Lee Duna to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 8 months agoApple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PCwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square165fedilinkarrow-up1283arrow-down10
arrow-up1283arrow-down1external-linkApple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PCwww.theregister.comLee Duna to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square165fedilink
minus-square@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.decakelinkfedilink8•8 months agoI think the history is such that a “PC” is a computer compatible with the “IBM PC” which Macs were historically not and modern ones aren’t either. But I still like “Windows computer”, we can abbreviate that to “WC”.
minus-square@tallink1•edit-27 months agoAnother complication was that DOS-using machines weren’t always running Windows at one point in time.
I think the history is such that a “PC” is a computer compatible with the “IBM PC” which Macs were historically not and modern ones aren’t either.
But I still like “Windows computer”, we can abbreviate that to “WC”.
Another complication was that DOS-using machines weren’t always running Windows at one point in time.