A now defunct piece of technology once popular in the 80's and currently only used by idiots who don't understand computers properly (Usually callTarquin)
A masterpiece in engineering. Whle people make fun of it, they really have no reason to. Maybe because they can't afford them. Or maybe they enjoy using thier primitive 32 bit computers while the G5 is a 64 bit. In other words, we mac users have a desktop 3 times more powerful that an Intel Xeon server. Stupid PC people.
Forget the geeky, we're faster / no we're faster nonsense. Anyone who has followed the parallel development over the last 15 years knows that it goes - Mac pushes in front / PC pushes in front / Mac pushes in front / PC pushes in front / Mac goes 64 -bit / PC goes 64-bit etc etc - swings & roundabouts.
The definition which is consistently accurate over time is this :
Apple computers are the ones used by people who, in their own perception, rightly or wrongly, for richer or poorer, are more reluctant to suck the dick of the Man.
Selah.
Apple User : I, in my own perception, rightly or wrongly, for richer or poorer, remain reluctant to suck the dick of the Man.
PC User : Yeah sure, but right now I have a 7 TeraWhops DellCompaqIntelProtard, which kick ass l337 & compatible with all teh other 100 million (gobble) DellCompaqAMDProtard 7 FiloWhops (slurp) so u r 5u><0r (dribble) & i5 477 teh same culur /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\(glug glug glug)
I bought a 17" Powerbook, its fuckin sweet. also: !x86 = good. The intel arch has had ugly hack after hack applied to it. WHich is why ELF is so difficult on x86. macppc is a nice clean arch.