(10-26-2011, 02:29 PM)Oceania Wrote: Mac is a pc. and i meant without PC there would be no internet.
mac has not become a pc compatible before 2006. before that used powerpc architecture. only after 2006 macs have become based on intel architecture, and therefore can be called pc compatibles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh
ibm pc compatible is a term that denotes the computer systems that are cloned from ibm's personal compatible model, and follow the same structure with them, parts being compatible with each other regardless of who produced them.
there is no relevance in between a mac before 2006 and these. and after 2006, a mac is just a pc with same innards and different o/s, just like any pc. even now, apple makes it so that it is rather impossible to replace any part from inside a mac, even though it uses the same common components with ibm pc compatibles. so that people wont get funny ideas about upgrading their computer instead of buying a higher and more expensive mac. so, you cannot still call them precisely 'pc compatible'.
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if, you are wanting to mean 'a computer people use at home to connect to internet', there has never been a point in time where anything sold by macintosh could be considered a noticeable portion of such units connecting to internet that they could be considered anything 'changing' the way people share information, leave aside 'drive' internet. even in usa.
even after the grand successes after job's ascent, and even in usa, where it is extremely popular, circa 2008 macs did not constitute even 9% of the computer market that you could attempt to name them as anything 'changing' the way people shared information or drive internet.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2008/10/16/m...et-tops-9/
even in 2011, after all that cult building, american news channel pompadouring, all the hype and buzz created over all apple products, apple's share has not been over 10% among computer units that are in use.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/13/appl...0-7-share/
90% of computers have been ibm personal computer compatibles that are NOT macs.