PC=Windows, Mac =IMAC/Apple ...LINUX/UBUNTU = ?

**poofyhairguy** · July 23rd, 2005

Ubuntu= awesome

A Windows box, an Apple box, and an Ubuntu box are all personal computers. PC is a bad term anyway, it can be confused with politically correct.

Oh well....there is a word for what you want:

Gnu

Ubuntu and Linux are Gnu. Gnu systems.

**newbie2** · July 23rd, 2005

LONGHORN = VISTA = Verifiably Inferior System To Apple's

u guys should look more at Apple's progress...they made several good innovations (for example i remember that they were the first who made 'shadows' on the window frames,some kind of '3D effect'...nowadays M$-vista is gonna copie several things from them...that is how micro$uck works...

"The Apple switch to Intel deserves comment. Comment has suggested that this is due to Apple disappointment with the G5 (particularly IBM's inability to deliver a G5 for Apple's laptops). It may be a factor, but I doubt it.
What I believe is this:
Steve Jobs looked at the PC market (Dell, HP, Sony, Lenovo, Acer, etc) and thought:
"None of these companies innovates in any significant way. Apple does (and not just in software). We can beat them. If Apple runs on Intel, you can load Windows (in a partition) and you can load Linux (in a partition), but it will still be an Apple booting OS X. Nobody else will be able to do that. We can have a much bigger market. More developers too."
And also there are two chip manufacturers that can compete for Apple's business.
So I offer a new (and very early) prediction. Apple is going to change the dynamics of the PC market — its dramatic growth rate will persist once it moves to Intel. Watch it happen."
http://www.it-analysis.com/article.p...caf2e5f8ded7fc

**mad_alfred** · August 2nd, 2005

Originally Posted by newbie2

LONGHORN = VISTA = Verifiably Inferior System To Apple's

u guys should look more at Apple's progress...they made several good innovations (for example i remember that they were the first who made 'shadows' on the window frames,some kind of '3D effect'...nowadays M$-vista is gonna copie several things from them...that is how micro$uck works...

"The Apple switch to Intel deserves comment. Comment has suggested that this is due to Apple disappointment with the G5 (particularly IBM's inability to deliver a G5 for Apple's laptops). It may be a factor, but I doubt it.
What I believe is this:
Steve Jobs looked at the PC market (Dell, HP, Sony, Lenovo, Acer, etc) and thought:
"None of these companies innovates in any significant way. Apple does (and not just in software). We can beat them. If Apple runs on Intel, you can load Windows (in a partition) and you can load Linux (in a partition), but it will still be an Apple booting OS X. Nobody else will be able to do that. We can have a much bigger market. More developers too."
And also there are two chip manufacturers that can compete for Apple's business.
So I offer a new (and very early) prediction. Apple is going to change the dynamics of the PC market — its dramatic growth rate will persist once it moves to Intel. Watch it happen."
http://www.it-analysis.com/article.p...caf2e5f8ded7fc

I'd call it tuxbox...

**Takis** · August 2nd, 2005

Originally Posted by poofyhairguy

Ubuntu= awesome

Heheh - pwned.

A PC would generally be an old x86-based computer. Windows is associated with these because x86 is the only architecture Windows will run on. OS X is associated with Macs because that's the only architecture it'll run on (unless there's some porting going on, which due to natural curiousity I'm sure there is). Ubuntu, like anything using a reasonably standard Linux kernel, can go on a variety of architectures and thus can't be associated with a single machine style.

Go with poofyhairguy's suggestion.

**Brunellus** · August 2nd, 2005

Originally Posted by newbie2

LONGHORN = VISTA = Verifiably Inferior System To Apple's

u guys should look more at Apple's progress...they made several good innovations (for example i remember that they were the first who made 'shadows' on the window frames,some kind of '3D effect'...nowadays M$-vista is gonna copie several things from them...that is how micro$uck works...

"The Apple switch to Intel deserves comment. Comment has suggested that this is due to Apple disappointment with the G5 (particularly IBM's inability to deliver a G5 for Apple's laptops). It may be a factor, but I doubt it.
What I believe is this:
Steve Jobs looked at the PC market (Dell, HP, Sony, Lenovo, Acer, etc) and thought:
"None of these companies innovates in any significant way. Apple does (and not just in software). We can beat them. If Apple runs on Intel, you can load Windows (in a partition) and you can load Linux (in a partition), but it will still be an Apple booting OS X. Nobody else will be able to do that. We can have a much bigger market. More developers too."
And also there are two chip manufacturers that can compete for Apple's business.
So I offer a new (and very early) prediction. Apple is going to change the dynamics of the PC market — its dramatic growth rate will persist once it moves to Intel. Watch it happen."
http://www.it-analysis.com/article.p...caf2e5f8ded7fc

apple's progress is due in part to their ability to lock-down their software to their hardware (thus limiting the hardware support-headaches we linux users constantly have). That level of integration saves them a lot of effort and lets them concentrate on other priorities, like UI.

I have to admit, it's an elegant way to approach the resource-allocation problem--they do turn out an excellent product. But it isn't as free or as cheap as GNU/Linux...

**Omnios** · August 2nd, 2005

Linux= Replacement for you favorit childhood Toybox now that your all grown up!

**N'Jal** · August 2nd, 2005

Linux= Replacement for you favorit childhood Toybox now that your all grown up!

I like it!

Ok a PC is a personal computer right? There for window's, Mac OS and Linux are all personal computers, however an Apple Mac is not a PC, somewhere along the line PC became the term for Window's/IBM (and compatible systems). While this sucks it's true, Windows and Linux are PC, Mac is Personal computer.

However on games there is often PC CD/DVD-ROM writen at the top of the game covers in england, i can confirm i have seen MAC CD-ROM and even PC/Mac CD-ROM at the top of some games but never GNU/Linux CD-ROM, though on some games like unreal tournement i have seen a tiny picture of tux on the back its either 2003, 2004 or 2005 (if there even is a 2005). Games where i have seem the tux i have come to call them penguin friendly...