Apple Computer Winning In Forbes Poll

[Derek Currie]

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/02/11/cx_jp_0211polldujour.html

Vote now, vote often, for your favorite personal computer.

Yes, this is one of those duh-a-duh polls that are set up so you can
vote as often as you like. Nonetheless it is great to see that Apple
Computer are leading in the results at 52% as of the time of this
posting.

The burning question:

Who makes the best personal computers?

Poll 
I prefer:  


Apple Computer

Dell

Gateway

Hewlett-Packard

IBM

Lenovo Group

Matsushita Electric Industrial

Samsung

Siemens

Sony

Toshiba

None of the above

I don't know


Share And Enjoy,

:-Derek

[Timberwoof]

Post by Derek Currie
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/02/11/cx_jp_0211polldujour.html

"IBM introduced the original personal computer back in 1981" shows you how much
Forbes knows about personal computers. Apple did that several years earlier. The
Osborne One and a herd of others existed years before the Personal Computer.

[Oxford]

Post by Timberwoof

Post by Derek Currie
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/02/11/cx_jp_0211polldujour.html

"IBM introduced the original personal computer back in 1981" shows you how
much Forbes knows about personal computers. Apple did that several years earlier.
The Osborne One and a herd of others existed years before the Personal Computer.

yeah, i always hate the way they phrase that, but they are going off the
marketing term, which i believe did start with IBM. The charlie chaplain
commercials and all that rot... apple later had the term "the most
personal computer", but before IBM it was just apple ][, osborne 1,
commodore pet, etc...

some interesting reading is here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer

[Managed Resistance]

Post by Oxford
yeah, i always hate the way they phrase that, but they are going off the
marketing term, which i believe did start with IBM. The charlie chaplain
commercials and all that rot... apple later had the term "the most
personal computer", but before IBM it was just apple ][, osborne 1,
commodore pet, etc...
some interesting reading is here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer

What about the Apple I?

[Timberwoof]

Post by Managed Resistance

Post by Oxford
yeah, i always hate the way they phrase that, but they are going off the
marketing term, which i believe did start with IBM. The charlie chaplain
commercials and all that rot... apple later had the term "the most
personal computer", but before IBM it was just apple ][, osborne 1,
commodore pet, etc...
some interesting reading is here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer

What about the Apple I?

It was a microcomputer, yes, but its audience was hobbyists. The reason that
"personal" was important in the phrase "personal computer" was that until the
invention of the microprocessor, there weren't any "personal" computers.
Computers were expensive beasts that had a few attending priests and lots of
users.

The Apple I was just a circuit board, and I believe only a few thousand were
sold.

[Timberwoof]

Post by Oxford

Post by Timberwoof

Post by Derek Currie
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/02/11/cx_jp_0211polldujour.html

"IBM introduced the original personal computer back in 1981" shows you how
much Forbes knows about personal computers. Apple did that several years earlier.
The Osborne One and a herd of others existed years before the Personal Computer.

yeah, i always hate the way they phrase that, but they are going off the
marketing term, which i believe did start with IBM.

No, in fact, it did not. Byte Magazine is credited by the OED with inventing the
term sometime during the '70s. They turned a technical term into a trademark.

Post by Oxford
The charlie chaplain
commercials and all that rot... apple later had the term "the most
personal computer", but before IBM it was just apple ][, osborne 1,
commodore pet, etc...
some interesting reading is here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer