From a NY Times Bestseller

[Christopher Chisholm]

I'm sure with a quick google I could easily find this out, but... the 
Intel processors that Macs are using; are they just a regular x86 
pentium?  or are they actually a different architecture? 

I guess what I'm really wondering, are modern Macs just PCs with fancy 
cases?

Additionally, I remember when I was working for the Merrimack school 
district, they ordered a lab of apple iMacs for one of the elementary 
schools.  I can't speak for other versions of the hardware but lots of 
those ended up having many problems; overheating, disk failures, etc. 

To me, Apple appears to be very good at marketing, and very average at 
building systems.  Most people I know that use them seem to cite 
software as the primary reason to use one, and don't really know 
anything about the hardware.  Am I wrong believing that pretty much any 
software you can get for Mac OS you can find equivalents (or even the 
same software) for in other operating systems?

-chris c


Bill Sconce wrote:
> [BCCs to my Mac friends]
>
> p 75:
>     She glanced at her watch: 1:00 P.M.
>     
>     What had she gotten herself into?
>     
>     She plugged in her laptop and booted it up.  At the insistence of
>     her husband, Bill, she had recently switched from a PC to a Mac,
>     and now the boot-up process took a tenth the time--zero to sixty
>     in 8.9 seconds instead of two and a half plodding minutes.  It had
>     been like trading up from a Ford Fiesta to a Mercedes SL.  As she
>     watched the Apple logo appear, she thought that at least one thing
>     in her life was going right.
>
>
> Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
> "The Book of the Dead"
> Warner Books  New York  2006
> ISBN 978-0-446-57698-7
>
> Preston & Child have written a number of books together, collaborating
> remotely.  FWIW, as of last year when they spoke in NH they were using
> PCs.
>
> -Bill
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