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Maybe your memory is playing tricks on you? It's why I switched to a PC in the 1990s. And everyone I knew. And everyone I met, read or heard about. What was t
by charlesism 8y ago
Maybe your memory is playing tricks on you?
It's why I switched to a PC in the 1990s. And everyone I knew. And everyone I met, read or heard about.
What was the point buying a Mac, when you could buy a faster, more compatible PC running Windows 95, which was pretty Mac-like, for half the price?
- MBCook 8y agoBut the Mac was NEVER the majority/success the iPhone is today (at least in the US). It was always way behind. And price was a big part of the problem. Performance wasn’t until much later.
- charlesism 8y agoNot the Mac, but the Apple II was. When the PC industry began, Apple was king for a few years. Then Commodore overtook them in the home market, and IBM in the workplace. I'm not sure what you mean about performance? When I switched, I had the impression PCs were outperforming Macs by a long shot. That must have been within a couple years of the Win95 release. I should probably hedge a bit there because my memory might be off. It was a long time ago.
- MBCook 8y agoThe Apple 2, yes. It wasn’t the cheapest but it was certainly the big player in the US. Performance: Macs were quite competitive, or even better than PCs for quite a while. It was only later as the Intel juggernaut kept going that Apple started to get steamrolled and had to switch off 68k. They regained the crown for a little while, but even the G3/4/5 were quickly overtaken by Intel.
- charlesism 8y agoI can't remember much about specs. Actually I can't even remember if I knew enough back then to interpret specs! Maybe i just thought PCs felt faster or something :)
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