Someone answer me please!
PC stands for 'Personal Computer' - right?
How is that synonymous with an operating system (Windows)???!
PC stands for 'Personal Computer' - right?
How is that synonymous with an operating system (Windows)???!
The primary use of the term among (semi-)technical people has evolved to mean the defacto open standard personal computer platform that has a BIOS and uses the Intel 32 bit / AMD 64 bit instruction set.
The use of PC to literally mean "Personal Computer", a computer used by one person, is falling out of vogue. Apple obviously is running from the term, and as far as I can think the only other non-Windows platforms (Sun, for example) fancy themselves to be "Workstations" -- users and vendors alike would take umbrage at the suggestion that they're mere PCs, even though they're the same size, shape, come with a keyboard and mouse, and are often less powerful.
If a train stops at a train station, what happens at a workstation?
I know. The '90s called. They want their joke back.
Unfortunately for us geeks, Apple is going to continue to use PC to mean non-mac until PC actually means PC for the average person.
/mini-rant
That's an entirely normal marketing move. "A car is just a car, but a Cadillac is a luxury vehicle." Same thing, positioning everything else as being "just" a PC, while suggesting that a Mac is special.
Which it is, really. To anyone outside of our little echo chamber here, a Mac is entirely unlike a PC, and it has nothing to do with Apple's ads. At work they are given a "PC," and it is different from the iMac they see in my children's playroom in almost every way that counts to them.
Did you mean the Apple II?
(Also would have accepted Apple ][.)