Mac or PC . . . what's the difference?

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 12:19 am

You're right, they're not the same thing - I misread it as x86-64, and I still assume that's what he meant, though you're right that it's not what he said.

alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 12:28 am

Are you sure he isn't a mormon?

You know, I remember this rumor going around a while ago that the next ST movie would envolve the crew going back to the First Enterprise, and when it started up a "Welcome to Machintosh" startup screen would be on the view screen. And I thought "gee, that makes perfect sense, because in every movie the Enterprise is always broken". Unfortunately it was just a rumor.

Really, it jut sounded like Red Wolf had a stick up his ass. Smelled the PC stench... well, that would explain it. PCs love me, rarely ever crash. My old AT&T 386 still works, for some unkown reason my 98SE system is increadibly stable (just don't let Seirra Utilities near it is all). Yet, I'll sit down with a Mac and find a new and creative way to crash it in about five minutes just by opening up it's version of notepad. I've just never ever ever had a good experiance with a Mac... and I'm left brained. And in my experiance, it takes a lot longer for a Mac to start up than a PC, the Mac only does it in a sneakier way to make you think it goes fast.

But, I have come across the odd person who can do good things with a Mac. I've just never had any luck with the platform.

Sinime · Post by **Sinime** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 12:33 am

Like I said it's just a rummor. I am trying to find the article, but it was a couple of weeks ago.

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 12:38 am

There've been rumors about Apple doing stuff for x86/etc. processors for years. They're all phoney.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 12:49 am

jbone wrote:There've been rumors about Apple doing stuff for x86/etc. processors for years. They're all phoney.

Well, at one point there was a rumor that Apple was working on getting Quicktime on Windows.

Sinime · Post by **Sinime** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 12:54 am

Ok I found them.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3151

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4537

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 12:54 am

That's different...Apple-format digital video on Windows actually makes sense, as it increases Apple's userbase. However, abandoning all their years of progress on their own hardware platforms would be highly irregular.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 1:45 am

The key words in both of those articles is "speculation". If Jobs comes out and says "We are putting Mac OS X on AMD systems", that'll be enough to convince me.

jbone: Yes, I know it's not the same, but it's fun to pedantically poke your sentences apart like that.

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 5:12 am

Anytime I get a piece of good working electrical hardware,it starts to mess up.Maybe I generate excessively high static.

Sinime · Post by **Sinime** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 7:27 pm

Buy yourself an Anti-Static Wrist Band. I can't say that they work though.