to-die#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:19:14 +0000 Noky http://www.iamnoky.com/?p=132 Current Trend: Having a PC as opposed to a Mac.

personal computer: a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time - Princeton WordNet

No, I'm not saying you should get a Mac instead of a PC. I'm saying a Mac is PC and a Windows-based machine is a PC. They're both PCs and marketing divisions need to stop destroying jargon for their own selfish desires.

Windows != PC

There was an age where we could distinctly divide Apple machines from the rest of the world. That time ended with the death of the PowerPC architecture.  Everyone is running on x86, OSX and Vista are interchangable.

On the side, I really don't like how this completely obscures Linux from the whole PC collective. Commercially backed Linux distros like Ubuntu and Red Hat are not to  mindlessly ignored or grouped with Windows.

Hi, were actually both PCs...

"Hi, we're actually both PCs..."

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