Mac vs. PC...University of Illinois video...

[jefhatfield]

if you come to silicon valley and talk to the engineers who worked on all this stuff, you will get different stories

but most will agree that woz got the first working, affordable, practical personal computer to the masses...not just to other gearheads

..and that alone puts woz in a truly unique one person category

 

[dobbin]

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Originally posted by benixau
i opened 20 odd apps and used 6 (ppt, IE, mail, imovie, qt and itunes) simultaneously.
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>> He can't do that on his top of the line P4? Because I can do that on my 2 year old 1Ghz HP...



Um, actually, I don't think you can open iMovie and iTunes on your Pentium can you?

Thats one of the big reasons why Macs are so great. Its the quality of the software, not the Mhz of the processor, that matters.

 

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by dobbin
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Thats one of the big reasons why Macs are so great. Its the quality of the software, not the Mhz of the processor, that matters.

Steve Jobs: "My biggest mistake in the early days was thinking Apple was a hardware company, not a software company" or something like that

the hardware and even the cool industrial design are not what make the mac experience better than the pc experience, it's the software and os apple makes

kind of like politics, apple inc should have a new catch phrase: "It's the software, stupid"

 

[patrick0brien]

Originally posted by me


...I'll post my Spreadsheet of "Computing Firsts" later...

-Gents

I've posted it. Check the thread "Computing Milestones: Running list "

Les Kern..?