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> Was the dislike just because of the change? It's just because it looked like a WIntel PC and thus was a threat to the collective illusion that 1996-Apple off
by Lammy 2y ago
> Was the dislike just because of the change?
It's just because it looked like a WIntel PC and thus was a threat to the collective illusion that 1996-Apple offered anything substantially different or better than Windows '95 (source: was a 1996 Macintosh user who used the term “WIntel”)
Compare:
- Compaq DeskPro https://serialport.org/pcs/compaq/compaq-deskpro-en-c300a/#photos https://serialport.org/pcs/compaq/compaq-deskpro-en-c300a/#p...
- Packard Bell Legend https://old.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/hjomez/my_latest_packard_bell_addition_legend_406cd/ https://old.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/hjomez...
- HP Pavilion https://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personalsystems/0034/0034threeqtr.html https://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personal...
- Gateway 2000 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Gateway_2000.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Gateway_...
- Lammy 2y agoDownvote all you want but I was there and literally heard people complain about it for this reason lol
- MikeRichardson 2y ago> the collective illusion that 1996-Apple offered anything > substantially different or better than Windows '95 PowerPC
- Lammy 2y agoI love PowerPC but I still don't believe CPU architecture alone is a motivating factor for why any person would choose to use a particular computer over any other. If that were true then Stebe Jovs never would have told me about The Megahertz Myth, now welcome Phil S[c]hiller to the stage to run the PentiumⅡ machine for this specially-scripted Photoshop benchmark, et cetera.